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  1. nicksaviking
    True, but in all sports I tend to think the athletes capable of coming up big in the post season tend to be the guys who wouldn't be rattled easily. And no critique of any player in particular because I'd crumble like a sand castle if I was under the bright lights.
  2. nicksaviking
    Call him up. Can his superhuman abilities include a significant healing factor? Like next time he violently crashes into a wall, instead of hitting the IL he just pops back up and flashes his adamantium claws?
  3. nicksaviking
    That would be great to sign Skubal. But if there's a floor for the Twins, there will also be a floor for teams like the Brewers and Rays (and barf White Sox), who will have just as much, or even more money to spend AND have the optics of being a legit contender.
  4. nicksaviking
    Swap back in Ryan and Lopez over Bubic and Mize and use the prospects and payroll to make another Lopez/Gray/Maeda/Odorizzi trade and you’ve got one of the best rotations in the league. Im going to be disappointed if this team gets rid of the top two arms and replaces them with more mid to back end starters.
  5. nicksaviking
    The inconsistency is a symptom of the poor on base skills, it's not the other way around. When guys who can draw walks go cold with the bat, it's much less noticeable. When guys who can't get on base go cold with the bat, they're basically un-playable. Like similar fan favorite Michael A Taylor, he's going to be frustratingly unpredictable.
  6. nicksaviking
    I didn’t care how they got down to two catchers. But as someone who isn’t a huge Caratini guy, I was hoping they’d dangle him on the wire just to see what happened.
  7. nicksaviking
    Dropping the stupid sinker was always the hack to getting better results from Pittsburgh pitchers. Hadn’t noticed if this was an Orioles trend. Splitters work pretty similarly, in that a subpar infield probably wants to see neither. In any case, good decision. I didn’t want him, but I’d be more than happy to eat my previous critiques.
  8. nicksaviking
    So this just means we’re going back to the good ol’ days of calling balls and strikes. Vet Aaron Nola, who is clearly cooked, but still has the league-wide rep of being a control artist, gets two inches on both sides of the plate, and young pup Bradley who’s looking good but playing in a flyover market losses a half inch on each side and and two inches on the bottom. Netfix getting Greg Maddox to call this game?
  9. nicksaviking
    Funny that the state of Indiana will have two NFL teams and Illinois zero. Even though it's the same metro, Chicago will be eyed for an expansion or relocation team.
  10. nicksaviking
    My point is, if the depth is bad, it doesn't need to be ON the roster. It can be on other team's rosters. This was all just today. If you're running out pitchers with a 5.00+ ERA, the current depth isn't worth sacrificing the better roster management.
  11. nicksaviking
    But this is where I think front offices run into a fallacy about depth. Because the team thinks the rotation NEEDS to keep Matthews, or Festa last year or the numerous bad vets like or Matt Schumacher or J.A. Happ or Dallas Keuchel because there just aren't enough arms in the system without them. But you don't need this kind of depth in the system because the production (or lack thereof) these guys are providing is no different than picking up Carlos Carrasco or Martin Perez or Joe Blow off of the waiver wire to be sacrificial inning eaters.
  12. nicksaviking
    "But there is a growing argument that his best opportunity to help the Twins down the stretch might come in the bullpen." I don't think it's a growing argument; it's fully matured and aged well beyond adulthood. Matthews should have been in the pen no later than when pitchers and catchers reported this past spring. If Matthews as a one inning pitcher had jumped his velocity from 96 MPH to 99 MPH on his four seamer, while working in his slider and curveball and dropping his ineffective changeup and sinker, the bullpen might not have looked so dreadful the first half of the year.
  13. nicksaviking
    Could be, but I hope not for KOC's sake. I liked Nix much better than Penix, who I really disliked as he was a complete statue who couldn't even throw on bootlegs and was surprisingly inaccurate despite some of his passing numbers. I eventually got talked back off of Nix too though. And you know, I think everyone was right, in so far as he has turned out to be a good QB, but like many suggested, he was already at his ceiling.
  14. nicksaviking
    Like I said, they'd only get a player back the other team isn't interested in anyway. I would DFA Massey the second he hit the roster. The only offensive players the Twins have any business adding to the roster in 2027 should only be a legit middle of the order bat. If they can't get one, then only add top end starting pitching. If they can't get either, don't do a damn thing and continue clogging up the roster.
