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  1. nicksaviking
    The veterans have been flops way more often than the young guys the last two years. And where are they supposed to come from if not straight from AAA? Do you mean they need to get called up, optioned down and then called up again? Then do that if needed. Especially since, as you acknowledged, it's working. Why delay the process?
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    Well they finally signed Risner. https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/dalton-risner-agrees-to-sign-with-vikings Two games too late. With Ingram and Udoh having integral parts of this offense to start the year, there seems like little explanation for why this wasn't done sooner other than stubbornness. Seems like had they had one more functional interior lineman, they might have won one of those games. If not both.
  3. nicksaviking
    PERCIEVED floor. The guys they prefer still have sub .650 OPS floors, it's not like they're 'safe' players. It's all diminishing returns the lower you go on the ladder from an average hitter. I doubt a team wins many more games with a guy with a .650 OPS than they do with a guy with a .600 OPS. Both players are liabilities. At that point, just roster the guy with the most upside.
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    I don't think that's necissarily the case. Texas and Seattle play each other 7 more time and Seattle plays Houston three times. Unless one of them absolutely nose-dives, I think the Twins are quite likely to pass both of them in the standings as their last nine games are against three of the worst teams in the league, with Oakland almost certainly trying to fend off the Royals for the 1st overall draft pick.
  5. nicksaviking
    The Twins are closer to the Astros than the Yankees are to the last wild card spot.
  6. nicksaviking
    It should have been #3, but it won't now because there's zero chance they stick a rookie with no MLB experience in CF to start the year. Martin should have been the call up instead of Stevenson so he could get those reps, but they deferred to the 'experience' over the talent. Again. Hopefully instead it's #4, but in all likelihood, it'll be #2, which once again will be the lowest ceiling option. It's fine though, if/when Martin and Lewis (love it) take the job, Taylor/Castro are reasonable bench pieces. As long as they don't fill the whole roster with those pieces again. #1 sounds both like a pipedream and a terrible idea. A bounce back year for Bellinger after two abysmal seasons? In a contract year? How often does that work out for the team? Likely almost never.
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    Yeah, that's two weeks in a row. The front office clearly wants to tank, and somehow that's exactly what happened despite the early game success. I really hope Celeb Williams AND Marvin Harrison Jr tell AZ that they would refuse to sign with that disaster of an organization.
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    Why? They aren't catching the Astros and the Guardian's aren't catching the Twins. The team has 16 games to tune up, tinker and rest players. 16 games isn't enough to definitively fix Julian's issue, but he could literally double his exposure to the weakness and hopefully build off of it. If not in production, than perhaps in confidence. Constantly telling a young guy that he can't hit lefties seems like a good way to make him start believing it.
  9. nicksaviking
    42 PA against lefties in over 5 months. That's 8 PA per month, meaning he's not even averaging seeing a lefty twice a week. I'm sure he'll magically improve on that with next to no repetition.
  10. nicksaviking
    Somehow they're going to have to sell JJ on either continuing with the mediocrity and re-singing an aging and immobile Cousins, or tanking this year to get a future QB (and maybe give JJ some token input on the subject). Neither option seems like it would be attractive to a top end offensive player. I suppose the wild card would be acquiring Kyler Murray, who's razzle-dazzle gunslinging ways may be appealing, but he's never seemed mature enough to actually lead a team to glory. I have a hard time seeing Jefferson wanting to be here next year. If they trade him, which I 100% do not want to happen, it better put them in position to draft Caleb Williams, which means the Cardinals absolutely can't have the top pick. Carolina, Indianapolis or Houston maybe.
  11. nicksaviking
    Robertson seemed to be the only Twins-kind of reliever available, and I wasn't enthused about any of them, but what he's done in Miami has next to no bearing on what he hypothetically would have done in Minnesota. It's not like he'd be throwing the same pitches in the same order to the same batters against the same opponents.
  12. nicksaviking
    I'm sure Kepler will be back, but I really hope they don't extend him. Only 2.5 of his eight seasons have been good offensively. The guy will be 31, odds are he'll revert back to his career norms next year, I don't want to do this dance for multiple years.
  13. nicksaviking
    Assuming they get smoked in Philly, I think their season is going to hinge on that Charger game in week three. The Chargers are probably better, but they also are a team that historically chokes. If the Vikings lose that game, they're going to be playing catch up all year, because even if they beat the Panthers, nobody's going to bet on them beating KC the week after. If they start off 1-4, it's over, I don't care if they have a softer spot in the middle of the schedule. Gross, 7, 8, 9 or 10 wins is such an awful position to be in. They'll feel forced to re-sign Cousins, which means there's no championship in sight. And they failed to sign Jefferson this summer. Is he even going to want to stick around on a team that has no chance to be a real contender during his prime? I'm getting sick to my stomach thinking about this front office desperately trying to salvage an average season. It'll set this franchise back a half decade at least.
  14. nicksaviking
    Why wouldn't the Twins re-sign him if he's a HOF caliber player?
  15. nicksaviking
    I wouldn't say no, but I think it's incorrect to assume in 2024 the Twins will again go for the "who cares about batting average/why are we striking out so much mold". This is an extremely reactionary front office. They tend to swing away from what didn't work the prior season (and then swing back to those things years later when the new approach didn't pan out either). Aside from being another lefty, Kirilloff's high contact approach might be what the team guns for in the off season.
  16. nicksaviking
    If Ober only had 120 innings in him, I'm not sure why it matters that they came at the end of the year instead of the beginning. They needed him at the beginning of the year and are holding up fine without him now, so I'd say they played it correctly.
  17. nicksaviking
    Well that means he made it 89% of the way to his intended target. That's a B on most grading curves.
  18. nicksaviking
    Better or worse than Kent Hrbek sliding to catch a foul ball at the Old Timer's game?
  19. nicksaviking
    I also don't have to see how badly Jeffers gets thrown out stealing a base, which I assume was by about a mile.
  20. nicksaviking
    That's what they all moaned when I decided to try amature night at the strip club.
  21. nicksaviking
    I'm sure they'll be just fine when they turn to another legend to guide them forward. I'm thinking Tony LaRusa.
  22. nicksaviking
    I like it. I think it's a good option to have with the impending roster crunch of infield prospects.
  23. nicksaviking
    Ooooh, no get-away-day lineup! Are they're getting serious about the season?!?!
  24. nicksaviking
    Had the "hot" AL West team been Texas or Seattle, I think the Twins could have pulled this off. Houston on the other hand had the best schedule of the three. Today is the last game between the Astros and Rangers, and the Astros only have three left with the Mariners. Meanwhile the seven of their last ten games, the Mariners and Rangers play each other, and at the same time the Twins last three series are against the Angels, A's and Rockies. That was the Twins opening, but the Astros look like they're stealing the bag again. Though, should the Twins somehow only find themselves two back with nine to play, I'd like to revisit this post (probably to delete it). On the bright side, the Astros are probably the one team the Twins have a playoff hang-up with this year, and they wouldn'tt be a 1st round option.
  25. nicksaviking
    I don't think what these pitches have done since the trades are likely indicative of what they'd have done with the Twins. At the same time, I don't think what these pitchers did with their original teams this season is indicative of what they'd have done with the Twins, and trading for them would have been a coin flip anyway. Bottom line is, that while signing relievers with strong and lengthy track records of success should have an emphasis, the Twins biggest failure is in not developing their own bullpen well enough. Doing so is a walk in the park for many clubs, heck, it used to be commonplace with this club. This front office doesn't appear to have the knack for it.
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