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  1. rv78
    Aaron Judge currently has 17 HRs. 9 of the 17 have been hit to center or right. I guess he's a nobody.
  2. rv78
    It appears something about the demotion has improved his play. A simple explanation is........... AAA pitchers are not Major League pitchers. I wonder how many of the 6 home runs have been hit to the opposite field. My guess is ZERO. You can be pull happy in the minors and get away with it, but in the majors it will be exploited by opposing pitchers. In other words, he hasn't changed his approach or made any adjustments that would warrant a call back up to the majors. At this point, all he has proven is that it looks like he is a top minor leaguer and may never have success in the majors.
  3. rv78
    At this point, there are a lot of "ifs", "ands" and "buts" to his 2026 season. Let's not place too much hope in a 28 year old that has a lifetime .158 batting average, especially when that .158 includes the .296 that he's hitting this year. My bet is, with time he'll slide to his normal useless bat that ISN'T any better than what the Twins were getting from a Wallner or Lewis. Even so, I will be watching for him to prove me wrong.
  4. rv78
    Wallner is gone, Lewis is gone. Neither will be missed by this offense. Jeffers on the otherhand, will be.
  5. rv78
    OR, it could just be that none of the bullpen pitchers have a defined role because none of them are good enough to fill those roles. Who is the Duran, the Jax, the Coulombe, the Varland of this bunch? No one.
  6. rv78
    What the Twins "should" do at 1st base and what they "will" do at 1st base are 2 completely different things. Any major league team with aspirations of competing, (yeah - you Tom) wouldn't go into the season with Josh Bell, Victor Caratini and Kody Clemens as their options to play 1st base. Therefore, it really doesn't matter. This team isn't, wasn't, hasn't, been built to actually compete for years now. Not since Justin Morneau, have the Twins had a reliable every year 1st baseman, and he hasn't played since 2016, 10 years ago. Good job Falvey!
  7. rv78
    You covered the "hardest part of being a major league starter". What is even harder? Pitching for the Twins, when they are inept at defense and offensively offensive.
  8. rv78
    The 25-year-old Crow proved an impressive force for the Twins’ batters. If the Twins had a lineup that was an "impressive force" the opposing pitcher wouldn't be that impressive of a force. Bell, Keaschall, Clemens, Lewis, Kreidler and Outman, When the majority of the lineup doesn't strike fear into any opposing pitcher being an impressive force is easy.
  9. rv78
    No bullpen was used and the Twins win. Is it a coincidence?
  10. rv78
    But it also served as a reminder that plans can change instantly. For a team with an unclear future, that kind of reminder can be enough to rethink everything. When your Plan is to contend with has-beens and oft injured players changing it instantly, and constantly is required. They have created this all by themselves.. As far as the teams future being unclear, that's a mouthful. Failure, which is where they are at, and have been for a while now, requires change. Unfortunately they don't understand change has to be something different from what they have done in the past.
  11. rv78
    Who else is available in the dumpster bin? The theory behind moves like this is that they might hit that 1 in a million that becomes a miracle. The Terry Ryan "Hope and A Prayer" has never been discarded with this organization.
  12. rv78
    Lewis. Another name on a long list of names that isn't what we thought he was. Or at least, told he was. Sometimes, really good college and minor league players just can't make the jump to the majors and be successful. Once opposing teams figure out a players weakness it can be exploited. It's up to Lewis to adjust. Either he isn't capable or he hasn't figured it out yet. Could be that he's too stubborn to try. For someone who doesn't do slumps, (his words), his head, (mental), may be his problem.
  13. rv78
    Your formula of "avoiding out" + hitting for power is only effective if you can acually make the first part of "avoiding out" work. A formula of hitting singles and doubles works just as well if you also can "avoid outs". Power isn't anymore effective without the avoiding out.
  14. rv78
    I don't understand the love for power hitters that can't make consistant contact. We've had enough of the Miguel Sano and Joey Gallo types to last a lifetime. If he can play defense at 1B or 3B that's one thing, but to be a legit major leaguer that will help a team to a Championship, you also have to be able to hit. If all you are after is for him to make it to the bigs and provide the big league roster with another body that does nothing to improve it, then why?
  15. rv78
    Yeah, Right, It is widely known the way this organization is currently being run is that the veterans get the long leash no matter how bad they perform and the youngsters get little to no chance of playing in their place, even when the veterans prove they aren't worth the roster spot. Tell me with a straight face that Wallner, Outman, Larnach, Bell and Clemens are going to help this team contend for a division title. Add in Lewis, Lee, Caratini, and the other cast-offs like Kreidler and Gray that were brought in to improve the roster. Improve? What a joke! There was NO improvement. They went backwards. Say goodbye to Buxton, Jeffers and Ryan at the trade deadline. They have NO reason to stay.
