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  1. jkcarew
    For those of you slobbering over Emmanuel Rodriguez in this year’s Dominican Winter League, Sano should absolutely blow your mind. Sano has more hits, more HRs, more walks, and fewer Ks than does Rodriguez in the same number of PA. Sano’s HR% is 12%, Rodriguez’s 7%. Sano’s K% is 18%; Rodriquez’s 30%. This is the Dominican Winter League. Does this mean Rodriquez will never be better than Sano? No. Does this mean Sano is ready for a successful MLB comeback? Unlikely. Does this mean Rodriquez is actually probably considerably LESS ready to hit in the major leagues than even Miguel Sano at this point in time? Yes. Yes, it does.
  2. jkcarew
    Signing an over-age Dominican on the cheap was on my bingo card. Now if I can just get a 19 year old who dominated fast-pitch softball in Australia…
  3. jkcarew
    Struck out at a 30% clip against winter league pitching. If that doesn’t say READY, nothing does!
  4. jkcarew
    Raya, yes. Prielipp, maybe not…but probably, yes.
  5. jkcarew
    There’s always room on a Twins roster for a 30-year-old journeyman. It’s how we do what we do.
  6. jkcarew
    Em Rodriguez is the OPPOSITE of high floor. He’s the definition of boom or bust. The ball must go over the fence frequently for him to have offensive value, and the BB rate has zero chance of holding up in the majors if it doesn’t. Meanwhile, the low power numbers and high K numbers at AAA say he’s not close to providing value at the major league level.
  7. jkcarew
    Hey, in a hundred years that bag of pennies will be worth a lot of money. Patience, Twins fans.
  8. jkcarew
    The fact that he’s unemployed and in extreme low demand is what made Shelton want the job. Also, I doubt that Shelton is worried about sullying his major league winning percentage, since it can’t possibly go much lower than it already is. Even if Shelton didn’t believe a word Falvey said in the interview, he still takes the job and says what he said at the presser, because…why wouldn’t he. The presser was a nonevent. Nothing at all to be gleaned good or bad, IMO. Still, they made sure to spin with misleading phrases like “young players”, when the current major league roster is, in fact, NOT young relative to the majority of the league. Transparency would have had Falvey and Shelton referring to “bad” or “flawed” players, not young players.
  9. jkcarew
    The narrative that the Twins are young is a lie instigated by the spin-doctors employed by this club and perpetuated by the lazy media that cover it. Their weighted batting age in 2025, was once again ABOVE league average…and second oldest among the five ALC teams. Simply replacing Correa’s PA’s with Lee’s, still doesn’t make the lineup “young”. Pitching-wise, the average age was slightly below league average…yet still significantly above that of their prime divisional rival, the Guardians…whose pitchers are always both younger and better than Twins pitchers. Always. At this point…since being good is explicitly not an option…I’m beginning to simply yearn for a year where we’re ACTUALLY YOUNG and bad…rather than just bad. It’s within our grasp in 2026! But, will we do it?…or will we sign 3-4 low-rent veterans to uphold the annual charade of ‘competing’? Again.
  10. jkcarew
    It was an extremely underwhelming finalist list, so… We knew they’d go cheap, and we suspected they’d go familiar. Bingo. Set the bar horrendously, awfully, embarrassingly low, then meet it. It’s the Twins way. Why would any fan spend a dime on this team at this point?
  11. jkcarew
    He could definitely be good next year…if he were only to get much better than he has been. Puts him in an exclusive club that only includes about 200 guys currently toiling on the fringes. Better hop on him, pronto.
  12. jkcarew
    Are we turning Julien into Clemens in the field as well? Because if Julien OPS’s 715, as did Clemens, he’s still a negative-to-zero WAR player. So…if u’r gonna wish, ya gotta wish better…much better than that.
  13. jkcarew
    True. Still, get ready for the assistant or minor league guy willing to take next to nothing for the first-time opportunity. Guaranteed. Not that that never works. Let’s hope it does. It’s a bit of a crime if Falvey gets to do the choosing, though…regardless of the candidate pool.
  14. jkcarew
    So…manager, general manager, owner. We’re 1-3 so far, with a single. 667 OPS. Not great, but better than 0-3. The GM would make it 2-3 with a double. 1.667 OPS. Worth celebrating. The Pohlads gone would make it. 3-3 with a double and HR. 3.333 OPS!! And we parade down Hennepin Ave.
  15. jkcarew
    Gonzalez by a mile. Solid top 2-4 choices, imo. Meanwhile, nothing in Jenkins season (other than injuries) to suggest that he can’t be good at the major league level by 2027, maybe sooner.
  16. jkcarew
    Now, if he’d quit trying to pull everything, and get back to the hitter he was, we’d be in business.
  17. jkcarew
    Well, if recent history is any indication, they would have called up about 4 guys, every one being significantly better than any the Twins had left.
  18. jkcarew
    traded right-handed pitcher Shane Bieber to the Toronto Blue Jays for right-handed pitching prospect Khal Stephen and traded reliever Paul Sewald to the Detroit Tigers for a player to be named later or cash considerations. The team also claimed right-handed pitcher Carlos Hernandez off waivers from the Detroit Tigers
  19. jkcarew
    Messick was taken 6 picks after Prielipp in the 2022 draft.
  20. jkcarew
    Well…Cleveland actually sold at the deadline. They’re just much better than the Twins at every aspect of the game, excluding power, and including manager and FO.
  21. jkcarew
    Rodriguez’s profile of taking pitches, walking a ton and striking out a ton is completely unsustainable at the MLB level, IMO. His AAA BB% is nearly 22. It won’t be anywhere within a country mile of that in the Majors. Aaron Judge and Juan Soto get walked at about a 18-20% rate. There’s hope…kinda, maybe, if his rare contact is resulting in a very high HR/XBH rate. Zero hope if he’s not hitting home runs and doing major damage with balls in the zone. And he hasn’t been doing much damage at all at the AAA level so far. To me, he doesn’t look even close to ready for the majors. He’s 22. I’m hoping for a comeback in 2026 with health, some tweaks, and the return of the power…don’t see how we could expect that to happen anywhere other than at the AAA level.
  22. jkcarew
    Where Could Minnesota Twins Spend $30 Million (or More) This Offseason? I’m gonna go with the most obvious choice… Buying equity back from the new minority owners after the $425M debt is paid off.
  23. jkcarew
    Just ahead of Ray Miller and just behind Johnny Goryl. Top 13.
  24. jkcarew
    I’ve noticed quite a dramatic drop-off between the 220th and 234th picks in the 2022 draft. Cliff-like.
  25. jkcarew
    Aren’t there any job openings at MSNBC or the New York Times…or the Star Tribune?
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