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  1. twinstalker
    He's hurt. He's hurt. He's hurt. And the Twins deal with his type of injury waiting forever to eventually get TJS. For this reason along, it's not a good trade. They best test him at AAA, get an extra year of service from him, and maybe have him healthy by 2025. Thumbs up, Twins.
  2. twinstalker
    Oof. For now anyway, but wait until Paddack recovers from his second TJS surgery to lead the Twins out from under the worst record in MLB in 2024 so the Twins can avoid the first few draft picks in 2025 and select another right-handed hitting college first basemen. "We almost had it right with Aaron Sabato" stated recently demoted Derek Falvey, while an angry-looking Jim Pohlad looked on. Seriously, Paddack has a UCL tear. This better be a helluva PTBNL.
  3. twinstalker
    I just skimmed the article, but, um, Urshela was hurt last year. I wouldn't expect him to put up numbers equivalent to playing in the Yankee bandbox stadium, but if he's healthy, he'll be fine. And I have to believe he'll be a better fielder than Donaldson, whose fielding acclaim was based much more on reputation than reality
  4. twinstalker
    You ain't lying. It's disappearing. A testament to Falvine's inability to evaluate hitting prospects. Don't be surprised in the future if the names that pop up prominently are acquisitions from other systems.
  5. twinstalker
    One thing is clear after ten years of watching Buxton: he must totally suck at basketball.
  6. twinstalker
    Is 130MM their budget? Not to pick nits, but I thought it was a bit higher, maybe 5 more.
  7. twinstalker
    Most important piece of information is missing here. Is this a major league or minor league contract?
  8. twinstalker
    Good deal for 2022, as the Twins have money and nothing else to do with it. Could be really horrible if Correa has a bad injury this year and misses (most of) 2023. Best case scenario is probably that he's decent (I wouldn't expect his numbers to match Houston) and still marketable prior to the deadline. Or, of course, that he leads the Twins to a successful playoff run. So the Twins get a good shortstop for one year with a chance to lose all payroll flexibility the next two years. I hate these deals. It's no-lose for Correa but possibly dangerous for the Twins. Would have loved a simple one-year deal.
  9. twinstalker
    I'd rather have Berrios than Gray, but next year we wouldn't have Berrios.
  10. twinstalker
    I think the idea was to extend the Berrios experience until new pitching comes along. They saw a chance to trade one year of Berrios (for us, one year), get good prospect value, give up much less prospect value, and get two years of Berrios. It's actually pretty brilliant, and I do believe this was very foreseeable for them in July, and I'm someone who's not all that thrilled with them in general.
  11. twinstalker
    It's okay to admit a mistake. I trust you more if you admit your mistakes.
  12. twinstalker
    Reds lose this trade because 1) Petty is probably nothing, and 2) they won't use the money save well. If the Reds do win the trade, then they win it BIG time, probably. But assessing it in the now, as all trades need to be assessed (and assessing risk properly), it's a Twins win.
  13. twinstalker
    Huh. I thought I read somewhere that Trevor Megill had retired from baseball.
  14. twinstalker
    Even if the Twins signed Story, I would reserve judgment. His defense went downhill, and his hitting went downhill, and he was in Colorado. I would be shocked if Story could come close to living up to the salary he's going to get.
  15. twinstalker
    They basically gave Garver away yesterday, or didn't you notice?
  16. twinstalker
    Seriously? When we get fat prospect, are we going to excuse it by saying we had David Ortiz? Henriquez is a lottery ticket where the prize is a decent reliever if you defy all odds. That is, he's just another minor league pitcher with a very low ceiling.
  17. twinstalker
    No, no you do know have to give to get zero. Three shortstops signed today for $5.5 million or less, all of them pretty equivalent to IKF. You're saying the Twins weren't willing to add this amount to their $90 million payroll and so needed to trade away a decent or, potentially midseason, great asset? Maybe the dumbest thing I've seen the Twins do since trading Wilson Ramos.
  18. twinstalker
    Move makes no sense. You just traded an asset for the equivalent of something you could have just as well signed cheaply. That is, they gave up Garver for practically nothing.
  19. twinstalker
    You say the lottery will be six teams, then talk about the chances of the 10th. I'll guess that it's the first six draft slots that are determined by the lottery, and all non-playoff teams participate at some level. I also assume the worst record has a bound of the 7th pick (assuming no tanking penalties). This article could probably have more details and be clearer (with examples on the penalties).
  20. twinstalker
    There are very few "good" arms right now in the system. Duran and Canterino should probably be rehabbing from TJS right now. Winder's injury has the potential to be much worse (or nothing major). Most of the other pitchers either struggled at some point or dealt with injuries. It's ugly, but it could sort itself out...just not this year, I don't think. Balazovic and Winder both pitching well this year in MLB would be a 95th percentile outcome.
  21. twinstalker
    Should we draft Rocker so it can take us years to diagnose his UCL tear as a strain, then try to rehab him for a couple of years until finally having him undergo TJS to lose another couple of years? Yeah, let's do that. Wait until you see how long Canterino and Duran go through this (Duran starting in 2020 actually).
  22. twinstalker
    Re-signed.
  23. twinstalker
    Probably. But the real issue is that the Twins have a shortstop identification problem.
  24. twinstalker
    Where's Cesar Tovar, Bobby Darwin, Larry Hisle, Lyman Bostock, WILLIE NORWOOD? Don't get me started on the ones between Norwood and Puckett (praise on high, Rusty Kuntz).
  25. twinstalker
    This is just pure optimism based on fandom. If Noah Miller had been taken by another organization, you would have zero reason to believe he'd outdo his general consensus ranking of around 70 prior to being overdrafted by the Twins at 36. The chances he's as good as Greg Gagne are miniscule.
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