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  1. nicksaviking
    I don't want quantity, I want quality. I just want that quality to be AA and AAA players. So yeah, give me the best prospects AND the prospects that are closest to the majors; because I think they are largely the same thing. I understand that's a bigger ask than most teams will part with, but that's why I have much less interest in trading for prospects than I did a decade ago. This isn't turn of the century Terry Ryan baseball anymore, the team buying the good MLB player wins the trade just about every time these days. So if push comes to shove and the Twins must trade, while I wasn't as interested in the return for the Duran trade as most, Abel was the significantly better get in my book. An A ball catcher with thus far only modest offensive production? The evaluators can drool all they want, that seems like a major long shot at being a top end MLB player. That far away there are so many more ways for things to fall apart. I'm fine that others feel different about this.
  2. nicksaviking
    Martin got traded mid season between rankings though. While the Blue Jays surely sold the Twins on his lofty rankings, the ranking wonks just as surely were already kicking him down their lists as it had already become clear he was only a station-to-station slap hitter.
  3. nicksaviking
    While I agree with the sentiment that this team isn't terribly close to competing, I personally would hardly ever rank players in A ball in any top 50 list; mostly just the cream of the crop from the most recent draft. My lists would almost exclusively be AA and AAA players who everyone has a significantly better idea about.
  4. nicksaviking
    And even if that money didn't buy the prospects, it did buy the best PoBO and supporting front office personnel and likely the best scouts, MiLB instructors and facilities in the league. And of course it paid for the best PR team to hype those players onto such lists, if one were to believe in such conspiracies.......
  5. nicksaviking
    Honestly, I'm probably less convinced than many that he'll completely bust. But two years is all I'm giving him or any rookie QB. I know, he was hurt, but it's not fair to the fans or the rest of the organization to wait on JJ any further than that. This team just has to try again, otherwise they are aimless and acting out of desperation. And I won't be butt hurt when he turns his career around with another team a few years down the road; that's been the trend lately and it's part of what you need to accept when drafting a young QB.
  6. nicksaviking
    Right, the Twins traded half of their team last July and didn't net a single consensus top 100 prospect. I'm not sure what a super farm looks like, but the Twins certainly aren't going to be able to trade for one.
  7. nicksaviking
    A conversation about having hope is what I most fear. If there isn't either near consensus conviction or accepted resignation, we as Viking fans are once again looking at an unclear path forward. A third year of playing 'Is he or Isn't he?' is the worst case scenario.
  8. nicksaviking
    As a Twins fan I hope the Twins get lucky with the draft lottery. As a baseball fan and a rational and objective human being, the franchise and the Pohlads absolutely do not deserve to further benefit from the financial shenanigans and incompetent organizational management they've been operating under for the last several seasons.
  9. nicksaviking
    And is there anything McCarthy can do at this point that would make us all say, OK, he should be starting next year? I don't want to cheer against him, but at this point, ambiguity is the most disastrous outcome for this team. So I think this team is better off if it continues to be obvious that he's going to need to take a backseat and hope to revive his career in another location.
  10. nicksaviking
    I don't remember, but looks like Lane was born in 1975 so he would have spent the later part of his childhood tied to the Vikings as his dad was a long time coach during the Burns and Green years. So yeah, if he had a favorite team growing up, it was almost certainly the Vikings.
  11. nicksaviking
    I don't know, maybe I'm low on my expectations for Hoskins' salary in 2026 but what is he going to get? 10M? 10M free agents tend to be a waste of payroll and roster spots, but Hoskins would be an upgrade to Julien and Clemens. Unlike them, at least he can still get on base even if we're not sold on his power. 1B is kind of the black hole spot, is there a different player at 1B the Twins should be looking at? Obviously I'd like Alonso, but we all know better than that. I don't think there's a 10M free agent at any other position I'd want starting every day. And spreading out that money to two or three or four even worse players who are taking up roster spots is my biggest pet peeve with this organization.
  12. nicksaviking
    Any or all of them may still be good, but unless we only look at Abel's last start for the Twins, I don't see how it could be considered a good debut. I'm not sure how Tait's sub .700 OPS is a trend in the right direction either. I'm not writing anyone off, I'm just saying if we are doing a retro-active review after only four months, hardly any of these guys have actually improved their stock.
