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  1. DJL44
    It's a good thing they traded Correa, then. He wasn't one of their 5 best players anymore. He wasn't one of their 20 best players this season.
  2. DJL44
    I think they could have done better than this in the offseason, especially if Jax had done well as a closer for the last two months. Taj Bradley isn't chopped liver, but he also isn't "two top 100 prospects".
  3. DJL44
    The Twins are a 4th place team. Paying Carlos Correa a bunch of money to play for a 4th place team has no value. The Twins were going to pay him $44M before they had a chance to be relevant again in 2027 (a completely sunk cost) and who knows if Correa will still be playable in 2027. The Astros were basically the only team who wanted him and they overpaid despite having leverage. It's actually amazing the Twins pulled this one off.
  4. DJL44
    This is a weird trade. I expected them to build Varland up as the closer and trade him after he had that reputation. It is sad/funny that absolutely no other team in baseball wants Christian Vazquez. I'm actually a little surprised they didn't trade Jeffers, maybe he gets an extension in the offseason.
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  6. DJL44
    A bad lefthanded pitcher and future bar trivia question
  7. DJL44
    So, the Twins were effectively going to eat $12M for Carlos to pay for a 4th place team this year and another $32M to play for a non-contender next season as well. They only ate $33M, that's actually a really good deal for the Twins. The Astros valued him like a $25M/season player and he's been playing like a $10M/season player.
  8. DJL44
    Check again at the end of next season.
  9. DJL44
    The Mets gave up more for their lefty as well. This looks like the Twins held out for a lot and got left at the altar.
  10. DJL44
    What good is team control of a player most teams would non-tender in the first year of arbitration?
  11. DJL44
    WTF, this does nothing for the team in the long or short run. Just play Emmanuel Rodriguez.
  12. DJL44
    I think the Twins shed the $3M commitment they had to Bader which will bring their total salary decrease to ~$10M when this is through. Getting paid $3M to take two prospects is a good deal. It’s nearly impossible to mess up a pure rental trade.
  13. DJL44
    Sounds like the ask from Houston was Carlos Correa plus $50M plus Trevor Larnach for nothing.
  14. DJL44
    One nice thing about a LH hitting catcher is it is very easy to sit them when a LH pitcher starts. Easy to find a RH hitting catcher for those starts.
  15. DJL44
    Or, just a suggestion, fire Rocco instead of trading all the players.
  16. DJL44
    What's the downside for the free agent? "If it doesn't work out we'll trade you to a better team" isn't a big problem for most players.
  17. DJL44
    I would have been fine with this return for Jax, but wanted another prospect (Seth Johnson would have been nice) in return for Duran. "Proven closer" still carries some extra weight. I will point out that Duran wasn't nearly as highly regarded as Abel when the Twins acquired him for Escobar. If it turns out well, the Twins just got Jeffers and Ober (or Jeffers and Jax) in return for Duran, however, as has been pointed out elsewhere, the Twins took on more risk in the deal. The really sad part to me is the Twins missed their opportunity to get Duran to sign a deal that locked him up with the Twins until he was 30. They're going to miss out on Jeffers as well. Those are huge failures by the current front office. The Twins have to extend their talent below cost when they have the opportunity. I hope this means they are going to be able to dump Correa's salary on Houston. There is no reason at all to pay him $32M a season to play for a rebuilding team. Sell Coulombe, Bader, Castro, Jax and Stewart as well.
  18. DJL44
    Wallner accounted for all the run scoring in today’s game. Weird that you would single out the one player who produced a run as the problem with the offense.
  19. DJL44
    They will look a lot worse in the short term.
  20. DJL44
    MLB hasn’t had a mutual option accepted by both sides in a decade.
  21. DJL44
    There is basically zero chance that Jenkins gets called up this season. The Twins don’t need to add him to the 40-man roster until next year. There is a non-zero chance they call up Gonzalez. He is Rule 5 eligible in December and is a must-add for the 40-man roster.
  22. DJL44
    Let’s look at this another way. The $4.5M the Twins got the Tigers to eat in this trade can be sent to the Astros to get them to take Correa’s contract. Pretending that cash is useless to a baseball general manager is either hopelessly naive or unredeemably cynical.
  23. DJL44
    If you don’t think money is useful for assembling a professional baseball roster, then I guess we will never agree. Someone should tell the Dodgers they’re spending a ton of money for no reason.
  24. DJL44
    All minor league talent does is marginally increase the value of the team to whomever buys it.
  25. DJL44
    Dollars are a useful return to the baseball team. Dollars can be used to pay player salaries, invest in facilities, pay coaches and scouts, etc.
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