As MLB Trade Deadline Looms, Who’s to Blame for Minnesota Twins’ 2025 Letdown?

[Major League Ready]

22 hours ago, Mike Sixel said:

The implication is that we think they were going to be allowed to spend more. We could be wrong! But I doubt this FO signs those two thinking the payroll wouldn't go up more. We were doing see well avoiding snark in this thread.....

Did someone from the Twins say they were going to continue to increase payroll well beyond a record high?  I did not see anything that suggested a significantly higher budget.  $10 or $20M would mean very little.  Do you think it's realistic the Twins were going to spend $180M+?  I think fans really obsess over increase spending and they search for some form of logic that means they can spend more.  For example, they spent $33M/year for Correa so payroll will continue to increase as opposed to they have $150M to spend at this level of revenue and they decided to allocate 22% to Correa.

[Mike Sixel]

49 minutes ago, Major League Ready said:

Did someone from the Twins say they were going to continue to increase payroll well beyond a record high?  I did not see anything that suggested a significantly higher budget.  $10 or $20M would mean very little.  Do you think it's realistic the Twins were going to spend $180M+?  I think fans really obsess over increase spending and they search for some form of logic that means they can spend more.  For example, they spent $33M/year for Correa so payroll will continue to increase as opposed to they have $150M to spend at this level of revenue and they decided to allocate 22% to Correa.

I said what we thought. You can think what you want. It's a free country. We just don't agree. I'm ok with that. 

[Woof Bronzer]

1 hour ago, Major League Ready said:

Did someone from the Twins say they were going to continue to increase payroll well beyond a record high? 

Would you say payroll generally goes up?  Or goes down?  

[jkcarew]

Yes.