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  1. DJL44
    I agree with most of what you said, but they can find a different no-hit SS to play the position in 2026 while allowing Houston to develop in the minors. He needs at least a year at Double-A. There is no reason to burn service time on a rookie for a predictably terrible season. Let the rookies earn the promotions. Playing on scholarship is bad for the Twins and bad for the players.
  2. DJL44
    Eeles is not a SS and he's not going to take Keaschall's job. The Twins like Schobel better and I can't blame them for that opinion.
  3. DJL44
    I am pretty sure none of those guys will survive the 40-man roster purge this offseason. They can find minimum-salary free agents who are better options.
  4. DJL44
    If a rookie is young enough, I think they can sit on someone's lap for free
  5. DJL44
    I wouldn't bet on the entire team but the entire outfield could. That's where most of the young talent is.
  6. DJL44
    One guarantee with a salary cap is it will put less money in the player's pockets. There is no reason why ownership would agree to it otherwise.
  7. DJL44
    I don't know why the lower spending teams would even want a salary cap. It would only affect a few teams (Mets, Dodgers, Yankees, Phillies) and the end result would be to make those teams even more profitable without improving the revenues for any of the other clubs. What incentive do the other teams have to make the Dodgers and Yankees even more profitable? It would actually decrease their revenues because they wouldn't get the luxury tax revenue sharing dollars. The union wouldn't like a salary cap because spending would go down by $400M. 25 ball clubs wouldn't like a salary cap because they would lose revenue without lowering their payroll. The Dodgers, Yankees, Mets and Phillies would each get $75-100M more revenue with a salary cap which would go directly to their bottom line. MLB brings in more overall revenue when the large market teams do well so the league would suffer in the long run. So, why would 25 teams lockout the players and lose a pile of money to ensure they lose more money in the future after the salary cap is put in place? Why would they agree to a lockout to make the Yankees, Mets and Dodgers even more wealthy?
  8. DJL44
    Doubtful. That would mean they didn't even shop him around to find the highest bid. Lopez would be coveted by multiple teams.
  9. DJL44
    I anticipate there will be enough demand for Joe Ryan this offseason that they will receive an offer they can't refuse. I am not sure that is true for Lopez, so they may hang onto him for another year. They may even hang onto Lopez for two more seasons and give him a qualifying offer. That is making an assumption that the next CBA has similar rules for qualifying offers. If the QO goes away, they need to trade Ryan, Lopez and Ober before 2027. My guess is Ryan is traded this offseason Ober is traded at the July trade deadline Lopez is traded next offseason or the following July deadline Then we can all discuss which one of the Twins still remaining in 2027 is next to be traded. Lather, rinse, repeat.
  10. DJL44
    Nobody wants a reunion with Jorge Alcala?
  11. DJL44
    I like CJ Culpepper better than a couple of these guys
  12. DJL44
    Campusano of the Padres is interesting. A couple of those catchers in the $1-2M range are better than Pereda. I would take Mountcastle at $7.8M in a heartbeat. He still has a year of team control remaining and is as good of a bounceback candidate as anyone. He was a 2 WAR first baseman from 2022-2024.
  13. 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.
  14. DJL44
    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.
  15. DJL44
    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.
  16. DJL44
    I'm sure a pair of aces and one king will win the hand this time....
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. DJL44
    If Brooks Lee could start hitting he could be the 1B.
  20. 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
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. DJL44
    Jeffers, Lewis, Martin.
  24. 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.
  25. 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.
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