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  1. gunnarthor
    Bottom third quality but there are a lot of bottom third managers right now. He's not an asset, we'd be better off with a better manager, but he's not the worst problem we have.
  2. gunnarthor
    Yeah, bummer.
  3. gunnarthor
    I'd keep Sano. He's affordable. Last year was an incredibly down year offensively around the league which sorta made his season look worse than it was. He had a pretty bad start to the season but was a legit slugger in the second half. He's not going to be the bat we dreamed about after his rookie year but he should still be a strong middle of the order bat to go with Kiriloff, Donaldson, Garver.
  4. gunnarthor
    The only time I can remember where "something bad" really did matter was a few years ago where it came out that a college pitcher, expected to go in the first round, had some juvenile criminal conviction for sexually abusing a minor. He actually had complied with the law but MLB stayed so far away from him that I think he ended up playing in Korea, IIRC. Can't remember his name and don't feel like looking it up. But absent that, MLB has happily paid players with history of DV, drug abuse, cheating scandels, etc. Bauer will pitch in the majors again.
  5. gunnarthor
    I don't like the guy, the Twins won't sign him, someone will. I'll boo him.
  6. gunnarthor
    The big rumor I remember was that the Yankees weren't going to include Phil Hughes (a top 10 prospect, IIRC) for Santana and the Red Sox wouldn't include Elsbury or Bucholtz. It seemed like both teams were fine not getting Santana so long as the other team didn't. I still think Humber was the victim of college coaching and, had his arm problems not happened, would have been a good ML pitcher. But there are a ton of pitchers whose careers fell apart because of injury.
  7. gunnarthor
    I think that statement by Law is justifiable. We have a lot of guys you can dream on but aren't quite there yet. Not sure that's a bad thing - although I've been unimpressed with Levine for a while now - but I think this should be a make or break year for many people in the org, both players and staff.
  8. gunnarthor
    Yeah, Ross is going to have to sell and they're going to get hammered by the league. Lose some draft picks at a minimum. This is serious.
  9. gunnarthor
    I think the Vikings could go several ways even if they are committed to winning next year. They could just go all in on offense. With the #12 pick, grab one of those high end wide receivers, restructure Theilen as he slowly becomes our #3 WR, and we'd have an insane receiving group to go with Cook and, hopefully, a far more wide open offense. Aim to score 30 points every game. It'd be fun to watch. Draft defense after that. I think Jefferson and Treylon Burks would be a devastating receiving duo for several years.
  10. gunnarthor
    Assuming this means a complete tear down, trade Hunter and Cousins* as well? Man, I'm glad I'm not a GM. At #4 you could hopefully get either Kayvon Thibodeaux or Kyle Hamilton. At 12, you hope one of the WR falls, you can nab a corner, or an edge (George Karlaftis or Travon Walker) if you didn't get Thibodeaux. I have no idea what you'd get at 35 but it'll be a nice piece. I'm honestly not sure. Probably depends on how the new GM sees things but I'd lean towards trading everything and starting over in that scenario. * I have no idea what a trade of either would bring back.
  11. gunnarthor
    Man, I think I'd want more then just one pick, even #1.
  12. gunnarthor
    I hope you're right.
  13. gunnarthor
    Yeah, this is more or less where I am on Harbaugh. If we hire him, I think the Vikings will hang onto Cousins and Harbaugh will push to have a wide open, scoring offense, knowing that the defense is what it is. Harbaugh has won with middling to good QBs before and I suspect he'd keep Cousins.
  14. gunnarthor
    Wow. Flores just hit the NFL with a heck of a lawsuit. https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/33194862/brian-flores-sues-nfl-others-former-miami-dolphins-coach-alleges-racism-hiring-practices First, his lawyers are really, really good. Second, the allegations against the Dolphins owner might be enough to force him to sell the team. Flores alleges that the Giants interview with him was a sham because they had already planned on hiring a different, white, coach. He has texts from Bellichek to support that. I'm sure Bellichek will love to be deposed in this lawsuit. There's a link to the complaint in that article, for those who are interested.
  15. gunnarthor
    Yeah, I'm not sure either but ... maybe? He's certainly had success and the new GM knows him from their time together in SF. And, while he may be cranky and the yelling type, he might also have some non-Zimmer traits that work well, especially after working with college kids for so long.
  16. gunnarthor
    https://www.startribune.com/vikings-wilfs-new-gm-kwesi-adofo-mensah-rooney-rule-racial-progress-jim-souhan/600140319/ Nice article by Souhan on the Wilfs hiring process.
  17. gunnarthor
    If we had a healthy post-season rotation of Santana, Liriano and Radke (he pitched with a torn labrum!) in 2006, we would have won the World Series. No question at all in my mind, even though the bats didn't show up against the A's.
  18. gunnarthor
    He'll be 66 next year. It's ageism but I'm not sure this wasn't his last job. Maybe some sort of senior administrator position where he gives advice to the DC but isn't the DC? He's smart, no question, but the comments from Kendricks, of all players, make me think he's a lot less flexible and probably more petty than I had appreciated these last few years. Levi might have been right, and I hate it when that happens.
  19. gunnarthor
    And I could be completely wrong but in my mind, the GM is in charge of the draft and the roster while Falvey is in charge of long term organizational issues. He creates the plan, others execute it.
  20. gunnarthor
    It's a tough question but you really should divide it a bit. I think Levine is far less capable then Falvey. Falvey has attempted to do things, org-wise, that may be pretty helpful. Levine, as GM, has shown a pretty incredible ability to misjudge talent. I've been pretty vocal that this core was going to do pretty well, no matter who was the GM or manager. They just had too much talent. The GM's job in 19-20 was to add to that talent and expand the window. I don't think Levine did that. Obviously, the big move of adding Cruz was tremendous. The Odo and Maeda trade were good but people are giving a bit too much credit there.
  21. gunnarthor
    Here's the 2022 schedule - https://gophersports.com/sports/football/schedule/2022 At Michigan State, Penn State, and Wisconsin. Hopefully they can steal one of those. The home games should all be wins. A 9-3 or 10-2 season is actually kind of possible.
  22. gunnarthor
    While Falvey was "saddled" with Molly, it's worth remembering that he resigned Molly to a three year contract and fired him a year later. I think your top five is basically right, but Cruz should be higher.
  23. gunnarthor
    Depends on what we get back but I expect that the Twins will trade either him or Polanco this offseason. It just makes too much sense.
  24. gunnarthor
    Yeah, the nepostism in coaching is sickening.
  25. gunnarthor
    This isn't quite right though. Jefferson was a starter from week 3 on. By the time we were 1-5, he had already had three 100+ yard games and was second to Theilen in targets. We didn't start turning it around until the defense played better. The average score for those first six weeks was 32-26. The offense wasn't the problem. I complained a lot about Zimmer's offensive philosophy. It seemed to me with the weapons we had, he should have an offense that runs up the score using his passing weapons and then uses a strong run game to close out the games. He clearly had problems with the OC over the years and running Cook into the ground was a pretty cruddy philosophy. But you are just misremembering on Jefferson.
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