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  1. Vanimal46
    I listened to Russo's interview with Barreiro earlier this afternoon. It sounded worse than I could have imagined.
  2. Vanimal46
    I try like hell to get the Thor trade discussions back online. And be ready to offer: One of Lewis/Kirilloff One of Graterol/Balazovic Their pick of the litter of A ball players or MLB-ready guys like Thorpe, Stewart, Poppen, etc.
  3. Vanimal46
    Be a baseball fan! Where teams don't sign free agents, don't make trades, and generally just want to be competitive... But not too competitive!
  4. Vanimal46
    Gross... This is why you don't hire yes men for that role... I place the blame squarely on Leipold. He was the one that stopped interviewing candidates that disagreed with his take they were a tweak or 2 away from making the playoffs.
  5. Vanimal46
    Now they need a GM who will stand up to ownership and deliver the cold hard reality... This team is in dire need of a full rebuild.
  6. Vanimal46
    Encouraging news! His one season with the team was a total disaster. There was no plan in place to get better, and if Russo's reports were accurate, free agents avoided coming here. He had to go.
  7. Vanimal46
    This year no one yet... So far they've expressed interest in Minor, Thor, Stroman, and Robbie Ray publicly. If they go 0 for 4 I'm sure there will be convenient reasons why they missed out acquiring them. In 2017 there's the Dozier trade that never went through because they just couldn't find the right package of prospects from the Dodgers that worked. In 2018 we had the famous Darvish negotiations where they finished in 2nd place and just couldn't muster that 6th year on the contract.
  8. Vanimal46
    Not sure what's worse... Radio silence until a trade is complete from the past regime. Or reading that the Twins are in on every player but conveniently come up short every time.
  9. Vanimal46
    We also thought Cody Bellinger and Jose De Leon was a fair starting point for Brian Dozier in 2016. The moral of the story is never listen to fans' trade proposals.
  10. Vanimal46
    Couldn't agree more. I don't think ESPN knows how to adapt to the times today. We don't need to sit around and hope SportsCenter shows a 15 second highlight of the Twins game... Now it's as simple as looking it up on your phone. They're trying to go TMZ on the bit and discuss LeBron's haircut or Tom Brady's vacation, but I don't care about that. As you said, ESPN is becoming nothing but background noise in waiting rooms and sports bars.
  11. Vanimal46
    I think the motivation are discussions never progressed and it's an easier sell to fans to write down the other team's pie in the sky ask than say the truth.
  12. Vanimal46
    If we take LEN's reports at face value, then MLB GMs are no different than friends and family in fantasy football leagues.
  13. Vanimal46
    Lavelle's inner thoughts: "Hmm, I thought my last post saying the Mets wanted Lewis & Kirilloff would turn fans off from begging for a Thor trade... Who else could I say they asked for that will elicit a response to walk away? Buxton.... Brilliant!"
  14. Vanimal46
    He did have that meltdown with beat reporters earlier this season... Could have contributed to the decision to get rid of him.
  15. Vanimal46
    Maybe it's just me, but I have a higher value placed on Duran, a 21 year recently promoted to AA, over a 24 year old who's struggling in AAA and an 18 year old rookie ball pitcher. It didn't require Balazovic or Graterol to easily beat this deal. I first mentioned Duran and Thorpe. If they wanted someone further away from 40 man consideration substitute Thorpe for Enlow, Leach, Berroa, Sands, etc.
  16. Vanimal46
    So.... Status quo in TD Land? We could acquire Mike Trout and half of the members would be lukewarm about the prospects given up to acquire him.
  17. Vanimal46
    This one hard deadline sucks. Let's move it back to August 30th if it's that difficult to know whether you're a buyer or seller 60% of the way through a season.
  18. Vanimal46
    A top 10 MLB farm system can't easily beat out 2 45 FV prospects in a bottom 10 farm system. Got it.
  19. Vanimal46
    I'm getting hot and bothered by the trade deadline stove...
  20. Vanimal46
    I threw out those names with the assumption the Mets wanted near ready MLB pitching prospects. If they prefer keeping players off the 40 for a couple of years, we all know the team is littered with those guys too... Enlow, Colina, Alcala, Canterino, etc.
  21. Vanimal46
    My attempt to keep the Sports Bar alive... Is anyone affected by cable/satellite providers cutting off access to Fox Sports and ESPN?
  22. Vanimal46
    If Toronto wants pitching probably Duran and Thorpe.
  23. Vanimal46
    Agreed. We can finally say the Twins are better analytically than several teams in baseball. Thor always had a ton of talent and with a couple of tweaks (changing his pitch mix) he could be a game changer for the Twins.
  24. Vanimal46
    Concur. If he gets the thumbs up from our medical team I go all in on Thor. Wes Johnson would get a super talented shiny new toy to work with. I'd love to see it!
  25. Vanimal46
    I've got to imagine Graterol's rehab start in the GCL will be highly attended by opposing scouts. The timing works well to include him in trades now. I concur with markos' list of trade pieces. Let's get this done.
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