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  1. Both of these games felt like more than routine mid season games. Fun. It's what being a fan should be.
  2. Obviously a move to showcase Smelzer in preparation for a Scherzer trade.
  3. Sorry Cody...this made me laugh, from the paragraph on the 91 WS: "Five of the seven games were decided by one run or less."
  4. it would have taken a fantastic tag, since the ball never got to Astudillo.
  5. I'm pretty sure I remember reading Lindor has already made it known he won't sign an extension. I believe they're operating under that as a given.
  6. Here's an article on MLB.com speculating on pitchers who might be available this summer: https://www.mlb.com/news/starting-pitcher-trade-rumors-bauer-bumgarner Scherzer makes the list. No Grienke.
  7. Someone came up with "Tater Trot Hot Dish." Like it.
  8. And you want them to add a #1 starter, but not at the cost of any of their top prospects? The original post led me to believe you wouldn't trade any of them. In which case, the "significant" help won't really be significant. Adding a guy in the 4th spot of the rotation will make no difference in the post season. Add a guy that pushes Berrios down to #2. THAT has a chance to make a difference.
  9. I don't want them at add "significant piece(s)." I want them to add the first guy in the playoff rotation, and/or the last guy to pitch with a lead. I want a guy to match up with the Verlanders of the world, and a guy the other team ain't coming back on in the ninth.
  10. Well, $105M over three years disadvantages a lot of teams, including the Twins. But the structure of that $105M actually makes it easier to deal with, not harder. They don't have to defer his salary if they don't want to. Take $33M and put in in the bank in 2020 and 2021, add what's left this year ($20M ?) and his deferred salary is covered. edit: ninja'd. now we're even.
  11. The deferred money is his 2019-2021 contract salary. He's owed $35M in each of 2019, 2020, and 2021, but those salaries are deferred, without interest, to $15M in each of 2022 thru 2028. It actually makes the contract cheaper in real dollars (tomorrow's money worth less than today) and easier to swallow year to year. It'd be no fun to pay him $15M a year for 7 years, but it's not a huge amount per year. And it might lower the price in terms of prospects.
  12. I'd bet a lot of money Scherzer is the more valuable pitcher between today and the end of the 2021 season.
  13. I hope Washington can be talked into dealing Scherzer. That team is about a bad week from being blown up, IMO. But that will require at least one of the A list Twins prospects. And I'd do that in a heartbeat.
  14. Am I the only one worried about Randball's Stu? This marks two consecutive articles that were barely chuckle worthy. Flash in the pan?
  15. Scherzer has been on my mind for a while now. Washington isnt going anywhere. Push hard for Scherzer. That moves everyone down in the rotation, and maybe Pineda becomes a weapon in the pen. Go big or go home.
  16. So are lots of 4 seam fastballs. Velocity matters. His problem was location, not lack of movement.
  17. Rocco has a tough side, too. He don't coddle no lollygaggers.
  18. Pressly was already very good when traded. The Twins best or second best reliever.
  19. not nearly enough. What do the Giants want with Adrianza? Gordon is the only one that has any value, and it's not much.
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