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  1. 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.
  2. nicksaviking
    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.
  3. nicksaviking
    If they're already carrying Farmer, Solano and Gordon, I see zero reason to also carry Castro, who can't hit.
  4. 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.
  5. nicksaviking
    I'd prefer to take a chance on a gas station burrito.
  6. 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!
  7. 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.
  8. 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".
  9. 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.
  10. nicksaviking
    Raise your hand if you had the Twins at 14 of their 26 players over 29-years-old come 2023. I thought they'd be amongst the youngest teams in the league at this point.
  11. nicksaviking
    Sorry, but Kepler's problems, at least last year, were not related to luck. Maybe the Exit Velocity was good, but his LD% was only 19.9%, his FB% only 34.4% and his GB% 45.7%!!!!! That's not luck, that's using a hitting profile of a leadoff hitter who's value comes form stealing bases and doesn't even try for extra base hits. Too many groundballs isn't luck, it's poor hitting. Even if Kepler's batting average rises because he's getting more seeing-eye singles due to the shift removal, he's still not cutting it as a corner outfielder. He needs to be driving the ball, preferably over the fence.
  12. nicksaviking
    Elijah Moore is a forgotten guy already too. If I was a fan of a team that didn't have a real QB the last two years, and I had those two as 2nd and 3rd year WRs, I'd be extremely excited now that I had a real QB. Now if I was a fan of that team and thinking about Lazard, Cobb or OBJ getting targets instead? I'd be sick to my stomach. Is there a less productive free agent position group than WR? Veteran WRs from other teams seem to work out once in a blue moon, even when they're good players, which these guys aren't.
  13. nicksaviking
    Agreed. They certainly would be better, but the distractions Rodgers brings with him could lead to a worse W/L record. GB has had practice managing him for a decade and a half. There's a good chance the Jets, and the substantially larger market they play in, won't have the knack for dealing with nor patience and forgiveness for his behavior.
  14. nicksaviking
    If Rodgers is already throwing GB under the bus, they're going to need to watch out, because all he has to do is "retire" and GB will either have to decide on cutting him when he inevitably unretires in June, or they'd have to set aside 60M in payroll the rest of the offseason to accommodate him when that happens. Frankly, I'd love for that second one to happen. Rodgers thinks he has them by the short hairs, but then GB does nothing in free agency and the two parties have a game of chicken until training camp.
  15. nicksaviking
    Could be all of the above. I'm sure a deal would have already been done if GB wouldn't have decided they wanted more. Otherwise, why would there be a presumed deal at all? Also, Rodgers has not once in his career told the whole truth, so anyone taking what he says at face value is deluded. It also goes without saying that Pat McAfee is deluded, but that was clear long before Rodgers started going on his show.
  16. nicksaviking
    Ugh, I was really hoping the team would give Julien a chance. He better be getting reps in the corner outfield and 1B as soon as he steps back on the diamond, because he shouldn't have to rely on Polanco getting hurt to get a call up. This team needs help offensively and it's going to have to be the young players who give it to them.
  17. nicksaviking
    So Aaron Rodgers is pushing for the Jets to sign both Allan Lazard AND OBJ? Garrett Wilson and Elijah Moore are probably both miles better than those two. I wonder if Wilson is having second thoughts about stumping for Rodgers now that the QB is trying to bring in a bunch of average-at-best wideouts to take away his targets. I've never had much feeling for the Jets one way or the other, but if that's where Rodgers ends up, I'm going to enjoy laughing at the disaster they went out of their way to bring to their organization.
  18. nicksaviking
    I'm not sweating that part really, it's either going to be blown up this year, or it's going to be partially blown up this year and finished off next. Seems like blowing it all up now would bring you back more equity than having guys just naturally walk next year, that's my biggest complaint about it. But really, I probably need to see another (better) draft from this crew before I start wishing more picks to them. They're not building a contender without getting good at drafting.
  19. nicksaviking
    But if they got a 3rd for 30-year-old barely healthy Wallner, I'd have to think the Vikings still could have gotten a 2nd for Hockenson.
  20. nicksaviking
    I would have liked the Gallo signing a lot better had he been the #4 outfielder. As a starter though, the floor is just so low with him, and I don't think the ceiling is all that high unless we think the league can revert back to 2019. If he doesn't get that power back, teams are going to stop walking him; we saw a big decrease in BB% last year already. Offensively he's starting to look an awful lot like Chris Davis at the end of his run. I hope he turns it around, but if he doesn't find a groove early, they have to pull the plug and turn to the young players. But he's getting paid well and his agent is new friend-of-the-family Scott Boras, so it seems unlikely that he'd get released regardless of his play.
  21. nicksaviking
    He's cheaper than Derek Carr, but is he actually any better? This just seems like a really dysfunctional franchise. Said everyone every year for about the last forty years. My guess is that LV is where Rodgers wanted to go, but LV wasn't interested for whatever reason. Salary, draft pick compensation, head coach repellant or whatever.
  22. nicksaviking
    If they roster another journeyman vet over the half dozen young guys who are ready to play, I'd probably lose it.
  23. nicksaviking
    Me too, but I want to put on my tinfoil conspiracy hat for a second. IF Rodgers "retires" and IF the Vikings trade Cousins (both unlikely) I'll predict that Rodgers will unretire in July, forcing the Packers to cut him and his salary, then Rodgers signs with the Vikings for one season. Not that I want that, but it would be the biggest D move he could pull and he seems to love to pull D moves.
  24. nicksaviking
    I'm guessing Aaron Rodgers doesn't want to go to the Jets? Otherwise he'd already have accepted a trade there. Man, that guy is such a dillweed. I wouldn't be surprised if whatever his plan is, it's designed to aggravate as many people as possible.
  25. nicksaviking
    Like everyone else, I'd like to try to put offensive + players at the most demanding position they can handle, which does sound like 2B. But at the moment, the Twins biggest holes DO seem to be the least demanding positions, LF and 1B. If his bat has a shot to win an opening day spot, I wouldn't be opposed to moving him to one of those positions for the time being.
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