Steve71

I think in fairness you realistically have to deduct one year from each of these players "ages" due to CV19 and 2020. That makes it look a bit better, 21-25 for this list.

Great to hear that someone in MLB recognizes their game is in trouble with these inequities. Whether they actually reach an agreement amongst the owners and then can sell it to the MLBPA is another thing all together. I guess I will believe it when I see it, but this is at least encouraging.

Kepler plus $5M cash to the Marlins for Max Meyer, Dax Fulton and Ronald Hernandez. A good looking SP prospect coming of TJS and lottery ticket C and SP prospects. Plus, Meyer is one of us! :)

I also should add that I recall a reporter indicating that the huge crowd at the Met helped pay Bane's entire signing bonus in one night. Calvin was a businessman!

Sorry, missed the above comments about Bane's debut. I did attend that game with my Dad. Calvin was promoting the hell out the kid, and everyone was handed a small black and white photo of Eddie as a souvenir. I saw it somewhere a few years ago in my keepsakes....

A poster above suggested that Lee might be the fastest player to reach the Majors. I am old enough to have attended the pro debut of pitcher Eddie Bane in 1973, who went directly from college to MLB with zero time in the minors. That is a record that will never be broken. By the way: He sucked. 4.66 ERA over 4 seasons, walking more than he struck out. He found employment is a couple front offices after he stopped playing, and was a terrific college player for ASU.

No problem talking to the Halos about him, but it all comes down to the price. What about Kepler for Adell plus a lottery pick type of minor leaguer, an actual draft pick or some international signing pool money?

I don't accept the premise that Gallo and Kepler play the same position. Gallo can play LF and RF, and CF in a pinch. Kepler can play RF and some CF. An OF of Gallo-Buxton-Kepler would be elite, possibly the best defensive OF in all MLB.

I think all the posters parroting the "Pohlads are cheap" line, the "FO lowballed Correa, and knew it at the time they lowballed him", the general "Fire this FO", the "Correa wants to be in NYC for Dior stores", and the "Boras is just using the Twins to leverage the Mets and has no intention of doing a deal with the Twins" can now just shuffle off to the "Mea Culpa" thread. Please close the door on the way out. In all seriousness, this was a creative and excellent deal. In a financial time where interest rates are climbing the higher, EARLY AAV terms are much more valuable to Correa than the original flat payments of equal contracts for each year in the future. This is a handsome, valuable deal for Correa AND the Twins and should end this long ordeal as soon as he passes his physical today. Finally, great to see the other Twins players reacting so favorably to the signing. Not all FA's are loved and respected by their teammates.

Twins are holding off signing Wacha and Fulmer and Chaffin until they know whether they are going to get Correa signed. I have no intel on this, but it is a wild-assed guess and I am sticking to it! :)

Fun to speculate, but there is zero indication or reporting that the Red Sox have any interest in moving Sale. He has negative trade value, so they would have to pay salary or send along assets to get him moved. I don't see that happening, so this topic is intellectually interesting but unrealistic based on current information.

Strangely enough, the Twins clubhouse might be in a better position to handle a character like Bauer if they had Correa leading it.... Me, personally, I would not touch this guy unless I had a face-to-face interview with the guy with all topics on the table to try and clear the air and see if you are comfortable with him on the team...or not. Given his talent, plus the minimum salary, it would be worth at least talking to him if he wanted to play here. Being in a small market "backwater" like Minnesota might be the best place for him to reform his image and rehabilitate his character.

I see some useful comparison to the Ray Rice case. NFL originally suspends him for a single game, then the video gets out on TMZ, and the public outcry forces the NFL to reassess and drop the hammer---which they should have done in the first place. The NFLPA was also not going to go out of its way to defend a guy seen punching and then dragging his girlfriend by the hair off an elevator. Bauer may have a sick sex life, which may or may not be consensual, but he is toxic due to the nature of the accusations, especially as society has become more "woke" since the Rice case was reviewed. I sincerely doubt Bauer will ever play MLB again. Not sure if that is fair, but it is the probable reality now. The good news for him is that he is set for life financially.

Holy Lazarus thread, Batman!

Yes, I am saying that the 10/$285M offer (which is what was reported somewhere but never actually confirmed to have been made) was an excellent offer. It may not end up being the highest offer, but it is difficult to argue that it was not fair market value when we have yet to see Correa actually consummate a deal for a higher figure to date. Again, he is likely to sign with the Mets. But if he signs with the Twins for that figure--or near that figure--would that make the Twins offer "cheap" or are they now "overpaying"? Seems to me that this Twins FO can't win with some critics.....