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  1. rv78
    This: https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mlb/if-derek-falvey-believes-what-he-s-saying-the-twins-are-in-big-trouble/ar-AA1NFUxa
  2. rv78
    New Manager requirements: 1.Take the turd we have and make it a shiny turd. 2.Manage the team the way the FO wants it managed while accomplishing requirement #1. 3.Do your job for the least amount of money we are willing to pay you. I seriously don't see any former Manager with a lot of major league experience wanting to take this position. It will be someone who has little to no experience wanting to get their feet into the Managerial ring and make a name for themselves, aka Baldelli. I can see Torii jumping at the chance if it is given to him.
  3. rv78
    The 3 headed monster is to blame. You can't look past any of the 3 without finding mistake after mistake that has led us to where we are today. 1.The Pohlads know they have a mid-market team. Don't tell me they haven't expressed to Falvey that he has a limited amount of money to spend every year. However the decision to right-size the payroll after the 2023 season instead of going all in doesn't fit the narrative that "they are ready to invest when needed". They did the opposite. 2. Falvey and to some extent Levine failed to deliver from day 1. They said they were going to build a perrenial contender and that has been a complete failure. What was a power house team in 2019 has been turned into a whimper. They/Falvey have done that. From poor drafting, whether it is due to bad talent evaluation or bad coaching, their player development has failed. Add in the countless floor type players he has traded for that will never improve the roster to the same type of Free Agents that were left in the dumpster after other teams gobbled up the better ones is not a winning strategy. It is the opposite. 3. Rocco did a lot of things that just didn't make any sense. His incessant changing of lineups on an almost daily basis only provided inconsistancy in the lineup. His rest schedule for players that should be everyday players was set in stone regardless of who they were playing and where. Sorry, fans come to home games to see the stars on the team play, not their backups. How many games did he throw away on get-away days? A Lot. It was his responsibility to get players to hustle and play fundamentally sound baseball and he failed at both. Who's idea was it that the Twins should be more aggressive and steal more bases? Not his. It was Tinglers. When you only manage from a piece of paper that prevents you from thinking of other ways to win, you are a not a good manager. You are the opposite.
  4. rv78
    Close, but Rocco needed to go as well. I look at it as the old baseball saying goes: 1 down 2 to go. Rocco down, Falvey and the Pohlads to go. Then we can all celebrate.
  5. rv78
    Clemens may have had the season the Twins wanted Julien to have and that explains why they continue to fail. Accepting mendoza line production from your players will never get you winning baseball. Why is this front office enamored with guys that can barely hit .200 with power? Hasn't Sano, Gallo, Kepler and now Clemens taught them anything? You CAN'T win that way. Power is great, but find your way back to the Bomba Squad of 2019 and it wasn't just home runs that led the Twins to a successful season. They could also hit for average which led to being 2nd in BA and runs scored that year. It appears that Falvey thinks Home Runs alone accounted for that success and forgot or ignores the part that batting average actually gets guys on base that leads to MORE runs. Only 4 hitters should be guaranteed a spot on the roster next season, Jeffers, Buxton, Keaschall, and Martin. Everyone else should be considered trade bait or DFA material if they are serious about improving the roster.
  6. rv78
    Tuesday: Zebby Matthews — 7 innings, 4 hits, 1 run, 6 strikeouts Wednesday: Taj Bradley — 6 innings, 2 hits, 1 run, 9 strikeouts Thursday: Bailey Ober — 6 innings, 2 hits, 0 runs, 5 strikeouts Friday: Joe Ryan — 5 innings, 4 hits, 2 runs (1 earned), 9 strikeouts Saturday: Mick Abel — 6 innings, 3 hits, 0 runs, 9 strikeouts Sunday: Simeon Woods Richardson — 6 innings, 1 hit, 0 runs, 9 strikeouts Going 3-3 with starting pitching like this indicates an anemic offense and/or a poor bullpen. Pablo Lopez isn't even listed. Keep in mind while the Phillies are one of the best teams in the NL the Rangers offense is worse than the Twins so be careful how much stock you put into the Matthews, Bradley, and Ober outings. Will Ryan or Lopez be back? That's the front of the rotation with no clear replacements in place if they are traded. Buxton could decide a trade is his best chance at a championship. Will Falvey or a new Front Office fix the offense and rebuild the bullpen? 2026 will be worse than 2025 if those 3 are traded and the Twins brass don't change their approach to fixing the roster. Which direction will they take?
