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  1. nicksaviking
    Right, Baldelli doesn't care about winning because he's OK with getting fired? Jax as a starter is a terrible idea. His stuff isn't going to get guys out dropping 4 MPH off of his velocity. And prior to this year, the Twins rotation has probably been the the healthiest group of pitchers in the league going back a decade now. Depth is fine, but blowing up your bullpen to do it would have been foolish for this franchise.
  2. nicksaviking
    Right, Baldelli doesn't care about winning because he's OK with getting fired? Jax as a starter is a terrible idea. His stuff isn't going to get guys out dropping 4 MPH off of his velocity. And prior to this year, the Twins rotation has probably been the the healthiest group of pitchers in the league going back a decade now. Depth is fine, but blowing up your bullpen to do it would have been foolish for this franchise.
  3. nicksaviking
    I'm not trading for a catcher unless it's a top end offensive talent. And at that point, it probably gets too expensive. And I'm not trading for a backup catcher; 99% of the time that's a zero impact player in every era of the game. If there is any team that understands by now that it's a negligible difference between a below-average catcher and what's floating around on the waiver wire, it should be the Twins.
  4. nicksaviking
    They've needed a big bat for two years now. Didn't get one last off season, didn't get one at last year's trade deadline, didn't get one the prior offseason. So basically ever since the Pohald's publicly said they are 'right sizing'. But now they're going to pay for a contract of a big bat? No team is trading a young controllable super star.
  5. nicksaviking
    Feels like this whole season could be described as laying down a bunt.
  6. nicksaviking
    I would have been interested in Pratt. Another good cover ILB is needed. Some pretty old guys left like Eric Kendricks and CJ Mosley, but not sure if they can still play both run and pass. They might still have some juice left.
  7. nicksaviking
    I don't have any interest in a back of the rotation starter, but to be clear, he's still available. The only reason a team with a .333 winning percentage trades for a guy like Civale is to try to flip him for a better return at the trade deadline. If he's still on the White Sox come September, their gamble didn't pay off.
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    Depth or no depth, I don't see any logical scenario for a meaningful trade. Does anyone actually think the Pohlad's will take on a significant contract for the front of the rotation or the middle of the order? Because if not, then they'd have to sell the farm for a cheap and controllable established young player. And I'd find it highly unlikely that any such player would even be made available anyway. And if they aren't looking for a middle of the order bat or front of the rotation arm, don't bother. More back-end starters and platoon bats aren't going to put this team over the hump.
  9. nicksaviking
    I'm sure it's a snowball effect. Even if it's erroneous, if the Twins hitters are known for getting rung up on close pitches, and the pitchers are known for 'missing' on close pitches, the umpires are going to just start assuming the close ones should typically go against the Twins more than the other teams. Like how the perception is that red cars speed more often, thus red cars get pulled over disproportionately. Obviously the Twins shouldn't be punished for being good at this, it's just the most damning example of why the sheep should stop being allowed to call balls and strikes when it can easily be automated.
  10. nicksaviking
    The Twins need a middle of the order bat. A couple of them actually. Paddack won't bring that back in return and anything less than that sounds like trading him just to trade him.
  11. nicksaviking
    In my last post I thought you were referencing 2024, not 2023, so that's my mistake on the confusion. But who cares about the adjective I used, it was like five posts ago. One useful player out of 24 draft picks is the argument, and that is not good, even if many are still TBD. I honestly can't understand how anyone can sit here an argue that his drafting has been good. Yeah, if he doesn't use the picks well, I would continue to advocate for him to trade them for more Hockensons.
  12. nicksaviking
    What context was omitted? That it's too early to make a definitive opinion? I didn't omit that. It doesn't change the fact that there were dozens of players drafted throughout the 2023 draft that have already shown to be valuable players and the Vikings didn't draft any of them, Knock on wood McCarthy turns out to be elite. Simply, I've said multiple times that KAM has not proven to be good at drafting but I'd still retain him. I can't imagine the only acceptable positions are either that, I have to want him gone, or I have to unconditionally applaud him.
  13. nicksaviking
    Stop what? Making bold moves? Isn't pretty much every post on this site describing future desires something we ourselves cannot fulfill or prevent? But if ownership truly is selling, they probably should also not want the front office making meaningful moves of prospects for veteran contracts.
