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That's the 2018 list

Can anyone check to see if there is a Martin Perez married to Levine's sister or cousin or 1st grade teacher? That's the best I can do to explain the MAJOR LEAGUE contract (apologies for the CAPs if this isn't the case)

This must be a precursor to the following moves: Graterol/Romero/Polanco/Kepler/Mejia/Garver for Realmuto Machado signed 9 yrs/$270M Opt out after 3 years (35/35/35/30/30/30/25/25/25) or... The Wonder Twins think tanking this year will get them Adley Rutschman of Bobby Witt, Jr. or... These two know something the entire baseball world doesn't and they will prove it by trading Perez just before training camp for a 120lb Dominican pitcher that projects to be the second coming of Martinez on the bump (Ramon not Pedro) or... this was meant to calm all the twitter moaning about not spending money I blame Warne and Beradino for revealing the Twins have $300k on the books for the next decade while the rest of the league averages $100M+ Why on earth is this a Major League deal??? I can't believe other teams were plotting to nab Martin anytime before spring training....been to every opening week(end) at Target Field and I have no urge to purchase tickets this year...thoroughly dis-heartened, dis-interested, dis-satisfied, dis-gruntled, dis-enchanted, dis-combobulated As a fan i guess you could say I feel just plain Dissed

From Nick's Standing Pat Article, I posted this possible scenario on Dec. 10th 3rd year Opt out puts Machado in line for another BIG contract at 28-29 years young Besides the fact that the Twins have tried the M&M boys with two players already...sign Manny Machado and they can reuse all that advertising schtick!

Think I did an example of this on the position player side of things... Explanations are here

Unbelievable...with that logic I suppose next you'll tell me the Vikings Fans really like school and that I went to the wrong SKOL

Forgot to post the inspiration for this...which now has little bearing on the OP....but sums up the disappointment in the Twins Cold Stove This is the feverish activity BEFORE the Holidays The Twins should take the advice of Shell in the add at the bottom!

As the northwest wind blows the snow into wispy, white snakes and dunes across the roads and fields of NW Minnesota I offer up a new sponsor for this off-season for Twins Fans: Cold Stove Creamery Much like the original Cold Stone Creamery® the folks at Cold Stove take an all to infrequent schoop from a tantalizing bucket of potential goodness and plop it on top of a cold, flat season of unfulfilled promise and then attempt to make it good for us fans by adding analytical toppings to the extreme in hope we will keep coming back for more. While momentarily both delicious and intriguing, both companies leave a person with the same: Thoughts... - this second baseman is fine...I should have added a schoop of SS as well - those peripherals sure made this look like a great deal...next time I'll sprinkle in a few more K/9 - putting a #1 SP on top of this would have made it amazing - was this the time I should have splurged on "Gotta Have It" instead of settling for "I Like It" all the time Results... - Initial excitement over what appears to be a fantastic, new flavor we've never tried before - slight euphoria (depending on the Like It, Love It, Gotta Have It level) over how this will make us better - endless debate over making the correct choice - complaints from the young, and sometimes not-so-young, about buying too much (hasn't happened in my lifetime) or too little - an empty bowl of hope and the knowledge that we can do this all again next time we wander past the Cold Stove Creamery While initially pleasing to the eye and tasting delicious to the high-end ice cream deprived fans of the Minnesota Twins...both Cold Stone and the Cold Stove continue to provide Twins fans with hope for an amazing experience but in the end we end up with empty calories, at a premium per seat cost For those who find it totally outrageous to spend above market price on ice cream, you can head on over to Minor's Market and try some of the new Organic flavors You will have to wait an extremely long time for them to develop and there's no guarantee they will even be edible...but occasionally one or two will turn out fantastic!

