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NHL playoffs are such a joke. Meanwhile either the conference's 4th or 5th best team gets a free ticket to the conference championship.
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If they aren't competing this year, why wouldn't you bring up the prospects to get their MLB legs underneath them now? Expecting rookies to come in and light the world on fire is expecting too much.
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Certainly could be user algorithm bias on my end. I don’t see too many top ten lists since I stopped watching ESPN live eight hours ago day and David Letterman retired. To me it seemed like a prior generation obsession. But I can see how it could be the easiest thing for an AI bot to generate.
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Nobody pitches for 20 years throwing 88 MPH any longer. Not even five years. It’s unsustainable.
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Yeah, evolution is undefeated.. Fortunately those ‘greatest ever’ debates seem to have tapered off with more recent generations.
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While throwing 88 MPH. He would be out of the league before his rookie contract was up if he didn't significantly dial up that velocity in today's game.
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Twins Place Taj Bradley on IL
nicksaviking replied to John Bonnes's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
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Ha, that’s all news to me. I guess I only care if teammates hate him.
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I’m so tired of Aaron Rodgers. The Steelers should just trade for Mac Jones or Jacoby Brissett and tell him to go right ahead and take his drama to the USFL.
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OK, well maybe not 'most', but many. He can't go through the lineup more than twice, and often not more than once without getting lit up, and he can't hold his velocity throughout the season let alone throughout a game. The Twins don't need #4-5 starters either; they need #1-3 starters and they need late inning relievers, because that's what they can't afford on the free agent market.
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Like Matt Gurrier.. Long relievers are too bad to be starters and too bad to be late inning relief. You don’t need a dedicated long-man because the guys you want for this tend to be the caliber that float around the waiver wire. Don’t waste this on Morris or any other internal starter who could instead be tried out for a velocity bump as a one way mining guy.
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Fan of Morris. Not a fan of long-men. The inning eater bullpen guy is typically a low leverage, get-us-through-the-game spot. Give this to the no-name, waiver-wire pickups. Let Morris do the one inning work and see if he can ramp up that four seamer like Griffin Jax.
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Then ride or die in the MLB pen, no matter how thin the rotation gets. Results don’t usually show up the same year, so I won’t hold transition results against him in 2026. It’s all about putting the right starters in the pen for 2027.
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What’s the small sample size? SWR? Most have suggested he’s not starter material since 2024.
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Does SWR still have an option? I suspect not since he’s been a prospect for about a decade. I put him in the pen either way, but I send him to St Paul until June to start the transition if he does.
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Im not sure a 3rd WR is terribly valuable in this offense and with these QBs, but I’ll take the downfield blocking. Surprised Jennings came here though. After spending most of his career in the shadows of Samuel and Aiyuk, he finally got to be the #1 last year. Seemed like there might have been a dozen or more teams where he could be th #2, if not #1.
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A lot of teams take out insurance on the players with the big, long-term contracts. I wonder if Correa is still covered by the Twins? And if so, I wonder what real estate venture the Pohlad's will reinvest that savings into.
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https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/vikings-request-g-m-interviews-with-dave-ziegler-rj-gillen-chad-alexander Are you kidding me? Candidates from the Titans (who was the Raiders GM in 2022-23) 49ers and Chargers. With all due respect to SF and their consistent winning, none of these organizations have been very good on draft day lately. Why aren't they interviewing people from organizations that are good at drafting? No one from the Rams or Seahawks? Not the guy from Philly? Throw in the guy from the terribly drafted Bills franchise, and one might come to the conclusion that whomever they bring in is going to merely be a figurehead that defers to KOC on everything.
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https://www.nfl.com/news/vikings-begin-search-with-new-gm-request-interview-terrance-gray This is possibly a Rooney Rule interview, but he seems like a legit candidate for GM. First instinct would be that I don't want anyone in the Bills draft room and I don't want anyone who used to be in the Vikings draft room. However, it says he was with the Vikings as a scout 11 years prior to being hired by the Bills. Presumably that would mean he started in 2006 with Spielman until 2016 or maybe through the 2017 draft. Anyway, the team did draft significantly better back then. In fact, between Harrison Smith, Danielle Hunter and Eric Kendricks, more defensive players drafted in those bygone years started games last season than all the defensive players KAM drafted combined did.
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Tigers thinking about their ace
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Target Field concession workers vote to strike
nicksaviking replied to Patzky's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
Searching 'news' on Delaware North, just about every 'article' is written by something called Delaware North Newsroom. Dump this company ASAP. -
Target Field concession workers vote to strike
nicksaviking replied to Patzky's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
It doesn't say but I presume it's due to low pay? This is already by far the least popular of any of the state's professional ownership groups, how can they be this tone deaf? I'm not sure how many concession workers there are, but I know a lot of the stands are just run by random service groups that come in and get an itty-bitty fraction of the profits for their charity. I'd bet good money the Pohlad's will just make all the concession workers voluntary service group workers. -
Minnesota Twins Prospect Retrospective: John Klein
nicksaviking replied to Cody Christie's topic in Twins Minor League Talk
I don't follow. Starters can't be converted to relievers? That's exactly how the Twins have gotten their best relievers the past 35 years. -
Banks and Orange could be good players if healthy. Neither seem to get much pressure, but eating up blockers for the blitzers is more important in this defense I guess. Chad Greenway compared Golday to Anthony Barr the days after the draft. And my problem with that is the same problem I had with Golday on draft day; Barr wasn't going to be a fit when the Vikings switched to a 3-4. Golday doesn't look big enough to be an edge guy, but if he's interior like Cashman or Wilson, the guy has to be able to cover. OT is always a need on this team as they rarely have both healthy so I liked the Tiernan pick quite a bit.
