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  1. nicksaviking
    If they get Maye, or even McCarthy, I'll probably have to reconsider my eye-rolls at this 'competitive rebuild' stuff. They probably won't be great next year, but they should be watchable, and if they get the rookie QB, they should be on the upswing, not downswing.
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    Disagree. They seemed to shift to an extremely conservative offense at the ends of games once they crossed midfield. To be clear, that was not a glowing endorsement.
  3. nicksaviking
    Vikings sign CB Shaq Griffin. Most of the free agents they've signed aren't terribly exciting, and most of them are short term, but I'll give them credit, they seemed to have filled most of their holes. Really makes it seem like just about all of this year's picks are expendable to move up as necessary for the glaringly obvious missing piece.
  4. nicksaviking
    They should have some top end pitching, even is Snell takes a step back as he tends to do, but even if they make the playoffs, I wouldn't expect much from a team who's best hitter is LaMonte Wade. I know they must be pretty excited as they did make big moves in free agency finally, but Matt Chapman is only an average hitter these days and going to SF doesn't tend to improve on that. Maybe Soler will be good again, but he tends to be really inconsistent year to year.
  5. nicksaviking
    Vick was a bad passer, not unlike Jalen Hurts, but both were/are aggressive gunslingers. Every game I watched Fields he was tentative and indecisive, as bad as Christian Ponder.
  6. nicksaviking
    Last year Vazquez pretty much always caught when the 'defensive' team was playing. And teams do account for pitching styles when they chose the catcher because just as sinkers=groundballs, sinkers=balls in the dirt as well. And if you don't think they'll pull Julien when a groundball pitcher is on the mound, see last year's decisions when the groundball heavy bullpen came into the game. Not that I think they should pull him, but they did, and regularly.
  7. nicksaviking
    Yeah, I'm not sure the reason he stuck around this long, (maybe hoping the maturity of the big league club would rub off on him finally) but him being on the MiLB deal meant there was next to no chance he was making the club.
  8. nicksaviking
    Whole heartedly agree they failed. I'm sure they tried to get an actual pitcher this year on the trade market but nope, couldn't convince anyone or wouldn't pull the trigger.* I don't think DeSclafani was anything more than a the Mariners requirement for getting the prospect though. Had the Twins gotten one of the Mariners top five starting pitchers, the Twins would have promoted it, put the guy front and center in a news conference and threw a dance party like they did with Lopez last year when they tried to assuage the fans who were bummed about losing Arraez. They didn't do any of that, instead they basically just played a dirge for Polanco. They knew DeSclafani wasn't anything more than a lotto ticket salary dump. *I don't know why, but I suddenly have a feeling the Twins end up trading a young hitter for an OK-but-not-great Angels pitcher.
  9. nicksaviking
    Another guy where we have to look at a half season of ERA and forget about everything else? Hard pass on Lorenzen, he won't help this team. Consider this is a guy with a brutally low ability to miss bats and a high groundball rate. That means that Julien, Jeffers and Kirilloff are probably sitting every one of his games for Farmer, Vazquez and Santana. Now, not only do you have a sketchy pitcher on the mound, but you have your B lineup on the field hitting as well. Huge net negative.
  10. nicksaviking
    Good stuff, and the end was very complementary of the Twins St. Paul hitters. I really like the Jair Camargo tease.
  11. nicksaviking
    Just sign Jonny Cueto or Matthew Boyd to a MiLB deal and stash them in St. Paul in case of emergency.
  12. nicksaviking
    Yup, like they say, you're only as old as you feel. But he feels about 75 at this point.
  13. nicksaviking
    Bummed about Duran, but I'll take an oblique over an elbow or shoulder, so this doesn't sound devastating. Not shocked about Thielbar. I can't wait until he's back, but this is pretty SOP for him lately. Less shocked about DeSclafani. They always could have done better anyway, so I feel bad for him, but the team might be better off for it.
  14. nicksaviking
    And relative to what the owners are making from their work.
  15. nicksaviking
    I agree that KOC probably wants a pocket passer, but I'd like someone who can operate out of the pocket though, which I still think is different than the Jackson/Hurts model. I absolutely do not want another statue back there, especially not with this interior OL. So my order would be Maye, Daniels, McCarthy, Nix ------------------> Penix. I think I like Rattler more than Penix. I understand I'm an outlier on this one.
