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  1. rv78
    You have your opinion, I have mine. If you fail to see that there is no direct correlation then I can't help you there.
  2. rv78
    Rocco gave out more rest days than I can ever remember to his everyday players. Injuries and days on the IL were among the highest in all of baseball. I see little to suggest it helped prevent them.
  3. rv78
    I'm the product here, so if they want my product, they just gotta come get it." Based on those comments it's very obvious the Twins have not tried to extend Correa with a longer term contract. If you wanted him at $35M and you know what you are doing as an organization wouldn't you have made an effort to sign him long-term already? Waiting for him to opt out and look at other offers signals to me that the Twins don't want him back. I can see both viewpoints. Yes, he's the best shortstop they have had in years. I'd like to see him return, but he's also expensive. If they can find a stop-gap guy to make it until Lewis or Brooks or Miller are ready then maybe the money would be better off spent elsewhere, like pitching. Maybe the stop-gap SS is already in house. I know, Gordon and Polanco and even Urshela have played SS. Yes, it's not at a high level. But with those 3 and Arraez and Miranda you would have a decent "hitting" infield even without adding someone new. I say, take the $35M and go get 2 pitchers, 1 for the rotation and 1 for the bullpen. Just make sure they are GOOD, YOUNG and HEALTHY.
  4. rv78
    Rest does not make a player healthier or stronger. If you want a strong player at the end of the season, improve their conditioning. A runner does not finish a marathon by resting, he finishes it by conditioning his body to the length of the race.
  5. rv78
    Miranda, Gordon, Ryan and Duran. Just want to see the young kids making it good. Hoping Jeffers, Kirilloff, Larnach, Lewis, Wallner, Martin, Brooks, Winder, Varland, SWR, Balazovic will join them shortly as difference makers. Wish they wouldn't have traded away Petty and a few others at the deadline for a futile effort to try to contend this year. A pitcher like Gray didn't put them into the playoffs and probably never will. Meantime trading away a talent like Petty for Grays stop-gap measure will cost the Twins in the future. Let's turn the page. I'm tired of watching the old core flounder through the season and then hear excuses why they weren't quite good enough. We've seen this regime for 6 years and outside of 1 good season in 2019 with a juiced ball which led to a collapse in the playoffs they have produced nothing outside of the young guys we are waiting for. It's time for their draft picks to materialize or move on from them as well.
  6. rv78
    I wondered the same thing. I guess since the season is lost the "Plan" doesn't have to be used anymore.
  7. rv78
    I would go so far as to say #3 is partly to blame on #1. If they wouldn't be signing broken players to begin with #3 might not be on the list. There biggest move during the off-season not named Correa was resigning the most injury prone player in a Twins uniform to a 7 year deal. Sometimes you get what you pay for.
  8. rv78
    You were the one who said those 2 moves paid off handsomely. I just beg to differ. While I wasn't overly disappointed in Correa the value he brought to the team wasn't worth $35M. And I already touched on why Gray, at less than 120 innings for the season wasn't worth his weight in $$ either. If my expectations for those 2 players were unrealistic then your expectations of Buxton, Polanco, Kepler, Arraez and Jeffers were also. They gave us pretty much exactly what they have in the past. If you are to expect career years from them let's do the same for Gray and Correa.
  9. rv78
    I don't understand the constant stream of articles praising some of the disappointing moves made by the FO. Trading your top pitching prospect for a veteran starting pitcher that didn't even throw 120 innings is not a handsome payoff. To me it's disappointing. Adding Correa was shocking and there is no doubt he made the team better but without a better plan for the pitching aspect that they put in place, adding him wasn't going to be the difference maker they needed. His salary would have been better used in acquiring GOOD pitching. As for the nucleus letting them down I disagree as well. I think the Twins got pretty much what they always did have and will have in Buxton, Arraez, Polanco, Kepler and Jeffers. Buxton play part-time true to form. Arraez hit .300 true to form. Kepler hit in the low .200's true to form. Jeffers hit a bit over .200 just like last year. Only Polanco's production was down from previous seasons and anyone could argue they got some or most of his lost production from Gordon. As for the other spots on the field Miranda easily replaced and probably added to lost production from Sano. Urshela filled in very well for replacing Donaldson. The only spot that was lost was left field due to Larnach and Kirilloff not coming through and they weren't considered the nucleus of the team. I've said it before and I'll say it again, If the FO doesn't start putting a priority on getting GOOD healthy pitchers instead of bringing in broken down washed up veterans this team will never make a serious run in the playoffs .... if they even get there.
