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  1. nicksaviking
    This is as depressing as trade deadline day. If the Pohlad's are staying, they have to take the keys away from Joe and give them back to Jim. Joe has no clue what he's doing and is completely tone deaf, and his AI announcement letter posted above shows he still hasn't learned.
  2. nicksaviking
    "...we are in the process of adding two significant limited partnership groups, each of whom will bring a wealth of experience and share our family values.” Joe says that like the Pohlad family values are something the fans enjoy about them?
  3. nicksaviking
    No need. This team is going to kick a dozen touchbacks a game and will never punt.
  4. nicksaviking
    Since I want wholesale changes to the front office and coaching staff next year, honestly, I'm in favor of pretty much any move that makes them look foolish.
  5. nicksaviking
    Yeah, it's going to take more than one poor season where Ober pitched injured to wipe out 2.5 years of very good pitching. Barring injury or trade he's a lock for the rotation.
  6. nicksaviking
    MLB let the A's wallow in poverty for two decades before they forced them to bump up their payroll, and it was all a ploy to get what the A's and MLB wanted; a move out of Oakland. If the Pohlad's still aren't able to sell, keeping payroll low will appeal to new owners, and that's what the Pohlad's and MLB wants; therefore MLB will also let the Twins wallow in poverty simply to achieve what they want.
  7. nicksaviking
    I'm thinking there's also a lot of 'Well those guys failed, but I'm better at this, so this will work out' when it comes to these kind of evaluations.
  8. nicksaviking
    Well I've never seen Gasper catch, but I've seen him hit. He's of no use to a major league club unless he unexpectedly CAN catch, so sure, go ahead and give it a try, this club has nothing to lose anyway.
  9. nicksaviking
    Yeah, it's almost beyond belief how often these prospect hauls fizzle out completely. I get that prospects are fun and shiny and new and it's easy to see how fans like us can get fooled without going back and looking at the track records, but how do analytically inclined front office personnel who are getting paid to figure this stuff out continually get fleeced? I can't imagine Derek Falvey is actively thinking, 'Sure, I'll give up 2.5 years of Duran for a 20% chance that one of the players I get back will be a useful MLB player.'
  10. nicksaviking
    I'd have just called up Andrew Morris to give him his perfunctory look at the rotation so they can start his inevitable Sands/Varland/Jax bullpen conversion next year.
  11. nicksaviking
    I don't have high hopes for either Tait or Miller, so in my book it's a wash I guess. Trades are getting asinine these days though. 80% of the time the team getting the star player wins the trade over the team getting the prospects, yet, the last several years the teams selling the prospects are tightening their grips on their "top" guys. And of course, it's usually the big market clubs buying and the teams who cry poor selling. The Twins' 'Everything must go!!!!' fire sale absolutely did not help remedy this inequality for the non-big market clubs.
  12. nicksaviking
    The ball is in Pressly's court. He might want to take some time off and wait to see what his best landing spot is closer to September. Save his arm for the playoffs and save himself the pitfall of signing with a club that looks good now, but three weeks from now looks like a doormat.
  13. nicksaviking
    Yeah, my dark side has always assumed that the players chosen are largely done so to appeal to the most people who actually buy a ticket to attend the ceremony and game. At this point, I'm sure Gen X and Millennials are the target demographic. So players from the 1987 World Series team is probably about as far back as they'd ideally like to stretch that. Still, with this being an organizational honor, I have no problem with Gladden and Smalley and Perkins getting in even if it's largely based on their broadcasting contributions. Even if some of them annoy me or if their on-field stats are underwhelming, it's still pretty endearing that these guys played and then stayed with the club for 20, 30 or 40 years. I'm not holding my Twins HOF spots so sacred guys like that can't get in.
  14. nicksaviking
    Yeah, do you need a Balkan yacht and a Baltic yacht? Can't you just have one that sails around the Iberian peninsula and meets you where you want to cruise? Asking for a fiend. I gave up my yacht odysseys when I had kids.
  15. nicksaviking
    For sure, starting tonight, I bet the wonks start projecting Cooper to the Vikings.
  16. nicksaviking
    But also means there’s no need to shed salary. If there’s no one to buy, just hold on to your wallet. Why dump Correa’s contract if there’s nothing to spend the savings on?
  17. nicksaviking
    Literally only four guys I’d want. And now with the sell off, none of those four will want to come here. in particular, Schwarber as a DH only is going to struggle getting the money he wants. With the Nelson Cruz, Jim Thome and then going back to Winfield and Molitor, this would have been a total Twin-signing, but not if this team is in tank mode.
  18. nicksaviking
    This whole time my position had been that if the team added about 20M or so in payroll to sign a Pete Alonso or Kyle Schwarber, AND got a manger and coaching staff that wants to and is able to work with young players, this team would have been a contender next year (or the last two years actually). But this sell off definitely put a damper on that. Not only because the bullpen got decimated, but because the Pete Alonso and Kyle Schwarber types would laugh and then hang up if the Twins called them. No big time free agents will want to come here now
  19. nicksaviking
    You might be right. And the three starters will be 32 in 2028; I'd probably want nothing to do with them long term then. I still don't want Falvey make that decision this year though since he certainly won't be dealing with the aftermath.
  20. nicksaviking
    I don't disagree, but new owners would also have to say we are contending RIGHT NOW. Ryan, Lopez and Ober are in their primes right now, they would need to add at least two middle of the order bats ASAP or the offense peak isn't going to line up with the rotation peak. The bullpen is tougher because I don't think you can build that with free agents or trades; it's time and patience to figure out how and which internal guys can make the step up. Specifically, which former starters will step up as relievers. You got Sands, but the next crop of former starters-turned-relievers are still starters and it usually takes at least a season of full time bullpen work before they start paying off. If contending is the goal of the new owners, they are going to have a tough needle to thread.
  21. nicksaviking
    For sure, there will be no good faith negotiations from the owners; I'm definitely not on their side. But the league isn't going to survive much longer without caps and floors so on this one issue, I'm with them. Even if their base reason for discussing it is to ultimately make them more money.
  22. nicksaviking
    Right, obviously there has to be a salary floor and one the lower half teams wouldn't typically come close to touching on their own. But certainly the owners aren't going to talk about it as that's an obvious concession they will have to make; they'll need the MLBPA to make that part of their demands. If the owners already acknowledge that as an obvious balance to the cap, they'd lose the leverage that comes with giving it up.
  23. nicksaviking
    A bit late checking back in on this, but every other pro sports league shows that the non-elite players will see their income grow significantly with salary caps and floors. Top end players likely get less growth in what they can earn until the league figures out a balance, but the floor will rise a ton. I'm sure the MLBPA, which will always look out for the top end players, will TELL all the players that salary caps are bad for everyone, but that's a flat out lie. Just like in the real world, something that's bad for the elite but good for the rest of the population will get soapboxed down as evil.
  24. nicksaviking
    I'm more than willing to buy. But from a different sales person. These people aren't making another dime of commission off of me!
  25. nicksaviking
    If a sale doesn't happen quick, I do worry about the Twins top three starters being here. But while cleaning the books may look like a good move to them right now, at some point the Pohlads are going to have to start asking if a buyer truly wants to buy a roster that's basically an expansion team, but without the excitement and fanfare that comes with opening up a new market. New owners will want a nice financial outlook, but they still want people going to the games and watching on TV.
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