Jump to content
Twins Daily
  • Create Account

nicksaviking

Community Moderator
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    25,021

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    126

 Content Type 

Profiles

News

Minnesota Twins Videos

2026 Minnesota Twins Top Prospects Ranking

2022 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks

Minnesota Twins Free Agent & Trade Rumors, Notes, & Tidbits

Guides & Resources

2023 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks

The Minnesota Twins Players Project

2024 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks

2025 Minnesota Twins Draft Pick Tracker

Forums

Blogs

Events

Store

Downloads

Gallery

Everything posted by nicksaviking

  1. nicksaviking
    This team regularly changes what didn't work the year before, so I wouldn't be surprised to see the starters go longer, maybe even too long. I know that no one is happy with the front office, but the one thing they do that the last front office didn't was try new things. But on what planet is Michael Wacha the team's best pitcher? He was awful for three years running then had one outlier year. This guy looks like Dylan Bundy in 2019. If any other team believed in him, he'd have already gotten a deal like Walker, Taillon and Eovaldi got. No one has because it's clearly a smoke-and-mirrors situation. Having this guy take innings from the young players would be the dumbest thing this team has done all off season, and that's saying a lot.
  2. nicksaviking
    Uh, no. Where did any of us say that? I've pretty much copied/pasted my feelings about every free agent starter other than Rodon over and over again all off season. Also, they aren't even close to the same pitcher. Both look like bad investments, but Wacha has been nearly unusable for the three seasons prior to last year. At lease Eovaldi has been decent when healthy.
  3. nicksaviking
    Most 30-year-old pitchers don't suddenly find a career turnaround after 3 DFA worthy seasons. Especially ones who saw their velocity decrease. I think 2022 was more likely the outlier than 2019, 2020 and 2021 were.
  4. nicksaviking
    Gross. Ober, Varland, SWR, Winder. All better options. A groundball pitcher with this infield defense? Why? Not to mention he lost a MPH off of his fastball last year. Top of the rotation arms or AAAA break-glass-in-case-of-emergency starters that can roost in St. Paul. That's it. Zero reason to pay these zero upside vets to take a rotation spot away from the young players except that they want to look like they're actually spending money. It's too late, the good players are all gone. Don't make the team worse trying to window dress the mistakes you made earlier this year.
  5. nicksaviking
    One Kyle Farmer is enough for me, I'd not trade assets for a second.
  6. nicksaviking
    Would a rebuilding team have any interest in Kepler? I'm also fairly turned off by the trade calculator. After all, why trade Kepler when they could just trade Thielbar, who's got twice his value, instead?
  7. nicksaviking
    But the team doctors should have still been aware of the issue right? And the Twins offer should have already been with this issue squarely in mind?
  8. nicksaviking
    If they do it at a discount, they’d have to fire their team doctors right? They’d basically be saying that last year the Twins doctors were incapable of detecting what the Giants and Mets doctors did.
  9. nicksaviking
    ***Disclaimer- nutty conspiracy theory post alert**** Is it possible, the other big market clubs with entrenched owners reached out to Cohen and said he had to knock this crap off? That they all had a good thing going and his actions may end up provoking unwanted changes? Like greater broadcast revenue sharing?
  10. nicksaviking
    Everyone treated the deal like a one year deal, but it was three. And with the new injury concern news, those two extra years for 70M made the deal more of a reality than we thought.
  11. nicksaviking
    Ha, he already did once!
  12. nicksaviking
    You're talking about the wealthy correct? Tax payer funded stadiums, obscene tax breaks and getting everything hand delivered to their doorstep on a silver platter? Or are you saying the entitlement and handouts should ONLY be reserved for the wealthy?
  13. nicksaviking
    The only double standard I see is in your post. I can't imagine anyone here who doesn't want Bauer, would want Watson on their team either. There's a Vikings thread in "Other Sports" forum. Go search through that and see how Watson was thought of around here. And perhaps you conveniently missed them, but the Browns fans have held protests regarding Watson all season long.
  14. nicksaviking
