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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. jkcarew
    Now, if he’d quit trying to pull everything, and get back to the hitter he was, we’d be in business.
  5. 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.
  6. 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
  7. jkcarew
    Messick was taken 6 picks after Prielipp in the 2022 draft.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. jkcarew
    Just ahead of Ray Miller and just behind Johnny Goryl. Top 13.
  12. jkcarew
    I’ve noticed quite a dramatic drop-off between the 220th and 234th picks in the 2022 draft. Cliff-like.
  13. jkcarew
    Aren’t there any job openings at MSNBC or the New York Times…or the Star Tribune?
  14. jkcarew
    Small sample AAA ISO… 138 PA Gonzalez: 193 (age 21) 78 PA Jenkins: 174 (age 20) 225 PA Rodriguez: 156 (ages 21-22) Context…702 PA Julien: 184 (ages 24-26)
  15. jkcarew
    Exactly. Rodriguez is supposed to have way more raw power than Julien, but hasn’t shown that at AAA. The approaches are very, very similar…and have no chance of working in the majors unless you demonstrate great, and consistently great power. If anything, Rodriquez has even more swing and miss in him than does Julien…at least at this point.
  16. jkcarew
    I’m concerned the bullpen might not hold up in the playoffs.
  17. jkcarew
    Nobody questioning Em Rodriguez’s potential power… 213 career AAA at-bats, 6 HR; 240/404/401 (805) ISO: 161 Everyone questions Gabriel Gonzalez’s potential power… 113 career AAA at-bats, 5 HR; 304/357/470 (826) ISO: 166 Small samples…but neither screams ‘future big league slugger’. Gonzalez’s results seem more sustainable as they don’t rely on a ridiculous walk rate that has almost zero chance of being replicated in the majors…and comes with way fewer K’s. Gonzalez is a full year younger than Rodriguez.
  18. jkcarew
    Temperature? Very chilly. But it’s weird…I’ve started to become comfortably numb.
  19. jkcarew
    As a person who doesn’t want to defend management in any way, it’s…um…way too early to even have a very legitimate opinion on these guys. When any team acquires young “major league ready” talent at the deadline it doesn’t typically mean “major league productive”. If that were the case, the contending team doesn’t let them go in the first place. It simply means that the next stage of development is anticipated to be primarily at the major league level, since they’ve already achieved success at the high minor league levels. Hence the reason reasonable fans get disappointed…it’s a step backwards, it takes time…even when it works. I have no idea if any, or which, of the “ready” guys are going to work out. But 6 weeks of play or a handful of starts does very little to inform me.
  20. jkcarew
    Really makes me angry. Without her we would have only lost by 7 or 8 runs.
  21. jkcarew
    98.3 on the hands with your 85th pitch to get out of a jam in the bottom of the 6th. I’m glass-half-full on Bradley. Just keep running him out there.
  22. jkcarew
    It’s about time he (Buxton) said something.
  23. jkcarew
    You’re defending your argument with Santana, Taylor, Solano, and Urshela. Guys that are not good enough to start regularly for any team. ANY team. Guys that any franchise would be happy to play a promising rookie in front of. ANY franchise. Every franchise. But yeah, let’s go with those kind of guys.
  24. jkcarew
    Nobody can convince me that basing your development in Florida…much less the golf coast of Florida…isn’t a material disadvantage relative to Arizona. Fort Myers has barely played half of scheduled innings over the last couple of weeks. Many games from this stretch and others won’t be made up with the season ending this week. And when games have been able to be made up, it accounts for 14 innings of baseball where 18 were scheduled. I realize they don’t immediately go to their apartments and start playing video games during these days off. But nothing fully can replace development during live competition. Also, slows/interrupts rehab assignments.
  25. jkcarew
    Wouldn’t the pressure be HAVING a son?
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