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  1. DJL44
    All of these lefties get their nice ERA because they're generally only asked to get lefties out. You can't LOOGY your way to a successful bullpen by burning through 6 relievers a game chasing the platoon advantage. Someone needs to be able to get both lefthanded and righthanded batters out.
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    Loperfido is not a starting OF. That was a salary dump by the Astros.
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    This could happen. I doubt the Twins would get any money this year because the Astros are close to the luxury tax, but I could absolutely see the Astros trading $5M in 2028 for Larnach and Jackson. The other one I like is Twins trade Larnach ($4.5M) and Jackson ($1.4M) Astros trade McCullers ($17.7M) and $10M (what the Twins owe for Correa). The Astros save $2M while obtaining their LH OF and backup C. The Twins get a pitcher to convert into a closer.
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    Freudian slip
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    Emmanuel Rodriguez
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    Do you know any pitcher who suffered a shoulder injury that kept them out for three seasons in a row and returned with the same stuff they had four years ago?
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    It's a terrible idea. It turns your 5-man rotation into a 10-man rotation with 3 relief pitchers remaining for high leverage. It takes innings away from your best pitchers and gives them to your worst pitchers, then takes away the 1-inning let-it-fly advantage away from your worst pitchers. This negates all the advantage you get from your bullpen. I'd much rather see Joe Ryan pitch into the 7th than trying to squeeze a third inning out of Travis Adams or John Klein.
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    I really hope not. This roster still has some easy upgrades left to make.
  9. DJL44
    The arbitration system stinks, but the previous system was to have young talent hold out for more money and not report to spring training until they got a raise. Who is the last baseball player to hold out?
  10. DJL44
    International bonus money can be dealt in increments of $250,000
  11. DJL44
    This should be a concern. He's a lefty groundball pitcher and his SS changed from Mookie Betts to Brooks Lee.
  12. DJL44
    I agree. International bonus money is usually a positive return on investment and shouldn't be traded away by small-market teams. However, what are the odds that the Twins can turn that international bonus money into a useful relief pitcher through signing and developing? Banda might be the Twins closer. If he gets a few saves, they might be trading him away at the deadline for something better than international bonus money.
  13. DJL44
    I’m not mad at him. Just passing along status.
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    He had surgery a year ago and still hasn’t recovered from it.
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    Canterino has already been ruled out for all of spring training with a bum shoulder.
  16. DJL44
    Bo Bichette is getting moved off the position by the Mets. He's probably going to play some SS because Lindor is hurt but that's only due to necessity.
  17. DJL44
    Rocco was replaced by his former bench coach who was hired because he is the most Rocco-like manager they could find. Falvey is gone, but he's replaced by Zoll who was promoted by Falvey. Zoll executed the deadline trades last summer. This is literally the smallest amount of change they could achieve after firing Falvey and Rocco.
  18. DJL44
    I liked Molitor on the radio. Who is replacing him there when he's doing TV? I like when they pair a hitter with a pitcher on the broadcast. That adds some natural conflict.
  19. DJL44
    Absolutely brutal offseason. Signing Caratini is the only move I like. Adding Tristan Gray might be the #2 move of the offseason which is just pathetic. They're headed into spring training with James Outman still on the roster and both Travis Adams and John Klein penciled into the bullpen. Trevor Larnach was re-signed for $4.7M even though they have five other outfielders who could be just as good or better making league minimum. They totally mismanaged their tiny budget.
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    The trade looks really bad for Tampa right now. They added Jax to contend, but this season they're retooling and Jax sticks out like a sore thumb as trade bait on their roster.
  21. DJL44
    It sounds very "gifted 24-year-old male athlete" to me. Many players don't put in the extra work until they get a dose of reality. None of these guys likes losing. Sometimes it takes losing to be willing to put in the work to win.
  22. DJL44
    Bradley is one of the youngest of all the potential candidates for the rotation. He's younger than Prielipp, Mathews, Festa and Woods-Richardson. Only Abel and Morris are younger than Bradley and that's only by a couple months. Bradley has had more MLB success than all of those guys. He has some serious stuff and acknowledged that he needs to learn how to pitch. He admitted last summer that he wasn't doing much for game preparation. He will have more success if he learns how to pitch instead of relying on his coaches and catcher to do that work for him. I worry about a sinker/splitter pitcher moving from Tampa to Minnesota. Those grounders will get through the Twins infield more often.
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    FYI - Matt Canterino has already been ruled out for spring training due to his shoulder.
  24. DJL44
    A 79-win season would be the absolute worst for this franchise. That would mean they're good enough to not sell at the deadline, but not good enough to buy at the deadline. They would miss the playoffs while squandering the trade capital they have. It would also convince ownership to run it all back again in 2027. There is some hope for improved defense in the outfield if they let Martin, Roden, Rodriguez and Jenkins field instead of Larnach and Wallner.
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    You're likely to see more of that disconnect this year. FIP assumes average defensive support.
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