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  1. nicksaviking
    Fun game, nice comeback by Burrow and the Bengals. Plenty of time for more drama too.
  2. nicksaviking
    The Vikings need to find a mid round multi-use RB like Chase Brown. But I don't think they have enough picks to use one on a RB.
  3. nicksaviking
    Maybe. I'm waiting to vote on that. Zero skill position talent for sure. But this defense got good really, really fast.
  4. nicksaviking
    OK, Herbert fumble, trade back on. What a waste of two paragraphs.
  5. nicksaviking
    With the narrative being that Jim Harbaugh doesn't need a special QB, he just needs a game manager, I was secretly hopeful that he'd want to get out from under Herbert's contract and that the Vikings might be able to pull off some sort of McCarthy/Herbert deal this winter. Harbaugh would be absolutely brain dead to do it though. Herbert looks like this decade's Matt Stafford. Tons of talent and production but a QB on a loser team. He probably won't be traded, they instead will/have put a non-loser team around him.
  6. nicksaviking
    Not sure how the rest of the league sees him either, but I prefer the guys with strikeout potential.
  7. nicksaviking
    While SWR may have a higher floor, I think Festa and Matthews both have a higher ceiling. Being so, I'd look to move SWR who probably has more trade value.
  8. nicksaviking
    Westburg yes, no to the other two. Pereira's bat interests me, but I'm on board with the new lower strikeout directive. Rafaela looks like one of those defensive plus players everyone likes until the bat frustrates everyone until he's run out of town.
  9. nicksaviking
    I liked the first few books. After those it got pretty soapy and formulaic and probably haven't read one in 20 years. I'll admit, the previews looked good though. Though, if I'm honest, I saw this thread had a hit for the first time in a month and came to see if someone was posting that Mike Tyson died live on Netflix.
  10. nicksaviking
    If Jax can't keep his velocity up as a starter, I don't understand how they think he'll keep the results. Lugo and Littell never threw that hard to begin with. They didn't have a 5 MPH velocity discrepancy to deal with.
  11. nicksaviking
    Jax's value has to be extremely high already, I'm not sure it would improve a ton by dangling the starter angle, but I suppose it doesn't hurt. I generally have no interest in trading him, particularly if it's just more prospects. But if this talk of him starting is because he's demanding/aggressively asking for it, then I almost think you have to. This team absolutely CANNOT let one player dictate where he wants to play unless they're going to let all the players with leverage to do the same. They're already walking a thin line with Royce Lewis.
  12. nicksaviking
    It's too bad, I was hopeful for both, but I'm not regretful about pulling the plug early as this team often pulls it too late. (Except for Joe Benson. DFA'd??? noooooooooo!) Seemed like Winder had good velocity but his pitches didn't move enough. Major leaguers teed off on him, and even while racking up strikeouts in the minors, the pitches the batters didn't miss, got spanked. As for Severino, I think he was a casualty of a culture change. At the end of the 2023 season it was clear the Twins needed to move away from the three true outcome players. As Ash said, he could pull a Brent Rooker, though even Rooker was kept around long enough to get included in a trade. Have to think other teams didn't value Severino too much or the Twins wouldn't have let him walk for nothing.
  13. nicksaviking
    Former Twins (almost) playoff savior Cole Irvin is signing with the Doosan Bears. That seemed pretty quick to opt to playing overseas. Almost like everyone already knew that was his only option. https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2024/11/cole-irvin-signs-korea-kbo-doosan-bears.html I'm not even going to pretend I found it on the Korean website MLBTR linked to.
  14. nicksaviking
    Daniels has looked like a rookie the last few weeks. Looks like a pretty easy code to track too.
  15. nicksaviking
    They almost exclusively ran the ball in the second half, I'm guessing in reaction to Hurt's extreme inaccuracy. It's going to have to be a good run stopping team that handles them. But a good run stopping team probably will handle them just fine.
  16. nicksaviking
    This sounds an awful lot like the team catering to the pitchers wishes. We've seen pitchers make this request before, but they tend to end up on another team. So Jax and Varland want to be starters. I guess that means if Festa and SWR aren't being vocal, they get sent to the pen? Sure, why not. I don't run a baseball team, but to me, this doesn't bode well for the end of the Pohlad era.
  17. nicksaviking
    I’ve seen a few games where Hurts is dropping dimes. But I’ve seen more where he’s not nearly accurate enough. Today appears to be one of the latter games.
  18. nicksaviking
    I wouldn't say it's not possible, but I'd think the preparation is completely different. You don't have a pitching schedule as a reliever so you aren't preparing through the week the same as a starter. But more importantly, it's like the difference between preparing for the 100M dash compared to the mile. Relievers throw max velocity on every pitch. I have to think reverting back to pacing oneself would be both difficult and frustrating.
  19. nicksaviking
    But neither of them profiled as starters. At least not competent ones. Jax couldn't miss a bat in college let alone the minors and Sands FB topped out at about 91 MPH as a starter. At least guys like Ober and Ryan had something to dream on. If the velocity, repertoire, movement or control don't look like starter material, just make the switch in AAA. If a pitcher is missing just one of those things, becoming a MLB starter too rarely pans out.
  20. nicksaviking
    Steinbrenner field it is. https://www.tampabay.com/sports/2024/11/14/interim-stadium-steinbrenner-field-yankees-tarpons-pinellas-st-petersburg/
  21. nicksaviking
    If they are able and willing to let Prielipp go at least five innings regularly by May, I'm OK keeping him as a starter. If his innings are going to be limited again all of 2025, just make the switch now. But I completely agree with the premise of this article, while not always the case, this organization has waited too long with many of the starter-to-reliever conversions. If Sands or Jax had been converted a year earlier, that would have been one extra year of positive production out of the pen in place of negative production in the rotation. I think these situations should be treated like Occam's Razor, if the player is significantly more likely to end up as a reliever, just switch him to a reliever.
  22. nicksaviking
    I vote no:
  23. nicksaviking
    Yeah, I hate the cutesy plays, they've been happening too often in big spots. It also seems to me that when Darnold throws to Addision, he's missing him too often, and usually he's throwing too high. Jefferson *may* have come down with a couple of those, but all QBs know throwing too high is the best way to get picked off. I wonder if Darnold is in his own head thinking that going to Jefferson double teamed is better than going high too Addison. Addison doesn't have any drops though this year. I might try him in the slot more running shorter underneath stuff and trying to get him matched on a LB. If Jefferson is getting double and triple teamed, put your second best option on the same side of the field running the shorter routes and finding the vacated open spaces.
  24. nicksaviking
    Yeah, I thought Cashman was 'just a guy' when they signed him, and with the team easily able to cut ties after the season, I figured he'd be one and done. He's probably the best player on the D though.
  25. nicksaviking
    With ownership and the front office in flux, I honestly don't trust any upcoming decisions to be based on winning. As such, I'd rather they sit on their hands, bide their time and let the new people make the calls, whenever that may be. And yes, I realize that likely means absolutely nothing to the 2025 squad. I think baseball purgatory is our immediate destination regardless of any moves.
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