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  1. MABB1959
    Division winning but not a single playoff game win.
  2. MABB1959
    I guess I am mad at all of baseball changing it to a stat driven game. The 2 division titles and wild card berth are kind of worthless when they did not win one playoff game but the seasons were much more fun. Which players came here and did better? Would love to know. The Red Sox and Cubs have many "all-stars" to root for. We are down to Sano, Buxton and I would throw in Polanco. We haven't had an exciting closer for at least the last 5 years. I HATE the pitch limit, Maybe all other teams yank the pitcher at 5/6 innings or when they get in a jam and not allowed to work themselves out of it. We had a fun group of players with the Eddie's, Byron, Cruz and Austudillo. How many of the Twins players would you recognize if you walked past them on the street? Maybe I have a rosy glasses but would need to go back probably pre-target field to the Kirby Puckett days or the mid 2000's that had Mauer, Mourneau, Hunter, Cuddyher, Bartlett, Radke, Liriano, Santana, Nathan, etc. Feels like we have been in "re-build" mode since then. Dumpster diving instead of signing top players, etc. I could just be seeing the negative but it is hard to ignore a team that hasn't won a play-off game since 2003?
  3. MABB1959
    If I wanted stats I would study the stock market. I want to watch a fun and competitive baseball team. Sorry but all the Falvey stats have gotten us no where. We have lost players that went to other teams to have better success? Where is that stat? We could call it BBT "Better being Traded" We would have a great stat there. Sorry but I want to see players I love playing every day. I think many fans want the same.
  4. MABB1959
    This front office let Berrios go. They most likely won't come close to replacing him so I give the an big fat F for their accomplishments. They gave us Cruz and then took him away. I don't think we will see another Berrios for a while. I love the game of baseball not for the stats but the excitement of seeing my favorite players. They have been going away one by one by one starting with Escobar, then Eddie Eddie, Berrios, Cruz and Astudillo. Except for Sano, Buxton and maybe Polanco there is no one left to look forward to. Only 6 players played in over 100 games and of those Polanco holds the highest BA of .269. Arraez has looks to be good and may be an exciting player. Donaldson, Sano, Simmons and Kepler all of BA's under 250. I know that is a basic stat to most on this board but it represents a chance to get on base and make the game more exciting. Kepler .211?
  5. MABB1959
    At least there will be a larger screen for the fewer and fewer fans that show up.. The scoreboard is part of the second phase of a two-part, $29.5 million project, the cost of which is split evenly between the Minnesota Twins and the Minnesota Ballpark Authority (MBA), the government agency that oversees the publicly owned building.
  6. MABB1959
    Is a first round draft pick in 2017 considered "rushed"
  7. MABB1959
    How are prospects in the system since 2014, 2017 and 2019 considered "rushed"? I am talking first round which I assumed are very talented?
  8. MABB1959
    Go with one of our prospects for this year. Give them 1/2 a season and if they can't play at MLB standards let them go and move on to the next we have 3-4 SS's drafted by the Twins in the last 8 years. Why waste time or money from the outside. Let these guys sink of swim now.
  9. MABB1959
    Sorry the numbers hurt my head. I wasn't clear but can't any of SS's drafted in the first round be ready? Why draft them otherwise. I would give Gordon this whole year and if he can't hack it move to Lewis. If he can't hack it move to the next. If none of them can make it something is seriously wrong with our scouts!
  10. MABB1959
    This may be the dumbest question ever but why can't they use their 1st round draft pick(s) from 2014, 2017 or 2019? Seems silly to waste 3 first round draft picks and not have them ready by 2022. From what I can tell if they do not get a couple of great pitchers it really isn't going to matter anyway.
  11. MABB1959
    The Twins did not get one single player onto the 2021 All MLB Team. Not even the Second team. Is that really pathetic or what? Who is held responsible for this? I know it is probably not a big thing but no Twins were up for any of the big awards. Just Polanco was up for the 2021 All MLB Team. How embarrassing that must be or do they really care?
  12. MABB1959
    Planning on a Buxton departure. Making it seem like they are doing something before the dumpster diving starts.
  13. MABB1959
    I think Buxton will tough out the year with the Twins unless they trade him and then walk away at the end of the 2022 season. It would be a perfect way for him to say thanks for messing with my service time! Either way the Twins FO is going to come out bad. We do not get nice things, the FO/organization always figures out a way to avoid paying a superstar and then that bites them more when good to great players DO NOT want to come to this organization. I bet you could count on one hand the great players we have had since Target field opened. Many of the players the Twins let walk have had success with their new teams. Maybe not super star success but way more success than any player we have seen. Polanco and Sano our best players. Sano may be a known player because fans love the HR hitters. Polanco probably not as much. He went to an AS game but not sure he played. How many Twins or who was the last Twin with enough name recognition to be elected? Maybe Mauer? I guess my main point is if seem less and less likely every year that we will ever have a well put together team and will always be watching for patch together dumpster diving teams.
  14. MABB1959
    Who do we have that can hit like him? I know there are position players and others who could "fill in" as a DH but we need a real one. Maybe Sano but he seems to be fine for now in the field. I would rather have Cruz any day!
  15. MABB1959
    Cruz was the best player signed in the last 20 years. If only to have a "all-star" caliber player on the team. Berrios is gone and Buxton most likely gone. No one left to root for that you would at least even have name recognition outside of the minor league fans.
  16. MABB1959
    Where is the source or is it just an opinion?
  17. MABB1959
    Chance are they will not pan out. Seems they don't and as soon as they do and have earned the right for more money they are cleared out for another set up "top" prospects that do NOT pan out.
  18. MABB1959
    Seems like we do not or are unable to bring a player to their actual talent and do not see it until they are on another team.
  19. MABB1959
    Why didn't we see the Twins being in on some of the bigger names last week? I am going to go with we are on the "no-trade" clause for most of the top rated/wanted players. That is better than thinking the Pohlads are cheap and the FO have their hands tied.
  20. MABB1959
    I totally agree. It hasn't been that long that the Twins started to realize the talent of the Latino players. For years we had a pretty light skinned team. I feel like Escobar kind of broke the barrier a bit. Him and other Latino's had to earn their playing time while others were/are sent trotting out even though they were playing poorly. It has probably been less that 5 years since we have had this many Latino's being everyday players for the Twins.
  21. MABB1959
    I don't remember seeing the Twins involved in any of the "big" winter meetings. Sitting on the sidelines so they hem and haw about how they tried. I think I have wised up to this. Didn't change with the current (no new anymore) FO like we hoped/prayed it would. Might as well send me to the Winter meetings.
  22. MABB1959
    Broken for me. Been here done this without even a playoff win in 20 years!
  23. MABB1959
    He doesn't want to play here. Of course he will say he does, but I bet he would much rather play for a team that will be contending in his prime years. And he will get that in FA. After messing with his service time he will play through next year and become a top FA. That way the Twins get nothing and kind of what they deserve. He has a smart agent and the smarter teams will patiently wait until the end of next season unless the see him as a critical piece to go the WS. Imagine him in pinstripes, Berrios looked good in the Toronto uniform and Eddie, Eddie, Eddie had fun in the ugly Atlanta uniform.
  24. MABB1959
    Good for him. He deserved this. Too bad for the Twins fans!
  25. MABB1959
    All these would be amazing. Did anyone see the Twins mentioned in some of the big talks last week. I did not.
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