  13. nicksaviking
    If we're doing an evaluation today, instead of say last August, I don't know how anyone can claim the Twins won. I'm fine pinning a big TBD on the fire sale, but just about every one of the players the Twins got back face planted at whatever level they were placed at. Henry Mendez looks like he continued his trajectory, but doesn't just about everyone else look worse now than they did when the Twins acquired them?
  14. nicksaviking
    They seem to have some really talented young players though, along with a patient owner. That's going to be a really desirable landing spot for whomever is next year's hot available coach.
  15. nicksaviking
    I hope he does, but he'd have to become less stubborn about what kind of offense he runs. You can't win while being a ball-control, run heavy team with a statue pocket passer in this league any longer. You either have to have a high-flying passing attack, or you need a stud O-line and a QB that's as dangerous on the ground as the RB. Based on his track record, Tomlin wants nothing to do with either approach.
  16. nicksaviking
    The Bears do look good. And I think it's a complete sham. Caleb Williams does not look like he's actually improved off of last year. His competition percentage has actually gotten worse and he absolutely cannot get the ball to his best playmaker and receiver, Rome Odunze. It seems the thing Ben Johnson has fixed with him is taking fewer sacks, but that's probably partly a product of him getting rid of the ball faster, and partly a product of Chicago's successful offseason attempt to fix the OL.
  17. nicksaviking
    Even if Buxton actually wants to get traded, that doesn't mean the Twins actually want to trade him. I know everyone dislikes the Pohlad's as much as I do, but I don't think they will, or will be allowed to run a payroll south of 100M. Plus, he's possibly the only player on the team that actually puts fans in the seats.
  18. nicksaviking
    Not really. Keaschall will be the only hitter on the 26-man who will be under 25. Overall the roster is only the 10th youngest, and most of the Twins youth is pitching and most of that won't break camp with the big club. Between Outman, Gasper, Fitzgerald, McCusker, Kreidler, Clemens, Jackson and Pereda it looks like the Twins think they have found the next eight Justin Turners. Certainly a really solid use of roster space for a non-competitive rebuilding team.
  19. nicksaviking
    So KOC is already saying that McCarthy is going to clear concussion protocol and be ready for next week. I do a lot of fantasy football, so I follow a ton of players who've been out with concussions. I don't remember ever hearing this kind of presumption on a Monday. This type of injury almost always comes with ambiguity and uncertainty and no one ever talks like the guy will be cleared before he actually IS cleared late in the week.
  20. nicksaviking
    This seems to come up every few years, and this is the problem statement because the owners, or whomever making this call thinks that ONE season should be THIS season. It doesn't work that way. The reset doesn't start when you have an old aging roster, it happens after you purge them. And I agree, not with this GM. Can't waste year after year of draft picks.
  21. nicksaviking
    If the Bengals fire Zac Taylor, the Vikings should bring him in as OC. No idea if he'll be any good, but I agree KOC needs someone else coming up with gameplans. And the OL coach has to be replaced. Preferably by somebody who has previously had success as an OL coach. I know Chris Kuper was previously only an assistant OL coach and it was under the really bad Vic Fangio coached Bronco teams.
  22. nicksaviking
    Here's how I see it. The only way McCarthy is starting next year is if he develops a miraculous comprehension of the game in the last several weeks of the season and it's clear to everyone that he's going to be good. Presuming that does not happen, even if the top brass believe in him, they aren't going to be able to handle an off season where he is still their Plan A. That's assuming they survive the offseason to begin with. This is the absolute worst this franchise has looked nationally since the Love Boat scandal; they are going to want to paint a new picture for 2026. Now free agency doesn't start until March and the draft isn't until May, so unless he's traded or cut the team may play coy and not publicly talk about a QB change, but it seems next to impossible that McCarthy is the intended starting QB next season.
  23. nicksaviking
    Yup, I get it. My point is only that if the Vikings are hoping McCarthy makes a reversal akin to Young, they shouldn't bother; that's not good enough and they should start over.
  24. nicksaviking
    But why is Justin Jefferson the exception? Star wide receivers have down years due to bad QB play all the time, and they don't tend to get traded because of it. In Wentz's five starts, Jefferson averaged 95 yards on 10 targets with 7 catches per game. And the team basically played like a .500 club. That's not acceptable to me, but even a below average QB like Wentz puts Jefferson's numbers back on track and makes this team forgettably average.
  25. nicksaviking
    If this team is hoping McCarthy can pull a Bryce Young reversal, all is lost. That bar is unacceptably low. If the Panthers are serious about winning, they should already be looking to upgrade their QB, and I bet they are having those discussions.
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