  7. rv78
    You Mean the Minnesota Twins Could Have Been Stealing Bases the Whole Time? Yes, but don't you have to be able to get on base first? When you are below league average in almost every offensive catagory, stealing more bases isn't going to help much. Even if that player is standing at 2nd base instead of 1st base you still have to be able to HIT him in. The Twins need players that are better hitters. Almost 60% of their plate appearances this year went to players that hit below .250. Conversely, Toronto, who had the best hitting in the majors this year, only had 33%. Almost half. Toronto has only stolen 75 bases compared to the Twins at 113. Oh and Home Runs? Twins = 188, Toronto = 186. If you want to fix the offense, change where it matters, not where it doesn't.
  8. rv78
    It will take new owners with a desire to win to ever get another parade. You can have the best stable of prospects coming up in the next few years to turn the tide but without a commitment to add a few key Free Agents to complement those top prospects you will never get over the top. Without adding players like Dan Gladden, Chili Davis, Juan Berenguer, Jack Morris, and Bert Blyleven, players like Hrbek, Puckett, Viola, Gaetti, Tapani, Erickson wouldn't have ever made it on their own. Owners have to commit and the Front Office has to find the right pieces to add. Players like Gallo, Margot, and the dozen or more other washouts they have tried, will never work. Add in over-spending and tying up your budget with a Correa contract that will go down as one of the worst in Twins history if total failure on their part. The people in charge from the owners all the way down to the coach at the bottom of the totem pole aren't being held accountable for that failure. Only the fans can make it change by boycotting this team until those changes are made.
  9. rv78
    He's not an Ace. He's not consistant. He's not durable. Yet, they have no one that can replace him or his production. Kinda sounds like Buxton 2.0. And then some fans wonder why this team continually fails to live up to expectations. When the main players on your team can't be counted on for an entire season you're never going to make significant noise come playoff time, if you even get there. The problem with this team since Falvine took over is that they continually bank on what ifs and could have beens instead of solid everyday players that are better than average. Add in the young players they drafted that don't perform at the major leagues beyond a subpar level and their insight into evaluating talent comes into question as well. We have gone beyond the point where their baseball philosophy, mentality and ability to run a major league team has proven to be a failure. Since they aren't being held accountable, all we can do is stand back, watch, and laugh.
  10. rv78
    We might also be getting our last chance to watch Rocco Baldelli as manager of the Twins. We can only hope that "might" turns into "are" and that Falvey joins him on that watch list.
  11. rv78
    You can't even give Baldelli credit for this. It was Tingler's idea. Remember a couple of years ago when Rocco said publicly that he couldn't figure out how to keep Buxton and Correa from having scheduled rest days happen on the same day? There's some real high intelligence there for ya. He's a buffoon. Take away his first season and the team he inherited, where Cody even states that all he had to do was sit back and watch his team hit home runs, and he's done pretty much nothing. I find it laughable that in 2019 where he basically just stayed out of the way, was his best season.
  12. rv78
    My guess is it'll be somewhere close to 3 Joey Gallos.
  13. rv78
    I'm in agreement with you. When you think you are the smartest people in the room and fail like they have, you place the blame on someone else, like the owners who won't spend the money, or the players who aren't performing up to your expectations. Milwaukees payroll and success proves it's not the owners fault. Its theirs. The large number of players failing proves they aren't very good at evaluating talent. Their "way" of playing baseball based on analytics and still playing poor baseball at almost every aspect, instead of sound fundamentals, proves their "way" doesn't work. If pride was a priority they would have changed what, how, when, who, and it, a long time ago.
