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  1. nicksaviking
    I wasn’t advocating intentionally losing, because they should still beat a terrible Bears team that’s already motivated to lose. I also wasn’t advocating for resting players as is normally the case this time of year, just keeping them out of an unusually dangerous situation. Cousins is being protected by an Arena League quality line at the moment. If the data says play him go ahead, but the data points surely also say that this upcoming game is more likely than any other game to see him end up injured.
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    The Cardinals will not give them a challenge. They’ve only won four games, none in a month and a half and all to other terrible teams. The playoffs don’t give you bravery points for playing your starters without a functional offensive line and the entire league has been taking cheap shots at will against your star WR all year long. Even so, this isn’t a loser mentality, it’s called hedging your bets. The Bears might be the one team the Vikings could beat while starting backups. The coach and GM are safe, weirdly, they will be trying to lose for draft position.
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    Only if you think the 49ers are going to lose to the Cardinals.
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    Only 20 sacks for the Bears all season. Think they get to 30 by the end of the year?
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    I don't like the Rams or Titans odds in the playoffs either.
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    Oh yeah, I’ve really been singing the front office’s praises. That post was full of them and not completely the opposite. Have you seen Wacha’s stats prior to last year? Who’d trust this guy? Velocity, pitch selection, spin rate, nothing changed for the better with him, last year was a total fluke. If Wacha reverts back to his pre 2022 self, which is THE most likely scenario, this team is once again going to be pushing out another Bundy/Archer for 20-25 games this year. Terrible move. We can put your Ervin Santana and Michael Pineda against my Nolasco, Prelfrey, Perez, Bailey, Happ, Schoemacher, Bundy and Archer. We can even call Phil Hughes a draw. These kinds of pitchers are almost always a sucker bet. Run away.
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    This team regularly changes what didn't work the year before, so I wouldn't be surprised to see the starters go longer, maybe even too long. I know that no one is happy with the front office, but the one thing they do that the last front office didn't was try new things. But on what planet is Michael Wacha the team's best pitcher? He was awful for three years running then had one outlier year. This guy looks like Dylan Bundy in 2019. If any other team believed in him, he'd have already gotten a deal like Walker, Taillon and Eovaldi got. No one has because it's clearly a smoke-and-mirrors situation. Having this guy take innings from the young players would be the dumbest thing this team has done all off season, and that's saying a lot.
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    Uh, no. Where did any of us say that? I've pretty much copied/pasted my feelings about every free agent starter other than Rodon over and over again all off season. Also, they aren't even close to the same pitcher. Both look like bad investments, but Wacha has been nearly unusable for the three seasons prior to last year. At lease Eovaldi has been decent when healthy.
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    Most 30-year-old pitchers don't suddenly find a career turnaround after 3 DFA worthy seasons. Especially ones who saw their velocity decrease. I think 2022 was more likely the outlier than 2019, 2020 and 2021 were.
  10. nicksaviking
    Gross. Ober, Varland, SWR, Winder. All better options. A groundball pitcher with this infield defense? Why? Not to mention he lost a MPH off of his fastball last year. Top of the rotation arms or AAAA break-glass-in-case-of-emergency starters that can roost in St. Paul. That's it. Zero reason to pay these zero upside vets to take a rotation spot away from the young players except that they want to look like they're actually spending money. It's too late, the good players are all gone. Don't make the team worse trying to window dress the mistakes you made earlier this year.
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    One Kyle Farmer is enough for me, I'd not trade assets for a second.
  12. nicksaviking
    Fair take, though I’m not nearly as down on the minor league system as others. I like what I’m seeing from the young guys way more than I am from the vets. But that’s not even saying Lavine is the issue. If as I presumed, he IS in charge of roster building, it’s quite possible Joe Ryan and Jhoan Duran were his doing after all. Mostly, I’d like to switch it up to see what, if anything changes. Just to see if the problem is identifiable that way. This current “collaborative” structure isn’t producing enough wins. But is it the structure, or the parts it’s made of?. I don’t want “old school” baseball back as that’s certain to lose, but is the Terry Ryan “Czar” approach actually better, just minus the Terry Ryan?
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    I still want to see Levine replaced first. If Falvey is supposed to be the system builder and he has dozens of collaborators who oversee specific areas of this world he's creating, Lavine must be the one responsible for roster construction and player acquisition.
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    Funny that even if they didn't care about the player, they certainly cared about the interceptions. They reap what they sow I guess.
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    Well maybe this isn't so far-fetched considering MLBTR is saying the Rockies and Marlins have discussed a move involving Brendan Rodgers and Cabrera. https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2022/12/marlins-rockies-talked-about-trade-involving-edward-cabrera-brendan-rodgers.html Arraez alone still wouldn't get Cabrera, but maybe the other pieces would be less than expected. Rodgers is a better fielder, and can probably still play SS if needed, but offensively they're similar and have the same number of control years. The one bonus Arraez has, is that he doesn't come with that leery feeling you get when removing a hitter from Coors Field.
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    I'm not sure what the argument here is. It's acknowledged that the Twins have traded prospects for decent pitching, but they aren't trading it for decent controllable pitching. Is this just supposed to be the plan every year? If they can't sign the free agents, don't they at some point have to trade for pitching that will be here longer than two years?
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    Even if others disagree WHERE he slots in, it's pretty indisputable WHEN he slots in. If the Twins are truly looking at trades because Gray, Mahle and Meada are free agents after next year, why are they looking at trading assets for a guy who'll be a free agent the following year? I mean, is this really the dance we want to do every off season? Trade major assets for a guy with two years of control? Even if it costs more, the more judicious use of assets would be to trade for a guy you don't have to worry about for three, four or even more years.
  18. nicksaviking
    Would a rebuilding team have any interest in Kepler? I'm also fairly turned off by the trade calculator. After all, why trade Kepler when they could just trade Thielbar, who's got twice his value, instead?
  19. nicksaviking
    I wanted nothing to do with either of those two. The Twins don't need, and should not be looking for guys who pitch behind Gray and Ryan. The only starters they should be looking at are guys for the front of the rotation or boring guys they can stick in St. Paul in case of an emergency.
  20. nicksaviking
    And as terrible as it is to say, I'd think hiding a concussion would get easier for the player with more practice. Tua needs to just start saying "I'm not OK". Surely there's some folks in the organization who are old school and would like him to keep his mouth shut, but those people have zero recourse if a player speaks up for himself here in 2022.
  21. nicksaviking
    Gallo and Sano? That sounds like too many strikeouts for one team to overcome.
  22. nicksaviking
    But Flexen wouldn’t even be the number five starter. He wouldn’t be ahead of Ober, Mahle or Maeda, and I’d put him behind the upside guys Varland and SWR too.
  23. nicksaviking
    I would trade Arraez twice for Gilbert.
  24. nicksaviking
    Hopefully it’s number three. However, if for some reason the Mets deal falls through and the Twins STILL insist on further evaluation. and/or renegotiation, I’d hope they replace their doctors, because there’d be no other conclusion then they somehow missed what the other teams’ doctors found.
  25. nicksaviking
    But the team doctors should have still been aware of the issue right? And the Twins offer should have already been with this issue squarely in mind?
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