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I liked your comment because I agree with it, but to answer your initial question you trade him if someone offers you something stupid and far more valuable than Yoendrys Gómez. Chances are good that won't happen, but never say never.

Rogers, Larnach, Gomez are all no-brainers (sure, sure, no) but what is with all these folks wanting to keep Clemens? This is a roster that suddenly has an extra Royce Lewis bouncing around, a pile of outfielders stacked up in AAA, more infielders on the way, and you want to keep Clemens? He's at best an average hitter, a meh fielder and a Great Guy. Sweet, happy for his wife, trade him. The role that Clemens fills doesn't exist on a team with nine decent starters. He's there because we only have a handful of hitters and he happens to be an average bat so they are wedging him in where ever he sort of fits. But he's not a CF any more than he's a good option at 1B. It's been so long since this team had a good 1B that it seems we've forgotten what one looks like, but it's not Kody Clemens (or Ty France or the resting catcher or your mom.) You want another below average CF then just ask around. There are a bunch of guys that would be willing to run around out there for you. That's where Kreidler came from, for example, and Lewis was game until he wasn't. Here's a plan: get something for Clemens and promote your youth until enough stick that you have a team. Regardless of what Tom Pohlad said this was not supposed to be a winning season, it was a season of measurement and evaluation in a weak division. Don't get distracted by the wild card, keep trying to improve this team. Clemens is just a younger, more personable* Arcia: a fill-in holding a place until more capable players arrive. * EDIT: That's unkind to Arcia. Clemens is a good interview with nice hair and a famous dad who hit 3HR in one game early in his Twins career, whereas no one knows anything about Arcia. He started in St Paul and hasn't gotten the exposure that Kody has. But they are the same: placeholders until the future arrives.

@Vanimal46 You were asking about fan impressions and they've been hearing his name forever. I bet most of them don't even remember who was traded to bring him here. I get your point but really Sim left the team no choice: he had to come out of the MLB lineup and he was out of options. The team certainly isn't giving up on him, but DFA is the only way to move around a guy with his seniority and his problems. At this point they can only hope the rest of the league thinks he's hurt, pigheaded or just below average and see if he gets through to St Paul. He's probably a decent #4 guy when he's right, but given how long it's been since he was consistently effective there's a 50-50 chance he's either hurt or just not able to sustain his performance over time. Maybe he goes to the pen for someone and gets all Griffin Jax for them. Good luck to him, hope he's throwing for us when he figures it out.

Listen to yourself. They had Ober and Rojas on hand and Sim was getting worse with each start. They were the plan that was foiled by two guys hitting the IL on the same day.

CP is so young and inexperienced that he'll get some grace from fans. SWR has 61 starts and 300+ innings across five seasons. He's a vet and should have his stuff sorted by now. It's why TAM gave up on Taj, which also illustrates that not everyone figures things out in a fixed amount of time or from their first org. SWR may just need to move on to hear the right voices.

Is Grey still leading the team in RBI? OK, ha ha, no, but... Lessee, more RBI than hits, that's unusual.

Gomez had been seeing a ton of action in longer appearances, so when the Twins shortened him up to one inning and threw away his third, fourth, etc pitches he got better. OTOH Lawrence is already a short guy not worrying about throwing a 20th pitch and focusing on his best couple offerings. There's little room for obvious changes so hopefully Shelton sees something specific. Also the SWR counter move was to give Paredes his chance, not this dumpster-diving for St Paul.

Wild send. Nice slide. Tough throw. Good run.

Be the Royce. BE the Royce.

Nice hit. I still don't feel safe.

Royce? Is that you?

There's no way Jax is still in the majors without those years in the pen. As a starter he wasn't adding velocity, he was getting clobbered by hitters, he never had good length in games, and he wasn't young while doing it. The pen was the only available job for a 27 year old with his 92.7 mph FB and 7.4/9 K rate, especially since guys like JA "6.77 ERA in 20 GS" Happ were getting more starts for a 73 win team in 2021. Take the win, Griffin. I'm glad you're getting a chance to try it again. But no one should pretend this is completely a good thing, and it's mostly happening because he was so terrible out of the pen for much of April.

That's not the point. His power is low, sure, but that's not his game. Unfortunately the rest of his game hasn't been that strong this year either. There are a lot of ways to contribute to team wins, but Luke was not doing many of them well. His defense has always been suspect, his recent hot streak only has his average nosing up towards league average, he wasn't drawing walks until May, etc, etc, etc. If we're talking about Keaschall then the discussion should be two-fold: WTH was going on in April and why was this written now after he appears to have righted things during the first half of May?

I got dibs on next save!

It's a carry-over from their AI research where "...and make no mistakes" really seems to have helped a lot.

He could DH too if LF at Fenway is too weird to learn in one morning.

Too much hyperbole. This is not a starter, it's a question of if he's Wille Castro or just another Nick Gordon. Castro was valuable for his glove, some baserunning and his unembarrassing hitting and was never judged against high draft picks. People used to be able to tell the different between starters and role guys.

The paternity list gigs are awesome because it's clearly more of a "Here's a taste" rather than "This is your chance don't blow it" opportunity. Players aren't expected to stay no matter what they do so the pressure is lower. Great weekend too, a chance for a 22 year old to be in Boston to get a Roger Clemens bobblehead to take back to St Paul.

Gabby just got the call to cover for Grey's paternity trip. It's a fixed, short look so it was easier to go with someone from the 40 man.

Rooker 6 minor league seasons 402 games 102 HR Fedko 6 minor league seasons 457 games 57 HR

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If he can regain his eye and his confidence they can send down Luke K, put Clenmns at 2b, play Bell at 1B and let Wallner DH against the right pitchers. But he needs his mojo back first. It took from April to July back in 2024, so it might not be a quick change. But they really can't discard him without putting in the work. He's a genuine MLB power hitter when he's on, and those are valuable. But right now he's a mess and those have no value at all.

Fedko is not better than Outman yet. Outman does play good CF defense. And while he hasn't done it lately, at one time he did produce at the MLB level (23 HR rookie season.) Fedko has just not had the chance to prove himself to be a McCusker or a Wallner yet, and that's something the team should push to discover soon. The next time they have to send someone out from the 25 man roster I'd see about getting Fedko a look. They're going to have to solve the 40 man problem soon anyway (maybe put ERod on the 60 day?) Once there's a spot they can make a call on Fedko and then keep him or move on to the next new face. This season has to result in some guys moving up and some others moving on. It's happening in the bullpen and now it needs to happen in the outfield as well.

Pitching has stepped up in the past ten years and hitting is not keeping up. Everyone throws harder than ever, and on every pitch. As hard as hitting has always been, it's even worse when the fastball you have to stay ready for is 97+. They can say guys used to throw that hard, but there's a reason only Nolan Ryan was striking guys out at the rate he did. It was pretty rare.

This. He's not great, but everyone else sort of sucks too so why not him? At least he can field. A larger issue is that hitting across baseball has fallen a lot further than many people realize. The current team OPS is .708 which sounds pretty bad, but it comes out to a 98 OPS+. The 30 team league OPS is only .709 and we're 13 of 30 which is better than I would have guessed. For real fun go check out the league list and you can see that 11 teams are under .700, and 5 of the bottom 9 are in the top ten payrolls.