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  1. DJL44
    Minor league free agent SS OPS in AAA last season and age Yordys Valdes 526 23 Luis Verdugo 494 24 Dalvy Rosario 508 24 Eddys Leonard 739 24 Liover Peguero 688 24 Raynel Delgado 741 25 Jonathan Ornelas 574 25 Livan Soto 571 26 Jordan Groshans 660 26 Chad Stevens 855 26 Rodolfo Castro 745 26 Andrew Navigato 649 27 Diego Castillo 737 27 Connor Kaiser 751 28 Will Holland 637 28 Riley Unroe 806 29 Alan Trejo 789 29 Jackson Cluff 771 29 Andrew Velazquez 649 30 Dixon Machado 646 33 Jack Lopez 623 32 I bolded the best candidates and crossed out guys who I know have already signed a contract
  2. DJL44
    I posted a list of minor league free agent SS options in another thread. The Phillies already grabbed one of those guys. The Twins need to grab at least one of them, especially after trading Eeles.
  3. DJL44
    They just need to find new homes for Outman and Larnach, which is something they absolutely need to do anyway. Emmanuel Rodriguez can have RF in that scenario.
  4. DJL44
    Every team needs at least 13 pitchers and at most two shortstops.
  5. DJL44
    I'd rather have a first baseman who makes Clemens the backup at other positions.
  6. DJL44
    People shouldn't really mention Canterino as an option for the MLB bullpen. He hasn't pitched in years. The most likely scenario is he retires from baseball. Next most likely is he struggles in AAA as he works back to pitching at a high level. I think the bullpen is basically the only way the Twins will get any value from Raya. He's running out of options and he's not going to be good enough to start in any reasonable timeline before the Twins run out of control. I think Festa and Prielipp could be the high leverage relievers the Twins desperately need.
  7. DJL44
    The guy who didn’t improve this season repeating AAA?
  8. DJL44
    There are like 30 free agent first basemen looking for work.
  9. DJL44
    I am surprised the Yankees didn’t trade some of the players they have left unprotected.
  10. DJL44
    I really don't understand "we want to compete" with Outman in the majors and Rodriguez in AAA. Are they convinced that Emmanuel Rodriguez will put up a line worse than Outman's .147/.221/.337 slash? If so, they HAVE to trade him now before he is completely worthless in trade. There's even comparable stats between Outman and Rodriguez during the same time period for St. Paul. Rodriguez hit .258/.429/.423 with 45 BB and 67 K in 212 PA and Outman hit .235/.316/.490 with 6BB and 19K in 57 PA. They struck out at roughly the same rate but Rodriguez took twice as many walks. There is absolutely no downside to putting Rodriguez on the roster instead of Outman. The downside is Rodriguez performs as poorly as Outman (lots of strikeouts, occasional HR, decent defense). The upside is he's a contributor. They don't need Outman for "depth" either. If Rodriguez struggles you try Jenkins or Gonzalez or Fedko. Worst case you put Kody Clemens in the outfield, grab an Outman-equivalent player off the waiver wire or pay cash for someone on another team's AAA roster. Giving a spot to Outman instead of Rodriguez hurts the team in the short-term AND in the long-term. It's a lose-lose decision. It's like optioning Brooks Lee and handing the starting SS job to Ryan Fitzgerald because you're "trying to compete".
  11. DJL44
    C Reese McGuire was non-tendered by the Cubs.
  12. DJL44
    Losing Keirsey is addition by subtraction.
  13. DJL44
    I don't think Eeles really has 6 years of control. He has 3 years of control 2027-29 while he still has options and then you cut him to make room for someone else.
  14. DJL44
    They just added Orze as a bullpen arm and Jackson as a backup C. That lessens their demand for a Rule 5 pick. I still would have liked to see them add another reliever.
  15. DJL44
    Plus, Vazquez is likely to be worse next season.
  16. DJL44
    I'm pretty sure he can continue to strike out over 30% of the time. I think they're hoping exactly for another Kody Clemens - low batting average but can hit one over the fence every so often. Kody Clemens career .206/.263/.403 batting line would actually be perfectly fine for a decent fielding catcher. James McCann just got $3M to be that guy. Not really adequate for a first baseman.
  17. DJL44
    They do not. Pereda can't hang onto the ball. Cardenas is one guy and they need at least two of them. I suppose they could pick up two waiver wire catchers and save $1M but their payroll is already below $90M and headed for $45M if they trade Lopez, Buxton, Ryan and Jeffers. I hope the plan is to try to compete in 2026. The division is wide open, especially if the Tigers trade off Skubal.
  18. DJL44
    If they're trading those guys, they'll be trading for a lot of new players. That's the whole point. Someone needs to sit behind the plate, catch the ball and throw it back to the pitcher. If they put Gasper back there, they can add an extra run of ERA to all the pitchers and they won't have any relievers to trade at the deadline. Even in a rebuild year, they should be trying to pump-and-dump relievers in July.
  19. DJL44
    I will take 30-year-old Alex Jackson over 35-year-old Christian Vazquez in 2026.
  20. DJL44
    If they trade Jeffers, they'll be trading Ryan and Lopez and possibly Buxton. Then they just need a couple guys who can play defense. Jackson can catch and throw so he fills that need.
  21. DJL44
    I agree. These trades are necessary to rearrange the bench so the depth lines up better with needs, but they don't really add any wins to the 70-win roster.
  22. DJL44
    I am seeing Spencer Steer mentioned as a possible non-tender by the Reds. I wonder if a Larnach for Steer trade is possible. The Reds are thin at LF/DH.
  23. DJL44
    I don't know why it suggests they'll keep Jeffers. They needed a backup catcher on the roster with or without a Jeffers trade. If they trade Jeffers, they'll need to find another catcher. I hope it means they're giving Jeffers a contract extension. You can't punt the catcher defense entirely by using Gasper and Pereda. It will make the pitchers (like Ober) you are trying to trade later look a whole lot worse. Pereda is just a few months younger than Jackson.
  24. DJL44
    I don't know why anyone would want that. I'd rather his at-bats go to Martin, Roden, Jenkins, Rodriguez and Gonzalez.
  25. DJL44
    If you look at Jackson's AAA stats - .242/.323/.517 for an .840 OPS - it makes his 2025 MLB line of .220/.290/.473 look sustainable. An .840 OPS in AAA is higher than Eeles (.790) and Keirsey (.811) and neither of them can play adequate defense behind the plate.
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