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  1. rv78
    You can have your Joey Gallo or Manuel Margot. I'd rather try a full season of Larnach or Wallner over them any day. Next year you can have your Roden and Outman. I'll try a full season of Martin or Jenkins over them any day.
  2. rv78
    It's a position under a man who thinks he can do no wrong. Don't kid yourself, the message will be the same. Falvey just wants better results from the new guy than what he got from Baldelli. Afterall, according to Falvey, the only mistake he made was not having a Manager that could deliver the results he wanted with his baseball playing philosophy. So, who is going to get hired? Another YES man. And if he ends up being a NO man, he darn well better be a very successful NO man. I'm not sure Torii would be willing to be a YES man.
  3. rv78
    Signing a Manager is not even close to being the same thing as signing Free Agents. There are too many former players that are coaching now and have never managed that would jump at the chance to take a Manager job. Much like Baldelli. Experience and proven ability as a former Manager means nothing to Falvey. He'll look for someone that will be another "yes man" to him and his ideas and we'll have Rocco 2.0. Falvey admits that he is responsible for the Twins failure. Used Rocco as the scapegoat to save his own butt. And will espect the new guy to have better results delivering his same message and style of play in his players. Nothing changes until the Pohlads and Falvey are gone.
  4. rv78
    I was going to take the job, but managing under Falvey and reporting to Falvey isn't in my DNA so I'll be looking elsewhere. Says almost every worthwhile candidate out there.
  5. rv78
    Since the firing of Rocco the Pohlads have mentioned that changes need to be made. Falvey has admitted that he has failed to deliver. Sounds like both are holding themselves somewhat accountable. Falvey has also said that he expects both Joe Ryan and Pablo Lopez to be pitching for the Twins in 2026. Will we see actual change? Will Falvey keep his word and keep Ryan and Lopez on the roster? Will the Pohlads spend when the time is right like they say or is it just more corporate BS? Only time will tell.
  6. rv78
    Celebrate. 1 of 3 problems is gone.
  7. rv78
    Dang it Whitey, you beat me to it. With Falvey in charge it doesn't matter. He'll pick a player that will shine in the minors and be a dull turd in the majors.
  8. rv78
    Don't know if he was alive then but he is brain dead now.
  9. rv78
    Laughable. It's not hard to see why they try to keep him away from doing interviews. If he thinks fans are going to continue to show up at Target Field on game day to watch the crap his FO has built, he is the one in for some real short-term pain. That 1.7 million attendance in 2025 will look pretty large compared to what 2026 will be.
  10. rv78
    This may sound like the perfect excuse for failing but there are numerous examples of other ball clubs spending less, or at least similarly, and winning more. That's the part that he chooses to ignore because then it would directly reflect back at himself. Like I said, extending Rocco this summer, then firing him at the end of the season, shows he is bad at making "business" decisions. Not putting a winning product on the field regardless of payroll, (other clubs are doing it) are just poor "baseball" decisions. When a person is bad at both jobs why, as an owner of that business, would you have him doing 1 of those jobs much less 2? Because they don't care. When he says he is responsible and the Pohlads don't take action because of it, the Pohlads also fail. They don't care.
  11. rv78
    The call is simple: Twins ownership must decide if Derek Falvey is going to run baseball or business If this is truly part of the problem, it just further escalates the fact that the Owners are disengaged with this organization and really don't care. In 9 years Falvey has made this team an unwatchable product. Admits he is responsible for it and the Pohlads not only don't hold him accountable, but have him doing 2 jobs. To save money is likely the only reason. Maybe since Falvey extended Rocco for the 2026 season and they have to pay his salary, they should have Falvey be the Manager as well and save any money it will take to hire his replacement. It has been widely speculated that Rocco was only doing what Falvey wanted anyway, so just put the man running the s**t show in Rocco's shoes on the field too. Extending Rocco was not only a business mistake but also a baseball mistake. He can't do either one. The baseball side isn’t winning, and the business side hasn’t found a way to keep fans engaged while they wait. Both engines are stalling, and the man in charge has spread himself too thin to fix either one Being spread too thin is one thing, being totally incapable is another.
  12. 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
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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?
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. rv78
    My guess is it'll be somewhere close to 3 Joey Gallos.
  24. 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.
  25. 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.
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