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  1.    Mike Sixel reacted to a post in a topic: Grading Every Trade from the Minnesota Twins' 2026 MLB Trade Deadline
  2. rv78
    Looked to me like Pohlad was trying to make it look like he was adding for the sake of winning, but in all reality, when you look at what he added, it was just more pretending to be a contender. Kremer isn't going to be an improvement over anyone that was already starting, his ERA proves that. Minter and Hoffman are additions that won't affect a game UNLESS the Twins have a lead going into the final innnings and they are available to pitch, which won't be every game, such is the life of a reliever. The overall effects of adding these 3 pitchers will be minimal and it won't be enough to matter. Grade D.
  3.    farmerguychris reacted to a post in a topic: The Twins Boldly Bolstered Their Bullpen. Can the Rotation and Lineup Do Their Parts?
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  12. rv78
    Doesn't really matter. There's only 1 team in MLB now and that's the Dodgers. If it isn't addressed and corrected at the CBA next year, we can all hold on to the dream of being the World Series Loser.
  13. rv78
    Byron Buxtons injury complicates everything at any given time of every year.
  14. rv78
    If we were running this team, the Twins would be in 1st place 20 games over .500. Gray wouldn't even be on the roster, as well as about 10-15 other guys for sure. When it gets right down to it, is there anything that this organization does anymore that makes any sense? Just like the love they showed for a player like Mickey Gasper, who providing nothing, Gray has defensive versatility that they don't need and a worthless bat to go along with it. So, naturally he gets precedent over all the other options everyone else has listed here. The #1 problem this organization has had over the past 10-12 years is that Buxton can't be relied upon to be their centerfielder and in those 10-12 years they haven't had anyone worthwhile to take his place.
  15. rv78
    Did the Carlos Correa deal determine your opinion of tying too much money up into 1 player? It seriously depends on the player. Correa wasn't it. He was a good defender but pretty much an average hitter. His contract with the Twins was a huge OVER-pay. Joe Ryan is much better than average and worthy of big dollars much more than Correa was.
  16. rv78
    And the reason why "we aren't there" yet is because the last 10 years when the Twins were buyers Falvey did a poor job bringing in difference makers, and when the Twins were sellers, like last year, the return is so far away that we just extended the push strategy another year or two down the road. No one will remember if the Brewers drew 3 million fans and the Twins drew 1 million. (Except for the Pohlads and they don't seem to care). They will remember if/when the Brewers win a Championship. See the difference?
  17. rv78
    Never said it was. It isn't a given that it is the right time to sell either.
  18. rv78
    Jeffers is getting $6.7M. Caratini is getting $7M. Jackson is getting $1.3M. You've currently got $15M tied up in the catcher position. Explain to me how paying Jeffers $12-13M, trading Caratini and keeping Jackson as the primary backup is not economically possible. Other backup catchers will be available at a cheaper price than Caratini, and Tait isn't too far away. Where would the Twins be if Buxton didn't have a no trade clause and he wasn't playing for them this year because they traded him away for more prospects? At some point you have to quit trading away your best players.
  19.    rv78 reacted to a post in a topic: Trading Ryan Jeffers Would Be the Wrong Move for the Twins
  20. rv78
    And the Brewers have zero Championships using this strategy. Trading away your best players pushes the window down the road. It doesn't open the window. The Twins won their only 2 Championships by being buyers, not sellers. They adding to the talent they had. Using the same strategy the Brewers are using will only work if you change it at the right time and ADD the talent you need to push you over the top. Otherwise all you do is push, push, push and your opportunity is into the next decade. I'm running out of decades. 1987 and 1991 have been a long time ago.
  21.    rv78 reacted to a post in a topic: Tom Pohlad Said "Go Big or Go Home." Now He Needs to Actually Choose.
  22. rv78
    The formula to look at if you want to know what fills the seats is, WIN. The Herbie/Kirby era saw 3 million in attendance. It's not rocket science or brain surgery. Pretending you have built a winner and selling the hype to the fans doesn't work, and the more often you try that losing formula, the more fans you alienate. If you have to give seats away, sell cheap beer, or have concerts AFTER the game, to get fans to come and see your product, then there is something wrong with the product.
  23.    rv78 reacted to a post in a topic: Dodgers: 4, Twins 3: Betts's Glove Even Bests Betts's Bat, and Both Beat Bomba Boys
  24. rv78
    And when the hope is, to win one game out of three, against a playoff caliber team, not to mention the World Champs, then you know the true state of your team.
  25. rv78
    There are multiple ways to hold a player accountable that DOESN'T include trading them away. The fastest and easiest is to put them on the bench for a game or two and tell them why they aren't playing. Then tell them if it happens again it will be 3 or 4 games or more the next time. It isn't rocket science. And if they don't like it, you consider trading them away, why? Because they aren't playing the way you expect them to play, what they are getting paid for, etc. etc.... This is the Managers job. To MANAGE the players. Letting them get away with loafing, or not hustling, whichever you want to call it, and now the Manager is NOT doing his job. Then another player sees it and figures, so and so got away with it, I can too. It turns into a cancer that affects the whole team which turns the team into something LESS than what it could be. What is that you might ask? Losers.
  26. rv78
    Loafing 1 time, is 1 time too many. Even little leaguers are taught to run hard every time. In the majors you shouldn't have to be told and if you don't do it, you should be held accountable. Carlos Correa was guilty of it on mulitple occasions, which isn't what you want from your leaders, and from what I saw, Rocco never held him accountable. Rocco's teams usually underperformed too. Coincidence? I think not.
  27. rv78
    Hit the nail on the head. Buck wants to be a Twin for life. But is that good for the Twins? Puckett never loafed. Tom Kelly wouldn't have put up with it and all of the players knew it. Today's players and Managers don't know what's important. They think if they just go through the motions that they are "good enough". All they are proving is the opposite.
  28. rv78
    Yeah, trade Larnach. He's finally hitting the ball like expected when he was drafted. Can't have guys like that on this team. Get rid of him and grab another Outman type off the DFA pile or trade for one. If you want this team to ever be good again, you have to STOP trading away the players that are helping you win ball games and start paying them to stay. Isn't that why he was drafted in the first place? If you want to trade someone, make it a player like Wallner, who isn't helping you win. Seriously, it's the only way this team is ever going to get better. Gathering prospects, watching them develop, and then trading them away when they finally become successful only maintains the status quo of mediocrity for your team. You're only being a farm system for other teams who are willing and/or capable of spending money on the good players. My hope is that, when the CBA takes place in 2027, it will fix the uneven structure of the haves and the have-nots. A salary floor and cap needs to be implemented if they want MLB to be appealing to all fans again. Sorry, I'm tired of the same teams being able to buy their Championships on a yearly basis, while other teams get the opportunity from building within once every 20 years.
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