Ok...so I bit on the Lewin Diaz rabbit hole and it led me down several other totally useless and utterly depressing discoveries: MLB Pipeline 2013 Prospects page International Players from 2013 1) Eloy Jimenez 3) Gleyber Torres 6) Rafael Devers 10) DIAZ Always a crapshoot on who your scout knows or pays or promises...but seems the Twins may have missed an opportunity here Draft Prospects (Stewart at #4) 4) Clint Frazier 5) Austin Meadows 6) Colin Moran 7) Stewart 19) JP Crawford Other than 24) Aaron Judge...the rest are at best prospects just about to reach the Show Top 10 Prospects by Position SS is LOADED but no Twins (this to be expected as a Twin's fan...SS has been a longstanding Black Hole) 1) Lindor 2) Bogaerts 3) Correa 4) Baez 5) Russell 6) Hanson (wait..what...who the heck is Allen Hanson?) 8) Seager, Corey 3B - The good old Potential Tag...if only 1) Sano 2) Bryant 2B - Must be old-school new-wave thinking to move these guys to the outfield 2) Rosario 10 Betts 1B - Surprises around every click 2) C.J. Cron 4) Matt Olson 10) Max Muncy OF - Potential If Only part 2 1) Buxton 2) Taveras RIP 3) Castelanos 5) Billy "White Shoes" Hamilton 7) Springer 9) JBJ TWINS TOP 20 (this is the current core) 1) Buxton 2) Sano 3) Meyer 4) Stewart 5) Rosario 6) Berrios 7) May 8) Kepler 9) Polanco 17) Gonslaves (only players not to reach the Show) 10) Ryan Eades 13) Travis Harrison 14) Miguel Sulbaran 15) Mason Melotakis TOP 100 Prospects 1) Buxton 3) Sano 39) Odorizzi (just ahead of Allen Hanson) 61) Stewart 63) Rosario 68) Austin, Tyler 77) Berrios Current Twins on other Teams Top 20 BALT 5) Schoop LAA 2) Cron LAD 5) Magill SF 19) Mejia So with 7 current players ranked in the 2013 top 100 prospects...9 of their 2013 Top 20 players with MLB Experience...4 other Teams top 20 prospects It's clear to see if I were prospecting on Twins wins with all this talent, they are a shoe in for 90 wins Or, maybe it's a clear indication that one does not win by prospects alone...help me get out of this rabbit hole...tell me there's hope and the light at the end of the tunnel isn't from a White Sox

I'm with you on both...my issue is more with spending twice the dollars for a duplication of Tyler Austin

So Bour Costs $2.5M Cron nearly twice as much Bour LH Cron RH I just don't see how one picks Cron over Bour with the current roster CRON OBP/SLG/OPS OPS+ 2018 .323/.493/.816 123 Career .311/.461/.772 112 Projections: .316 .455 .771 BOUR 2018 .341/.404/.746 110 Career .344/.466/.811 123 Projections: .339 .440 .780 Straight Slash line comparison seems even enough...I just don't see Cron's 2 year younger being worth nearly double the salary??

Your next Twin "Value" signing "Tulo can play a little short when we need it and will be able to handle DH duties...we couldn't pass up the bargain for the former MVP...oh, wait...what??? he never won the MVP?"

Phils keep spending on not Machado makes it all the more Christmas like for the Twins "So you're saying there's a chance" An all expense paid Prospect Handbook to the first person to get the easter-egg in this post

