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  1. Trov
    Do you have numbers of the other markets last year that made deals? If not, that is pure speculation as to what teams will get to have games aired on local cable or networks. First, it will not be likely too many channels would come knocking for rights, being it will not be exclusive and will reduce their ability to get money from ads. If they are cable networks that want to bid, the Twins have little leverage as regional sports broadcasting is dying, why we are here. If the MLB wants to have an exclusive channel that is not MLB network air games on cable, people will have to pay extra on cable to get it, because there will be no leverage for MLB to have cable put on their basic packages. This will then reduce ad revenue as well. Yes, they will be able to sell some games if not all games to some broadcaster, but it will not be anywhere near what they sold last year, or years prior. It is clear channels were not knocking down the door to buy the rights for the Twins to be aired.
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    I see no way Castro is not here, unless he is traded. You cannot DFA him. I could see him being tendered and then traded though, only if they feel a mix of Martin and Lee or some other FA can cover what he can do. He helped carry the team for a stretch, but then he also fell apart at end of year, like everyone else on offense. He still provides a ton of value with how Rocco likes to manage because you can pinch hit for many guys and move Castro to where you need on defense. I get that Vasquez is making 10 mil, but as you point out hard to justify that price with his offense, so why would another team justify it? Meaning, only way a team would is if you give up either money to take him, which defeats purpose of moving him, or you give up prospects to take him. Without clear replacement in wings hard to justify giving up prospects to clear money off the books. Every year the bullpen gets retooled as most guys are on 1 year deals.
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    I doubt many teams would trade for him, unless we take pennies on the dollar. Remember 2 teams agreed to deal and balked when medicals came in. Throw in 2 years of foot issues I doubt many teams will want to take on his risk at this point. The only way a team would is if they knew his options would not kick in, which they do not at this point. He is with us for better or worse for next few years I think.
  4. Trov
    MLB says they are going to try to find local channels. It may be on MLB tv for cable, they have been showing regional rights this past year. It could also mean like weekend games on 29, 23, or 45 for twin cities channels. They would be unlikely to get any of the other channels because the of national things they need to air.
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    This depends. MLB says they will be looking for local carriers and cable, but depending on how that goes they may not get apathetic fans back. The only way you get that is if you get a channel on basic cable packages, or on local network TV. If not, then fans need to pay the streaming price of $99 a year, or pay for the bigger cable package. That is not going to attract the apathetic fan again.
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    Pretty sure the Cubs could get a better deal than this. Really they would be getting a guy that might start again, but may fail at that. He is nearing FA and aging. Yes, his arm may not be as spent as normal pitcher, but history has shown drop off of all players after 30. They also will take on final year of a non-factor at plate but good defending catcher, normally would be league min guy. They will give up a MLB ready talent with years of control. He may not be their top OF prospect but if he is a good defender in CF and can hit close to what he has done in AAA he will fetch better than that in a deal. I also do not know how much better it makes us next year. It may help years to come, but we have seen some rookies play very well, and not so much. We have also seen them fall off the face of the earth their second years sometime.
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    The answer is based on a few factors that the FO should answer. One, do they expect to extend Jeffers after his 3rd arb year, or let him walk? Two, how do they feel about organizational depth for next year should the need arise? If their depth is weak, who can they find in FA? Three, what dot hey value more defense or possible offense, and do they think Jeffers can be consistent on offense? Finally, what would they get in return for them? I think both names should be floated out to teams to see what they would give up. If no team will take Vasquez without either paying large part of contract, or giving up prospect to dump him, then he gives you little return. If you add in fact you doubt Jeffers will be extended long term, and your organizational depth is weak, hard to justify giving a guy away. If you think Jeffers will sign beyond 2026 season, might be worth just dumping Vasquez if cost is low. However, if Jeffers will walk in two years and he can fetch a better return it would make sense to trade him. Now, if you want the narrow just 2025 in sight as article seems to take that point of view, you drop Vasquez and hope Jeffers will be more consistent on offense. Keeping in mind Vaquez has a hell of a run in middle of season hitting too, but rest of year was just terrible. Not sure too many teams will take his money unless you send a better prospect with him. However, I am guessing there is someone you could spend his money on, a pen pitcher or two.