  15. nicksaviking
    I think the lack of options is going to be an issue trading him too. You're going to have to find an absolute dog of a team that is willing to commit a roster spot to him in 2027 whether he's playing well or not. So maybe the Angels, A's and Rockies? Maybe the Giants if they go into rebuild mode? Otherwise, I'm sure most other teams would happily give him a shot, but I doubt they'd give up any players they'd care at all about losing. I know the injuries complicated this situation, but the Twins absolutely bungled this. The Twins waived the white flag on the 2025 season before it even started. They said they were competing this year but dropped payroll by 30M which means they never were serious about it. He could have been put on the opening day roster of either of those squads. And if they weren't going to entertain that idea, he should have been traded before this season even started. How did this club not see this coming?
  16. nicksaviking
    No, but they probably are for being stubborn enough to give James Outman an opening day roster spot instead.
  17. nicksaviking
    Coming back to this, I'm sure it's accurate but it's so dumb and KOC better not be making decisions based on this. McCarthy was the FIFTH QB taken in that draft. Anyone who follows football knew that even a good Pro-QB mind couldn't guarantee success, particularly for a non-elite prospect. I bet if I dug through this board long enough I'd find plenty of us posters who said that we weren't confident in McCarthy but we agreed the Vikings had to take the shot. It didn't work out. So what?!?! We knew what we were signing up for, try again and hope things play out better next time. But charade aside, I only ever wanted this experiment to be two years, so if they are moving on, props to KOC and the Vikings for cutting their losses now instead of playing the sunk cost game like the Panthers are with Bryce Young. I don't like the subterfuge because I don't think there's any reason they need to 'save face' but I do like the decisiveness.
  18. nicksaviking
    Yeah, that's a good one, but it's actually a solid take. And that goes for any team that rosters a bunch of young players who might otherwise get worn down from playing a longer season than they have before. So, the vet laden big market clubs may lose an advantage if there are fewer games. Combine that with possible/likely onset of caps and floors AND that a change in the system means all teams have to start over tinkering to figure out new methodologies, and 2027 could be a year where a non-major market finally has a chance to break through and win it all.
  19. nicksaviking
    I just went in to adjust my prices for the season tickets I want to sell this year. Wow, so many bad games nobody will want to go to. Atlanta, Carolina, Indianapolis, Washington.
  20. nicksaviking
    I'm definitely not panicked. But that's because my expectations for this team are lacking. Funny to say after I just boldly predicted a 10-7 season, but it looks like a hallow 10-7 to me.
  21. nicksaviking
    I'm going to be optimistic pessimistic and say this defense is going to drag Kyler Murray Carson Wentz and the underperforming Vikings offense to a surprising 10-7 record that the casual fans will celebrate, only for the team to get trounced by 30 in the first round at which point all of these causal fans will finally say, 'Oh crap, I just realized our QB situation is worse than ever before and now we can't even draft one! Why did I listen to the sugar coated nonsense Paul Allen and Mark Rosen were spreading all year!" I know the Vikings didn't get the last place schedule, but good lord, it's like the schedule makers already decided they didn't want the Vikings in the top half of the draft.
  22. nicksaviking
    Ha, yeah to me the timing of this announcement makes it crystal clear what happened. News over the weekend was that Murray didn't do well but McCarthy looked...OK. So KOC had to quash any more of that talk because like every non-casual fan already knew that it was long ago pre-ordained that Murray was the starter and McCarthy was auditioning for QB 2 at best and another team at worst.
  23. nicksaviking
    Yeah, frustrating. Kyler could be the worst starting QB in the league and he still won't be as bad as McCarthy was last year when the Vikings were 9-8.
  24. nicksaviking
    Caratini, Bell then if needed Larnach. Why has Caratini gotten three of the last five starts at 1B anyway? Getting Jenkins up and involved in exciting late season games seems infinitely more important than getting ABs to three guys who probably shouldn't be here next year. I'd add Clemens to the list but I'm afraid of those pitchforks.
  25. nicksaviking
    Which is why I didn't like the trade and would have preferred Gausman/Ray/May/Peralta. But if he keeps pitching well, it won't be a bad problem to have. And if he doesn't, his arbitration figure might make for an easy decision.
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