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  1. nicksaviking
    I also think Anthony Prato is more likely to get picked. He plays just about every position and has nearly put up a .400 OBP the last two years combined. I could see the Twins losing both, but I don't know that Keirsey's CF position will be an overriding factor in the decision. Rule V picks are typically the last player on the choosing team's bench and I'd suspect that most teams wouldn't be willing to hand their back up CF job to such a player. A jack-of-all trades kind of player seems more likely for the spot.
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    By “fans” you mean fan, as in yourself. You realize you’ve basically been arguing against the board this whole thread right?
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    Probably knock the Jags out of contention for the #1 seed, but even with a high ankle sprain, he'll probably be back for the playoffs. Even if much less mobile.
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    I agree that this one wouldn't make much sense unless the Twins traded Lewis or Julien. And honestly, if the Rays are willing to trade a 25-year-old who put up a .840 OPS in his second full season, my alarm bells are going off. Yeah, the Rays are cheap, but this is his first year of arbitration, Paredes won't break the bank for any team until year three of arbitration at the earliest and most optimistic. Twins need their best trade assets for a starting pitcher anyway.
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    I would pass on O'Niell. He's too inconsistent and I think the Twins need to prioritize stability with offensive additions.
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    In a vacuum, I don’t really care about adding a back end starter. However, if they do so, it would open up the possibility of using Ryan or Ober as part of a package to upgrade to a front of the rotation starter. To be clear, I wouldn’t look to move either, but if that gives the team a chance to use one of those two in lieu of Lee, I like having that option.
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    I'm sure the mystery team signing Eric Fedde is NOT the Twins, but with how this organization is able to play their cards closer to the vest than about every other team, Mystery Team = Twins, is always at the back of my mind.
  8. nicksaviking
    A team with a non-HOF caliber QB wins the Super Bowl about every five years or so. We could be due for a San Fran or Detroit victory, but even as an underdog, I'd probably still bet on a Mahomes, Jackson, Hurts led team. Or I suppose Purdy might end up being one of those guys eventually.
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    I like the idea of JJ McCarthy, but I keep reading about speculation that the Vikings are interested due to Adofo-Mensah's connection to Jim Harbaugh. If Kwese drafts a QB due in any part to his relationship with the QBs college head coach, he shouldn't be GM. Hearing similar reports is going to turn me off of McCarthy. Another thought to go along with that one: If Harbaugh is done at Michigan and returns to the NFL, will the team that signs him be the presumptive landing spot for McCarthy? Urban Meyer wisely (the only thing he wisely did) drafted Trevor Lawrence over Justin Fields, but it seemed there was consideration otherwise for quite some time.
  10. nicksaviking
    I don't like it. O'Neill got destroyed by Montez Sweat, which was probably a big reason why Dobbs didn't roll out to his right. Now he's going up against Maxx Crosby, who's even better than Sweat.
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    If anything, the timing of this is a bit encouraging. Usually the propaganda comes out a couple weeks before spring training. I mean, they'd look a bit insincere if they were to comment positively on the situation and then go sign or trade for a CF during the Winter Meetings. That makes me think they'll wait and see how this plays out, which would indicate they at least think there's a reasonable chance it could play out positively.
  12. nicksaviking
    I don't think Rogers is worth Julien alone. His injury history is troubling and he wasn't good in 2022. I'd take a flyer on him, but I wouldn't give up too much of value. As for Cabrera, I'd guess the Twins have next to no interest in him. His stuff is awesome, but his command is awful. The Twins no longer deal with starters who allow free baserunners. They'd have to change their whole pitching philosophy to fit him into the rotation. If the Twins dealt with Miami, I'd guess it would only be for Garrett or Luzardo. Who would have very high price tags.
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    I have no idea where Miranda's future will take him, but should he regain his form, his 18% K rate would be a bigger asset to this team than any free agent they could sign. That was the team's most troubling aspect, and a guy who puts the ball in play and puts up an .800 OPS would be huge. At DH, 1B or 3B, that would be a gigantic boost.
