bowserthedog

I don't think we would be trading young controllable cheap pitching. Don't trade any pitchers right now. We can take the approach of seeing what we have. Sure we may need to trade an outfielder because we can't keep them all on the roster. But other then that why not see what the current collection of players gets us. If we can't be in a playoff position with some padding at the deadline then we look at trading away some players who are pending free agents. If we are in a good position then we look at what it out there that can help us win a playoff series. We look for top 3 starters or perhaps more relief pitching. Id like to see us try and hold onto Kepler to see how his offensive numbers profile without facing shift before trading him. But that might not be possible.

No reason to herald Miranda as entrenched at 3rd base. I bet both Lee and Lewis will have a lot more defensive value at that position than him. Miranda long term is a guy who occasionally plays some third but mostly DH and 1B.

Id probably do something like that.

I would keep Sonny Gray. Give the team the best chance at having a good season. You can always trade him a the deadline if the season isn't going well. Even if they trade for Lopez i would keep Gray. He helps us.

This is really amazing new for the Twins. We now have the ability to have a window to compete. And that window is currently open. Now lets go out and get Pablo Lopez.

Did Carlos just say goodbye to the hall by coming an average hitting 3rd basemen rather than circle back to the Twins. Mets with the luxury tax are essentially paying 55m a year for an average hitting 3rd basemen.

My bad but I still think it's a viable option.

I'd trade for that *South Korean* shortstop from the Padres. He's very good defensively and if his power comes over the next two years they have a steal. They can always flip him at some point in the future if Royce Lewis materializes.

I saw an article saying we traded for Pablo Lopez in my news feed but it's a broken link.

It might be more important that they have him early in the season with Pineda and Hill out. Could be part of some bullpen games and such.

I support this decision. He could be brilliant in the pen this season and having an extra talent like that is going to make the bullpen vastly improved over last season. Compared to the pre trade deadline bullpen this group is vastly improved.