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Frightening situation. Never seen anything like it. Had to receive CPR on the field. Just call the game. There’s no possible way they can expect these guys to keep playing when they just witnessed this.

My confidence level in the Vikings has been drastically reduced. We knew OL depth was a major issue heading into the season. Now if Bradbury’s back injury keeps lingering, we’re forced to play Chris Reed who has never played center until yesterday. Looks like O’Niell either tore his ACL or his achilles yesterday too.

May have been a hot radar gun in St. Paul. Or maybe his arm got tired in September. His baseball savant page says his fastball velocity was 90.8 MPH. I think Balazovic will get back on track. Idk why they were allowing him to pitch most of last season with a bad knee. In 5 monitored September starts he had a 3.43 ERA with 12.9 K/9. That’s what I would love to see to start the year. If he does that he’ll be on the MLB team by June.

SWR and Varland are the flavors of the month because of their cups of coffee last September. Seems that most have either forgotten or written off the pitcher with the highest upside out of the group… Jordan Balazovic. My hawt taek is he leapfrogs both Varland and SWR with a strong start in St. Paul. SWR to me appears to be a decent floor, low ceiling pitcher. If he’s only sitting at 91-92 MPH, that’s not enough to elevate him to a mid or top of the rotation guy.

For the last 3 years, Sano has been nothing better than a replacement player. I’ll bet by February 1 he’s still looking for work. He’s been a one dimensional player who has lost the ability to catch up to fastballs in the zone. If anyone offers him playing time at the MLB level good luck.

I posted a couple of times in the Sano Farewell threads that he’ll have a hard time finding employment this winter. I didn’t think he would get an MLB contract and will have to settle for a minor league + ST invite deal. He will be joining old friend Willians Astudillo in Japan by 2024.

Promote him from where? His couch? I’m sure he’d be thrilled to coach baseball for the first time since 2019.

Since June 1, here are the AL Central records of KC, MN, and DET MIN - 48-63 (70 win pace) KC - 49-65 (69 win pace) DET - 47-66 (67 win pace) Better Health: Detroit lost #1 overall pick Casey Mize for the season, Austin Meadows limited to 36 games, starting rotation in shambles losing Spencer Turnball, Tarik Skubal, Matt Manning, Kyle Funkhouser, Eduardo Rodriguez, etc. Youth Development: Kansas City arguably has higher end talent than the Twins. Bobby Witt Jr being a premiere prospect, Brady Singer continues to develop into an ace, Drew Waters develops into a star, MJ Melendez takes over catching duties, etc. Detroit has Riley Greene, Spencer Torkelson, and a bunch of young starting pitching prospects. Re-do tight ones: KC was 16-20 in one run games. Detroit was 3-7 in extra inning games. Just a few lucky bounces and they can win! Pitching depth: Insert 10 names here every offseason to highlight depth. The division is wide open!

This article could be copied and pasted on the Tigers, Royals, Guardians, and White Sox baseball blogs too.

Sands will be Griffin Jax 2.0 in the bullpen.

Around this time last year fans named Balazovic 6th in the list of 10 names highlighting our depth. Varland wasn’t named at all. How times have changed. I think Balazovic bounces back in a big way in 2023. He was never going to have respectable stats after his disastrous start of 2022. In September he looked like he found his stride again with a 3.43 ERA and 13 K/9 in 5 heavily monitored starts. Starting pitching will not be the reason the Twins are a below .500 team next season.

2 for the Vikings, 1 for the Twins, 1 for the Wild, and 1 NCAA hockey championship for Minnesota State.

I wouldn’t be so quick to make those claims. The Vikings have a 3 concussions in one month player too in Akayleb Evans. That’s the nature of football. Tua is a smaller, scrambling QB. He was never going to have a long NFL career.

Falvey and Levine won’t sign free agent pitchers to big time contracts. There’s 7 years of history proving this. Getting upset about them not signing free agent pitching is futile.

Feel terrible for the guy. He’s not gonna last long in the NFL.

I find the situation really compelling. As do most Twins fans because we are now approximately 100 Correa articles into the offseason with tons of comments. I can’t recall another situation with another star player like Correa this offseason. There are no remaining free agents who will make an impact like Correa, so let’s see it play out. If the Mets bow out, he could fall into our laps once again with little to no leverage.

Can his ankle hold up enough to dance on the field? I’d like to find out.

Nah man this is just funny. You don’t want to have an actual conversation about it. Clearly you take the Common Man on KFAN’s rants way too seriously.

This is elite copypasta.

Here’s a good video about the issue: MLB buying Rawlings was bad news. Now they have full control to influence outcomes.

I concur with the vast majority of comments. He won’t be a first ballot HOF, but he will get in eventually. His peak performance at catcher looks more impressive as time goes on. If he doesn’t get in, neither will Posey, Salvy Perez, or Yadi Molina.

This is one of those times where a barfing reaction makes sense for Twins Daily

More than likely option #3. The risk is much different with a 1-3 year contract than 12-13 years.

Perhaps that’s why they’re not budging from 10/285. Already cooked in the risk in their first offer. I don’t know, just spitballing here. What I’m reading is that physicals are more thorough and comprehensive with long term deals. Twins doctors could have detected it but it was worth the risk. Since he was only signed for a 1, up to 3 year term.