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  1. nicksaviking
    33M and 35M should make no difference. The number of guaranteed years seems to be the Vikings sticking point, but they better be over that phobia already. One guaranteed season is obviously a hard stop for Jefferson. One of the best non-QBs in the game shouldn't have to give up what every other team would willingly give him.
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    That would be just fine by me.
  3. nicksaviking
    "The results, or lack thereof, speak for themselves, but it’s the process that seems broken. While it’s assumed that the club is constructed solely to be boppers that launch home runs and celebrate strikeouts, that’s not entirely true. Michael A. Taylor and Joey Gallo were jettisoned with the idea that Manuel Margot and Carlos Santana could even out the team's mix of skills and increase its collective contact rate. " It's wholly possible this system may have worked, but they replaced two poor hitters with a huge flaw, with two poor hitters with different flaws. Margot and Santana should be the last guy off the bench on a contending team, not taking up regular plate appearances. Subbing out the high strikeout players with low strikeout players who can actually still play baseball, like Lourdes Gurriel and Justin Turner, might have worked. But we'll never know because they reversed course on trying to acquire quality players last offseason.
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    The Lions gave Amon Ra St Brown his big contract. 120M over 4 years with 77M guaranteed. In pretend money that's 30M per year, but that 77M guaranteed is more than two full years of actual money. Hopefully this dominos into the Vikings extending Jefferson, but perhaps one party is waiting for the Cowboys and Lamb to do a deal. I hope not because I think the Cowboys are on the brink of lunacy. I don't expect them to make the right decisions with their veteran players in the near future.
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    Even if Kepler returned to his 2021-22 self, the Twins would probably have to eat most of his salary to even get a no-name prospect back. And he's a long ways away from his previously low point of 21-22.
  6. nicksaviking
    I've liked the Twins pitching trades, even the ones that didn't work out. However, I was saying this all winter: The offseason trades the Twins made for pitching have been overall good, the midseason trades have been poor. And I believe there is good reason for this. At midseason, the team buying the prospects have all that more information on them. The team selling the prospects should have the advantage the further away they are from the majors, as they should have a better handle on these players than the team they are dealing them to.
  7. nicksaviking
    Very few people believed in 28-year-old Cody Bellinger's bounce back season; nobody should have believed in 38-year-old Carlos Santana's bounce back season. I can't find a player who was bad for three seasons in their mid 30s and suddenly reestablished their glory for more than one season in their late 30s. One season? Yeah, happens from time to time, two seasons? Quite possibly never in the history of the game.
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    First, yes, second, if those are the only two choices, someone isn't doing their job. Santana shouldn't have been an option if there were zero first basemen left on the free agent market. Honestly, I'm not sweating this season as the team was never going to amount to a contender, so I'm at the point of hoping Joe Pohald reaps what he sows. If you don't eat your meat, how can you have any pudding. You won't give me a championship caliber team? I hope you pay for it in attendance and viewership. Learn your lesson and do better next year.
  9. nicksaviking
    Ah yes, once again trying to hide my tears with a terrible joke.
  10. nicksaviking
    Possibly he already knew, but if he didn't, I wonder if Falvey would have thought otherwise had he understood the new sheriff in town was going to try to turn the team into the Pittsburg Pirates.
  11. nicksaviking
    If the front office knew ownership was going to choke the life out of the payroll, I doubt they sign Correa last year. On that same line of thought, weren't Falvey and/or Levine being considered for Red Sox jobs early in the off season but they withdrew their names? Or at least Falvey did? Then Joe Pohlad dropped the bomb about a month later.
  12. nicksaviking
    Povich has been awful prior to his four outings this season. Steer is the only one of those players the Twins will miss long term. And the irony of that trade was, had the Twins tried to get a Reds starter prior to the season (instead of signing Archer and Bundy), the price to get Mahle, heck, maybe even Castillo, would have been Miranda. Steer would probably still be a Twin as he didn't break out until the Twins were done dragging their feet and admitted they were desperate for pitching.
  13. nicksaviking
    I really don't care about 'starter depth' because if you have to stick a bunch of washed up vets or non-prospects into your rotation, you're not playing for a championship anyway. This was never about missing out on Maeda and Keuchel replacements, it was about not replacing Sonny Gray. Everything after that was basically just deciding how long they could tread water before they inevitably drowned.
  14. nicksaviking
    Good. Seems like another reason to keep him out of the lineup.
  15. nicksaviking
    Margot was an exponentially better fit than Taylor. Of all of the bungled offseason moves, this one at least showed that they knew the strikeout problem was a problem. Taylor struck out at 33% of his PAs last year and 38% so far this year. He's not a good player. They still got it wrong though, because the answer to 'Who should we get, Taylor or Margot' was always, and obviously, C) None of the Above.
  16. nicksaviking
    Ok, others need to start making these player pages, this coincidence is too eerie for me:
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    Or just drunker.
  18. nicksaviking
    The gaping hole in the offense is why this team keep losing.
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    I still believe in Julien, but he's still leading off? Come on Rocco, have to move him down even if it's just to take some pressure off of him. At least they moved Buxton down in the order. A tiny bit. And they just had a day off. Santana AND Farmer instead of Miranda? Is he injured? Makes no sense.
  20. nicksaviking
    Seems like the obliques are the issue for our pitchers these days. Forget about this dude, I want to see a pitcher who throws with both hands at the same time. Think of the force you'd get behind such a pitch.
  21. nicksaviking
    PFT is now also swimming in reports about how involved Josh Harris is getting with Washington's pick. Snyder may be gone, but looks like ownership meddling isn't changing. That likely doesn't help the Vikings in getting the QB they want, but I'm all for the Commanders drowning in dysfunction for another couple of decades.
  22. nicksaviking
    I honestly don't think it's that weird. This is the exact reliever profile the Twins have found success with for decades. Not just Jax, but Duffey, May, Rogers, Perkins, Duensing, Guardado, Hawkins. The minor league starters who were just not quite good enough to cut it in the rotation at the majors have long been this team's bullpen success stories. I had my money on Winder pulling off the trick, but I had reasonable hopes that either he or Sands would prove to be useful.
  23. nicksaviking
    It's not the personnel, it's all the strikeouts and stranding runners in scoring position. Even the guys who don't strike out too much are still striking out at career highs. They were bad for four months last year, were good for two months last year and now are bad the first month this year. If there's an outlier, it's the two good months. And those last two months had nothing to do with Popkins and everything to do with finally swapping out Gallo, Vazquez and Farmer for Wallner, Jeffers and Julien full time. But even while they played better in those two months, they were STILL striking out and stranding runners at an unacceptable pace. I'm not blaming Popkins, but only because I'm not sure who's idea it has been to get into so many 0-2 counts. It could be Baldelli, it could be Falvey, maybe TC the Bear. Whoever it is needs to reverse course and say, 'this isn't working' and go back to trying to hit like normal teams, even if it means taking fewer pitches.
  24. nicksaviking
    Agree about getting a QB being more important. Not to pile on, and surely they won't feel this way, but I think the Patriots are going to have lots of chances to pick a franchise QB in the next decade. I'm pegging them as a team to be picking in the top ten a lot going forward, with or without a good young QB. This franchise looks to be in good shape to be a dysfunctional mess for the foreseeable future.
  25. nicksaviking
    Yes, mistake on my part.
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