    Yeah, good for him, it was looking like he'd probably miss out on his big free agent deal. I thought he'd get a year, maybe two if he took a discount or made it a team option.
  15. nicksaviking
    Agree, aside from the starting pitchers, the vets being proposed as trades, would also be proposed as trades on a team that won the World Series the year prior.
  16. nicksaviking
    I wouldn't trade Polanco or Gray. Polanco because I think you'd be selling low and you can get more for him later. Also, he's still fairly young. I wouldn't trade Gray because he's likely to be worth a QO in the off season and SWR is the only other starting option after the players listed. I like the Ryan/Ober/Varland/Winder/SWR group, but that's basically it. With Mahle that's six and six isn't enough. The team doesn't have quite enough young bullets to waste shooting off Gray right now. But otherwise, I'm on board trading the rest and I wouldn't even call it a rebuild. The young guys are already just as good if not better than the guys being traded away.
  17. nicksaviking
    Yeah, it does seem that a preferred destination or geographic region ends up getting leaked for some players at the very top of the free agent market. This year it was Rodon (New York) and Trae Turner (East Coast). It seems exceedingly rare that when those locations get leaked, that a guy doesn't ultimately end up somewhere in that vicinity.
  18. nicksaviking
    No one is trying to get points but you. *****Moderator Note***** No more of this nonsense. If you want Bauer, say you want Bauer and leave it at that. Shaming people who don't want him for the obvious reasons is not going to be tolerated here.
  19. nicksaviking
    I’m not defending the roster build, but the Twins DO NOT need to add to their roster. If you can get top end talent, sure do that obviously. But they don’t need to add players just to add players. They have enough young guys ready to serve and they’re better than most of these guys. And I hate “putting the band back together”. If they add, get new blood.
  20. nicksaviking
    Why would you trade multiple assets for two players who would only be part time players, if the team isn't supposed to be very good in 2023?
  21. nicksaviking
    Agreed, it's unlikely. I can't imagine it would be two of those three, unless maybe it's Arraez and Gordon who are still both dirt cheap. More likely one of the three and a prospect(s). And if "unlikely" turns out to be "impossible", don't trade just for the sake of trading.
  22. nicksaviking
    It was Rodon or bust. I could have gotten behind Bassitt I suppose but he's pretty dang old and his best pitch is his 93 MPH fastball. I'd be concerned about what happens to him once age starts eating away at his velocity. But Syndergaard, Walker and Taillon are not top of the rotation pitchers, at least not any longer. They don't go above Gray and Ryan and if that's not where you're aiming, why would you bring in more pitchers when there is already considerably more upside in Mahle, SWR, Varland, Ober and even Maeda? I think Nick Gordon and Luis Arraez have probably already hit their ceilings and their values will likely never be higher, and Max Kepler has become expendable, so if they want to swing a trade using those guys as pieces, go ahead, but it's got to be for a reasonably good arm, don't take a spot away from the upside group just because we need some action around here.
  23. nicksaviking
    Seth, I really need this explained. When he declined the option years, Correa called himself top end designer clothing and said the Twins had to pony up if they wanted to keep him. Corey Seager and Francisco Lindor already had deals that dwarfed 285M and everyone in the baseball world took Correa’s comments to mean he wanted a similar, if not larger deal. Why were theTwins the only entity that thought they could sign him for that much less? It doesn’t add up.
  24. nicksaviking
    I certainly don’t know better but as large as it was, what I, everyone on this site, the entire MLB community and Scott Boras knew, was that Carlos Correa was never accepting a 285M deal. What I’d like, is for the Twins to be up front, tell us fans that they aren’t signing free agent x and that they are focusing on internal options or whatnot. I can not speak for others, but the charade of making offers they know the player won’t accept is the bothersome issue.
  25. nicksaviking
    I have never heard of earnest money in professional sports. I’d have to think if it was a thing, I’d have come across it referenced at some point. The Pohlads made their fortune ruthlessly foreclosing on poor farmers during the depression though. If there’s one thing they’re better at than Boras, it’s probably real estate maneuvers. They’d pay no earnest money but demand the player pay all the closing costs.
×
×
  • Create New...