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The only significant injury in Prielipp's career is a torn UCL. Not sure why TD writers remain convinced he's got some lengthy injury history. The curveball was a pitch Prielipp was tasked with learning out of Spring Training and he was given all of about 2 weeks to learn it before the Twins called him up, and he stayed up with the Twins defense and Shelton's proclivity for making questionable decisions on when to pull him. Obviously, a single year is not enough to gather proof a pitcher like Prielipp is going to stick in the rotation, but he certainly appears to have the weapons.

@Dave Lemke explain your rationale for disagreeing with me. I've noticed you seem to follow me around the forums and "dislike" or "disagree" with every single post I make because you have nothing better to do? I find it to be strange to put a faith into a person you don't know and have little visibility into historical conduct. I also think Tom Pohlad's results have been pretty mixed. It's hard to argue the Twins were competitive as promised or that the team had a reasonable path to being competitive from the opening of the season. I think the ownership's relatively minor bump in payroll at the trade deadline was also modest and reflected a middle ground approach to being competitive. Not truly going for it (upgrading any bats or a playoff caliber rotation arm which were both sorely needed to be competitive in the playoffs), but not standing pat by bringing in obvious bullpen upgrades.

I mean... if the Twins aren't going to give the pitching coach any talent to work with, it doesn't really matter if any reasonably qualified coach is holds the position.

Not sure Maki was part of the problem. He was handed a pretty raw and untalented roster of arms to work with. Prielipp and Bradley were big successes IMHO. What's next? I'm assuming a new pitching coach who will be scapegoated by Zoll if Zoll sticks around.

Joe Pohlad was the spokesperson for ownership. Joe Pohlad chose the term "right-sized." Joe Pohlad put his foot in his mouth time and again with public communications. There's a difference between: "We're looking to better capitalize on ways other small market franchises have been successful reaching deep in the playoffs like the Rays and Brewers rather than emulating teams with high payrolls who've consistently been uncompetitive." St. Peter + Joe Pohlad "We're looking to right-size the payroll because we're not making enough money off our crappy fans."

It's stupid to believe in Tom Pohlad. He's not your friend. You don't know him. He's a business owner saying business owner things. I'll judge his actions at this point. It's been a pretty mixed bag so far in my opinion. The team was not competitive despite assurances they would be. Pohlad stuck with Jeremy Zoll who turned out to be Falvey 2.0. Firing Falvey was huge in my opinion. Such a breath of fresh air, but saying a team is going to be competitive is a promise he had no ability to keep. Further, the Twins did precious little in the months before the season started to change the status quo under Falzoll. We entered the season exactly the same as we would have under Falvey. Hardly a change. Hardly "decisive" in the way Pohlad said he wanted to run the team. There were obvious passes at the deadline which would have added more value to the team for less prospect resources, but the ownership were tightwads again. Yes. The team put a few million on an already very low budget. Whoopee doo. They should have had at least 3x more capacity. At least. If not 5x more capacity. The deadline represented the absolute bare minimum investment ownership could have possibly made while still claiming to be trying. Hardly "decisive" in choosing a course. Pohlad has been visibly active during games, running around getting $20 bills for Trevor Plouffe, encouraging fan interaction and saying a lot of the right things. He hasn't been tone deaf. It's a marked improvement over previous Pohlads. So again. Mixed bag. I wasn't impressed with what happened on the roster before the season started. Unlike a desperate fan base excited over the bare minimum of moves, I wasn't impressed with the deadline decisions. At this point, I'm not impressed with Pohlad's comments on the payroll. He should have come out and said the team has a payroll floor at least.

Opposite field power is a nice to have tool. It's not a requirement to be valuable.

Not sure what world you're living in, but the metrics said Brooks Lee just had the only decent season he'll have in his career in MLB.

