With the trading deadline this coming Friday at 3:00p local time the Twins front office has finally seen the light and all indications are that they are open for business. Berrios? Buxton? Mitch Garver? Josh Donaldson? And those are just the high profile names. The possibilities are endless.
Put your trade predictions in the Spoilers (the half baked the better) and let's check again next week on who should be the next MLB Insider at ESPN.
I’m with sean … all except
Colome not really helping his trade value.
not in a positive way, no
Other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?
I wonder to what degree the looming CBA is on minds in the Twins' front office. If they hold onto Berríos, Buxton, & Rogers (uffda, what injury timing) and try to contend in 2022 (or even trade in the off-season), they run the risk of losing nearly all value that's close to MLB-ready if there's a lockout. Sure, they might get compensation draft picks if the players reject tendered qualifying offers and sign elsewhere for more than $50 million...if the QO system still exists in 2022. Assuming they intend to maximize the serf years of Arráez, Kirilloff, Larnach, & the prospects behind them, trading Berríos, Buxton, & Rogers now would give them control over the type of return (pre-arb MLBers & high-level prospects), and a guaranteed degree of influence over the exact players.
Jose Berros for Max Scherzer who says no
Dang, not getting him
First Padres and now Dodgers expected to trade for Scherzer. This is feeling a bit like rabbit/duck season.
Padres one-upped and feeling desperate for a trade can only go well for the Twins.
Preller will be desperate to bolster the Padres' rotation, which hasn't looked great over the last month. And Falvey & Levine can use interest from the AL East teams to increase leverage over the Padres & all three of those teams simultaneously.
The upside to falling well short of preseason expectations is you have some actually good players to deal.
I’m fine with any of those except the obvious. There was some talk about whether the Twins would be willing to take a pitcher — Dustin May or Adrián Morejón — who is currently recovering from Tommy John. Sounds like multiple players would be coming back; I’m hoping they acquire at least one pitcher and position player in some arrangement of pre-arb serf & high-minors prospect.
I’d prefer to not see Jose pitch in pinstripes but it would be fun to watch the players the get in return destroy the Yankees in the future.
With Gallo and Rizzo going there, not sure how much more big splashes they've got in them
Former Twin JT Chargois headed to Tampa.
Gleeman saying Berrios, Pineda, probably Garver likely to be traded. Donaldson not so much. Apparently could be a pretty decent haul for Berrios.
I hadn't seen Garver mentioned anywhere?
Yeah same.
I'd be pretty surprised if they moved Garver. He's with the team until 2024, and he's been the third best hitting catcher in baseball this year.
I saw some Garver talk last week, but it was in a" just throwing names out there and they might fetch something decent" way
Ack! Garver=Kepler. Half-baked, got caught up in the common -er ending of last name.
okay, thank you
I wouldn’t mind if Simmons was traded, too.
FanGraphs rates them as #2 and #3 prospects respectively. Both are in AA now and expected to reach MLB next year or year after.
Bleacher Report:
Reading last night about how the Twins were being blown away by offers, this certainly seems to check out. Notwitstanding Lewis' injury, these might now be the 2 best prospects in the Twins' system. (FWIW, all my analysis today is based on text thread I've got going with Matt Trueblood - who hated the idea of trading Berrios but reveresed course upon seeing the return.).
Still missing Trueblood’s baseball writing.
Amazing return. Austin Martin is THE young player that Bowman collectors are chasing this year. Business is gonna pick up at the card shop tomorrow.
I wonder how far the front office will go. I can think of Pineda and Robles as probably traded with Kepler and Duffey as maybes. Kepler is under contract for a couple years so keeping for later makes sense.
If both Martin and Lewis end up in the outfield, that's a lot of young outfielders.
Middle infield or in the outfield, they would be a classic combo.
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Looks like that's going to do it.
I figured Pineda would have been traded. Certainly better odds than Happ.
Well, at this point someone's gotta pitch.
Jax is tonight, apparently.
Yeah, that's a headscratcher.
does Terry Ryan work for the Mets? Used to see this got of info leaked to Sid or Doogie when Ryan was running the show
Heh. When I read Doogie’s tweet that no team made the Twins an offer for Simmons, I observed to my brother that Doogie seems to be working his way into Sid’s career path.
He certainly took the mantle of " scoop master with a slant of homerism" after Sid passed.