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Yuck and even more yuck. The rotation has not been bolstered and the offensive free agents remaining have no business taking a spot away from the more talented young players the Twins already have at their disposal. -
I'm not sure, but I hope it goes toward the O-Line. Top free agent linemen are perhaps the most reliable producers, and drafted linemen seem to be amongst the least reliable (at least as far as this franchise goes the last two decades). Then spend it on a corner back. CBs are the RBs of the defense, stop wasting high picks there. Most aren't worth offering a second contract to, so offer one to a guy who has already shown he is servicable.
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I think we're looking at this with fan-colored glasses a bit too much. Had this been a player we hadn't known for a decade, say the Twins were (and were able) to trade Jonathan Schoop after the 2019 season, and this was the return they got, we'd be far more indifferent.
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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.
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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.