I have zero faith the Twins will be in a position to be aggressive at the opening of free agency in a way that makes sense, at least. If Zoll is behind the wheel, I have no doubt we'll see signings early. Jake Bauers Nathaniel Lowe LaMonte Wade, Jr. Dominic Smith Adam Frazier Once we get those sub$10MM lefty DH/1B on the roster, we'll be unstoppable. Joc Pederson will be out there, too, but Zoll will probably draw the line at $10MM and he'll command more than that. We need at least 10 lefty defensively challenged guys for sure.

Lewis is my favorite Twins player, but sorry, he's not going to be successful "here." Can't be giving replacement level production an every day job.

Exact same player at the plate as he was in his previous 2 years. Balls he hit just had eyes or cleared the fence by 1 foot rather than being a warning track out. Lee was far better against sliders this year which probably helped him a lot by making him more difficult to put away at the end of an at bat. Sub-1 WAR player next year.

I see this as a red flag. Firing coaches before the GM? It's been standard operating procedure for complete lack of accountability and dysfunction in my opinion. Same 'ol, same 'ol.

The root cause is the Twins don't have any reliably good players. Position players rank 300+ PA 1-30 = 0 31-60 = 0 61-90 = 2 91-120 = 4 121-150 = 0 151-180 = 0 181-210 = 3 That's how the top 9 WAR position players graded out for the Twins Starters 80+ IP (145) 1-30 = 0 31-60 = 2 61-90 = 1 91-120 = 2 121-145 = 0 That's how our top 5 rotation arms grade

90% the dude's career is over.

Wouldn't it be great if we knew which inexperienced players and prospects would work out?

Twins finished 7 games back from the playoffs despite adding quality relievers which largely blunted the loss of Varland and Duran down the stretch. Not sure how keeping Correa and cutting $20MM of payroll elsewhere would have helped Minnesota, but sure. Obviously, that's this articles premise. That with 20/20 hindsight, the Twins would have been able to pick and choose which trades worked out. Even with that hindsight, the Twins still wouldn't have made the playoffs.

There are "good people" all over the place.

Time to move on. He's not going to be productive with the Twins.

Falvey's considered an administrative advisor from my understanding. That's a huge step down and clearly identifies how the league views him. I'm not worried about Falvey hiring away guys who shouldn't be employed here much longer as the front office should be washed clean by a new GM. If the new GM doesn't clean house, I'm also not worried about losing front office folks from a team that's made the playoffs 1 time in the past 6 years despite typically having the highest average opening day payroll in the division.

CBA negotiation results. Who heads the front office? Strategy for the offseason before the seemingly inevitable lockout. Those are honestly the only questions I think are a big deal. Joe Ryan has no significant trade value as in he's not bringing back elite prospects, but he may bring back an org #4-6ish type or a couple #8-15ish types. He's not "untradeable." Most teams would want Ryan in their rotation, they're just not going to pay much to get him because he'll be making at least $12MM and he only has 1 year of control left. Royce Lewis looks like a replacement level player at this point, at least for the Twins. I'd think he's probably even a non-tender candidate at this point, though this front office tends to hoard such players creating roster logjams and inflexibility. "Long Term" rotation strategy isn't too much of problem when Ryan and Lopez have only 1 year of control left. Lopez should be on target for opening day, barring any (normal) setbacks, but he's coming off an injury plagued 2024 on the wrong side of 30 with significantly declining peripherals. The "long term" plan will probably be decided by the CBA.

Pohlad wasn't wrong. You're given an objective, you present how you're going to make it happen. It's that simple.

Do that by games started or innings pitched.

It's a pretty direct analogy to your argument that the objective of the trade should not be taken into context.

What you're advocating is trading for things which add no value and fill no need. You need to get to the airport to catch your flight. Instead of calling an Uber to bring you to the airport, you request an Uber to bring you a sandwich. The sandwich was tasty. You miss your flight. In your world, the sandwich was a good trade.

I honestly see no point to this. When the first guy on the list is a 95% or better to not do what you're proposing, it makes it even less valuable. But, sure, if you're Derek Falvey, this is a pretty reasonable roster.