Does Joey Gallo Make Sense for the Minnesota Twins?

[Greglw3]

WHy not sign a career .298 hitter for LF, a potential batting title contender in Michael Brantley? Then you could have two Luis Arraez’s batting 1-2.

Binentendi would be good too but Brantley would be more affordable.

And outfield of Brantley, Buxton and Wallner  would have strong potential. I guess Garlick could take on the tougher lefties, I would have preferred A.J. Pollock. They also need a serviceable CF backup for Buxton. Without spending too much money for that, they could look to Nick Gordon to fill that role.

I’d sign Correa for SS with Swanson #1 backup. And I’d go hard for Willson Contreras.

Could Robbie Ray be pried away from the Mariners? Burnes, Gallen? They’re gonna have to move their payroll up to $160MM and I firmly believe Jim Pohlad would do that.

OF Brantley, Buxton, Wallner - (Garlick - Gordon)

3B Urshela SS-Correa 2B-Polanco or Julien 1B Arraez

C Contreras

DH Haniger?

Gordon LF/CF/2B/DH

 

 

 

[twinfan]

One thing most are forgetting is that Gallo is a very good outfielder with a very good arm. However, I would not want to add him to what we have already. We are probably saying good-bye to Sano though he could be a decent DH and bats from the right side. Then, as others have said, we are loaded with left handed batters. While I would vote "no" with our current roster, if we made changes by trading some of the lefty batters (which I would not do), then Gallo might be worth taking with a cheap contract. But there are other fish out there.

[TwinsAce]

20 hours ago, Riverbrian said:

I'm trying to understand the logic in this discussion. 

If we trade Kepler with a career .232 BA and 1 year left at 8.5M on his contract before a club option at 10m. 

We could acquire Joey Gallo with a .199 BA for a 1 year deal at 10M to replace him. 

We hope that Kepler will benefit from the banning of the shift, while we believe that Gallo could benefit from the banning of the shift. 

It's been my experience in life that treading water doesn't get you very far. 

One other thing... I've seen a lot of comments about a potential Kepler trade. I assume this sentiment comes from his performance the past two years. If he performed well, we wouldn't be talking about a potential trade. 

So to recap:

We have lots of folks that want to trade Kepler.

We also have lots of folks that list Kepler as our 2023 RF and 2nd best outfielder. 

And... And... We have lots of folks who say OF is not a top priority. ?

 

 

I don't think Gallo makes sense unless somehow cheaper than 8 million.  That said, one could argue that they would prefer a strikeout with more power potential over a grounder to 2nd base.  Gallo also might have a higher ceiling than Kepler at this point.  I think the argument for Gallo is also under the assumption trading Kepler brings back a player of need...backup SS, RH OF, backup C, RP... (Which remains to be seen.)  Gallo would provide better defense than our current non-Kepler corner OF players.

But like you said, this seems like treading water in many ways.

[Riverbrian]

2 minutes ago, TwinsAce said:

I don't think Gallo makes sense unless somehow cheaper than 8 million.  That said, one could argue that they would prefer a strikeout with more power potential over a grounder to 2nd base.  Gallo also might have a higher ceiling than Kepler at this point.  I think the argument for Gallo is also under the assumption trading Kepler brings back a player of need...backup SS, RH OF, backup C, RP... (Which remains to be seen.)  Gallo would provide better defense than our current non-Kepler corner OF players.

But like you said, this seems like treading water in many ways.

Maybe I'll be surprised but I can't see Kepler bringing back anything in a trade. 

Lets be honest... I assume the reason there are so many comments from TD faithful about the possibility of trading Kepler is because he hasn't been good.

If he had been good, the TD Faithful wouldn't be thinking about trading Kepler. 

If he hasn't been good... Why would a team give up any value for him? 

The only sensible course of action with Kepler is to hope and pray that the shift rule changes are a tremendous help to him. Give him one of the last roster spots and let him earn playing time back by showing that he can be productive without the shift. He is going to cost us 8 million this year regardless, let's see if he can build that value back... but whatever you do... do not walk into 2023 with Kepler listed as a starter and think it's covered.    

Gallo might spring back into something of value. He might not. He can hit the ball long way and defend his position but we need a corner outfielder that isn't Kepler or Gallo... We need a corner bat that is way better then both of them. We need a corner bat that is a better hitter than Polanco is. Better than Miranda.