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  1. nicksaviking
    Tony Wolter’s is thrilled with your endorsement!
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    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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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?
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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"?
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. nicksaviking
    What are you talking about? My concern clearly is that there is no offensive line. This isn't a normal end-of-year sit-the-starters situation and you know it. And why do you keep saying I want them to lose? I've said in every post, they can still beat the Bears with backups. I also said that if your numbers say they should play the starters, they can go ahead and play the starters. But nobody should be shocked if this the game that where Cousins finally goes down and doesn't get up.
  13. nicksaviking
    I wasn’t advocating intentionally losing, because they should still beat a terrible Bears team that’s already motivated to lose. I also wasn’t advocating for resting players as is normally the case this time of year, just keeping them out of an unusually dangerous situation. Cousins is being protected by an Arena League quality line at the moment. If the data says play him go ahead, but the data points surely also say that this upcoming game is more likely than any other game to see him end up injured.
  14. nicksaviking
    The Cardinals will not give them a challenge. They’ve only won four games, none in a month and a half and all to other terrible teams. The playoffs don’t give you bravery points for playing your starters without a functional offensive line and the entire league has been taking cheap shots at will against your star WR all year long. Even so, this isn’t a loser mentality, it’s called hedging your bets. The Bears might be the one team the Vikings could beat while starting backups. The coach and GM are safe, weirdly, they will be trying to lose for draft position.
  15. nicksaviking
    Only if you think the 49ers are going to lose to the Cardinals.
  16. nicksaviking
    Only 20 sacks for the Bears all season. Think they get to 30 by the end of the year?
  17. nicksaviking
    I don't like the Rams or Titans odds in the playoffs either.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. nicksaviking
    One Kyle Farmer is enough for me, I'd not trade assets for a second.
  24. nicksaviking
    Fair take, though I’m not nearly as down on the minor league system as others. I like what I’m seeing from the young guys way more than I am from the vets. But that’s not even saying Lavine is the issue. If as I presumed, he IS in charge of roster building, it’s quite possible Joe Ryan and Jhoan Duran were his doing after all. Mostly, I’d like to switch it up to see what, if anything changes. Just to see if the problem is identifiable that way. This current “collaborative” structure isn’t producing enough wins. But is it the structure, or the parts it’s made of?. I don’t want “old school” baseball back as that’s certain to lose, but is the Terry Ryan “Czar” approach actually better, just minus the Terry Ryan?
  25. nicksaviking
    I still want to see Levine replaced first. If Falvey is supposed to be the system builder and he has dozens of collaborators who oversee specific areas of this world he's creating, Lavine must be the one responsible for roster construction and player acquisition.
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