Jump to content
Twins Daily
  • Create Account

nicksaviking

Community Moderator
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    25,137

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    126

 Content Type 

Profiles

News

Minnesota Twins Videos

2026 Minnesota Twins Top Prospects Ranking

2022 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks

Minnesota Twins Free Agent & Trade Rumors, Notes, & Tidbits

Guides & Resources

2023 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks

The Minnesota Twins Players Project

2024 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks

2025 Minnesota Twins Draft Pick Tracker

2026 Minnesota Twins Draft Pick Tracker

Forums

Blogs

Events

Store

Downloads

Gallery

Everything posted by nicksaviking

  1. nicksaviking
    It was the Texas judge that hurt Soresby most. Soresby went from being a dumb kid who made a mistake that half of society would have been happy to give a second chance after serving a suspension, to just another privileged white kid who faced no meaningful repercussions for his poor choices.
  2. nicksaviking
    Sure, but as we’ve seen for a quarter century, winning a terrible AL Central doesn’t make you a contender. Half the teams in the playoffs still have next to no chance of winning it all.
  3. nicksaviking
    Good. You reap what you sow.
  4. nicksaviking
    But regardless of who was doing the polling, Tom Pohlad said this team was competing this year despite no investment from ownership. That was only done to try to put fans in the seats. They’re not going to back off that charade in June by publicly waiving the white flag.
  5. nicksaviking
    Caller: “Hey Jeremy, are you guys buying or selling this summer” Jeremy: “Well we’re obviously… Wait, who is this?” Caller: “This is Jim Bowden, you know, the guy who’s constantly suggesting you trade your best players to the East Coast teams I pretty exclusively cover.” Jeremy: “Buying. We’re 100% buying. Print it.”
  6. nicksaviking
    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.
  7. nicksaviking
    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.
  8. nicksaviking
    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.
  9. nicksaviking
    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.
  10. nicksaviking
    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
  11. nicksaviking
    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?
  12. nicksaviking
    Well if there originally were three options, he only left us with one.
  13. nicksaviking
    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.
  14. nicksaviking
  15. nicksaviking
    Sweet. This defense is going to shut out the entire schedule!
  16. nicksaviking
    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.
  17. nicksaviking
    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.
  18. nicksaviking
    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.
  19. nicksaviking
    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.
  20. nicksaviking
    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.
  21. nicksaviking
    And the shame of it is, it's really only those affiliated with the top teams in the power five four conferences that have driven this bus over the cliff. The non top teams in those conferences benefited for sure but have no clout, but the mid majors are getting eviscerated by those same top teams while actually trying to play actual collegiate sports. How many non football and non men's basketball athletes are going to be completely screwed because their schools are going to have to cut sports to afford to clean up the mess caused by the schools that could always afford to make a mess?
  22. nicksaviking
    I'd say that's embarrassing, but it probably doesn't even crack the top ten of unconstitutional rulings in Texas this week. This one will get overturned for sure. Forget college sports, pro sports would all be dead if the players get to bet on (or against) themselves. Sorry, it stinks, but young men have lost their jobs and scholarships for much less. Is the NCAA and professional sports to blame for all the gambling that is helping to destroy our economy? Absolutely. But you can't get a pass for this any more than you could get a pass for killing somebody driving high because Purdue Pharma intentionally got you hooked.
  23. nicksaviking
    If a rebuilding team is talking about platooning players, they should be looking to move those players. This ship isn't getting steered toward meaningful contention until there is six, seven or even eight players in the lineup that can play every day, starting pitcher be damned. If we're not playing for anything this year, I'm all for having young players get plenty of reps against same-handed pitching. If two guys only play the same position, pick one, not both. But I'm not sure Wallner or Martin are considered young any longer (so maybe someone else who has never had a shot?). In any case, the goal this year absolutely CAN'T be to chase .500, the goal needs to be to put the franchise in a spot where 2027 and beyond are set up to be playing real baseball games.
  24. nicksaviking
    I'd bet many of the same traits that often make people professional athletes are shared by reckless thrill seekers. Highly competitive, unable to decline a challenge, desire to be performative in front of others, spontaneous instead of future-thinking and an over-abundance of self confidence in one's abilities. So I'd guess a lot of these people haven't changed since when they were pro athletes, they simply now lack the outlet of professional competition.
  25. nicksaviking
    The fact that Outman is still on the roster pretty clearly shows they are still very concerned about justifying last summer's least noticed trade.
×
×
  • Create New...