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Yeah, both Allen and Hargrave felt like Flores choices. All of the defensive players that signed the past two years seem like they were Flores choices actually. I'm fine keeping it that way, despite the Allen and Hargrave misses.
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They traded away the entire bullpen, fired the manager and the team president quit a month before camp opened. Oh, and they got new owners that slashed payroll. It's fine. The team wasn't competitive anyway, but they cannot put on an act like they are contending this year at the expense of identifying a competitive roster in 2027. -
Everything has already gone wrong. 2026 needs to be about identifying the next long term core players. Im far from sold on Abel, but this team needs to be more aggressive with high upside players and then more decisive when it becomes more clear they won’t cut it.
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My problem with Bradley is that the Twins, and many fans, seem intent on restarting his evaluation as a starter back to zero. Three seasons of overall poor starts is already more than most pitchers get. If TB hadn’t traded him, he would be in their pen right now this spring.
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Agreed. For me, (and I don’t begrudge anyone who feels differently) this club should be thinking about which of these guys could develop into players who could anchor a playoff series win in 2027 or 2028. There’s a place for SWR on just about any MLB roster, but if you’re going into the postseason, he’s the kind of starter you debate if you leave him off the playoff roster or put him in the pen. If you don’t want to drag out a return to glory, the clock is ticking on finding the high upside guys needed to get there.
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Twins Daily's Community Awards: 2025-2026 Offseason
nicksaviking replied to Brock Beauchamp's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
I mean, Vance Worley has been out of baseball for a decade. Banimal46 has a nice ring to it...... -
Twins Daily's Community Awards: 2025-2026 Offseason
nicksaviking replied to Brock Beauchamp's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
I love this feature of the site! Well done posters, and great idea to provide this recognition Brock! -
Joe Ryan should be the only rotation lock. Ober can't be given a job solely based on seniority if he can't hit 92 MPH any longer. Currently he can't even hit 90 MPH. I'd say the same for SWR with his wild velocity swings and tendency to have early exits. At this point, Abel should probably be pitching game 2.
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Next Monday the legal tampering period starts so we'll start finding out what free agents are headed where. In the meantime, I came across this quote and thought it too precious not to share; “You don’t take a job if you’re not excited about quarterbacks that are in the building” - New Browns offensive coordinator Travis Switzer https://www.cleveland.com/browns/2026/03/offensive-coordinator-travis-switzer-wont-tip-browns-qb-plans-quick-hits.html
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ABS Challenge System - The Secondary Effects
nicksaviking replied to amjgt's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
I agree this is most likely. But, I will be interested to see how or if the challenge results skew less when it's a Veteran Pitcher vs Young Hitter as opposed to a Young Pitcher vs a Veteran Hitter. -
I've been told corner outfielders are required to hit left handed.
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Connor McGovern is being released as was Tyler Biadasz a couple days ago. They join Tyler Linderbaum, Cade Mayes and Lloyd Cushenberry as a fairly impressive free agent center group. There are several others too that have a long history at the position. I was and still am looking at centers in the draft, but if you can get one of these guys fairly cheap in free agency, that might be the way to go. Linderbaum will break someone's bank, but a decent chance at least someone will be left without an offer they were expecting.
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Ha, you’ll be happy to hear their OC was Drew Petzig, who now is the Lions new OC. Good luck!
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You just said you didn’t want to chase 9 win seasons but you’re advocating for a very good backup QB. Thats about as middle of the road as you get. The boom or bust Murray either hits his potential (probably not) or makes it clear it’s time to hit reset. If the Vikings trade JJ this year, then I don’t care who the QB is because we know change is coming in 2027. But if he’s still here, the top priority needs to be to force them to go all in to address the position in 2027. Good chance they won’t be ‘forced’ to do that if JJ gets to play and plays like Bryce Young. Use Murray like other teams have used Russell Wilson. Too big of a name to let your crappy alternative option play, then as expected it doesn’t work out, the pressure to draft a QB or sign or trade for a big name QB will be unavoidable.
