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  1. nicksaviking
    As for Peyton and the Broncos, I agree, I wish his team stunk. I dislike him so much. But they are nowhere near a lock for the playoffs as the Bengals can easily catch them. Next week Denver is at Cincinnati, which will give the winner the tie breaker. The following week Cincinnati has a tough matchup against Pittsburgh, but Denver has KC, and I don't see KC rolling over and giving their most hated opponent a playoff spot.
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    I think my dream of trading McCarthy for Herbert is about dead. I really thought Harbaugh's system would devalue his skills to a level that he was indistinguishable from a game manager QB. But Herbert's improvisation skills are probably only topped by Mahomes, Allen and Jackson. I guess talent finds a way.
  3. nicksaviking
    I too was much more interested in keeping the more consistent Jorge Polanco and trading the wildly inconsistent Max Kepler last year. As it turned out, moving both was the right answer.
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    Removing Vazquez arguably improves the team. removing Lopez greatly injures it. If they trade Lopez, they might as well just throw in the towel and trade all the contracts they don't like. I've got no interest watching the Pohlad's last middle finger to the fans. The new owners can try to win me back.
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    Hard pass. He hasn't been the same player since he changed his name from Jorge Bell.
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    I'd be less concerned about injury risk due to the Twins having some intriguing internal arms to replace him should Luzardo go down. But I also suspect trading for an established starting pitcher would require one of those depth pitchers instead of two infielders.
  7. nicksaviking
    Yeah, the Metrodome was a dump. But because they had that awful, injury inducing turf, when they retired Carew's number, I got to watch him drive around the stadium in a convertible that the Twins gave to him. Can't imagine they'd have done that on a nicely manicured grass field!
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    They kept knothole games through much of the Metrodome years too. Though, for most of the 1990s they couldn't give tickets away. As bad as those teams were, it was fun to spend cheaply at the park and basically pick whichever seat you wanted.
  9. nicksaviking
    I honestly don't trust Castro to continue to perform as we'd like him to. But anyone they would sign with his savings of 6.9M I would trust exponentially less. In other words, I don't want to give them a chance to fill his roster spot and his !635 PA! with even worse players, which is almost certainly what will happen unless he's packaged with prospects to get a better player.
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    I don't see ownership doing an extension with anyone while they try to sell. But Dobnak was never a high ceiling prospect. Or any kind of prospect. His deal has nothing to do with these decisions.
  11. nicksaviking
    That is perhaps the one benefit of having an ownership group like the Pohlads. They don't get involved, either because they don't care enough or because they don't know enough. In either case, leave these decisions to the professionals. Also, if it seems odd that an elderly man like Woody Johnson knows about Madden stats, he doesn't. Further reporting says that it was his teenage sons (really? OK Mick Jagger) were the ones telling him not to do the trade because of the Madden ratings. Teenagers. Having input on a multi billion dollar company's decisions.
  12. nicksaviking
    These brothers do sound like the 'meddling' kind of owners. That's usually not good when it comes to winning championships. But if they are going to appeal to the fans with lower prices and better free agents it might be worth the meddling.
  13. nicksaviking
    I know there are rumblings of trading Castro, but I guess I don't follow the logic. Do you do it so you can keep Vazquez? Or do you trade him and also trade Vazquez so you have extra free agent money to spend on a player that is worse than Castro? Neither makes sense to me. I'm with others, I'm only trading Castro if it's part of a bigger deal with Twins prospects for a better player from another team.
  14. nicksaviking
    Yeah, I could see it if Cousins was free, but he won't be even when he's cut, he can sign with the highest bidder while keeping his Atlanta severance. Like you said, that franchise just makes bad decisions because they have a bad owner. Cousins and Stefanski were together for only one season, but maybe they have a strong relationship. Not sure if Stefanski has any pull, or even if he'll keep his job though.
