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  1. nicksaviking
    Dang, that's more than The Beatles!
  2. nicksaviking
    Yeah, I don't know why anyone would care. Barnstorming baseball teams ended up having unique rules back in the day. They'd play in farm fields and didn't always have enough players to fill up a lineup. Locals would get to grab their gloves and play not only against but sometimes WITH the touring players sometimes too. Can't remember the last time I heard anyone complain about the Harlem Globetrotters either.
  3. nicksaviking
    Listening to most of the national guys, they really give off the impression that they think the Twins HAVE to make these trades. Which makes the national guys sound clueless, because the Twins obviously don't. Barring injury, the value of Ryan, Duran and Jax won't decrease before this off season as they'll still have two years of control left. And of course, fingers crossed the Twins are sold and THEY are a buyer a couple months from now.
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    noun noun: refuse matter thrown away or rejected as worthless; trash. "heaps of refuse"
  5. nicksaviking
    Isn't Baseball Prospectus the one that really hones in the defensive angle? Because if so, the fact that he was ranked #34 in 2024 and fell off their rankings this year doesn't bode well.
  6. nicksaviking
    So pretty much a low end top 100 prospect to headline each of these trades? Hard pass. Seems really easy for the national pundits to find trades when they're looking to move good players off of unexciting teams they don't actually follow.
  7. nicksaviking
    I got to say, the fact that one of the highest paid players in the league was the one who flipped out about a potential salary cap isn't a good look for the players. Wow, shocking that the guy making 350M is screaming to protect his money while the guys at the bottom of the wage scale, who would significantly benefit from salary caps and floors, have to keep their mouths shut or they'd incur the ire of the super stars.
  8. nicksaviking
    Or if no sale comes together this offseason or a new owner is just as spendthrift as the Pohlads, I could see a trade more likely this winter.
  9. nicksaviking
    I'm not comparing any WAR, it's a near pointless stat particularly in this case. The Yankees are looking for offensive help with Judge down, Bader's defense doesn't fill that void. It'd be like going car shopping and coming home with a jet ski instead. So yes, this trade would be similar to if Christian Vazquez has a minor offensive bounce back the beginning of next season and then the Twins went and traded for him hoping his first time in MN was an aberration.
  10. nicksaviking
    Wouldn't the Yankees trading for Harrison Bader be the equivalent to the Twins trading for Christian Vazquez at next year's trade deadline? I can't even imagine how much these boards would be on fire if they did that!
  11. nicksaviking
    I'll admit, when it comes to front office personnel and managers, I do wonder if they make decisions to save their jobs instead of to enrich the long term outlook, but even setting that aside, if we don't know next year's ownership situation, Falvey shouldn't be selling controllable assets. From my perspective, it's very possible this team only needs a 15 - 20M payroll bump and a manager who can get the most out of young players to be a legit contender next year. No guarantee a new owner will do that, but it's not that large of an ask of someone who will want to play with their fun new MLB toy.
  12. nicksaviking
    Just think of the return the team could have gotten had they sold them at their peaks? Had they been able to identify the underlying issues with these players early and got out from under them, they might have transformed the entire franchise. The Twins traded CEH and Steer for Mahle while at that point Miranda was crushing it; they probably get Luis Castillo if they move Miranda instead. This team has a problem either in identifying their players weaknesses, or coaching getting the most out of them.
  13. nicksaviking
    Job security or no job security, I'd tie his hands based solely on his track record of mid-season trades. They've been pretty brutal. His off-season trades have been pretty dang good overall though. Broader bidding pool and I doubt you get much more for 2 years of a reliever vs 2 years and 2 months anyway. Plus, obviously a better indication if he's here longer than this season. I'm putting his odds closer to 30-70 though. Even if new owners like Falvey (and I like much of what he's done) it just seems that this organization has such a toxic relationship with the fanbase right now that they'll want to scrub it as clean as possible if only to win everyone back. But it could also be a situation where new owners are diligent and want to sit and evaluate everything for a year, so year one (whenever that may be) may still stink of Pohlad.
  14. nicksaviking
    I'd definitely need to know more. I'd like to think the Raiders are just being sneaky about getting rid of a player who doesn't fit the new coaching scheme, but even with all the changes, they actually kept their DC, so I do suspect this might be a bad omen for him as a player.
