Twins Do Nothing at Deadline

Down right embarrassing! A kick in the balls to the Twins fans. By passing on an obvious need to add a right handed bat, they choked. When are the Minnesota fans going  to demand a better product?

Sickening. The FO needs to go. 

This isn't a dangerous roster, not one which "could go far in the post-season by adding the right one or two guys from the universe of 'guys available'."

Only way this group becomes dangerous is if a whole bunch of guys start performing "at their potential."

Need Correa & Buxton to step it up, big time.

Need Polanco & Lewis to get healthy & play at a high level.

Frankly, need too many "happy answers" to the questions facing this team to believe the core group here now is capable of being "post-season dangerous."

While pitching hasn't been great since All-Star break, even when they were hot, they're not enough to carry this offense ("Whether any staff could be" . . . probably not).

"Trade Deadline" is when you get the guy or two who'll push you over the top 0R you get a start on remaking your roster for next year.  

Twins were in no-man's land:

• Not good enough to think adding a couple of guys would make them dangerous in the post season.
• Lacking in commodities which would get them excellent prospects in return.

No one (or two) guys acquired in a trade was going to do that for this roster.

So . . . do you trade for rentals / short-term guys & give up your best assets when you believe doing so won't make you significantly better "right now?"

Or do you stand on what you have & put the job of making this group successful on the guys in the clubhouse?

Really no reason to do anything. This team isn’t good enough to compete outside the ALC. Seems wise to to hang onto prospects that are doing well and not trade those who aren’t but still may down the road. Admitting this is probably the smartest thing this FO has done. 

1 hour ago, mikelink45 said:

The only thing positive out of this trade season is the fact that it gave TD a chance to write dozens of articles about possible trades and acquisitions. 

Speculation articles ...

The obvious is still not being talked about.  I really don't think Falvey had any ammunition to work with after the 3-4 guys he probably deemed untouchable in negotiations.

Every team can see that Larnach and Severino aren't eventual helpful major leaguers.  The Twins whole system strikes out too much (age vs level) to ever make it in MLB, save a few like Lee.  Even if Falvey could trade Larnach for a bag of peanuts, doing so would be a huge admission of failure, and Falvey doesn't appear to be secure enough to admit when he makes mistakes.  Larnach, Kepler, Gallo...

On 8/3/2023 at 8:35 AM, twinstalker said:

The obvious is still not being talked about.  I really don't think Falvey had any ammunition to work with after the 3-4 guys he probably deemed untouchable in negotiations.

Every team can see that Larnach and Severino aren't eventual helpful major leaguers.  The Twins whole system strikes out too much (age vs level) to ever make it in MLB, save a few like Lee.  Even if Falvey could trade Larnach for a bag of peanuts, doing so would be a huge admission of failure, and Falvey doesn't appear to be secure enough to admit when he makes mistakes.  Larnach, Kepler, Gallo...

 

While I could be wrong, my sense is our minor league system isn't overflowing with big-time prospects right now.

All this could be part of "restocking the pond" - rather than trade away kids who might turn into something (but aren't there yet), keep them & let's see what htey become.

Again - we weren't going to make this roster dangerous in the post-season via a couple of trades.