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  1. nicksaviking
    I like Daniels, Maye, McCarthy in that order though the likelihood of landing them is surely in reverse order. But I think all of them have the potential needed.
  2. nicksaviking
    Alright, a day early, but I'm excited and ready for action. Who ya'll want?
  3. nicksaviking
    I want nothing to do with them, but to be fair both were on contending teams last year. Every team has at least one player like this, even the good teams. There's zero rule that they have to get 15 PA per week though.
  4. nicksaviking
    I'm very disappointed in ownership, but there were only three free agents I actually wanted this offseason and all would have still be affordable, so the team could have been capable with better construction. I'm also disappointed in the veteran bats, but since I didn't want most of them, it's hard to blame players who I thought shouldn't be on the team to begin with. I don't like what's happening with the offensive strategy, but even if that is solely a coaching decision (and I don't think it's 100% them) those pulling the strings could tell them to stop, or replace those coaches. So, front office gets the blame for me, and since I think it's largely due to inflexible roster construction and ill fitting coaches, I'm most specifically pointing the finger at the GM, Thad Levine.
  5. nicksaviking
    33M and 35M should make no difference. The number of guaranteed years seems to be the Vikings sticking point, but they better be over that phobia already. One guaranteed season is obviously a hard stop for Jefferson. One of the best non-QBs in the game shouldn't have to give up what every other team would willingly give him.
  6. nicksaviking
    That would be just fine by me.
  7. nicksaviking
    "The results, or lack thereof, speak for themselves, but it’s the process that seems broken. While it’s assumed that the club is constructed solely to be boppers that launch home runs and celebrate strikeouts, that’s not entirely true. Michael A. Taylor and Joey Gallo were jettisoned with the idea that Manuel Margot and Carlos Santana could even out the team's mix of skills and increase its collective contact rate. " It's wholly possible this system may have worked, but they replaced two poor hitters with a huge flaw, with two poor hitters with different flaws. Margot and Santana should be the last guy off the bench on a contending team, not taking up regular plate appearances. Subbing out the high strikeout players with low strikeout players who can actually still play baseball, like Lourdes Gurriel and Justin Turner, might have worked. But we'll never know because they reversed course on trying to acquire quality players last offseason.
  8. nicksaviking
    The Lions gave Amon Ra St Brown his big contract. 120M over 4 years with 77M guaranteed. In pretend money that's 30M per year, but that 77M guaranteed is more than two full years of actual money. Hopefully this dominos into the Vikings extending Jefferson, but perhaps one party is waiting for the Cowboys and Lamb to do a deal. I hope not because I think the Cowboys are on the brink of lunacy. I don't expect them to make the right decisions with their veteran players in the near future.
  9. nicksaviking
    Even if Kepler returned to his 2021-22 self, the Twins would probably have to eat most of his salary to even get a no-name prospect back. And he's a long ways away from his previously low point of 21-22.
  10. nicksaviking
    I've liked the Twins pitching trades, even the ones that didn't work out. However, I was saying this all winter: The offseason trades the Twins made for pitching have been overall good, the midseason trades have been poor. And I believe there is good reason for this. At midseason, the team buying the prospects have all that more information on them. The team selling the prospects should have the advantage the further away they are from the majors, as they should have a better handle on these players than the team they are dealing them to.
  11. nicksaviking
    Very few people believed in 28-year-old Cody Bellinger's bounce back season; nobody should have believed in 38-year-old Carlos Santana's bounce back season. I can't find a player who was bad for three seasons in their mid 30s and suddenly reestablished their glory for more than one season in their late 30s. One season? Yeah, happens from time to time, two seasons? Quite possibly never in the history of the game.
  12. nicksaviking
    First, yes, second, if those are the only two choices, someone isn't doing their job. Santana shouldn't have been an option if there were zero first basemen left on the free agent market. Honestly, I'm not sweating this season as the team was never going to amount to a contender, so I'm at the point of hoping Joe Pohald reaps what he sows. If you don't eat your meat, how can you have any pudding. You won't give me a championship caliber team? I hope you pay for it in attendance and viewership. Learn your lesson and do better next year.
  13. nicksaviking
    Ah yes, once again trying to hide my tears with a terrible joke.
  14. nicksaviking
    Possibly he already knew, but if he didn't, I wonder if Falvey would have thought otherwise had he understood the new sheriff in town was going to try to turn the team into the Pittsburg Pirates.
  15. nicksaviking
    If the front office knew ownership was going to choke the life out of the payroll, I doubt they sign Correa last year. On that same line of thought, weren't Falvey and/or Levine being considered for Red Sox jobs early in the off season but they withdrew their names? Or at least Falvey did? Then Joe Pohlad dropped the bomb about a month later.
  16. nicksaviking
    Povich has been awful prior to his four outings this season. Steer is the only one of those players the Twins will miss long term. And the irony of that trade was, had the Twins tried to get a Reds starter prior to the season (instead of signing Archer and Bundy), the price to get Mahle, heck, maybe even Castillo, would have been Miranda. Steer would probably still be a Twin as he didn't break out until the Twins were done dragging their feet and admitted they were desperate for pitching.
  17. nicksaviking
    I really don't care about 'starter depth' because if you have to stick a bunch of washed up vets or non-prospects into your rotation, you're not playing for a championship anyway. This was never about missing out on Maeda and Keuchel replacements, it was about not replacing Sonny Gray. Everything after that was basically just deciding how long they could tread water before they inevitably drowned.
  18. nicksaviking
    Good. Seems like another reason to keep him out of the lineup.
  19. nicksaviking
    Margot was an exponentially better fit than Taylor. Of all of the bungled offseason moves, this one at least showed that they knew the strikeout problem was a problem. Taylor struck out at 33% of his PAs last year and 38% so far this year. He's not a good player. They still got it wrong though, because the answer to 'Who should we get, Taylor or Margot' was always, and obviously, C) None of the Above.
  20. nicksaviking
    Ok, others need to start making these player pages, this coincidence is too eerie for me:
  21. nicksaviking
    Or just drunker.
  22. nicksaviking
    The gaping hole in the offense is why this team keep losing.
  23. nicksaviking
    I still believe in Julien, but he's still leading off? Come on Rocco, have to move him down even if it's just to take some pressure off of him. At least they moved Buxton down in the order. A tiny bit. And they just had a day off. Santana AND Farmer instead of Miranda? Is he injured? Makes no sense.
  24. nicksaviking
    Seems like the obliques are the issue for our pitchers these days. Forget about this dude, I want to see a pitcher who throws with both hands at the same time. Think of the force you'd get behind such a pitch.
  25. nicksaviking
    PFT is now also swimming in reports about how involved Josh Harris is getting with Washington's pick. Snyder may be gone, but looks like ownership meddling isn't changing. That likely doesn't help the Vikings in getting the QB they want, but I'm all for the Commanders drowning in dysfunction for another couple of decades.
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