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  1. rv78
    Never said Rocco was suppose to support Duran's comment. I was inferring, he shouldn't be critical of players comments to the media when he does the same thing. When he criticizes his players to the media for not changing their approach at the plate which he has done multiple times and did again by saying “You can’t take three, four, five innings to adjust to what the starting pitch is doing to you. That’s not quality professional baseball.” who is setting the example? They have a word for people like that..... it's "hypocrite". Maybe what Rocco should have said was... We made the wrong call or My pitcher just didn't make a quality pitch when he needed to and took some responsibility. If he's such a great Manager then why does it take his players three, four, five innings to adjust or why don't they change their approach at the plate from the very 1st at bat? I thought he was so good with his players, such a great communicator. Yet stuff like this is happening? Maybe in the players only meeting, they discussed, and decided, not to listen to Rocco.
  2. rv78
    Do as I say, not as I do.
  3. rv78
    If you are a player in AAA that is being blocked by a Joey Gallo you have to ask yourself.... just how bad am I? Or..... What do I have to do to replace this schmuck on the major league roster? It's almost as if batting averages mean nothing anymore. Hit a HR or make an out and all is good. Afterall, what was the driving factor in the last 2 games with the Nats? 4 HR's on Tuesday and 2 more on Wednesday = 2 Twins wins. They really need to have everyone swinging for the fences on every pitch. It's about the only way they can score. Or is it, because they are swinging for the fences on every pitch.
  4. rv78
    Where does Miranda go when Lewis comes back? DH? Who goes down? Kirilloff since Miranda could be the backup 1B? We all know the FO loves it's veterans and only leave as a last resort, so Santana is here for the long haul. Julien definitely needs a reset, just as much as Kirilloff. Can Miranda play 2B? Maybe keep him at 3B and put Lewis at 2B. Something is going to have to give and Miranda has shown he belongs here.
  5. rv78
    I'm sure there's a dumpster level starting pitcher that is hiding an injury this FO has their eyes on.
  6. rv78
    Okay..... If the players have limited or even no control on what/how they play, then, will the Manager and Coaches ever be held accountable? It also makes one wonder .... will Rocco continually tell the press that the players approach needs to change when it fact they are likely doing what they are told. Sounds like, if Duran had the choice, he would have thrown something different. Rocco blames the players, when quite possibly, all they are doing is what he and his Coaches want. And I thought Gardy was good at throwing his players under the bus. Rocco has him beat by a country mile.
  7. rv78
    Because Rocco doesn't know any better and makes the same type of calls.
  8. rv78
    You forgot Mahle and DeSclafani.
  9. rv78
    To some extent I respectfully disagree. Margot, Santana, Correa, even extending an unreliable Buxton were all done with defense in mind. Add Gallo to that equation last year............ because his bat says he should've retired a long time ago. Plus this FO has been drafting or trading heavy for SS for years and SS are known for their defensive talent .... Lewis, Lee, Martin, Miller not to mention the later round picks. If they are drafting and trading specifically for bats and we now have players that can't hit then there is another aspect of the game they are trying to do that is missing or fundamentally wrong, because it isn't working. As I said in another article, most players need consistant playing time to be consistantly good. Rocco is consistantly platooning leftys and rightys based on pitchers faced and with that there is no consistancy of playing time for the Twins hitters. Why constantly do it when it doesn't work? Only a Manager that is blind, stubborn, or mentally incompetant would. There's the problem.
  10. rv78
    I'm not. Rocco isn't that bright. Remember, he is the one who had Buxton and Correa rest on the same day a couple of years ago and couldn't figure out how to keep that from happening when their "scheduled" days off fall on the same day. He's the same guy that will use a predominately righty lineup against a lefty pitcher even though the pitcher has opposite splits. Or he'll bat his .190 hitter in the 3 hole of the lineup and the guy hitting .275 in the 9 spot only because they are a lefty or a righty verses that pitcher that day. He thinks rest prevents injuries. The only time it does is because they didn't play. If you are so tired that you'll hurt yourself then you are doing something more strenuous than just playing baseball or you have an underlying condition that is aggravated by playing, so you should be on the Il. Rocco and or the FO's philosophy, which I think are tied at the hip are the problem with this team. Fire Falvey, Lavine, Rocco and his coaches and go back to old school baseball and a lot of problems will go away.