  14. rv78
    We'll start getting excited when he starts getting batters out on a consistant basis so his increase in velocity doesn't mean poop. Until then, he sucks.
  15. rv78
    They don't care. My guess is that they don't even know that the Twins have only 1 season series win against NYY in the last 23 years. Why try now with a AAAA team?
  16. rv78
    If you are going to relegate certain players like a Kody Clemens as the bar or to the bench you first have to remove Falvey, who considers adding these types of players in the first place instead of spending the money on players that actual make the team better, and second, remove Rocco who considers them integral parts of the team that require more at bats than they deserve. Without doing that, nothing will change.
  17. rv78
    Who Cares? Not me.
  18. rv78
    My view of Rocco, the FO, and Ownership hasn't changed since the the 3 of them joined forces. Worthless from Day 1 and it has only gotten worse. Sorry, you just can't take the old school way of playing baseball out of me. Hustle and Fundamentals will never be replaced by Analytics. We've had 9 years now to show it doesn't work. I've grown tired of this "new" way of playing baseball. While it may have a place in the game, it shouldn't be the driving force in making every game decision on and off the field the way this organization has embraced it. How long do you have to fail at something before you recognize the mistake? It shouldn't take 9 years. Everyone making decisions at the top, from the Owners all the way down to Rocco and his coaches won't admit failure, but are willing to live with it or it wouldn't have continued for this long. Heads would have rolled. They seem to be proud of what they have accomplished and just give the fans the middle finger. Time for the fans to close their wallets and show them who's really in charge. Time for Buxton, Ryan and Lopez to move to a green pasture. The one at Target Field is a crappy brown.
  19. rv78
    When Fal/vine took over the "plan" was to build a perrenial contender. Winning 1 playoff series to date is not it. The FO has taken a once promising team which we witnessed in 2019 and have completely destroyed it. Let's face it, the majority of the players on this team are just plain bad and with every passing year that list continues to grow. The probability and very likely subtraction of Lopez and Ryan this off-season will only make that worse. In 2026 the fans must make their voices heard by boycotting this team. Target Field needs to look like a ghost town if we want change where it counts. The Owners, the FO and the Management team on the field must go, or nothing will change.
  20. rv78
    Buck could be playing for incentives. I don't recall the conditions in his contract but I think he gets extra money of he reaches certain levels of plate appearances and such.
  21. rv78
    Decisions like this are a direct correlation to Rocco's management skill and mentality. It is zero.
  22. rv78
    Irony. Wasn't too long ago, hitting and scoring runs was the problem. Now when they score the pitching is the problem. I guess you can say Falvey is making progress, (albeit in the wrong direction), because instead of 1 problem now they have 2.
  23. rv78
    HEY! Don't give away Falvey's secret place for finding players. Yup, they are right there in aisle 37B next to those chairs and very appropriately postioned "toilet" seats. Crap next to the Crappers.
  24. rv78
    He's exactly the kind of bat the Twins count on. That's why they're so bad. Sorry, but there isn't a player in the major leagues on ANY team that is worth having on a roster that can barely hit .200 with an OBP under .300, unless he is a wizard with the glove and is used only as a defensive replacement. Stop trying to make bad hitters acceptable.
  25. rv78
    Maybe Martins defense leaves a lot to be desired but what the Twins need is offense. Beyond Luke Keaschall, Martin is the Twins 2nd best "get on base" guy right now. Of course, the Manager without a brain, has him batting 9th when he should be leading off or hitting second. Buxton who has the power and should be hitting 3rd or 4th is leading off. Makes no sense. Please get a different Manager before the Twins seriously start rebuilding. My Lineup for the rest of this season: 1.Martin, 2.Lee, 3.Keaschall, 4.Buxton, 5.Wallner, 6.Jeffers, 7.Lewis, 8.Larnach, 9.Clemens
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