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  1. Major League Ready
    They are praying Paddock can string together some good starts so they can trade him and move Matthews into the rotation. If not, I would hope they move Paddack to a BP role and get Matthews up in June. I agree any trade of Ryan / Lopez or Ober is at least a year from now unless someone blows them away with an offer.
  2. Major League Ready
    Here is the harsh reality. The Twins have far less revenue as compared to many clubs and therefore have far less to spend. Getting bargains is paramount to success. They can sign the occasional Correa / Donaldson or Lopez but the only way to combat revenue disparity is to produce more for less. In other words, find bargains. If you look back over the past 20 years, teams in the bottom half of revenue that added meaningful production via free agency did so with primarily with players that outperformed their contracts. Take a look. Pick a handful of successful teams in the bottom half of revenue. Then, go to FanGraphs and sort by WAR. Find the players acquired as free agents and then look at production/dollar spent across all the free agents on their roster. If you look at the most successful teams in terms of number of 90+ win teams in the past couple decades (Cleveland/Oakland/Tampa Bay/Milwaukee) You wont find a lot of free agent spending but you will find a lot of under $10M AAV players that contributed to their success.
  3. Major League Ready
    They could easily swap McCusker for Keirsey. I don't see Bride or Clemens as all that relevant to bringing up McCusker. It would be a trade-off between a pinch runner / late inning defensive replacement in Keirsey for the possibility of an additional bat. Short-term, Keirsey is probably the better fit but I like the idea of seeing if McCusker can hit ML pitching. They could always go back to Keirsey or more likely Martin if McCusker does not work-out. The best case scenario would be E. Rodriguez gets going.
  4. Major League Ready
    Let's apply a little common sense. The Padres are a contender. We want to get rid of Vasquez because he has no place on a contender. We are desperate to get rid of him because he is a black hole in the line-up but the Padres want him, why? Does that make any sense?
  5. Major League Ready
    He has 48 days of MLB service according to FanGraphs. If he was promoted on June 1 that would be 168 days service as of the end of the 2025 MLB season.
  6. Major League Ready
    You have a point. It's easy to make blanket statements. What would be more interesting IMO is a conversation about who specifically people would have replaced. Correa and Buxton were not really possible to move and there was discussion about Correa and a lot of people said they would disown the franchise if he were moved assuming it was even possible. Lewis? I got the impression most people thought he was a cornerstone. Walner? That makes no sense. Jeffers has been very good. It looked like they were trying to move Vasquez but let's be real. Who would want him without the twins eating most of the salary. Larnach? He was one of the bright spots the 2nd half last year. Perhaps a slight upgrade was possible but does it make sense to trade or sign a top OFer when you have Larnach/Wallner and Rodriguez and Jenkins on the horizon? That leaves 1B and 2B. They had Castro for 2B and Looks like we have a really good replacement (Keaschall) ready to go. Which leaves 1B. Yep, they could have traded for a top 1B. They did not have the budget to sign one so it would have had to be a trade. Should they have given up Matthews / Festa or Keaschall / Jenkins for an upgrade at 1B? I was in favor of moving Paddack and Castro if possible and investing that money in a bat. Would that have made any difference with Wallner / Lewis out and Correa's wRC+ at 58?
  7. Major League Ready
    There was not even much talk of going out for starting pitching this year given the depth. Last year my recollection is the biggest push here last year was Jordan Montgomery. Point being that going out and getting someone as you say is not only no guarantee it can be a disaster.
  8. Major League Ready
    So what. Berrios had an ERA of 8 his first year and there are countless SPs that struggled at first in the majors.
  9. Major League Ready
    I doubt anyone would be satisfied with relying on Julien and/or Miranda. Now, had he said Correa will get going and we are really missing Wallner and Lewis. That would satisfy some of the critics but others will still expect the offense to be humming with arguably their 2 best hitters out and another in a slump to start the season. Perhaps he should had said he believes there is good reason to believe Correa will be better and we should be a lot better when Lewis, Wallner, and Keaschall are back.
  10. Major League Ready
    You have the luxury of immunity from consequence. If a GM keeps replacing players with players that perform horribly like Keirsey, they find themselves unemployed.
  11. Major League Ready
    I am all for giving prospects a shot but let's keep in mind many posters said the same thing about Keirsey. His OPS is 138 and wRC+ is -74. Vasquez looks great in comparison.
  12. Major League Ready
    My guess is that they are hoping for Paddack to pitch well enough that they can get something for him while off-loading his salary. It's $5M saved if they get rid of him by game 54. Maybe they would even be willing to eat most of it if they could get a decent return. Regardless, I believe their first choice is to move Paddack out and Matthews in. I seriously doubt SWR is going anywhere right now unless the return is beyond what we might reasonably expect.
  13. Major League Ready
    I am not arguing that Clemens is a good player. I simply don't agree that it's reasonable to expect that we have a MLB ready player ready to step-in no matter how many players get injured.
