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He struck out 31% of his plate appearances last year. He's not going to work with Wallner, Julien and Buxton already in the lineup. -
Where did you see that? Zero chance they think DeScalfani is anything more than he actually is, which is a DFA candidate.
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Polanco is an oft injured aging 2B with declining defense, I don't think he ever had the value to other teams that he did to a fan base that has falling in love with him for the last decade. It was always going to take top prospects to get a top end starter.
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I have zero interest in the team saving money, but I don't want them to spend money just to spend money. If they can't trade for another front line controllable starter, just stand pat. Don't add players just to appease the fans.
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Well then I can think of 70M additional reasons why he wouldn't. And whatever number you can cook up, his agent will cook up one even higher. They players union would probably lynch him if he considered such a foolish move too. Find one example of an elite pitcher ever getting traded in his walk year and signing an extension during the season.
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Why would Burnes accept any kind of extension midway through his walk year when he could test free agency three months later?
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There is nothing left in free agency that I want. Again, I'm not upset about this trade, it was the perfect sell high moment for Polanco, but the only thing helpful for 2024 is a 33-year-old reliever with injury concerns. If that's the best they could do, fine. I didn't want prospects, but it's not like I'd refuse them if that was the best offer.
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I have no interest in Burnes. They need to get controllable pitchers, I don't want to do this dance EVREY year. Bieber and Cease are a bit better with two years left, but I'm not terribly interested in them either. Bieber's plummeting K% is alarming, I think the clock is about to strike midnight on him. For Cease, you'd have to pay for his 2022 season and his other seasons have only been average, and the Twins would probably have to trade twice the haul to get him than any other team in the league.
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I certainly hope they pivot to Miami. I'm guessing after trading them a 2B last year, they probably didn't have the same level of interest in Polanco. Maybe that's the Kepler stop. And I'm in the same boat, I'm all for including Festa in a deal. I'd actually move Lee first if needed and Rodriguez last, but both are on the table for me.
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I'm not bummed about moving Polanco, one more injury and he's got NO value. I am bummed about not being able to get one of Seattle's young pitchers, though if Seattle was refusing to move them, there's not much to do about it. As far as the money saved goes though, the last of the three free agents I wanted, Justin Turner, just signed. So at this point I couldn't care less what payroll is. I'd rather go with the roster we have than hand out dumb contracts to what's left on the market.
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The Seattle reporter made it pretty clear they were dead-set on keeping their young pitching and the Twins weren't getting any of them. And considering this deal pretty much goes against Levine's comments just days ago about how the team wasn't looking to deal for prospects, and now he's got a whole pile of crow to eat, I'm guessing that until last night, the Twins were dead-set on getting that young pitching.
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I don't like the idea of DeSclafani being handed a starting gig, so I'm presuming that's not automatic. But to be fair, he had a couple year spike in terms of velocity a few seasons back, but last year it was in line with most seasons, so it doesn't look like he's washed up. Or at least, if he's washed up now, he always was. Looks like his slider is still a good pitch. With his recent injury history, maybe DeSclafani is the one who auditions for a bullpen spot, not Varland. I'll be really disappointed if the Twins don't still address the top of the rotation.
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This seems to mesh with when a few days ago Baldelli said he absolutely expects the Twins to make a big move. I don't want or expect Burns, but I do want and expect someone with high upside who's controllable beyond this year.
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If they go into next year's postseason without another top of the rotation arm, I'm going to be pretty disappointed. There are a couple of guys I wouldn't trade, but I'm more than confident the Twins can make a deal with some combination out of all the others. And I never once regretted the Lopez for Arraez trade. Not even when Arraez was hot early in the year and Lopez was merely average.
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All the best coaches do that though. Shula, Walsh, Buddy Ryan, Belichick. Everyone else tries to do what everyone else is already doing. Innovation and change is the best way to get ahead in this league.
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Their defense stinks too. Has most of the year.
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Man, I figured the 49ers would come back, but I was expecting a last second win, not a near game ender with 3 minutes left.
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Neither of these teams look anywhere near as good as last years Eagles team, KC is probably drooling. That probably means the NFC team will end up winning as 7 point underdogs in the championship.
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Keeping Cousins and losing Hunter, where does that put the team?!? They’d be about 11 players short of a top end defense, and how is the offense any better than when they were 4-4 when Cousins went down this year? At best that’s another average at best team. Why is anyone satisfied with that? Star. Over. I’m so sick of the Minnesota, ‘We’re just happy to be here’ mentality. It’s not a coincidence that our market has the longest championship drought in all of pro sports.
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Right, the closer Nix, Pennix and McCarthy can get to the top guys, the more likely one of the top guys will fall, as teams ahead of the Vikings may be satisfied to wait on the position and take from the next group, or even trade back.
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I’m guessing it won’t work out. With three months to go, those three QBs are going to start sounding stale though. Maybe we will get lucky and the hype on one wanes after excessive analysis brings up red flags. I’ve also been thinking lately if Chicago has the appetite to break in another young QB. What if they go hard after Cousins? Trade Fields for picks, trade down one or two spots and take Harrison. I wouldn’t do that as a fan of a team that is usually somewhere from average to pretty dang good. But for a franchise that is almost always a loser, a better than likely playoff spot might look pretty good.
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Yeah, on the same page, I just disagreed in that I think ownership will finally give up the ghost and acknowledge it’s time to try something new. Im not confident about that, but I think they will.
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I disagree. This can was kicked down the road about three years longer than anyone figured it would be, but it's done. 100% done and I think ownership knows that. This team wasn't playing good even before Cousins got hurt. They can keep trying to kick the can, but it's going to be bouncing off of a brick wall now. Either next year or the year after, they're going to start winning 3-6 games one way or another, they might as well do it while they are building for the future instead of trying to patch up the past. And besides, young guys who have something to prove tend to play better than vets who are discouraged by the trajectory of their team's success. I think they'll have a better record in 2025 if they start now instead of continuing with this charade for another year.
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I'm not calling for his head, but this team had nothing going for it even if Kirk didn't get hurt. They wouldn't still be playing right now. I haven't seen one move the current GM has made to suggest the goal is to be the best team in the league. Nothing with a look to the future and long term success. They only address the most fungible roster spots in the draft because those are the team's current weaknesses, they aren't drafting players at positions that you build for long term. Trading for Hockenson was the only aggressive move this team has made, and that was for THE most luxury position in the league. You only do that if you think you are one piece away, and they were FAR from one piece away. Every move seems to be made with the goal of keeping the status quo and putting fans in the seats. And that's likely not an Adofo-Mensah problem, it's likely an ownership problem. Or actually, a Minnesota sports problem. But I'm tired of it. I don't want to keep this awful cycle of being happy wining 10-11 games every two or three years. I want to take a step back and then win 11+ games every year and a legit shot at being the best team in the league. Saying that, I think the adults in the room understand where the Vikings truly are at right now, and I think they will actually try to build this team the right way. I'm expecting a much better draft this year.
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Still waiting. The Twins traded for Kenta Maeda on February 10th, Jake Odorizzi on February 17th, Sonny Gray on March 13th and Chris Paddock not until April 7th. Any rotation trade in the next two weeks would be a record for this front office. Anything after would be standard operating procedure.
