Hosken Bombo Disco

Maybe Luis Gil!!!

It’s just us. Although, Texas, Cinci and the Yankees have been involved in some recent moves as well.

I was looking forward to watching our rag tag bunch of misfits from last year oh well. Go Twins!

Agree. Garver is the better guy to have than Sanchez.

Sunday Bloody Sunday

i just don’t see how much ground this makes up on Chicago this year, and it cost us a #1 Pick But the Twins do need pitching in the present, badly.

Twins also acquire an AA arm https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=peguer003fra

here are my initial thoughts: uff da Petty was our number one pick, so I guess I don’t understand the draft and scouting and selection process here

With a DH now in both leagues, Garver is likely to be more valuable going forward than he was previously (setting aside the comparison with Arraez)

This, from the fellow who hates Mitch Garver with “the intensity of a thousand white hot suns”??

You are in mid-season form already. I love it!

MLB player pages still in lockout state and no headshots yet—no official deal yet? (I’ll show myself out..)

That’s not chump change.

The owners, at the last minute:

An interesting way to describe talks, this from a little bit ago:

Basically, they agreed to disagree or agreed to postpone a decision on it — good enough for me!

Seems more like there won't be an opening day in 2022. That makes me sad and I really hope I'm wrong. The owners, in the past few days, have apparently revived their demand for an international draft. This issue didn't exactly come out of nowhere, but it's a non starter for the players. It was a non-starter for the players in the last CBA. As shady as the international free agency market can seem to us, especially in the Dominican, the international players prefer it to a draft. They have said so. Fair enough. So there is no reason to even bring up the international draft issue, none, other than to intentionally kill a negotiation. Yes the players are greedy, but they have dropped their big earlier demands for quicker free agency and friendlier arbitration. The players want a deal, and want to play. Because they are baseball players. And twice now, when a deal seemed within reach, at least to us on the outside, the owners do something to pull the rug out, that the owners know will pull the rug out from under the players' feet. I read somewhere that the MLBPA has a war chest for lower salary players to draw from, and that the war chest can last the full season. . And now that games have been cancelled, it looks like service time and retro pay are new issues to factor in the negotiation, making an agreement seem all the harder. As mentioned earlier, why don't the owners just throw the gates open and see what happens. I don't know the ins and outs, but apparently the prior CBA stays in effect if no new CBA is agreed to? I also don't feel like the players would spike the postseason without a new CBA to play under. They'd lose the fans in a heartbeat.

I can’t explain it. “Larger bases for you players, so that fewer of you get injured.” It’s a weird bargaining chip and the evidence for it seems dubious.

Indeed, if the Twins front office carried a player on the big league roster for ten years but never put them in a game, you might find a way to praise them for smart roster management! The rest of your post is the usual pro-owner, anti-player stuff, and we’ve all went circles on this so many times, and few of us have any desire to engage anymore.

Actually, for the times we are living in, that doesn’t sound like a far-fetched scenario to me (except for the last part).

I’m hearing that the players countered with bringing back the neighborhood play on double plays at second

Bang-bang play at first!