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  1. jkcarew
    Walking that dude to pitch to Kurtz😂
  2. jkcarew
    Better the 107 mph rockets land in the stands and terrorize the fans than to lose a player that finds himself in front of one.
  3. jkcarew
    So THAT’s why they call him Outman.
  4. jkcarew
    Any realignment could not possibly land the Twins in anything other than a stronger division. Realignment with the Cubs and Milwaukee (assuming the continuation of an unbalanced schedule) would be very bad. Unless it actually forced the organization to try to compete at that higher level. So, in summary…very very bad.
  5. jkcarew
    Only one? I’d say the odds of that are pretty low.
  6. jkcarew
    Struggling to reach 89 mph on your fastball, when all your other pitches…including changeup…are 83-84 seems like a recipe for disaster.
  7. jkcarew
    Before this year, the most innings Prielipp had pitched in a season since high school is 23 innings. It’s been 6 years since high school. Let that sink in. 21 innings another year, and not another year with even 10. There’s really no track record of excellence there, beyond Wisconsin high school…just very brief flashes. He’s probably the most raw 24 year old (highly-rated) professional pitching prospect we’ve ever seen or heard of. He’s simply still learning…just now learning…how to pitch at these levels. Many acknowledged he was a high-ceiling lottery guy when drafted…he threw a grand total of 27 innings in his college career. He very much remains that, IMO. Can’t see a path to starter right now…certainly not in 2026. My hope is finish 2025 healthy, and focusing him on a bullpen role sometime in 2026.
  8. jkcarew
    Rodriguez has more issues than health. Unless you think he’ll maintain the already extremely high K-rate and the equally extreme BB rate we’ve seen at AAA, in the majors. Very, very high risk approach. Meanwhile, he has 6 HR in 205 AAA PA. Looking more and more like a Boom or Bust guy, IMO. I want to go with Tait…if you could assume he’ll be a legit catcher defensively. Hard to assume, he’s so far away still. I’d probably go with Culpepper at the moment, but I wouldn’t argue with 2-3 others…which is nice. Jenkins clear #1. Not gonna worry about power when he’s 20 and already dealing (quite well) with AA pitching. If the hit tool puts him in the majors at 21 or 22 years old, I wouldn’t be surprised to see the power tool develop over his first 2-3 years in the league. Not that uncommon with high-enders. We’ll see.
  9. jkcarew
    Correa OPS in last month is 804 (ref: Buxton at 709). Correa was brilliant in 2024…that was one year ago. And the salary is only a burden if ownership chooses it to be. Bottom line, I get moving on in the context of rebuilding. But, it was a salary dump. Period. And it doesn’t help in any way making you better on the field…even in the future, unless you really feel that money will be spent on another needle mover or two or in resigning/extending a player that does move the needle like Ryan. And it won’t be.
  10. jkcarew
    Emmy Rodriguez update?
  11. jkcarew
    Comments on Correa are hilarious. He was the best player by a mile in the’23 playoffs. The playoffs that included the only Twins win in about a quarter century. In ‘24 he was brilliant until he went down. This year, he’s almost back to 100 OPS+, (and rising). He’s not suddenly done being good. The worse trade in terms of actually putting a winning team on the field now, or in the future…was getting nothing but dollars for Correa. Unless you think the org is going to use that saved money to better the team. You don’t ACTUALLY think that, do you?
  12. jkcarew
    Objects in your mirror are closer than they appear, Tigers!
  13. jkcarew
    Strike3! Take your base.
  14. jkcarew
    Hey, stuff happens. I won’t judge.
  15. jkcarew
    Didn’t you used to be Michael Tonkin? (copywrite: Chief)
  16. jkcarew
    Who knew GOOGLE AI was going to be even worse than Wikipedia?? (spoiler: everyone)
  17. jkcarew
    Paddack trade may yield 2.0 WAR only a few weeks in.
  18. jkcarew
    At some point, you can’t go three-and-out and continue to rely on goal line stands.
  19. jkcarew
    We’re losing the time of possession battle badly here in the first quarter.
  20. jkcarew
    Prielipp might be hitting a wall…just based on how little he’s pitched in recent years. Getting clobbered in August so far. And yeah, has a ridiculously high BABiP against. Lefties have clobbered him all year, which is…weird…and not good. But I’m all for moving him as fast as his health allows…he’s already 24.
  21. jkcarew
    The author makes it sound like Rodriguez has had a good year at AAA. Not really, IMO. Besides being constantly out of action, he’s built his OPS on a very high BABiP and very high walk rate…while showing surprisingly modest power. And also a big red-flag K-rate of 33%. The ‘goodness’ of that profile doesn’t typically translate very well to the majors. Although still just 22, if he can stay on the field, and more consistently finds the power, I suppose 2026 is likely. If he had had a truly good and healthy AAA season, I would have expected him to get a taste this year, especially given how things have unfolded.
  22. jkcarew
    I imagine that’s why he listed that category as 2027 + (plus) and wasn’t definitive in the comments regarding Soto.
  23. jkcarew
    Sounds like a recap of any Twins game from this April.
  24. jkcarew
    Especially when they quite pretending and start skipping or shutting down Ryan/Lopez, etc
  25. jkcarew
    Fwiw, SWR threw two innings tonight…went well it seems…assuming 2 innings was the plan.
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