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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.

He later clarified that he's not playing due to wet field conditions and tightness.

I don’t disagree that Sheets should be playing everyday somewhere. Chances are injuries will happen and both will get daily reps with the Sox most of the time. But as things sit right now, it’s Sheets riding the pine pony most days, not Vaughn. I don’t know why this is so hard for some people to grasp here (not directed as you). The Sox are not having AV sit on the bench against most RHP. Guy is going to be an elite offensive player in this league. I liked what I saw from Gavin last year and obviously the Sox need more balance in the lineup, but playing Sheets over AV regularly simply isn’t going to happen.

Probably more by default. Not like the Sox have a plethora of options. I guess I probably would have gone with ReyLo myself, but my guess is they're saving ReyLo to piggyback Kopech.

Dude, Vaughn isn't going to be a short side platoon player. Not sure how many times that needs to be stated.

Brewers need a catcher. Maybe Sox can glean a useful pitcher out of the Crew for Seby.

Would they even bother bringing him to Detroit? Sounds like the OD roster is set and he is not on it. Probably makes sense to just leave him in AZ until he finds a new home.

Yeah, I’m disagreeing.

I kind of doubt we roll with just 1 lefty unless Sousa gets hit around.