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  1. 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.
  2. jkcarew
    Oswaldo is still active in the Mexican League… …just say’in…
  3. jkcarew
    Pohlads BEAMING with pride viewing this table.
  4. jkcarew
    You keep forgetting…the goal is mediocrity. We’re not that far away!!! 😉
  5. jkcarew
    Wait…did we just trade for the Marlins Jose Miranda??
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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!!!
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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…
  16. jkcarew
    Struck out at a 30% clip against winter league pitching. If that doesn’t say READY, nothing does!
  17. jkcarew
    Raya, yes. Prielipp, maybe not…but probably, yes.
  18. jkcarew
    There’s always room on a Twins roster for a 30-year-old journeyman. It’s how we do what we do.
  19. 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.
  20. jkcarew
    Hey, in a hundred years that bag of pennies will be worth a lot of money. Patience, Twins fans.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. 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?
  24. 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.
  25. 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.
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