  15. nicksaviking
    I am concerned about the velocity swings and the lack of strikeouts. Those are the two things the Twins have been really, really good at developing. I don't know that he can improve from here much. I've heard trade scenarios for every one of the Twins other pitchers, but SWR is perhaps the one I'd look to move. He isn't as established as Lopez, Ober or Ryan and with his excellent rookie numbers he put up, he probably has more value than Festa or Matthews despite not having the same ceiling.
  16. nicksaviking
    I'm all for that, play the real talent and if you're really lucky they click right away, but at least let them take their lumps now with a higher chance of them clicking next year. Still, while I don't have much hope that Martin, Keirsey or Helman will amount to much with the bat, I have zero hope that Bader will. And that's three options you could try instead of one you can't get rid of.
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    He squeezed every dollar out of the Vikings and both sides seemed amicable about the situations (well, except for Mike Zimmer). If he gave Atlanta free money everyone better start questioning if there was an under-the-table deal to save Atlanta cap space. Whether they cut him or trade him, he'll keep his salary, so I'd think the only way he'd step away is if they cut him. And if they did cut him and he 'retired' that would leave the door open for him to come back later with any team he chooses.
  18. nicksaviking
    No it kept them from trying Kiersey a year earlier. But it hardly matters. The Twins defensive issues pale in comparison to their offensive issues. They can't afford to give another roster spot and 300-400 PAs to a guy they know can't hit. It would be better to continue giving that roster spot and those at bats to guys that the jury is still out on. They can try multiple guys if they don't lock up this spot. This offense needs to improve, a move like this hurts that effort. I don't want any free agents in this price range, but if they absolutely feel like they must, re-signing a guy like Donovan Solano is a better option.
  19. nicksaviking
    Yeah, it was an issue. The board seemed to see the HR but missed the .278 OBP and 35% K rate. He was an offensive black hole. But everyone did notice the problems with the Margot, Vazquez and Simmons deals.
  20. nicksaviking
    But when Kiersey puts up a .620 OPS he can be optioned. The Twins will have to roster Bader all season. Everybody seems to want these glove only players in the offseason, then when they continually fail to come through when the season starts everyone wants them gone. But they just won't go away.
  21. nicksaviking
    If Cousins allows them to trade him, instead of making them cut him so he can keep his salary and choose his own team, Cousins would be foolish. And based on his long history of shrewd contract decisions, he doesn't seem foolish in this regard.
  22. nicksaviking
    Tough spot for Kirk, (not that I'm crying) as I think finding a fit next year will be tough. Here are the teams I think for sure will need a QB next year: NYJ, PIT, CLE, TEN, LVR, NYG Would the Jets go from washed up Rodgers to washed up Cousins? I don't see it. The Steelers would surely rather just keep Russell Wilson. Similar to the Jets, I don't see the Browns going from broken Watson to broken Cousins and they don't seem inclined to just eat Watson's salary. But I'll put them down as a long shot possibility because they're dysfunctional. I thought IND and CAR may be looking, but now why wouldn't they keep Richardson and Young? They may not be good, but they're better than Cousins, or at least have some upside. NO, SEA, LAR Could move on from their veteran QBs but their veteran QBs are probably all more desirable than Cousins. So that leaves TEN, LV and NYG and at this time, two of them are in line to draft Sanders and Ward. Is the one that ends the season with the best record stuck with Cousins? It's possible that team may still rather roll the dice with Justin Fields or Aaron Rodgers. Or even Daniel Jones if the perceived KOC transformation can boost his reputation in merely two months of his presence in Minnesota.
  23. nicksaviking
    The thing is though, that this era of baseball isn't filled with Jim Thomes and Cecil Fielders. Hitting the ball hard and being fast are nowhere close to mutually exclusive anymore. Last I checked Aaron Judge is still playing CF and Shohei Ohtani is stealing 50 bases. The guys who hit the ball hard tend to be the best athletes, and the best athletes also tend to be fast. Just not on this team for some reason.
  24. nicksaviking
    I don't think I've seen a screen pass or a swing pass to a RB go for more than three yards since Dalvin Cook was here.
  25. nicksaviking
    WT hell, so is the Bears GM? Guys, you’re on TV.
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