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You hate sample sizes.

Also listing Yermin as an OF gave me a chuckle.

Must mean that Seby cleared waivers. Still have a chance to find a taker for Micker I guess, but sucks it took a DFA to find out.

No. Just must've missed if he actually shared anything beyond vague commentary on the topic.

I guess I must have missed these comments. Only ones I have really seen are super general comments that he wasn't all that liked and that he was just a strange dude with an air of cockiness that may have rubbed some vets wrong. Never saw anything I would actually deem true clubhouse issues.

Did this "issues" ever really come to light beyond Madrigal just kind of being a weird dude?

They also improved a good deal this offseason. I think Seattle is going to be pretty good.

This is probably why Romy got scratched last night.

The odds on this gotta be -1000. Just hoping for a hohum series win to kick off the season.

Ober will prob go to AAA until one of Archer or Paddack gets hurt. Shouldn't take long.

Yeah, Sox are going to abuse the Twins pitching this year. Should be fun to watch.

Well, Twins starting pitching is certainly in better shape than it was coming out of the lockout. But they're still awfully dependent on guys taking enormous jumps forward in 22, and injury prone guys staying healthy. And Ryan is going to have similar innings limits to Kopech this year. The pen....well, its a complete disaster. Sonny Gray, Joe Ryan, Chris Paddack, Chris Archer, Dylan Bundy, Bailey Ober

I don’t love the Sox offseason at all. It was awful. But thankfully they already had one of the best teams in the AL. Not sure what that has to do with discussing the Twins roster moves tho.

YAWN.

Anyone seen any updates on Burger and Romy since last night?

Paddack is super interesting. I like him a lot. But he's certainly not without risk. He had UCL damage late last season and decided to get platelet injections and rehab instead of surgery. While I am not a doctor, I feel like those things generally don't just go away. If he needs TJS, he's probably a non-tender next offseason. And the Twins just gave away far and away their best reliever in a pen that already sucked. Its a trade that makes a ton of sense for a team that isn't try to win. But I think the Twins are.

TBF, they’ve been trying to dump Pagan for weeks.

I don’t understand what the twins are doing. They’re so caught in between.

The Twins pitching staff is horrendous and a half ucl'd paddack does not change that.

I don't think there is any chance Twins would do that.

Preller on his shit again tonight.

Hmmm

I hope they give up Larnach for a damaged Paddack. That would be bonkers and I’m huge Paddack guy. Paddack is prob a coin flip to survive this season without TJS and he’s a non tender candidate next year if he gets it.

Not official, but Merkin tweeted it out last night and DVS had an article mostly laying it out.

while I tend to agree that I’d rather carry Micker than Mendick, sounds like the Decision was already made. Micker isn’t on the roster. So he’s either traded next 36 hours or DFAd.