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Still a hole at 1st. Lewis is doing slightly better, but still not much better than before his demotion.

I'm gonna buck the trend in the comments and say pick Jackson Flora. A top of the rotation college pitcher will progress rapidly through the system. The Twins need as many top arms coming up as possible. Ryan is not gonna be a Twin within a year or so, and Lopez is gonna be gone soon too if he ever returns to his former self after TJ surgery. Ober is also seeing his last days as a Twin. The Twins have some solid pieces in Taj and Abel. Matthews and Prielipp look promising, but Festa is still a question mark as is Rojas. While I'd like to have Lackey or Emerson, I still think the underlying urgent need is pitching. Culpepper will be ready soon at SS and there are several promising catchers in the system now. However, all that said I don't think the Twins can go wrong taking one of Emerson, Cholowsky, Lackey, or Flora.

At least it's not TJ. I just hope he doesn't come back and then has to go under the knife again for internal bracing. That would be devastating.

He wants to remain a Twin so understandable. I think the Twins trade him in 2028. By then they will have sustained two maybe three straight seasons of losing and will need the prospects after Ryan, Jeffers, and Lopez are gone. To be honest I think they should start retooling now. Jeffers is gone, Ryan will surely be gone, Lopez is out for the entire year and will be rehabbing in 2027. It makes on sense to cling to Buxton. By the time the Twins have a decent team again he's likely mid 30's.

Luke Keaschall is no "officially" fixed? Just like Royce Lewis is "officially" fixed? Chuckles

It's too Bad Zebby didn't have command of his change. He's probably kicking himself right now for that.

rotator cuff maybe?

Tommy John incoming? Or maybe rotator cuff?

The truth is they are not drafting well nor are they developing prospects well. The talent just isn't there. With so many teams in baseball now talent is diluted too.

Mmmmm i don't know about that. The players union is pretty damn stupid too. This last proposal by the owners for a cap and floor is actually a really good offer especially for the non-star athletes. It will almost assuredly cause a significant rise in wages for the non-star players with a salary floor set at 170 million.

It's not going to last. he's still swinging at everything in and out of the strike zone.

Actually..... NOT safe. Once the side effects data was finally released to the public.

a case of Milwaukee's Best aka the beast. He's not worth much more than that at this point.

Let's keep it real. That's a flash in the pan stat line, 1 GAME. SWR threw like absolute crap the past season and a half and this year he was worse.

Exactly. Royce Lewis’s pitch recognition is atrocious and MLB starters know he can’t lay off the offspeed stuff. He just chases everything that drop out of the zone and he’s still doing it with the Saints. Given what we’ve seen and what he’s said in posts to the media it APPEARS he’s difficult to coach and or incredibly stubborn.