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  1. nicksaviking
    Right, if I have to settle for Daniel Hudson and Roenis Elias I will, but ugh, if that's the best this team can do, whether it's anyone's fault or not, this deadline is going to be a big let down after the flurry of rumors that have been flying for the last month.
  2. nicksaviking
    What if Sergio Romo ends up being the best reliever traded? Not just for the Twins, but the entire league. I'm worried that if the Pirates don't move Vazquez, there will be nothing but Romo-esque types available. This is disappointing, MLBTR is quieter this morning than it has been in two weeks. Bad vibes. Hopefully it's just the calm before the storm.
  3. nicksaviking
    I'll be pretty disappointed if there's not a significant addition to the pitching staff, preferably two or three. I'm starting to worry that very few pitchers of consequence are actually available though. I mentally departed with Kirilloff a week ago, so I'll hope there isn't a top end pitcher who gets moved who could have been obtained using him.
  4. nicksaviking
    Yeah, I could still make a list of players I'd want who I actually think will be traded, but that list is significantly shorter than it was a week ago when it looked like half the league was for sale. Still have 6+ hours for teams to change course though.
  5. nicksaviking
    I'm glad to see Celestino growing some pop, I used to think he had a Jarrod Dyson kind of ceiling. Becoming even a marginal MLB player like Dyson obviously is still a long shot, but I'm a bit more comfortable that he now does have a higher offensive ceiling than that.
  6. nicksaviking
    Seems like Giles is out, or at least he should be. Sounds like Syndergaard has mostly been a bluff this whole time. I've always been of the mind that AZ was too good and wouldn't actually sell, we'll see. If the Giants end up deciding to go for it and Pittsburgh holds on to Vazquez, we might not see as much activity today as everyone thought.
  7. nicksaviking
    I really want Syndergaard and think he can become an ace, but I don't think he is an ace right now. I'd guess if other clubs were willing to pay for future ace potential, he'd already be dealt. I'm not sure who, if any team will get him, but my money is on nobody meeting anything close to the Mets asking price. Not that it would impact my desire for Syndergaard, but I really liked Mickey Calloway as Cleveland's pitching coach, so the overall regression of the Mets' staff does have me a bit concerned. Maybe it's all the organizational dysfunction, or was there some kind of gimmick last year that the rest of the league figured out?
  8. nicksaviking
    I'd like an ace, but I don't know that one is available this year. Give me a reasonable Syndergaard deal; I'd be OK with Robbie Ray or Zack Greinke, but all of them would be slotting in behind Berrios.
  9. nicksaviking
    There are barely enough corner position spots available in Pensicola and Rochester for all the Twins decent bats let alone the MLB roster. I wouldn’t use the word expendable, but if there’s a stud pitcher I want, I’d give the other team their choice of any of them.
  10. nicksaviking
    I'd guess if the Twins get a starter in free agency, Perez will move back to the pen. But I'd bet Odorizzi is the 2nd option to move.
  11. nicksaviking
    Arizona is a really good team, I kind of think this trade talk is just to lay the groundwork for an off season Greinke trade. They'll have no idea of what they can afford in terms of payroll if they don't know how much of his contract they have to eat but they might get a good feel for it if they have dialogue with teams now. But if it is NOT a ploy, I'd have interest in Greinke. Perhaps the Twins could convince him to drop his no-trade request by convincing him that they will ALSO be getting additional big time talent, either in the rotation or the pen, which would not be terribly difficult to obtain considering Greinke's huge contract will spare the Twins most of their prospect equity.
  12. nicksaviking
    The Astros also got Gerrit Cole, Charlie Morton and Wade Miley to drop or reduce their 2 seamer usage, and appeared to have no interest in reuniting with Dallas Keuchel. My theory has been that the Twins don't like their starters using that pitch very much and it wouldn't surprise me if they've been taking their queues from Houston.
  13. nicksaviking
    I read that one as well, but of course that's what they'd ask for. I'm sure they also asked for every team's top two prospects, or a young stud arm that's already up.
  14. nicksaviking
    My guess is Dave has less intel on the subject than everyone on this board, unless he follows this site, MLBTR, the beat writers and national pundits, in which case he only has exactly as much intel on the subject as the rest of us. My further guess is that statistically speaking the odds that he is right are high, which is probably why he feels safe making such grand declarations.
  15. nicksaviking
    Uh....please remove this post before the karma police find it.
  16. nicksaviking
    Was it a competition this team really wanted to win? Seems like half of the posters her are luke warm on him at best.
  17. nicksaviking
    The Mets didn't give up almost nothing. But beyond that, the Twins have a bad infield defense and over the past two years the team has actively been reducing the two seamer from their starter's repertoire, Stroman would have been a complete divergence from this strategy.
  18. nicksaviking
    Yeah, I think Enlow is objective about this. He might like his teammates, he may like Cedar Rapids and Ft. Myers, he may really like the organization as a whole, but Royce Lewis is THEIR number one prospect, not OUR number one prospect.
  19. nicksaviking
    That “playoff” team was not a good team. They never seemed to have more than two or three players ever playing well at the same time. Upgrading that team would have futile, even half of the fans were saying it.
  20. nicksaviking
    I wonder if the talk of them selling is just a ploy to see if they can get a feel for how much of Greinke’s salary they’d have to eat and which teams would be a match. His salary is such a burden that they’ll probably need to know if they can move him before they can formulate an actual off season plan.
  21. nicksaviking
    Eh, not a Romo fan but like the starting pitcher in A ball. Diaz had next to zero chance with this team with all the corner bats in AA and AAA.
  22. nicksaviking
    I don't think it was widely reported, but I think it was generally assumed and his demeanor when on camera never construed to the fans that he wanted to be here, and it wasn't like he didn't know that being at the ballpark meant he could always be on camera. So, no damning evidence, but enough circumstantial evidence for me to pass.
  23. nicksaviking
    I didn't want Lynn when the Twins signed him last year because all he threw were fastballs, but since it was a one year deal I didn't much care. Since that signing he has mixed in his curve much more than he had in his prior seasons, and that does make him a little more attractive to me. But nowhere near attractive enough for me not to worry about a chemistry issue though. But every time the Twins sign a guy to a 3 year deal and trade discussions come up, many people here argue that you can't trade a guy you just signed to a multi year deal, it's bad optics and it might stain your reputation with future free agents. I'm not sure if that's true or not, but I'd bet Texas does not trade Lynn, particularly to a team he clearly wasn't happy playing for last year.
  24. nicksaviking
    Ha, yeah that one says the Mets should sell him at a “discount” which in his mind would be similar to the four prospect package (which included top prospects Frazier and Sheffield) Cleveland gave up for Andrew Miller PLUS another top 30 prospect. I’d normally presume the author meant organizational top 30, but with a New York publication, it’s quite possible he meant league top 30.
  25. nicksaviking
    Yeah but the Giants won 3 World Series the last of which was with an 88 win team and now franchise icons Bumgarner and Bochey are performing their swan song. They’ve got enough track record, history and emotion to buy in right now. Forgive me if I’m wrong, but weren’t you one of the fans unhappy with last year’s Twins sell off?
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