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  1. nicksaviking
    Lopez and Duran are rookies now? Looks like that's why the lost.
  2. nicksaviking
    I clearly said that wasn't the point. It's not an individual matchup. The odds that it would take until June to find a match are no higher than the odds that Santana will be bad during that period. Let me put it this way, what happens if Santana stinks again and now two of your bench spots are filled with a catcher only and a 1B only? That's awful roster management.
  3. nicksaviking
    It's not just Miranda though because he has options. It's Santana vs the field. Miranda, Lee, Severino, Camargo, Martin, Prato, Keiresy, Isola, Helman, Williams. One or more of those guys is almost certainly going to be better than Santana and you don't have to stick with ANY of them all year. Not only do those guys all have position flexibility, but they won't be wasting a bench spot if they don't hit, they'll be in St. Paul. And Santana hasn't produced three out of the last four years. Why would we think he's going to beat those 25% at best odds this year? He had a sub .700 OPS every year from 2020-22 and that's supposed to be Plan A for the starting 1B on a team that thinks it's contending for a World Series?
  4. nicksaviking
    So then why would we care about Santana? That's like his best case scenario, and he can't be optioned or play any other position. If he goes in the tank again, the Twins are wasting one of their few bench spots on a guy who isn't hitting and can only play 1B.
  5. nicksaviking
    Yeah, I guess we can go ahead and send Lopez and Duran packing. I can't imagine anyone is embarrassed about a game in February.
  6. nicksaviking
    The cumbersome part is the team feeling the need to get a Carlos Santana or a Manuel Margot. They can't be optioned and their ceilings are extremely low. Santana isn't a RH masher, last year was the first year in four seasons that he had an OPS over .800 vs lefties. There's only ever going to be four bench spots at most. If this team thinks every lefty needs to be platooned, than they shouldn't have more than one or two in their starting lineup, it's just not an efficient roster otherwise. But I don't think they all need to be platooned. Just let Julien and Wallner and Kirilloff keep facing left handers until they start doing it passably or prove that they can't. And if the team isn't willing to do that, these three players' value will NEVER be higher than it is now and they should be trading them for a top end starting pitcher.
  7. nicksaviking
    Yet his strikeout rate was only 15% and had a BABIP of .235. If his shoulder was the cause for the decrease in his exit velocity and he puts that behind him, he could be the bat they needed to find but couldn't afford in free agency.
  8. nicksaviking
    Sorry, but this is not a dream I have. My dream is to find starters that don't need to be platooned, then stacking the bench with the best players you can fill it with. I get why the Twins are platooning right now, but it's highly inefficient to roster construction. Get these guys to hit either handed pitchers, and if they can't, keep looking.
  9. nicksaviking
    Well if I can get #7 for that, sure. I guess I didn't think he'd have that kind of value, but I'm sure I don't have a good read on his value either.
  10. nicksaviking
    I'd guess fans of 31 other teams would think you're insane, but everyone watching the Vikings the past several years could easily empathize. It's been downright brutal in the middle. Not sure I trade Darrisaw though unless the draft capital is significantly higher than I assume it is.
  11. nicksaviking
    Like this I think:
  12. nicksaviking
    If it involves Enrique Hernandez, you can count me out. He does appear to play better for them than other teams though.
  13. nicksaviking
    Man, the Dodgers just can't quit Kike. And they're paying him 4M while Gio Urshela and Amed Rosario got 1.5M, Nick Ahmed took a MiLB deal and the Dodgers had to eat money to get rid of the arguably better bench player in Margot.
  14. nicksaviking
    But if you happened to need one of these, and I certainly hope the Twins don't any time in the foreseeable future, you can pick one up for peanuts. Neither of these prospects likely amounts to much, but offense costs money, defense doesn't, so take the guy who's ceiling would be more expense to replace externally.
  15. nicksaviking
    Had no idea Winder was a 60-day candidate. Kind of a bummer, I was hopeful this would be the year his velocity would start translating to strikeouts. Not that there was much room for him at the MLB level this year.
  16. nicksaviking
    Yeah, completely different than the year before when Lewis, Miranda, Gordon and Ober made the vets look expendable. At least in 2022 the Twins actually had plenty of guys to option. Now they don't.
  17. nicksaviking
    I mean, obviously it's all about how comfortable one is with their finances. $480 to watch the Twins for a year on a single use (for just about everyone) platform wouldn't be justifiable for me, but it's pocket change for others.
  18. nicksaviking
    No it's not. Plenty of us were saying this exact same thing last year. Unless you have a barren farm system, you can almost always find the same if not better players internally than you will digging for these kinds of veterans. Which affords you way more flexibility.
  19. nicksaviking
    For the last spot on the bench and a 1st baseman? Yeah, I discount the first two, and I'm quite confident their offensive track records aren't what you think they are. This team needs more talented hitters, and they aren't going to buy it, they need to find it internally.
  20. nicksaviking
    How many more games do the Twins win last year if Wallner, Julien and Jeffers got 100 more plate appearances from Gallo, Farmer and Vazquez?
  21. nicksaviking
    Yeah, that's when you call up the Garlick or Cave. The difference you lose between those players and Margot is minimal.
  22. nicksaviking
    I don't like Margot, but he not only strikes out less, his OBP is also significantly better than Taylor and Duvall. I don't want any of them on the roster, but at least Margot will give the team far fewer empty plate appearances, and with the current construct of the roster, I think that's more important from the last guy on the bench than anything else.
  23. nicksaviking
    The games they play in April and May count just as much as the ones in September. I'd rather cycle through the highest ceiling guys on the major league roster first than turn to the 'veteran depth' if all else fails. You can always sign similarly unattractive guys like Jake Cave, Kyle Garlick or Andrew Stevenson to a MiLB deal and stash them away. Putting the 'depth' on the MLB roster doesn't afford you the same opportunity.
  24. nicksaviking
    I don't specifically care about Martin or Larnach. I do care about Martin, Larnach, Miranda, Lee, Severino, Keirsey, Camargo, Prato, Williams, Helman and fingers crossed, soon Emmanuel Rodriguez, who would all otherwise be fighting for a roster spot if it weren't for the last two deals. The odds that some of those guys are better than the no-ceiling vets is almost a guarantee.
  25. nicksaviking
    Not in the way you suggest. Miller was rated as a 2nd-3rd rounder during the draft. Is the attachment to him because he was a 1st round pick (that was a reach) or because he's a local guy from Wisconsin?
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