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  1. nicksaviking
    My assumption is they will unless no one wants them. I can't see anyone wanting Morrison, Rodney and Lynn are probably borderline and might need the Twins to eat their salary; possibly August trade guys. But Dozier and Duke should be moved by tomorrow at the very least to avoid fence straddling.
  2. nicksaviking
    But I don't think they are re-blowing it up. Cashing out your rental players in a losing season is what all teams do. Pressly is a bit of a different story, but the Twins are looking at about $80M in available free agent money with Kimbrel, Familia, Herrera, Britton, Allen and Matt Belisle available on the free agent market. The players they got back are lotto tickets, they can keep them and see if the multitude of them produce some good players in the future, or they might use them to go get JT Realmuto in the off season. Or a starting pitcher. Or a shortstop. They're just giving themselves so many more avenues to make the team better in the next couple of years. And for what it's worth, La Velle has reported that the Twins tried to extend Escobar prior to trading him.
  3. nicksaviking
    This team has been doing things wrong for so long they've put themselves behind the 8 ball. Most of these poor decisions were made by men who were trying to get every futile win they could despite having terrible teams, and they almost surely did it because they thought if they could get 75 wins instead of 65 wins they might keep their jobs. This organization's ceiling has been ALDS runner up, not WS champion because the goal has only been to simply make the playoffs. The team's odds of making the playoffs are crap and the energy coming off of 80% of the players and the manager are crap. They have tons of expiring contracts and they are going to have more payroll flexibility than even most of the big market teams next year. I know it sucks, another season of watching losing baseball, which likely wasn't going to change with or without Escobar. However, there is a real chance to stock the system like the best clubs have been doing and then go crush it in free agency or via trades to fill the holes over the next couple of years. This really only sucks because they should have done this in 2011 and/or again in 2014-15 but they didn't, they wasted damn near a decade because they were too afraid to rip off the band aid.
  4. nicksaviking
    'This team needs to get to the point where four game winning streaks are the norm, not the high point of the season before they'll be a real contender.
  5. nicksaviking
    ***Moderator Note*** I've hid a couple of off topic posts that were getting personal. Winning or losing, the trade deadline always brings out strong emotions but let's try to keep them from boiling over.
  6. nicksaviking
    If the players are mad, they should be mad at each other, they were the ones who put themselves in this position with their terrible play. I'm sure the Twins will go on another winning streak. Then another streak where they bottom out. Good teams don't play this inconsistently as we've seen them do since Molitor took over.
  7. nicksaviking
    Judging by the last two days the prospects are valuable trading piec s. I'm not sure if the outfielders will develop power, but I've long advocated for the Twins to be trend setters, not followers. If a team is going to break the current fad if HR/K exclusivity, it's going to be to continually load the bases with high OBP guys.
  8. nicksaviking
    Looks like three intriguing players; even the guy who's not "ranked" is putting up pretty nice numbers. His lack of ranking likely has more to do with his draft position. Good move but it's bittersweet, Escobar was one of my favorites. Here's to the DBacks winning it all and getting him a ring and here's another hoping the Twins see room for a reunion with him this off season.
  9. nicksaviking
    I thought Michael Helman was going going to be the new Brian Dozier but maybe it will be Davis! Fourth year college senior middle infielders from major conferences do seem to have a higher than usual rate of becoming mid-round steals.
  10. nicksaviking
    It's probably hard to be selective when you're crushing everything. I'd hope we'd find out more if he can be selective once teams start pitching around him. Though I wouldn't complain too much if he has that Vlad Guerrero/Eddie Rosario gene where he can somehow barrel up any pitch anywhere.
  11. nicksaviking
    Poor Aguilera. I'm not on Twitter, but are any of the Twins beat reporters getting any kind of useful information? With so many moves over the last couple of days it's hard to believe one of them can't get something along the lines of "The Twins were talking to such and such about so and so until such and such traded for whatshisname instead".
  12. nicksaviking
    With so many of the contenders already making moves, mostly in the bullpen area, I'm starting to get concerned.
  13. nicksaviking
    But that's assuming you want the player for multiple years and that you want him for as many years as what's being offered on the open market. Not that I'm necessarily against a couple more years of Escobar but the front office doesn't appear to like longer term deals. You might find yourself in the offseason wanting one year, maybe two, bidding against teams that will offer three with an option for a fourth.
  14. nicksaviking
    Thus far in the majors Slegers has thrown more sliders than changeups, both of which have been effective. Both his two-seamer and four-seamer have gotten crushed though.
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    Put me down as intrigued then.
  16. nicksaviking
    Wells has gotten good-not-great strikeout numbers in Ft. Myers. Anyone know his velocity? So many of these taller pitchers don't throw too hard and are more of control pitchers. I've got my fingers crossed with Wells but it would be nice if someone could confirm he doesn't really fit the Chris Young, Jon Rauch, Aaron Slegers pitching profile. Does Wells throw hard and/or does his breaking stuff have good movement?
  17. nicksaviking
    Well that's not for a lack of effort on the part of his dad. Breekie18 is killing it in the Adopt-A-Prospect forum. http://twinsdaily.com/topic/28928-donny-breek-2018/
  18. nicksaviking
    I'd hate to see Gibson go because he's the clear #2 for this team right now and ideally would be a great #3-4 on a contending Twins team next year. But if they don't feel the team will have the pieces to win it all next year and can get a haul for Gibson + now, I guess it's a no-brainer.
  19. nicksaviking
    You were concerned that $17M was too much of a risk, not resigning the players. Payroll isn't going to be an issue, they could overpay Dozier or Escobar for one year or sign Eduardo Nunez for $4M or give Neil Walker a minor league deal and they'll be in the exact same situation, that being a veteran on a one year deal. They should be choosing who'd they like best and get that person, salary be damned as it's not going to be a factor in 2019. There are no such thing as tight purse strings with a $45M payroll.
  20. nicksaviking
    This is the second mention of Corey Ray being a trade target I've found on our site today. Is this flowing from some national report or is it just a TD theme because Milwaukee has pretty good OF depth? He seems like an awfully good prospect for most of what the Twins have to offer.
  21. nicksaviking
    For a team with a 45M payroll? I don't see the risk. I don't think a QO is necessary but it's not risky; it in no way would prevent the Twins from signing anybody and everybody they want to next year.
  22. nicksaviking
    Why don't they just sign him as a free agent then? An extension likely isn't going to cost any less than a new deal in free agency and you can't force a player to sign an extension, why would he want to now? Get more assets now while we can.
  23. nicksaviking
    Had Kirilloff stayed healthy, Kepler might be nervously looking over his shoulder right about now!
  24. nicksaviking
    Gonsalves was always said to have decent control, still, at all levels he threw too many pitches. I'm putting my money (once again) on the belief that he's a nibbler and has always gotten the lower level guys to chase out of the zone which is how he racked up the strikeouts despite not having top end stuff. The AAA guys probably aren't chasing.
  25. nicksaviking
    I don't know why we'd expect a guy who can't stay healthy to suddenly get healthy at 36. Joe might go about his business in a professional manner and not get into trouble, but if he was actually a clubhouse leader who helped make an impact on the young guys, I doubt every free agent rumor we'd hear each off season would be about a corner/DH type who the team desperately wants for his leadership qualities.
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