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  1. twinstalker
    Falvey said he didn't have those financial conversations with ownership because no trade came around. Does that mean in the last few minutes before the deadline, he'd be calling up Jim and Joe to see whether he could get money for someone that fell into his lap? What if Joe was on the golf course?
  2. twinstalker
    And we wait four paragraphs for it! I kid, sort of. I realized this wasn't an article prompted by anything positive coming from a minor league lhp when three paragraphs went by without introducing the subject of the piece. It's probably a better MO to cover the state of the lhp's in the system where Brent Headrick gets the half line he deserves,
  3. twinstalker
    The good news is that Jay Harry is nothing (except to his family) in the scheme of things, and the Twins probably correctly think only a few fans of millions even know his name. They DFA or 60-day someone now when adding Richards, then bring someone up when DFAing him. The bigger deal is that it will probably end up costing the Twins a few games in the meantime. Meanwhile, 22 minutes to deadline, about 45 minutes to find out about the late trades.
  4. twinstalker
    9 ER in last 4.2 IP. Bad last few years. How and why are the Twins going to use him? If the Twins already had him, I think we'd be calling for a DFA. Absolutely the only thing I can think of is that someone somewhere in the org thinks they can fix him in some way. Giving up zero is fine, but he still costs, and he costs a roster spot.
  5. twinstalker
    Nobody wants Schobel; it's similar to Keaschall.
  6. twinstalker
    I'd want Quantrill far more than Kikuchi, but it's a seller's market. If you're not going to re-sign CQ, then do you give up Festa? You know that every team is going to go after Zebby and Morris, and I really don't trust Falvey. What a sh**sh**.
  7. twinstalker
    You're looking at the wrong variable. Either that or you must think the Yankees really, really are cheap. This is such a bad and short-sighted series of moves by the Twins. But I'll also say that looking at 2023 revenue for 2024 payroll likely isn't the way to go about it. So, you're wrong, and the tweet is misleading. Obviously, there's a certain % of projected current year revenue that's intended to go to current year salaries. The Twins have probably been out over their skis for some time now, and with the unknown of TV dollars, they're drawing a new line in the cement. According to their model, they have to do this. They likely figure they can resume at a new salary level when TV revenue is secured for the future. And that's it. It's a business, and it's certainly a business to minority owners. Part of getting owners to come on is guaranteeing them certain returns, and if that's in the contract, that's in the contract...in whatever form. Assuming they have minority owners, which I can't seem to find. I do understand plenty of Pohlads have stakes, so nephew Zeke has an agreement. Anyway, the money model is what it is, the budget is discussed and approved, and I doubt any Pohlad has the pocketchange/insanity to say, "hey, I'll give $30 million of my own money to make this or that happen, you get dinner at Manny's." The infrastructure of how money is handled can be changed, but I highly doubt Joe Pohlad can just change it on the fly.
  8. twinstalker
    I can't imagine the Twins doing anything good here. Their track record as buyers is abysmal, and they've never been in this bad of $$$ shape before. This all seems to add up to hugely overpaying for a really mediocre return that won't be better than what they have or what they could promote. Just to say they were trying. I don't know whether they could get this done, but I'd try to trade Raya for Quantrill. Colorado is one of the few organizations I can imagine accepting Severino as filler. Get it done.
  9. twinstalker
    I wouldn't trade Lewis. He's recovering and was ahead of the two other prior. I have Raya ranked lower than 25, many spots ahead of Severino. I just don't understand some of these rankings. I have Morris at 6, just behind (for now) 5. Emmanuel Rodriguez, 4. Keaschall, 2.5 Zebby, 2.5 Lee, and 1. Jenkins. I wouldn't put a draft pick in the top 12.
  10. twinstalker
    Boy, there haven't been any problems with Fubo, other than the clunkiness of my Roku remote. Getting rid of Comcast cable has been one of the best decisions I've made. I'll get rid of Fubo, too, once I can start subscribing directly to Twins/Wolves games, maybe before.
  11. twinstalker
    "Been" being the key word. It's now been almost a month of meh.
  12. twinstalker
    LOL at BA having Festa at 93 overall. I have Festa as 11 or 12 on the Twins. Also Raya at 25 for Twins.
  13. twinstalker
    If Hill would have been an early pick ten plus years ago then I'm all on board with it. Definitely not impressed with the first three.
  14. twinstalker
    .306 with a 2:1 K:BB. Huh. In college. Not the greatest start to things. You'd think they'd be all over the Luke Keaschall profile for as long as they're drafting position players.
  15. twinstalker
    Didn't hit well vs higher competition is what they said. That doesn't bode well.
  16. twinstalker
    Huh. At this point not thrilled with any. I thought the Kentucky OF would have been good at 33 but he went right before. I guess we'll see on all.
  17. twinstalker
    As I dig, I think it might be a broken stat on milbtracker.com. Though this site has been around for a few years, there are often glitches. It's possible the 2.4% is how he started at AA and is truncated to whatever point that was. Thank you for bringing that to my attention.
  18. twinstalker
    Since I see I now have to read ads, can you unblock us from the videos that require ad-blockers to be turned off? I've turned everything off and still can't see the videos for the years you've posted them.
  19. twinstalker
    I'm more than a little surprised that Walt Dropo's OPS of .757 was exactly average for his time period. His numbers do look a lot like what we've gotten from Miranda so far.
  20. twinstalker
    Oof. Those are four pretty average performances to be listed as the best.
  21. twinstalker
    Kenley Jansen is light brown toast.
  22. twinstalker
    First, because I'm probably deemed a downer, I want to say Andrew Morris is my favorite Twins prospect, and wow, he's been killing it. I ran across a disturbing stat the other day, and that is his swinging strike rate is only 2.4% at AA. As you can imagine, the stat itself is pretty predictive. To put some context to it, it's foremost a smaller sample size, but unfortunately not small enough. Zebby's rate is 14.2% at AA. Morris was 14.3% at A+. Varland is 12.6% at AAA Keoni Cavaco's as a pitcher was 7.1% for Cedar Rapids. Anyway, 2.4% is a horrible rate; he's not missing bats. How he gets 9 k's in a game or two is beyond me, but I doubt he could repeat whatever he's doing in an MLB game. That all said, his SwStr rate was good (not great) at A+, and it provides hope that this is somewhat of an aberration. But at this moment, it's a cross your fingers sort of thing, imo.
  23. twinstalker
    Not going to worry about the order. It doesn't matter. This is completely embarrassing. And unacceptable.
  24. twinstalker
    You may suspect Wallner is valuable, but teams won't want someone who strikes out over 30% of the time in AAA. If somebody does want that, they'll pay the going price for that, which is another flawed player with predictors that say he won't make it in MLB.
  25. twinstalker
    Starting in round 3 or 4 or so, I'd take Bailey Ober, Zebby Matthews, Cory Lewis, Andrew Morris, David Festa, a healthy CJ Culpepper, and so on. If you have a formula that's produced those guys, screw trying to take anyone else. I'd take the surest guys out there with my first few picks (Jenkins, Lee, Berrios), then start taking the blocks of clay in the fourth round. Every draft should yield 15 of these guys. :-) Fill all your positions with internationals, Eeles-type, and trades. I'm only partially kidding.
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