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  1. bean5302
    Organizational change is needed to correct the direction. Fire Falvey. Not one single drafted/developed All Star through 9 years for Falvey except trade toss-in Brent Rooker and his accomplishments with the Athletics. Maybe Falvey just needs another couple decades? Baldelli needs to go, too. The team has clearly quit on him yet again. Another late season collapse as the team has gone 19-38 .372 (60-102 full season pace) after the All Star Game. We've had 1 good season in the past 5 years. No GM or manager gets that kind of leash in pro sports.
  2. bean5302
    5 WAR does not equal MVP clearly illustrated by Buxton being 8th in the AL in terms of production this (career) year. Writers who've been pushing the MVP thing since 2015 just cannot seem to accept and appreciate Buxton for what he is. He's a 5-6 WAR full season player. He's always been a 5-6 full season player in his prime, and that's an All Star level, not MVP level production. Despite the fact Buxton has blown expectations out of the water this year in terms of playing time, he's exactly what you'd expect; 5-6 WAR. Apart from the SSS production far outside anything he's ever done in his career in 2021, Buxton has never really looked like an MVP threat. Brian Dozier in his prime was more valuble than Buxton. That's almost a straight up "fact" but you'll struggle to find a lot of people who lament how the Twins robbed Brian Dozier of a chance to win it all because of whatever narrative. You'll struggle to find people lamenting how fast Dozier's career ended as well. What might have been stuff. Buxton owns a career .286 OPS in the postseason and he was hurt in 4 of 6 post season opponent series/games the Twins had. I don't think it's reasonable to blame ownership or Buxton for not honoring commitments to each other, really.
  3. bean5302
    You know, I was going to post another blog... but you just reminded me why I don't visit this site anymore. Desperately clinging for a chance to bash somebody months later.
  4. bean5302
    You watched the game, and in the heat of the moment, riding the high emotions you felt the play was closer than it actually was. Somebody presented you with a picture which was intentionally manipulated to be out of context (and it was intentional) which supported your frustration and you accepted it because it felt good as people like to be right. When presented with a picture from the same film that showed the full context of the situation better, you rejected it because nobody likes being wrong. Then you accused the person who provided you with the full picture of manipulation when it's clear the first image was the manipulated one. I insulted what I considered to be your unreasonable behavior. Not you.
  5. bean5302
    Which prospects? 1. Keaschall 2. Prielipp 3. Ricardo Olivar 4. Travis Adams 5. Andrew Morris I think Keaschall is the most likely with Prielipp being pretty likely as Paddack is gone and Olivar being up there with Vazquez being gone.
  6. bean5302
    Looking at Lewis' early batted ball data, watching him spin out in the batters box and clutch his hammy... yeah. It was absolutely brutal. Thing is, his late batted ball data tells a very different story. I think evaluations like this need to be plotted in order to avoid bias. Right now, plotting his batted ball data and looking at xwOBA shows he's gotten better. Letting young guys play through hard times is also what the teams the Twins are supposedly trying to emulate also do.
  7. bean5302
    What power? Every stop of Julien's along the way with 200+ PA with ISO. In regard to ISO, I'd say: .000-.124 = No Power .125-.150 = Light power 5-9 HR .150-.199 = Some pop to mediocre power 10-19 HR .200-.249 = Above average power tool 20+ HR guy .250-.299 = True power hitter 30+ HR guy .300+ = Elite power 40+ HR guy a22 - A, ISO = .156 a22 - A+, ISO = .247 a23 - AA, ISO = .190 a24 - MLB, ISO = .195 a25 - AAA, ISO = .167 a25 - MLB, ISO = .124 a26 - AAA, ISO = .071 (only 94 PA) a26 - MLB, ISO = .121 (only 104 PA) Julien typically hangs out in that mediocre power area. He's got a little more home run pop than Miranda, but not much. Same real category. Miranda managed an ISO of .157 and .158 in his two full seasons in MLB. Julien having power is I think the same perception people had of Alex Kirilloff, who also did not have much game power, but fans thought he did for some reason?
  8. bean5302
    Sorry, Garver. The image is distorted? The ball is in the glove. The glove is in between Garver and Wallner. Fix feet before Wallner gets there. It's over. You are wrong. There is no debate here. You are absolutely 100% dead wrong with no reasonable argument to make. You're just making yourself look like an idiot at this point.
  9. bean5302
    When it comes to Alcala, I don't want to see him back in AAA. I want him gone. Released. Period. No more wasted time, effort and materials as he will not improve in this organization.
