If you want to sign Hader after this season you don't have to give up anything but money. You're trading for the next 3 months of Hader, about 30 innings of pitching. What happens in the offseason is irrelevant to his trade value.
Jose Miranda continues to be 0 for his callup. Losing Royce Lewis has been a huge setback for the Twins.
I wonder if Jeffers at C last night instead of Vazquez would have been a better move to get a little more offense in the lineup.
Willi Castro cannot be their "RH bat" solution in the outfield. He has the same 697 OPS from each side of the plate. There are lots of outfielders who can do better than that. He's a defense-first player, not the #5 hitter.
Duran has trouble locating his pitches. He's more of a "thrower" than a "pitcher" and gets by because his stuff is just nasty. If he was able to locate his pitches better he'd be much better. He'd be like Bautista of the Orioles.
That trade has the Mets sending out 3 players making $26M. The Mets are paying the penalty so they actually cost them at least $9M more than that. Gallo doesn't have to end up with the Mets but he needs to go somewhere else if the Twins are adding that much payroll.
Okay, but adding Canha, Robertson and Raley could help. Send out Gallo, Ronny Henriquez, and an A-ball pitcher like Lewis, Culpepper, Nowlin or Hidalgo
I think the Mets are a good fit. They have RH batting outfielders (Pham and Canha) and relievers (Robertson and Raley). They would probably take Gallo in return to make the money work.
How much time did you spend practicing defense every day? By not playing CF they are having Buxton avoid that time he spent practicing defense every day. He might be healthy enough to play CF for the length of a game but they would want him to practice defense every day in preparation for that. He's not healthy enough to spend the time every day practicing defense in CF.
I could argue that Julien was a "Sabato" - an all-bat player who looked great as a sophomore. Same with Wallner. Encarnacion-Strand was definitely a "Sabato" type player. They can't stop taking power bats just because one didn't pan out. Same with toolsy high school players like Cavaco. There isn't a chance to draft Brooks Lee every year.
I think this is the best way to evaluate the trade. Did they pick the right prospect return from all the available trade packages? We can't really know that unless we know the alternatives.
This year is mostly irrelevant to evaluating the trade. In 2022 Berrios was awful for the Blue Jays. Simply dumping Berrios '2022 $10.7M salary and 72 ERA+ production was a net win for the Twins. I don't know if the Twins would have tendered a contract to Berrios in 2023 after how poorly he pitched in 2022.
The winner of the Berrios trade was Jose Berrios. He found a team willing to pay him the big bucks on a contract extension. Since the trade he's produced 1.9 WAR for $26M. That has net negative value so anything they get from the prospects is a bonus.