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  1. DJL44
    Lee at 3B, Lewis at 1B and Miranda traded is a perfectly reasonable strategic plan. It might be a year too early to benefit from it because Lee isn't quite ready.
  2. DJL44
    I agree with this assessment. Royce Lewis also matches that description. That means the Twins are going to have to pick one for 3B and a) trade the other OR b) play the other one out of position.
  3. DJL44
    Rockies Journal: Forecasting Colorado's offseason moves If I was going to target a Rockies catcher, I think Jose Miranda and Jorge Alcala would get some interest. There might be a deal here, but I think you have the wrong players to fit their expressed needs.
  4. DJL44
    There was quite a bit of questioning whether Polanco was still a good player. He missed quite a bit of time with injury over the past few seasons.
  5. DJL44
    Why in the world would the Rockies, who want to cut payroll and are a non-contender, do a prospects-for-veterans trade? They're a poorly run organization but they know what cycle of competing they're in. I will also add that Colorado has had more than one opportunity to add Randy Dobnak to their team for the cost of a waiver claim and declined. The Twins will have to attach a prospect of at least $4M value to get rid of Dobnak's contract.
  6. DJL44
    Article after article of "Should the Twins pay this guy 1/4 of what they're worth?"
  7. DJL44
    The Twins don't have a lot of areas with surplus talent at the MLB level. There's 3B (Lewis, Lee, Miranda, Castro), lefthanded hitting corner outfielders (Larnach, Wallner, Rodriguez, Jenkins) and RH relief pitchers. The organization needs lefthanded pitching and catching. The only player I'm pretty sure they'll deal this offseason is Chris Paddack. They can trade either of Castro or Vazquez at the deadline and get the same trade return as they would in the offseason. With the team up for sale I don't see them making big moves. Falvey is not going to do anything risky. He's likely to be looking for a new job when the new owner takes over.
  8. DJL44
    No, I said the Twins should have gone for ALL prospects and not looked for ANY near-term help for 2024 in the Polanco trade. Then they would have had more prospects AND all of the $$ savings. That's far better than non-tendering him. There was a comment from Falvey that the trade was held up so long because they wanted some MLB talent in return. That was the mistake.
  9. DJL44
    I believe a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush leagues (or something like that). The second half of your comment sounds like the advice David Ortiz got from Tom Kelly. Wallner has an elite ability to hit the ball really, really hard. Lean into that.
  10. DJL44
    An equivalent free agent reliever would cost around $6M a season on a multiyear contract. Non-tendering Alcala would be sufficient reason to fire Derek Falvey.
  11. DJL44
    That's completely wrong. Seattle put in cash, not the Twins. Twins trade Jorge Polanco to Mariners in 5-player deal
  12. DJL44
    $5.25M which they would have spent on a different guy like DeSclafani. I don't know why that trade was expected to fill all the holes for 2024. The goal of a trade is to gain more than you give up. If they don't get exactly what they want for 2024 they can make a different trade. It's not like they have a one-transaction-per-offseason limit.
  13. DJL44
    I don't get this. The only thing that cost them anything was the $5M they paid DeSclafani to do nothing. Topa was paid $1.25M (which is nothing) and the prospects are free. If I can get free prospects by exercising an option and trading a player I would do it every time rather than declining the option.
  14. DJL44
    Altuve plays 2B, not SS. He's also an extreme outlier and nothing Eeles has done in AAA suggests he's anywhere near as good as Altuve. Short guys can throw hard, but the scouts say Eeles doesn't. I'm pretty sure they can measure how hard he throws correctly.
  15. DJL44
    He's 5'5" tall. He would be tied for the 5th shortest MLB player ever. There have been SS that short (Rizzuto, Maranville, Patek) but nobody since David Eckstein. The scouts don't think he has the arm for SS and that makes complete sense given his height. That's fine, there's more opportunity on this team at 2B anyway.
  16. DJL44
    In hindsight, Falvey should have gone for more prospects and less MLB ready help.
  17. DJL44
    The Twins won the trade by saving the cash they would have otherwise paid Polanco. They used that money to sign Carlos Santana for one season which puts them way ahead of the Mariners on this trade.
  18. DJL44
    You'll have to find some from a few years ago. According to statcast, Polanco was in the 2nd percentile for range (98% of infielders rated better than him) and 8th percentile for throwing arm (he only throws 75 MPH now). It's pretty clear he's no longer able to play 2B. Jorge Polanco Stats: Statcast, Visuals & Advanced Metrics | baseballsavant.com
  19. DJL44
    I will take Jose Miranda over a guy who didn't even play in the majors in 2024. Remember Miranda? He had the second highest batting average on the entire team. Then Brooks Lee plays 3B every day and Miranda is your DH? That is defensively a push and a downgrade for the lineup. Would you move Miranda to 3B? That's a defensive downgrade and a push for the lineup. According to who? The team liked him so much at 1B last spring that they signed 97-year-old Carlos Santana and moved him to LF. This I agree with. Their best option at 2B is Willi Castro but then they're going to have to use Brooks Lee as the utility guy. They desperately need another outfielder who can catch the ball and hit well enough to stay in the lineup. Defense has to improve at 2B and in the OF. Move one of the less athletic hitters to DH. Eeles is not a major league SS. He's a second baseman or bust. He's also never had anyone scout him to find his weaknesses. There is a benefit to being overlooked and underestimated.
  20. DJL44
    Henriquez and Winder are out of options.
  21. DJL44
    Julien is probably next on the depth chart, then Severino. I would watch the waiver wire.
  22. DJL44
    You have no utility infielder, no 2nd catcher, a gaping hole at 2B, two first basemen and a 5th starter very likely to be worse than Festa because nobody else in MLB wants to use him a starting pitcher. Plus, you threw away Topa and Castro instead of trading them. What was the point of all that?
  23. DJL44
    Because he's 4th (or lower) on their depth chart, getting expensive and his prime doesn't look to be anything special. The Rangers will lose most of their rotation from last season (Eovaldi, Scherzer, Heaney, Dunning) and they will probably trade Jon Gray.
  24. DJL44
    In 2023, Miranda was injured and couldn't hit the ball even in AAA. He started the season as the team's primary 3B. If they hate his glove so much, why has he had so many starts at 3B? That's a more difficult position defensively. It doesn't make any sense to say, "We don't trust this guy to play 1B, let's play him at a more difficult position instead". He didn't start at 1B much last year because Lewis was hurt, and Santana wasn't.
  25. DJL44
    He was bad defensively at 1B in 2022 but his numbers in 2024 are just fine. He's still bad at 3B.
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