https://theathletic.com/2729647/2021/07/26/bowden-three-trades-id-like-to-see-the-giants-dodgers-and-padres-make-this-week-in-the-wild-wild-nl-west/

The Athletic's Jim Bowden proposed this deal in his latest article. Seems light if you ask me. Thoughts?

Dunno. Weathers is apparently highly regarded, but doesn't strike out many - he's nevertheless accomplishing a lot at a young age,, albeit on a carefully controlled workload which could mean buying high. But we don't need another corner outfielder, or a middle infielder who may profile best at 2B, do we? Those are the trades we should be engineering, in reverse.

My general prejudice about certain writers is they like to pick the carcasses of the smaller teams in favor of the big-market or flavor-of-the-month teams.  No accident that the piece is entitled trades he'd like to see for three favored teams.

I'd be pretty happy with Weathers and Mears, actually. Weathers is 21 and would probably be our best pitcher right away.

Exhibit A as to why Bowden is no longer a GM. Swap out Hassell for Mears and add Lange if SD is taking both Berrios and Rogers.

I saw Jim Bowden and instinctively clicked on this link to show my disgust with the proposal, even before I knew what the proposal was.

The Twins already have a strikeout problem; they know this. Weathers may not even be on their radar.

Hard pass. This doesn’t make much sense for the Twins on a few levels.

I can’t recall ever seeing Bowden write something I agreed with, actually. 

I'd like Weathers, but this deal is trash. The Twins say they want pre-arb MLB player and 2 top 100 guys for Berrios alone. This trade brings in the pre-arb guy in Weathers, and I think that'd be a good get to fill that part of the deal, but Mears and Rosario aren't the type of prospects the Twins should be looking at to fill the 2 top 100 guys. I think Mears has made some top 100 lists, but the Twins need up the middle guys, not no defense corner guys. And Rosario is a weak hitting utility IF guy who isn't very well thought of defensively. No desire for him to join our system, especially for our 2 best arms. 

I don't think the Padres are a good trade fit for the Twins. They've been very clear that they won't trade any of their top 4 prospects (Abrams, Gore, Hassell, Campusano) and if you can't get 1 of those guys they just don't have prospects left that meet what the Twins should be looking for.

Weathers + one of Gore/Abrams/Hassell + Rosario or Mears + Probably a lotto ticket like Medina or Acosta could be interesting. Any Berrios + Rogers to Padres trade that doesn't return one of Gore/Abrams/Hassell would seem like a fail.  I'm no expert though so who knows?

well there is a reason he isn't working in front offices anymore

No way am I giving up Taylor Rogers in a deal with Jose Berrios. I don't even want to give Rogers up but if you trade a guy like Rogers he is a stand alone piece that does merit a lot more than what Bowden is proposing here.

Bowden's package is simply crap. This is as offensive as I can be online. If San Diego wants to go all in and discuss major Twins, aka Berrios, Rogers, Buxton, they need to be real about what comes back to Minnesota. Hopefully, Falvine understand this and i think they absolutely do. No bull**** trades.

Morosi is another media guy stoking the flames for trading Berrios. I feel like these stories really only serve the media guys themselves. 

I see the argument for trading Berrios, but I'm personally not interested unless it something like what the front office is asking.

 

Complete joke. This proposal would get a belly laugh followed by a click. 

1 hour ago, chpettit19 said:

I'd like Weathers, but this deal is trash. The Twins say they want pre-arb MLB player and 2 top 100 guys for Berrios alone. This trade brings in the pre-arb guy in Weathers, and I think that'd be a good get to fill that part of the deal, but Mears and Rosario aren't the type of prospects the Twins should be looking at to fill the 2 top 100 guys. I think Mears has made some top 100 lists, but the Twins need up the middle guys, not no defense corner guys. And Rosario is a weak hitting utility IF guy who isn't very well thought of defensively. No desire for him to join our system, especially for our 2 best arms. 

I don't think the Padres are a good trade fit for the Twins. They've been very clear that they won't trade any of their top 4 prospects (Abrams, Gore, Hassell, Campusano) and if you can't get 1 of those guys they just don't have prospects left that meet what the Twins should be looking for.

I agree with this--if the Padres are insistent that they won't include any of the four for any of our top 3, I tell the Padres to lose my number, and then hang up.

Now--if the Padres wanted to give us all four of those guys, I would happily send them Jeffers + whichever 2 of our top 3 they wanted.  I'd give them the third if they threw in Haynes and Medina too.

This is a terrible package......

How about Rogers and Garver for Campusano and the best pitcher the Twins can get back? Gotta be one of their top 3.