Week in Review: It All Falls Apart

[Vanimal46]

3 hours ago, thelanges5 said:

Good piece by Dan Hayes on the trade deadline. One of the more interesting notes concerning Jax:

Once the teardown was underway Thursday, including the shocking deal which sent Correa back to the Astros, Jax asked his representative to put in the trade request, multiple league sources confirmed.

 

The blowup on the mound in the 9th inning right before deadline day probably escalated things as well. I’m sure he’s happy he doesn’t have to see Rocco every day. 

[thelanges5]

Now he’s on a team with a few more wins than the Twins in a minor league ballpark. 

[Pat]

More left handed hitting outfielders?  How many do you need? Pitiful.

[TheLeviathan]

I would change the title slightly - the team long ago fell apart.

This was the Front Office razing the ruins and salting the earth.  I'm not even saying that was the wrong call, but this has been the worst team in baseball (outside two weeks) for almost an entire season now.

[Bodie]

18 hours ago, old nurse said:

It would appear that the fans did not want to invest in the team, either as attendance went down. If a team os long paid for, how did they get a $400,000,000 debt when MLB has rules against borrowing money for non baseball items after the Wilpon fiasco?

Quit talking sense, this is a sports site for a small regional team who vote for the DFL...

[Bodie]

One competent one would be nice... not sure how zero lefthanded OFs with major league production is somehow too many!

[Bodie]

10 hours ago, TheLeviathan said:

I would change the title slightly - the team long ago fell apart.

This was the Front Office razing the ruins and salting the earth.  I'm not even saying that was the wrong call, but this has been the worst team in baseball (outside two weeks) for almost an entire season now.

Exactly. 

And not "lovable losers" either, just... well I guess losers, period.

[old nurse]

58 minutes ago, Bodie said:

Quit talking sense, this is a sports site for a small regional team who vote for the DFL...

Political Obsessive Syndrome strikes again 

[Bodie]

1 hour ago, old nurse said:

Political Obsessive Syndrome strikes again 

Don't forget to covet!!!!

[old nurse]

1 hour ago, Bodie said:

Don't forget to covet!!!!

Making the non political political is not a good thing. It reflects poorly on you.. Left, right and in between follow sports. Don’t be divisive. Also do not bother to respond to this 

[ashbury]

16 hours ago, TheLeviathan said:

this has been the worst team in baseball (outside two weeks) for almost an entire season now.

Cherry pick away 13 wins, and the Twins record is still far better than Colorado's.  (And yes, the Twins did lose to them.)  It's difficult to absorb just how truly awful the Rockies are.  Whenever people say, "it can't get any worse," I just point southwestward from Target Field.

[Danchat]

On 8/4/2025 at 8:31 AM, bunsen82 said:

Lastly could Erasmo turn into our version of "steady Eddie."  Won't be the same as putting Duran out there, but its looking like Erasmo earned the opportunity to be the new closer.  

What has Erasmo earned from pitching 11 innings in AAA and giving up 8 runs?! 

[bunsen82]

Just now, Danchat said:

What has Erasmo earned from pitching 11 innings in AAA and giving up 8 runs?! 

Nothing other than over exaggeration after getting a save for our single win so far since the trade deadline.  We don't have a lot to cheer on in that bullpen right now.  

[TheLeviathan]

1 hour ago, ashbury said:

Cherry pick away 13 wins, and the Twins record is still far better than Colorado's.  (And yes, the Twins did lose to them.)  It's difficult to absorb just how truly awful the Rockies are.  Whenever people say, "it can't get any worse," I just point southwestward from Target Field.

There is cherry-picking, yes.  However, since June 1st this year we have been worse than the Rockies.  (21-34 to 21-33)  So as bad as you say they are, for a two month sample size....we're right there with them.

I was simply saying that from the start of last year's collapse to now, the vast majority of baseball being played has been at bottom of the barrel levels. Are we still better than the Rockies?  Sure.  Not a high bar to clear...but one we've managed for fail for two months.

That two week stretch, while glorious and the wins count, masked what had been a long-standing trend.  Not only were we not good, we weren't even particularly close to it.