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  1. rv78
    Hate to say it but ... yeah, he's been so special in 2 of his 11 seasons, that we'd miss him, again, and again, and again.
  2. rv78
    With his injury history, if you want to win now, you'd better have a backup plan. The Twins have had a backup plan for him since MAT when they finally realized he can't be counted on. Their plan was to win now too. How'd that worked out? If I'm a GM wanting to win now, the ONLY way I take a chance on him is if he stays at the same salary level he's at now, and I can get him for an average prospect in return since I will need another player to fill his shoes if/when he goes down again. He's not bringing much in a trade, period.
  3. rv78
    Seems we can't go a month without an article about the great Buxton. He has had 2 decent years now in his 11 year career and we should be worried the Twins will trade him? The Twins will never win a Championship with him on the team. He's 31 going on 40 with all of his past injuries soon to be catching up with him very quickly. He's signed through the 2028 season. At the end of his contract he'll be 34 years old and worth very little. If I was a GM looking to acquire him in trade I wouldn't break the bank for him knowing his history of injuries. He may have leverage but I doubt it would be a lot because of that history. He might accept a trade to Atlanta, or even the Dodgers to get that ring, but the return wouldn't be anything like most of you imagine or hope for.
  4. rv78
    It's comical that Keaschall is the proclaimed stud at 2B for 2026 and beyond based on his 207 PA's last year and yet Martin is a questionmark since he only hit well for 181 PA's. We have a plethora of outfielders with Martin hitting .282 last year. Tell me, which outfielder the Twins have in-line to fill those 3 spots hit at a higher average than that? Nope, not even the great Byron Buxton. Who had a higher OBP than the .374 put up by Martin? Nope, not Buxton. If I'm Shelton, Martin is my starting LFer on opening day and doesn't lose the job until someone else proves they are better.
  5. rv78
    You make Randball Stu proud.
  6. rv78
    So the Twins gamble with a kid that was good against other kids 3 years younger. Nothing has been said how good he is against other kids his same age. Wouldn't that be an interesting part to actually add to this article? I don't hold much hope that this will be a good signing when the Yankees, who had the upper hand from the beginning, are no longer the team with the high bid.
  7. rv78
    #1 will happen. Falvey has said he's keeping both. #2 won't happen. Falvey has said he loves Kody Clemens and will roll with him at 1st base. #3 won't matter. Yes the bullpen is in shambles but a 39 year old at the end of his career who is just 1 year removed from being a gopher ball server isn't going to help much, if at all. We need difference makers, not status quo players. #4 absolutely will happen. You may not have the names correct, but with a spend no money plan for 2026 that's exactly what they will do. #5 should happen but it won't. Falvey didn't add Outman and Roden to ride the bench. He's proven when he adds players, they play and it doesn't matter how inept they are. The perfect off-season would only require 1 move. Fire Falvey.
  8. rv78
    Want to know how to turn the Twins into a perrenial contender? Spend the money. In 1988 the Twins attendance was over 3 million fans. Last year it was 1.7 million. A difference of 1.3 million. Now I don't know if Target Field could accomodate 3 million fans over 81 home games, but 1,3 million more fans, who have shown in the past they will turn out to watch a winner, at just $80 per fan would equate into $104 million dollars of more revenue. Add that $104 million dollars to payroll, spent correctly, and this team could be a winner, especially in the ALCentral, each and every year. The formula is there. The fans would cover the increased payroll if the owners and FO would just do it. It wouldn't even take $104 million more to make the difference. Half or two-thirds of that, spent wisely, would pay huge dividends. A smart business owner would know this.
  9. rv78
    It's pretty clear to me....... The Pohlads don't want to spend money on the team. Win with less. There is nothing wrong with that. The problem is right in front of their nose. It is named Falvey. They have loosened the purse strings at times and he's spent on players that aren't difference makers. Poor choices. Falvey wants to add. I have no faith in him adding correctly. All he's done so far is the opposite. From over-pays like Donaldson, Gallo and Correa to total flops like Garlick, Margot, an endless number of 1 year wonders for the bullpen, too many situational players that don't change anything, and injury prone players that return nothing. It takes a lot of money to cover up mistakes. The Pohlads aren't going to give Falvey enough of it for him to succeed because he makes too many mistakes.
