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  1. nicksaviking
    I'm wondering if the Chargers and Commanders are in the same boat. The HC was bound to get fired but the team hired an OC that would replace him the following season.
  2. nicksaviking
    Probably inevitable now. Seems like players rarely return from a concussion the following week anymore.
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    Yeah, I thought punting it out of bounds was a given. Why give a chance for a return? Made no sense. Also, teams like to draft kickers, but I think a top tier punter is way more valuable. I watch some teams and they seem to always drop it inside the ten with no return all the time..
  4. nicksaviking
    Also, who are they going to bring in at RB? Myles Gaskin coming back? Boring. I'd almost rather see 50-year-old Adrian Peterson just for the entertainment of it all. Five carries for four yards would still be a fun story to tell.
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    Crazy season. This team is at six wins with the Broncos, Bears, Raiders, Bengals, Lions, Packers and Lions left. Any one of those games they could lose I suppose, but at the same time, it looks next to impossible not to get to at least nine wins, and nobody outside of the Lions look terribly lopsided at the moment. And all this with the team missing it's first three QBs, best RB and opening day RB now out, and the both of the opening day staring WRs out.
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    I assume this was the 4 and inches early in the 3rd quarter? Yeah, keep the pedal to the metal. KOC has been way better lately, but he still isn't going for the killshots. Run up the score, not because you're bragging, but because this stuff happens regularly in the NFL when the other team has actual capable QBs.
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    I wanted to play the game before digging for research, and I right away thought it was Ward. Also, the jersey number is clearly a red herring, no Twin wore #50 in the regular season between between 1980 and 1989 and no Twins hitter EVER wore #50 until Matt Lawton in 1995. https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/MIN/uniform-numbers.shtml It's not power blue, so that's a home uniform and that's definitely not the 1982 Metrodome. Plenty of t-shirts in the stands though so spring training seems like it's a certainty. Maybe it was an old stock photo from four years prior when Ward had yet to make the team. Plus as others have said, you don't put your utility infielder on the pocket schedule. Weird thing is, looking for this online, I found a *nearly* identical one on ebay: Ha, but this one was sponsored by True Value instead of Miller High Life. I suppose a beer sponsor may have been objectionable in some locations. Or maybe they didn't want to pour too much support to the sponsors of the border state rivals.
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    I loathed the Garver trade for a week. I couldn't have possibly disliked Kiner-Falafa more, they had JUST ended the Andrelton Simmons experiment and you'd think they'd have known not to go back to that well. But by the time they cleared Donaldson's salary and signed Correa, I loved it. However, I'm still not convinced they knew they'd be able to pull that off, or had even considered it when they traded Garver. So hard to give too many pats on the back, but whether it was skillful or just serendipity, it worked out well.
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    I could go with either he or Rhys Hoskins, but yeah, as fun as free agency can be, getting either of them would be all I want this year. Presuming pitching is acquired via trade like it is every other off season.
  10. nicksaviking
    And likely the Marlins. If nothing else, mutually beneficial trades build open and willing relationships. Julien, Lewis and Polanco are all plus offensive players, but one will be riding pine every game. You don't trade Polanco because he's useless, you trade him because you can swap out production that's only sitting on the bench for equity that can help on the field somewhere else more regularly.
  11. nicksaviking
    For sure, and that's because we assume a one year deal means a very short leash. But 332 plate appearances before you move on? That's a lot of bad baseball if you can't commit to pulling the plug.
  12. nicksaviking
    They still have 20M or so to spend even if they don't trade most of the veterans, they could afford either. The clear positional needs are 1B, CF and front line SP. The clear offensive teams need are increased OBP and decreased strikeouts. I don't see much help with that in the free agent CF class. Unless they're going to surprise us and break the bank for a top starting pitcher, 1B seems to be the best place to put the money. I mean if they need to pick up a CF later, you can probably get a less-hyped Kike Hernandez or Aaron Hicks later for dirt cheap; they'd likely come at near league minimum or on a MiLB deal while providing similar results. They don't need and shouldn't get a half dozen free agents this year, barring trades, the offensive side of the roster is nearly set. Get one good one and get zero Gallo/Vazquez types this year. The internal options end up being better almost every single time.
