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I whiffed pretty hard on basically all my predictions, except the not-so-bold one about Manning.

Eleven categories? What are they?

The one thing Victor can do pretty well on a regular basis is run bases. He's above average in that. I think Victor's future might be in Asia, and I don't necessarily mean Japan. Or maybe Mexico would be a better fit for him. I could see him hitting around .400 there.

I think of Victor Reyes as a sort of canary in the coalmine: if he’s on your team, your team is probably not very good, and the more you have to rely on him, the worse your team probably is.

Twins owner Calvin Griffith was a few drinks in at a 1978 Lions Club function in Waseca when he started talking about why he chose Minnesota as a home for his ballclub. Minneapolis Tribune reporter Nick Coleman was in the room, and here’s what he scribbled in his notebook: “It was when I found out you only had 15,000 black people here. Black people don’t go to ball games, but they’ll fill up a rassling ring and put up such a chant it’ll scare you to death. It’s unbelievable. We came here because you’ve got good, hardworking white people here.” https://www.minnpost.com/intelligencer/2010/09/racial-justice-minnesota-twins-forgotten-battle/

Then you must be doubly happy right now.

Niko’s gonna hit four tonight. Book it.

Just a bit! 😏

Throw a Jimenez for Tatis offer at them and see if they'll bite. 😉

Along with a shit-ton of extra playoff revenue from attendance and broadcast rights

This seems pretty important to know.

Well, who knows, if things break a certain way in three years, we'll be back to making cars you could kill an elephant in a garage with! 😜

That's fine,because thanks to the impending 14+-team playoff structure, a team won't have to get to 90 wins to make the playoffs. Eighty-five should be enough.

Trading Abrams for Manning straight up would get someone in San Diego fired and maybe even blackballed from the industry, since that would constitute professional malpractice.

Huh—I don't know what I was looking at that showed Abrams only as far along as Rookie ball this year. Probably just processed it wrong. Changed my mind, then: no way Padres deal Abrams for Mize straight up.

Always trust the man with experience! 😁

And a damn fine job of it, too! No wonder I never see you guys in the same room at the same time!

OK, Johnny! Nice snipping there, too! And what good is an irrational pet peeve thread if you can’t earnestly hammer people on their admittedly irrational pet peeves! 😂

Abrams is not an All-Star-level hitter. He’s not even a major leaguer. He’s a Rookie ball prospect. So that certainly doesn’t help us in 2022, almost certainly not in 2023, probably not in 2024, and maybe not even in 2025. He’s also not multiple top prospects all by himself. That said, San Diego probably makes that trade, straight up.

I’ve long had a bit of a pet peeve about people who sit in their cars for long stretches of time on their phone. Many is the time I go to a grocery store, park next to someone who’s in their car on their phone, engine running, I go into the store, come out half an hour or so later, and they are still sitting there in the same spot and still on their phone, engine still running. It’s not a rational pet peeve, but pet peeves aren’t really rational. I pull into a parking spot on a street Sunday night for a ball game. As I am sitting into my open trunk putting on my knee brace (three surgeries on the same knee in five years, ouch), I see the lady sitting in the car behind me on her phone—and the engine is running, burning gas. And I’m thinking to myself: why is she running the car? I could see it if it were 95 degrees out so she could stay cool with the AC. And I could see it if it were 25 degrees out so she could run the heat. But it was a perfect 70 degrees out. She doesn’t need either the heat or the AC. She doesn’t even need to sit in a car to protect her from the weather. She’s just sitting there running the engine and spewing the CO2 into the atmosphere, because she can. No wonder the planet is dying.

As do I, and call me crazy, but I do like having the tying or lead/winning run at the plate in the ninth inning for all four of them. I’d rather lose four in a row like that than lose four blowouts in a row.

Who can use a still-raw-though-improving rookie pitcher right now enough to give up multiple top prospects and/or a controllable All-Star-level hitter at a skill position to get him?

That’ll probably shoot up as people move their activity back indoors.

Well, that’s what they’re grafting them for.

OK on Victor. But Grossman as a fourth outfielder? He's the best hitter we have in the OF by a fair margin. I don't think you slot him behind Baddoo in left, at least not six months out. And I do think Riley Greene would have to be the clear best outfield hitter on the team in Lakeland to get the call for March 31.