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  1. weitz41
    The years of control they acquired with almost ever person they traded for is why I think that. Correa was a unique situation due to the lock out imo. Injured prospects: I find it hard to blame anyone for injuries. If the FO is out there taking out knees with a baseball bat ok sure. But hamstrings, lat strains, broken fingers whatever.. Frustrating but isn't the players job to get their hands out of the way of that inside pitch that breaks their finger? Or properly warm up and stretch out. Depleted Farm system: If the 1st half next season goes like the 2nd half this season all the players they depleted the farm system for should help replenish the farm. Buxton: Plan for 60 games hope for 100..Whatelse can you do? Busted pitching pipeline: Duran, Jax, Ober, Winder, Varland and to some degree Ryan may argue with you on that. No none are an Ace today. Yes, not signing impact free agent pitching and the lack of quality bull pen signings drives me nuts...If it's gospel that two times through the order or 80-100 pitches is it...It would make sense to invest in the BP or impact starters.
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    I agree. Sisk (BP) would be another I'd like to see against major league hitters.
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    Crickets pre lock out. Whirlwind post lock out. Kinda hard to believe they planned it that way. So to answer the title question. No probably not. We've matched our win total from last season with 2 weeks to go so I suppose there's that. At the start of the season if I told you Wallner, Cave and Celestino were the starting OF in the last game. I don't believe anyone would have said that's an 80-82 win team. So I wouldn't say the reload was unsuccessful, just not what I'd hoped for. I too think this season was more hoping to win the division in 2022 and planning to win it in 2023.
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    Yes, He's something else. 3 weeks compared to 3 almost complete seasons. Wasn't sure how many he had this year but if that's correct, he has 1 more this season then the Twins the last 4 seasons. It's probably not a fair comparison but show the difference in pitching philosophies.
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    Just because I was curious. Sandy Alcantra complete games 8/27/22-9/18/22= 2 Twins complete games 2019 season through today = 2
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    Rocco must have heard you today. Or the phone lines/towers are down, and the FO hasn't been able to tell him to pull Ryan..
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    What it it with this "time to move on" thing? These guys are like stocks or CD's..Not scratch off tickets..If Juan Soto had the same injuries his 1st two season would we all be...Ok who next??...Not everybody can be Cal Ripken. Relax he's going too be around for awhile. His ability to adjust and his health will determine whether he's a DH, 4th outfielder or and All star.
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    Hard to argue about this season being done. I'd say the fat lady has one foot on the stage.. The change in shifts will help a few Twins. Pitch clock. IDK. Base size will probably hurt the team because of our catching situation and our lack of elite speed that they will take the chance of injury(Buxton) to steal bases... I think this team is much better positioned to complete next year then they were this year due to the trades they made trying to get this team into the post season this year. Now if the FO would actually sign a #1 pitcher (Rodon), a couple of really good BP arms (Fulmer, Rogers) and a slugger who can hit his weight (JD Martinez, Bell)
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    I don't disagree but there's room for Carlos Rodon or someone like that
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    I'm going to guess 82-80 record. The 1st couple months really raised my hopes for the season and the last couple have been a tough pill to swallow. On the bright side of things look at where the team is now compared to the same time last season. For example last offseason we needed 3-4 starters just to have a 5 man rotation. After this season we need 1?
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    THUD...Well At least I get to torment the Packer fans at work tomorrow...Here in NE Wisconsin...
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    I'm pretty certain I'm in the minority about this. I look at it as calculated risks that didn't pay off...It's been a tough season with an excessive amount of injuries and one that was looking so good 2 months ago now is Meh. If we're going to blame the FO for taking risks in trades are we going to throw them under the bus for extending Buxton? Or signing Correa who's seen plenty of time on the IL until last season. Would we have been in 1st place most on the 1st half with Rogers and without Gray, Paddack and Pagan? We traded 2nd and 3rd basemen (DH) and a pitcher for Mahle. Would that had gotten us Montas? I don't think it's even close to what the Yankees gave up for Montas. Plus he had just as serious and injury risk. Maeda - I don't feel belongs on this list. Dyson - hard to blame the FO for the things he was hiding.
