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  1. nicksaviking
    But you know he was referring to controllable starting pitchers, and not specifically their ages. They can't keep trading for starters with two years of control left every year. At some point they have to let their own young arms have a real run at roster spots.
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    Kendricks had been my favorite Viking for quite a while now. Glad to see he felt the same about Minnesota. And great shout out to the downtown Minneapolis restaurants!
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    Agree with Gimenez for this list, but I don't think he ends the year that way. I thought last year was an outlier for him and am happy Cleveland just allocated some of their scarce salary space to him for years to come. Even in the minors those power numbers and most importantly, the OBP never approached what he did last year. I think he's due for some serious regression.
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    Right, but there was space this year and they still went after Lopez. I'm not complaining as Lopez is a decent pitcher, but they probably wouldn't have went out and traded for him had they trusted the young guys. So will they trust them next year if they still have only a handful of 2023 starts? Or will they go out and trade for someone else? That's why I think they need to intentionally give Ober, Varland and SWR starts, and plenty of them, regardless of the current health of the rotation.
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    Right. How many innings do they need to give these guys to trust them next year? They can’t keep trading for starters every year, so they need to plan on giving these guys MLB innings whether the current starters are healthy or not.
  6. nicksaviking
    I'm really excited for Miranda, he just seems like a professional hitter who could do this for years. I really hope they let Larnach have a full time corner OF job even when the vets are healthy enough to make the decision to bench one of them uncomfortable. Funny thing about Ober is, that I want him to have Maeda's spot in the rotation right now, yet he still ranks behind SWR and Varland on my enthusiasm meter. He probably shouldn't since he's already shown to be a good MLB starter, but that's just how excited I am to see this new batch of Twins.
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    Good. The lineup looks like a disaster with a collection of extremely low ceiling vets. Buxton, Correa, Miranda, bathroom break. The starting 2B and 1B are out and the team's best hitting prospect, who can play both spots, is going to sit in AAA because there's somehow STILL no room for him? How many injuries will it take to see Julien, let alone the rest of the young hitters? The rotation looks really solid, but unless we actually think this is a World Series contender, is it worth punting a year of experience on the top arms in the minors, who have already shown they're ready to learn at the MLB level? Most will likely struggle for a year, so we're going to do that next year now? When the offense should be ready to take off? At least we get to watch the young guys in the bullpen. Do we really want more of the reliever versions of Donovan Solano taking up bullpen spots? And the options in AAA are not worse. Ober, Varland, SWR and Winder would all be preferable to Coulombe. And maybe that's where they can get the needed experience.
  8. nicksaviking
    I liked the Farmer move. But I like him as a super utility guy who’ll play 4-5 games a week. His versatility is his most valuable trait. I don’t want him starting or platooning at one spot while Polanco is out.
  9. nicksaviking
    What does that have to do with Coulombe? If they kept him wouldn’t you be more frustrated they didn’t find someone better than him?
  10. nicksaviking
    I want the most talented guys on the roster. They stuck with the vets on offense and in the rotation over the more talented young guys, at least they’re not doing it in the pen. I’m really stumped by the frustration over this. The Twins basically lost a LOOGY except the rules changed so LOOGYs are forced to pitch a full inning and against righties. This is not a big deal. People are acting like they cut Dennis Eckersley, not a guy vying for the last spot on the roster.
  11. nicksaviking
    I think you mean the opposite? Sands made the club because they CAN send him down, and will need to often and early. What are they going to do a week into the season when they have Hoffman and Coulombe in an overused pen and need to send someone down? Moran can't be the only option. They going to send down Duran and Jax if they need fresh arms? Just cut the super fringy guys, and Coulombe is super fringy. He's a 33-year-old soft tossing, junk throwing lefty who pitched 12 innings for the club last year. I'm failing to see the fasciation other than with which arm he throws with.
  12. nicksaviking
    That's what was said about Jax last year. I'm actually looking forward to seeing what Sands does now that's he's going to be a full time reliever. Most of the best relievers are guys who were given up on as starters.
  13. nicksaviking
    I was more excited about Hoffman than Coulombe, but I guess these moves make sense. Moran and Sands can be optioned when fresh arms are needed, which will likely be often with the early season schedule.
  14. nicksaviking
    Right, Castro is already redundant with the uber-flexible players they already have on the roster. Where are the runs going to come from?!? When did it become fashionable to make offense the lowest priority of putting together a baseball team? Many people like the depth, and others, like me, want the prospects. So isn't stashing Castro in AAA the absolute perfect scenario? He's there when you need him. You don't need him.
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    Am I misinterpreting the Lamar Jackson situation? Because my sense is that Jackson won't hire an agent, because he doesn't want to actually pay the agent. Is there more to it than that? Because if that's the reason, this guy is a gigantic and foolish miser.
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    If they're already carrying Farmer, Solano and Gordon, I see zero reason to also carry Castro, who can't hit.
  17. nicksaviking
    I don't know how Zebby Mathews doesn't get a write up. There's zero chance a guy with the name Zebby doesn't make it to the big leagues.
  18. nicksaviking
    Only reason I see is to try to sell more tickets for a .500 club. But you know what's worse than purposefully trying to rebuild and ending up 5-12? Throwing away equity and the prime years of your young players by pushing back the rebuild and going balls out yet finishing 7-10 instead.
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    I'd prefer to take a chance on a gas station burrito.
  20. nicksaviking
    "Many evaluators considered Lee the top college hitter in the 2022 MLB Draft, so the Twins were ecstatic that he fell to them with the eighth overall pick." Pretty sure this sentence must just autofill on every TD article that references Lee. I've had to have read that exact phrase a dozen times by now!
  21. nicksaviking
    Except for Pagan, I like the pen. I'll probably like it better once they start filtering in the former starters like Winder and Henriquez. That's not to say I trust the pen, that'll never likely happen with me, but that's also why I don't like the idea of big ticket free agent relievers, I'd never trust them any more than the crapshoot free agent relievers, it's just an overall volatile position. Few guys are ever good for years on end. It's a rollercoaster for most, especially when changing teams. But speaking of crapshoot free agent relievers, Jeff Hoffman is exactly the type that gets me interested. The guys who are one year removed from being a starter often break out. And if Brooks Baseball is accurate and his March velocity is 96+ MPH compared to his first year as a reliever when he was hitting 94 MPH, the Twins might have gotten a back-end reliever on the cheap.
  22. nicksaviking
    Angry about what?!?! Losing a 50-year-old receiver and basically nothing else? Or are they angry in the same way I'm annoyed, they wanted to just get the tear down over with and didn't want to drag out a lame duck season? Pretty sure I'm in the minority, so it must be the first one.
  23. nicksaviking
    I like the fact that he explained why he'd likely head to Wichita instead of St. Paul upon his return. Without the warm-weather explanation, there surely would have been some consternation about the "demotion".
  24. nicksaviking
    I agree. Ober is one of the best five starters. If they need the depth, I'd rather them promote Maeda from the bullpen than Ober from AAA.
  25. nicksaviking
    The Vikings odds are closer to 0% than they are to 5%. Either way, I didn't want him back. KJ Osborn is better than him at this point, but keeping Thielen on the roster will still put him in the starting lineup and Cousins will still look his way too often because he defers to his comfort blankets. We can't keep these aging expensive players forever, even if it's a local guy.
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