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The Twins have exactly what they want in Garver. He won't hit free agency until he is 32 years old. If he turns out to be terrible (he won't), they can cut him. If he turns out to be average, good, or great, they can keep him through all of his prime years for cheap.

He was last good two years ago and he was never that good in the first place. The dude has more walks than strikeouts! The Twins already got their Odorizzi.

Garver was bad during a small sample size this year after he unexpectedly had some big shoes to fill. Stop judging him on it. If you are surprised about his recent play, you're not paying attention. Also, he is still a rookie. He hit the snot out of the ball in the minors, but we fans were ready to toss him aside after less than a year? Regarding his defense, his numbers look unexciting but not detrimental. And again, he's a rookie. Small sample sizes in the flavor of the month defensive metrics are useless.

The Twins front office owes us two things. One is Jack, and one is the other end of Jack. Also, this season isn't as bad as we are making it out to be. We always heard "Next year!" on fan forums since 2010 ... but you could actually say that this year and have it be true.

I would be mildly surprised if the Twins don't get someone mildly interesting for Dozier. There is zero risk in signing him right before he hits free agency, and potentially a lot of reward for one year. And he's cheap.

He was pitching through pain most of last year. If he says the pain level is tolerable enough for him to pitch, I believe him.

If a guy's name reminds you of applesauce, it's hard to imagine him being good at baseball.

If he can keep that curveball going, and continue setting it up properly, the pitch will be very good to him.

The thing about Berrios is ... he still hasn't peaked. This year is probably his floor for the next 4-5 years.

Now is a good time to make up a nice Dozier to the Dodgers rumor!

This might be squarely in the "overthinking it" category. Doing this likely would not affect the outcome of the game that much. This would allow the "starter" to get more wins on the stat sheet because he would no longer have to go 5 innings for a win. No other impact is quantifiable. If you have a pitcher who can't make it through the fifth, this would move that so he can't make it through the sixth. Only in a no-hit game would this all align with the top of the order, and we're assuming starting pitchers "run out of gas" only against the top of the lineup. If you walk the pitcher and the catcher before the #1 guy comes up, what's gained?

Some perspective... Yes it's been a rough year. But it's not nearly as bad as most of the Terry Ryan II years, even with the Sano, Buxton, Polanco, Dozier, Morrison debacles. No one traded the entire outfield. No one gave long contracts to useless pitchers. No one signed a bunch of has-been hitters. The plans of this front office didn't work out this year, but they didn't doom the team to another five years of ****e with terrible moves.

I don't think this is a particularly great article as nothing is quantifiable. 24% negative regression ... OK ... does this mean a player was at 180 OPS+ before the trade and 150 OPS+ after? Every team will take that. 62% positive regression ... same thing ... if a player is at 98 OPS+ before but 102 OPS+ after, so what? What I'd really like to see is quantifiable numbers regarding the value of the player compared to the league. If Joe Nathan gets traded in his prime and goes from 316 ERA+ to 250 ERA+, he's still one of the top two closers in the game. His new team would be thrilled to have him. And this is how every team will gauge the success or failure of a trade -- what did the player do for us? The Twins are on pace for +2.84 WAR? Again, so what? Are they going to pull out the final W-L record for the Twins at the end of the year and say "Everyone else expected them to get 3 wins less than this." No, they won't.

He just wasn't ever very good. A n00b front office jumped on a guy after having one good year. Speaking of Rays anomalies from 2017, weren't a bunch of us pining for Alex Cobb and Chis Archer too? We were lucky the Twins only fell for one of those.

I don't think the guy deserves to have his career ruined, but I also don't think his career will be affected at all. And yeah, people do grow up. Nevertheless I'm never inviting him to dinner. Again, not that this affects anything at all.

Puhleaze. Just because I picked movies from my era doesn't mean the only movies in his era were about being white trash.

Oakland just picked up Edwin Jackson and they can call up Frankie Montas and Chris Bassitt whenever they want. They also cut Santiago Casilla who is both better and cheaper than Lynn and Odorizzi. Next....

OK. But why did he choose these quotes instead of something from Bruce Almighty, Forrest Gump, Groundhog Day, Rocky, etc.? I don't think you can deflate it by saying it's a quote. Everybody chooses what they quote.

OK, but this post and its entire thread are all speculation. Some people like it.

If you're a fangraphs guy, you have seen that the Twins have gotten $42.7M in value from Sano while paying him $1.7M. He's not due free agency money for another four years and he is only 25. He came back from Tommy John surgery and he is still recovering from leg surgery. If you are worried about his future, you're erasing a lot of history.

It's the same as it always was. Dozier is a good player to build around, a good guy to have on a team with other solid players. However, he's not a star who can move the needle on his own. How many games did the Twins lose when he hit 42 home runs? Another team will be thrilled to have him and he has more good games left in him, but he still won't be a star on his own. He will look *really* good on a player with some great players.

Yeah. The problems this year really look like management problems.

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Garver had a slump in May, otherwise he has been fine.