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    A 15th round pick (#449) starting in AAA. I'd call that manufacturing a top (Twins) pitching prospect. I noticed some saying he to old to be considered. Anyone who went to college and was drafted in the 2019 class is likely to old. He went from A ball to the cusp of MLB in two seasons. Sounds like a Top (Twins) pitching prospect to me no matter what age they are.
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    Prospect development isn't linear. Disappointing seasons sure. Royce Lewis's 2019 season looks similar to Martin's 2022. Duran was constantly hurt in milb like Canterino. Balazovic IDK...I don't think it's time to punt on any of them.
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    Great glad we got Lopez and Fulmer and not Hader..wow has he been bad..better the Padres then us!
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    He is what we've seen them (the FO) doing the last couple of seasons..Outside of an unexpected increase in pay he'll be back and really should be. Is he Correa NO..is he Celestino. NO. A quality player at a reasonable cost. He'll be back. I'll be happy to see him on the roster
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    Carlos Aguiar is having himself a nice season in Fort Meyers. Him, Emmanuel Rodriguez (injured and done for the season) and Misael Urbina all manning the OF in Fort Meyers with .850 OPS or higher. Some of the international signings are starting to show up. Nowlin had a heck of a debut! Hoping Brooks Lee keeps it rolling. I don't get the pitcher usage. Is Enlow a BP arm now?
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    This..Makes a lot of sense to me. I'm guessing it's a torn Meniscus or something that would require a few months on the shelf after surgery. Rip, tear or whatever. Running and direction change seems to be what they're avoiding. He's injured and still was an all star. There's something here that after the season is over, we may all go back and say oh wow no wonder why. Don't get me wrong. He needs to be in the lineup as much as possible but that may be what we're seeing..
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    I'm not overly concerned about the overall rankings. The back half of these individual rankings are kinda a crap shoot and someone ranked 75 on one could be 125 on another. The top 10 I'm more focused on as those are expected to be our difference makers. If I look at MLBs top 10 for the Twins I feel really good about our system. A couple other things I'd like to mention is the Twins 2020 draft has, other then Raya, been a dud and the 2021 draft most of the 1st 5 rounds have been traded for current Twins players. Also look at Baseball reference for the average team age. The Twins have the 5th youngest roster at 26.9 years old in MLB. The only teams younger and in the hunt for the playoff spot are the Guardians (when's the last time they signed a veteran player?) and the Blue Jays. Close to 1/2 of our 40 man has less then 2 years of XP in MLB and most are our prospects. No need to be concerned. I'm more concerned about why mlb network has to only show games with NY or California as part of the teams description...I live in Wisconsin so Bally only seems to have Brewers or White Sox...
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    Mark Moriarty and Richard Salazar (Cedar Rapids pitching coaches) seem to have a magic touch. The DSL hitters are putting up some impressive numbers.
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    Am I imagining things or is Buxton playing 3 games in a row??? Next Archer will pitch 6 innings of no hit ball and Roco will leave him in there..oh.. and just to complete this imaginary and implausible scenario..Pagan will pitch 1 just 1 no hit no walk inning...Ok back to what's actually happening..
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    Did you mean this pipeline?? Seriously though imo we have seen quite a few pitching prospects compared to say 2018 and 2019. Just seems like the high upside ones are on the shelf or underperforming. No minor league season in 2020 combined with so many injuries has put a lot of these guys 1-3 years behind where you would have expected them to be when they were drafted. Enlow is looking much better of late, Varland promoted there's good things happening to. Anyway wishing Matt a full and speedy recovery
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    Looking at Baseball Reference his numbers are only slightly below his career norms. I had hoped for more but will take it over Kiner-Falefa's numbers for the season. Looking at the trades that made signing Correa possible. We traded 4.3 war for 4.3 war. Better OPS+ at SS and 3rd and it opened up at least one possibly 2 roster spots or our young players like Miranda.
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    I was interested in Will Holland's numbers for the season. I'm pretty sure that Will Holland didn't get an extra base hit last night. Nice to see Enlow have a decent outing.
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