Margot didn’t help the offense much either but you should add up all of the innings that we signed or acquired and show their results.  But you should list all of the acquisitions like Duarte and Bowman and Tonkin twice and Irvin ….

They did well with Santana signing.  That went really well.  Also the young pitching looks promising.  Festa and Woods-Richardson.  And we have a top 3 farm system in MLB so it ain’t all bad.

It appears that the Twins organization wants to focus solely on its farm system and is no longer interested in making trades. Understandably, from management's perspective, their trades seldom work out. And we all know the dismal trades the Twins organization made over the last few years. 

On 9/28/2024 at 6:15 PM, Brandon said:

Margot didn’t help the offense much either but you should add up all of the innings that we signed or acquired and show their results.  But you should list all of the acquisitions like Duarte and Bowman and Tonkin twice and Irvin ….

They did well with Santana signing.  That went really well.  Also the young pitching looks promising.  Festa and Woods-Richardson.  And we have a top 3 farm system in MLB so it ain’t all bad.

Festa, SWR and Matthews all look like number 4 or 5 starters right now. Hopefully they can develop other pitches or improve their repertoire in the off season. But I don’t see a solid upgrade in the pitching pipeline. I hope I am wrong.

40 minutes ago, Otaknam said:

Festa, SWR and Matthews all look like number 4 or 5 starters right now. Hopefully they can develop other pitches or improve their repertoire in the off season. But I don’t see a solid upgrade in the pitching pipeline. I hope I am wrong.

With Lopez, Ober and Ryan our top 3 having several #4 starters is fine by me.  Woods-Richardson pitched like a #2-3 for half a season and Festa had a good K rate with a decent showing after his first two starts, so it's not like they don't have promise.  E Rod should be up next season at some point as well to help the offense.