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  1. rv78
    If they don't go big, I'd prefer they don't go at all. My instincts tell me since they let Palacios walk they are planning a trade or FA signing to be a fill in instead. Palacios would have made a good stop-gap player to get to Lewis. Now if that is there plan they will have to look elsewhere unless however, I see no harm in using a combo of Gordon, Polanco, Urshela until one of Lewis/Martin/Lee can take over. This team is going no where in 2023 anyway.
  2. rv78
    The problem is they are being praised for their accomplishments by St Peter who oversees the entire organization. Why deviate from the "Plan" when your boss thinks it is working. The only person who can bring this whole mess to a halt is the OWNER and he seems to either be 1. On board with their decisions or 2. MIA.
  3. rv78
    Not surprising he was let go. The Twins have tried him as a starter multiple times and while he has shown a few really good outings he could never put it together over the long haul. As a bullpen guy, even though it wasn't many times, he was worse. I think his time to move on was here and the right decision was made for both him and the Twins. It's time to let guys like Varland, and Woods-Richardson have a chance.
  4. rv78
    Regardless if Rocco is making these decisions on his own or not, the FO has his back. They are joined at the hip. Just like the FO bringing in the washed-up pitchers that they stick with even when they are bad, they are doing the same with Rocco. It'll take the FO to be fired for Rocco to be fired. St Peter has already said that they have done a really good job and will run this organization for many years to come. When the head of your operations can't see how bad they've been there is little hope for change near term. Unfortunately it'll take another season or two or three or who the H E double LL toothpicks knows of failed expectations before any changes are made in the FO or management and coaching.
  5. rv78
    The Derek Falvey-led front office of the Minnesota Twins has repeatedly shown an affinity for signing aging middle-tier pitchers and a hesitancy to move on from those veteran pitchers, even when those pitchers are performing especially poorly. This one sentence says it all. At first I thought too that they didn't move on soon enough because they didn't want to have it look like they were admitting they made mistakes, but that really doesn't hold true since the longer you hold on the worst your mistake looks. Anyone looking at the outcomes of these acquisitions at just about any point of the season shows they were mistakes. Everyone starts with a Plan. The Plan for the Twins 99 times out of 100 is, to buy low and hope for the best. Now, as Matthew says in his article, I hope they have learned from their mistakes. They have a stable full of young pitchers ready to contribute. Maybe they have done their job building up a pitching staff that will be really good going forward. Time will tell. If they sign any veteran pitchers in the off-season make it a stud pitcher. If not, then let the young guys take over. Don't waste anymore innings and games on the washed up veteran pitchers. If you are going to lose anyway, which is what you get with those types of pitchers, then just give it to the young guys so they learn at the same time.
  6. rv78
    "Derek Falvey and Thad Levine have stressed the importance of keeping the Twins’ winning window open as long as possible. " How are back to back losing seasons part of a winning window? Didn't they give out too long of contracts already to guys like Kepler and Sano? Buxton will join that list. The best player (Correa) is a 1 and done. Yeah, nothing like committing to a winning window. When their version of a winning window is signing or trading for washed up or injured pitchers, you forgot 1 (Paddock) and players (Buxton) for the cheap and letting good players walk away they need to add a screen to that window to filter out the blood-sucking players that they think are butterflies.
  7. rv78
    Maybe the FO should focus on finding players that can hit AND play defense. The Twins seem to have too many players that are good at one but not the other. To make matters worse, guys that can like Correa are 1 and done, or like Buxton who can't stay on the field. The team is a shadow of being good overall and they expect the fans to support them. Yeah, right!
  8. rv78
    Lots of question marks going into next year. Shortstop may be the biggest one but isn't the only one. 4 infielders with their primary positions being the same, Urshela and Miranda at 3B and Arraez and Polanco at 2B to me means at least 1 has to go. Unless you're going to continue to play a pair of them at 1B as well, which I don't think is the answer to the problem. You don't trade the AL Batting Champion do you? He's shown he's a better hitter when he's on the field verses playing DH. Do you continue to let Miranda play 1B or trade Urshela and move Miranda to his normal position. Polanco goes where if you put Arraez at 2B? Does fielding take a hit with Miranda at 3B and Arraez at 2B? Will Kirilloff make a comeback and be able to play 1B? Maybe the Twins should look at moving Wallner to 1B and have him play there in AAA for a season to hone his skills defensively or is that completely out of the question? I guess if they think Sano can play RF then anything is possible. Gordon has to stay as a utility guy, he's shown he can play at an average level in the outfield or at 2b and SS. Do the Twins live with another season of Kepler hitting .220 in the middle of the lineup? Hope not. Will Larnach finally become the LFer to replace Eddie? Who backs up Jeffers? The FO will decide if the Twins are actually going to be "Contenders" or just be "Competitive" like they said last year.
  9. rv78
    Can't say any of the 3 they lost yesterday: Cave, Hamilton or Palacios will be missed. If so then the FO did nothing to improve the club over the winter. Ya gotta quit hanging onto players that don't perform if you want to get better. As for Wallner, the door has been opened. If he doesn't end up being a Clone of Max Kepler offensively he has a chance. My first impression was that he looks pull and HR happy. Hope I'm wrong.
  10. rv78
    Agree with the above. Carmargo yes, the other 2 with them already being 24 years old, no. The Twins have enough players that hit .220. The bar needs to be raised.
