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I would anticipate that the Twins were in some form of trade talks to reduce their roster is the reason that the signings of Bailey and Hill have not been announced. Or a health issue on a physical.

Actually, the Twins have to remove 2 people from their roster. They have not announced the signings of Bailey and Hill yet, and they only have one empty roster spot before adding them. So with the addition of Donaldson, they will need to remove 2 players from the roster. I would expect that a trade of some kind is in the works, if only to remove someone Adrianza or Nick Gordon as well as Harper. I can't see them giving up on Wisler before giving him a chance. The only other candidate could be Sean Poppen. I doubt he clears waivers, thought.

I think he is out of options. Optioned in 2017, 2018 and 2019.

Lest we forget, there are any number of young players on this team that need to be extended, and the only way to intice them to do that it to offer them more money up front this season. That will eat up some of those budget dollars that everybody thinks are still unspent. The REAL front office has to consider all those things as they try to put a team together inside a budget.

While I think these guys do all have potential for turnaround seasons and could maybe trap lightning in a bottle, all 3 would also require major league contracts and roster spots. who are you going to jetison to take a chance on 3 guys? Keep in mind Donaldson is still on the docket.

The last thing the Twins need is another liability on defense. I just don't think they can chance taking a risk on Castellanos being able to hack it at first base.

he may want a major league contract and the Twins can't give him a spot.

Sorry, I misspoke. I meant to say teams can only carry 13 pitchers.

Don't forget, even with a 26th man, teams can only carry 26 pitchers. And it is going to be more difficult to rotate players back and forth to Rochester because of a change in rules for how long a player has to stay down before they can return.

Jake Odorizzi was acquired in a trade with Tampa Bay.

And how many years did Joe Mauer's contract tie the Twins hands? One $10,000 pitch and a torn up shoulder and it could all be over for Cole. Not a risk the Twins can afford to take.

I thought about Buchter, too. But it appears he can't get right handers out, and the new 3 batter minimum would work against him. Probably why he was non-tendered. Alex Claudio of the Reds the same thing.

I have been a Twins fan for well over 50 years, and even in some of the bleakest years of the 70's and the 90's, there was still something to cheer about. If you didn't follow the Twins during those 70's, you missed prime years of Rod Carew and Bert Blyleven, the early years of Roy Smalley, the best days of one of the Twins better pitchers, Dave Goltz. Or Larry Hisle's entire time with the Twins. And Butch Wynegar, maybe the best Twins catcher not named Joe Mauer. Gave up on the Twins in the 90's? You missed most of Brad Radke's better years. And Chuck Knoblauch before he imploded. You missed the 3000th hits of Dave Winfield and Paul Molitor. The final years of Kent Hrbek and Kirby Puckett. And you missed the early days of the 2000's teams, back when you could see the talent budding even if it hadn't clicked yet. Torii Hunter, Dougie Alphabet (Mientkiewicz), Corey Koskie, Jacque Jones, Christian Guzman, Johan Santana, Eric Milton and lest we forget David Ortiz. I know most of the people reading these pages are fans year in and year out, but a good many fans are fair weather only. Every year has it's special moments, and many games in every year have memorable moments. I've missed very few games over the last 50 years, and I'm glad I followed through good and bad.

Seriously. They gave up Taylor Trammel to get this guy. They are not giving him up for the Twins expendable pieces.

I do not understand why everybody thinks the twins have $70 million to spend. on 1 year contracts, sure, but we are not talking about one year contracts. The FO has to take into account that almost everybody already on the roster will be more expensive next year, eating into next year's budget. Not to mention trying to tie guys up on long term contracts, which will also consume more of this year's budget, as well as maybe extra money next year. You can't just look aat one year.

I ordered the book and didn't get it. What do I do?

I did not get my handbook that I ordered. What do I do?

Didn't Rogers have a couple of back to back games that were total meltdowns. A couple of bad outings could really skew the numbers on such small sample sizes. He might have been perfectly fine on the other 12 outings. I seem to remember a good number of sucessful back to back outings he made.

I think it is just a matter of Berrios not understanding the business of baseball. This is not unlike any other moves made by a multitude of teams every day with players on the fringe of serviceable. Maybe he is frustrated after the bullpen blew his last game.

I didn't read every post here, but all of these pitchers are terribly flawed, serviceable for a non-contender team perhaps, like Seattle, but not for a contender. The real issue is that none of these players has any options, so that means they are unable to be sent down temporarily so that they prevent flexibility on the roster for situations where they are bringing players off the disabled list, and other things. Who would you have removed from the roster when those players were DFA'd? They had to DFA them in order to get them off the roster, since they had no options available.

Jeff Samardzija and Jason Hammel are two pitchers traded togrther, but that was more two starters than one of each. Sean Doolittle and Ryan Madson from Oakland to Washington is a 2 reliever trade (that cost Washington dearly). Cleveland got Adam Cimber and Brad Hand together, but again 2 relievers.

It looks like they drafted a lot of guys who may have had down years that they have high hopes. Along with a long line of pitchers that have some building blocks to work with. In every draft, if you can get a couple of pieces from lower in the draft, it's a success. So if just a couple of these college pitcher turn out, that would be normal. I was disappointed, too, that there were not many high upside high school kids. But it takes 2 to get a deal done. If they could not find kids that were willing to sign for what they could pay, then why draft them. If the college pitcher is willing to sign, take a shot on him. Just thinking.

What about Mychal Givens from Baltimore or Rasiel Iglesias from Cincinnati or Keone Kela from Pittsburg?