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Decent trade. Yes it hurts a bit, but it's supposed to. 2023 rotation looking decent if at least one of Maeda/Ober can come back strong.

I'd do the $ even for this year, but they'd have to kick in some $$ for 23/24.

Once they traded Mancini they'd made their choice though, so this makes sense.

If he was drafted in 2011, I'm starting to think he won't pan out...

Our farm system is exactly average. 15th. Plenty of teams ranked lower don't sit on their thumbs at the trade deadline.

Odorizzi gone. Not in on Syndergaard. Increasingly likely we will do nothing.

Can we trade Falvey for a bucket of balls?

This front office will do what it always does. Be "in" on big names but do nothing but sit on their thumbs in the end. I predict zero moves. If it means Falvey/Rocco are gone after the season, great. But it won't.

In Rocco's defense, Duran was already warming up when it was 2-1 and once he's warmed up, they're going to use him.

This is just like making a trade...

They had to make a lot of roster moves when they went to Toronto since half their team was un-vaccinated.

I'm OK doing what it takes to make the play-offs and win a game. Anything more is a bonus. Let's get over the hump and go from there.

Using Duran in the 8th is especially hard to defend against the Brewers on the road because you knew they were going to bring Hader in for the 9th and we were extremely unlikely to take the lead. Therefore you were going to have to get an inning out of Duffy either way. Use him in the 8th and if he blows it, at least Duran is available today. If Duffy doesn't blow it, Duran can possibly pitch the 9th and 10th.

No. Even if he hits .275 with 20 HR the rest of the year, no one will give him $14 million in FA, so there's no way the Twins should pick up his option. Period.

This again. Regardless of whether it COULD be a good decision in some sort of fantasy baseball vacuum in the real world it's absurd. You're up 3.5 games 7 days before the deadline and you're going to trade one of your two best players? Are you also going to send your season ticket holders an email and tell them to go $%%^ themselves? Are you going to trade Kiriloff and Lewis before they have a chance to laugh in your face when you offer them a contract extension?

Whoever wins the majority of the 9 games between them will likely win the division. I don't think the schedule strength gap is a big as they're making it out to be. Enough to make up 2-3 games maybe.

I would do it if the price is right. I trust him more than Bundy or Archer even in his current form.

Yes. There absolutely is. Especially when you've lost 18 games in a row and the White Sox/Guardians will be better next year and in subsequent years. Should they trade Lewis/Kiriloff/Miranda? No. Should pretty much anyone else who's not key to the 2022 Twins be on the table? Yes, within reason. At the bare minimum they need 2 relievers. If they decide the cost of a starter is unreasonable, so be it.

This team's communication/PR is a complete #$&&-show. This is the kind of thing you announce right away or in advance. Not 3 days later after people are pissed about your lineup. But this is the same front office that let Paul Molitor learn Escobar was traded from MLB Network. Clown show.

Either Buxton is hurt or Falvey and Rocco should be fired ASAP. Which is it?

And 2024. Let's target 2026. I'm sure the Yankees/Astros/Dodgers won't be as loaded then....

You severely under-estimate how badly this would go over with the non-diehard part of the fan base, which is 90% of it, and more importantly in the clubhouse. You are literally telling your fan base to go $$%% themselves if you trade your star player while in 1st place. And you're telling every player on the roster to laugh in your face if you ever offer them a long-term contract.

I'd rather give up Ober than Winder, but I'd rather try and keep it away from those who we may need in 2022/23. Would Sands/Richardson/Steer get it done?

Trading Correa and selling while in 1st place is just not an option a viable MLB franchise should be thinking about. It would be a giant middle finger to the fans, the clubhouse and any future FA. They can't do it. If they somehow find themselves 5 + games back on 8/2, OK, but I don't even think that's possible at this point. So the only option is to add pieces that can help now and in 2023 or are reasonable in price and try to win.

For now, Minaya is better than him. I'll take what he did last year over anything Pagan has done.