Azviking101

Thanks for sharing. No surprise here. He was the prospect I was most annoyed with losing last year.

Losing a player to an injury when health is the most important thing in a 162 games season far outweighs any amount of errors in a single inning. Twins players likey have been told over and over not to put themselves at injury risk and Gordon did it anyway. I recognize these guys all have a competitive spirit, but it doesn't matter if this team loses every single game. Sure, most players don't get hurt on that play, but that play has a higher chance of bringing injury and for a guy like Gordon who is guaranteed a spot, it's silly.

Good thing it's most players third game of spring and most haven't even played a full 9 innings of baseball yet this year. Just a friendly reminder to all that spring stats don't mean anything at all. Players that crush it in spring often do nothing during the season and players who struggle in spring often have great years.

Shake the rust off, stay healthy and don't do anything dumb. That's the spring training goal of players guaranteed a roster spot. Giving 110% effort to try and make a spectacular, sprawling play on defense is not part of the spring training checklist.

Thanks for doing this research! I've been pointing out for years that the bottom half of the league's payroll teams rarely make and even more rarely win the WS. And of course, TF opening were the only two years they were in the top half. What an absolute lie that was to the fanbase. Still, I am excited about this season, but I also recognize that winning a playoff game is most important right now. Sounds pathetic; and it is, but that's the sad life of a MN fan. Also, spending $0 on Major League pitching in an offseason after only spending money the previous season on Bundy, Archer, Smith who are all still unemployed is NOT ok.

I hope this doesn’t mean a trade for a relief pitcher. They spent 13 million abouts on Bundy, Archer, Smith (after incentives and buyouts). Would have been so much easier to just give Chafin 6 or Moore 7.5 But we all know Falvey hates quality free agent pitching

More depth which is amazing. Just still don’t get why bullpen depth isn’t important

Why can't they just make one move to fortify the bullpen? Last year, Twins gave Bundy 5 million and I think Archer got close to 7 after incentives and buyout. Neither did anything for the team last year, but two legit setup men got 5.5 and 7.5 (Chafin and Moore) and the Twins scoffed at that. Brad Hand appears to be close to done in this league and would likely be a waste of money. Someone needs to have a quality over quantity conversation with the Twins brass when it comes to pitching FA deals,

The diamondbacks were very close to selecting Jay number one overall so yeah he was very much hyped up. Both had very similar size and a fastball/slider/change up repertoire all thrown at similar speeds. Jay was trying to move from a reliever to a starter Prielipp hasn’t pitched in 3 years. Similar hurdles I get why people are excited but I’ve seen him ranked as high as 4 on twins prospect lists. That’s ridiculous. If he showcased the same stuff but was a 5’9 righty nobody would know his name.

Excited to see what he does this year, but all this hype without seeing anything reminds me a whole lot of Tyler Jay

12 CT, mlb trade rumors is doing a live chat session with former Twin Brent Rooker. Figured some Twins fans might enjoy reading it or sending in a question of their own. https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2023/02/the-opener-wbc-rosters-nba-deadline-player-chat.html

They’re so close, I don’t understand why they don’t throw a few more million out at a good quality reliever. I recognize that Falvey has faith in the current bullpen, but he’s formed a great backup plan for the rotation and the position players. Relief is the cheapest backup plan there is and he just doesn’t want to budge. there’s a lot of potential in this pen, but too much risk to sit around and do nothing.

Thank you for mentioning Ryan’s stats against everyone else. I just don’t see any overwhelmingly dangerous pitches and he can’t seem to keep his fastball velocity up. We’ll see 94/95 for an inning or 2 and then it’ll be 89-91 the rest of the game. I frankly don’t see him taking the next step

Your evaluation of the value of McClanahan and Glasnow is way too low.

I think buxton was going to play a quality amount of DH regardless. Taylor just gives them a true, quality center fielder as a backup.