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  1. nicksaviking
    I was just going back through the game logs, and maybe I'm the only one, but I forgot that this time in 2024 Lewis had an OPS over 1.000. His decline at the end of 2024 and through 2025 are basically a perfect match to the Twins team as a whole going in the tank. I know the guy can be a handful, and he's been unbearably inconsistent since the end of 2024, but now that I recall (?realize?) he was a legit MVP contender back when the Twins were actually still playing good baseball, I want to give him a long enough leash to see if he can do it again should the Twins ever again find themselves playing good baseball.
  2. nicksaviking
    I think Culpepper is going to be a good reliever, but it looked like he hit a wall about a month ago. Seems kind of odd and maybe irresponsible to have him start and go three innings. Probably needs to be a one inning guy through the rest of the season.
  3. nicksaviking
    I'd be willing to split the difference with you two and call up the left handed Hendry Mendez instead.
  4. nicksaviking
    Yeah, but if they want the glove, they'd believe in Jackson over Caratini. At this point, I'm not very sold on Caratini's bat either.
  5. nicksaviking
    Jackson is cheap so I'm with you, he'd get claimed. Caratini's contract isn't exactly attractive though so I could see any team interested gambling that nobody else will claim him and then being able to sign him on the Twins dime. But I'd still be Ok with that.
  6. nicksaviking
    Yeah, I think it's been bad load management regarding Rojas. Looks like he's at 51 innings pitched across MLB/AAA this year, and he threw 69 innings last year. You'd like to think he was going to be pushed to 100+ innings and he's not going to get anywhere close. But mostly, I want to get Matthews in the pen and experienced for the role before next year. It often doesn't go very smoothly when these guys are only told they're no longer starters when they report to camp.
  7. nicksaviking
    The Twins added another lefty in Minter to the pen, I don't get why Matthews is still in the rotation over Rojas. And I'm seriously not giving up on Matthews, I REALLY want to see what he looks like in late inning relief. I think he's this team's future closer; he can drop his changeup which doesn't work and his four seamer is going to be touching 99 MPH once he's a one inning guy.
  8. nicksaviking
    Seems like a given that if the Twins go back to two catchers, Jackson is the odd man out, but should he? Typically the 2nd catcher is the defensive specialist, and that's not Caratini. Caratini has the flexibility of playing 1B, but when he does, it seems more like they are trying to find ABs for him. The Twins missed the boat trying to trade either, but the Yankees still need a catcher and now the Dodgers are down their top two catchers; if the Twins were looking to get out of Caratini's salary in 2027, now would be the time to try (and fingers crossed, fail) to pass him through waivers. This team really shouldn't be carrying three catchers, and I'm guessing they won't want to lose Jackson for nothing considering he's playing pretty well. Obviously the Twins shouldn't worry about 7M in 2027, but they will, and if they're paying Caratini that amount, they'll once again feel compelled to use him as more than just a 2nd catcher, regardless of who the primary catcher is next year.
  9. nicksaviking
    I think the offense will be fine. Maybe not elite, but they'll move the ball. I presume everyone here thinks Murray is better than Wentz? The Vikings averaged 24 point a game last year under Wentz even with that San Diego sack-fest debacle. And that included playing the excellent Browns and Eagles defenses too. And during that non-McCarthy stretch, Jefferson was on pace for 115 catches on 170 targets for 1600 yards. So at minimum, I'm looking forward to the return of the original JJ.
  10. nicksaviking
    Should be fun. Calling up prospects when the veterans on the team feel they are chasing a playoff spot always seems to be a better atmosphere for the rookies than when the team is just going through the motions trying to play out another lost season.
  11. nicksaviking
    It's Princess Leia's home planet, duh.
  12. nicksaviking
    Then the logjam is the non-good players. And they can start DFA'ing them any time now as far as I'm concerned.
  13. nicksaviking
    I don't think you were wrong about Larnach, but I don't think the opposite side was wrong either. I don't think anyone argued that Larnach was bad, just that this kind of player is redundant and other clubs aren't interested. Larnach is a decent player but at the same time, he also clearly has next to no trade value. A rental reliever? and the OTHER owner pulled the plug?
  14. nicksaviking
    They haven't been over .500 since what, May? They haven't played their way into contention, other teams have simply played their way out. This is not a championship caliber team, they need to start taking steps and focusing on what can be a championship caliber team next year. That means getting the higher ceiling young players ready to play and contribute next year.
