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  1. nicksaviking
    It appears they have interviewed eight people already and have three pending who are still in the playoffs. I think if he was a candidate there, they would interviewed him by now.
  2. nicksaviking
    A 0.8M contract for Jackson might make everyone pass. He has no options, I can't imagine any team wants to promise a 26-man roster spot to him. I mean, other than the Twins obviously, who are hopefully realizing now what a dumb idea that was.
  3. nicksaviking
    Caratini only caught 50 games last year, he doesn't look to be a starting catcher in this league. so I don't think he's a Jeffers replacement. And Alex Jackson never had any business being guaranteed a MLB roster spot, which he would have been had the team not gotten another catcher. I think this either means Jackson has an uphill battle to make the team (good) or the Twins are considering Catarini as a regular DH (bad, very very bad)
  4. nicksaviking
    Don't make me retract my original post. I get the reasoning, but I don't think you do the free agent and then the trade in that order. I mean, at least smart clubs don't telegraph such moves. So, yeah, could happen.
  5. nicksaviking
    He's not a black hole in the lineup, I'm surprised by this. I guess they were less confident in Alex Jackson than previously indicated? Fine by me. As long as they don't carry 3 catchers on the 26-man.
  6. nicksaviking
    Yeah, Killebrew really only played a season and a half fewer innings at 3B than 1B in his career. A lot of time in LF too. Even though Gaetti and Mack were favorites during my era, I think we can improve the offense pretty significantly. And regarding Mack and his short peak, I think Allison's short peak was even more impressive. He probably should have been the MVP in 1963.
  7. nicksaviking
    Maybe Moore goes higher, but to me he looks like Michael Penix with lesser passing stats. I think a Penix still has a shot at going #2 this year. But next year, besides Manning, I think people are going to give Julien Sayin Drake Maye comps, Jordan Maiava Cam Newton comps and LaNorris Sellers Jalen Hurts comps. Then watch out for Sam Leavitt getting the Josh Allen comps. And yeah, I see what I did there but that seems to be how the hype dealers try to sell it. Now I'm fully aware those are all crazy, but those other players all have more exciting and explosive physical skills and teams are going to get really turned on. Odds are some of those guys will fall on their face next year but odds are QBs we haven't even thought of will rise. I think after the dust has settled and the draft is ready to roll in 2027, Moore is going to be seen as a higher floor but low ceiling QB and in years where there are three, four or even five QBs going in the first round, those guys tend to go in the back of that group. Now playing Devil's Advocate, first round QBs who slide, quite often find themselves on better teams drafting in the second half of the draft. They don't get paid nearly as much though on that rookie contract.
  8. nicksaviking
    But I think Lamar changed the identity, I think the offense stayed the same. Baltimore ran the fewest sets in 11 personnel last year; only 30% of the time. The next closest team was Pittsburgh at 38%. They were running 13, 21 and 22 personnel constantly. They almost always were in two TE or two RB, or two TE AND two RB sets. Baltimore hasn't had a meaningful 2nd wide receiver in decades, both under Jackson and Flacco. Plenty of years they didn't even have a meaningful WR 1. So when you have all these TEs and RBs and only one or two WRs on the field, the other team is going to stuff the box. Meanwhile the Ravens had the best running QB of all time. If they had spread it out and forced the other teams to open up the box and put their smaller and worse tackling DBs out there, Jackson would have put up even more impressive running numbers. And obviously, his passing numbers would have been better too considering WR are typically better after the catch than even a good TE like Mark Andrews. I really think Harbaugh put a damper on the best years of Jackson because he wanted to play football the way Harbaugh liked to play football.
  9. nicksaviking
    Seems to me this just indicates that the expansion teams should be in LA and NY. The profits from their market share is more than they can possible even spend. I'm sure the Dodgers, Yankees and Mets will gladly share their fans. I'd include the Angels, but I've never heard of such a thing as an Angel fan. Yet, there they are, still in the top half of the league in spending despite not having a winning record in a decade.
  10. nicksaviking
    *****Moderator Note***** This article has zero relevance to anything political, please get back on topic. As to the topic of if an occupied city can host MLB games, that may be a valid discussion, but elsewhere, and there will be zero tolerance for straying outside of that very narrow lane.
  11. nicksaviking
    If Pittsburgh doesn't hire him, I'm not sure any team will. Except for one. If he comes back, the defense is still great, but McCarthy and the offense is still holding them back, I wonder if the Vikings would promote him. As much as KOC gets flack here, I'm quite confident he has a good reputation leaguewide. Even another down year and I bet the Vikings could trade him.
  12. nicksaviking
    That was pretty much the whole point of my post. It's the non-exciting starters who lost their luster who turn into relievers that have had the most success with the Twins.
