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Makes me think there's more to this trade than just Paddack. Are they trying to dump Hosmer on the Twins?

It's amazing how bad this team is right now.

Wow if the Twins make that deal, they're not gonna have a bullpen.

Plouffe has us in the World Series. He got the teams and number of games right last year, FWIW.

They know that opening day will be a full house and Keuchel would get boo'd endlessly if he sucks. But there will probably be nobody to boo him on the 2nd day when there's maybe 10k in the crowd.

They just traded for Meadows

Cleveland just lost to Orlando, the Bulls have clinched at least the 6th seed.

Maybe we can win a game or 2 against Boston, but we're not making it out of the first round at this rate.

Did he strike out a Tatis impersonator? lmao

Say what you will about Cueto as a pitcher, but he's hilarious to watch.

lol

Lynn is gonna be out 8 weeks. If Cueto needs 3 weeks to ramp up, he can still pitch the 5 weeks Lynn is out.

Minor league deal is fine. He probably won't be able to pitch for weeks.

And then he pitched pretty poorly lol

He gets to play us now at least 13 more times, so I don't know. He's basically Babe Ruth against us.

Well, 2 of our better arms did just get hurt.

They traded Meadows cause he was blocking Josh Lowe.

I understand that the Torkelson and Witt could be gangbusters and be worth way more than what the projection systems have them tabbed at. But they could also struggle at first like Kelenic did last year. There are no guarantees. You also have to consider that the Sox have a similar kind of guy in Vaughn, who could very well be a big offensive contributor this year. He also wouldn't have to get over the growing pains of being a rookie like those other 2. Neither of those teams have a guy like Robert who can take a leap from being a very good player to a borderline MVP.

Cueto's probably been sitting on his ass doing nothing all off-season. It'll probably take him at least 2-3 weeks before he can pitch.

Is this an educated guess or do you actually know?

Skubal was nasty last year too. He's just very prone to giving up bombs.

Meadows always kicks our ass, so from that standpoint, this really sucks. He has a 1.225 OPS against us in 49 PAs.

This division went from having 2 80+ win teams to possibly having 4 80+ win teams. Shit is getting real.

Madrigal would need to hit the ball in the air a lot more. Altuve does hit a lot of grounders, but he also has a much higher launch angle than Madrigal. I don't think it's farfetched to think that Nick can develop 10 home run power, but I really don't see him hitting 30 a year like Altuve is capable of. Plus he doesn't play in a park with a 310 foot fence down the left field line.

I guess you can say it's been a Disastre Personal.