Wedman13

Need a 6/13 update (haven't seen it). A few box scores look crazy. Jenkins and Houston bringing some hope.

I have seen none play live, so there's that. But if the Twins draft Burress at #3 I'm out. That would be an incredible reach. Personally if I'm drafting 1/1 it's Lackey. He just seems most transcendent. And I know I'm probably alone, but Roch makes me nervous. He doesn't look 6'2 to me and when I heard he had below avg speed I couldnt help but think of Brooks. I don't hate BL at all, but would at #3. So for me, it's Lackey/Emerson 1/2 and then pick your favorite of Roch/Flora or Lombard. again, just from what I've read and seen from clips, and not taking $ into account at all.

Agree, but today's owners do not operate at the individual entity level. Each may be individually audited but depending on structure most gains and losses pass through. It is not uncommon in the least for holding companies to allocate expenses for purposes of preparing for a sale, to create NOL's for tax carry over purposes, or a myriad of other reasons to put lipstick on a pig or prepare it for slaughter. No different than Sinclair taking Diamond/Ballys sports to bankruptcy while their parent still trades on the NASDAQ. Not to mention interests of minority partners. Businesses in today's landscape are continually revalued and balance sheets leveraged based on future intentions and tax advantaged of ownership. So while falvine possibly 'should' have known payroll was intended to be decimated (coincidentally right before ownership actively tried to sell the club), their actions say they didn't know. Why not? We'll never know. But going from trading future assets (Mahle, Gray trades) and signing big $ free agents......to suddenly reducing all payroll says that surely ownership and management were not on the same page - or something quickly changed. And based on that change, falvine did not pivot well to the new reality. so basically, what you said.... but I give falvine a bit more rope than the owners.

We'll never know. Falvine did operate as if they thought funding was there, then poof. Should they have known? In a Calvin Griffith world where baseball was his only business, yes, the financial standing is more clear. But think of the Pohlads, Wilfs, AROD&Lorie. These are folks with very complex portfolios and their family decisions for generational wealth isn't as clear. Something changed, and in hindsight, (per a poster above) a true rebuild probably should have happened. Instead, we found ourselves with a 'half in half out' plan which, is a fragmented disaster.

Interesting comments. We're all looking for a villain, but it's not that easy - which makes a solution even harder. this has been a total system failure. From trainers, development, players, Falvey and ownership. our starting pitching was to be a strength. Pablo out, ober stinks now out, Taj up and down then out, Abel out, SWR implodes, Zebby implodes, is Festa still alive? That's 7 of 8 either completely out, became terrible or out for a period. So Blame injury, performance, and an over reliance on unproven arms. catcher-Jeffers strong, then out. Not only implodes catcher, but DH (Caratini was DH in game 1) bell? Not good. Probably on Falvey Brooks and LK? Very average at best. More questions than answers. Lewis? He killed us and we counted on him. larnach/Martin platoon? Meh. On Falvey Wallner? Like Lewis, completely screwed us. Keep in mind... many on here fought like heck based on analytics that despite hitting .202 last year, he was a top 5 RF''er in baseball the farm? Our best prospects are made of glass. buck and the bullpen, better than expected. so I have no idea where we go, but believe if we are looking for 1 scapegoat we are chasing a ghost. But if responsibility has to lie somewhere (and I suppose it does), it has to start with ownership IMO

Surprised at all of the blowback on this article as it's a pretty legitimate concern when your top pitching prospect cannot throw strikes. Someone mentioned Flora and he gets more appealing by the day. These 7-15th round college arms Falvey so deeply believed he could develop are not working. And the top few round high school pitching picks aren't panning out either

Pretty neat write up. Thank you. I'll definitely eat some crow and say if you're going to have a AAA team, if guys thrive they deserve a shot. I don't know the details of the 40 man, or who I would ship out - but Sabato and Fedko deserve time with the big club at some point.

If we could get a return for Rogers or Gomez similar to what we got for Brock Stewart it would sure spice things up around here. I miss it already 😁

The heck with those not in reality. Clearly Roch, Lackey and Flora have passed their prime. Dump the pick! who in gods name, other than those in lala land would want a 6'5 athlete trending to 18hrs, 30+SB's and an OPS of .870 at 21.? Not worth a flier at all....

He's already exposed to rule 5? I had no idea that came so quickly!

You did miss the memo. Unless the article is about Kyler Fedko delivering babies in the back of a VW Beetle while on the way to a non profit event to end poverty and world hunger, most any article leads to this. Knowing what every single response will be from some experts on here, I'm convinced the staff writes articles, chuckles at the irrational responses to come, then hit send with a wry grin. Whatever makes people feel better I suppose...

So a team like the Rays could trade for Joe, make a run this year, then turn around and trade him at the 2027 deadline for their own haul from a big market team ? If so, yes, to the right team I believe joe could bring even more back than Skubal. Will we? I doubt it

Because Outman sucks. Despite a decent looking swing, quite possibly the worst MLB hitter I've ever seen. My 8 yr old daughter can see it. Yet it takes experts here to feel the need to point him out in every thread (sorry, yours was the last post so I replied but I did not say you). Just gets laughable.

As mentioned, congrats to some for turning this into an outman thread, once again. Can't be enough of that! You'd think the guy should just go back to being the 2nd gunman on the grassy knoll, hiding D.B. Cooper and continuing to frame OJ while being the real killer on Bundy vs playing baseball. Long live the awesomeness of Brock Stewart....

Wallner will be back before Fedko