So rather than just voice my feelings on yet another "Wait Until You See These Young Guys We Got Coming Up" season... Filed under "Here's a Thought" knowing full well the opinions on Machado signing with the Twins have been discussed ad nauseam (and which I agree is a pipe dream) here's a look at what could happen should he sign, just to spite all of us mighty spiters But first let me try to explain things happening in the hopes to avoid too many questioning replies 1) Attempt was made to keep 2019 payroll at $115M - Why you may ask? Because it's less than last year and leaves some room for adjustments to stay below $120M (my hypothetical 2019 max payroll) 2) This version focuses on everything but Pitching - Why no Pitchers other than 2019? Because I just got too bogged down trying to guesstimate the position players that I decided to leave the pitchers for another day and because it might irritate some to no end 3) Machado Signing - I'll buy into slight collusion and believe that neither the Yankees, nor any other team, will go to $300M...therefore, the Twins will and include an Opt-Out after 3 seasons...Manny can leap frog Harper and Trout in '22 to be highest paid player ever...if he doesn't Opt Out it's 10 years $30M per and he can move to 1st/DH/Mauer's every third day off status for the last 4 years Machado plays SS for 2 years, slides to 3B when Lewis arrives and Opts Out after that season (it's my pipe dream so there you go) And for those ready to say he won't sign here for $30M? I've left that extra $5M per year for you so it can be 10 years at $35M with the Opt Out after 3 years 4) Machado is the only Position Player addition in this BluePrint...the rest is up to the young talent in the system to produce (and by that I mean play well enough to hold down a roster spot or be spun for pitching) 5) All salary figures are my guesstimations based on a rough understanding of recent ARB and FA signings and do NOT take into account inflation(think of it as what they'd sign for this year as a FA) or the market crashing...more Here's the Position Player Rosters: Dollars spent on Position Players per year 2019 $65.901M 2020 $60.400M 2021 $70.700M 2022 $45.050M 2023 $55.900M 2024 $68.200M I'll keep the same dollar figures when I try to fit in pitchers Position Notes C - Castro - Garver - Rortvedt 1B - 1 year of Cron - Rooker then Rooker/Larnach split duties 2B - Schoop to Gordon he sticks at 2B 3B - Sano for 2 years - Machado moves to 3B (opts out after season) - Miranda SS - Machado for 2 years - Lewis takes over LF - Eddie is the Core...signs 5 year $100M in '22 CF - Buxton figures it out...6 year $150M in '23 RF - Kepler for 2 years - Kirilloff takes over (could be sooner) DH - Polanco for 2 years (or some combo-Bob of players) - Sano for 1 year - Larnach/Rooker Bench C - Astudillo for a year then Rortvedt then Grz/Hamilton (or you're favorite young catcher) Bench INF - Adrianza (unless too spendy) - Arrarez for 2 years - Helman for 2 years (or you're favorite young INF) Bench OF - Cave until he's too expensive for a backup -Wade 2 years - Keirsey (or you're favorite young OF) What about Javier/Baddoo/Jeffers/Celestino/Severino/.... Sounds like awesome trade opportunities to me...or as stated above (or you're favorite young player) could fill in So there you have another Manny to Minny BluePrint and my way of saying...Meh to Standing Pat Look what happened when 11 Standing Pats tried to finish a football game

4 picks in the top 100 should be more than enough for some Falvine Draft Magic...still wish they would've tanked for Rutschman...he could of solved the Vikings kicking woes at the same time!

What's there to say about Ehire? I think the Front Office just made a little statement in picking up Torreyes...nothing like a little C-O-M-P-E-T-I-T-I-O-N (especially when if it works out only costs $800k and if it doesn't $0K)

Could Adam Jones be far behind??

Looks to me to be a precursor to the largest deal a Minnesota pro sports franchise has ever made.... $85M guaranteed to Le'Veon Bell to the Vikes after Cook tears ACL? NO Suter and Parise re-up with the Wild for 12 more years and $90M? NOPE Jimmy Buckets re-signing with the T-Pups this off season for a max deal? NOT EVEN CLOSE Your Minnesota Twins sign Schoop's old buddy Manny for 10 years $320M Falvey and Levine emerge from an A-Team Binge watching session and start the press conference off in unison "We love it when a plan starts coming together"

Had to check the topic...Where is KV now? Obviously watching "A River Runs Through It"

I appreciate the new articles posted on Twins Daily and the effort made by the writers... but What does it say about the state of the Twins this offseason when we're less than a week from the Winter Meetings and the newest topic has to do with a $1.3M utility player? If we get in the Delorean and set the flux capacitor to winter 2017 we'd see the same conversations and discussions last year as this...HR happy Bob Gorinski part 37 acquired for next to nothing...how about Twins announcement that Sano is down 15 lbs...Buxton is running at full speed? Anything to warm the Calcutta Clipper (thanks Denny) that blows through MN this time a year would be appreciated