launchingthrees

It depends on if the Twins promised to spend half of incoming revenue on players, which they did promise. Do you think they should keep their word or not? They certainly made no mention of any strings, or caveats w/r to "assessed value" attached to that statement. Now the Twins are asking us to be happy that they offered the highest dollar amount to exactly 0 top tier free agents this offseason because of some magical "assessed value" calculation.

Someone with the last name Pohlad that probably hasn't been born yet.

Bumgarner was taking offers from multiple teams, had interest in multiple teams. The reporting said he "left money on the table" That doesn't mean he couldn't be had. https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/madison-bumgarner-diamondbacks-agree-to-five-year-85-million-contract-reports-say/

I don't see any national writers supporting Gleeman's claim that the twins are offering big dollar contracts but no one wants to come here. Was this something leaked to him specifically so he would disseminate it? The story just isn't adding up. I'm starting to suspect they weren't willing to make the highest offer on a single top tier free agent.

Well if we do this he'll have the job of his choice because he's a major asset.

I happen to agree with this. The question is whether or not Rocco sees it that way. I tend to doubt it. Rogers will be pitching in the highest leverage spots.

Yeah it seems like the stats just sort of disappear from their career stats. So AK's home runs won't be counted in his career minor league stats. He has a career postseason OPS of 1.191 with 5 home runs over 48 ABs.

We may see a bullpen game in the playoffs and I'm excited for it.

No even Buxton shied away.

You are not the only one. It is glaring.

Schoop has a better OPS vs RHP than LHP over his career.

No. Because “many twins fans” didn’t believe that Zach Granite “should’ve taken over cf full time”

So why talk about prospects at all then?

All true, expect the minor league water seems just fine. It's the major league water that seems to be a problem.

Who's going to get spicy in the offseason and place Graterol as the Twin's #1 prospect? His combination of missing bats and control all while playing against guys 4 years older than him is really special. He's likely to make a mockery of A+/AA next year.

They may have thought he was expendable this spring but we have more information now and I don't think there's a single MLB team that would drop Cave given his 800 OPS over 160PAs in the majors. It's also not totally unexpected. He's been hitting quite well at every level in 2017/2018. Is it a mirage? Maybe. We'll see. Every projection system has him as a 700+ OPS guy moving forward. Add in 5 years of team control and the ability to play all 3 outfield positions and he is a valuable asset. Sometimes the Yankees get it wrong too.

Akil's game is going to age really well. He's clearly a student of the game and that OBP is going to play really well next to Lewis and and kirilloff.

Not a fair comp at all. Butera was very old at every level. His absolute upside as a 23/24 year old in A+ was always league average. Not a single FO would trade 2018 Rortvedt for 2007 Butera

Lamarre is 29 with a .506 career OPS and has no future with the twins, or any winning team. Almost anyone would be better than him right?

Who cares when and where he rehabbed? The 2 weeks were really going to change his career projection? He's struggled his whole career to hit, is easily hurt, is far too reckless in center, and doesn't look like an MLB player. This is totally irrelevant longterm for a player with 1000 plate appearances.

I like your style OP. The few paths we have left to make the playoffs probably include winning the next 2 games at home against Cleveland, then winning 3/4 in next weeks series against Cleveland. If they do that they'll have a puncher's chance. If they go .500 or worse against Cleveland in these 2 series then it's over. There just aren't nearly enough games to make up a 10 game difference. How cool would it be to sell off, add a bunch of prospects, AND have a pennant sweat in September?

It's hard to watch Santana go out there without his best stuff.

Yeah I don't know. The FO is putting on a clinic at the deadline. I guess some people had their heart set on the twins competing this year and aren't taking it well?

Chase De Jong was # 16 in Seattle's org rankings? They must have a very weak system. He seems AAAA at best. Ryan Costello is the more interesting of the two for me despite being quite old for the levels he's playing at.

I'm surprised at the lack of strikeouts from Enlow. He was touted as a high end arm and he's profiling a lot like Kohl Stewart to me.