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  1. Major League Ready
    I agree. However, there are also fans who want to see the best product available right NOW. They either don't understand the benefit of giving prospects playing time or they just don't care. We hear from some of those folks here. They spend money to attend games which gives them a voice. The team has to cater to that audience as well. There is also a certain duty to put a our best players on the field to maintain fair competition for playoff spots. We also can't just trash these guys (cut or bench them). Sure they still get paid but it's not the way to treat players if you want any chance of signing free agents in the future.
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    It's really hard to say what will be his career going forward. How much should we put into the small sample size this year where he was one of the top players in the league when he was on the field. How much will he be on the field? I just don't know what we should think which certainly complicates putting together an extension. Yet, I hope they find a good comprise on incentives that keeps him here without crippling the team if he does not produce.
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    It is Sinclair's right to distribute in any manner they chose provided the contractual rights to air MLB defined those parameters. Based on what is going on .... I highly doubt that contractual obligation exists. Don't get me wrong. It's a cluster but I doubt there is any basis for a lawsuit.
  4. Major League Ready
    Not sure. I think it would be a good idea to give him a reward and a taste of baseball at the ML level. Also not a bad idea to keep Donaldson healthy. The thing that could get in the way is that we have so many pitching prospects they might prioritize in terms of getting a look.
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    The last couple games gave me a little more hope for next year. I did not see ML pitchers in Jax and even more so in Barnes. Ober looks to have more ceiling. However, they have all shown very good command. Minaya has looked very good too. These guys along with Joe Ryan and a couple others will make the rest of the season very interesting to watch. Establishing these guys plus a couple free agents and 2022 looks much better. Contention better ... I doubt it. I agree the more effective plan is to continue to establish the numerous pitching prospects we have over the course of 2022. Martin / Miranda also likely start to play a role in 2022. Add to that a healthy Buxton and Kirilloff and it should make for an entertaining product in 2022.
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    We do need to consider that neither one of those HRs is a HR in a lot of ML parks. He is showing very good command and leaves very few pitches over the plate. Let's also keep in mind most starting pitchers get better after they get some major league experience. Remember Berrios when he first came up. Ober and Jax have looked great in comparison. Will either one of the be as good as Berrios. Doubtful for sure but Ober could be a very solid SP for the next several years. That's encouraging in a season that has been very discouraging.
  7. Major League Ready
    Pitching prospects / Rooker / Refsnyder / Miranda and a Byron Buxton extension.
  8. Major League Ready
    I think you can add Joe Ryan to your list. He has pitched well in the Olympics. He just turned 25 and seems like he is ready for an audition. Winder too. Thorpe and Smeltzer's chance may have come and gone with so many prospects with higher ceilings in the upper levels of Milb. I am optimistic about Ober and Jax gave us reason for some optimism last night or really his last 3 starts.. I have to admit I did not think he was a ML pitcher but that kind of command will keep you at the ML level.
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    Anyone remember a guy named Nelson Crux? While decline is inevitable, let's not get so carried away that a 30 yo has no future. What do people want for god sake? He has been great and he is the kind of athlete this team lacks and he is RH. My question is can he sustain this elevated level of play. We have a small sample size. So, let's give him some playing time and get a larger sample size.
  10. Major League Ready
    Gibson was a nice steady 4 and Berrios a 2. They did have a couple of good RPs. That's a long way from a staff that is going to contend. I would add the previous administration blew several high 1st round picks and we are most definitely paying for that today. That said, I am not all that excited by the current administration's picks either. Larnach would have been fine had they not just taken Kirilloff and Rooker in the previous years. Cavaco was a reach which is not the worst thing but needs to be taken into account in the big picture. I hated the Sabato pick especially given the type of players chosen the last few years.
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    I have watched quite a few games trying to get a look at some of the pitching and Miranda. He has looked pretty good a 3B when he plays there but they have him playing an equal amount a 1B and 2B so the sample size at 3B is small. That said you got this one square on the barrel. He is considerably less valuable if he can't play an average 3B. Garver would net to bring a big haul for me. I love Rortvedt's defense enough I could live with trading Garver but it would have to include a stud pitching prospect and a couple other good prospects. Just fine with them trading Donaldson if they are very confident in Miranda's ability to stay a 3B. The payroll can be put towards pitching.
  12. Major League Ready
    What I like least about this FO is they have put very little weight on athleticism and defense. They also let Gil, Anderson and Tyler Wells go. Those are dings. I can't blame them for Baddoo. That was very hard to see coming. I have no problem with what they did this year. Many here forget the Two most popular choices for pitching moves were Odorizzi in free agency and trading for Snell which would have been a disaster. Odorizzi has been mediocre and would have done nothing to change the fate of this team. Bauer was not even a remote possibility. Charlie Morton has long been one of my favorites but his preference to stay in the SE is well-known. Gausman accepted a qualifying offer. So who were the great options they did not land? There is also a matter of being realistic about spending. $130M was higher than I expected. My opinion will be greatly influenced by what happens with the starting pitching prospects between now and 2022 and how well they rebuild a very bad BP.
  13. Major League Ready
    It's really easy to make a sweeping statement. How are they going to ... 1) Replace 4 spots in the starting rotation 2) Turn a horrible BP into a contender 3) Keep Buxton on the field. More a statement of risk than an actual question. 4) Replace Cruz in the lineup 5) Keep a 36 yo Donaldson healthy and producing at a high level 6) Replace the SS. 7) Get Sano to produce on a remotely consistent basis We could also add get Larnach back on track and Rodgers back in form to the risks. I guess we should add get this done for under $150M which would be a hard sell after two horrible years financially given the risk level of getting back to any form of serious contention.
  14. Major League Ready
    No doubt any ONE of these players could get traded. IDK but it's possible some people are interpreting this as they should ALL be traded. It's reasonable that a scenario would present itself leading to one of them being traded.
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    You have a point for sure. I was going to qualify this statement and chose to not get into it. It would be most accurate to say teams with below average revenue ALMOST NEVER sign the very top free agents SPs. Colorado signed Mike Hampton and Arizona signed Zack Grienke. If we are going to accurately portraying the odds of this happening again we need to include the fact that Arizona had just signed a billion dollar TV contract. We should also point out neither acquisition led to success. Perhaps more to the point is that I said “could be replaced”. Signing the highest profile FA is also not the only way to replace him in free agency. Making a Carlos Rodon or Charlie Morton signing when the Rays got him is even more impactful than signing the big money FAs. You are correct in that the Twins have not signed a $150M free agent SP. However, if we are going to portray the situation accurately, we should say that it is an extreme rarity for any below average revenue team to sign these free agents. It’s not the product of the Twins being cheap. It’s a matter of roster management. Investing too high of a percentage of payroll in any single player is not effective which is why you don’t see any below average revenue teams investing in the highest priced FAs.
  16. Major League Ready
    Seems like an extreme reaction to losing one player (Berrios) who was under team control next year. We need to resign Buxton. There are a half dozen prospects in the system that could become as good as Berrios. It's also possible Berrios could be replaced by a free agent. There might be one (Martin) that could become as impactful as Buxton and that's a big if. The guy I could see being traded is Arreaz. He is one of my favorite players but Miranda is an ideal replacement. He would get time at 3B/2B/1B/DH. We would be positioned to move Donaldson if Miranda continues to mash at he MLB level.
  17. Major League Ready

