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  1. DJL44
    Morneau talked quite a bit about the swing adjustments Martin had made. They appear to be helping. The scouts will have to create a new plan of attack, then he'll have to adjust again.
  2. DJL44
    Heat index was close to 100.
  3. DJL44
    70 wins is just 15-32 the rest of the season.
  4. DJL44
    I would be perfectly happy to see the Twins “ride the arbitration roller coaster” with Bailey Ober. What I really want to see is a bounce back in performance so he can be traded.
  5. DJL44
    Ryan Jeffers is the most obvious candidate for a multiyear contract extension. The Twins need catching. If his defense slips behind the plate they can move him to 1B. Catchers rarely get a huge payday. I think 3/$40 would get it done. That would make him one of the top 5 paid catchers at a very affordable cost. It’s Mitch Garver money.
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    Eeles can’t really play SS or 3B either. He plays 2B and LF. Ryan Fitzgerald is the backup utility player. Beyond that they probably use Will Holland or pay some other organization for their AAA SS.
  7. DJL44
    If you don’t like Lee at SS, you’ll hate Payton Eeles at SS. Eeles is a 2B or bust. They have Keaschall at 2B right now.
  8. DJL44
    Can we give some credit to the minor league development staff?
  9. DJL44
    Consensus seems to be the Twins got a little more for Bader than he was worth and a little less for Duran than what he was worth. Does it even out if you think of the trade as Bader and Duran for Tait, Abel, Mendez and Villoria?
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    I am not fond of this plan, mainly because it's more than twice as hard to find 9 multiple-inning pitchers than it is to find 5. I would still make the top pitcher the starter and the lesser pitcher the reliever. My top 4 of the young guys are Woods-Richardson, Matthews, Bradley and Abel. That would make Festa, Adams, Ohl and Ober the 3-inning pitchers. I'm pretty sure Ober and Festa would be mad about that. Ohl is probably a 2-inning pitcher at this time, not 3. I also have a suspicion that the Twins plan is trade Joe Ryan at peak value this off season and for Pablo Lopez to stay and mentor the young guys. I expect them to trade Ober at next season's trade deadline if he's having an improved season.
  11. DJL44
    If that path leads to 1B, they need that as well.
  12. DJL44
    Outman also whiffed at 5 sliders down and in. Wasn’t even close. There is a reason he had a K rate around 40% in the majors.
  13. DJL44
    Castro had $2M left as well. Plus, eating the contract means you can sell them to teams who are paying the luxury tax. It opens up the market.
  14. DJL44
    The Twins could have received much better prospects if they were willing to eat more money. They saved at least $13M on the expiring contracts. If they send cash to all of those teams, they'll get better players in return. If they had eaten all $115M remaining on Correa's contract they probably could have had 4 of Houston's top 10 prospects. We all know that this team doesn't have money to buy prospects like that.
  15. DJL44
    Bailey Ober might be the one to move to the bullpen. His velocity is down and his effectiveness has gone down with it. Put him in the bullpen, recover the 2 MPH he lost on his fastball, and he might thrive.
  16. DJL44
    Be careful what you ask for. Now he plays for a sub-.500 team in a minor league stadium in Florida.
  17. DJL44
    He wouldn't provide more value if they used him in the closer role versus the fireman role he had. It might even reduce his overall value to the team.
  18. DJL44
    Varland would have to go back to starting to provide more value than he's provided this season in the bullpen. There is little upside for Varland as a reliever.
  19. DJL44
    Ryan Jeffers is an overlooked option.
  20. DJL44
    I would have no problem if they invested that payroll in extensions for Ryan Jeffers and possibly Keaschall. They should fill in the gaps with some veteran free agents at positions that don't block young players (1B, C, RP) with the possibility of flipping them at the deadline.
  21. DJL44
    Not trading him would have been malpractice. He's a free agent this winter.
  22. DJL44
    I strongly disagree that the Varland trade was a D grade. That trade brought back more talent than any trade except the Duran deal. I would give it a solid B. I think the trade order matters. They didn't have Roden when they traded for Outman. Still, I would give the Stewart trade an F. They traded a useful, though often injured, reliever for a 28-year-old outfielder who probably doesn't deserve a 40-man roster spot. It doesn't help them in the short or long term. That's a horrible trade. I think they may have overplayed their hand with Coulombe. Other lefty rental relievers went for a better return earlier. By holding out for more they settled for less. Some of the money saved in the Paddack/Dobnak deal was paid to send Correa to Houston. That deal might not happen without the other trades to free up the cash.
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    He won’t be ready for the bullpen or the rotation in the next 2 seasons. Hill probably won’t either. Maybe 2028.
  24. DJL44
    I don't think Sabato would get drafted. I don't care if MacLeod gets drafted. Cardenas should get a cup of coffee in September if they're going to add him anyway. Add Rojas, Prielipp, Gonzalez, Schobel, Morris, Mendez, CJ Culpepper (that's 7)
  25. DJL44
    Raya, Prielipp, CJ Culpepper, Hidalgo, Macleod, Gallagher Hill, Soto and Rojas stay in the rotation
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