  10. rv78
    "Levine is a smart general manager who has made some shrewd moves. Baldelli can run a clubhouse and has orchestrated difficult decisions." Can you explain these comments in greater detail? If trading for injured players is shrewd then I guess you are correct. If setting a different lineup every day and pulling pitchers after twice through a lineup is running a clubhouse and making difficult decisions then I guess you are correct. Contrary to your statements IMO, the FO has done nothing shrewd and most any other GM tries to avoid what they seem to overlook and the manager doesn't know how to deviate from a plan regardless of the in-game situation so he is taking the easy way out.
  11. rv78
    Never a big fan. His offensive skills have deteriorated to the point he's become a liability to the offense. If we are going to value defense at a corner outfield position over offense then there are guys like Celestino that can replace him for much less money. Is that what we really want? I'd say no. Time to trade him for a prospect or include him in a bigger package trade and move on. Unfortunately that is all he is worth.
  12. rv78
    So Buxton is getting $9 million this year. Not a problem. Like so many here have pointed out, if he was a player that could stay healthy and play 150 games he'd be getting $30M. If you want to talk about someone getting over-paid - coincidently Sano also got paid $9M this year. In my opinion, the problem with Buxton is he is always going to be a liability health-wise. He's played one full season, 2017 in his 8 year career. Yes, he's the best centerfielder in the game when healthy but not all of his injuries happen when he's playing in CF. His last two, if I'm not mistaken, were a broken hand being hit by a pitch and now a knee from sliding into 2nd base. At this point you have to continue to play him in CF every chance you get and you keep playing him there until he can't walk because an injury is going to happen regardless of how much you baby him and rest him. Throw the "rest" days away and use him. If this season proved anything it's that "rest" days don't help prevent injuries. If he isn't healthy enough to play defense and he's at DH then he needs to go on the IL for as long as it takes to get healthy again. The DH is for a player that can hit but isn't very good at playing defense. It's not for injured players who can't play defense or can't hit because of an injury.
  13. rv78
    As far as I'm concerned he can manage next year, as long as it is somewhere else.
  14. rv78
    No it isn't.... all you have to do is look to see who is managing, then it all makes sense.
  15. rv78
    I would have to disagree. Both Jeffers and Arraez have established themselves to be major league players that are important to the Twins going forward. Jeffers was headed towards a good 2nd half of the season before the broken thumb. He'll be just fine come 2023. Arraez has already proven he's one of the best hitters in the game. A second half slump of a .276 batting average is still respectable in todays game and still makes him one of, if not the best hitter on the team. As for Celestino, he's a good defensive player that should never be used as more than a 4th outfielder. With a broken Buxton every year the Twins need to find a better part-time center fielder to play when Buck is not. The FO has chosen to pay for a part-time Buck and need to adjust their "Plan" to account for it. Ober, Winder, Moran, and Larnach have the most to prove.
  16. rv78
    "Rocco is very good at supportive messages. He's kind, and he sees the best in his players. Sadly, I think that's maybe part of the problem. I don't think he understands how to instill a sense of urgency and hunger in his players. " Yes, We have seen poor fundamentals in the field by players and poor management such as, the lack of trying to manufacture runs. Rocco accepts not scoring if they can't do it the way they've done it in the past. (Bomba Squad) The acceptance of normalcy or less has become okay and that makes winning when it matters difficult to almost impossible.
  17. rv78
    Absolutely a great article. There are a lot of things wrong with this organization that you enveloped. The two that I'd like to emphazise are,... winning when it matters and not having a problem with losing. I think those 2 are key to the culture that the Twins have fallen into. When you can't beat a team like the Yankees and then walk away thinking, well yeah, we lost, they're the Yankees, we weren't suppose to be able to beat them anyway, you have a major problem. Even before the injuries decimated this team, they could not beat a good team. Injuries are not an excuse for poor play, poor management decisions and just going out onto the field with an uninspired approach to playing. Sure, they go through the motions and play the game but playing with conviction and the desire to win every game just doesn't seem to be there, but rest assured that the FO and ownership will use the injury excuse to blame away another season instead of the real problem which you explained so perfectly.