  11. rv78
    Even considering Garlick on the roster is a mistake. If he's there everyone knows he'll start against a LH pitcher, because that's what Rocco's spreadsheet tells him to do. It won't matter if there is someone better in the dugout. We saw it way too often in 2022 when he wasn't hurt. If the Twins can't see past all of the part-time supposed specialists and start fielding a competant lineup of 8 regular guys who can play everyday and hit both right and left handed pitchers they will never get where they need to be. Committing to the 1 outfielder that is going to be a part-time player for the next 6 years is bad enough. The other 2 spots have to be good and productive from both sides of the plate or you'll just see a repeat of this past year with 3 outfielders providing little to nothing. Veteran guys like Garlick and Cave, who provide nothing more than AAA production, need to go. Celestino, Contreras, Wallner should be your starting AAA outfield in 2023. Larnach, Buxton, and a new right-handed hitting outfielder via trade or FA signing should be starting in the majors with Gordon on the bench. Kepler needs to go too.
  12. rv78
    Duffey couldn't get batters out and was in the last year of his contract at a cost of 3.8M. Pagan has the exact same problem but has another year of eligibility and was at 2.3M. It appears to me that the FO values "control" of a player so much, especially if he is cheaper than someone else, that they will not DFA them no matter how bad they play or hurt the team unless they are going to lose that player anyway like Duffey. It's almost as if they are thinking: I own you so you will stay here no matter how bad you are. I'd rather the team suffer from your ineptness cause if I Cut you it'll look like I made a mistake and I can't have that. What they don't get is that the fans already know they made a mistake and by keeping said player around they are only making themselves look even more foolish.
  13. rv78
    This exactly why I asked the question, would keeping him be Weird or getting rid of him. Seems like Ted was playing both sides of the fence so I really didn't see which way he was referring to.
  14. rv78
    Would the Weird Move be in keeping him or getting rid of him? It seems you are suggesting it would be in keeping him. That wouldn't be weird for this organization. They seem to embrace mediocrity. They also have not moved on, even with a different regime in control, of the Terry Ryan theory of buying low and using the "Hope and a Prayer" for an improved season from most of the cast-offs they do sign. (Shoemaker, Happ, Colome, Archer, Simmons, Garlick, Beckham). Weird would be signing Correa to a long-term contract and also signing a top Free Agent Starting Pitcher during the off-season. Then we'd all be scratching our heads.
  15. rv78
    That's a really "you know what" comment. I'll give you one in return. I'm sure Byron Buxton wasn't running to first base or trying to score from 3rd for Eden Prairie either. All things considered equal...
  16. rv78
    Not if they are executed properly. I've seen our high school baseball team win 2 state Championships with properly executed squeeze bunts. Oh, never mind, that's not baseball for the majors, it's only for young people who don't know how to play the game.
  17. rv78
    So true. In 2019 Rocco let his team bomb away and the Twins 101 games. I wasn't on this site then but I highly doubt there were many people calling for him to be terminated during or after that season. Fast forward to today and the Bomba Squad and the juiced ball are gone. Has Rocco changed to manufacturing runs, bunting, hit and run, stealing bases, hitting to the opposite field, sacrificing runners over, or is he still waiting for the 3 run homer? I think we all know the answer.
  18. rv78
    2021 was a collapse brought on by the FO and the Manager. Signing the likes of Shoemaker and Happ and using an ineffective pitcher like Colome doomed the team from the start. Not reloading properly cost the season before it even started and not adjusting by the manager to poor performances sent it into a death spiral. To blame anyone other than the FO and the Manager for the collapse is foolish. To make matters worse they followed the same strategy in the off-season this year by signing Bundy and Archer who couldn't be counted on and a Manager who did the same thing with Pagan as he did with Colome. To make matters worse the President of baseball operations for the Twins, Dave St Peter thinks they are doing an excellent job and said they will be here for many many seasons. Maybe it will take Target Field to be even more empty next year for those who are in charge to notice the fans don't like the product. It's the only voice that will be heard.
  19. rv78
    Maybe the White Sox will buy him away from the Twins. I'd like that.
  20. rv78
    Maybe i sense your comments wrong but Ober was at 82 pitches and if anyone needs to be critisized for him coming out after 5 innings you need to blame the manager. He's done it all season if you haven't been watching. No reason why he couldn't have went 6. Not his fault.
  21. rv78
    Ober was good enough. Urshela and Correa played a good overall game. Celestino should be considered as a backup in CF. Even if he isn't an offensive asset or is a liability on the bases, I like his defense. Miranda looks tired. Wallner needs to learn how to hit to all fields. He's too much like Kepler, pull and HR happy. Veteran guys that can't or barely do hit .200 like GSanchez, MKepler, JCave, KGarlick, SLeon need to be gone. Even if they belong in AAA. Why is BHamilton on the team? Only 3 SB since he was acquired on Aug 27th. Thought for sure his pinch running situation in the 8th would lead to a SB but he never tried. What was the point? Like "Mydaughterhastwins" said above, this team or the game in general as to what it is now, has become very difficult to watch. Maybe that is a clue as to why attendance was miserable this year. Us old fellas like the old style of baseball and aren't going to pay big prices to go watch a new style game, and the youngsters of today just aren't into baseball like we were.
  22. rv78
    Wow, this team is a mess but I fully expect the FO telling the fans that the team will be "competitive" next season. We've heard that before and unfortunately St Peter doesn't realize broken records don't sell very well.
  23. rv78
    It would be normal for this team if he loses the batting title because of it. Bad luck follows this team like the black plague. Then again, sometimes you get what you sow. like signing constantly injured players, (Buxton) to long-term contracts and trading for other injured players, but don't blame the FO for injuries becasue that's their excuse for losing. Bad fundamentals, bad coaching and bad managing had nothing to do with it.
  24. rv78
    Same crap, different day. Good job motivating your team Rocco. I think it's ironic that the Twins scored there only 2 runs because of a Baddoo error, yes a former Twin.
  25. rv78
    "The game was right there in front of us. We weren't able to take care of the parts of the game that we need to take care of." How many times have we heard that this season? WAY TOO MANY.
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