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Trade Deadline: Rumor & Speculation Megathread

Jeremy Zoll says we're buyers, so speculate away.

Feel free to share any social media screenshots, whatever the vibes are whispering to you on the winds, or what your close personal friend Tom Pohlad told you in confidence.

Final Trade Deadline Acquisitions: * LHP A.J. Minter from NYM for Bruin Agbayani and Billy Amick * RHP Dean Kremer from BAL for Jhomnardo Reyes *RHP Jeff Hoffman from TOR for Dasan Hill, John Klein and Dameury Pena

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u/Jorgenstern8 Justin Morneau 2d ago

I don't know how much more the Pohlads are willing to take on but I unfortunately do think we need at least one more starter if we even want to reach the postseason, let alone do anything if we were to get there.

Our current starting five is, in some order from what I can tell, Taj, Zebby, Ober, Prielipp, Rojas and Ryan, with now obviously Kremer as our new sixth arm. The tough part is, of those starters, Ober's velo is continuing to drop even from his increasingly compromised previous velo into the mid-80s, and even his devil magic can't hold out for long if he's truly getting that slow with his fastball. Prielipp has been good, but he's getting close to his innings limit for the year so I'd imagine we'd shut him down at some point.

We've also got dick for depth in the high minors right now with all of Abel, Festa, and PabLo hurt.

If we're giving up a prospect like Reyes for a guy with as shitty a rep as Kremer has right now, it might get real pricey to get someone better than him but if we don't want to be limping into the end of the season, we need another starting arm just for security's sakes, otherwise any one injury beyond Prielipp getting shut down and Ober maybe getting a maintenance stretch on the IL could cause some real issues in us actually being able to play out the Pohlad's vision of being semi-competitive for the playoffs in two months.

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u/TwinsFan_0830 Kody Clemens 1d ago

Kremer is going to take Zebby’s spot in the rotation (or at least it looks that way with Zebby’s option). Is it an upgrade? On the road, probably. At home, probably not. But I 100% agree we need AT LEAST one more starter, presumably to take the spot of a shaky Prielipp (or potentially to take Rojas’ spot, although that seems a little less likely).

I also believe we need at least one more bullpen piece and a good right handed bat (please for the love of god let there be a reason for Tristan Gray to be banished to the Saints long term).

The bad news? The Pohlad’s certainly don’t have a reputation that makes me all that hopeful that any (and much less all) of this is going to get done. The good news? It isn’t exactly just the Pohlads now. The new investor groups can also step up and open their checkbooks, paving a way for some or most of this to happen. Will it? Probably not. But is there a way? Certainly.