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  1. nicksaviking
    Dang, starting to sound like what they were saying about Trea Turner as a prospect. Bummer.
  2. nicksaviking
    Well why stop being bold now, just plug Austin Martin in there. Joking. Mostly.
  3. nicksaviking
    Pineda + a bullpen arm might bring back a decent player instead of two non-descript players.
  4. nicksaviking
    Well it would have been boring to do all obvious predictions. Had to go off scripts somewhere!
  5. nicksaviking
    Yeah, there's just not a ton of value for corner bats and not a ton of value for guys with low on base skills. But I understand why he had value to Twins fans. He was an enjoyable player to watch and his energy was always needed. I still hope for the best for Eddie, definitely one of my favorites from this era.
  6. nicksaviking
    Eddie Rosario got traded for 67-year-old Pablo Sandoval? That's got to sting a bit.
  7. nicksaviking
    OK, just for fun, predictions for the rest of the day: Pineda gets moved within the hour for a surprisingly decent return. Simmons and Robles go for PTBNLs with the Twins eating half of Simmons remaining salary. Donaldson rumors pick up but they fall through at the last minute. Just before the clock strikes zero, the Twins trade Miguel Sano to Boston.
  8. nicksaviking
    That's a bridge too far for me. Buxton has said he's still open to an extension; the front office just needs to swallow their pride and accept that they can't always make deals that are uber-team-friendly.
  9. nicksaviking
    I'm glad the everyone is pretty stoked about Martin, seems like he's a pretty consensus top player. Going straight from college to AA isn't exactly a Twins move. We sure he's not going to be sent back to rookie ball? Is he going to develop any power though? He didn't hit too many out of the park in college either.
  10. nicksaviking
    I'd agree, they spend money but they're also smart with it. Their farm has been great. But of course it got that way because they went and bought the best GM in the league from the poorest team in the league.
  11. nicksaviking
    Yeah might as well hold on to him. If he performs well next year he’d surely see a spike in value. If he doesn’t, well the proposed package coming back isn’t too pretty right now. Though, he might be a good pot sweetener if they move Berrios.
  12. nicksaviking
    Unfortunately not. The rules still allow the team that picks him up to retain his rights until he's reached his service time limit. Really feels like it shouldn't be that way, but that's how it goes. The Twins have pulled that trick a time or two to good benefit. Brandon Kintzler comes to mind.
  13. nicksaviking
    Getting another SS for 2022 probably saves them from doing another long term contract for someone in the off season though, so that probably had auxiliary value the Twins couldn't offer.
  14. nicksaviking
    I mean, I hope the Twins are offering Simmons as part of any package. Simmons > Turner from what I've seen so far this year. Turner has been caught stealing* three times this year, Simmons has yet to be caught. *Sorry, best I could do. I was looking for counting stats to compare the two and that's the only thing I could find Simmons was better at this year.
  15. nicksaviking
    Interesting part that's not mentioned is that this would make it quite unlikely for the Dodgers to have interest in re-signing Corey Seager next year. If the Twins truly are not rebuilding, grabbing one of the multiple top end free agent SS next year would be high on my list.
  16. nicksaviking
    The Dodgers don’t really feel like a fit. Their pitches are rolling so well right now, Berrios might be their #5 even with Kershaw and Bauer out. He might not even make their playoff rotation.
  17. nicksaviking
    I like how Jon Hayman says the Scherzer deal isn't set in stone yet. We probably all overlooked the fact that the report that said it was a done deal was from Jim Bowden.
  18. nicksaviking
    I think that was a 2020 problem. Teams are certainly tighter with prospects then they were when Terry Ryan made a name for himself, but I think competitive teams who want to win now will still play ball. Mike Clevinger got Aries last year, and Quantrill was a top 50 guy the year before but he lost his prospect eligibility. The Padres also traded Taylor Trammel last year to Seattle. But last year was an infamously tight trade deadline, there weren't many sellers. In 2019 Greinke got Bakauskas and Corbin Martin. Somehow Shane Greene got Joey Wentz. Derek Fischer got moved but that was an oddball situation. Jazz Chisholm got moved too.
  19. nicksaviking
    Maybe I'm alone, but the Padres pitching prospects don't get me too excited. There have been whispers of concerns about Gore for longer than just his slump this year. I also have little interest in Weathers unless he was just some kind of auxiliary piece, which he won't be because he's got some hype now. If he can't miss bats and he's throwing a four-seamer and a slider, that's a big red flag in my book. League's going to catch up to him in short order giving up that much contact. Maybe that four-seamer is some kind of hybrid and it's more like a sinker? Either way, not interested.
  20. nicksaviking
    Maybe because what the Twins have been doing isn't working? That's a pretty bizarre take though. Teams have been trading known prospects for ever. Graterol for Meada seems like it was a pretty good deal for the Twins. They got next to nothing out of moving the "lower" tiered guys like Wade, Jaylin Davis or Nick Anderson.
  21. nicksaviking
    I support moving prospects, but how about instead we start dealing from the top of the deck? You get next to nothing when you move guys like LaMonte Wade. But as Wade and Baddoo have shown, the chances that the corner bats at the top of everyone's wish list end up being better than the guys at the bottom, are probably fairly small. Rooker for a Smeltzer type? Why? How about a Larnach or Kirilloff for something more substantial?
  22. nicksaviking
    Yeah. Too bad, I only want quality. Heck, if they’re keeping these guys and planning on making 2022 their Alamo, the Twins might as well be trading their organizational #6-40 prospects for guys who still have one year of control.
  23. nicksaviking
    Honestly, I think most people measure the quality of a transaction by the final production. People are going to speculate about the production prior to seeing the final results, that's human nature. However, it seems to me the people who measure the quality of a transaction by the amount spent, aren't doing so presenting it as fact, but on the odds that it will work out. I mean, I certainly disagree that using prognostication is an argument so I'd never support someone using it as fact, but if they're suggesting that greater investment is likelier to induce greater results, I'm obviously going to support that.
  24. nicksaviking
    Obviously teams can still win with small payrolls and teams can still lose with big payrolls. But it's indisputable that having a larger payroll gives you a greater margin for error. And this year, this organization is making errors by the boatload, so.......
  25. nicksaviking
    Two months of Starling Marte got Jesus Luzardo? I know Luzardo has struggled this year but still only 23 with great stuff. Color me interested in dangling Kepler around for everyone to see.
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