  10. bean5302
    Well played if you're trying to take something out of context and re-frame it. Wallner wasn't trying to slide into home. He was out by two country miles. He was trying to get low while contorting his body away from the glove to avoid a tag from the catcher in the hope part of his body could reach the plate. Raleigh already has the ball here and he's holding it in Wallner's path with Wallner still 6 feet from home.
  11. bean5302
    Keirsey is not good. He's not good on the base paths even if he is fast, and he's truly a black hole at the plate. If the Twins want a pinch runner, they could just call up their fastest player from rookie ball.
  12. bean5302
    Twins fans are patient. They're patiently waiting for a good game day experience which will probably require new ownership before we start attending games much. Lewis is making loud contact now and he's beginning to drive the ball. The Twins needed to give up another week or two in AAA before calling him up. Not now after he's showing that the rust is largely gone.
  13. bean5302
    This article is nonsensical. It's about 1% likely for the premise to actually be accurate (the moves are made to save $4200), and making a mountain out of a molehill even if it is true. Another one of these sensationalized "OMG, this needs to stop!!!" articles so prevalent in our society. This article is similar to the article a couple weeks ago identifying the critical problem allowing unlimited DFA's for AAAA players where the writer dreamed up false hardship scenarios and evil machinations by corrupt billionaires.
  14. bean5302
    It's so frustrating because all he needs to do right now is throw strikes, and he just can. not. do. it.
  15. bean5302
    Yeah, I think DFA / Release for Alcala. I've defended him enough this year, but he just won't listen to coaches and get his mechanics in order to throw strikes. No idea where the ball is headed.
  16. bean5302
    Twins pretty much back to full health at this point. Exciting!
  17. bean5302
    Raya's K rate isn't bad, but it's not really impressive since Cedar Rapids, either. I doubt he'd K more than 18-20% of hitters at the MLB level.
  18. bean5302
    ...and yet the good 'ol blackout policies still remain. The Twins were the free game of the day recently. Decided I would tune in, but nope, blacked out without me having the special subscription. F-MLB's television policies to hell. Forever.
  19. bean5302
    Inning 1 - 18 2 - 17 3 - 10 4 - 11 5 - 11 6 - 15 7 - 11
  20. bean5302
    It is different. The broadcast just shows a 2D box while I think Gameday considers the 3D strike zone. I don't hold any of the above calls against the ump at all. Unless a ball is more than 1/2 way in or out of the zone, it's just too small of an error to really care about. Keep in mind, a baseball is less than 3" in diameter.
  21. bean5302
    Nope. That ship has sailed. The Twins called him up too quickly before he was ready and he struggled with rust and trying to adapt to MLB caliber pitching right out of the gate. Lewis has been getting better and better. The last few games, Lewis has been making good contact and hitting the ball hard. He's really getting close at this point, just needs a few of those hard hits to go over the fence rather than being robbed and a couple of those near miss pop ups to be line drives as his launch angles improve. Demoting him at this point is probably just wasting him as he's starting to get strong signals he's ready. Send him down, watch him immediately OPS 1.500 in AAA for 2 weeks to call him back up would be awfully annoying.
  22. bean5302
    Didn't get squeezed. My comment above. Fans will be fans and remember everything they don't agree with, but rarely think about good calls. Umpiring in MLB has gotten better and better.
  23. bean5302
    It's great to see Buxton and Correa on the ball after coming back from concussions!
  24. bean5302
    Went back and looked at every single pitch thrown by Matthews in the GameDay Boxscore. There was one pitche where I'd need to have blown the image up to see whether or not they caught the slightest hair of the strike zone which was called a ball, and three strikes which were called "balls" on the extreme corner catching maybe 1/4"-1/2" of the zone. Here is every single call the ump "missed" or might have missed where there were over a dozen pitches which were literally on the line that the ump correctly called a strike. The ump appeared to be excellent to me.
  25. bean5302
    Miranda at least has the injury excuse to fall back on as he was playing hurt to end last year and the hand sprain and rust could have slowed him out of the gate in AAA, but at least he's shown some signs of life as of late. Julien... there's not much excuse for him at this point. Time to move him, I guess, though I don't think he has any real trade value. I just don't see any upside for him in the Twins' system. He's broken at this point. I think the Twins should send him down further to try and regain his swing. It's a brutal move, but he's not going to succeed at AAA. All the K's and absolutely no power.
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