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  1. DJL44
    Zoll is 3 years younger than Preston Mattingly.
  2. DJL44
    It is funny that he is so unknown that there isn't a picture of him in the database. He might be the youngest GM in MLB. This will probably be the friendliest article written about him in the next 3 years.
  3. DJL44
    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.
  4. DJL44
    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.
  5. DJL44
    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.
  6. DJL44
    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.
  7. DJL44
    Last year he was "cleared for 100 innings" and wasn't able to step onto the field at all.
  8. DJL44
    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.
  9. DJL44
    Tampa and Cleveland come closest.
  10. DJL44
    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.
  11. DJL44
    To remain competitive with a $130M payroll they need to graduate 2-3 guys every year.
  12. DJL44
    Is Zoll the youngest GM in baseball?
  13. DJL44
    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
  14. DJL44
    Jeremy Zoll - Vice President, Assistant General Manager | Minnesota Twins Does Daniel Adler (the other Assistant GM) stay or look for a new team?
  15. DJL44
    Plus Michael Helman who doesn't make the list at all.
  16. DJL44
    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.
  17. DJL44
    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.
  18. DJL44
    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.
  19. DJL44
    Pitchers who should be in the top 30: CJ Culpepper, Charlee Soto, Connor Prielipp, Andrew Morris, Marco Raya, Adrian Bohorquez, Cory Lewis, Travis Adams, Dasan Hill Ugh, 9 arms in the top 30 is terrible.
  20. DJL44
    It's great that they are doing well scouting international players. Too bad they can't find any pitchers. We've seen spots 16-29 on the list and the only pitcher is perpetually injured Matt Canterino. If they want to be competitive going forward 14 of the next 15 slots on the list should be pitchers. I know that won't happen which highlights how shallow this organization is when it comes to pitching.
  21. DJL44
    If Olivar's bat is good enough and his defense at catcher is bad enough to move him to LF they'll move him there. I don't see him as a "hybrid" player as much as they're preparing a backup plan in case he can't hack it behind the plate. Catching is hard enough work that it is unlikely the team will want to play him in the outfield on his off days. They'll pick someone else who doesn't have dead legs from squatting for hours the previous day.
  22. DJL44
    It looks like the hurricane might blow the Rays out of St. Pete. The Rays new stadium plan might lose its funding The Rays funded the opponents to the new council members who won and the winners are not appreciative of that. The new members have a very good point that spending $700M on a baseball stadium is not the priority when so much civil infrastructure is destroyed. One council member wants the Rays to play in Al Lang field in the meantime which seats 7500 and is not as good of a facility as CHS Field.
  23. DJL44
    deGrom has averaged 53 innings pitched per season over the last 5 seasons. He pitched 10 innings last year. Do you think he's going to pitch 150 innings in 2025? Less than 1% chance of that happening. Tyler Mahle has never been durable - one season above 120 innings over the last 5. He pitched 12-2/3 innings in 2024. He's had multiple shoulder injuries over the past 5 seasons in addition to the torn elbow ligament. He's also very unlikely to give the Rangers 150 innings. These guys are a lot like Paddack as far as durability. Would you bet the over on 160 innings combined from deGrom and Mahle? I wouldn't. Then there's Jon Gray who was injured several times and ended the season in the IL. Kumar Rocker pitched less than 50 innings. Bradford pitched 82 innings. I would estimate the Rangers need to cover an additional 300-400 innings out of their rotation (assuming they don't trade Jon Gray).
  24. DJL44
    The Twins are not signing Sasaki. He's coming over early to play for a World Series caliber team. He can make up the money he loses by coming over early with endorsement deals in a large market but that ain't happening in the Twin Cities (though I would have loved to hear Sasaki endorse Sheboygan sausages).
  25. DJL44
    I think adding Olivar now would be a year too early. I doubt he will be one of the top 25 guys left unprotected. 10 guys were selected last season, but only two position players. Most organizations have their own catcher they like as much as Olivar.
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