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  1. nicksaviking
    Yeah, that's what I'd guess. Not a good year to be a free agent RB with the hype surrounding this draft class.
  2. nicksaviking
    A 1M non-guaranteed contract says that 29 other teams don’t buy he’s ‘fixed’. Or else 29 other teams think a ‘fixed’ France is still not worth rostering. As expected with ownership in flux, our ship is currently rudderless.
  3. nicksaviking
    No, I'd totally want Becton. Maybe they can't do three free agent IOL, but they can do two and draft one early. They still have money for the secondary and DL too. But I wouldn't spend a dime on the RB free agent class. Jones was healthier than I thought he'd be, but just barely, I'd let him walk. I too am fine looking in the draft (and snagging a cheap, but still useful vet late in the season, maybe even Jones will still be there), but I still want the speedster who can make guys miss in the open field. Gibbs and Kamara almost NEVER blow a two down situation. You don't have to be big and bruising to run that game. And perhaps I'm wrong, but I distinctly remember someone on this board promoting the ever living hell out of Alvin Kamara before the draft, begging the Vikings to draft him. I could have sworn that was you. Maybe not, either way, it was an all timer call for a 3rd round RB everyone thought was strictly a 3rd down player.
  4. nicksaviking
    Sorry, but the IOL was awful. This team isn't going to win a championship if they have zero chance at picking up two yards in 3rd and 2 or 4th and 2 situations. You don't always have to do it that way, but it absolutely HAS to be an option in the play book. Also, I know we are going to disagree on Skataboo all off season, but if this team wants to be the high flying, high volume passing offense it thinks it should be, they need a RB who is electric and can make defenders miss in space, not a Jerome Bettis type who is just going to run people over. Those are just two different styles of offense.
  5. nicksaviking
    Yeah, and two women were shot. While celebrating a championship. The fact that the city embraces the perception that they are the worst and most violent fans in the country says all you need to know about that city. Awful people. The players need to stop reveling in hooliganism and call out these people for the scumbags they truly are.
  6. nicksaviking
    Out of these guys? I guess Coulombe by default as he's the only one I want to see on the 26-man roster. If the 'newbies' were expanded to the home-grown options, there are several I'm interested in seeing.
  7. nicksaviking
    ****Moderator Note**** More personal attacks are going to result in infractions. Also, you don't get to claim this as a fact only true to your side of the argument and tell everyone else have to accept it. WE DO NOT THINK THESE BAD BASEBALL PLAYERS IMPROVE THE TEAM. Feel free to disagree that they are bad. Don't disagree that we also want to improve the team.
  8. nicksaviking
    I figured the negative tone of the paragraph that preceded that made it clear I was not on board with that train of though.
  9. nicksaviking
    WAR is such a terrible and useless stat. Michael Taylor had a !!!.543!!! OPS last year and had a .9 WAR. There is no amount of defense that could ever make that level of incompetence at the plate a net positive.
  10. nicksaviking
    Every move this franchise has made this century has been aimed at first raising the floor. Even the big scary contracts that did improve the ceiling, like Correa and Mauer, were there to keep the floor high with the side effect of raising the ceiling. There is zero apatite for risk with this organization. No perceived boom or bust moves, which is an absurd prerogative in baseball, because a century and a half into this league has continually shown us that even the guys you think are the safe bets can still spectacularly bust too. But higher floor equals higher job security, regardless of ceiling, so let's prioritize securing a .500 record over a shot at a championship.
  11. nicksaviking
    Glad I read this after dinner. Mea culpas are always better as a desert than an appetizer.
  12. nicksaviking
    Doing absolutely nothing would have made me feel better. It would have made me applaud actually, that was my off season blue print for a transitioning ownership group from the start.
  13. nicksaviking
    Sure, whatever you say Mr. R Baldelli......
  14. nicksaviking
    I was never terribly anti-Falvey. I liked that he updated the archaic system the team ran under Terry Ryan and cleared out most of the old-boys-club. I liked using math to solve problems (sorry old schoolers) and that the team changes hitting and pitching approaches every few years to adjust to what was and wasn't working. But this off season was just bad. I get that the wallet might have been closed until a week ago, but this is a really, really bad look. It seems like a desperate attempt to put low level vets on the team in an effort to pin blame of a disappointing 2025 on them to try to keep his job. His primary job as an architect of a mid-market team was to develop a sustainable core. I'm sure he thinks hiding the young guys behind these scapegoat vets will lessen the impact if they disappoint. I think he's very wrong though and this is going to be worse for him than having any of the young players fail.
  15. nicksaviking
    I don't love too many of the young guys, but when you bring in veterans to be the starting QB and they are clearly Christian Ponder level of starting QB, yeah, just put the back up in.
  16. nicksaviking
    Hey, don't you dare presume he'll be my punching bag! I still reserve the right to make Bader my punching bag.
  17. nicksaviking
    When has this front office and manager EVER had the veteran defer to the internal young option?
  18. nicksaviking
    NEWS, more like SNOOZE!
  19. nicksaviking
    So Miguel Cabrera. This game is no fun Seth when you give away the answer right there in the photo.
  20. nicksaviking
    I'm not saying Taylor can't get involved, but if he does, that opening day projection for the sale is going to be way off. The guy didn't know about his T-Wolves situation until yesterday and there's no way a multi billion dollar deal gets put together in a month.
  21. nicksaviking
    I think you're missing my point, which is that he's a switch hitter and plays 1B. The Twins currently have an issue with 'platoon' partners, 1B and rostering glove only players. Like I said before, other prospects may be playing better than him, but the Twins are going to quickly realize how bereft their club is of power hitters and run producers. They may turn to Severino whether he's worthy or not. And as he was already DFA'd they likely won't care if he struggles and they quickly DFA him once again. My take has nothing to do with his production and completely to do with the poor build of the Twins 26-man roster.
  22. nicksaviking
    Nobody has said that. People are saying Koufax's inclusion leaves the door open for Santana. And as Twins fans well know, the shortened career due to injury isn't unique to Koufax. It's how Puckett got in as well.
  23. nicksaviking
    It's a fine prerogative regarding the young players. But why do they have to prove something that Bader himself is unable to prove? Making the young guys 'earn the promotion' doesn't exactly work when the guy at the MLB level is handed a job even though he also hasn't earned a spot in a MLB lineup in three years.
  24. nicksaviking
    Yeah, I get it, but a guy who plays 1B and switch hits has a chance for upward mobility on this team, even if others are playing better. The Twins off season plans are running so far in the opposite direction of improving the offense that I think they could easily get desperate looking for some power early in the season.
  25. nicksaviking
    Yeah, don't trade out from the significantly better player for 4th round picks. That mock looked pretty bad overall to me though.
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