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  1. nicksaviking
    If anything, the teams out of contention want teams above them in the standings to improve just to hang on to the better draft position.
  2. nicksaviking
    The Twins and Reds need to collude on this. Surely neither team feels comfortable claiming everyone as there's salary concerns and even bigger roster concerns. But they aren't competing with each other for playoff spots, so they should easily be able to collaborate to find out what the other team wants. The Twins getting players would block the NL teams the Reds are chasing from getting them, and the Reds getting players would block AL teams from getting players. The rest of the league would be upset, which is just fine with me.
  3. nicksaviking
    Well he's available now. I'd be interested in him over Hall. But I'd rather be interested in him AND Hall and let Mullins find a new home.
  4. nicksaviking
    Can he/would he play on the interior of the line?
  5. nicksaviking
    Thinking about this situation more, this should open the door to massive collusion, which in this case would benefit the Twins. Surely the Twins biggest fear in putting a claim on a bunch of these guys would be that they'd actually GET a bunch of these guys, which would not only be bad from a salary point of view, but for the roster construction as well. However, the Twins have a vested interest in both improving the team, and not letting the AL teams above them improve. But so do the Reds and Marlins. The Twins should 100% be coordinating with one or both of those clubs to see which ones they plan or want to bid on. While those clubs are battling each other, they also should want the Twins to score any or all of the other players if only to keep them away from the NL teams ahead of them. Then the Twins and Reds/Marlins would only have to worry about bids on a couple players each instead of gambling on getting all or none. This is crooked as hell, and the Twins should totally be taking advantage of it before they fix it next year.
  6. nicksaviking
    Only if your only evaluation is his six games with the Angels. That would have next to no influence on my decision.
  7. nicksaviking
    I'm guessing they won't have interest in Lopez, historically, he's got terrible control and the Twins pen is built on control pitchers these days. They should have interest in Moore though. With them willing to option Ober, they should have some interest in Giolito. I mean Giolito vs Kuechel? That shouldn't be a tough decision. As for the outfielders, I'd guess their interest would go Grichuk, Renfroe, Bader. I mean, why would this team want Bader anyway, he's just as bad at hitting as Luplow and doesn't do anything Michael Taylor doesn't. I have no interest in Renfroe either. His .623 post season OPS and 34% post season strikeout percentage are awful. Grichuk doesn't do anything for me either, but he's the best of the three options by quite a bit since his bat is comparable to Renfroe and his defense is comparable to Bader. The highest ceiling option is still Austin Martin, which is where they should have turned weeks ago. But three claims seems like a lot, I don't know if the Twins would be willing to risk taking on all of the salaries. So my guess is they put claims in on Moore and Grichuk and if they happen to get the greenlight to go wild, Giolito as a third.
  8. nicksaviking
    The option next year is a mutual option, so both the player and the team would have to agree to it. Since the player would only agree to it if he would make less in free agency, and the team would only agree to it if the player would make more in free agency, mutual options are never exercised, and certainly it wouldn't be here. Thus, the team picking up Clevinger would owe him his 2023 prorated salary plus the 4M and they'd not have him next year. Of all the guys dumped yesterday, I'd think Clevinger is least likely to get claimed. Ha, ha, nice try Sox.
  9. nicksaviking
    Vikings signed Myles Gaskin. Would have much rather gone with a young unproven RB with some upside like Malik Davis or Deneric Prince.
  10. nicksaviking
    Yeah, I don't want them, I want the pitchers. But this front office and their love of veteran hitters...... that's probably where their mind is. I'd rather see the options in St. Paul. All of these guys are making good money this year aside from Lopez though; it'd still be about 3M apiece for the other four players. If ownership told them they couldn't blow any more money at the deadline, they might tell them the same here. But, the team is in a much more fan-enthusiastic spot than they were a month ago, so maybe things have changed.
  11. nicksaviking
    W.T.H. How does anyone in that building, aside from players Ohtani and Trout, still have a job? Mass firings must be upcoming. Absolutely mind boggling, and frankly, a bush league move. Any chance the Twins can get any of them? The Giants, Reds and Marlins all still have worse records and still in the playoff hunt.