  16. rv78
    Is there really any reason why players like Wallner, Outman, Larnach, Bell, Clemens, are important to the future of this club? We can argue, speculate, dream all day long, and NONE of them matter. They are all playing the role of roster filler until someone better comes along that MIGHT be a difference maker. No one knows if E-Rod will be a difference maker until he gets a chance. Replacing a .200 hitter or less, that can't play defense shouldn't be that difficult, but the Twins have to save their precious service time and call-up options. Why? If you are seriously playing to contend, why stick with the players that aren't helping you do that, but in fact are making the opposite happen? If that isn't stupidity, it's insanity. Take your pick, it has to be one or the other.
  17. rv78
    I think the "long-building problem" with the Twins isn't due to the lack of international talent but more likely due to the lack of ANY talent. When was the last time they brought up a prospect that they drafted that was a .300 hitter on a consistant basis out side of Luis Arraez? Larnach, Wallner, Lee, Lewis, are just the most recent examples of players they drafted with all the hype of significant difference making status and they can barely hit .200 consistantly. I could care less WHERE the player comes from. Just give me a few that can hit like a Carew or Oliva for a change.
  18. rv78
    If Buck and Martin have their 2 outfield spots locked up. Which it appears to be, as of now. That leaves RF or Wallner to be the odd man out. Almost everyone here complains about Wallner being a terrible outfielder. His bat isn't anything great either. What would be the harm in giving ERod the RF spot full-time to see if he is better than Wallner. Wallner could then take Outmans spot on the roster. It's too bad they haven't tried using Wallner at 1B. Unless his glove would be horrendous there, I can't see him being much of a drop off replacing Clemens at 1B with the bat. That is something they should have done in spring training to see if he can play there. As for Outman being Buxtons backup, I wouldn't think Martin or ERod would be a disaster there if they had to play CF once a week. If Buck gets hurt, well this team is totally screwed and it won't make a rats turd of a difference who plays there then. If you are telling me that we don't have anyone in AAA that can give us better at-bats than Outman, then this organization is worse off than we think.
  19. rv78
    There is nothing about their off-season has me to believe they are serious about contending. The "Contending" statement came from them, not me. I never took that statement serious at the time nor do I now. It's just BS to try to get fans to buy tickets. As for signing Bell, what's the point? When you add guys like Kreidler, Outman, Gray, Roden, who didn't make the club out of spring training, counting on Clemens, a career .200 hitter to be a major part of your team, it's all just a joke. As for 1 high-leverage RP making a difference that's like saying Bell is going to make enough of a difference to get them over the hump. This team hasn't went all-in since 2019, and they've done nothing but go backwards ever since. Adding the fringe players every year like they have since 2019 hasn't worked and never will.
  20. rv78
    It is completely ironic or, maybe Moronic would be the better term, that the Twins have young players in AAA that they are sure of their glove and unsure of their bat and instead of taking a chance on them to see if their bat will play at the major league level, they use a veteran that has proven his bat DOESN'T play, just for his glove. It seems to me that they are treading the same water now without Falvey as they did when Falvey was here. Play the veterans no matter how bad they are, hoping the fans buy into the moves they made, showing that they KNOW what they are doing. In all reality, they are only proving to the fans otherwise by running the same type of worthless veterans out onto the field over and over. Kreidler, Outman, Bell, Clemens and a handful of others brought in by Falvey aren't worth a roster spot if they are really serious about contending.
  21. rv78
    You are backing up your story by saying fielders are taught to throw low? Where I come from they are taught to throw at the chest. Anything above, below or off to either side of that, is off target. Balls in the dirt are just as much off target as throws over the head. (Unless the throw was intentionally throw off the turf for a 1 hop bounce to 1B.)
  22. rv78
    So Bell should have gotten the error then? An errant throw is an error, regardless of who is trying to catch it. What you are implying would be the same as giving every hitter a hit even if the fielder can't scoop up the ball.
  23. rv78
    Yeah, the error in Friday nights game was by Kreidler, so he'll be an upgrade. LOL!
  24. rv78
    Have played 3 teams with below .500 records at this point, and the Twins went 1-2 against all 3. Tells you a lot about this team. They can't even beat other teams that aren't playing well. They are, what a lot of us thought they would be... Bad. Normally one would say they need to clean out the dead wood but that dead wood is what Falvey brought in the past couple of years, so they've got no one to turn to. The bonfire is going to be pretty big again this year at the trade deadline. Bye Bye Ryan, Buxton and Jeffers.
  25. rv78
    Tom really wasn't kidding when he said this team was going to be competitive. They are competing with the White Sox for last place in the division with all the vim and vigor as any last place team can muster.
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