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    The only thing we can hope is that the players will learn from this. Lewis hit a slump like he never had, which killed us. Julien became just unplayable. Lee did not adjust to pitchers when they adjusted to him(I think he may have been fighting through some pain from injuries as well because until his injury he was doing okay). Miranda fell off the face of the earth and makes you wonder who he really is. Guys that helped carry the line up at different times when we were winning a ton all fell apart at same time. No way can you win when everyone stops hitting all at once. Then all the little mistakes, in the field or on the base paths looks so much bigger.
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    I would fully agree with Sands, but I would not put SWR on the list, and would have Ober much higher on the list. First, SWR was a rookie, how can you say a rookie was most improved? If you are saying off his AAA numbers, I would even push back and say he started to improve the second half last year from his terrible first half. The reason I would have Ober higher is he has shown he can be a solid number 2 guy, with flashes of being a number 1. Rocco started to trust him deeper into games. For the most part, outside of a few blow up starts he was very solid. He had 19 quality starts, even going complete game, 8 innings at times. He had 5 starts where he had 3 runs or less allowed and 5 innings, so if given a shot he could have got a quality start. He will slot into the 2 or 3 roll nicely for next few years, or fetch some good prospects in return when the time comes I think.
  10. Trov
    Personally, I am for Detroit to win it all, as they have the lowest payroll on their playoff roster. Many teams have single players making more than their whole team. They are on crazy hot run with young guys and it would make a great story.
  11. Trov
    Exactly what Leviathan says. You cannot get both streaming for your team, and local cable/sat unless you enter that into contract with the local provider, who will never agree to it. Why would someone agree pay for your product, when you will undercut them and sell streaming to fans? They only would if you sell the rights for very low cost.
  12. Trov
    MLB is for a huge shake up, and should have done it years ago. The problem is the owners and players have fought for years over who wins the contracts, and not thinking that rising tides raises all boats. They would rather fight over how much of the pie they each get, and not thinking how can we work together to get a larger pie to share. Now teams are saying they need to cut payroll because of lost TV money. Players do not care about that. It is going to lead to players not getting contracts they think is right, but if there is not sharing of money from the super market teams to the small/mid market teams, it will lead to the top top guys only being able to go to the mega market teams. Once they have their rosters filled, they will not sign other players. Then the players will still demand huge money, but the lower teams either will not have it, or will choose not to spend it because why bid against themselves? I have long said they need to get a revenue sharing split similar to NBA. A salary cap/floor is set based on how much money comes into the sport. You have to spend money then on players. Superstars still get paid, but it actually will increase what the mid-level guys get, because teams need to spend. The players will never go for it because they one do not trust owners, and two they have always said no cap, but forget a cap will come with a floor.
  13. Trov
    It is a good question, but most reports from TV people have been that streaming advertising has generally been less money than live TV. Maybe this has changed over the last few years with so much more streaming going on, and all of them going with ads. I know my wife watches Pirates games through MLB app, and there are a few ads, but much of the time between innings are just saying we will be back. You would think MLB would be able to have ads fill that space, but they do not.
  14. Trov
    The key to winning seasons is having guys that you were not expecting to have great years, have great years. Unless you are one of the few teams that can spend a ton of money, every mid to small market teams needs young guys and cast off guys to step up on big years. Just look at Twins last year, Wallner and Julien had great years when they came up. Kepler had career year. Lewis was insane. This year, even more so by end of year no one was stepping up. Santana did better than expected overall, but struggled to start and end season. Lewis regressed a ton, no rookies or young guys stepped up. No one came out of no where to say wow did not see that coming. Miranda had a run mid season that was like that but then he fell off a cliff by end of year. Ober had a season like that, and SWR was good, but both fell off near end of year. The pen fell apart. Spending money does not always equal wins, and you can cut payroll, if you hit on the guys you bring in.
  15. Trov
    This was not the most disappointing season, and really on the list the 2022 and 2011 were only really disappointment seasons. I would say 2011 was as we had are core team, had been winning for several years, and thought that would continue, and the season was just terrible. 2022 was also an issue as we had the big signing of CC and trade for Grey, but we still had some holes. The other seasons listed, the team did not finish far off from where they were expected going into the season. In 2001 they were not expected to compete at all, just because they faded down stretch does not mean they were a disappointment. In 1992 they were just a few wins off the prior year, yes they had hopes of repeating, but back then even getting into playoffs on back to back years were hard enough. We lost one of our top starters from 1991. This year we did terrible down the stretch, but did not finish too far off of what many expected in total wins. It was disappointing, and not a fun last month really, but I would not say the most disappointing.
