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  1. nicksaviking
    I’d guess his arm strength and draft pedigree will give him a nice long shot, even if he bounces around the league as a backup.
  2. nicksaviking
    I think McCarthy just comes off as so immature, which I would guess is the root of most of his issues. Like many pro athletes that would be labeled immature, I wouldn't be surprised if after he's gone from the Vikings, we get reports about him not putting in the expected work and ignoring attention to detail. But most people grow out of immaturity, particularly if they get publicly humbled. That's why I think there's a really good chance he turns into a good QB. Just with another team years down the road.
  3. nicksaviking
    They absolutely should be throwing a line into those waters. But if they're willing to go nuts, Josh Allen's agent is my first (covert and super secret) call.
  4. nicksaviking
    Yeah, this is tough. Hitters have adjusted to being able to hit 98 MPH fastballs and 90 MPH sliders. Everyone is going to look like Ted Williams if pitchers start pacing themselves like they did last century. Bigger, stronger, faster has always been the evolution of pro sports. Guys were always going to figure out how to throw harder and harder. These ligaments ain't evolving though. Let them carry nail files and throw spitballs again?
  5. nicksaviking
    This is tiring. NOBODY but the posters said anything about Falvey and a pitching pipeline. That's not how Cleveland built their rotation and nobody who was paying attention should have assumed that's how it would be built in Minnesota. Cleveland didn't develop any of their pitchers except Danny Salazar. They traded for them when they were either already at the MLB level or about to be. Just like the Twins did. And who are these Falvey faithful? It was a near consensus here that he needed to be replaced. This all just sounds like being angry at the situation and wanting to lay blame at the feet of the person you most dislike and then calling out imaginary posters for an imaginary defense of this guy you don't like.
  6. nicksaviking
    I was going to be a bit dismissive when I saw he was the 10th highest paid coach in the conference since there are only 11 teams in the Big 10. Then I remembered time is slipping away from me and there are nowhere close to only 11 teams in the Big 10 any longer.
  7. nicksaviking
    Seems to me last time they did something similar, the $2 beers were only available at like three concessions. So if you wanted a second one, you needed to spend all pregame standing in line.
  8. nicksaviking
    At this point, I'm firmly on the side of any party that's opposing NCAA rulings. They've stolen so much money from athletes and tax payers, that the profits they've made through the decades are an absolute crime against humanity.
  9. nicksaviking
    Ok, now I’m sold on Shelton. Looks like he’s filling in for Carson on The Tonight Show circa 1975. Could fluff up the chest hair a tad more though.
  10. nicksaviking
    Derek Carr says he's healthy and would come out of retirement, but only to a team that could win the Super Bowl. But if Derek Carr is your QB, doesn't that mean you have little hope of winning the Super Bowl? That's quite the Catch-22.
  11. nicksaviking
    I mean, this is a reunion for us fans, but no players, coaches or top level front office personnel where here when Hendriks was here, so this seems a bit different than the Taylor Rogers move. And I hope that unfamiliarity means the table won't be slanted in his favor in terms of making the team. I wish him well and hope his continued MLB career is productive and fulfilling, but here in 2026 with the bullpen starting from scratch, the Twins need to use this year to identify who their top relievers will be in 2027 and 2028 and 2029 and 2030. That's obviously not Hendriks. He should only be a break glass in case of emergency pitcher.
  12. nicksaviking
    He's going to be 32 when he's a free agent. Ryan might be my favorite current player, but that seems about the right age to part ways with a starting pitcher. Especially if you can get a compensatory draft pick for him.
  13. nicksaviking
    Probably hard to make meaningful changes unless/until the league adopts a salary cap and floor like the other pro sports. I know many don't think that's possible, but I think it's quietly being set up, and it's why a team like the Dodgers is so blatantly flouting the system right now, trying to win all the championships before the CBA expires.
  14. nicksaviking
    Right, after a decade. I've been saying this whole time that I didn't think Falvey and Levine then Falvey and Zoll actually did the same thing. Fans weren't privy to the delegation of tasks, but Favley was clearly hired to be the architect so it would then stand to reason that the GMs were hired to acquire the pieces to build his mansion ice house.
  15. nicksaviking
    Very nice John!
  16. nicksaviking
    The Pohlads don't strike me as people who would pay two guys to do the same job.
  17. nicksaviking
    Zoll was the GM last year, I think he was probably entertaining and executing the trades while Falvey was the guy approving them.
  18. nicksaviking
    Except that debt wasn't from their baseball operations, it was from their other businesses that were impacted by COVID then the poor economy, the Twins just got saddled with the debt because the Pohlad's thought they could pawn it off on to new owners. And they did.
  19. nicksaviking
    Tampa, who was NOT in contention, straight up traded four more seasons of a 24-year-old Bradley for two seasons of 30-year-old Griffin Jax. Tampa doesn't do that if they think Bradley's future is to remain in the rotation. I'd move him to the pen now and hope he's a lights out closer come 2027. Making that move mid-season never ends with good results.
  20. nicksaviking
    Why are they showing interest in expensive starting pitching anyway? Finding legit middle of the order bats has been this team's biggest problem since the Bomba Squad days, why aren't they looking for that?
  21. nicksaviking
    When you give them a full year to transition to a reliever, very few actually. Count Duran, Jax, Varland, Sands, Rogers, Pressly, May, Duffey, Duensing and Perkins in the positive column of converted starters for the Twins. Should have stuck with Ronnie Hernandez and Liam Hendricks too. In the same time period, so since Perkins' successful conversion, on the negative side we have Josh Winder, Fernando Romero, Anthony Swarzak and Jeff Manship. Jordan Balazovic never got a full year trial in the bullpen, but even with him, this transition pays off much more frequently than free agents do. And it costs the team nothing.
  22. nicksaviking
    History says the Twins future back-end bullpen arms are already on the roster, we just don't know which ones. Top priority and expectation is to have a good idea about at least two of them come September. The Twins made their choices regarding the bullpen last August. Neither they nor the fans should have any expectation of smooth sailing this year. I don't care how talented or untalented they are, you're not getting consistency from a brand new group of relievers without an extended amount of patience.
  23. nicksaviking
    Well they're probably all being written and pitched by AI now. And anyone who's seen Terminator 2 knows that Skynet creations are only funny in the sense that they are hilariously bad at being funny.
  24. nicksaviking
    They have enough options. When it comes to finding good long term bullpen assets, the Twins history clearly shows they have far and away the most success finding them from their internal starters. But not when they are yo-yo’d for a season between starting and relieving, only after they’ve been committed to the pen. They need to start on those guys now because there are so many of them to try. Wasting time on other teams’ castoffs is just going to delay a meaningful rebuild.
  25. nicksaviking
    I don't think I'm interested; looks like there's significant control issues. The Twins need to restock the back end of the bullpen, that's going to take time and effort once again converting internal starters into relievers. It's not going to happen with a bunch of flavor of the month cast offs from other teams.
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