  11. rv78
    Miranda, Kirilloff, Martin are young. They need playing time at 1 position to settle in and get comfortable there. Bouncing them around between different positions isn't helping. Corey Koskie had a brick for a glove when he started playing 3rd for the Twins but was given the chance to get better with "regular" playing time at that position. He didn't have to play another position while doing so and got very respectable with his glove. Put the players where they belong, play them everyday so they get comfortable and quit the musical chairs positioning of players in the field. Margot was a long-shot to be worth anything and was brought in to be a backup. Utility players like Castro are what they are for a reason. They don't belong in the lineup almost daily just because they can bat left-handed or right-handed against an opposite throwing pitcher. Why is it these young players are good at every level as they progress through the minors but when they get into Rocco's system of platoon and play somewhere else different today from last time you played 3 days ago that they struggle? It's not hard to see why.
  12. rv78
    Only way things will change for the better is for fans to stop attending games and send ownership the message that this is NOT ok. I agree that the organization has been remade but I'd beg to differ that it is in a good place. Falvine should have moved on before the crap they have assembled blew up in their face. Name 1 player currently on this team, that consistantly plays good baseball all year, every year. There isn't one. Their highest paid player and supposed team leader left the team for greener pastures sending a message that he could care less about the Twins and that backfired in his face only to be saved by the fools in the FO. A known cheater who didn't want to stay here is your leader? Sure... great move. All of the starting pitchers are inconsistant including your Ace who isn't really an Ace. The bullpen is worse, including the go to guys of Jax and Duran. Most of the hitters can't hit, especially when there are runners on base. Their defense is average at best and that's a stretch. Most of the main guys you want in the lineup can't stay healthy. The Manager is totally inept at managing a lineup and a bullpen. The FO continues to bring in washed up veterans or injured pitchers thinking that somehow that is actually improving the team. I've been tellin you guys this team is a joke but most all of you keep drinking the kool-aid. Chug Chug.
  13. rv78
    Not sure what to do? How about a complete reboot starting with the FO. This is their team. Their highest paid hitter is an average hitter who plays great defense, getting superstar money. Their 2nd highest paid hitter has a career .239 average, also plays great defense but can't stay on the field. They've brought in a catcher that can't hit anymore but plays great defense. Went and got an aging veteran to play 1st base who's past his prime, can't hit his weight but still plays decent defense, so he gets the majority of time at his position. Is there a trend here? A utility player leads the team in AB's. Why? Are the players, who are suppose to have a regular position, not good enough to play everyday? But a Utility guy can play more? Want to solve most of the hitting problems? Want to start scoring more runs? Play your regulars everyday. Stop platooning them to death so they can get AND stay in a rhythm. Put some faith in your young hitters and show them some confidence instead of yanking them from the lineup every time a matchup doesn't look like it is in their favor. Want to ruin a hitter? Show doubt in their ability and replace them when a number on a piece of paper tells you to do so. If analytics are so good, then why does this team struggle to hit and score consistantly? If this team is better because of it then I'd hate to see how they'd be without it. IMO... I think it makes them worse for the very reasons I pointed out. I've watched baseball for over 50 years and the way Rocco manages a lineup on a daily basis is one of the biggest detriments to hitting and scoring runs consistantly. It's good to play consistantly. It's good to bat in the same spot in the lineup everyday. If a hitter struggles against a certain handedness pitcher will he ever get better by not being able to face that type of pitcher? Maybe the FO should identify players that can hit against both and target those players instead of those that can't. Why did everyone think they needed to add a right-handed bat this off-season? How about just adding a good bat that can hit both lefty and righty pitchers? Then it wouldn't matter. It's not complicated. But they are so enamored with analytics and launch angles and matchups that they have lost sight of just playing the game.
  14. rv78
    Unfortunately looking ahead to a "friendly" stretch in the schedule doesn't make you a better team. It just makes you "look" like a better team. My guess is, the Yankees, Orioles and Guardians look at the Twins as part of their "friendly" schedule.
  15. rv78
    Poor pitching, poor hitting, poor managing. Let's blame the umps. Ober laid an egg followed by Funderburk and why is he on the team Jackson. Rocco, note to self, if you use your better pitchers, the game may not get out of hand giving you a slight chance to come back and win a game. When your worst bullpen pitchers have pitched the most in the last week you are doing a poor job of managing your bullpen. Note to this FO, when you have a worthless player, waiting to DFA him makes you look worse at doing your job than signing him in the first place. Who stole the sausage? It belongs to the better team on the field on that particular day. Competition wise, this team can't keep up with the good teams.
  16. rv78
    Every win is important, but it’s even more important to be healthy entering the playoffs. Not if it takes every win to GET to the playoffs and/or it improves your seed in the playoffs. I've already seen Rocco throw enough games away by resting his best players to last a lifetime. Take a player like Buxton, the only way he doesn't get hurt is if he doesn't play at all. How many injuries has he had that would have been prevented with more rest? Probably Zero. Pulling up lame with a sprained knee or busting your hand from a HBP have nothing to do with rest. Take almost any injury for that matter. How about Royce Lewis, would rest have prevented his injuries? Surely he wasn't "TIRED" from the long grind of the season when he strained his right quad on opening day? If you need rest... to prevent injuries then you are a fool. What you need... is to be in better shape and play within yourself. Trying to do too much, or more than your body is accustomed to.... has more to do with injuries than not enough rest.
