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  1. nicksaviking
    Caratini hasn't caught more than 60 games since 2022, I don't think anyone views him as a primary catcher.
  2. nicksaviking
    I would also guess it's Sanders, but it's the dysfunctional Browns, they might still try to milk Watson because they don't understand sunk cost. In either case, it could make the QB job easier, but I don't know that it will help a ton with development. Seems the reads will likely just be, look for your #1 WR, then check down to the TEs. If he can handle it, Quinshon Judkins probably gets 300+ carries next year. Honestly, the Browns would have been laughed at if they had stayed in house, but Jim Schwartz should have gotten the job. For as pitiful as the Browns usually are, that defense was top notch. Maybe Schwartz will stay, but if I was him I'd look to go somewhere where I'd actually matter.
  3. nicksaviking
    So as expected, the Browns made the most uninspiring head coaching hire this off season, brining Todd Monken on board. A lot of guys pulled their names from consideration, it's the Browns, so that seems logical, but I also wonder if the Browns told the candidates that either they have to use Deshaun Watson, or they have to use Shadeur Sanders. Basically, some variation of 'We already have our starting QB on the roster and you have to coach him'.
  4. nicksaviking
    I mean this is baseball, it should go without saying that veteran players could/should/will be moved mid season if the team is looking rough. I'm not going to consider it a lie if that happens. If he were to get traded this spring? Yeah, that would be deceptive, but I don't think that's at all going to happen.
  5. nicksaviking
    Well that's obviously not true. If you do it well, it can build up your system during lean years. Hopes and dreams? You're not hoping and dreaming that Joe Ryan and Pablo Lopez can win you a championship? What are you even cheering for? But mostly it's not true because it's 100% not a modern baseball tactic, unless by modern you mean anything after Curt Flood forced free agency on the owners.
  6. nicksaviking
    Everybody should be OK with this, because Jackson is a 30-year-old journeyman. He's likely the exact same player you're going to get off of the waiver wire if you are forced to fill the hole that way.
  7. nicksaviking
    On one hand, it's hard to build a lineup of non-platoon players when you don't have the budget to do so in free agency. On the other hand, wait, nope there is no other hand because you can build a lineup of non-platoon players if you develop them yourselves, but the Catch-22 is that they won't be non-platoon players if you don't let them ever hit same-handed pitching. The Twins just completed two crappy years in a row, and during those two years when nobody was watching and nobody cared about the team anymore, the Twins still insisted on not letting the young lefties practice against MLB left handed pitching.
  8. nicksaviking
    This just looks like compounding the mistake of trading for Jackson. The best feature of a 3rd catcher is if he has options. Or even better yet, is not rostered at all and can hang out in AAA all year if unneeded. They should have acknowledged the Jackson mistake and just cut him loose now. I mean, no other team is going to want an out of options 3rd catcher, and how many teams would he even be their second catcher? He may have easily cleared waivers. They're already setting up this season for another round of roster mis-management.
  9. nicksaviking
    I'm still pretty turned off by the collection of players they got from last summer's trade off. So even if I see enticing trade scenarios floated here or elsewhere, I still think I want the Twins to stay away.
  10. nicksaviking
    Sounds like he only loves the bat if he stays at catcher. "a path to be an above-average regular if he improves the plate discipline further" probably doesn't make too many prospect lists. So this kind of does seem to be a swerve from Law's typical MO. Fine by me as I've always felt the prospect gurus significantly over-estimated what's acceptable play at the up-the-middle positions. They seem to think either you're elite defensively, or you have to move, despite the fact that 90% of MLB players that play those positions probably wouldn't be called elite.
  11. nicksaviking
    Surprised by Tait. Hasn't Law always been one that dings prospects significantly due to defensive questions? I guess either Law isn't doing that, or he doesn't have questions about Tait at catcher?
  12. nicksaviking
    Right it's a mutual option, so if Joe Ryan goes and imitates Tarik Skubal, then Ryan would decline the option.
  13. nicksaviking
    I may have been wrong about Sam Darnold. Please accept my resignation as GM of the Minnesota Vikings.
  14. nicksaviking
    And they’re still stuck with Deshaun Watson. Wouldn’t be surprised if they force the new coach to start him in order to get there moneys worth.
  15. nicksaviking
    Yeah, that's the most frustrating part of this organization right now.
  16. nicksaviking
    I was talking about Gray and Wagaman. The Twins gave up players, not cash to get them. With Brujan, the Twins got cash, not a player. Brujan may be the worst of the three, but that's pretty relative since they're all AAAA players. But yeah, Gasper last year too.
  17. nicksaviking
    Not really. But it would be nice to swap out the the bottom of the 40-man roster with players that aren't required to be on the 40-man roster. Or you know, players that WOULDN'T be on the bottom of the 40-man.
  18. nicksaviking
    So the Twins have to trade actual living breathing AA players with options for the DFA players they want, but when the Twins trade a guy they DFA they only get cash?
  19. nicksaviking
    Agree with that. I don't think Rogers' 2M salary would prevent that if he's awful. Even the Twins have eaten that kind of salary plenty of times. I don't even think the Twins would be that concerned with having all three in the pen anyway. Until he's moved to the pen, Prielipp has always been a starter. I doubt they'd look at him as some kind of lefty specialist.
  20. nicksaviking
    Yeah, 41 innings, the first 17 of which he was awful. This is a really weird hill to die on. I'm happy Funderburk has supporters, but this is the first I've heard anyone take skepticism about him personally.
  21. nicksaviking
    If he still has options, then yeah, no reason to get rid of him. And that wouldn't stop Prielipp or any other lefty from a roster spot then. I presume a player drafted in 2018 and rostered in 2023 would now be out of options. But he was not serviceable last year until August, and he was a complete liability in 2024 when even lefties had an .800 OPS against him. I'm not cheering against him and I hope he turned the corner. But I'm going to need to see more than those last two months to make me a believer.
  22. nicksaviking
    24 innings aren't remotely close enough to a sample size anyone should put any weight on.
  23. nicksaviking
    The league-wide narrative on him must be pretty poor. Just last summer he was traded for Ke'Bryan Hayes, who's remaining 36M contract and OPS under .600 the last two years says he has significant negative value. Rogers had decent numbers at the time but the Reds still had to throw in another player despite Rogers having less than 6M left on his contract. Then he was traded for a 7th round draft pick who's strictly a corner bat that nobody has ever heard of. But that's fine. He's still largely effective so I think the narrative is mostly wrong.
  24. nicksaviking
    Funderburk was about an outing away from being DFA'd last year. He finished well, but I doubt he has a ton of job security based solely off of those last 24 innings. Or at least he shouldn't have much job security.
  25. nicksaviking
    I'd like to have at minimum two of the starters-should-be-relievers in the bullpen. For the Twins, those are the guys who turn into lights out relief aces. Like Rogers did a decade ago. This current listed group doesn't look to have any and I don't need any more journeymen free agents who have a pattern of popping off one year and being DFA candidates the next.
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