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  1. rv78
    The Twins way = move him around on the field so he doesn't get comfortable or good playing anywhere. The Right way = Put him in ONE spot and LEAVE him there. Duh! Shouldn't the minors be the place to find the best position for a player? This shouldn't be a problem in the majors. By the way boys, tuck your shirts in, you look like the way you are playing, Sloppy.
  2. rv78
    If the Twins don't have any other All-Stars, having Buxton won't matter, because they will be just just like they are now. Buxton-less most of the time, and Terrible.
  3. rv78
    I've come to the conclusion that not only do they need each other but deserve each other. The Twins will never win anything with Buxton on the roster. He isn't available when he is needed and Buxton is loyal because they put-up with him not being there. It a "lose - lose" situation that both the Twins and Buxton have not only become accustomed to, but seem to want. And if that seems like nonsense, then why does Buxton want to stay with a team that doesn't commit to winning and why do the Twins put up with someone that can't play a full season and every year they have to have another player on their roster to cover for his abscence?
  4. rv78
    Outside of Ryan and Buxton, when healthy, there isn't anyone that is a real difference maker. When they are hurt, which is every year, no one else can carry this team. It seems almost every AAA player that gets called up anymore fizzles after a hot start or can't hit from day 1. Weaknesses in each player are exposed and exploited. Are the scouts that bad at evaluating talent or are the Twins that poor at developing them into major league players. Adding pieces from the scrap heap, ala Terry Ryan/Derek Falvey will never work. Never has. The Twins are proof of that. Like every year at this time and through every off-season we say the same thing. Change is needed. We all see it, and they don't. It has to start from the top. The Owners need to sell. Until then, we will be back again, next year, at this time, and discussions will not change, because the change that is needed, didn't happen.
  5. rv78
    What's the point, It won't matter who is managing this team until they add some players with the ability to IMPROVE the roster. Whoever the Manager is, he's just going through the motions. What this team NEEDS is someone in the Front Office who is committed to winning.
  6. rv78
    The collapse did happen. Not this year or last year, but after 2019. The Twins just haven't done anything since then, outside of 2023 when they finished first in the easiest division in baseball. That alone should tell you, 2023 wasn't that impressive. And even in 2019 they got wiped out in the 1st round of the playoffs. Falvey's build a perennial contender or Tom's go big or go home are lies. They are/were incompetant. Owners like the Pohlads are interested in one thing, make money. Sell the hype. Winning comes second. Unless the club ever gets sold to someone who WANTS to win, I have convinced myself I will never experience the thrill of 1987 or 1991 again. My grandkids are not Twins fans. Not because of me not trying, but because there is nothing exciting or interesting about a team that doesn't really try.
  7. rv78
    You left out the person ultimately responsible.... Derek Falvey. Yes, Pohlad and Zoll followed in his footsteps without getting out of the manure. Kremer, Minter, Hoffman are NOT going big, so you can take Tom's theory of "going big or go home" as an indication of him not knowing what qualifies as "going big". It was, an attempt to try to make it look like they were serious about contending. All it proved to me, was that they weren't.
  8. rv78
    Blaming Keaschall isn't the answer. Blame the centerfielder who can't stay on the field. The Twins have had a problem in centerfield ever since they handed it to Buxton. I said it years ago when they were rostering a fulltime backup like MAT. Then the smartest man in the room brings in Outman to fill that role. Compounding the problem with another player that is washed up, can't hit, or can't field the position, is what losers do. The problem won't go away until Buxton is gone and they hand it to someone else. I totally agree with friedbrycenbeans. This organization is great at doing things half-ass. The perfect move they can make now is, callup Jenkins and Rodriguez as September callups, watch both guys rake it all month long, and miss the playoffs by 1 game.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. rv78
    Byron Buxtons injury complicates everything at any given time of every year.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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?
  15. rv78
    Never said it was. It isn't a given that it is the right time to sell either.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. rv78
    I thought of Jorge Lopez immediately when I read this article. The Twins will have a hard time finding another Derek Falvey type out there who is willing to trade for a small sample size, successful bullpen pitcher . It takes a special kind of incompetant GM (like a Falvey) willing to make a move like that. There just aren't many of them. Yes, they may be asking about him, but they won't offer much.
  25. rv78
    In 3 Games against the Rangers, the resurgence for Lewis has ended. 1 for 13 with 7 strikeouts. Welcome back Royce!
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