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In Georgia there are no laws….
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Former Twins. Where are They Now? 2026 Edition
nicksaviking replied to stringer bell's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
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For me it's the guys like De Andrade or Noah Miller that drive me absolutely nuts when it comes to prospect rankings. The Twins JUST signed a shortstop who's defense would probably equal these guys and nobody is happy. They just DFA'd a shortstop these guys may aspire to and nobody noticed. Even if one was higher on the defense of these prospects, they'd still be guys who need to hit or they won't be more than AAAA waiver fodder. And if they had a career long enough to be free agents, if there's no offense, even the Twins can afford to pay the very minimal salary these guys would command. Prospects should be coveted for what they can bring that the Twins can't afford on the free agent market. Namely top end starting pitching and hitters in the center of a venn diagram of plus power/good on base skills/decent strikeout rate/AND good defense. Three of those areas still work. Two, maybe. Only defense? Never.
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Sounds like both sides agree at a 30M AAV, but Bellinger wants seven years while the Yankees want four or five. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6956135/2026/01/08/yankees-cody-bellinger-offer-30-million-aav/ Man, I love when the big market clubs make this mistake. How do these GMs not get overwhelmingly concerned when they notice a player recently has inconsistent yearly results, but the good results just so happen to occur in contract years?
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Nope, it's been bad. Zero international players signed by the Twins under this regime have made the majors as far as I can tell. NINE years, that's not acceptable. But they clearly knew that. They hired Kevin Goldstein away from the Astros (and away from Fangraphs) three years ago and then put him in charge of the international operations just in 2024. So, we probably shouldn't be looking at the signings from 2019-22, we should probably be looking at 2023-2025. Of course those players are still teenagers and mostly too young to evaluate, which sucks, but hopefully we at least start seeing SOME progress on this front in the coming years.
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Yeah, I was more than fine removing him from the roster. Just not for players that were just as bad or worse than him.
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This has become a trend with this organization since they slashed payroll. They seem to think they can take other teams' aging and poor hitting AAAA-type players and fix them. Yet this team has trouble getting the guys they already know to hit consistently, so I don't understand why they think they can change players they don't know. Seriously, what was the point of DFA'ing Ryan Fitzgerald and singing Orlando Arcia? It feels like this front office is really struggling with the grass is greener on the other side syndrome. Which is crazy because the grass they seem to envy is clearly not green.
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It also seems to me that we've had some of these mundane things pushed back before because the Wilfs' don't live here and there was a scheduling issue. But yeah, it could be something big brewing or it could be sensitivity to the local situation.
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The guy is so different than every other coach in the league, but it seems like everybody likes him. It even seems like the Dolphins were reluctant to fire him even though it felt like one of the most obvious coaching changes. But I think we can safely say Flores won't be interviewing in Miami. I know Flores to the Raiders was the hot take, but they've already lined up four interviews and Flores isn't one of them. So I'd have to think even if he eventually does get an interview, he's not at the top of their list. The Ravens scare me, but if they want a young defensive guy for the job, I'd have to think Antonio Pearce probably has the edge at this early stage. He's the known figure to that organization.
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Yeah, it’s a real sore spot for me. Still, I derailed the thread, sorry for the detour everyone.
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Two hours? I'm serious when I said I checked ESPN, PFT and even CNN after I saw your post, it wasn't anywhere. And why are you making it sound like I was defending Rice when I clearly was saying I wouldn't trust a thing I solely gleaned from the much derided and discredited X platform. It needs to go away; it is the world's biggest source of propaganda, disinformation and fear mongering. Unless someone actually knew that poster, how could you even determine that it was an actual human being? Waiting two hours for Mike Florio to vet the claim doesn't seem like such a terrible use of patience with the pitchforks. Ugh, I'm sorry for my tone. I know you and I are similar in our societal beliefs. I'm just really frustrated with the world that the norm is to now take random unvetted comments from social media and treat it as news. It's not news because journalists confirm sources. So if PFT, ESPN or CNN have to take a beat to do the leg work, perfect, it's how it should be. Mostly it's the people I don't see eye-to-eye who weaponize it, but I absolutely don't want to give clicks to their favorite tool.
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Come on, that was timestamp at 9:16, which was obvious while I was posting. I said a half dozen times I understood that I was missing context, but I’m not going to feel bad for not taking X innuendos as gospel. It’s not real journalism; so I’m happy actual journalists made the effort to disseminate this. Anyway, yeah, Rice snd Diggs can share a jail cell.
