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  1. nicksaviking
    Rhys Hoskins has an OPS over .900 vs left handed pitching. Justin Turner has crushed them too since he's been the Justin Turner we know. And they have been two extremely reliable all around hitters the last half decade. They would have been no brainers and very affordable if the Twins wanted another first baseman. And if they really wanted to be cheap, Severino, Camargo, Isola and Prato destroyed lefties last year. Like .900-1.000+ OPS's. Why go to another rebound vet when we see this fail every single year? This was only done for the optics, and if he hits like he did 2020-2022 it's going to hurt the team because they get too stubborn trying to prove their free agent signings were legit. Which this one is absolutely not. This is a dog and pony show and it's going to cost them in the win/loss column. Suck it up, don't sign any of these bums and face the music like an adult. Don't pretend you're trying to improve the lineup now, that ship has sailed.
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    Good lord no! Their moves are like drunk uncle at the wedding dance. Stop with the moves, my eyes can’t take it!
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    He was terrible the prior three years. Every year the Twins youth prove to be the better options, so the question is, will they be willing to cut bait with Santana should the expected happen? Or will they keep playing him until August like they did with Gallo? What if Miranda looks like his 2022 self in spring training? You really think they’ll roster him over this new prize free agent?
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    Aw shucks, and to think about how if they'd only known about the awesome broadcasting deal a few days earlier they could have had Justin Turner or Rhys Hoskins instead. Rotten luck in no way predictable by the organization. Better luck next year. Though I'm sure the team won't have any hesitation to pull the plug on him in May should Miranda, Lee, Sevarino or Camargo prove to be a better option.
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    Yeah, keep at it and little by little they'll end up with David Bednar.
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    Yeah, sweet gig if you have the connnections:
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    No, but I'm not holding tight to Lee for guys who have more years of control. If I can get Luzardo or Garrett, I'm good with Lee and other pieces playing in Miami.
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    All part of my plan to be be promoted from Twins Daily Moderator to Minnesota Twins General Manager.
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    I'm not interested in either, but Jensen's walk issues made him pretty much unusable. Maybe if the Twins tell Durate (really feels like there should be an 'N' before that T!!!) to knock off throwing the sinker, his K% will increase to acceptable levels. I mean it's a long shot, but from my view, Jensen and his free passes were a no shot. So, swapping out last weeks Powerball ticket which already lost to this weeks Powerball ticket seems like somewhat of an upgrade.
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    Yeah, I don't like the looks of this one, but while his strikeouts are far worse than Jenson's, his walks are far better. And of the two of those categories, I'd believe in the Twins ability to improve the strikeouts more so than the walks. I have no faith in the Twins, or any club actually, to decrease the walks to a usable figure. That seems to be a losing battle just about every time. Improving the strikeouts could just be a matter of telling him to stop throwing a useless sinker. Decreasing the walks tends to be a matter of telling him to stop being such a terrible pitcher.
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    I'm not sure what you are arguing, that Rob Manfred was trying to get a larger pool of teams for a MLBtv package in the future, but these clubs are choosing bigger money up front from Bally/Amazon? Either way I don't think the Twins did their due diligence. They followed the pack like the non-baseball operations side always does. They follow the leader and end up at the back of the pack because they do what the prior team did in that situation instead of demanding more than the prior team did. I really think they need to find a more innovative mind than Dave St. Peter. There's no chance he's one of the best 30 minds for this job, he's just the local guy who has been here for decades.
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    And the people who dumped cable grew up with local baseball included in their TV package/antennae. Asking us to pay $20-40-60 a month for it now is only going to reduce the viewing base. If they can’t figure out a way to NFL-ize their product, it’s doomed.
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    I’m not angry, only because I literally only had interest in three free agents. But I sure as hell won’t give them a pass. Even if they were like me and thought the internal options and trading for pitching was the best path to building the best roster, they should have said so instead of avoiding disclosing that controversial take and letting the broadcasting rights situation be the villain.
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    Ha, I read this the other day and had a bit of whiplash. The whole article really sounded luke warm at best regarding the Twins return on the Polanco trade. Then all of a sudden the summary gives a glowing grade. The math just didn't seem to work.
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    I prefer they don't. Not only do I dislike pretty much every free agent left, but I'd rather the Twins not be able to try to save face by pretending that they actually went out and attempted to do right by the roster in free agency. Like going to the grocery store, forgetting your wallet and digging out all the coins from the ashtray and down in the seat cushions. 'No, see, I got it, it's the same amount! I just had to put back the milk, bread and Hamburger Helper. I still got the Doritos and Mountain Dew and that's REALLY what I needed.' I mean, they knew they'd have some money to spend, even if they didn't know how much. It's not like they couldn't have signed one of the better players who didn't break anyone's bank.
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    None of which that can be found on the free agent market as far as I'm concerned. Guess they might as well start handing out some questionable extensions to the whipper snappers. Lucky for them, this and the Polanco trade wrapped up just as the Winter Caravan ended. Sooooo many missed opportunities for awkward questions. I'd love to have heard Bob from Bemidji ask Glen Perkins why the Twins traded his favorite player to cut salary, then got a big new media deal that won't let him watch the games.
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    Flea?
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    *************Moderator Note************** Stay on topic. This thread is about outfield help and Donovan Solano. Pet topics need to be dwelled on in more appropriate threads. And not dwelled on continuously.
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    Ha, I swear this came out AFTER I made the above joke: https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/jim-harbaugh-predicts-j-j-mccarthy-will-be-the-no-1-quarterback-off-the-board
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    I'd trade Lee way before I traded Julien or Jeffers. The Twins would have no legit starting catcher, and the offense, which was already a struggle last year until they brought up the young guys, would be worse off. They can't afford that, it's why every year either the bats go cold early and they have to dig themselves out of a hole, or their bats go cold late and they fall off of a cliff. I think they can get the pitching they need and keep the offense at worst status quo by using prospects and/or the younger starters. Getting a #2 starter should be the top priority, but not diminishing the offense needs to be the second.
  21. nicksaviking
    I've struggled to get excited over Soto just because HS pitcher = crapshoot in my mind. But I mean I shouldn't. The best pitcher the Twins have developed in the last twenty years was a HS kid drafted two picks ahead of him 11 years prior. The only other HS pitchers they drafted in between in similar spots were Landon Leach and Chase Petty. Leach didn't pan out but Petty was good enough to get Sonny Gray and reached AA as a 20-year-old. Maybe you throw Enlow in that mix, even though he was drafted a round after Leech, he was given the bigger bonus. Still, it's a better hit rate than you'd expect.
  22. nicksaviking
    Ha, is it a post from username JHarbaugh@wolvernines4life?
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    I'm certainly not saying my way is right. I've always been Twitter averse anyway. Probably unreasonably so.
  24. nicksaviking
    I disagree with this part. If there's one thing the Twins do well, it's finding talent from the periphery prospects. An Arraez, Jeffers, Miranda, Steer or Julien seem to pop up out of the blue just about every year. At this point, I don't think anyone should be surprised if Severino, Camargo or Prato end up leaving Martin or Lee in the dust. Don't kill me Martin and Lee fans, they'll probably still be good too. As so, I'm more than comfortable trading the offensive prospects.
  25. nicksaviking
    What reports where those? Reading stuff from ESPN, sounded like Nix looked good. Reading stuff from NFL.com sounds like Penix looked good. For me, this time of year I'm going to relay on the big boy media outlets (though not the toady Adam Schefter), as little as I like to. Anything from 'sources' on Twitter or whatnot I'm going to presume is propaganda from teams or agents trying to sway opinion one way or another.
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