  14. nicksaviking
    Yeah, a lot of coaching turnover for the Lions and now Ragnow is gone along with Zeitler who left in free agency. Really feels like in 2025 is going to dictate the narrative for Dan Campbell going forward. Personally, I'm getting Doug Pederson vibes. Ten or 11 wins next season followed by Detroit's quick submersion back into being a perennially subpar team.
  15. nicksaviking
    Sorry no. I like many of the pitching prospects, but they aren't brining back a middle of the order bat. And this team doesn't need to add more 'eh' hitters. I also still don't want lame duck ownership and front office members making big long term decisions so a big prospect package for a better player? Nope, these guys can't be allowed to make that call.
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    When did I say that? They've had 24 picks from 2022-2024 and only one of them has proven to be a capable starter in the NFL. As I said, it's still TBD on the 2024-25 classes, but there's no way to say Vikings have drafted well during his time. Maybe in a few years it we will say it turned out pretty good, but it's clearly isn't getting positive grades.
  17. nicksaviking
    A #2 WR who probably won’t get a second contract and nobody else? I guess we could debate whether it was bad or just ‘eh’ but it definitely wasn’t a positive checkmark for anyone.
  18. nicksaviking
    Agree, one awful draft, one pretty bad draft and two TBD drafts. Definitely overall a poor area of job performance at this time. But due to his excellent free agency moves, I'd rather have him, than not have him, so I guess I'm OK with this. Still, I'd like the Vikings to do something revolutionary and hire someone specifically to head up the draft process. Still have many people working many functions and collaborating in scouting, research, interviews and drafting, but one draft guru who has the final say: not KAM. Yeah, it takes authority from the GM, and GMs across the league wouldn't like this, but it really would be no different than the head coach. The GM is still HIS boss, but the head coach still has final say in who starts and what plays are run, and I suspect on most teams, which players make the roster.
  19. nicksaviking
    All things being equal, obviously you want to bring in new guys who are good clubhouse guys. But my frustration stems from the question, why can't the Twins ever develop enough of their OWN positive clubhouse guys? Every year they seem to have to bring in this 'leadership' from the outside. Why? Or is the idea that all 26 players must be clubhouse leaders? Because if that's understood to be impossible, a better use of your free agent funds would be to have an already built up cadre of internal leaders so that you can bring in the most talented free agent possible, not the most vocal leader possible.
  20. nicksaviking
    Why? They are both too old to be considered meaningful prospects. Like I said, I don't believe in McCusker, but there is absolutely zero reason to use his prior stats to compare him to Sabato. The ONLY reason anyone is/was interested in seeing him called up is because of what he was doing right now this year. Sabato was a bad and irrelevant comp, you are using future expectations instead of concrete data. For all you or any of us know, Sabato will be in this same situation with the Reds next year and end up crushing at the MLB level. If you want to sell your argument, you need to find other guys like McCusker who crushed AAA at an advanced age, finally got a MLB call up and flamed out. There are dozens of those.
  21. nicksaviking
    When you're that bad with the bat, you're going to lose about as many games with a guy who has a .600 OPS as you are with a .500 OPS. The point of diminishing returns works the opposite direction too. No need to go out of your way to roster either player.
  22. nicksaviking
    While I don't believe in McCusker, comparing him to Sabato by using McCusker's 2024 numbers instead of his 2025 numbers, which include an OPS over 1.000, seems like cherry picking.
  23. nicksaviking
    I guess I don't get the argument against Will Holland and his poor bat but the argument for Arcia and his poor bat. Stay the course, don't intentionally add another offensive black hole to the roster. These glove-only players float across waivers all year long. No need to grab this one just because he was a big name prospect a decade ago. If emergency action is required, they can grab whomever is desperate for a job at that time.
  24. nicksaviking
    First time I saw the tush push I said that's completely illegal. I had no idea the NFL had quietly removed the flag for pushing a player a few years earlier, but I distinctly remembered Matt Birk getting flagged for pushing Robert Smith into the endzone back in the day. So I always thought the tush push was BS. I think it should be banned, but I don't like the narrative that it's basically all a way to stop the Eagles. It instead should be framed as it being too perfunctory of a play. If it's successful at say a 90% rate, you just compare it to when you used to kick extra points at the seven yard line. Any play that is so easy to execute isn't reflective of a professional sport. Anyway, that's how I'd argue it.
  25. nicksaviking
    Swapping out players for different players who still work, or even fit better every year, is a waaaaaaaaaay better strategy than the old one, which was, just keep extending and re-working the players we have now until our salary situation becomes unworkable.
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