  15. nicksaviking
    I would like to know WHO the front office is in 2026. Do we even know who's vision will be used? Just trade expiring contracts. Trading controllable players only makes a mess for someone else to clean up. Most likely. Probably. Hopefully.
  16. nicksaviking
    I don't know about any family strife, but I much preferred Jim. I preferred Jim to Carl as well, plenty of mis-steps, but at some points there was a clear vision for the club and at other points there was a clear attempt at winning. Not at enough points, but that still beats what Joe has done and what Carl did the last 15 years he ran the club. Seemed to me they decided they were going to sell but Joe wanted a chance to play with the toy before they did. On two separate occasions the family gave him radio stations to run, which he promptly bankrupt and shuttered, so what's happening now looks to be about on par for Joe.
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    Yeah, I worry about that. Also, I worry if they DO end up trading a controllable player, in their desperation to keep their jobs they will do it to fill a hole on the current roster instead of for top end long-term talent.
  18. nicksaviking
    I'm a bit suspicious of all of this elite reliever trade talk. Should the Twins be selling? Obviously, this team is a hot mess. However, if the team is about to be sold after two disastrously embarrassing seasons, isn't the ONLY way Derek Falvey keeps his job and the organization avoids a clean slate, is by pulling a miraculous playoff-bound U-turn? Why does he care what kind of prospect return he gets if he's somewhere else next year? And should Cleveland be selling Clase? Sure, they've done the 'we're selling but still competing' bit before, but they've got a relatively young and controllable club and Clase is under contract for three more seasons. So are both clubs actually looking to trade their top end relievers? OR are they both acting like it hoping that it encourages the OTHER club to pull the trigger and getting deadly late game weapons out of the division for the next few years.
  19. nicksaviking
    For sure. I've seen no evidence ownership has actually had a strategy for the on-field product since Joe took over. It really seems like they're winging it year-to-year.
  20. nicksaviking
    It was only 25% of the payroll into one player because ownership pulled the rug out from under all of us though.
  21. nicksaviking
    This is pretty easy because there's a difference between blame and failure. While just about everyone has failed, if we're playing the blame game, it's squarely on ownership. As soon as they prioritized selling the team to support their struggling real estate ventures, this organization was turned upside down strategically. This impacted the front office, not just with the payroll, but because of how they like to construct a roster. Instead of paying a reasonable amount for veteran players, they then had to both develop their own players and fill the roster with sub-par veteran players. This impacted the manager because he doesn't or can't develop young players and instead appears to want to pass off that job to 'leadership veterans' who also do no appear to be able to do that job. Which is a bit more understandable as their job is to play baseball, not to teach 22-year-olds. And to top it off, firing the manager (or front office) would be less attractive to a new buyer because a new one would require a multi year deal and a new owner is going to want to pick is own toys. So, while the front office, manager and players failed as they could have stepped up and adapted or improved at what they did, this was all a chain reaction due to ownership who wanted to make the team look more profitable in order to sell it.
  22. nicksaviking
    It didn't work that way under Gardenhire and Molitor, so why are we OK with it now? If this franchise was consistently winning and competitive it would make sense, but regardless of where this team is in the playoff standings, this is a trainwreck. It's not working. Detroit had ONE good hitter last year. They took their lumps and most of those guys improved. That's how the Twins used to do business too. Now the Twins would rather tread in mediocrity instead of develop a top end team. Maybe we can save our jobs if we can just finish .500!
  23. nicksaviking
    At the end of June he had a .725 OPS and .311 OBP. Not great, but also not article worthy. Then looking at game logs, he hits a 1-12 skid at the plate and gets benched for two games and since then it's been a pattern of two games on, one game off. The only hitter who has reached his potential on this team is a 31-year-old who took 10 years in the league to do so. I just don't think this team has a manager that can or will do the things needed to develop young hitters. And if you're going to be a low payroll team, you have to have one of those.
  24. nicksaviking
    But if the sale of the team is right around the corner, as we are being led to believe, are the people who are developing those pitchers going to be here next year? Obviously they are the same people who AREN'T developing enough hitters too.
  25. nicksaviking
    I'll trade any expiring contract, but honestly, the timing of this all stinks. If a sale of the team is truly right around the corner I think the Twins do absolutely nothing at the deadline. Surely, Derek Falvey knows that going on a big run to the post season is likely his only shot at retaining his job. Ownership likely won't spend to improve the team, so my guess is that standing pat and crossing their fingers is the plan.
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