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  1. nicksaviking
    I'd love to extend Gibson if he was younger. He's already past most MLB pitchers' peak years though. I like the idea of riding it out and going the QO route if he's worth it. I definitely look to extend Berrios along with Rosario though.
  2. nicksaviking
    But the odds that Escobar was going to contribute on a good team this year was already next to zero. Well until he got traded anyway.
  3. nicksaviking
    Right, it was financial insanity but it was spent to improve the team. At least the Padres had their priorities straight. We all celebrated last year when the Twins ate all of Jaime Garcia's salary, so kudos to that, but let's not pretend that they didn't do the exact opposite this year.
  4. nicksaviking
    That's due to the nature of the makeup of the team. The Twins couldn't match 2018's payroll if they signed both Machado and Harper. This wasn't some directive by the owner, we've seen this inevitable payroll drop coming for about four years now.
  5. nicksaviking
    I don't care about winning the division. They can take all of their division crowns from early this century and trade them to the Royals or the White Sox for their World Series trophy. I'm not at all saying you're disingenuous, but we clearly want different things from this team. If they keep Escobar, sure their odds of winning a division are minimal but still better than without him. However, their odds of winning the World Series goes from what, .5% to .2%? By making these unpopular moves now, it may give them a better shot in the coming years, and that's what I want, a shot at taking the big prize. And yes, I think these five (and counting) prospects have a better chance of turning into a good player, or more likely, being traded for a good player than Escobar and Pressly did of winning the division for the Twins.
  6. nicksaviking
    Houston, Boston, New York, Cleveland, Seattle and Oakland are all between us and our goal.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. nicksaviking
    Well with the team's current make up, probably not a lot, but this team gave a ton of OF at bats to guys LaMarre, Grossman and Motter. Had the Twins had Dozier, Escobar and a Polanco available to them all year perhaps they wouldn't have had to.
  12. nicksaviking
    I'm sure Morneau, Cuddyer and Hunter would put in a good word for him if he wants one of those front office gigs they've been giving out to former players.
  13. nicksaviking
    You'd have a hard time convincing me that most middle infielders couldn't play at least a passable LF if not all three OF spots. And if a player can't also play 1B it only means he's strictly a DH. I think the only thing standing in the way of positional flexibility for the majority MLB'ers is stubbornness and repetition. Yeah you have to commit to playing a guy at a new spot in the minors and the minor league manager isn't going to like it. Or you have to commit Spring Training to it and someone might have resentment. These guys have physical gifts 99% of the world isn't blessed with, they can learn a second position if they commit to it.
  14. 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.
  15. nicksaviking
    No Kepler in the lineup and Dick's response was "More on that later". That's ominous. Anyone have a clue?
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. nicksaviking
    Maybe if the Twins take Greg Holland and eat all of his salary. I wouldn't mind getting Holland somehow regardless. He's got name brand recognition and plays a position that allows for both short term memory loss and optimistic projections. He's got the ingredients to be one of the few players who could regain value to trade in August if he's able to pull his act together for 30 days.
  20. nicksaviking
    I'll guess Blue Jay fan sites are going nuclear that he wasn't called up in May.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. 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".
  24. nicksaviking
    With so many of the contenders already making moves, mostly in the bullpen area, I'm starting to get concerned.
  25. 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.
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