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  1. nicksaviking
    How off am I? Ryan/Ober + Kepler + Vazquez and eat half his salary (as noted, they need catching) + mid level prospect for Luzardo? Then save Polanco + Lee + Festa for one of the Mariners young pitchers. Assuming Vazquez's remaining salary and Luzardo's arb salary are in the same ballpark, the Twins would have 35-40M left in salary to get a new backup catcher and fill in the offense in which ever way they see fit.
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    Probably defer to Pablo Lopez for that one. I'd guess he'd get a consulting phone call if the Twins decide to deal with the Marlins again. And also, I'd happily take Garrett. If neither of those two, I'd hound the Mariners. I'm with you, the other Marlins pitchers would only be consolation prizes. Presuming Perez is off limits all together.
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    Usually our trades involve Kepler/Polonco and the prospects, but if the Twins are trading for a top end pitcher, I think another consideration should be using Ryan/Ober as pieces as well. I like Ryan and Ober, but I don't want to add more pitchers in that range, I want an upgrade and would be willing to use one of those two to get one. Of course in doing so, it would lessen the burden inflected on the Marlins for losing one of their top guys.
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    I like some of the other Marlin and Mariner pitchers with more control, but three years is still better than this team normally does. I'd probably meet a non-offensive asking price for Luzardo. And I'm not easily offended.
  5. nicksaviking
    Yeah, the guy who gave up more is now in the Coach of the Year conversation. Gross.
  6. nicksaviking
    OK, a bit off topic, but Schefter is maybe the worst of the worst modern "reporter". Everyone knows he doesn't care about accuracy or him being a willing propaganda machine for whomever will feed him BS intel, but come one, could he find a more unflattering photo of Staley for this report? I mean, the guy was a bad coach, but that doesn't mean he was a bad guy. This looks like the cover of some slanderous grocery store tabloid.
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    I bet Flores gets interviews, but I don't see the Chargers going back to the defensive side of the ball for a HC after this last hire. With a stud young QB, I'd put money on them going the upstart offensive mind route. If I was Houston, I'd be sweating being able to keep Bobby Slowik longer than a single season. CJ Stroud could be doing this all on his own, but NFL GMs will always hope it's a genius coordinator pulling the strings.
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    I don't think much of the players they got; they're the kind of half-measure moves the Twins were making 5-10 years ago. They got guys to eat innings, but as discussed in another thread, eating innings and winning innings are completely different. But it's more aggressive than the Royals have been in a long time. The AL Central should still be bad, they could win enough games to look competitive even if they aren't actually a good team.
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    I also don't want to trade Julien, but the team has lots of exciting infielders and I desperately want a young top of the rotation arm. Julien wouldn't be anywhere near my top choice to use to get one, but he'd be in play for me if that's what it took.
  10. nicksaviking
    Wow, guaranteed 5 years and 135M for a 30-year-old pitcher who in the previous five years has started more than 14 games once. I'm thinking Andrew Freidman agreeing to the opt out clause in Ohtani's contract should Freidman get fired was a pretty slick move.
  11. nicksaviking
    Perusing Staley's ProFootballRef page is interesting. So looks like before he became a bigshot DC with the Rams (surely in no way due to HOFers like Aaron Donald and Jalen Ramsey), he was the LB coach for the Broncos and before that the Bears. His Bears LBs included Roquan Smith, Khalil Mack, Leonard Floyd and Danny Travathan. That mush have been a pretty tough job coaching up that group of bums. Prior to that he had one FBS job as a 30-year-old Grad Assistant at Tennesee, otherwise it was all FCS, JUCO and Div III stops, including Minnesota's most successful college program St. Thomas.
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    *********Moderator Note********** Let's stay on topic. This has nothing to do with the Twins and especially not their manager.
