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B+ for now. Good pitcher, didn't give up overly much but... Twins need more to compete next year. Unless there a a couple other significant moves I just don't see the Twins contending and without that aspect this trade is rather pointless.

I've seen both here and elsewhere suggesting Odorizzi signing a 3 year contract. I don't see it happening, this is his one real chance to sign a relatively long, lucrative contract. I'm betting he gets a 5 year contract, though a 4 year one with an option at the end also seems quite possible. Edit: And if for some reason it is a 3 year contract it's going to be more like $20 million a year not this 15 I see suggested as well.

Could be either that or the player is conditional upon Romo's appearances or performance. Yours strikes me as more likely.

Those charts are pretty pointless to judge Darvish by. Your not isolating the guys who dominate at their peak from the ones who manage to put together a few decent season during that time frame before their decline kicks in. Including Nick Blackburn in the same dataset as Yu Darvish isn't going to tell you much.

The new thing to rip May if he struggles will be his Twitch streaming. He should concentrate on baseball, not play video games!

A hefty haul for Yelich though, not sure I'm a fan of the trade for the Brewers. Top 20 guy, top 100 guy and couple of other interesting prospects seems like a lot.

Not that it ultimately matters but I know for a fact May would like to have another crack at starting.

I'm on board with the Littell ranking, thought folks were significantly underrating him after the Garcia trade.

Based on his Twitch streams at least May has felt pretty good about his rehab thus far. Could tell he was bummed about not being able to contribute to the Wild Card push though.

Would've preferred a 2 year deal as I'm not sold on Molitor but it is what it is.

Between the improvement from last to this year and the success down the stretch leading to the playoffs the optics would've been too terrible to not bring him back.

Ehhhh...

Acceptable job Buxton. Did what you needed to there.

And without the best defensive CF in baseball he would've been burned twice as badly. Fact of the matter is Santana was terrible in the first and still bad in the second inning.

I don't question starting Santana in the slightest, bringing him out for this inning was dumb. 1 game winner take all is the not time to show faith in your veteran who's struggling.

How utterly unsurprising.

Evidently Ervin's not comfortable then as there hasn't been a whole lot of strike throwing thus far...

Berrios is a starter, you put him out there and count on him to do what Santana was supposed to. 11 pitchers are active for a reason.

Santana better not be out there next inning. This was not a case of just a few bad pitches or impressive hitting from the Yankees, Santana just looked like garbage and its not like he really settled down after the homerun.

It was a strike but just like you're liable to get a favorable call if you hit your catchers mitt when it might be a bit outside the zone when you miss your original target completely its likely to be called a ball.

Get Santana out. Santana isn't even close on half his pitches.

Doesn't help when you miss your catcher's target by +2 feet.

You're underrating Punto here. He played excellent defense around the infield, albeit with a below average arm. Was great at working at bats despite being such a light hitter. Punto was worth what the Twins paid him overall, 4 million for a good utility player, even back in the mid 2000's is not some absurd proposition.

I don't even think its an error. Going into July 31st the Twins were 3 games below .500, in 3rd place in the division 6.5 games back. For the wildcard they were 4.5 games back and had 4 teams between them and the final spot with a cool 5% chance to make the post-season. Advocating buying is essentially like advocating lottery tickets as a good way to make money. Cautious selling is 100% the right move.

2009 wasn't either. Twins just signed an extension early. I love that Mauer has looked much better this year but signing a contract extension a full year out to a player who's going to going to be 36 by the time it starts gives me significant pause. Wait until next summer to better gauge both where Mauer is at as well as external and internal options.