  16. Trov
    I do not get too hyped on international kids in DSL short seasons. So much can happen in their physical development.
  17. Trov
    I would have loved to see Eeles get sent. He for sure could have went over Ben Ross, now sure their thought there sending Ross. I get Eeles is not a top prospect due to being undrafted, and tiny, but he climbed all way up to AAA and showed he can hit there.
  18. Trov
    I think he has shown he needs to be transitioned to bullpen full time next year. He is so much better in that roll and he has been as a starter. We have too many guys in the wings next year that can fill his roll as end of rotation starter.
  19. Trov
    Julien will stay in organization, unless a team comes along with a good offer. He will play in AAA next year until there are injuries. Then he will need to run with it or will be a future DFA guy. Crazy how a year ago all the talk was he was the future at second base for the Twins years to come, now we are talking about if he will be on the roster next year. One it shows why you can never have too many prospects in the wings because you never know if a player is for real, even when they have a good rookie year. What stuck out to me on him early in the year was he clearly had no clue how teams were going to pitch him. He was taking way too many pitches in the zone and started swinging at way too many out of the zone. It did not help early on he was striking out watching pitches just out of a zone, but he looked so lost early in season, and has not found it.
  20. Trov
    Only way we could is if the offense learns to hit with RISP, or start hitting a ton of HR. Hard to score if you do neither, which is what they have been doing. We get hits to get guys on and never score them lately. By not scoring at all, we put too much pressure on the pitching. They know if they give up 1 run odds of us winning are almost 0.
  21. Trov
    It has just been sad to watch the team play so bad this month. We cannot get a hit with runners on, we cannot hit a HR anymore, no one has stepped up and all are playing terrible at once. It is not just the offense, but the pitching has been bad overall, but even when they are good, the team cannot score. The fielding has been poor as well. Last year, Kepler, Julien, and Wallner carried us into the playoffs. Wallner has been okay, but not like last year, and Julien has been terrible, Kepler is hurt, Lewis is slumping like he never has, Miranda looks like last year, not the guy that helped carry us in the middle months. Correa and Buck can get hits, but no one else are getting them before or after. Lee looks like he has no clue how to hit, after his hot start at this level. Larnach has been decent. It just shows how important every game though a season is. We are limping to end of season, but we had many games early in year we could have won and did not, and even late here many would have held on and did not.
  22. Trov
    It is a real interesting week ahead. Each team is playing a bottom feeder. Det is playing a team that if they sweep Det they could, but unlikely, jump into wild card in Tampa. KC is playing a team fighting for WC in NL, but could be out of it by weekend. Twins should be playing a team setting up for WC matchup, that could be against Twins. Seattle is playing a team locked into 3rd division slot, provided they do not get swept by Seattle, if Seattle sweeps Houston, then Houston may be fighting for wild card on the weekend. All the Twins can do is take care of their business, which they have failed at really bad this month.
  23. Trov
    He may be getting worse on defense, but the question is he still better than anyone else we have to put there? If so, then he plays there over others. If not, you slid him to RF just like all the top CF have done in their careers when they lose a step. You knew it was going to happen before his contract was up.
  24. Trov
    I did not watch the game, but the writer suggests pulling Matthews was correct because of third time through and Matthew was facing a lefty, and there was 2 outs. Well, you could have walked Duran and pitch to the righties. One thing I hate about this no third time, even more so on rookies, is the rookies never get the chance to work a third time, to learn how to do it. Yes, the numbers are up on the third time, and normally it is because the hitter has a better idea on how the pitcher plans to pitch to them. The best pitchers back in the day would set guys up for that third time through. They planned to face them a third time and would set up a hitter through first 2 at bats. The the third at bat the hitter would see something different normally. Now pitchers unload everything the first 2 times the hitters have a better idea of the plan against them and the pitcher does not adjust. Part of it is lack of good mix of pitches, but let the kids learn to pitch a third time through. With 2 outs, you walk Duran, and let Matthews face the righties and hopefully get the third out. It may not have worked out any better, but Matthews is hopefully a future starter for us and we will want him to learn to pitch deeper than the 4th inning.
  25. Trov
    I had more of issue of putting Duran in game before. I get the argument of having your best reliever in there, or at least he should be our best, to even push to extras, but there is something about save situations that are different. LaTroy Hawkins was a great set up guy, but was not a very good closer. Something about those last outs made him not be as good, or hitters were better against. It is the mental thing. I would have rather seen the pitchers get reversed in use.
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