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  1. DJL44
    If they don't make the 40-man at age 21, they can stick in the org another 2 years before they have to be added or lost as minor league free agents. That gets them to age 23, 3 years of options is age 26 before they have to make the MLB team or be lost forever.
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    I agree, and it might have to wait until Framber Valdez, Dylan Cease and Ranger Suarez come off the market. To trade Ober, I would expect we would need to see more of the free agent starting pitchers come off the market. I was a little surprised to see Shota Imanaga take the qualifying offer.
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    The Twins should absolutely make a Rule 5 pick. Worst case scenario, they have to return the player like they did with Castellano. There are at least 8 players on the 40-man roster they should cut. They have an opportunity in the bullpen to add a reliever. They should also be scouring the market for minor league free agents to add to the Saints roster.
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    I'm sure a pair of aces and one king will win the hand this time....
  5. DJL44
    Interesting to see the Brewers also underperforming when acquiring IFA talent. Makes me wonder which orgs are doing really well. 1/3 of players are international free agents. Is any org getting more than 33% of their talent from IFAs? I think the Astros are one of the better orgs in this area.
  6. DJL44
    The standards haven't been super high since they elected Herb Pennock in 1948. I expect Cole Hamels to get overlooked this year even though he was a MUCH, MUCH better pitcher than Billy Wagner who was elected last season. The Hall of Fame has done a terrible job inducting pitchers for the past 25 years as they pass over starters to induct relievers of much lower talent.
  7. DJL44
    If Brooks Lee could start hitting he could be the 1B.
  8. DJL44
    1/3 of MLB players come into the league as international free agents. Brusdar Graterol is their last IFA pitching prospect and that was 2019. Luis Gil went to the Yankees but he may be more of a Yankee development success than a Twins talent identification success. The Twins gave him up for Jake Cave so they obviously didn't think he would amount to much. Francisco Liriano was way back in 2005. And there's usually a kickback to someone to get a deal. The bigger market teams do a better job getting the best players and it's mostly about money. The Twins are picking over the leftovers after the more corrupt teams pay the buscones. The dysfunction of the baseball culture in Latin America - Yahoo Sports
  9. DJL44
    I would expect Julien to put up an 85-90 OPS+ with terrible defense. Clemens is at least 1 WAR better than Julien, possibly 2 WAR.
  10. DJL44
    With Twins.TV you won't get the Apple TV games, games on FOX or NBC, or the Netflix Field of Dreams game next season, but it looks like you'll get everything else.
  11. DJL44
    Jeffers, Lewis, Martin.
  12. DJL44
    Exactly. Torii isn't the best or even the second-best CF available on the ballot. He's not one of the 10 best players on the ballot. They passed over Jim Edmonds and Kenny Lofton who are both better candidates than Torii Hunter.
  13. DJL44
    I watched him play. He's one of the worst first basemen I've seen in MLB. Just brutal defensively. That's the "consistent playing time" triple slash. A .724 OPS for a platoon DH is nothing special.
  14. DJL44
    Capital One MLB Open Golf Tournament | MLB.com
  15. DJL44
    If Eduoard Julien was currently on a different team's roster, would anyone here be advocating for the Twins to acquire him?
  16. DJL44
    Royce Lewis and Aaron Hicks won the MLB golf tournament. Suck it Dodgers! When's the parade through Minneapolis?
  17. DJL44
    There are other players currently available and looking for a job who are better choices. Several of them will also cost nothing.
  18. DJL44
    Agreed. Most of what he says is complete BS. Why quote it as gospel?
  19. DJL44
    They're not going to be able to develop their way to success while performing so poorly at acquiring international free agent pitching. Development is great, but then you also have to be the best at identifying talent, while having fewer resources available to identify talent. You can have a fundamentally sound team that plays better than their talent, but many of the most talented teams are also pretty good at preparation and fundamentals. They have to spend money, and they have to spend it wisely. The best $$ spent is on extending contracts for your own players, assuming you can find talented players to invest in.
  20. DJL44
    There are roughly 30 available free agent 1B (including minor league free agents) who are better choices to make the Twins roster.
  21. DJL44
    Nice job turning a 14th round pick into a pitcher who should get some innings this season.
  22. DJL44
    Nevermind that your # of teams adds to 33. Mets, Yankees, Dodgers, Angels, Cubs, Astros, Phillies, Rangers, Giants, Braves and Red Sox would be "haves". That's 1/3 of the league. Toronto, Seattle, San Diego and St. Louis don't seem to have any problem competing. That makes half the league. The only real "have nots" are the Athletics and Rays who are playing in minor league stadiums and the White Sox who have lost their market to the Cubs. The Twins are estimated to have as much revenue as any other team in the AL Central. They can easily afford a $140M payroll. If everything was split exactly fairly, they would have $80M more revenue than they currently have.
  23. DJL44
    Joe Ryan = Bert Blyleven because they both gave up HR was your analogy, not mine. I'm pretty sure HR are one of the things where the defense behind the pitcher doesn't matter.
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    Unless their value will be even lower later, which might be the case for Bailey Ober.
  25. DJL44
    If they trade Ryan, they're probably also trading Jeffers and Lopez and Ober. There is plenty of room on the roster for both Tait and Basallo.
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