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What racist comments has TLR made in the past?

Matt Canterino, Jordan Balazovic, and if you could somehow manage to get Alex Kiriloff would be sweet.

Trevor Bauer voiced his opinion:

Unless Graterol blows out his arm in the next couple years. You may very well be right about this but graterol seems to have a bit of violent throwing motion thats all arm and no body.

Lol yeah, who the hell wants "balance" when you can just hit 300+ home runs?

it worked for Tampa Bay. Also, I don't mean only using them every 5 days.

I like the idea of a platoon of Graterol, Smeltzer, Thorpe as the #5 starter. Each going 2 or 3 innings. It would help stretch out Graterol without blowing up his arm and give him experience facing mlb hitters.

Alex Wood is still on the board and tbh idk why the twins havent nabbed him yet. He's not gonna melt faces but he should be relatively cheap and I can see him bouncing back to a quality #3 type starter. Plus, we're in need of a lefty.

I wonder what it would cost to get Story and Jon Gray from the rocks..

Yeah I really don't understand it either or how much of a factor it really is.. Then you got the flip side of the argument where in July-September in Minn it's a beautiful 80-85 degrees compared to mid 90's and worse in a lot of other parts of the country.

NY is almost certainly where we'll find ourselves early next october so let's go get someone that can handle it.

Fingers crossed for MadBum and Alex Wood I guess

I obviously can't speak for Seth but seeing Thor play in Minnesota would be a little extra special because we have such a large scandinavian population. His dad is also a self described "Iowa farm boy."

No mention of Alex Wood? I'd really like to see the twins try and get him, i think he could still be a very good #4. He's only 28 and his price tag might be down significantly (so we can throw it all at Wheeler).

Great article. I'm not sure why Larnach is ranked so much better than Rooker. Rooker looks better on paper and has a full season at the AAA level and can play first. Can someone explain why that is?

He had a 3.90 era this year. I wouldn't say his first ever season with an era above 3.37 means the guy is washed up. Verlander posted a 3.86 era with Detroit the season he was traded and was 4 years older than madbum is now.

And the Yanks will take us out behind the wood shed again next October

Syndergaard for Lewis? I'm down.

100% agree with this. We need to trade Buxton/Sano (or both) before their value craters. I could definitely be wrong about Sano though. I would love to see a Buxton + mid level prospect like Nick Gordon for Syndergaard. I wouldn't even mind Buxton + Larnach for him. We have plenty of talent in the outfield. That might entice Zach Wheeler to come on board as well. 1) Thor 2) Berrios 3) Wheeler 4) Odo 5) Dobnak/ bullpen/ Graterol eventually

Although highly unlikely, this is my dream also.

Nobody remaining on the FA market would command so much money that paying it would hamstring the Twins at any time in the near or distant future. Vaild point (with the exception of Tanaka). But I still don't see much value in signing (overpaying) Stephen Drew. That said, I don't know what the BoSox offer was to him. Btw how do upload a profile pic on here. cant seem to figure out how.

Stephen Drew owns a career .264 average with unspectacular power numbers and hasn't played a full season since 2010. He will be 31 in March. I'm not a fan of signing him, but having Morales protecting Mauer would be a HUGE improvement (57 xbh's last year). I just don't know if it's worth the money Boras is gonna want.

I don't know what this author is talking about. Hughes has not only exceeded 150 innings twice, he's exceeded 175 IP twice. Check your stats better.