  10. rv78
    Yeah, we aren't upset that they are playing the young guys, we are upset they are going to play other teams castoffs. I'd rather see one or two of Jenkins, Rodriguez, or Gonzalez in the outfield over Roden or Outman. If Lee needs a break at SS I'd rather see Culpepper over Fitzgerald. I'd rather see one of OUR young players getting at bats over weak hitters like Gasper, Outman, and Alex Jackson. The only thing these type of players provide is payroll relief instead of washed up veterans that Falvey was bringing in that cost multi millions. These players have no value to the team in the present or for the future. So the Falvey plan now is to save money with the crap he brings in. They will still take playing time away from OUR own young players. I have no doubt the pitchers he traded for at the deadline will make up the majority of the bullpen. The direction they have decided on is easy to figure out. It's not to go all in and try to win now, or to go young and build incrementally or to even go full rebuild mode. The direction they have chosen is to go CHEAP.
  11. rv78
    Everyone here needs to get off the, move Wallner or Larnach or sign Lowe to play 1st base bandwagon. Falvey has said Clemens is their 1st baseman. The only way he'll pivot from that is if some other team is willing to part ways with a washed up veteran who is batting .150. That guy will fit right in with Gasper, Jackson, Outman, Fitzgerald and Roden. Anyone who gives $11M for a Gallo, who was a lifetime career below the mendoza line hitter, isn't going to hesitate bringing in more of those worthless players, especially for cheap, when given the chance.
  12. rv78
    It is because I care! My team is being run by an idiot who thinks he is the smartest man in the room. It is my place to vent and voice my opinion. It is called "free speech". I will always believe they have a future, but every year with Falvey in charge, that future is just another year down the road. I'm getting old, my time for another Championship is running out. It has been 34 years since 1991. 9 years ago Falvine said they were going to build a perrenial contender. It has been anything but that. He's proven it was a lie. If you don't like to read the negative then why bother to participate in this venue? I don't tell anyone to buzz off. You shouldn't either.
  13. rv78
    If that is the case, then they don't bring in a backup catcher for $1.8M. You sign Rortvedt or play Pereda for league minimum. It looks more like a salary dump for the Orioles than anything and they found their sucker in Falvey to accomplish it. 1st Gallo, then Gasper, now Jackson. Falvey just can't get enough guys that hit below .200 to satisify his hunger of ineptness.
  14. rv78
    Falvey sells hype. Delivers disappointment. It's been going on for 9 years. I don't have much hope it will suddenly change just because Shelton is the Manager. Are the Twins a better team than the Pirates? Maybe, Does that mean they will automatically play like it? No.
  15. rv78
    Incompetent, lying AND delusional. All mentioned in responses to this article and all 3 are Falvey traits. He's been trying to build a contender since he came here and all he's done is take the team in the wrong direction. He took over in 2017 and the Twins have gotten progressively worse since then. They made the playoffs in 2017, 2019, 2020(covid), and 2023. The first 3 times were with players that were from the Terry Ryan regime, not his. 2023 is his lone playoff accomplishment and that was with a few leftovers yet. He's pretty much done nothing to make this team a winner much less a contender.
  16. rv78
    Based on this article, the Twins not only have failed at bringing in the right free agents but they have also failed at developing their own players. That's Captain Obvious. Both fall back onto Falvey's lap. If we don't have the right coaches then why are other clubs snatching up the ones that the Twins let go and then experience success, aka Popkins? Maybe it isn't the coaches or their ability, but the "plan", Falvey's Plan. I don't think plunging more resources into development and instruction is the answer. I think the "Plan" needs to change, or HOW the players are developed. Most everyone here knows Falvey fell head first into the HomeRun Plan and tried to make every hitter into a HR hitter even if they weren't good at it. Were the Coaches to blame or Falvey? To me that's an easy answer. Was the development and instruction bad? Yes. Who was to blame? Falvey and his Plan. Do the Twins need to spend smarter? Yes. Who do you blame for that? Falvey. Could the players being drafted just not be good enough and there was poor decision making on WHO to draft? Then again, Falveys to blame. They change the Manager, change the coaches, change the players and the one constant that doesn't change is Falvey. If they don't right the ship soon, you absolutely cannot look at anyone else to blame.
