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  1. nicksaviking
    Foot on the throat. Go down and score again.
  2. nicksaviking
    Spot of the ball. Looked like a first down. Should be upheld.
  3. nicksaviking
    Screen passes= fail.
  4. nicksaviking
    Ha, which is still better than Zach Wilson.
  5. nicksaviking
    His ceiling was always Flacco/Dalton. Obviously a team with Flacco can win a championship, but not because of Flacco. It just seems like the most likely scenario with such a player is that he’s good enough to keep you average, but not good enough to put you over the top. Which is basically NFL purgatory. And to be clear, he’s playing nowhere near his Flacco/Dalton ceiling. He’s looking way more Christian Ponder.
  6. nicksaviking
    I’m all for giving him a shot to tear it up in the bullpen, but I don’t know that he “earned” anything. He was pretty terrible last year despite his stuff. Not entirely his fault, the Twins had zero business pushing him as a starter most of the year. It was clear from the get go that his only path to success was in the pen.
  7. nicksaviking
    deGrom got five years, 185M? Id love to have him but that seems like about 10M per start. Texas doesn’t seem to do anything right these days. With that in mind, my condolences to deGrom for never wining a playoff series again. Maybe we can start a club.
  8. nicksaviking
    Yeah, I’d rather see Ober/Varland/SWR/Winder. But it’s the Rays, so he’ll probably end up winning the Cy Young next year.
  9. nicksaviking
    Thankfully he won’t pitch in Cincinnati much. It’s significantly lower everywhere else.
  10. nicksaviking
    Well if his value is equal to, Lee, Duran and Arraez, that would suggest Toronto's back up catcher is better than anyone the Twins already have. Bold take you have there.
  11. nicksaviking
    For a guy who's only year as the starter saw him put up a .640 OPS? The value you seem to be putting on him would make him the Twins best player. The Blue Jays would ask for one of Lee or Duran, then hear a dial tone. Not that I really have interest in him anyway.
  12. nicksaviking
    I really like Joe Ryan, but I rarely like 33-year-old pitchers. Not dis-similar to the Kyle Gibson situation, but I think the Twins already have Ryan under contract for pretty much exactly as long as they want to have him under contract.
  13. nicksaviking
    I'm not selling low on Polanco. He seems like a pretty decent bet to rebound. But if you can trade him for near peak value, sure, I'd listen.
  14. nicksaviking
    One hotel on the stadium side of the interstate and another hotel on the other side. And a Taco Bell. The stadiums are the only thing to do see in that part of town. Not even a bar to walk to to wait for game day traffic to thin out.
  15. nicksaviking
    I've bought two fridges since I last bought a jersey.
  16. nicksaviking
    Looks like Joe Pohlad is getting off to a rocky start around here..... I might have wanted to do something to make myself look approachable and generous BEFORE hawking unaffordable merchandise, like maybe signing a big time free agent shortstop. Fans then might see a more beneficial correlation between the two events, even if there actually wasn't one. I guess Christmas presents at the country club don't wait on free agency.
  17. nicksaviking
    Booth was always injured in college and high school. I know a lot of people liked the pick, but just like the rest of the draft, he really was a terrible decision, especially considering the players they passed up to get him. DBs and WRs are the one position where the guy can rarely play through an injury. Run far, far away from the DBs who can't stay healthy in college.
  18. nicksaviking
    Since when do the Twins give big contracts to free agent veteran pitchers? I like the contract structure listed above. The first four years are a huge commitment, but as the team clearly looks to be using low cost young players for at least the next couple of years, it won't be a problem until MAYBE year four. And ONLY year four. After that, the contract in comparison to the total spending won't be any different than Joe Mauer's, and Joe Mauer's was never once an issue.
  19. nicksaviking
    As vilified as the ownership of this team has been, the Twins have been consistently near the top of the spending hierarchy amongst the mid and lower revenue clubs under Jim Pohlad. Likely nothing will change, but this kind of seems like a Dance with the Devil you Know kind of situation.
  20. nicksaviking
    I don't want the White Sox to get useful players, but I had no interest. The Twins don't need to fill in the back of the rotation, I'd rather go with whomever is healthy among the Maeda/Mahle/Ober/Winder/Varland/SWR crowd than a guy like Clevinger. I'm sure they will sign some AAAA vet they can stick in St. Paul all summer in case of an emergency, but otherwise, they should only be looking at starters who can slot in above Gray and Ryan. From my estimation, there's only two or three of those such free agents this year.
  21. nicksaviking
    We would have removed this thread had it been a heinous offense. It clearly was a non-TwinsDaily affiliated error that can now be kept in perpetuity for us to rue when it turns out Johan was a late-blooming HOF shortstop we missed out on.
  22. nicksaviking
    I'd be concerned about the dramatic drop in power last year, not to mention they already have multiple guys who likely need the 1B/DH spots. But I guess, if they miss on the shortstops and Rondon, they really have nowhere else to spend their money, so go for it. It would almost certainly be an overpay, but you don't get a trophy for allotting your payroll the most appropriately. The Twins have had quite a bit of success with these long-in-the-tooth legacy type hitters in the past.
  23. nicksaviking
    If all you care about is the defense, you could swap Kepler for Billy Hamilton and save $8M. I mean, no one wants that, but no player is worth 8M just for their defense.
  24. nicksaviking
    Are they rope-a-doping teams? Are they intentionally playing super soft D for three quarters, then doing the opposite in the fourth? The first part of that equation is certain, I’m just not sure about the 4th Q. Are they playing different? Or are they just getting lucky? Also, they need to stop with the screen passes on offense; they are always getting blow up. Not sure why exactly, but they seem to fail at an unbelievable rate this year.
  25. nicksaviking
    https://www.mlb.com/dodgers/news/dodgers-needs-in-2022-23-offseason The Dodgers too aren’t expected to go after the four shortstops. So far, the rumors this off season are working in the Twins favor.
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