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On a one year, league minimum deal, how? Giving McCarthy a chance to be just-good-enough could set you up for long term disaster.
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But again, they were only better offensively in the second half, largely when the other team was more concerned with running the clock than they were preventing competitions. And as a mostly career backup, the temptation to go back to McCarthy would be immense.
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Don't waste a fourth season trying to make Bradley work in the rotation. Put him in the pen where he has a chance to turn into a late inning monster. Stop kicking the can on this, and let's start making progress on the roster for the long term.
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Really, the one thing about Murray that I like, is that he'll 100% for sure start the season as QB1. I know others have suggested that they'd rather see JJ start than go with the Mariota, Brissett, Garoppolo, Flacco, Wentz kind of guys. And I agree, JJ would have a decent shot to keep his job. And I don't want him to. From my view, the absolute worst outcome is if JJ is better than last year, but not elite. And it seems to me those are like 95% odds. ANY improvement is going to be met with optimism after what we saw last year. But if he's looking like CJ Stroud, Bryce Young or even Jordan Love, there's a significant chance the Vikings ride with him longer, and that level of QB play isn't anywhere near satisfactory enough. Don't give him a chance to be just average enough to put you in QB purgatory.
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Good for him. Leave while your still healthy and wealthy. And screw the Bears.
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They sat him so he didn't get injured for 2026 and lock in his contract. I like Brissett, but as a backup. The Cardinals went 1-11 when he started and those players only surged because they were garbage offensively in the 1st half and then were slinging garbage time passes for the last quarter and a half. As someone who had a vested interest in Trey McBride, he was sitting at about four fantasy points going into the fourth quarter just about every week, then scored a dozen in the last ten minutes. And I don't think there's much luster with Murray. The other options are luster-less too though.
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Danchat's Offseason Blueprint 2026
nicksaviking replied to Danchat's topic in Minnesota Vikings Talk
Good stuff. I like Chanel, but I might rather bring Wilson back. He was team MVP last year as far as I was concerned. I know he's older, but I presume that makes him less expensive. I like the Gilman signing. Though I was starting to get excited about some of the early round safeties as well. If I was going to take a RB for pass blocking, I'd rather go for Rachaad White. He's a good pass catcher too. I don't think a TE can be used to his most effectiveness in this offense, so I wouldn't worry about losing Hockinson either. I might be eyeing David Njoku as a replacement. Lee Hunter's measurables sounded brutal. I wouldn't be surprised if he's now a day 3 pick. Maybe late day 3. Since you and Vanimal both had Slaughter and Lance in your pick projections, I'm going to guess they both go higher than listed. Lance's combine workout in particular was an all-timer, I'll guess 3rd round now; maybe 2nd. I like both though. -
If given the opportunity, I'd have the Vikings trade their 2026 1st for a 1st next year.
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I actually don't hate a cheap Murray move, only because it would presumably be a short-term bridge situation. I'd really like to have the option of this team having a mobile QB, and this would be a good test case to see if KOC can and is willing to let a guy improvise. I mean all of the other options are awful anyway. Presuming there's no Allen/Burrow/Jackson scenario, there's nobody they're going to get that we're going to be happy with.
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I'm calling dirty pool on this one. I've never heard of a 'degenerative ACL' so I Googled it. It's rare, almost exclusively found in older adults and is actually called Mucoid Degeneration. It appears the treatment is minor arthroscopic surgery to trim some growth from the ligament. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10787846/ I'd guess some team that wants him is trying to scare others away by tanking his stock (and earnings). My Google search may not be definitive, but that one team is trying to scare others away there is zero doubt. Only NFL teams would have this information so one of them leaked it on purpose. I hope that awful team isn't the Vikings. And I hope Jerry Jones gets all his draft picks taken away when we find out it's him.
