Well hopefully if Falvine does trade Gray they get a haul like for Berrios. We need to make sure St Paul's 2025 rotation has a fifth starter sporting a 6+ ERA and a no power, no position hitter with a sub .200 BA.
The point: trading talent for prospects sometimes works, but gets you little or nothing far more often than it gets you something. Nobody seems to want to acknowledge that.
Personally, I don't think "2.5 to 3 months of performance" is the criteria best suited for selecting who plays in the All Star Game.
I want to see the best players. Not the best April and May.
True, and meaningless.
They're not in the ALE.
So they have a very solid chance of making the post season.
Not to mention meaningful games for the rest of the regular season, which is, to me at least, extremely valuable.
It's certainly possible the Twins wouldn't have the opportunity to set a playoff rotation (maybe they have to fight to the finish to win the division), but given a choice I believe they'd give Gray game 1.
Second half performance could change that, but as of today I think he'd be a lock.
A team trading for him really wouldn't give much thought to 2024 and beyond. He's a free agent at the end of the year no matter what.
And
Wouldn't be able to offer a QO.
Only the Twins can offer the QO.
I don't think his comments make much difference.
Not that I'm currently in favor of trading him. Unless the Twins fall a half dozen or more games behind Cleveland by the deadline, I hope they don't trade him.
Pretty solid work from the pen this series. I'd call that the primary difference between the two teams this weekend.
First sweep in Oakland since 1997.
Nineteen. Ninety. Seven.