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I’ve heard the Jets mentioned a few times. But Klubnik was my second favorite QB in this draft. I’d honestly much rather try him out.

Right. He should be done. But of course today I’m reading again how the White House has basically legalized insider trading. IT’S THE EXACT SAME THING. I mean the same, but still worse since it only benefits the wealthiest people in the world.

You could be right about year 2 or 3. But I’d guess there will be owner collusion and free agency will be mysteriously non-existent. Maybe a rogue team (that cares more about winning) like the Dodgers or Yankees, make a big splash trying to improve their teams before the door is officially closed to transactions. But I’d guess the teams that care about salary caps and owners’ profit share won’t help the MLBPA with even the normal incremental inflation that comes each year with free agency. Plus, having a bunch of top earners not under contract at all will be leverage for the owners.

I think the equation that changes involves the Twins being forced to spend more. If they have to increase payroll by 70M+, I could see them overpaying for Jeffers or offering a QO at an unheard of amount for a catcher before.

Randy Dobnak has triggered is opt out clock. Looking at his AAA numbers, I’m not sure why unless he already knows another team is willing to give him a roster shot

When the owners win the CBA and they end up with a salary cap and salary floor of 180M or so, it will be amazing to see the Pohlad's take credit for the franchise record payroll that the other owners legally forced them adopt. Can you all just imagine how great this team will be in 2027 after they sign ten Josh Bell caliber free agents?

Well if there originally were three options, he only left us with one.

I see a lot of comments about him being young and nothing to worry about. Challenge to the board then. Find me pitchers that had these kind of walk numbers at any age or any level and went on to become good MLB pitchers. I'll start: Randy Johnson. I'm tapped out after that, but happy to hear more.

Sweet. This defense is going to shut out the entire schedule!

If it doesn't work out, it shouldn't be the end of the world because you can still be an excellent late inning reliever even without an off speed pitch and less than ideal command. Obviously the concern is the Twins JUST dumped SWR without trying him in that role first.

Good time to declare that just because I don't "like" a player, doesn't mean I don't NOT like the player. Except for Tommy Herr.

Why? In what scenario is Kody Clemens part of a Minnesota Twins World Series run? I mean, getting rid of him (and the temptation to start him), to give real reps to players who could possibly help compete in 2027, 2028 or 2029 should be a win in and of itself.

This seems like the pitching version of platooning. I don't see the point, to save this already dead season? Pass. If you need innings eaters for whatever reason, just grab whatever Joe Blow is floating around on waivers, then waiver him again. This club needs to be working on building a team for future years, and that doesn't include the most average-est relievers, it includes identifying the next crop of shut down, one inning relievers. The prior two years the Twins showed you don't need long-relievers if you have enough good relievers. The reason being, if they can get outs while keeping their pitch counts under 20, they can pitch twice in three days. Or if they can get through an inning on 10 pitches, then they get to go out there for a second. And those guys rarely just emerge right out of AAA, so you're going to have to use this year as a trial and error season to figure out who gets used and when.

We're clearly at a point in American history where judges are no longer ashamed to rule how their benefactors want them to rule. Now the NCAA is once again begging congress to rig the system for them to clean up this mess. How about the NCAA instead beg congress to force judges, from district all the way up to the high court, to actually rule based on the law.