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  1. DJL44
    There are a number of interesting things happening. Admitting minor leaguers to the union changed the goals of the organization. The gap in TV money between rich and poor teams is growing which is bad for everyone. The union needs to spend more effort fighting for an increase in the MLB minimum salary to force the cheapskate teams to spend more. They also need to fight hard for a change to revenue sharing in the next CBA that shares all broadcast revenue equally and ends sharing of local ticket revenue. This will incentivize teams to increase attendance if they want to increase their profit.
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    Does anyone have the full story about Kevin Slowey "bullying" players?
  3. DJL44
    The Twins should be interested in a long reliever to move Sands back to AAA and they might find one off waivers but that's different than finding a veteran to put in AAA.
  4. DJL44
    The bench is full of experience at the MLB level. I don't see much reason to clog up AAA with veteran retreads. Let the kids play at that level. AAA has Larnach, Lee, Severino, Miranda, Martin, Camargo, Woods Richardson, Festa, Headrick and Ohl who should all be playing regularly. That's 6 position players and 4 starting pitchers. The AAA bullpen is already full of non-roster invites.
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    Zach Weiss is not useful if he's injured.
  6. DJL44
    Arm strength 22nd percentile Jorge Polanco Stats: Statcast, Visuals & Advanced Metrics | baseballsavant.com (mlb.com) Noted problems with accuracy How a new arm slot helped Jorge Polanco get rid of ‘that little monster’ - The Athletic Baseball Prospectus | | Eyewitness Scouting Report
  7. DJL44
    The lottery is a tax on people who are bad at math.
  8. DJL44
    No, 3B is much more like SS than 1B. Polanco can't throw very well. Infielders who can't throw play at 2B and 1B.
  9. DJL44
    This spring is showing the importance of adding bullpen depth. Thielbar and Duran were pretty important last year and without Okert and Jackson the Twins would be relying on Headrick and Sands for innings.
  10. DJL44
    I love how you can see the photographer's lighting rig in his glasses.
  11. DJL44
    The Rick Anderson way
  12. DJL44
    Julio Teheran is worth stashing in AAA.
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    And a top 100 prospect. The top of the Twins order should be Julien, Correa and Lewis - Polanco wouldn't be hitting 3rd except for injuries to someone else. As mentioned by someone else, Polanco would have the 8th best projection of the Twins hitters. You are also assuming good health from Polanco and he's missed half of each of the last two seasons. Other than overestimating Polanco's likely contribution and completely ignoring the value of a top 100 prospect you have it correct.
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    Making Polanco the everyday 1B was certainly an option. It worked pretty well with Arraez. That's Santana's role right now because Kirilloff has been a bad enough infielder that they want to hide him at DH.
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    They would have had Polanco but still would have needed a 1B, a reliever and another starting pitcher. Nobody was going to offer a good, cheap starting pitcher in return for Jorge Polanco. Starting pitching is scarce, second basemen are not. It could be worse - they could have traded Polanco for prospects, avoided signing Santana and signed Giolito to take the spot in the rotation. It does make me sad that the two free agent pitchers I would have gladly signed for the contract they received were Sonny Gray and Kenta Maeda.
  16. DJL44
    That is the first I've heard of this. It makes Paddack the 5th starter and Varland the #4.
  17. DJL44
    Cutting $25-30M out of the payroll was pretty certain to lead to a less talented team.
  18. DJL44
    Polanco is pretty expensive for the 80 games you can expect him to play. There isn't much excess value beyond his actual contract. That's why there was only one bidder. There's even less value to a team with Edouard Julien in the majors and Brooks Lee in the minors. They added Gabriel Gonzalez which is a net improvement for the talent in the system and an improvement on your alternate scenario. You can find someone like Staumont for the money they're paying Topa - a reclamation project coming off injuries - but if you want someone who is healthy and was as effective as Topa was in 2023 (155 ERA+) they would need to pay more than $6M a season over multiple seasons. Topa would have been the 2nd best reliever on the Twins in 2023. That's the real value in the Polanco trade - 3 years of Topa and Gabriel Gonzalez.
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    An ERA below 5 will be okay for a 5th starter.
  20. DJL44
    An expensive heart of the order hitter for a cheap, good reliever and cheap, bad pitching depth. Cutting salary was the top priority in the Polanco trade, not getting better. Cutting payroll was the priority of the whole offseason. The only reason they exercised Polanco's option at all was to trade him. Julien is clearly their choice for 2B. If Topa is actually a cheap, bad reliever then they messed up big time.
  21. DJL44
    DeSclafani only cost $4M. Starting pitchers you would actually want in your rotation get $12M. Keuchel forced Varland out of the rotation, so he actually did.
  22. DJL44
    DeSclafani was pitching depth. All teams need 8 starters to get through a season. They were willing to put the better pitcher in AAA (Varland) in order to stockpile depth at the beginning of the season. They did it the previous season with Ober. I see trading for DeSclafani the same as adding Keuchel down the stretch last season. Nobody expected Keuchel to contribute in the postseason but he ate innings and gave Ober and Ryan each a chance to rest and recover. The Polanco trade was not a short-term move to improve the team in 2024. If Topa is a flash in the pan they're going to lose the trade. He was the 2nd most valuable asset.
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    The alternative is the Twins front office is stupid.
  24. DJL44
    That's a pretty good season for Joe Ryan
  25. DJL44
    You could have stopped after #1. All of these pitchers have to pass a physical to get traded in the first place. Is Duran an injured pitcher acquired in a trade now that he has had an injury?
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