  17. rv78
    All of the comments about not covering bases and having options doesn't explain nor have anything to do with the multiple innings usage. As analytical as the FO and Rocco are, it doesn't take special glasses to see Alcala is a really good pitcher, probably another 7th or 8th inning guy when he is used as a 1 inning guy. Add in the fact that Rocco is known for "protecting" his players by not over-using them. One thing I will never understand, is the over-use of analytics for some things and the complete ignorance of it for others.
  18. rv78
    To me, the "pipeline" is what is there, being developed in the minors, regardless of how they got there, (drafted or traded for). Any "MLB ready" pitchers regardless of how they got here are not coming from your pipeline. They are covering up for the deficit in your pipeline. PLopez, JRyan, CPaddack are not Twins pipeline pitchers. They were acquired to make up for the lack of pitchers in the pipeline, either quality or quantity wise or both by this FO. Without those 3 pitchers how good would we be able to say this FO has done building a pitching pipeline? I would say it has been a complete failure, Without Sonny Gray and Kenta Maeda and Pablo Lopez and Joe Ryan in 2023 how good would the team have been due to the "pipeline"? No need to go back any farther because there is no one that came from the pipeline. I also don't like to include relievers in the "pipeline" discussion because they are more often than not, starters that failed to become legit MLB starters. Why should pitchers drafted to be starters and failed, be considered part of a good pipeline? They just aren't. They had to take on another role that wasn't expected or desired of them. So we have 3 "pipeline" pitchers in Ober, Varland and SWR in 2024 starting games. Ober has been reasonably successful and has his spot secured in the rotation. Varland looks like he's destined for the bullpen which means he failed, and we have SWR who has thrown a total of 4 games which hardly leads to any solid evidence that he is going to be successful longterm. IMO, the pitching "pipeline" has consisted of a couple of drops and the end of the drought is no where to be seen.
  19. rv78
    Sure, it worked for Rocco in this game, but if it hadn't would you still be happy with the move? Maybe Rocco made a mistake, (possibly and very likely). Why use Jax in the 7th? Were Alcala, Okert, and Sands still exhausted from their 2 combined innings pitched on Saturday that 1 of them couldn't pitch the 7th? Maybe that would have been the smarter move thus saving Jax for the 8th and Duran for the 9th. My point of view is, Rocco used Duran in the 8th to cover for the mistake he made by using Jax in the 7th.
  20. rv78
    " The Marlins’ side of the deal will take time to develop, but the Twins must be happy with how the initial trade played out. If nothing else, it's a good sign that they're not already considering another one. " Who's not already considering another one? How do you know? If it's the Twins, anyone could be moved at the trade deadline outside of Buck and Correa who have no trade clauses. Not having a batting champion to trade only means the return won't be as good but I'd bet if the right offer came along it will be considered if it hasn't already.
  21. rv78
    Wasn't going to comment other than my short LOL on page 1 but I just can't get past the lunacy of signing players like Gallo, Santana and Margot and the trading for injured pitchers that happens WAY to often. Add in the acquisition of 1 year wonders like JLopez, and the crop of bullpen arms they went after this off-season and IMO they take too many chances on players that have no consistant track record. Last but not least is the spreadsheet culture and platoon to death or pinch-hit at all costs avenue they have committed to that doesn't really equate into anything but inconsistancy on the field. Do you know how to have players never learn how to hit against an opposite handed pitcher? ....... By never giving them enough opportunities to do so.
  22. rv78
    LOL!!
  23. rv78
    Margot has a $12 million team option for next year that the Twins won’t pick up. For now, he needs to find a way to provide some value, or there is no reason for him to be on the roster. Is there a reason why Buxton is on the roster? Other than his contract that will last for another 5 seasons, there is NO reason.
  24. rv78
    Byron Buxton, Hurt, Again This season the Twins have benefitted by having their star center fielder play in 28 of their first 30 games. He has routinely been available in the outfield, and while his process has been a bit amiss at the plate, he has found a way to make a significant contribution in the form of an early 0.6 fWAR. The reason why this news is only worth 2 sentences is because it has become an expected occurance every season. It's not really news at all when it happens every season.
  25. rv78
    It's great to beat up on the two worst teams in the AL, but that only means you could still be the 3rd worst team in the AL. I'll start believing when they start beating good teams.
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