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I think the Yankees field is still being considered. There might not be any appetite to spend hundreds of millions on a baseball stadium in the Tampa Bay region. The hurricane caused billions of dollars in damages. The reasonable long-term move for MLB is one team in Orlando. Tampa Bay is going to keep getting hammered by hurricanes and most of Miami is going to be underwater in 40 years. If the St. Pete council votes down funding a stadium we may see the Omaha Rays.
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Twins Trade Candidate Breakdown: Griffin Jax
DJL44 replied to Matthew Lenz's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
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Plus, he hasn't hit well enough to earn a callup to AAA. If he was ready for AAA, he'd have an OPS well over 1000 in the AFL.
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Not a good idea. Prielipp is the pitcher you want to face the best lefthanded hitters. Making him an opener would take away his leverage and let the opposing team stack the lineup with RH hitters.
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Twins Daily’s Top 20 Minnesota Twins Prospects: Nos. 15-11
DJL44 replied to Tom Froemming's topic in Twins Minor League Talk
I agree, he's stalled out. For prospects it's improve or go home and he's not getting better very quickly. I don't see a reason to add him to the 40-man roster to protect him because I don't see a team wanting to play with a 25-man roster for an entire season.- 25 replies
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Twins Daily’s Top 20 Minnesota Twins Prospects: Nos. 15-11
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If you think of ranking prospects in terms of "I would trade this guy for that guy" then Dasan Hill should he higher. I would trade Rosario or DeBarge for another Dasan Hill in a heartbeat.- 25 replies
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Twins Trade Candidate Breakdown: Griffin Jax
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I agree that he needs the endorsement money from a larger market team to make the financial decision pay off. The Dodgers are in a large market but it's a very team-friendly media market that is currently in a post-championship honeymoon. I posted a thread elsewhere that the Twins could gain by facilitating the deal. They have a lot of international bonus money and that can be traded. They could trade some of that money to the Dodgers for actual prospects. This would allow the Dodgers to have the highest offer. It would be pretty sweet to trade the ability to spend money for actual baseball talent and not actually have to spend the money to get it.
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Keeping Castro is the difference between a playoff team and an also-ran. If they can dump Paddack so they can keep Castro they gain a couple of wins. If they can add a LH reliever there's another one. An outfielder who moves Larnach to DH adds another win.
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Twins Daily's Top 20 Minnesota Twins Prospects: #20-#16
DJL44 replied to Matt Braun's topic in Twins Minor League Talk
Henriquez was a trade. They've done okay but it looks pretty bare at the moment. I think Mathews was up too early because there was nothing else to try. Only a desperate team gives innings to Randy Dobnak. AAA - Marco Raya, Andrew Morris, Cory Lewis, Travis Adams AA - CJ Culpepper A+ - Connor Prielipp A - Charlee Soto, Adrian Bohorquez Rk - Dasan Hill The gap is in AA/A+ where those 2023 college draftees were supposed to help. Maybe Tanner Hall pans out. Half of the guys listed above will probably fall short of helping the big-league team. The Twins only acquire pitchers by trade, draft or when they're dumped from some other team's roster. If they're not drafting well, then they're stuck mostly with castoffs.- 24 replies
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If there's any upside it's that you're -22 and +27. Maybe 87.5 wins (+/- 24.5) is your true median but it depends on the best players playing a whole season.
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Last year he was "cleared for 100 innings" and wasn't able to step onto the field at all.
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I am sure he will be called into a lot of meetings. Any potential new owner is going to want to know the state of the organization and that's Falvey.
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Twins Daily's Top 20 Minnesota Twins Prospects: #20-#16
DJL44 replied to Matt Braun's topic in Twins Minor League Talk
Tampa and Cleveland come closest.- 24 replies
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Twins Daily's Top 20 Minnesota Twins Prospects: #20-#16
DJL44 replied to Matt Braun's topic in Twins Minor League Talk
Assuming they're trading their veteran pitchers because they're too expensive then they need to fill nearly all 20 spots on the 40-man roster with pitchers having 5 or fewer years of service time. Pitchers get injured at a much higher rate than position players. They don't sign free agent pitchers. They have to produce a new starter and a new reliever every season.- 24 replies
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Twins Daily's Top 20 Minnesota Twins Prospects: #20-#16
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To remain competitive with a $130M payroll they need to graduate 2-3 guys every year.- 24 replies
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New Twins farm director Jeremy Zoll has impressed every step of the way - The Athletic A chat with Minnesota Twins Director of Minor League Operations Jeremy Zoll | The Gazette
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Jeremy Zoll - Vice President, Assistant General Manager | Minnesota Twins Does Daniel Adler (the other Assistant GM) stay or look for a new team?
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Plus Michael Helman who doesn't make the list at all.
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He has a degree in economics from Trinity college and pretty extensive managerial experience. If he's a smart manager, he will lean on his org as he learns this part of the business.
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I can't imagine Falvey will be able to spend much time on the baseball side if the business side is working on selling the team. The offseason roster construction is Zoll's responsibility. This is his chance to audition for his next job. They're all short-timers; the new ownership will replace all of these guys.
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Twins Daily's Top 20 Minnesota Twins Prospects: #20-#16
DJL44 replied to Matt Braun's topic in Twins Minor League Talk
They've graduated position players off the list recently, too. They threw a lot of draft picks at college pitchers in 2023 but none of them seem to have panned out. They have underperformed at acquiring international free agent pitchers for at least the last decade.- 24 replies
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