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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. -
Are the Tigers Really Coming?
nicksaviking replied to Ted Schwerzler 's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
I don't buy into the Tigers. First, their pitching stinks. They had all of those high end prospects, and outside of Skubel, they all ended up being pitch to contact back of the rotation types. And not that I wish it, but that elbow strain Skubel played through tends to sound like an issue that will need to be dealt with in the future. I like Greene, he looks like he could really break out, and Carpenter was a nice late draft find (same draft as Twins late round steals Julien and Varland too, interestingly), but I'm not impressed with Torkelson. His minor league numbers are not translating to the majors, between the prospect pedigree, position and strikeouts, he looks exactly like Miguel Sano. -
Not that many. And if they were to trade for a controllable pitcher now, they shouldn't have to next year.
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Why would they need to find 3-5 rookies every year? Do you expect the rookies to all be one and done? Without any rookies, the Twins current starting lineup is better than what 98% of the free agents could have provided. Who are you replacing? Kirilloff maybe? Kepler, Wallner? There were only a handful of upgrade options anyway. If you're thinking about the rotation, you're in the wrong conversation, because that has always been, and likely will only ever be, meaningfully upgraded via trade.
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I do like his name, but it lends itself better to a power hitting 1B. Calling himself Bubba almost feels like false advertising.
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Astros open to adding lefty hitting outfielder
nicksaviking replied to Cory Engelhardt's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
The Twins don't want (and shouldn't be looking for) prospects in return. I don't see what impactful MLB players Houston would be offering up. Mabey Bryan Abreu? Would Houston even be interested in weakening their bullpen? Seems they'd more likely try to find a team that would want prospects. -
Sorry, but I'm ONLY rostering Castro because he can play every position. If he was a sub .700 career OPS guy that had a .750 OPS outlier season who ONLY played in the infield or ONLY played in the outfield, I'd have no interest; I'd be looking to sell high on him ASAP. His value lies in being both the 4th OF and the 5th IF, thus freeing up another roster spot. Thompson can only play the OF, and possibly not even CF. I mean the Twins don't have a roster crunch at this time so this is more of an eye-roll situation instead of a pitchfork situation, but Thompson should never make the 26-man roster unless he's a completely different player in St. Paul than he has in every other stop of his career. Not as a defensive replacement, not as a base running specialist. No spot; they can always do better.
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I've seen that one before, and I don't like it either. Down by one, Julien on 1st with one out in the 8th and he's pinch run for by Thompson, which is silly because in 95% of all outcomes, both Julien and Thompson would be standing on the same base no matter what transpires next. Then they need Julien's bat in the 10th and the options are Thompson or Christian Vazquez.
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The team always likes to think they'd be an asset off the bench, but whether it's Billy Hamilton, Darin Mastroiani or Jarvis Brown, it always turns out they weren't.
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Once the Twins settled on their offseason 40 man (35-man at the time), I said I still saw four guys that I thought could still be removed if push came to shove. So far, three players they have added since, Thompson, Jensen and Staumont, and all would rate well below those players.
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That is pretty nice, if I lived in one of those metros, that would definitely be a perk I'd consider paying extra rent for. I'm not sure who's been downtown Minneapolis in the last year or so, but a new high rise was built across 5th street overlooking TF. First building that could really get a good look at the field. That rendering of the hypothetical new New Comiskey showed a bunch of those too. Meanwhile, Wrigley went and first intentionally blocked the views for the iconic rooftop bleachers on Waveland and Sheffield, then decided they should just instead own them and profit from those tickets as well. Oh those lovable Cubs.
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Aw, brings me back to the Metrodome days of the late 1990s when there were only a couple dozen fans in the left field sections, all of us running after a ball that bounced off of a seat that wasn't within 20 yards of the closest paying customer. Some of those balls took some crazy carroms as they didn't have any soft fleshy humans to slow their velocity!
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Trade deadline lotto ticket too. And if they have no one on base, pitchers are less likely to worry about grooving pitches to him; he could put up some hallow power numbers to intrigue some contender.
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Royce Lewis would have to take a complete nosedive the next three years like Kyle Lewis did. Closer comp is probably Nick Gordon.
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I mean, DC is a good market, they should be spending money. They probably slapped 5M on the table and told the remaining free agents, "Come and get it." Gallo's faster than he looks.
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This free agent crop has been so terrible, that it took until January 24th for me to be disappointed in the Twins not getting a free agent.
