00:00What did you think last night?
00:01I thought it was interesting as the fire sale for the Mets began.
00:05Minter throws an inning last night, and then he gets traded.
00:09Minnesota, the worst bullpen in the world.
00:11We know that.
00:13And Minter's a good lefty.
00:15You know, he was hurt for a while there.
00:18But he doesn't have quite the same velocity, I think, as he did a year ago.
00:23But a lefty arm out of the bullpen, if you're Minnesota,
00:27you gave up a couple of prospects, and it can't get any worse
00:30than a bullpen for you, right?
00:32Yeah, strange for me.
00:34I'm not really sure.
00:35Minnesota has been categorized as strange going on about a year now,
00:39firing Baldelli and their GM and assistant GM walk out the door,
00:44and then they hire Derek Shelton, who I like a lot.
00:47But let's be honest, he didn't take Pittsburgh that far or anywhere.
00:51And then they hire him to be the manager.
00:53They say they love him.
00:54Okay, great.
00:55But they trade for Minter 24 hours after losing Buxton,
00:59maybe for a month or two.
01:00Very strange to me.
01:01I don't know what Minnesota's doing, but I guess it seems to me
01:06that maybe the owner, Polat, maybe what he's doing right now
01:10is looking at himself and wondering how much longer am I going to own
01:14the team, Joe?
01:14Fair question.
01:15We've heard talks about him selling the team, right?
01:18Maybe this is it.
01:19Maybe he's like this year or next.
01:20I got to go for it.
01:22That happens.
01:22It happened with the Padres.
01:24It could happen with the Twins.
01:25Maybe that's the view is, hey, I'm getting out soon.
01:28My time is limited here.
01:30I'm going to take a run at it because that's usually they're the ones
01:32that are going to be making that decision.
01:34So maybe that's where they're headed.
01:35Maybe the Twins are going to be buyers here.
01:37I don't think it makes any sense, Joe.
01:39I don't think that they're – even if they win the division,
01:41they're not winning a single playoff game, I don't think.
01:42But, yeah, I mean, strange stuff with them.
01:46I thought that was a weird – you know, hearing that last night,
01:49like the Twins are in the market.
01:51I mean, all in all, I mean, a left-handed reliever with some experience
01:57on a one-year expiring contract, not a bad deal.
02:00But the Twins are making offers to try to bolster that bad bullpen.
02:05Very interesting.
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