  13. nicksaviking
    Even going back to Guardado and Hawkins, just about all the Twins' relief 'aces' have been guys who were failed starters or turned into a reliever just before to getting called up. But outside of Jhoan Duran, I don't think any of them were looked at as exciting bullpen arms until they actually developed into one. Jax and Sands were after thoughts. Varland had already lost his luster floundering in the rotation longer than he should have. Prior to Varland, May, Duffey and Perkins had pulled the same stunt. Rogers was only converted to relief at the last minute because the Twins had a surprisingly healthy number of veteran starters blocking him (most of whom were terrible). So I guess my point is, that while Prielipp is similar to Duran, most of the team's other top end relievers were no longer highly regarded, so I'll guess someone from the Festa, Matthews, Bradley, Morris, Adams, Raya, Ohl, Klein group is more likely to be the answer. Plenty of room for more than one answer though.
  14. nicksaviking
    Yeah, but sounds like Todd Monkin is coming with Harbaugh. That's going to limit the offensive upside. Could be a really good defense, but if you're still running a ball control offense with less than 500 pass attempts, it's probably going to have to be an elite defense to be an actual competitor. Jaxon Dart can move, but obviously not like Lamar Jackson, and they don't have Derrick Henry, they have an injury prone rookie RB who just snapped his leg in half. Their best player, Malik Nabors, is going to be severely under-utilized. And all the mock drafts giving the Giants another top WR can scrap that plan. You only need one WR in that offense. I think Harbaugh is a good coach, but I thought he should take a year off, get a good look at league trends and then start over. If he's just going to run it back with the Giants, but without the HOF QB and RB, I don't see much of a ceiling for that team.
  15. nicksaviking
    Maybe. He was tracking to be the 2nd QB taken in this draft and next year he might go 5th or even lower if things don't go well for him. Yeah, the teams that would pick him don't look like good spots, but we said that about Drake Maye too. Things can change in the NFL fast.
  16. nicksaviking
    HAD a hitting problem. Derek Shelton said in his interview that he'd have these guys playing like the 1975 Reds.
  17. nicksaviking
    I suspect keeping them separate has more to do with perception. If the Yankees are winning the AL East and the Mets are doormats in the NL East people will rip on the Mets as typical. But if they were in the same division, then the Yankees are actively making the Mets look bad. For a more compelling example, the Angels already have a bad reputation, if they had been in the same division as the Dodgers the last decade, nobody would EVER talk about the Angels anymore, and if those two teams were actually competing for the same division, you'd could be sure that the Dodgers would be stealing way more of their fans than if they weren't competing against each other. The opposite theory doesn't seem to fly by my math. While a LA/LA, Chi/Chi, NY/NY World Series would create some nice headlines, the league doesn't want that. Instead of having two markets playing for a championship, now they only have one market. They want NY and LA, not NY or LA.
  18. nicksaviking
    No, but if the team is willing to do it with three or four such starters in one year instead of over four years, you might find that two or three of them are ready to thrive in 2027. And they have way more than three or four such starters they could do this with.
  19. nicksaviking
    Yeah, this isn't a unique situation to Ryan and the Twins, this happens all across the league. It may be petty and unreasonable and mostly used as a tool to dampen the possible real paydays that will come in the following years, but Ryan and his agent know this is how the game is played by the bean counters who are trying to give the bean collectors as many beans as humanly possible.
  20. nicksaviking
    Yeah, DCs hadn't been getting as many good looks lately, and for good reason since most of them seemed to do a poor job as head coaches. But now the last three years we've seen DeMeco Ryans, Mike MacDonald and Mike Vrabel shoot their teams to be amongst the elite. So, yeah, I buy all the DC interviews now; the NFL is a trendy league I bet more than half of the new HCs come from that side of the ball. Still, while Pittsburgh has nothing going for themselves offensively and really should start from scratch, Baltimore is just going to waste the last few productive years of Lamar Jackson if they don't bring in a dynamic offensive mind to run things.
  21. nicksaviking
    If Stefanski went to Pittsburgh, I'd bet that's where Cousins ends up. He might end up there anyway I suppose. It's unlikely Pittsburgh will get a QB with their draft position.
  22. nicksaviking
    Seems the playoffs and hired/fired coaches conversation should be different than Vikings talk. Anyway, the initial commentary from Addison's attorney did have me thinking for a second that whatever he did could be overblown. Then this part made me roll my eyes: “On Jordan’s behalf, his legal team has already initiated the investigation, identified witnesses, and we are reviewing the viability of a claim for false arrest,” Younger wrote. “He looks forward to the legal process and upon full investigation, we are confident Mr. Addison will be exonerated.” Come on. if it was a legit misunderstanding or situation someone else escalated, your attorney would be talking about the county dropping charges, not suing them for false arrest.
  23. nicksaviking
    Greg Roman is now out too. https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/chargers-fire-offensive-coordinator-greg-roman Well, I guess maybe ONE of the Harbaugh brothers has decided to play modern football. TBD of course, it's possible John's doing this so he can hire Todd Monkin.
  24. nicksaviking
    I suggested earlier that Pittsburgh is Flores' best shot. And it probably still is, still, with how disappointing their offense has been since Roethlisberger retired, they might have to turn to that side of the ball.
  25. nicksaviking
    Lost in this, MLB absolutely shouldn't expand. There is already a parity divide between the jumbo markets and the rest of the league, and now we're adding two more of the smallest markets in the country? Yeah, they'll spend on payroll and celebrate their expansion team for five, maybe ten years. Then woo hoo, we have Tampa Bay part II!
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