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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. rv78
    Or you could say............ My team IS the floor.
  6. rv78
    Twins need arms for the bullpen. Insert washed up player name here _____________. Thank you!
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. rv78
    I just saw 2 teams in the 2025 World Series that didn't platoon like you say. Maybe it's not a coincidence that they won as many games as they did and made it to the WS because they don't platoon to death.
  15. rv78
    "I talked to Drew MacPhail a little bit about it, and we’ll continue to talk about it, but players get to the big leagues so fast these days," This is no excuse compared to players from the past. Ages of 1st season in the majors: Lee 23, Martin 25, Larnach 24, Julien 24, Jeffers 23, Lewis 23, Wallner 24, Miranda 24. Mauer 21, Polanco 20, Sano 22, Morneau 22, Hrbek 21, Knoblauch 22, Puckett 24, Gaetti 22. All I got from this article is that no one knows why the Twins hitters struggle to carry over their success from the minors to the majors and Shelton doesn't know either. My guess to why is, lack of consistant playing time, never a consistant batting order, and no confidence shown from the Manager. If the regulars don't get to play everyday and the lineup order changes daily, and the Manager platoons them against every left or right handed pitcher, like Rocco did, nothing will change.
  16. rv78
    I just think Tingler saw the writing on the wall. 1.A new Manager will want his own hand selected bench coach. 2.The Twins are going in a direction that he doesn't want to be a part of.
  17. rv78
    Problem is......... it doesn't take much to blow Falvey away. Mahle? DeSclafani? Insert washed up player name here.
  18. rv78
    The GREAT Byron Buxton has been one of the most injured players in baseball over the past decade, full stop. He has the lack of playing time to prove it. Managed to get to 126 games played in 2025. His highest number since his record setting season for appearances of 140, done 8 years ago in 2017. For being one of the most gifted players ever to put on a Twins uniform, he's also been one of the most disappointing. For comparison sake. Buck has reached 140 games played in a season once in his 11 year career. (1 for 11). He's never gone above 140. The truely GREAT centerfielder for the Twins, Kirby Puckett played less than 140 games 3 times in his 12 year career. 1 was his first season, 1 was his last season, and 1 in 1994. (9 for 12). 1 of those 3 seasons he was a rookie earning his spot. 1 was the shortened 1994 season, and the last season he got beaned in the head by Dennis Martinez that ended his season. I realize there isn't much good news to write about in this dreadful organization and Buxton is the most talented player on the roster. He's also been the most over-enamored, most talked about, and most written about player that has really not done anything outside of his few individual awards. I think the state of baseball has become almost comical if a guy that hits .264 with an OBP of .327, hits 35 HR's with 83 RBI's, can win a Silver Slugger Award. Those use to be average numbers put up by a lot of major leaguers back in the 70's, and 80's. Buxton is the Twins most significant hitter in their lineup when he's healthy. On a lot of other teams, he'd just be a secondary piece to their roster.
  19. rv78
    When he makes a trade, the other team gives him the executive of the year award for taking their crap.
  20. rv78
    Most of the players brought up to the majors HAVE developed in AAA or they wouldn't be brought up in the first place. You don't ruin a team by bringing up your best prospects when they are prospering in AAA. This isn't about bringing up minor leaguers who aren't ready. It's about giving those deserving of a fair chance, the opportunity. In 2023 was Gallo worthy of the spot over Wallner? If so, why did Wallner replace him before the year was over? What about Margot? Or Santana? Or Gasper? Or Luplow? Cave? Garlick? The list is sooo long of the useless Free Agent veterans brought in under Falvey that it makes me puke. How much money has been wasted on them? Too many Millions to count. You know what? Your team of Farmer, Urshela and France wouldn't get you to the WS any faster than a team of prospects that is allowed to grow and prosper and get a chance to play everyday. That's something the current regime refuses to let happen. And that is why the continued way of Falvey bringing in dumpster veterans will never work. If the young players aren't worthy then he's also doing a lousy job of drafting. I would rather have a team with Arraez, Jeffers and Keaschall than one with Gallo, Margot and Gasper.
  21. rv78
    Last 2 posts totally nailed it. All you have to do is look up and see who is controlling the Managers and Coaches. There's your answer. It's really not that complicated.
  22. rv78
    They have their solution at 1B. Kody Clemens. Don't think that is it? Wait and see.
  23. rv78
    Biggest over-pay of the Falvey era..... Joey Gallo, 1 year for $11M. He didn't even make it to the end of the season before being replaced. The Gallo signing alone should have gotten him fired.
  24. rv78
    No big losses anywhere. Lawyerson is a bit puzzling. Had a pretty decent career in the minors. Looks like the Twins had him on a slow track taking 6+ years to get a call up. (Didn't play in 2020). At 27 years old and a depleted bullpen, there must have been something they didn't like about him. He'll probably be one those players that Falvey let get away that we all end up shaking our head over. Miranda is a sad one. He had shown so much promise as a hitter but could never get the consistancy. Maybe he couldn't adjust to the analytical platoon strategy the Twins have fallen in love with. Or the moving from 3B to 1B on the field. Or maybe the off-season he spent with Correa totally messed him up. Whatever it was, it almost as sad as Kirilloff retiring, His defense and lack of fundamentals shows what is wrong with this organization, beit a lack of development, or if he never truely had the ability then it was poor scouting. Either way, something has to change. I hope he gets another chance somewhere else.
  25. rv78
    So, instead of letting the young guys develop into something that is possible, you'd rather continue to bring in the floor type veterans that take playing time away from them, and still be bad. Yeah, makes sense to me. This organization will never spend the amount of money it will take, on enough top of the line Free Agents, to be successful. I'd rather have hope in a young player developing into a difference maker than watching an over-paid FA veteran that isn't a difference maker just to remain an average or below average team.
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