  18. rv78
    If Tingler was a problem in SD why is he with the Twins? Looks like another acquisition that this FO didn't do their homework on. As I previously posted in another topic page.... Toronto turned their season around this year AFTER they fired their Manager. Twins FO could have done the same thing but didn't. Kind of makes you realize they and Rocco are joined at the hip. Only way to change the Manager and Coaches looks to be a FO change as well. Does Pohlad have both the guts and brains to do it? Only time will tell.
  19. rv78
    Not what I said. I said "some" of their young players. Miranda and now Wallner are both examples if you can't see clearly. Miranda did not make the team out of spring training even though he tore up AAA last season. Wallner would not be on the team if Kepler was not hurt. Guys like Sano and Kepler weren't performing and were only replaced because of injuries. Is Miranda more deserving to play than Sano? With his primary position being 3rd base, they had Donaldson blocking the way. Then they trade him away and refill it with Urshela. How is that committing to a deserving player and giving him a shot? Miranda is here and getting consistant at bats only because Sano is hurt. How about Wallner verses Kepler? It took way too long for them to bring him up while they lived with Keplers weak bat and hole in the middle of the lineup.
  20. rv78
    Any prospect that has played well in the minors that they don't promote verses using veterans who don't perform. The only reason why some of them are playing on the major league roster is due to injuries. IT'S NOT DUE TO PERFORMANCE! Did you even read my post?
  21. rv78
    I will give the FO credit for making moves at the deadline to improve the team. That's what everyone wants if your team is in contention. What I won't give them credit for is acquiring players that aren't difference makers. 1. An injured pitcher (Mahle) to improve a weak rotation when they knew that pitcher was having problems is not a good move. On top of that Mahle is an average middle of the rotation pitcher. I would even catagorize him with a guy like Bundy. He's only had 1 good season in his career, 2021. but as with any player being evaluated by this organization that's all they look at, the 1 good season and they ignore all of the bad seasons somehow thinking or just hoping they will only get the good and not the bad. 2. Fulmer, he isn't a high end reliever, only an innings eater. 3. Lopez was having a great season. Why is it when he comes to the Twins he has a lights out initial game then the longer he is here he gets progressively worse? Maybe it's coaching? He was the only one with really good numbers coming in and they seemed to have ruined him since his arrival. If not, his numbers at Baltimore this year were an anomoly and his real ability is now on display again. 4. Leon, a third string catcher that can't hit and was on the AAA squad of the team you are trying to catch doesn't seem like much of an effort to improve but more of one to get by. Can't one of your own AAA catchers do the same thing? If not you're not doing a very good job of signing prospects. In retrospect, they did a horrible job adding those 4 players at the deadline. No matter how you look at it these 4 acquisitions were just bad and sometimes stupid goes with bold and aggressive.
  22. rv78
    It's too bad that it takes injuries to get the Twins to try some of their young players that rake in the minors. Maybe if they weren't so cautious with some of their prospects and quit playing the veterans that don't produce they'd be a better team. Not saying that all of them will perform once they get to the big league club, but if it weren't for injuries players like Wallner and even Miranda wouldn't be playing. First option for the two positions they are playing were Kepler and Sano and neither one can hit the broad side of a barn anymore but if they were healthy they'd be the first choice to be playing. Insanity!
  23. rv78
    As for the Twins reload, it was very poorly executed. To make matters worse they doubled down and traded away some good prospects at the deadline for what is little to no chance this year. Sure, outside of Fulmer, Mahle and Lopez will be back next year but Mahle is a question mark health wise and Lopez has looked nothing like he did when he was with Baltimore. I would say the FO got fleeced again.
  24. rv78
    This is very true and part of an underlying issue that so many who see Buck as making good on his contract ignore. Buck wasn't signed to be the DH. His games are suppose to be in CF where his value is met with outstanding defense on top of anything he provides at the plate. Playing 57 games in CF doesn't come close to half a season, which we have all become accustomed to seeing from Buck. It's truely amazing and probably more like highway robbery, that a part-time player that cannot be counted on to play his position even half of the time can get a contract of $100M dollars.
  25. rv78
    As with any season there are some bright spots to consider. Ryan looks like he will become a main piece to the rotation for many years to come. Duran likewise in the bullpen, (although I'd love to see him get a chance to be a starter again). Due to the injuries 2 more players got to prove themselves as legit roster pieces, MIranda and Gordon. Now is the time to see who else can join them.
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