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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.
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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.
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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?
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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. -
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.
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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.
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24 innings aren't remotely close enough to a sample size anyone should put any weight on.
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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.
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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.
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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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I can't believe there are still six head coaching vacancies. Makes me think most of the teams must be hoping to land either Chris Shula or Klint Kubiak who are still in the playoffs? Maybe Vance Joseph, he's had rumors as well. And train wreck franchises Arizona, Las Vegas and Cleveland have to know that they won't get anybody that Pittsburgh, Baltimore and even the clearly dysfunctional Bills (who still have Josh Allen) want right?
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I get trading Larnach. I'm all for it. But it doesn't address the problem that there are still AT MINIMUM a dozen players worse than Larnach on the roster, and the only 'utility' any of them have is they can passably field a certain position, while none of them can actually hit.
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I don't like reunions because usually they reek of fan service. This one makes sense though. And 2M seems like a bargain honestly.
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That's right. I doubt he gets the job, but the silver lining is nice.
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Ryan Fitzgerald certainly wasn't flattering about Flores' demeanor. Even aside from the collusion issue, there are some warts. It does kind of sound like he's got a Mike Zimmer reputation. Zero chance he's anywhere near as unpleasant as Zimmer though. And I'm guessing Flores is a different guy than when he was in Miami. After all, he first learned how to coach from Bill Belichick. He's since moved on and seen both KOC and Tomlin command a team and in completely different ways. Flores' best shot at a HC job has to be here in Minnesota. If KOC struggles for the next year or so but the defense shines, he'd have to be the favorite for the job.
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That would be cool, but I'd think if Flores got a HC job, he and the team would rather keep that pick regardless of his feelings towards the Vikings. So that pick compensation likely makes him a less attractive candidate. He and his agent would know that, therefore, I suspect he already knows he's already out of the running for the Ravens and Steelers jobs.
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This roster just makes no sense. What is this team supposed to be? A contending team, (which of course is the kind of team the Twins always claim to be....) doesn't roster all of Outman, Wagaman, Kreidler, Julien, Clemens, Larnach, Jackson, Gray and Pereda, they probably roster two, maybe three of those kinds of players at most, but no more than two on the 26-man. A team on the opposite side of the spectrum, a rebuilding team, should have even LESS desire for these largely aging players with little utility and no value. There is no identity or seemingly any direction for this club right now. There is no shining path forward when your plan involves using 30% of your roster for waiver wire fodder. There was so little reason for them to spend their offseason cycling through the players other teams no longer wanted. Absolutely baffling and pointless.
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No, the anger is how large the bottom of the 40 man roster is. They need to stop bothering replacing Gaspar and Brujan and Fitzgerald with clones. What is the point, is Jeremy Zoll just bored? They need to start replacing them with guys who fit at the top of the roster. They should have cut the chaff months ago, but here we are, just recycling it.
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Offensively you have Outman, Wagaman, Kreidler, Julien, Clemens, Jackson, Pereda and now Gray. I know some would toss Larnach on that list but I won't. Adams, Orze, Raya and Topa on the pitching side. I'm not dumping Adams, Orze or Raya just for the hell of it, but I also wouldn't sweat removing them if something better came along. And obviously nine better sosmthings aren't coming along.
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Five year deal. I've been wrong plenty, but I bet they regret this deal by the All-Star break.
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The Pirates aren't getting credit for one season of minimal to modest spending after thirty years of doing absolutely nothing. I'll move them up a peg if they do this for the next 5-10 years.
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Right, but when you say bottom of the 40 man roster, for most teams that's like four or five spots, for the Twins it's a dozen. And you don't improve the team by tinkering with these guys, you improve the team by removing these kinds of players for guys who can help the team.
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Yeah, that team really was cratered by the fact that they couldn't play in cold weather. Which seems like a really weird excuse. But, man, the record doesn't lie. I have to think you put that on the GM for not getting the right kind of players.
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Well at least he got one right. The Bills most definitely hit a playoff wall.
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And all of these owners need to start hiring some kind of consigliere or something. Somebody who knows people and football, but has NO hand in hiring people so his or her self interests are never at stake. Someone who knows everyone in the organization, but isn't chummy with them. A trusted advisor who doesn't have promotional opportunities or a vested interest in proving they made the right decisions would be great insulation to easily swayed owners who would otherwise have to rely on the honesty of team presidents or GMs or coaches who all are looking to either save their jobs or be promoted to more powerful jobs.