  14. Major League Ready
    I left of Miranda because he is out due to poor performance which is different in this context but Rodriquez and Martin are good examples. You could actually make the argument they were 6 deep at 2B. (Julien / Castro / Lee / Martin / Eeles / Gasper and Keaschall). They had Bader / Keirsey / Castro / Martin as outfield depth and perhaps McCusker and Holland could be added to the list. That's a lot of back-up. This number of injuries is just nuts. I really hated losing Keaschall. He injected some life in this team. I was looking forward to getting Wallner and Lewis back with him and Buck is going better now. Those 4 playing well together would be an end to the boring baseball we have seen so far.
  15. Major League Ready
    Your expectation is that they have a starter caliber depth after losing their primary 3B (Lewis), Their primary LF (Wallner), their #1 back-up (Castro), their 4rd option Keaschall who was doing great, their 5th option (Eeles) who is hurt? An organization is in trouble when they have to scramble as a result of this many injuries? Where exactly are they supposed to acquire a solid starter a month into the season? How many teams are willing to trade at this point in the season?
  16. Major League Ready
    I suspect the teams with the most revenue already use their financial advantage to attract and retain the people that standout in these positions. The Dodgers have done a great job while always picking late.
  17. Major League Ready
    Could not agree more on aggressively recruiting top scouting/development help. Pay them to come and pay them to stay. I would imagine evaluating scouts is rather difficult but I agree with the sentiment that this investment likely has a greater rate of return than free agent spending. However, it would appear most MLB teams already believe this to be true based on the increase in personnel over the past decade.
  18. Major League Ready
    Maybe they need an "offensive coordinator" or two. One person with the sole focus of overseeing the scouting and drafting of position players and another person whose sole focus is development of position players. Obviously, they have people in similar positions. I am just throwing out a semi-serious idea because I agree they need to do something different on the position player side.
  19. Major League Ready
    I didn't give an opinion on their track record. I gave 100% factual data. Those facts speak for themselves in terms of how the team has performed over the past 20 years. They have Machado on the books for 7 years from age 34 at 40M as the result of back loading the contract. That's selling out the future for the present. Darvish is well past his prime, on the IL now, and on the books for 3 more years after this year. The Buxton and Correa contracts are miles better than these two contracts. Boegarts was good his first year and very mediocre last year. He is getting old for a SS and he will have to hit much better to be valuable at 3B/2B. He is on the books for this year and 8 more. They did not get much out of Musgrove last year and he is on the IL now, Cronenworth and Arraez are both free agents that I seriously doubt they can afford to resign with the increase due to Machado. They are great at the moment. Maybe they will have one great year but they certainly have not been a great franchise. They absolutely sucked and got a bunch of top draft choices for several years. They get some credit for getting Tatis for nothing but that was as much luck as it was brilliance.
  20. Major League Ready
    There is a light. The question is if the light gets turned on. Lewis back fairly soon. He may or may not be a light. Wallner will be back and he should be a light. Should we expect Correa to play like he has over his career or the anemic hitter he has been to start the year. He should provide some light. How about Luke Keaschall. That due looks like a flood light so far. I guess what I am saying is we should not throw in the towel just yet.
  21. Major League Ready
    We differ in opinion on this one. The Padres have won a couple of wild card series but they have won a total of one divisional series since 1998. They have had two 90-win seasons in the past 20 years. The Twins have had 3. Only the Marlins and Royals have had fewer 90-win seasons. The Padres win percentage of that 20 years is .482, the Twins .493. The Padres recent run was a product of being one of the worst teams in MLB for several years. They did manage to build the best farm system in the league a few years ago after that extended run of futility. (13 seasons missing the playoffs) They now have very little talent in their Milb system. MLB rates them 25th. Baseball America 26th, and Fangraphs 29th. The Padres have an aging team with contract that’s are going to be a real problem for several years. The Padres pushed all of their chips in after many years of being very bad and their outlook in terms of sustainability looks very bad. They have been good not great recently and they are very poorly positioned long-term given the poor farm system and bad contracts. I would not consider this an example of managerial excellence.
  22. Major League Ready
    Maybe. There are 4 modest revenue markets that have done better than the Twins. Cleveland / Tampa / Oakland and Milwaukee. Most people here advocate rather strongly against the practices of these teams. These teams are the least likely to spend. They never sign expensive free agents and Cleveland / Tampa trade established players for prospects frequently.
  23. Major League Ready
    There is no easy answer. This situation has evolved over decades and there really isn't a solution that would create parity while being fair to both owners and players. The is an enormous revenue disparity. Any significant artificial manipulation at this point would enormously devalue large market teams and benefit small market teams. Competitors / business owners don't agree to this sort of devaluation without a legal fight. IDK how the owners govern this but I would imagine there is a mechanism in place. I think the league and the owners simply accept this reality now because the current model has grown revenue for all teams.
  24. Major League Ready
    Recent history strongly suggests that it is definitely a league wide when the measuring stick is winning a world series. Only one modest revenue team has won the World Series since the White Sox did it 20 years ago. Of course that would be the Royals in 2015. Once ever 10 years would suggest it's a macro not a micro issue.
  25. Major League Ready
    My guess is there is no way a salary cap is accepted without a prolonged strike. The players would fight it furiously. People will argue that a floor will make up for it. Well, a floor has to be set at a level where the team with the lowest revenue can still survive. It would not even come close to making up for the salary loss to players if the cap was set low enough to facilitate anything resembling parity.
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