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    Honestly, this seems like a boneheaded move by the Dodgers. They tend to start faltering once all of their pitchers start going down, and now they're trading for and EXTENDING the most injury plagued pitcher in the league? I mean, Kershaw is still way better and less injured than Glasnow, seems like he'd have been a better choice. Good luck.
  14. nicksaviking
    https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39113246/joe-flacco-signs-1-year-deal-browns-incentives-wins Interestingly, the Browns gave Flacco an incentive laden contract signing him from their practice squad. I'm quite confident that's not normal and makes me think maybe they DID have teams trying to steal him away. Well, specifically one team, which we talk about here in this thread.
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    Milton was then traded for Nick Punto, Carlos Silva and Bobby Korecky. When Guzman left the Twins got a compensation pick which they used to draft Brian Duensing. They also traded Buchanan to get Jason Bartlett who instigated this trade. Turned out better for the Rays, but the Twins didn't do so bad themselves.
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    Only if he has something to go back for and they didn’t already burn his house down.
  17. nicksaviking
    I’m sure the QB who’s never strated before is trying to win, but overall, it looks like the chargers are trying desperately to get Staley fired.
  18. nicksaviking
    The Vikings have scored fewer points in five successive games. Can they win this game 2-0?
  19. nicksaviking
    Just for fun, I'm going to take a long shot and say it's Lewis and Miranda. I know Miranda has largely been an after thought by us, me included, but man, that strikeout rate is just so nice to look at, even last year when he struggled. If his shoulder WAS the issue, he has the chance to start hitting and make us all smack our heads with the realization that he was an obvious bounce-back player.
  20. nicksaviking
    This has gone off topic and while regardless of view, I don't believe anyone is truly trying to antagonize, it's unavoidable. As such, I'm locking the comments.
  21. nicksaviking
    Yeah, I'd like a beefier bullpen, but outside of about a dozen relievers leaguewide, I think it's always a dice roll. These guys work off of small sample sizes and need consistent and predictable usage and I don't think you get that with players who constantly change teams, managers and ballparks. Bring in a guy or two, but I think your best bullpens are when you finally make it click with the guys who you've had time to see where they fit into the puzzle. Rogers/May/Duffey. Perkins/Duensing/Pressly. Nathan/Guerrier/Crain. Guardado/Hawkins/Romero. It sucks, and it's frustrating, but I think it takes some trial and error with guys you know before you get it right. Knock on wood, but they've had a couple years with some of these guys and I'm optimistic that they'll have a core they've figured out how to deploy right out of the gates this year. Bring more help in by all means, but I'm putting most of my faith in the relievers already here.
  22. nicksaviking
    Could be, and if that's where the money has to go, I'm still game. Most of the pitchers I'd like are younger and I'd pay the premium in player equity. Both parties willing of course.
  23. nicksaviking
    This is bonkers and a bunch of propaganda. I've been to the downtown of pro sports cities Seattle, LA, LV, Phoenix, Denver, Dallas, San Antonio, Nashville, Tampa-St. Pete, Orlando, Miami, Buffalo, Cleveland, Chicago and Milwaukee and probably four dozen times in Minneapolis in the last decade, and most of those places since the pandemic, and not a single one of those cites had an unsafe atmosphere. Full disclosure, I haven't been to San Francisco in probably 20 years, but if anything, it was way more European than every other American city I've been to. I pretty much ONLY go downtown, that's where all the fun and entertainment is. I'm quite confident that people are conflating homelessness with an unsafe atmosphere and I think that speaks more to those who feel 'unsafe' than it does the city. If you can't handle AND EMPATHIZE with homeless people, there's probably not a city with more than 50,000 people you should visit.
  24. nicksaviking
    They have 15-20M and that's without removing Polanco or Kepler. They're going to sign someone.
  25. nicksaviking
    I'm not a big fan of grabbing local guys just because they're local guys as they seem to get a longer rope. There has to be a few dozen arms just like him they could speculate on without having to wait on the Dodgers to release him.
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