Cap'n Piranha

Because winning a game on an HBP, a balk, and then two groundouts is so much better?

I agree with what seems to be the consensus here--the Twins should wait for the deadline to add talent via trade, unless they can somehow pull off a steal on the AJ-for-Liriano/Nathan level. The farm system actually has a pretty nice collection of potential top-end talent (Lewis, Lee, Prielipp, Salas, and Rodriguez all have all-star potential, and all of them could be in the bigs by 2024/2025 if things break right). As such, I think the Twins should let the current roster start the year, and re-assess in early June as to what the true needs for 2023 are.

Agreed that the plan is to buy time with some combo of Kepler/Gallo/Gordon/Celestino as the CF backups until Lewis gets back. With Correa here for the next 6 years, my guess is that Lewis is no longer going to be thought of as an IF within the org, but will transition full time to the OF as hopefully a gold glove caliber guy in RF/LF and a high level Buxton backup in CF. Miranda will be at third for the next 3-4 years, with Lee either replacing him or Polanco, and Martin/Julien taking the role of super subs. At least that's how the FO wants it to play out, I imagine.

Unless in jest, this is a breathtaking misunderstanding of baseball statistics.

You again miss the part where, despite appearing in a lousy offense (as you yourself pointed out), Arraez was top 30 in all of MLB for runs.

That would be Nelson Cruz. I’m sure the Twins would have no difficulties in signing him.

This is particularly hilarious given your stance in a different thread that the Twins should bring back Miguel Sano, based on the production he’s had IN THE PAST.

Yes, Sano's .345 OPS would have been quite the boon in pushing Arraez around the bases.

Which was 29th most in all of MLB, and represents 12.6% of all the Twins runs. Perhaps Arraez would have scored more runs with better hitters behind him.

It's a lot easier to score runs when there are guys on base. Guys who hit for average tend to be on base a lot.

Why not sign Kent Hrbek? He also has a career OPS above .800 (.848 to be exact), so we've seen he can do it too.

Why would we put hope in Sano, when we could go get a freely available righty bat with the below 162 games average? 37 HR, 87 R, 105 RBI, .859 OPS? He also had an OPS above .800 more recently than Sano, and drastically outperformed Sano in 2022.

Cal Ripken career OPS+ by month, with each month having at least 1700 PAs Mar/Apr--101 May--101 Jun--106 Jul--108 Aug--95 Sep/Oct--90

I never implied he wouldn't be healthier. I implied it's silly to think, as you said, that Byron Buxton's injury history has no bearing on his injury future.

I believe in Byron Buxton. I do not believe in Byron Buxton’s health. Unfortunately, the impact of the former is controlled by the latter.