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  1. jkcarew
    The issue is many clubs also maintain a truly competitive top half of the roster, as well. Nobody cares about the bottom of the 40-man roster when the top half figures to be irrelevant. Human nature. Nobody cares about the difference between (for instance) 74 and 76 wins. It only matters when you’re talking about the difference between 90and 92 wins and/or an extra win somewhere in the playoffs. This organization has not (by a county mile) done anything for a very long time that would warrant these types of moves being perceived as anything other than total nothing-burgers. At best.
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    Does anyone REALLY think that avoiding arbitration would have made it more likely the Twins retain Ryan at free agency?? Against all evidence, recent and historical? If he maintains performance and health, it’s not happening regardless. Hoping he remains with the Twins beyond free agency is exactly the same as hoping his performance and/or health nosedive in the immediate future…as that’s the only way his price will be a realistic option for the Twins. Call it the Buxton chronic injury discount. We know this to be true. Best case is…and always has been…hope he remains great/healthy…and either ride him to a championship run and let him walk (obviously not happening), or trade him by the 2026 deadline.
  3. jkcarew
    I would characterize even 1 2026 inning in Wichita as quite fast…even if he wasn’t coming off TJ.
  4. jkcarew
    Impossible to know until he gets started.
  5. jkcarew
    No. He’s good for raising the floor for a club that already has a high ceiling…for insurance. Exactly the situation the Twins are NOT in. Ugh.
  6. jkcarew
    Mmmm…Bell’s OPS+ last year was down from the previous year and below him career average. He’s definitely not ‘great’, never has been. I think other than encouraging others to continue to work and make adjustments, that’s about all he can offer. Maybe easy to relate to in that he’s been mediocre for long stretches. Worth something, I guess. Still, I’d rather have a Nelson Cruz, a proven producer, who’s going to be setting an example (especially for righties) with 90% of his plate appearances…where you can just learn from watching him PA to PA and game to game. We kinda/sorta had that with Correa…now nobody fits that role…even a little bit.
  7. jkcarew
    Just keep him a minimum of 150 feet from any and all batting cages. Not allowed to even watch guys work on hitting. Can’t be too careful in this regard.
  8. jkcarew
    Informative article. Until this, I had no idea I liked Kyle Garlick.
  9. jkcarew
    Rodriguez…”A walk rate north of 20% paired with a strikeout rate above 30% is unusual, but Rodriguez still produced a 135 wRC+ in 2025 thanks to his power and elite strike zone awareness.” So unusual that it has zero chance of existing at the major league level, unless the power shows up in a massive way. However… …the 2025 135 wRC+ is NOT a product of power…his AAA power numbers are pedestrian…rather, almost exclusively a product of the freakishly high walk rate. Sustainable? The power better start showing up in a big, big way.
  10. jkcarew
    Definitely has the pedigree to teach these prospects how to curse at umpires in English, if nothing else.
  11. jkcarew
    Not fair. Each or these guys are just a couple handful of tweaks from being within shouting distance of average. Remember, this is the Minnesota Twins and the AL Central. Success has a very low bar…basically, don’t get mathematically eliminated from at least a wild card slot until the Vikings are in camp (and the trade deadline has come and gone). Have the stars align once every 3-5 years, and hang yet another ALC banner. Simple. And time-tested. Sure, those 90-win ALC seasons and first-round playoff massacres seem far away right now, but we’ll get back there in a few years. You’ll see. It doesn’t get any better than this! Not that it COULDN’T get better than this. It just DOESN’T get any better than this.
  12. jkcarew
    “If everything goes right the Twins can ‘compete’ in the AL Central”… …said absolutely everyone in absolutely every January in absolutely every year since 1994 when the ALC was created. Unfortunately, it only happens when you have a bunch of players for whom it always (or almost always) goes right.
  13. jkcarew
    6-1, 190 at 17 and doesn’t run ‘well’ now?? That says about 210-230 and slow at 25. So, not really thinking shortstop long term. Thinking…better hit a ton.
  14. jkcarew
    Oswaldo is still active in the Mexican League… …just say’in…
  15. jkcarew
    Pohlads BEAMING with pride viewing this table.
  16. jkcarew
    You keep forgetting…the goal is mediocrity. We’re not that far away!!! 😉
  17. jkcarew
    Wait…did we just trade for the Marlins Jose Miranda??
  18. jkcarew
    Unfortunately, I think Joey Gallo with less power is a career minor leaguer (as I don’t think more walks than Gallo with less power is math that even exists against major league pitching). To me, the realistic hope is that he finds the power he was showing at the lower levels. Then we have “good” Joey Gallo…although, I don’t think Rodriguez will have quite the defensive value Gallo had.
  19. jkcarew
    TD takes on Rodriguez continue to ignore the elephant in the room…or elephants in the room. At the AAA level…which goes back to the back end of the 2024 season, Rodriguez’s wRC+ has been entirely built on a ridiculously unsustainable (at the major-league level) walk rate. Not only is he NOT hitting home runs at an impressive rate…but he IS striking out a TON. 242 PA: 7 HR, 79 K’s…that’s a 2.89 HR% with a 33 K%. In AAA. With that profile, he’s not getting walked anywhere within a couple galaxies of 20% in the major leagues. Meanwhile, winter league results mean less than nothing in terms of assessing major league readiness. Check out what Miguel Sano did in the same league this year (Cliff notes: more power and significantly less K). On the brink? Only if lightning strikes twice in the same place. Once to fix the swing/approach, once more to make him durable/available.
  20. jkcarew
    A step in the right direction. One. Joe had to go. The rest is just words. Good words, but words. And a pretty long march remains to get to actual relevance and accountability. We’ll see.
  21. jkcarew
    You don’t “build around” guys with spectacular injury histories or guys you’re going to let walk in free agency in two years. But 95% of the fan base keeps swallowing the bait, so…it continues.
  22. jkcarew
    I don’t think there’s any “might be” about it. It’s highly, highly unlikely his trade value goes anywhere but down from here. And for multiple reasons. It MIGHT go down relatively slowly…we can hope for that…but it’s going down.
  23. jkcarew
    Those of you high on Lewis under a new/different staff are forgetting that THE most likely outcome for Lewis under a new regime… …is that he gets injured a couple of times and misses a boatload of games.
  24. jkcarew
    Absolutely! Let’s spend another couple years seeing if we can win 84 games in the ALC. After all, it’s the typical Twin’s fan dream. Sure, later they walk (or become injured) with little or nothing in return. But, hey look! We’re COMPETING!!!
  25. jkcarew
    Oliva always attacked. His plan really was see-ball-hit-ball. Wasn’t a guy that was ever into working the count or looking for a specific pitch/location…and it’s reflected/validated by his numbers, and also by the eyeballs if you were around to watch him hit. He swung and made contact with pitches anywhere near the strike zone, and hit the ball all over the field. He had two things working for him that the “average” or even “good” hitters didn’t. Foremost, ridiculously extreme high talent level, also…Killebrew hitting behind him.
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