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  1. nicksaviking
    I hope so. Bit really, I think this shows Jalen Hurts is only Kenny Pickett arm talent but with Michael Vick leg talent. This run for Philly only lasts as long as he can scramble.
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    That’s bound to happen when you don’t have a QB who can pick up a 3-and-12 with his legs.
  3. nicksaviking
    It’s the only game on for me. To be fair, the Jets defense is playing like the Jets defense was supposed to be playing all year. Looks like a Super Bowl D. But with a 1st overall pick offense.
  4. nicksaviking
    The Vikings seem to either play up or down to their competition. Yet, they’ve still pulled it off in the end almost every time. Don’t like this game, but I’ll predict Geno Smith’s turnover issues end up the difference.
  5. nicksaviking
    If the Marlins trade conversation amounts to “Give us an 18-year-old player because they are all the same at this point” they should be fired. They probably should be fired, but there’s no chance they are that non-specific in what they demand in trades.
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    None of those guys play SS, one is still in rookie league, and all of them are significantly better hitters than the guy the Phillies sent. Other than their ages, I don’t see the comparison.
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    Kind of hard to gauge the return on this one. On one hand the Marlins got a top 100 prospect, but most likely they got nothing. Glove only infielders, with no power and minimal hit tools pretty much never amount to anything. Why BA and MLB continue to rank these kinds of players is baffling. Sounds like Jose Salas. The Twins don’t currently have a top 100 prospect like this (because Salas turned to stone as expected), so would they have had to give up a legit prospect? Probably.
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    Very much disagree. Falvey is tied to this ownership. He knows the only way he keeps his job with new ownership is by catering to their whims. At this time we have no clue what the new owners want as we don't even know who they are, so Falvey's path to keeping this job will almost certainly lie either in putting together a winning team now, or putting together a cost efficient team now. He may have to blindly pick one of those two very different lanes, but he's still only going to do what the billionaires want. He may have to deal with the inconsistent and indecisive owners, but none of this mess is his, it's the past and future owners. And if he picks the cost efficient lane and deals Lopez, Correa or Buxton, that should probably give us a good expectation for where the wind is blowing with any potential new owners. He's not dealing Lopez if he thinks his best shot at keeping his job is putting together a competitive team this year.
  10. nicksaviking
    For a guy who came from the offensive side of the ball, he's been a great evaluator and/or coach of the defensive side. I guess it stands to reason that former QBs know what gives QBs the most problems.
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    I do like that Julien's struggles are due to inaction, instead of failure of action. It's quite possible he can't be helped, but I'd think making him actually swing is an easier fix than the alternative. If they're working on it, I'd guess it will be evident immediately so his status in the organization should be one of the easiest to identify early in the year, or even early in spring training.
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    I also don't care for WAR, but mostly because of the defensive involvements. It's better for pitchers. But I'd rather look at it this way. If you traded them both now, who gets a better return? The 31-year-old with declining strikeout numbers and an 84M guaranteed contract? Or the 24-year-old making peanuts and six years of control? I think SWR gets a better return. If not, it's negligible.
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    *****Moderator Note****** Enough with the name calling and immature whining. Feel free to be critical, but do it like an adult.
  14. nicksaviking
    Gray, Maeda, Odorizzi, Ryan, SWR, Duran. Knock off the trolling.
  15. nicksaviking
    I agree. That comment was childish, contributed nothing to the discussion and provided zero substance, thought or evidence to support it. But I will phrase it differently. I don't want the outgoing regime to be making grand decisions about the long term make up the franchise. If the new owners want to dump payroll, let them do the dirty work. And the prospects/players Falvey wants, may not be a fit for what the next leadership group envisions for the team. I do not want him and Joe Pohald making these decisions. Let them make the little decisions, the routine maintenance kind like trading Vazquez.
  16. nicksaviking
    As for Peyton and the Broncos, I agree, I wish his team stunk. I dislike him so much. But they are nowhere near a lock for the playoffs as the Bengals can easily catch them. Next week Denver is at Cincinnati, which will give the winner the tie breaker. The following week Cincinnati has a tough matchup against Pittsburgh, but Denver has KC, and I don't see KC rolling over and giving their most hated opponent a playoff spot.
  17. nicksaviking
    I think my dream of trading McCarthy for Herbert is about dead. I really thought Harbaugh's system would devalue his skills to a level that he was indistinguishable from a game manager QB. But Herbert's improvisation skills are probably only topped by Mahomes, Allen and Jackson. I guess talent finds a way.
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    I too was much more interested in keeping the more consistent Jorge Polanco and trading the wildly inconsistent Max Kepler last year. As it turned out, moving both was the right answer.
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    Removing Vazquez arguably improves the team. removing Lopez greatly injures it. If they trade Lopez, they might as well just throw in the towel and trade all the contracts they don't like. I've got no interest watching the Pohlad's last middle finger to the fans. The new owners can try to win me back.
  20. nicksaviking
    Hard pass. He hasn't been the same player since he changed his name from Jorge Bell.
  21. nicksaviking
    I'd be less concerned about injury risk due to the Twins having some intriguing internal arms to replace him should Luzardo go down. But I also suspect trading for an established starting pitcher would require one of those depth pitchers instead of two infielders.
  22. nicksaviking
    Yeah, the Metrodome was a dump. But because they had that awful, injury inducing turf, when they retired Carew's number, I got to watch him drive around the stadium in a convertible that the Twins gave to him. Can't imagine they'd have done that on a nicely manicured grass field!
  23. nicksaviking
    They kept knothole games through much of the Metrodome years too. Though, for most of the 1990s they couldn't give tickets away. As bad as those teams were, it was fun to spend cheaply at the park and basically pick whichever seat you wanted.
  24. nicksaviking
    I honestly don't trust Castro to continue to perform as we'd like him to. But anyone they would sign with his savings of 6.9M I would trust exponentially less. In other words, I don't want to give them a chance to fill his roster spot and his !635 PA! with even worse players, which is almost certainly what will happen unless he's packaged with prospects to get a better player.
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    I don't see ownership doing an extension with anyone while they try to sell. But Dobnak was never a high ceiling prospect. Or any kind of prospect. His deal has nothing to do with these decisions.
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