Twins (Bradley) vs Mariners (Kirby): 4/29/26, 12:40 pm CDT

[Vanimal46]

 

[Parfigliano]

7 minutes ago, wavedog said:

Held them to only 3 runs - bullpen performing up to their expectations.  

Took bullpen 3 innings to give up 3 runs yesterday.  Today they did it in 2.

[h2oface]

Wallner should not be allowed to to challenge. 

[Twins_Fan_in_NJ]

Yeah, so about that Varland trade...

This bullpen is horrific.

[Vanimal46]

1 minute ago, Twins_Fan_in_NJ said:

Yeah, so about that Varland trade...

This bullpen is horrific.

This is gonna be a repeat occurrence when the bullpen is full of guys that can’t miss bats and a bad defense behind them. 

[Peter]

In all seriousness we should have winning record-our damn bullpen is screwing us over but you can’t trust them!!! Something needs to change ASAP!!! Just a terrible backbreaking season ending loss 🤬😤😡💩🤮👎🗑️😢😢😔😔

[Twins_Fan_in_NJ]

Just now, Vanimal46 said:

This is gonna be a repeat occurrence when the bullpen is full of guys that can’t miss bats and a bad defense behind them. 

Yup. I think if you cut every one of them from the roster, Sands might be the only one to get a ML roster spot.

[Danchat]

Orze was the team's best reliever coming into this game... of course, with only 11 innings pitched. There was probably a reason why the Rays traded him to us for very cheap.

[mrtwinsfan]

Hey Bullpen coach----Latroy Hawkins  grab your glove !!!!!!

[jaimedude]

1 minute ago, Danchat said:

Orze was the team's best reliever coming into this game... of course, with only 11 innings pitched. There was probably a reason why the Rays traded him to us for very cheap.

Yes, because he is streaky and doesn't miss bat's. That 4 pitch walk to Arozerena forshadowed how inning would go. 

[mrtwinsfan]

2 minutes ago, Twins_Fan_in_NJ said:

Yup. I think if you cut every one of them from the roster, Sands might be the only one to get a ML roster spot.

as a 6th or 7th inning guy at best

[The Great Hambino]

Just now, Danchat said:

Orze was the team's best reliever coming into this game... of course, with only 11 innings pitched. There was probably a reason why the Rays traded him to us for very cheap.

This game really highlights that trading for Rays pitchers can be a mixed bag

[Irishman]

Minneapolis/St. Paul, we have a bullpen problem!  Our bullpen is killing us.     Twins suck!  Very disappointing!  

[IndyTwinsFan]

16 minutes ago, Peter said:

Unbelievable 😤🤬😡👎💩🤮🗑️ terrible terrible terrible loss. 😤😡🤬💩🤮👎

Get used to it!

[SteveLV]

They are who we thought they were.  Nothing more, nothing less.

Give it a couple more weeks to simmer, then start the rebuild aggressively.

[Patzky]

Nope. Our new motto.

[IndyTwinsFan]

17 minutes ago, Parfigliano said:

No bullpen and no bats=TC loss.

A narrative we'll be repeating often the remainder of the season. 

[IndyTwinsFan]

12 minutes ago, Twins_Fan_in_NJ said:

Yup. I think if you cut every one of them from the roster, Sands might be the only one to get a ML roster spot.

Maybe, depending on how desperate another team is.

[ziggy]

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12 minutes ago, Peter said:

In all seriousness we should have winning record-our damn bullpen is screwing us over but you can’t trust them!!! Something needs to change ASAP!!! Just a terrible backbreaking season ending loss 🤬😤😡💩🤮👎🗑️😢😢😔😔

 

Peter, is that you? 

Falvey set this in motion when he traded the top 5 relievers on the team.

[IndyTwinsFan]

11 minutes ago, mrtwinsfan said:

as a 6th or 7th inning guy at best

"At best" being the operative term.

[IndyTwinsFan]

19 minutes ago, h2oface said:

Wallner should not be allowed to to challenge. 