    It's just read your very well reasoned post on the Berrios trade.  It's amazing so many people cant' except the possibility Berrios was not going to sign without going through the free agency process unless the offer was well above what Berrios and his agent think is market.  How many times have player's ask been waaaay above what they ended up getting.

    Anyway ... I appreciate your effort to spread some common sense.  

  18. Major League Ready
    There are 15 teams with a 25+ year period since their last WS win. I would add that the all things being equal we each team would win the WS every 30 years. Unfortunately, all things are not equal and the teams with the highest revenue win more frequently. It's just astounding that so many people have a hard time understanding that organizations with more revenue win a bidding war with far greater frequency. How is this not blatantly obvious? I guess all of the people complaining here that this a Twins specific problem live in $800K homes and drive $100K cars on an average income. One last note ... The Dodgers had gone 32 years before winning the WS last year.
  19. Major League Ready
    It would really suck to find out two years from now that we had a FO that developed pitching and we fired them before we had a chance to fully evaluate their work. They have 10 starting pitchers with a legit chance to be here by the end of 2022. There is going to be a lot of demand here that they sign multiple free agents SPs. I just don't see them doing that with all of these guys ready to make their debut over the next year plus.
  20. Major League Ready
    It suggests they won't pay market if Berrios was willing to sign for market. So, unless you have a source with direct knowledge of his ask who confided in you, this is purely speculation / assumption with no basis in fact.
  21. Major League Ready
    Good points although I don't know that the September roster size has to be an issue. They could manage innings accordingly. Pineda Maeda get get 3-4 innings then prospects gets some innings. In a normal year this would might be frowned upon because of playoff implications for our opponents. However, it would probably be viewed differently this year with the concern for protecting pitchers from too many IP. Plus, better to get a good look at a few than a glimpse at many. In the case a few is probably 6 or 7 pitching prospects.
  22. Major League Ready
    I agree completely on Ober not so sure I buy into the 40 man crunch. We have guys that can be cut. Nothing about Barnes suggests he is a MLB pitcher to me. However, if you want to get another look at him, Smeltzer and Thorpe have had plenty of opportunity. IDK what they saw in Burrows and they could let Cave go too. To give up the opportunity to see some of the higher ceiling guys at the MLB level this season for the sake of the above mention players does not make sense if the guys like Winder / Canterino / Ryan / Sands are ready. Now, if they want to take a longer term approach, I could see the argument of giving Jax and Gant a look so that they can be moved off if it's determined they are expendable but I would add Ryan and drop Smeltzer and not look back.
  23. Major League Ready
    I am surprised moving his salary has not come up before. Maybe I missed it. Does anyone really believe they got a great offer and said "no we would rather pay the $3.7M left on his contract because we have been making boats loads of profit the last two years"? Have we really come to the point we are so anxious to complain that we just ignore the brutally obvious?
  24. Major League Ready
    From 6/1 to 9/1/2018 he hit 190 and had a wRC+ of 77. I remember him looking similarly lost. I remember because his plate discipline was way better in 2019. He quit swinging at all the junk they were throwing him well of the plate and he was a beast. I was really impressed with the turnaround. I never really cared for him but he really impressed me turning it around to the degree he did in 2019.
  25. Major League Ready
    I have heard a half-dozen interviews with various baseball execs and reporters as well as Rocco this morning who say Buxton definitely wants to be a Twins. He has said as much himself. You just might be right but it's pure assumption and we all know what happens when we assume.
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