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  1. nicksaviking
    If so, it should make him an easy cut then.
  2. nicksaviking
    I don't think the Twins are getting the Rays 4M and another 4M from the Dodgers. The players don't get paid up front, they get paychecks as the season goes along. Margot is still owed 12M this year and next, the only part of his tab that's been paid is the month he's owed this year. The Twins are basically holding the funds from the Dodgers in escrow, I think it would have been reported had they actually gotten 8M from the Dodgers.
  3. nicksaviking
    As much as I want Margot to be Margone, my math says with his 10M salary in 2024, 2M 2025 buyout minus the 4M the Dodgers sent the Twins, means the Twins would be eating 8M. Not only does that insanely make him the most expensive player on this list, but the most expensive acquisition this offseason. With their self imposed budget constraints I have no idea how this lunacy occurred, but I'd guess his salary actually makes him the LEAST likely to be DFA'd. These low-end veteran acquisitions kill this club every year. How long before they finally learn from these follies?
  4. nicksaviking
    Don't forget about Pedro Florimon, who's career was sadly cut much too short......due to a complete lack of offense.
  5. nicksaviking
    Carl's back in control via spiritual possession? Got to agree, that is the most practical explanation for the events of this past off season.
  6. nicksaviking
    I had the opposite take, though also just speculation. Jim Pohlad had been the most free spending Pohlad owner by far, so my assumption was that the rest of the clan shooed him out and installed fiscally conservative Joe to make sure the ROI on Papa Carl's investment kept rising to expectations.
  7. nicksaviking
    You do understand you're complaining about no longer having a place to stable your horse because all of your neighbors bought automobiles right? We're asking for the cobblestones to be paved so we can all use this new technology, we have no interest in mounting a saddle again. The new option is and will be better once the infrastructure is in place, which would have happened years ago had the bigwigs not been all consumed by the profits dangled by those selling horses.
  8. nicksaviking
    Yeah, I'll bet the old wealthy white dudes who knew how to profit their businesses via railroad services gnashed their teeth and shook their fists at Henry Ford too. I in no way think Twins leadership is capable of evolving on their own. They're going to have to pick the right industry leaders to mimic and hope they picked correctly.
  9. nicksaviking
    If they want to find a way to keep the sport alive, they do need to find a way to get it automatically included in Apple/Amazon/Whatever giant wide-spread streamer package. Casual fans aren't going to go out of their way to get MLBTV. As it is, $20/mo is a better start than whatever cable costs these days.
  10. nicksaviking
    Obviously you get better value with streaming. You can cancel and subscribe for a month any time you please with the streamers. A new season of Program X starts up again, you pay two months for that streamer. The Diamondbacks are playing? You pay $20 for six months instead of for 12 months, locked in. If the average monthly streamer is $15/mo, you'd need to have 10 of them to match what you're paying for in cable. In my house, I doubt we've ever had more than 5 at a time.
  11. nicksaviking
    The Diamondbacks are only charging 19.99 per month for their DBacks.TV option. 39.99 if the user wanted to package that with the rest of MLB.TV games. https://www.12news.com/article/sports/mlb/diamondbacks/how-to-watch-arizona-diamondbacks-games-tv-and-streaming-2024-season/75-c5b07291-9bd7-4d7c-b308-13719ef2d0b7 But we're followers, not innovators up here in Minnesota. Can't try something new, have to follow along with what the other kids are doing.
  12. nicksaviking
    That seems pretty unfair. I couldn't justify paying for both cable AND the streaming services that my wife and kids wanted. Nobody else in my house will watch a second of sports unless Taylor Swift pops on screen for five seconds. Paying cable $120/month just to watch the Twins? Terribly sorry, please accept my apology for choosing the option that 4/5ths of my family wanted but the incompetent MLB owners are unable to reconcile.
  13. nicksaviking
    For billionaires, short term money is better than long term money. Money on hand now can make so much more money for a billionaire. It's why the Bobby Bonilla contract has been laughed at for the last three decades. If Joe Pohlad were offered 5B now but it would guarantee the game would be extinct in 15 years, or offered 15B stretched out over 15 years, he'd take the first option every time. Jim might not have. He was by far my favorite Pohlad owner thus far. But that's probably why he's no longer in charge. They voted him off the island.
  14. nicksaviking
    *******Moderator Note****** I know it is only fair that the Pohlad's and Bally end up penniless on the streets some day, but please refrain from posting your favorite pirating methods. No judgments if you do so (I mean, other than possibly an actual judge) but TD doesn't want to be involved with spreading back-alley solutions.
  15. nicksaviking
    Okert and Jackson are the two I'd get rid of first. I'm not protecting Thielbar just because he's a 'legacy' player, but unlike those two, his velocity hasn't decreased this year, which makes me think he's the more likely of the three to pick up the pace. But yeah, let's not sweat losing (and paying) these gray beards at the cost of keeping the best players on the team.
  16. nicksaviking
    Real excited. He's my #2 prospect after Jenkins due to his high ceiling. His progression and stats look almost identical to last year's #1 prospect and ROY Gunnar Henderson, even down to the age 21 batting average spike upon moving to AA. It would be great to see a late season MLB promotion too.
  17. nicksaviking
    That newspaper article from the same day made it sound like it was near hurricane level wind. Those outfield seats didn't sound terribly pleasant to sit in!
  18. nicksaviking
    I'm not a sentimental guy so Thielbar can go as far as I'm concerned, but unlike Jackson and Okert, he's maintained his velocity from last year, so from my view, those two are more likely to be washed up. Relievers are so flakey, it's hard to tell who's no longer effective and who's just being hit by small sample sizes.
  19. nicksaviking
    I would not. This looks pretty similar to Jax and Rogers and Duffey and May. If anything, I think this just shows to keep doing this with the fringe, back-end starting pitchers in the system.
  20. nicksaviking
    I think the depth additions were responsible for the early season losses. The system players seem to be carrying the team at the moment.
  21. nicksaviking
    The Twins built up lots of relief pitching depth, with both guys who were and were not on the 40 man roster. What was the point of getting all of those non-40 man arms if they aren't willing to DFA some of the 40-man arms? Sorry, Funderburk is the only good lefty in the pen now, make the 'tough' decision on somebody else. Both Okert and Jackson have seen velocity declines and Jackson in particular seems very flash-in-the-pan type. He's constantly putting guys on base, this isn't a high ceiling loss risk. You can pick up a guy like Okert or Jackson via waiver or cash-consideration trade later if needed, just start ripping the band aids on these guys now instead of demoting the guys who are actually contributing.
  22. nicksaviking
    Yeah, they got all fat and sassy, like pigs to the slaughter.
  23. nicksaviking
    I just remember my mom giggling uncontrollably at his name, she thought he sounded like a cartoon character. I had my parents watch Moneyball decades later and she said, "It was THAT guy?!?!?"
  24. nicksaviking
    Wow, the White Sox doubled their win total since the Twins saw them last. Time for a REAL team to put them back in their place.😀
  25. nicksaviking
    I've been thinking about the idea of drafting a kicker, and I think I'm good doing it if you can get one of the top college kickers in the 6th or 7th. I'd guess most of the players drafted in the 6th or 7th you could get as UDFAs anyway, but the top guys at this position will get drafted.
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