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    https://sodomojo.com/posts/mlb-insider-fans-flames-of-yamamoto-to-mariners-talk-01hgbcpb7p7a They've also been linked to Yamamoto. The Mariners have done a fantastic job with their rotation, and while it runs counter to most MLB ideologies, they could feel that the best way for them moving forward is to industrialize their pitchers and move them out for hitting which they've struggled to develop outside of Rodriguez. And since their available pitchers are so talented, they could leverage it into deals that helps them now and in the future. I mean a Polanco + E-Rod + more deal would have to sound pretty enticing. I'd go as high as Lee as far as prospects go, but the Mariners sound like they'd be receptive to deal one of their starters, maybe more depending on how free agency goes for them.
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    Last year the “depth” was comforting, but I think it ultimately cost them games. Gallo, Farmer and Vázquez kept Wallner, Julien and Jeffers off of the field early in the year. Had the young guys gotten 10, 20 or 30 more starts, how many more games would have this team won?
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    OK, this one's a bit late, but just by happenstance I noticed that Michael Tonkin threw more innings out of the Atlanta pen than any other reliever. Heck, he was actually 4th on the team in innings, starters included. He wasn't particularly exceptional, but must have been good enough to keep giving him the ball. Hadn't pitched in the majors since 2017 and he averaged nearly 2 innings per outing despite him not starting a single game at any level or any league since 2011. Just a weird one that I thought I'd share.
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    I think we as fans expected to build a 'pitching pipeline' but with hindsight, I don't believe that was the plan at all. Cleveland, with Falvey there, traded for just about all of their starters when they were still controllable. Which is pretty much exactly what the Twins have done since. I wouldn't have previously agreed with that tactic, but it has merit. Pitchers, particularly young ones, are the least predictable players to judge. Trading for them when they are ready or near ready for MLB action is a much safer bet to produce. As such, I'd do that again this year.
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    He wasn't going to do another extension, he did that when traded to the Reds. The first thing he mentioned in his interview with Do Hyoung Park was that he was dead set at getting to free agency for the fist time. https://www.mlb.com/news/sonny-gray-on-possible-future-with-twins-before-hitting-free-agency “But going into Spring Training this year, [my family] wanted to become a free agent. We wanted to experience that. We wanted to see what it's like. I know how good I am. We want to bet on ourselves, essentially, and I know that I have a whole lot left to give to the baseball world.”
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    There's only three free agent hitters I have any interest in, and I want them to trade for a young starter instead of signing an old one. So the payroll in my scenario was going to be low anyway, I'll take the free broadcasts. And re-evaluate next year.
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    Just for fun, let's speculate the Twins will lose subscriber TV revenue because they plan on broadcasting the games to all fans over a free platform. What would everyone want then, Twins broadcasts at no charge, or 25M more in payroll?
  21. nicksaviking
    I just don't see him as a fit. As you noted, he's a high groundball starter which is anti-Twins these days. The relievers throw sinkers and the Twins tend to make defensive replacements to accommodate. The Twins starters get tons of strikeouts and groundballs.
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    That bar is still significantly lower than I want this team to jump over. Unless they only care about winning a terrible division, they need to trade for a Sonny Gray replacement. I get that you may not get Cy Young runner up results, but they need two pitchers they can feel confident in to start games 1 and 2 of the post season series. That's not Ryan, Ober, Paddock, Varland, Montas, Wiley, Shoemaker, Bundy, Maeda or any of these other nice mid-to-back end pieces.
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    Montas was only ever good when he pitched in the Oakland Colosseum. The Yankees were absolute fools for not bothering to check even the most easily accessible road stats on this guy.
  24. nicksaviking
    If the Twins go for Miley or Montas it will show they learned nothing from the Archer/Bundy/Happ/Shoemaker days.
  25. nicksaviking
    Unless he improves, which I don't think can be assumed, Keller would still be closer to the Ryan/Ober/Paddock group. That's not good enough.
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