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  1. nicksaviking
    And Bieber was only drafted the summer before Falvey left. Throw in Zach McCallister and Justin Masterson along with Kluber, Carrasco, Bauer and Clevinger and it's clear that trading vets for young pitching is clearly the method we should have been expecting this whole time. Danny Salazar was the only starting pitcher of note that was a Cleveland product from Day 1, and he wasn't drafted, he came out of the DR.
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    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.
  3. 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.
  4. nicksaviking
    And they were only interested in Trey Lance if he’d have played DB instead if QB. Crazy how poorly get evaluate QBs.
  5. nicksaviking
    I never understood why Wilson was a lock for the #2 QB that draft. It made no sense but the Jets were deadset on picking him and it was a foregone conclusion months before the draft.
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    Yeah, the mobile version is a struggle.
  7. nicksaviking
    Credit to the Jets though for acknowledging the mistake. Wilson has pretty much been replaced by any healthy body multiple times. Extra credit to the Jets if they just release the guy this offseason.
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    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.
  9. nicksaviking
    Stop shooting it down!!!! It’s all calculated, a chip on the shoulder is the biggest advantage in sports. It takes a village to piss off your team.
  10. 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?
  11. 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.
  12. nicksaviking
    The vets played below their capabilities, they had injuries that they couldn't overcome, and they were way too slow in bringing in many of the young players. Everyone legitimately complained about them under performing last year, so I don't really think last year's record is a very good barometer for next year's predictions. They should be better, even without Correa. I'm beyond disappointed they didn't improve the team with a big time free agent or two as it was easily within their means, but they should be better next year anyway, simply by letting the younger, more talented players get more at bats and innings. As much as I hate this team getting away with a low payroll, I don't want them clogging up the roster with mediocre vets just because they have money to spend.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    10 for 285M was never getting this done and the Twins had to know that. He wasn’t going to do a deal less than, Seager, Lindor and Turner. Correa and Boras would probably have rather done another 1-year, make-good deal. But why wouldn’t the Twins know all about Correa’s medicals? They signed him last year. Did this uber conservative team just say screw it, we’ll do this potential 100M contract ? Because if there WAS something off with him, that would put the two 35M option years in a different light. Doubtful; they should have known all there was to know already, and more so than any other team. They needed no more time to vet this. But what really gets me is why is this coming from The Athletic?!? Where are OUR reporters? Doogie just did an interview with Falvey and Correa’s name never came up once. How the hell is that journalism?!?
  18. nicksaviking
    It has absolutely nothing to do with the AAV. The problem is that they KNEW 285M would not get him here but acted like they thought it would. Going to 285M but no higher says that they wanted people to think they were serious, because yeah, that's serious money, but they didn't really want to pay it. It'd be like me offering Bruce Springsteen 20K for a private concert and bragging to my friends about how I'm a high roller. That's too much money for me to spend, but obviously he's got better gigs lined up and wouldn't accept it anyway. It was either an act, or extreme naivety. Both options are problems in my mind.
  19. nicksaviking
    No penalties, the floor and cap should be firm, just as the other pro leagues. And I'd say the difference between the two should be 50M max, probably closer to 25M. Probably use the other four leagues as guideposts for that determination. Well, MLB could use the other leagues as guideposts for plenty of ideas at this point I guess. They ain't getting anything right as it stands now.
  20. nicksaviking
    It's miserable up here, I'm thinking Costa Rica? Not to vacation, but to buy the country of course.
  21. nicksaviking
    I think if you have to platoon your SS, you're probably not a very good baseball team. And if you're not a very good baseball team, you probably shouldn't be making TWO trades for shortstops that aren't good enough to start on their own.
  22. nicksaviking
    I'll be cheering for the Mets this year. Not because I like them and I'm happy with this situation, but because the best way to get a national discussion about revenue sharing and salary caps and floors is by having the Mets win a bought championship which is exponentially more egregious than what the Dodgers and Yankees have done in the past.
  23. nicksaviking
    Boras has repeatedly said he doesn't go back to teams to give them a chance to top the highest bidder. Going to the Mets tracks with what was happening leading up to the Giants deal. The Mets were late to the table with a 300M+ deal. The Giants deal started to fall through, so Boras went to his next highest offer. He would have NEVER come back to the Twins, the Twins would have had to come back to him, with an offer higher than the Mets, and they'd have had to do it prior to last night. They have Boras' number, and they saw the news just as we did. Boras didn't need to spell anything out for them. When they didn't bump up their offer even after Bogaerts and Turner signed, Boras tried to pump them up and throw platitudes about the Twins being big shots, but the Twins never took the bait and let their offer stand, knowing it was not good enough.
  24. nicksaviking
    No, why? This isn't 1985, shortstops are not supposed to be offensive blackholes any longer. Mateo, Kiner-Falefa, I wish people would stop talking about trading assets for these bat-less options. Are these guys supposed to be stop gaps? Or long term players? Because why would you trade prospects for a stop gap and why would anyone want a guy who can't hit to be the long term answer? Lots of people THINK they want a guy with a stud glove, offense be damned, but after two months of failing to bring runners home, the whole state is calling for Andrelton Simmons and Pedro Florimon to be replaced.
  25. nicksaviking
    I was excited to hear that, until I heard Doogie ask the first question, in which Doogie himself tried to justify FOR FALVEY, why Joey Gallo was a good signing. It was clear it was going to be Twins promotional material from there, no tough questions. And Carlos Correa's name must be like the Candyman, neither man dare spoke it out loud, even though Falvey stammered for a second at the end when discussing Farmer. After that interview, I'm honestly more disappointed in Doogie. Give us something new, there are plenty of non-meatball questions that could have been asked, and it wouldn't have had to be confrontational.
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