freshinthehouse

Because they plan on making a godfather offer to Shohei Ohtani next off-season, right? Right!?!? (please God let this be the case)

Sign Correa to a 7 year, 215 million dollar deal. Sweeten the deal by front loading it (45 mil in 2023, 40 mill in 24). This lessens his salary at a time when hopefully our young players are looking at extensions. I am fully convinced that the Pohlads are going to demand a lower payroll this year. I'll sweet-talk them into keeping a payroll around $135, with the promise that we will move a lot of the vets unless we are looking really good at mid-season (which frankly I dont think will happen). I'm looking at this as a bridge year. Start letting Duran pitch longer and longer relief outings until we have him stretched to try his hand at starting pitching by mid-season. Move Grey for the best prospects you can. Start the year with a rotation of Winder, Ryan, Mahle, Maeda, and Ober. Hopefully by September we're looking at a rotation of Ryan, Ober, Paddack, Duran, and SWR. Unless we are looking like a sure-fire playoff team, move Mahle, Maeda, Polanco, Urshela, I moved Kepler in the off-season to clear room. Brad Hand and Rogers were signed to fill out the bullpen just in case we're competitive. They can also be moved at the trade deadline. IMO this season is a bridge year to see what we have with our younger guys, and to clear some of the middling flotsam off the roster, hopefully clearing room so we can offer some extensions to our promising young guys, and to also (gasp!) sign a solid free agent pitcher in 2024 and 2025. This will also help replenish what has quickly become a bottom-half farm system. C: Ryan Jeffers ($0.70M) 1B: Luis Arraez ($4.50M) 2B: Jorge Polanco ($7.50M) 3B: Gio Urshela ($9.00M) SS: Carlos Correa ($45.00M) LF: Alex Kirilloff ($0.70M) CF: Byron Buxton ($15.00M) RF: Trevor Larnach ($0.70M) DH: Jose Miranda ($0.70M) 4th OF: Kyle Garlick ($0.70M) Utility: Nick Gordon ($0.70M) Utility: Rando AAAA OF ($1.00M) Backup C: S. Leon ($1.00M) SP1: Josh Winder ($0.70M) SP2: Tyler Mahle ($8.00M) SP3: Kenta Maeda ($9.00M) SP4: Joe Ryan ($0.70M) SP5: Bailey Ober ($0.70M) RP: Jhoan Duran ($0.70M) RP: Jorge Lopez ($3.00M) RP: Griffin Jax ($0.70M) RP: Jorge Alcala ($1.00M) RP: Caleb Thielbar ($2.00M) RP: Taylor Rogers ($5.00M) RP: Brad Hand ($6.00M) RP: Jovani Moran ($0.70M) Payroll is 10.43% under budget

BYTO bound til I'm buried in the ground.

I collected baseball cards from 87-91, and it's funny, while the twins were always my fav team (and Kirby my fav player) there is no one card that sticks out to me. maybe the 87 topps Kirby? I always loved that set. I got back into collecting a bit during covid. bought a few cards of buxton, lewis, kirilloff, larnach, etc. I splurged on a 1/1 Royce Lewis card, so here's hoping he becomes a HOFer and i can buy a decent used car with that card lol.

In the NBA? Absolutely. In the MLB? Eh, not so much. Rarely are there slam-dunk talents in the mlb draft that are worth deep-sixing your season over.

Agreed. Even though 99.99% of my childhood baseball card collection has no value, the warm and tingly nostalgia vibes they provide are nearly priceless.

Inspired by the National Baseball Card Day article, i figured I'd start a sports card thread. Did any of you get back into this during quarantine? Or have some of you never quit? I got back in during the height of covid. Mostly vintage stuff, though i bought a few boxes of newer stuff. about 90% of the stuff i got was vintage basketball, though i did delve into some Twins stuff. I picked up some cool AK rookies, as well as Royce Lewis. I also picked up some Byron Buxton stuff hoping this would be his big year (whoops!).

Yuuup it would be a pretty big collection of blue chip prospects making a move. But man, talk about a statement that you're not messing around when it comes to winning a championship ASAP. I would've included Rogers in place of Theilbar but obv he's off the shelf for the foreseeable future.

I'm voting yes.

I'm sure it's already been discussed and I just haven't seen it, but is it possible to offer Cruz a QO?

Rosario can't be on another team soon enough. Dude is just never gonna get it.

Random thought, when was the last time the Twins made a trade with Cardinals of any significance? I can't think of one in recent memory.

Hahaha yeah i surprised myself. But for some random reason i was thinking there was a woman from the F/M area that posted. I can't remember how to long divide, but by god i can remember BYTOers from 12 years ago lol

Did you happen to live in Moorhead MN during the BYTO days?

Shoot i forgot about vervehound. was he one of the guys that was kind of plugged in to the minor league teams (back when that info wasnt so readily available)? How about jwescott(sp?)? He ever show up anymore? Or Kobs?

You'd better sound off or you're gonna get one non-refundable boom daddy to the chin!

This makes me happy!

Can you imagine what the responses to a thread with this title would've been at BYTO?

Haha whoops that was supposed to read trade Milone, not Duffey. And unless I missed something, do we not have the option to edit our posts?

Sounds like the Twins found their 1st basemen for AAA next year. Here's hoping he can rip it up in the Int'l league.

Hopefully the rest did him some good. We need to be able to push the 'eject' button on Pelfrey as soon as possible.

Love the idea of working out some kind of trade around Plouffe/Nolasco for Shields/Benoit. I think I'd rather see us try find a catcher in another trade. Maybe Hicks + random goodies for Susac?

The answer to this question is always no. GMs tell fans what they want to hear. It's part of the job.

Echoing what Lev said, Foster is a really thoughtful, interesting guy. I hope he can find a job in some form of media after his career is over.

I would definitely entertain trading Plouffe. I would only trade Dozier if we got a king's ransom for him AND you are sure that Polonco could be a decent bat and above average glove at the MLB level.