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  1. nicksaviking
    36M the first three years then 31-30M the years after. The Twins have really structured this contract well. Most teams try to structure them to make the payouts higher at the end (let's earn some interest!!!!!), but clearly the front loaded deal works for the Twins current payroll situation best. That's a great sign that to them, doing this deal right is worth more than doing it economically.
  2. nicksaviking
    AAV. Their highest yearly offer was only 26.25M. Even the offer the Twins made, which we all knew was subpar overall, was 28M. Once they had injury concerns, naturally it was the length of the deal that the Mets wanted to cut down, the initial salary they were offering probably wasn't the issue to them.
  3. nicksaviking
    I don't think Miami would have any interest in Kepler. They have two 100 win teams in their division in addition to the World Series champs. Kepler will be long gone before that team is ready to compete.
  4. nicksaviking
    The vesting options are all based on 502 PA the previous season. https://apnews.com/article/new-york-mets-minnesota-twins-san-francisco-giants-mlb-sports-9bfbe5088907863eb3a604ae3cca6307 That's pretty fantastic in my book. The Twins pretty much get to call the shots.
  5. nicksaviking
    I think Miami would prefer younger players. Maybe ONE of those three vets along with younger players.
  6. nicksaviking
    AK and Larnach are corner players and oft injured ones at that. If they're lucky enough to get an extension, they'd likely only get a Kepler/Sano kind of deal. Lewis, Lee and Miranda are still years away from free agency. They certainly COULD extend them now, but if they did, the players would be taking a discount, if they wait to extend them (assuming any end up being worthy) the bulk of their extensions won't bump up against Correa's commitment. You'd likely only have a year or two where it gets tight.
  7. nicksaviking
    I understand where you're coming from. I just hope the front office doesn't actually think Kepler is a key cog in this system.
  8. nicksaviking
    We agree on a lot, but not this one. Seems more likely they'll be interested in getting his salary off the books now. And personally, I don't want both him and Gallo manning the corners. I don't want Miranda to be the only young upside player in the lineup, I really want to make room for the young bats.
  9. nicksaviking
    This is nuts, and I'm all for it. I bet this worked out due to the pretty crazy AAV of those first six years. The Mets and other big clubs liked those long term deals to stretch out the payments, but the Twins did have one thing going for them in that they had next to no payroll commitments for the next several years. The high AAV upfront worked out for them.
  10. nicksaviking
    Ugh, looking at that list, "Top" free agents is obviously a relative term.
  11. nicksaviking
    Most outlets suggest the Twins salary goal could or should be about 160M this year even if only to pump up their upcoming broadcast rights negotiations. 10 years from now, the payroll should be closer to 200M, than it is to 150M. Whether it works out or not, whatever deal Correa signs now, will be yawned at by 2028. Heck, 10 years from now, payroll might be well north of 200M because revenue sharing and salary caps/floors are likely the only way the league will survive. The sport's going to be dead if there continues to be a 1000% difference between the top spending club and the bottom spending club.
  12. nicksaviking
    While certainly jealous, I didn’t begrudge the Mets and their new owner and his crazy spending. This is totally unacceptable and unprofessional though. The Mets KNEW the Giants had medical concerns and still offered that deal. Now they want to renegotiate? Fine, they can ask, but spare us the dramatics. They have zero right to be indignant and passive aggressive. And if they think passive aggressiveness is going to get the job done, ha, good luck! Upper Midwesterners are the kings of passive aggressiveness. You’re playing on our turf now.
  13. nicksaviking
    Agrees to terms between those hours. His signing hours are TBD. Funny thing will be, if he does change course back to MN, based on the last two months, no one will believe it to be true until ink is on the paper.
  14. nicksaviking
    Hendricks pitched three seasons for the Twins. Their foolishness stemmed from not trying him in the pen before cutting him loose. Looks like the Twins did start that with Enlow last year, but he was still in AA ball, and not doing well. I'm not terribly worried about him becoming great. I'll also be a dissenter in saying that I think the odds of him getting claimed are less than 50%. The bloom has been off of his rose since 2019.
  15. nicksaviking
    The Twins paid Joe Mauer 23m per year over a decade ago. It seemed scary. 28M twelve years later should be easy to stomach considering how inflation has hit the rest of the league. And I’m not scared of the injury stuff. Has a MLB player retired due to arthritis since Sandy Koufax?
  16. nicksaviking
    I don’t know about best, maybe capable. If they land him, seems more like they foolishly went all in on a straight draw and were lucky enough to hit it on the river.
  17. nicksaviking
    Well two of the last three off seasons, in early December the Twins walked into their offices, which were fully ablaze and surrounded by an angry mob. They then exited the offices the following calendar year, somehow unscathed and holding a baby dragon as a shocking new prize.
  18. nicksaviking
    The Mets have ZERO reason to be frustrated. They jumped in with an offer knowing full well the Giants had concerns. What are they frustrated about? The player not compromising?!? Why would he when the team ALREADY knew there was an issue yet offered and agreed to terms with him? Only team that should be frustrated is the Giants, who got stood up after 12 hours, not one month like the Mets got.
  19. nicksaviking
    I know lots of us had high hopes for him, but at this point, Enlow seems likely to be one of those guys who will end up getting claimed and DFA’d multiple times.
  20. nicksaviking
    I'm not sure if I agree that Boras' side would put this out there. They walked away from the Giants ASAP, now for a month there's been radio silence about the Mets deal. In most cases, it would be obvious Boras' team leaked it, but Correa was a luxury add for the Mets; they didn't really NEED him. And speaking of luxury, the Mets would be making a mockery of the luxury tax penalties which rubbed everyone the wrong way when this prospective deal was first announced. I think Boras would be foolish to goad the Mets, wouldn't they be just as likely to say, "Eh, go ahead, find a different home, this isn't worth it"?
  21. nicksaviking
    I know MLB owners NEVER dabble in collusion, but I still can't help but feel that the other major market owners are telling Cohen not to do this or they'll all risk greater, if not complete, revenue sharing, and that's the real reason for the hold up.
  22. nicksaviking
    Of all the questionable decisions the team made last year, never promoting Julian to AAA was among the most puzzling. If he keeps pitching well, hopefully the Twins do follow the aggressive path with Festa though. Having Varland going from A ball to the majors in a season at least shows they have a blueprint to work that angle.
  23. nicksaviking
    Oh yeah, I’ve really been singing the front office’s praises. That post was full of them and not completely the opposite. Have you seen Wacha’s stats prior to last year? Who’d trust this guy? Velocity, pitch selection, spin rate, nothing changed for the better with him, last year was a total fluke. If Wacha reverts back to his pre 2022 self, which is THE most likely scenario, this team is once again going to be pushing out another Bundy/Archer for 20-25 games this year. Terrible move. We can put your Ervin Santana and Michael Pineda against my Nolasco, Prelfrey, Perez, Bailey, Happ, Schoemacher, Bundy and Archer. We can even call Phil Hughes a draw. These kinds of pitchers are almost always a sucker bet. Run away.
  24. 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.
  25. 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.
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