  15. nicksaviking
    Yeah, I am/was on board with selling high. But if 'high' is a rental reliever, pass.
  16. nicksaviking
    The Twins should definitely look to trade Larnach this winter, but I don't get why HE specifically is the logjam. Bell, Gray and Kreidler are also not long term pieces and unlike Larnach, are not hitting well. You could easily add Martin and Roden to that list as well.
  17. nicksaviking
    I was good standing pat, giving the reps to the young relievers and hitters and going all in for 2027, but that's not a popular take so I get why they felt they had to make moves. But it kind of feels like they were making moves as fan service. Fans were talking about the bullpen so that's what they went at, but the bullpen had started to come into it's own after a half season of tinkering and it seemed more than clear that Ryan was hitting the wall, Ober hit the wall 18 months ago and the young starters were probably close to their inning totals anyway. This team TALKED about spending money, and sure, 8M is nothing to sneeze at, but it's still only a quarter of what they cut last off season, so the team still took a discount there. If they'd truly wanted to put their money where their mouth was, shouldn't they have gone after one if not two of Gausman, Peralta, Ray, May or Holmes instead of Kremer? These guys went for virtually no player equity.
  18. nicksaviking
    Seems fairly similar to the Purdy/Lance situation. Maybe you get a 4th for JJ? But the coaches, GM and players would most likely see not having a (below average) QB controversy as more valuable than the draft pick.
  19. nicksaviking
    The bum went 0-4 with a GIDP. Already a bust!
  20. nicksaviking
    I didn't care for the player but I agreed with the pick as I felt they had to finally take a shot at a QB. And originally I thought the odds were still good that McCarthy could turn into a good QB for the Vikings. I just hate that this team can't/won't do what it takes to shoot for one of the best QBs in the draft. I know they tried to trade up for Maye, so I suppose I should give them the benefit of the doubt that adding more to the offer still wouldn't have worked, but I don't know. Adding Addison to the deal? Adding another 1st? Of course with this looking to be another average Vikings team, they'll still likely be looking at the 4th/5th/6th best QB in this next draft class if they stay in their draft position.
  21. nicksaviking
    I bet he's traded before the season starts. If KOC and the Vikings know he's bad and worse than Murray, they will not want him looming on the sidelines for the fans and media to speculate about every time Murray has a rough day.
  22. nicksaviking
    That sounds pretty good to me. Two years to find a replacement for what would be a 33-year-old RT. It would be great if that guy is already on the roster in Tiernan.
  23. nicksaviking
    Healthy, not sure about good. I just think the ceiling is so low. And that's my real frustration with this move. Because if the Twins have/will spend some amount of money next year, I really only want them to use it to get a legit middle of the order bat, not a Josh Bell or Carlos Santana, but someone who real contenders would want to use in the middle of the order (and that seems very unlikely) OR to get another top of the rotation arm. Like they did with Lopez, Gray, Maeda and Odorizzi. That does NOT sound unlikely as the Twins have done this many times. So that rotation would be looking at Ryan, New Guy, Lopez, Bradley and ..... Kremer? Hell no. I don't even want him as an option. They have to at least leave one spot for a higher ceiling arm who could can develop into a Ryan/Lopez when they're gone the following year. Abel, Rojas, Prielipp, out of the equation again?
  24. nicksaviking
    Have you read the responses? Or ever visited this site? There are like three claps in a mob of boos. Ownership most definitely has not 'conditioned' the fan base unless they conditioned the fan base to despise ownership with the fury of a thousand suns. And considering I was a negative nancy about the situation, yeah, for sure any conditioning has been to repudiate everything they do. Even when the repudiation is uncalled for.
  25. nicksaviking
    I know you're absolutely not a Pohlad mouthpiece, as I vividly remember your series on their bungling of their business assets and how they were using that as an excuse to kill the Twins payroll and pin the losses on potential new buyers. But I agree with others, they aren't getting any benefit of the doubt in regards to payroll until they are back to above middle of the pack. When Tom Pohlad came out this winter and said they were going to compete after dropping payroll by 30M it sounded hollow then, and adding back merely 25% of what they cut (and 15% of what they've cut since 2023) now seems like a calculated incremental increase to see what fans will accept in exchange for buying tickets. Now, instead of adding Dean Kremer (ugh, barf) the Twins had added Gausman and Ray and took on their salaries, then I'd be open to the idea that this was more than lip service.
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