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The photos are terrible. Rice can go to jail and burn in hell. Truly, I’m just missing something with this as I don’t see where she says he did this to her. X and Elon can also go to jail and burn in hell and I have no interest in downloading that useless app so I apologize if I’ve lost context, I’ll sit this out until I can understand more from CNN, ESPN or even PFT. I looked to find out more but haven’t seen anything yet.
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Seriously, I’m not familiar with the platform. Mea culpa if she actually accused him of that. Is she KB? I don’t follow.
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Rashee Rice? Yeah the street racing thing was already bad. Im no anti-me-too caveman, but I might want to hear more about this. Reading the post, She says all kinds of dislikable things about him, but no physical abuse? I don’t do X though so maybe I don’t understand how this all works. Maybe there’s more I’m not seeing, but if he’s beating her, why didn’t she mention it?
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Things can change for sure, but I guess I didn't remember too much excitement about those three. People talked about them, but it seemed like it was more so due to a lack of other QBs to talk about. I remember more speculation about whether Manning would declare than if they would be good. Right now, I think Sayin and Manning would have to take a big step back for them to be in the same boat. And I like Sellers and Maiava way better than I ever liked them too.
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Right, except you stopped following baseball trends around 1985. He obviously has the talent, and he's showed that before. The adaption is the problem. 23-year-olds can't do their own laundry, yet they're supposed to understand how to adjust their swing planes, identify pitch patterns and improve their exit velocity? Hey, maybe the last coaches were great, and all the players were lost causes. OR since we still have those players, we can at least see if the new coaches can help these young people better understand how and why they need to adapt. I get that young people are the bane of your existence, but historically speaking, they do make for the best professional athletes if they have the help to understand the physics.
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The Ravens have requested interviews with Anthony Weaver and Klint Kubiak. The Weaver interview is a good sign for the Vikings holding on to Flores. Weaver is a youthful DC but cut his teeth with the Ravens. But so far I haven't heard Flores mentioned for any interviews, and most teams have not only announce a half dozen but started holding them. This is complete BS, he's a better candidate then just about everyone out there. Good for the Vikings though.
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He could definitely be this year's Jaxon Dart. The national draft wonks keep focusing on their same top three QBs while the teams who are doing their own evals and are less likely to fall for group-think end up rating him in the top two or three.
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Next year's QB class is looking pretty good right now, Moore might want to try his hand now when there's little competition.
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Yeah, he's small with a weak arm, he screams zero upside game manger at best. I really, don't like this QB class. The one guy I'd be interested in later in the draft is John Mateer. Not great numbers this year, but his coach at Oklahoma, Brent Venabals, clearly has zero idea what to do with the QB position, so I'd take a flyer on the chance it was coaching and not talent. But the Vikings can't and won't pick a mid-to-late round QB anyway. They won't move on from McCarthy, and they will 100% get a known back up QB. So anyone they draft they would have to hope can slip to the practice squad.
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Particularly the ones who inherited their wealth instead of figuring out how to become wealthy on their own.
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Rocco Baldelli? The team does have a new manager and the old one and his staff repeatedly demonstrated an inability to teach, adjust and give opportunities when young players struggled. And of all the players on the roster, Lewis was clearly the most frustrated by them. Lewis may very well still bust, but if the idea is that the new manager can get better results from young players, then the most physically gifted player on the team is the most likely to improve.
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I'm thinking there's a ton of 'group think' going on with NFL coaching hires. Why is everybody interviewing Matt Nagy? He last was a HC back in 2021 where things didn't go great with the Bears. Since then he's been back with KC where he's still not calling the plays and KC is coming off of their worst offensive season in over a decade. I could see why one or two teams might get the bright idea to kick the tires on him, but why is EVERYONE interested? And also why is nearly 60-year-old Lou Anarumo getting so many interviews? With him as DC, the Colts were an overall average defense at best and this comes after getting fired in Cincinnati where it's nearly impossible to get fired. And these aren't Rooney Rule guys who teams will give token interviews to, these are middle-aged (generous term) white dudes. The only thing I can think of is that if John Mara or Arthur Blank want to interview a guy, the other water-carrying and ineffectual owners think, "Oooh, I better interview that guy too!"
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I'm sure Flores would take the job if offered. It kind of feels like Jackson maybe needs to be handled with kids gloves at this point though. Not sure Flores has a pair of those.
