Twins Acquire RHP Sam Dyson from Giants

So optimistically: We play the Yankees in the ALDS. Berrios pitches us to two wins and we bash our way to a 3rd. The Indians take out the Astros somehow. We beat the Indians in the ALCS. We play someone other than the Dodgers in the WS.

Its gonna be a 1965 World Series rematch Dodgers vs Twins.  Count on it.  we even have the power lineup vs one of the best lefty pitchers of our generation.....

So, the first thing Rocco tells Dyson when he walks in the clubhouse is "suck it up, buttercup".

I'm just going to go ahead and call BS on this one, but it is great PR for them.

Well, he does have a no trade clause, and the Twins are one of the teams he could block a trade to. So...I guess life is more exciting when everyone is out to trick you.

I hope Dyson can clean up this bullpen situation.

None of the top bullpen guys moved. Vazquez, Diaz, Smith, Giles, Yates etc. Probably tells us they were at absolute premium price.

So maybe don't put all your eggs in the trade deadline basket then?

And why do you think he'd block coming to MN? He just hates MN that much, or maybe the Twins organization has something to do with it?

Because it was reported that he didn’t want to come here. The thing about conspiracy theorists is that they refuse to accept ordinary facts while uncritically accepting absurdities. Once someone has a narrative they think explains everything (e.g. everything we hear about player transactions indicates cheapness or inaction or whatever), then everything becomes evidence of that narrative.

The most plausible explanation is the ordinary one—that the twins asked about him and he didn’t want to come here.

The Greinke deal looks really good for 2019 but one has to ask what this does to the Astros in 2020 and beyond.

 

Hard to see them keeping Cole, for example.

Maybe that was the mast plan all along: wait for Houston to overpay, swoop in during the offseason to snag Cole. Genius.

Underwhelming, but better than nothing. I suppose you can argue that with Houston getting Grienke, the Twins getting Minor or even Stroman might not have mattered.

I will take it - two proven veteran relievers. Right now, a starting pitcher is only going to have about 12 more starts in the regular season. I'll take a solid reliever who will get into at least twice that many games.  The Yankees seem to believe they can 'make it' with a starting pitching staff that averages 4 innings per game - I'd rather be the Twins getting more like 6.

Are you just talking the metro areas? Because the Twins draw fans from 3 other states (the dakotas and Iowa). The Astros have another MLB team down the road in the same state. I don’t think the size of the market has anything to do with it. They’ve just been a much better team and have marketable players (Verlander, Cole, Springer, Altuve, Correa, etc).

Dallas is just down the road in the Texas sense. About 220 miles. After that, KC is the next closest at 650 miles. Milwaukee is 300 miles from Target Field, with Chicago's two teams at a distance of just over 350 miles. That said, I agree with you that location isn't everything. Houston has done a great job of putting their team together.

So now it's Falvine's fault for not building a time machine, making the Twins a dominant franchise years ago, and thereby convincing Greinke not to put the Twins on his no trade list?

I mean, dios mio man. Blaming the Twins for being on a no trade list is . . . really something. It's not unfair, it's farcical. No reasonable person should say such a thing.

It's like people are not reading what I'm saying at all.....

Fine. I don’t know why Grienke didn’t come here. Maybe it’s because a lot of MN sports fans spend more time trashing their teams than cheering for them. That’s just one thought. Or maybe maybe he has nightmares about being put into the cereal at General Mills.