  16. nicksaviking
    I never had interest in Snell, but I mean I get it from the players' perspective, especially pitchers. They typically don't get paid what they are worth during the initial contract. This is their last chance to cash in on what they should have already been paid. Teams are now wiser though about paying for future production instead of past production. Which is smart by the teams, but the system is pretty broken for the players.
  17. nicksaviking
    Yeah, the Twins definitely have had past issues with grabbing players who sign late and missed most or all of training camp. There seems to be a big difference between signing these guys and trading for someone who's already been warming up all spring. I most certainly wouldn't have much apatite in these players after dealing with Lance Lynn, Chris Archer, Logan Morrison and Kendrys Morales.
  18. nicksaviking
    Yeah, personally I'm not basing spring training stats on my decision on who to roster, but those two are 14th and 15th on the team in OPS. If anyone is giving the Twins ambitious thoughts based on spring training stats, it's Brian O'Keefe and Willie Joe Garry
  19. nicksaviking
    I'm more than fine with seeing Lee now or anytime this year, and he can leapfrog any other prospects as far as I'm concerned, but if AAA performance is the benchmark, he's probably sitting about 6th or 7th in line. Not sure this line of thinking holds up.
  20. nicksaviking
    Knock it off, you continue to pick at the details because you can't argue the big picture. * Bottom line, no other mid level team is winning, so the Twins need to try something else. Something that none of them are doing. **If it's impossible to compete because of the payrolls, then the Twins and the other teams in their boat need to demand a change. Like every other league was capable of doing. *This is the point, argue this one. **This is not the point, stop trying to change the argument to fit your narrative.
  21. nicksaviking
    Every other league has done it. The powerful Jerry Jones and Wellington Mera didn't want to do it, tough luck to them. And the NBA's salary situation largely changed due to two Timberwolves deals. The illegal one with Joe Smith and Kevin Garnett's record breaking contract. But this is all really just picking at the minutia. My suggestions were only examples. My argument is that the Twins shouldn't emulate any team; they should blaze their own trail as these other clubs aren't winning championships either. Find a way to win that the others have not, by strategy or by politics, I couldn't care less. I'm fed up with simply being happy getting to the playoffs because that's our lot in life as a mid-market team.
  22. nicksaviking
    How many of them have won a World Series this century? There's only one, so yeah, they aren't being competently run. The current practices of small and mid market teams ARE NOT WORKING. It is near impossible for these teams to win it all with the strategies that are being and have been used, and equally impossible for them to be consistently competitive. If the league has completely crapped it's pants and salary caps and floors are not possible, the Twins need to stop being followers and try brand new strategies. Blasphemy, I know, we like to be reactionary not revolutionary here in the Upper Midwest. Personally the practice I think they should first try, is to NEVER blow their precious budget on middle of the road free agents unless there are no internal options. Spend all your money on a handful of high quality players and then use your optionable and low cost players for the rest. Keep your 26-man roster as flexible as possible and leave yourself nearly endless possibilities through out the season. Only take the risk of paying a couple of high upside players locking up the roster, not a dozen low upside players you can only part with by burning money. If that doesn't work, try something else. If they don't like that idea, try something else, maybe off the field. Like forcing the owners of the top revenue teams, which is the minority, to 100% share revenue. Just stop doing what other teams are doing that also aren't working.
  23. nicksaviking
    Why would they give up a 3rd when he just went for a 6th? Clearly no other team thinks he is a viable starter, why would the Vikings?
  24. nicksaviking
    Why do all Minnesota teams have to be followers? Trailblazers tend to be the franchises people remember. Besides, their lack of revenue is 100% on them. They've been bungling their TV deals since they incompetently tried to create their own platform two decades ago. Dave St. Peter should have been replaced with an acute business mind long, long ago. There's no reason their revenue shouldn't be in line with their market size. And their market should be bigger. How do they let the Cubs, Cardinals and Royals basically get to claim Iowa?
  25. nicksaviking
    Fields looks like Christian Ponder, but with mobility. Slow reads and worse, extremely indecisive. Still, he had some hype, I’m surprised he could only get a sixth. Less than Howell, Pickett and basically Ridder got. Though I think Howell was a sneaky good grab by Seattle. The picks are bad, but he did nearly throw for 4000 yards on a dysfunctional team, and he can scramble.
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