  13. nicksaviking
    I too am exceedingly concerned about the strikeouts with this team, but in Alonso's case, that's only due to volume. He only struck out in 23% of his plate appearances last year, and that's in line with his career averages. He'd actually be an asset in the fight against swings and misses. But still, I don't see the Mets trading him. He should be a long term asset for a team that hopes to contend in the next couple of years.
  14. nicksaviking
    Gordon also sees the fewest pitches per plate appearances on the team. Something we now know runs opposite of current team goals.
  15. nicksaviking
    Yeah, crazy how bad he’s been. And I wanted nothing to do with Stroud, mostly because OSU QB’s have about as good of a track record as Ford Pintos.
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    One year of Burns would be a tough sell for me too. I’d think of this strategy more so for Peralta or one of the Mariners or Marlins pitchers. Those teams take a bit of a rotation downgrade, but get a noticeable and necessary offensive/prospect-potential upgrade. Seems like a good trade off all around.
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    Yeah, they'd need to get one of the free agents to make this work. But I've been thinking about this too lately. If the Twins want to trade for a top of the rotation arm, but don't want to part with Lee or Jenkins (I'm willing BTW), including Ober or Ryan as pieces may work as an alternate.
  18. nicksaviking
    I'm up for trading for any of Seattle's starters. But Castillo would need to be up for the trade too: https://www.sportsnet.ca/mlb/article/report-mariners-sign-luis-castillo-to-five-year-108m-contract-extension/
  19. nicksaviking
    Too bad about Enlow, that was a long run of quasi-prospectiveness*. Looked like he'd found new life in Wichita, but St. Paul didn't go very well. If he doesn't re-sign here, I'm thinking another team is going to put him in the pen, get good results, and make the Twins wish they'd done so first. *Yeah, I coined that just now, feel free to use it
  20. nicksaviking
    I don't think a year of Kepler and Kirilloff are nearly enough to get Soto. Alonso would be great to have, but didn't the Mets already say they won't be trading him? He has a good eye at the plate and power, those tend to be two age-resistant skills, I'd expect the Mets to eventually sign him long term.
  21. nicksaviking
    I don't know enough about Lee other than the stats we can see, and it's hard to interpret KBO stats. MLBTR says it's iffy he stays at CF, but that tends to be something others argue more strongly for. I assume you mean Teoscar Herandez. I'd be Ok with him if the team wasn't already struggling with strikeouts, but with how this team is built, I think he'd just be compounding the clubs greatest struggle. 31% K rate and he led the NL in strikeouts last year, I just can't pull that trigger.
  22. nicksaviking
    For now at least. Baseball trends all over the place. There may come a day where a Bomba Squad II rules the game. But even with their failures, it's good to see the front office continually adjust instead of pounding away with a single philosophy they are familiar with.
  23. nicksaviking
    Yeah, seems like they have. He was drafted in 2020, which of course was on the heels of the Bomba Squad success. Rosario and Soularie weren't exactly high contact guys either. Since then, the 2021 draft was pitchers, catchers and infielders (CES later moved to the OF) in their top ten picks. 2022 was exclusively pitchers and contact oriented infielders in the top ten. Last year seemed to be high OBP hitters and of course more pitchers. Since 2020, really only CES and Winkour were guys with swing and miss concerns and they were 3rd and 4th round picks. And despite the strikeouts, those two have shown quite a bit of promise.
  24. nicksaviking
    If the Twins don't sign one of the very few bats I'd like, I guess I could roll the dice with Giolito, but ONLY if they also trade for a Sonny Gray replacement. Have to aim higher than this. As much as I would have liked Hendricks a year ago, I'd pass. There's no telling how he'll return from TJ surgery and he'll be 36 when he does. Seems more like a luxury gamble than a calculated one. No interest in Anderson. His slugging percentage has fallen off of a cliff since 2021. He just looks like a slap hitter now, and not a very good one.
  25. nicksaviking
    I liked the idea of trading with Milwaukee more when I thought they were going to try to do the semi-rebuild. Where they'd trade a stud pitcher in exchange for young players who could help them now and in the future along with a veteran that plays a position of need that could help them still compete this year, like Kepler or Polanco. But if they're not going that route, I'd hit up the Marlins first because they'd also be a fit. I'm still interested in the Brewers pitchers though, even at the gut wrenching asking prices.
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