He also shouldn't even be playing but, again, here we are.

[KirbyDome89]

Who in AA/AAA is realistically making this bullpen better right now? I keep seeing posts calling for the "reinforcements," and before we start converting any starter with a pulse and assuming the role switch will "unlock," success we don't know what's going on with Abel and it's still April....

[GeorgeLooney]

It’s not like this should be a surprise to anyone. Never did a thing in the off-season about the bullpen(or anything else). Then T Pohlad stands up there and says we plan on winning…..these guys cant go soon enough. I would like to see a total reset starting with ownership/coaches/gm. 
 

Pohlads have totally earned the poor attendance at the stadium. 

[The Great Hambino]

6 minutes ago, KirbyDome89 said:

Who in AA/AAA is realistically making this bullpen better right now? I keep seeing posts calling for the "reinforcements," and before we start converting any starter with a pulse and assuming the role switch will "unlock," success we don't know what's going on with Abel and it's still April....

You're probably right about it being too early in the season, but by the end of it I think at least two of Festa/Klein/Zebulon could/should be making their way to the pen

 

[Vanimal46]

16 minutes ago, KirbyDome89 said:

Who in AA/AAA is realistically making this bullpen better right now? I keep seeing posts calling for the "reinforcements," and before we start converting any starter with a pulse and assuming the role switch will "unlock," success we don't know what's going on with Abel and it's still April....

That’s the depressing truth. I was looking at the Saints pitching stats this morning and it’s not good. Get ready for a revolving door of waiver wire pick ups 

[KirbyDome89]

2 minutes ago, The Great Hambino said:

You're probably right about it being too early in the season, but by the end of it I think at least two of Festa/Klein/Zebulon could/should be making their way to the pen

 

Sure, they could very well end up in the pen if/when they flame out as starters. 

In the meantime the Twins can't really afford to cut bait with SPs in the minors, and Idk if there's a single RP at either AA or AAA that's MLB ready. The notion of depth is massively overblown amongst this fanbase. 

[KirbyDome89]

1 minute ago, Vanimal46 said:

That’s the depressing truth. I was looking at the Saints pitching stats this morning and it’s not good. Get ready for a revolving door of waiver wire pick ups 

Yep, I'm not exactly locked into the day to day happenings in the minors, but just a quick glance tells me there isn't much of anything as far as MLB ready RPs. 

That offseason argument about bullpens being easy to construct and/or being built on the fly is falling pretty flat right now, and I'll say it again, depth ≠ names to throw against a wall. 

[The Great Hambino]

3 minutes ago, KirbyDome89 said:

Sure, they could very well end up in the pen if/when they flame out as starters. 

In the meantime the Twins can't really afford to cut bait with SPs in the minors, and Idk if there's a single RP at either AA or AAA that's MLB ready. The notion of depth is massively overblown amongst this fanbase. 

What exactly constitutes flaming out as a starter?  How long should they allow them to fail?  Festa's already 26 and Zebby will be joining him in a month.  They're not young young anymore.  I think they're squarely in the "ish or get off the pot" stage if they want careers as starters

[jaimedude]

Pohlads created the low attendance issues by starving the major league team of competitive talent. They picked the bad front office and continue to run Twins organization into the ground. Sell the team if you don't want to provide resources to be competitive. It's gonna be next to impossible for them to win fan base back. From sponsors to fans, nobody want's to support a group that brought this misery on themselves. 

[Vanimal46]

15 minutes ago, The Great Hambino said:

What exactly constitutes flaming out as a starter?  How long should they allow them to fail?  Festa's already 26 and Zebby will be joining him in a month.  They're not young young anymore.  I think they're squarely in the "ish or get off the pot" stage if they want careers as starters

I would argue Zebby in particular has flamed out as a starter. Dude has a 5.91 ERA in St Paul this year and a career 5.92 ERA in 25 MLB starts. Put him on the Varland career path and crank up the gas