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  1. nicksaviking
    If they do it at a discount, they’d have to fire their team doctors right? They’d basically be saying that last year the Twins doctors were incapable of detecting what the Giants and Mets doctors did.
  2. nicksaviking
    I don’t know, a bunch of laterals seems like a good idea. That rarely backfires.
  3. nicksaviking
    ***Disclaimer- nutty conspiracy theory post alert**** Is it possible, the other big market clubs with entrenched owners reached out to Cohen and said he had to knock this crap off? That they all had a good thing going and his actions may end up provoking unwanted changes? Like greater broadcast revenue sharing?
  4. nicksaviking
    Everyone treated the deal like a one year deal, but it was three. And with the new injury concern news, those two extra years for 70M made the deal more of a reality than we thought.
  5. nicksaviking
    Ha, he already did once!
  6. nicksaviking
    While I lean toward a charade over naïveté, why did they put forth three separate initial offers of different lengths? Why the effort if it was all a show? Additionally, why did they push for a face-to-face meeting at the winter meetings unless they really wanted him? But then at the meeting they only upped their initial offer by 5M? That honestly seems disingenuous. And if we would have had a poll in October asking if the Twins could sign CC or 10 for 285M, I’d guess it would have been a near unanimous “No”. Even the amature arm-chair fans knew that wasn’t enough. I don’t know, either explanation is a bad look in my book.
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    He’s too slow to process and indecisive. Reminds me of Christian Ponder. Some QBs improve at the processing part, but I don’t think the indecisiveness ever gets better.
  8. nicksaviking
    Trading for pitchers in AAA certainly isn’t as asset efficient, but the success rate should be exponentially higher than drafting guys 4+ years from the majors.
  9. nicksaviking
    You're talking about the wealthy correct? Tax payer funded stadiums, obscene tax breaks and getting everything hand delivered to their doorstep on a silver platter? Or are you saying the entitlement and handouts should ONLY be reserved for the wealthy?
  10. nicksaviking
    The only double standard I see is in your post. I can't imagine anyone here who doesn't want Bauer, would want Watson on their team either. There's a Vikings thread in "Other Sports" forum. Go search through that and see how Watson was thought of around here. And perhaps you conveniently missed them, but the Browns fans have held protests regarding Watson all season long.
  11. nicksaviking
    Yeah, good for him, it was looking like he'd probably miss out on his big free agent deal. I thought he'd get a year, maybe two if he took a discount or made it a team option.
  12. nicksaviking
    Agree, aside from the starting pitchers, the vets being proposed as trades, would also be proposed as trades on a team that won the World Series the year prior.
  13. nicksaviking
    I wouldn't trade Polanco or Gray. Polanco because I think you'd be selling low and you can get more for him later. Also, he's still fairly young. I wouldn't trade Gray because he's likely to be worth a QO in the off season and SWR is the only other starting option after the players listed. I like the Ryan/Ober/Varland/Winder/SWR group, but that's basically it. With Mahle that's six and six isn't enough. The team doesn't have quite enough young bullets to waste shooting off Gray right now. But otherwise, I'm on board trading the rest and I wouldn't even call it a rebuild. The young guys are already just as good if not better than the guys being traded away.
  14. nicksaviking
    And Bieber was only drafted the summer before Falvey left. Throw in Zach McCallister and Justin Masterson along with Kluber, Carrasco, Bauer and Clevinger and it's clear that trading vets for young pitching is clearly the method we should have been expecting this whole time. Danny Salazar was the only starting pitcher of note that was a Cleveland product from Day 1, and he wasn't drafted, he came out of the DR.
  15. nicksaviking
    Yeah, it does seem that a preferred destination or geographic region ends up getting leaked for some players at the very top of the free agent market. This year it was Rodon (New York) and Trae Turner (East Coast). It seems exceedingly rare that when those locations get leaked, that a guy doesn't ultimately end up somewhere in that vicinity.
  16. nicksaviking
    No one is trying to get points but you. *****Moderator Note***** No more of this nonsense. If you want Bauer, say you want Bauer and leave it at that. Shaming people who don't want him for the obvious reasons is not going to be tolerated here.
  17. nicksaviking
    And they were only interested in Trey Lance if he’d have played DB instead if QB. Crazy how poorly get evaluate QBs.
  18. nicksaviking
    I never understood why Wilson was a lock for the #2 QB that draft. It made no sense but the Jets were deadset on picking him and it was a foregone conclusion months before the draft.
  19. nicksaviking
    Yeah, the mobile version is a struggle.
  20. nicksaviking
    Credit to the Jets though for acknowledging the mistake. Wilson has pretty much been replaced by any healthy body multiple times. Extra credit to the Jets if they just release the guy this offseason.
  21. nicksaviking
    I’m not defending the roster build, but the Twins DO NOT need to add to their roster. If you can get top end talent, sure do that obviously. But they don’t need to add players just to add players. They have enough young guys ready to serve and they’re better than most of these guys. And I hate “putting the band back together”. If they add, get new blood.
  22. nicksaviking
    Stop shooting it down!!!! It’s all calculated, a chip on the shoulder is the biggest advantage in sports. It takes a village to piss off your team.
  23. nicksaviking
    Why would you trade multiple assets for two players who would only be part time players, if the team isn't supposed to be very good in 2023?
  24. nicksaviking
    Agreed, it's unlikely. I can't imagine it would be two of those three, unless maybe it's Arraez and Gordon who are still both dirt cheap. More likely one of the three and a prospect(s). And if "unlikely" turns out to be "impossible", don't trade just for the sake of trading.
  25. nicksaviking
    The vets played below their capabilities, they had injuries that they couldn't overcome, and they were way too slow in bringing in many of the young players. Everyone legitimately complained about them under performing last year, so I don't really think last year's record is a very good barometer for next year's predictions. They should be better, even without Correa. I'm beyond disappointed they didn't improve the team with a big time free agent or two as it was easily within their means, but they should be better next year anyway, simply by letting the younger, more talented players get more at bats and innings. As much as I hate this team getting away with a low payroll, I don't want them clogging up the roster with mediocre vets just because they have money to spend.
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