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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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?
  7. nicksaviking
    Yeah, that's when you call up the Garlick or Cave. The difference you lose between those players and Margot is minimal.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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?
  12. nicksaviking
    Well, there, it took until page 3 but someone went and found a silver lining! Still hate the offensive roster implications.
  13. nicksaviking
    Yeah, if I had to choose between two players who've struggled to hit the ball, I'd take the one who's younger with twice the power.
  14. nicksaviking
    Closer to Seager than A-Rod I suppose. Closer yet to Pedro Florimon most likely though.
  15. nicksaviking
    Ha, the Twins have now traded their first five picks from the 2021 draft. And that's fine by me, that was the draft I thought the least of with this current front office. CES looks good and Petty might start making waves, but who drafts Big 10 pitchers anymore, let alone two in the first three rounds? Christian MacLeod better might want to get on the phone with his agent.
  16. nicksaviking
    I don't like the trade, but for the Twins purposes, yes, Margot is better than Duvall. How many 30%+ strikeout guys do you think this team can carry?
  17. nicksaviking
    Ugh, dislike. I don't care about Miller, he was never going to hit enough, but this just clogs up the 26-man roster. Now the only offensive players with options, are the ones who shouldn't be optioned. Margot and Santana have shut down the Minneapolis-St. Paul taxi service. Roster flexibility is pretty much crippled; they better pray that 2023 wasn't an outlier year for Kepler and Santana and that it was for Vazquez. I'll give them credit for getting a player without strikeout issues though. Better decision than signing Taylor or Duval from my perspective.
  18. nicksaviking
    *******************Moderator Note******************** These responses are once again getting too personal. This article is comparing the Twins situation to the Diamondback situation, which does cover new territory, yet the comments keep zeroing in on tracks that are well worn through.
  19. nicksaviking
    I wouldn't be opposed to an extension, but as it stands now he'll be nearly 33-years-old before he reaches free agency. If he accepts a deal to add an extra year of control for the Twins, he'll be about Sonny Gray's age before he gets to test the market, and Sonny Gray had to have a career year just to get a three year deal. If I were Ober, any years the team buys out, would need to be for a significant dollar amount.
  20. nicksaviking
    No, it's quite possible to agree with something, yet grow tired of it. Feels to me that endless harping is bad for the soul.
  21. nicksaviking
    If Emmanuel Rodriguez is killing it and showing he's worthy, the Twins would be foolish to chain him up in Wichita for any of these players. Keirsey and Helman aren't even on the 40-man. And after Buxton and Keirsey, Rodriguez is probably the best CF of the group. I'd add Kepler to the list, but he could be hitless through June and I doubt the Twins remove him from the lineup.
  22. nicksaviking
    He has four suitors? This sounds suspiciously like something the agent leaked. Gio Urshela and Amed Rosario just signed for a measly 1.5M. Any of these four teams could have just offered either of those two 2M. This seems more like a last ditch effort to avoid having to take a MiLB deal. Edit: And now Nick Ahmed signed a MiLB deal with the Giants. Now it really seems like this four team bidding war is most likely for similar MiLB deal. I mean it's not like either of these guys would be signed for any other reason than their gloves. And if it is for a MiLB deal, I doubt the Twins will come out on top. He'll want to go where he has the best chance to get called up, and with Lewis, Correa, Julien, Castro. Farmer and Lee ready to go, that can't be terribly attractive.
  23. nicksaviking
    Perhaps, but it wasn't a flat out "No" though according this Mariner reporter, and 'high valuation' doesn't necessarily mean it would have been an over pay. Polanco, Kepler and one of the top four prospects is probably an overpay. Polanco and Kepler? Or those two and even adding in another prospect? Plenty would still see that as an overpay, but I'd have been interested. Miller was the pitcher of theirs I wanted the least, but sounds like he was at least higher than Woo from the Twins perspective. And Miller is adding a splitter this winter, which sounds like something the Twins would have had him do too.
  24. nicksaviking
    I wanted quality over quantity though. This was from the piece that MLBTR linked: Jerry Dipoto, president of baseball operations, said early in the offseason that the Mariners weren’t inclined to trade either Miller or Woo, and industry sources said the Mariners put a high valuation on their two young starters in talks with other teams. No one came particularly close to matching the asking price. Meaning one of them could have been obtained, but the Twins didn't offer enough. So maybe the prior reports of the Mariners asking the Twins for Kepler would have gotten it done. https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/mariners/as-trade-rumors-swirled-julio-rodriguez-urged-mariners-to-keep-bryce-miller-and-bryan-woo/
  25. nicksaviking
    As someone who prefers putting your best 26 players on the active roster and stashing your emergency depth in AAA, I'm a fan of guys like Garlick.
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