  17. rv78
    Or you could say............ My team IS the floor.
  18. rv78
    Twins need arms for the bullpen. Insert washed up player name here _____________. Thank you!
  19. rv78
    Currently, there are 10 outfielders on the Twins 40 man. Why are Keirsey Jr, Kreidler, Outman and McCusker there? Are the barely above .100 batting averages they provide that valuable? Who the H E doubletoothpicks would take them? I understand needing depth, but these guys are absolutely a waste of roster spots. Add in Gasper and Fitzgerald from the infield and you need to start drinking the hardest liquor you can find. You can be passed out drunk and it still doesn't make sense. As for anyone thinking The Twins are going to move Wallner or anyone else to 1B, think again. They have Clemens, who with his 19 HR last year has become Falveys favorite to keep the job. Those 19 HR in 348 AB's translates into a 30+HR guy over a full season. If Falvey keeps the 6 guys listed above, that can't hit, he isn't going to replace Clemens with anybody.
  20. rv78
    Isn't it great to have another article pointing out the poor condition of this organization? We have a glut of outfielders and once you move beyond Buxton, there really isn't any one of them in that glut, that anyone else would want. Maybe Martin but he hasn't proven anything beyond his 2 months at the end of the 2025 season. Wallner and Larnach are poor defenders and situational hitters. Outman and Roden have shown nothing. The rest are prospects with no major league experience. If you think Falvey has only destroyed the bullpen, then you haven't looked at the outfield lately. He has turned the "No rain drops fall" into a leaky dam patched with bubble gum and silly putty.
  21. rv78
    All they need to do is find a FO that thinks Gallo is worth $11M. Yeah, that Falvey guy might go for it. Crap, Falvey's is on our team.
  22. rv78
    If Falvey continues to run the team as he has done in the past, there won't be a full-blown rebuild. He will add around the edges with mediocre players that won't make a difference and the end result will be more mediocre seasons. The Falvey way is half-way in any direction you choose. Add Free Agents, but only bring in average to below average players that don't improve the team. Tear down the bullpen but then stop short of a full rebuild so he doesn't fully commit to the future either. Remember when he said he was going to build a perennial contender? That is still his plan. The only problem is, every year he adds new players that aren't as good or better than the players he subtracts. Which is what he's done and what he is saying he will continue to do. That's how you build a perennial pretender. You can argue it isn't his fault with the Pohlads restricting payroll, yet other teams with lower payroll do better consistantly. There's no doubt Falvey would be great running the Dodgers or Yankees, who wouldn't? But if you compare him to others with the same payroll restrictions, his half-way plan, that he follows every year, has failed miserably.
  23. rv78
    My focus will continue to be on ways we can put players around the players that are on our roster and not subtract from it.” It is a reassuring sentiment, but one that rings hollow after a summer defined by subtraction. What a buffoon. Every year he subtracts and adds, and the new players he adds don't add up to the players he subtracted. That's how you go from 101 wins in 2019 to 70 wins in 2025. His focus has got the team to where it is today. Websters new definition for failure is = falvey.
  24. rv78
    More BS from Falvey. He says he wants to add to the roster to make it the best it can be. The current state of the roster is less than a 70 win team because 70 wins was with a good bullpen for 4 months of 2025. Without that bullpen it would've been a 60-65 win team. So from 2019 to 2025 Falvey has taken this team from being a 101 win team to a 70 win team and made it even worse by tearing down the bullpen. If anyone, including Buxton, believes Falvey is capable of adding players to make this team the best it can be, then you'd better get use to 60-70 wins as being the best he can do, because that where he's taken the team to.
  25. rv78
    Well then, with Gasper, they'd have the 2 worst hitters in the majors, Seriously though, Unless the Pohlads actually spend some significant amount of money to improve this team, they aren't going anywhere in 2026. Why not give Lee the entire season to continue developing at SS. If he shows he can't be what you need, then move on. The Gold Glove of Correa didn't workout real well either.
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