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2mil over the next 3 seasons is league minimum, what the team HAS to pay him. But if he performs and is healthy in good faith the team likely gives him a fair raise over that minimum. Same with year 3. Decent players are getting 3 mil in their 3rd seasons. So with your offer of 7mil in those first 3 seasons if he performs well he'd likely gain nothing, or very little. But as you say it is a guarantee. As for his arb seasons, Vlad Guerrero is getting over 14 mil in this his 1st arb season, I believe. So if Lewis is the player that was argued about being the top Twin prospect this year then he should easily make 40mil through arb. 13mil avg. You're offering him less than half. The 3 FA seasons you offer him 37mil. He'd get in excess of 90-100 mil if he's the player you predict him to be. No way he'd even consider your offer. Unless he knew he was toast because of that knee. He would stand to lose 85mil with your offer, actually worse because losing those 3 FA seasons would knock down his FA contract as an older player. Very likely. I doubt he does become this player, because of that kne. I hope I'm wrong.

Decent on base guy for what it's worth. I don't get the move either. Other than they want to compete and don't have the confidence in the rookies?

Or even Lewis? Not as far along as hoped for?

I agree. But I just don't see Lewis biting on this deal. Unless he really didn't feel good about himself at this point.

Not sure if signing Solano has anything to do with where Lewis is at right now, but maybe he isn't as far along as was hoped for.

If Lewis was to take this deal, then he's not a competitor. imo if he took this then he's likely to have just a so so career. Just those last 3 years alone he'd be losing 60mil. If he's as good as everyone, including himself thinks he is.

Skenes is the guy I have been most intrigued over. I hope he makes it to the Twins 5th choice. He could be our Ohtani. If he were available at #5 and wasn't taken by us it would be a huge disappointment.

I fully agree with chepettit, Martin is going to have to be an OBP machine and be able to leg out some doubles at a fair clip. I absolutely believe he can do it. We could really use this kind of player as a future CF. Best wishes this season Austin.

Vazquez has caught 240 games the last two seasons. I'm good with him being the flat out starter myself instead of this platoon with Jeffers. Makes the team better imo. I like Miller as well. It was a toss up for me between him and Hidalgo for break out player.

If only he could just stay on the field......

So fixated on power in today's game. HR's. I'm sure I'm being way overly optimistic. But with Austin Martin I envision a RH hitting Joe Mauer potential. With better speed. I don't believe what he did at Vandy was pretend and his AZFL brought it back to life.

My rebound pick will be Austin Martin, too many gave up on him too easily. Pick to click will be Connor Prielipp, he will put in 80IP this season and be on everyones Top10 ML list going into 2024. My pick for fastest riser will be Alejandro Hidalgo, the guy we picked up from the Angels for Urshela. He's still only 19. 13.4K/9 last season in Cali league.

I don't know, he sure looks pretty darn sharp in the short video attached to the article.

I honestly don't know what more to expect from these 4 players than the projections they gave. I'm not real big on predicting what guys will do but these projections seem to line up fairly well with what these players have done in their careers thus far. Lopez: Prior to 2022 Lopez by and large has stunk. The projections are saying to me that they don't feel he is as good as he was in April-July of last year and they state that he maybe better than his August and September that he put forth here. Overall numbers look reasonable to me and if I was the FO I'd swing the deal for Lopez every time considering what we gave up. Alcala: The projections are right in line with what he has put up in game play during his brief career thus far. Frankly if his numbers in 2023 are the projections I'd be fine with that. Larnach: What can we even say about him? He's done next to nothing since 2019 in AA ball. He's been injured alot and when he has played the numbers have been left wanting. I'd call 2023 a make or break year for him. He should start in St.Paul and if he was anyone other than Trevor Larnach we wouldn't even be discussing him and we'd be checking him out from Wichita. Same with Kiriloff, lets be honest. Gallo: The average and OBP seem to not be out of reason. The slugging %? May well be low. But maybe their thought is he's older and on the decline.

Very well put. My problem with playing him in CF last season is also that he had spent almost zero time at the position. 7 games. Add to this very little time in the ML and the flow of adrenaline and playing a position that was new to him.