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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.
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    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.
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    Gray, Maeda, Odorizzi, Ryan, SWR, Duran. Knock off the trolling.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    Hard pass. He hasn't been the same player since he changed his name from Jorge Bell.
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    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.
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    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!
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    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.
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    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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    That is perhaps the one benefit of having an ownership group like the Pohlads. They don't get involved, either because they don't care enough or because they don't know enough. In either case, leave these decisions to the professionals. Also, if it seems odd that an elderly man like Woody Johnson knows about Madden stats, he doesn't. Further reporting says that it was his teenage sons (really? OK Mick Jagger) were the ones telling him not to do the trade because of the Madden ratings. Teenagers. Having input on a multi billion dollar company's decisions.
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    These brothers do sound like the 'meddling' kind of owners. That's usually not good when it comes to winning championships. But if they are going to appeal to the fans with lower prices and better free agents it might be worth the meddling.
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    I know there are rumblings of trading Castro, but I guess I don't follow the logic. Do you do it so you can keep Vazquez? Or do you trade him and also trade Vazquez so you have extra free agent money to spend on a player that is worse than Castro? Neither makes sense to me. I'm with others, I'm only trading Castro if it's part of a bigger deal with Twins prospects for a better player from another team.
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    Yeah, I could see it if Cousins was free, but he won't be even when he's cut, he can sign with the highest bidder while keeping his Atlanta severance. Like you said, that franchise just makes bad decisions because they have a bad owner. Cousins and Stefanski were together for only one season, but maybe they have a strong relationship. Not sure if Stefanski has any pull, or even if he'll keep his job though.
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    I am concerned about the velocity swings and the lack of strikeouts. Those are the two things the Twins have been really, really good at developing. I don't know that he can improve from here much. I've heard trade scenarios for every one of the Twins other pitchers, but SWR is perhaps the one I'd look to move. He isn't as established as Lopez, Ober or Ryan and with his excellent rookie numbers he put up, he probably has more value than Festa or Matthews despite not having the same ceiling.
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    I'm all for that, play the real talent and if you're really lucky they click right away, but at least let them take their lumps now with a higher chance of them clicking next year. Still, while I don't have much hope that Martin, Keirsey or Helman will amount to much with the bat, I have zero hope that Bader will. And that's three options you could try instead of one you can't get rid of.
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    He squeezed every dollar out of the Vikings and both sides seemed amicable about the situations (well, except for Mike Zimmer). If he gave Atlanta free money everyone better start questioning if there was an under-the-table deal to save Atlanta cap space. Whether they cut him or trade him, he'll keep his salary, so I'd think the only way he'd step away is if they cut him. And if they did cut him and he 'retired' that would leave the door open for him to come back later with any team he chooses.
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