  12. nicksaviking
    Only six draft picks this year and McBride can't make the team even after Cook is cut loose. The picks from the last two years better step up big or this front office is going to need to find better scouts.
  13. nicksaviking
    He's done as far as I can tell or care. Though Toronto finds themselves in a pretty big bind with their star infielders. Chapman's out, Bichette is probably out and Biggio didn't turn out to be any good. Maybe the Jays pick him up dreaming of his glory days with them. And if they do, it'll show they're as desperate as the move would indicate and ready for their season to fall apart.
  14. nicksaviking
    Shocking development. Surely that will hurt their chances of winning a World Series this year.
  15. nicksaviking
    Boy, looking at the remaining schedule, Texas, Houston and Seattle play each other a lot. They also have some other tough matchups. I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility that the Twins end up with the #2 seed. A lot of ground to make up, but the Twins last 16 games has to be the easiest schedule in the whole league.
  16. nicksaviking
    Call me crazy, but I want Tampa. I know it's always the case with them, but their record is better than the players that make up their roster. Except for 2020, that does seem to help them in the regular season, but not in the post season.
  17. nicksaviking
    I actually think they feel that when veterans fail, the blame can be deflected on to the player, but when the rookie fails, it falls entirely on the front office. I don't think this is singular to the Twins front office or even baseball front offices, and I'm beyond confident they desperately want to win, they just can't get past the fear of the unknown and this is way to dodge some tough questions. However, for a team that likes to deal in analytics, I'm sure they're aware that unproven youth provides better returns than cast off vets. All they have to do is look at their rosters for the past couple of years.
  18. nicksaviking
    While he's not hitting as well, he's somehow only drawn ONE walk in August. Looking at his swoon last year, he only had four walks last September. I'm not sure how to explain that other than perhaps at some point pitchers stop worrying about grooving pitches to a slap hitter with no speed?
  19. nicksaviking
    Man, for one reason or another, the team has been playing so much better without most of these guys. Stewart is the only one I'd really like to have back, followed by Kirilloff but only if he's absolutely 100% healthy. I'd rather push ahead with the youth movement. And yes, there are multiple guys I'm unafraid of removing from the 40-man.
  20. nicksaviking
    Ryan should be three. Number one should be whomever Baldelli is least likely to get antsy about pulling after five. Until the All Star break, I thought that would completely eliminate Gray, but he's gone six innings or more in seven straight starts, so I'd lean toward him lead to things off. Even if he doesn't like it, I'd like to see Maeda as an early-pull replacement out of the pen, like the Dodgers used him. If Baldelli gets squeamish and pulls a starter early, like he (and Molitor and Gardy) has done in the past, I trust Maeda in that role to keep the team in a game more than Ober and Ryan, and much more than most of the other bullpen options.
  21. nicksaviking
    Call him up, even if it's to see if he's a CF option for 2024. I don't want another season where the team feels they have to find a Michael Taylor to fill the role because they aren't sure what they have internally.
  22. nicksaviking
    I'm not casting aspersions on anyone, but this thread seems kind of funny at the moment. We're OK blaming the Twins for a lack of clutch hitting, pitching meltdowns, poor bullpen management, questionable roster moves, bad free agent signings and lopsided trades, but not for over reacting to a hit by pitch. Seems like the old anecdote where it's OK for me to beat up my little brother, but Mitch Garver better not lay a finger on him.
  23. nicksaviking
    If the Rangers were willing to throw the game just to plunk Jeffers, after all the money and prospects they spent building one of the highest profile rosters in league history, the GM should have fired the manager mid-game.
  24. nicksaviking
    No, Gray intentionally beaned Garver, because of MLB's stupid 'unwritten rules' bit which Jeffers all but obligated him to enforce after his showboating the prior inning.
  25. nicksaviking
    There's no way they intentionally beaned Jeffers with guys on first and third while they are fighting for their playoff lives. It was a coincidence. If they were going to plunk him, why not plunk him in the first inning instead when there were two outs and 1st base was already open?
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