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  1. nicksaviking
    I like most of this quite a bit. Hoskins would be my top free agent available with Justin Turner trailing close behind. I don't think they need to sign multiple players this year, just get one good one. I like the idea behind the Keller trade, but I'm not nearly as in love with him as many are. Pittsburgh is obviously a terrible place to be a starting pitcher, but I don't think it's a given that Keller ascends to top of the rotation status just because he leaves. I'd offer more to get a better starter than him.
  2. nicksaviking
    I'm more than happy with what he gave the team last year. Yet, his incredible and still unexplained ability to torpedo his own team has me already looking at the Reds roster to see who'll be available when they're sellers at the trade deadline next summer.
  3. nicksaviking
    I think we need some sources for these quotes here before we get out the pitchforks. I don't know enough about Varland to judge his character, but Boras never speaks in such black-and-white terms, he tends to speak with the goal of keeping as many doors open as possible for his players.
  4. nicksaviking
    As a 240 lb defensive tackle. What's your point?
  5. nicksaviking
    Life finds a way. Unlike the MLB the NFL constantly evolves.
  6. nicksaviking
    This is all foolishness. Tom Brady is my age. No matter how much money I made, I’d still be in the hospital if I took any number of hits he somehow got back up from. Thiesman never came back from his broken leg, but Rodgers and Cousins should play without an achilles? Burrow should throw without wrist ligaments? How? Rethink your take. And any of these “Old school players were tougher” whines is complete crap. Dick Butkus and Alan Paige wouldn’t even make a DII college team these days. Everyone trying to kill the QB is exponentially faster and stronger than they used to be. Players have been able to develop better muscles, but no one is developing better bones, ligaments or brains.
  7. nicksaviking
    You don't think players consider what they want in free agency until their actually a free agent? He always planned on being a free agent as he told Do-Hyoung Park, likely because he never got to search for that big payday before. He was nothing but complimentary about the Twins: https://www.mlb.com/news/sonny-gray-on-possible-future-with-twins-before-hitting-free-agency And the guy is from and still lives in Nashville. St. Louis, Atlanta and Cincinnati were the spots he could play and still be nearest home. Having the Cardinals give him the big payday probably was his dream scenario and it was no slight on the Twins.
  8. nicksaviking
    I don't think a pitcher has cared about their W/L record since Bartolo Colon robbed Johan Santana of a Cy Young award 18 years ago. Gray started the most games, and threw more pitches and more innings than he has since he was 25. He finished 2nd in the Cy Young voting and just made himself 80M despite already being 34-years-old. Without even getting into Gray's glowing comments about the team after the season, I'm still beyond confident he has no animosity towards the team.
  9. nicksaviking
    If the roster allows it, I'd much rather keep Polanco over Kepler as year-in-year-out Polanco is the much more reliable hitter. While the Twins have several good hitters, they lack reliable hitters, and I think that unpredictability is the main cause of the lengthy slumps this team has seen the last several years. Still, I think if they trade for top end starting pitching, they can use most of the free agent cash to sign a reliable bat making either or both more expendable.
  10. nicksaviking
    The Verlanders and Scherzers are probably never coming here regardless of payroll. But even if the Twins budget was 200M, I'd rather trade for the younger guys on say the Mariners and Marlins over free agents like Blake Snell or Aaron Nola. It's not about the budget, it's getting the guys who are the best bets to be front line starters for the longest duration. If the Twins already had two such pitchers, then I'd reconsider the high priced free agents.
  11. nicksaviking
    I don't actually. I used to, but not at this time. Top free agents starters are already past their prime, I'd rather trade for pitchers who's peak is still projectably ahead of them, like the team has been doing.
  12. nicksaviking
    Seattle's top five arms are pretty tough to differentiate though. Miller is my least favorite, but others seem to like him more. In any case, if they're talking about dealing what they view as their fourth or fifth starter, getting a Polanco or Kepler to help now and a top prospect(s) to help soon is probably somewhat appealing.
  13. nicksaviking
    There is not a number you could insert here that would make that sentence untrue. I'm even assuming you meant $13 and not 13M.
  14. nicksaviking
    Puckett's final season was one of his best offensively. He got in on the fist ballot for the same reason Sandy Koufax did, the baseball world mourned the abrupt ending of two players still playing at an elite level. Had Joe Mauer's career ended after that concussion, he'd already be in the HOF.
  15. nicksaviking
    I was upset about him not rolling out too, but then I remembered how often I complained about O'Neill getting destroyed. Rolling out to the right side probably would have had him getting smoked by Montez Sweat and the OLBs all night too. Rolling out left and throwing across his body may have turned out even worse. But rolling out or not, KOC completely gave up on that last series. They just needed one first down and they didn't even try to get it.
  16. nicksaviking
    Besides Addison did they do anything? I guess Blackmon is OK for a 4th corner, but they missed on everyone else. They had a UDFA better than all but one of their draft picks.
  17. nicksaviking
    The Bears lined up one defensive lineman. Dobbs is (probably???) the best passer on the field. Shouldn't the play be for him to run as far as he can and have him start the laterals? If he runs to one side of the field, he'd be the one who could draw as many defenders as possible and then throw it all the way across to the other side. Of course, the final play of the game is hardly the thing to critique here. Dobbs won't be here long. KOC and his awful late game calls is probably the biggest story here.
  18. nicksaviking
    I would care. Or at least I would if they were any good at using their draft picks.
  19. nicksaviking
    I wouldn’t want to come back to this mess if I was Jefferson.
  20. nicksaviking
    So bad. KOC has turned into Zimmer late in games.
  21. nicksaviking
    Gross. Pointless turnover. Accomplished next to nothing.
  22. nicksaviking
    They know they need a score here right?
  23. nicksaviking
    And to be fair to 3: the Bears run defense has been good all year, you were just supposed to be able to throw at will against them. The pass coverage has been great today too though, save tgat Addison play. Aaaaaand TD! While I type this.
  24. nicksaviking
    I’m not defending Dobbs, but I think any pro WR needs to catch that. Also, he had the whole field to himself, why was he hugging the sideline? Get further inbounds so your sketchy QB isn’t tested.
  25. nicksaviking
    Still should have been a catch.
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