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  1.    Road trip reacted to a post in a topic: Marek Houston is Creating a Very Good Problem for the Twins
  2.    um_stevenel reacted to a post in a topic: Twins Prospect Hot Sheet: Khadim Diaw is on a Heater
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    A great athlete, but a career caught stealing percentage of 11% in the minors is not going to be good enough in MLB. Can it improve? Perhaps, but he's been even worse this year at 6%. Yes, that's not a typo. Against 69 stolen base attempts, Diaw has thrown out... 4. Year Age Tm Lg Lev Aff G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G PB WP SB CS CS% 2026 22 Cedar Rapids MIDW A+ MIN C 21 21 181.1 236 225 8 3 0 .987 11.56 11.10 1 65 4 6%
  4.    Parfigliano reacted to a post in a topic: Ranking Twins Players Whose Value Has Dropped the Most in 2026
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    Keaschall is a tough grade. Some struggles and adjustments are normal for a rookie. Expecting him to continue to produce at the clip he showed during a brief run in 2025 probably was not realistic. I'd probably put either of the free agent signings (Caratini or Bell) as 5th most disappointing rather than Keaschall. SWR obviously went to zero value, but his value going into the season was just marginal to me. I don't understand how he was ranked so high on the preseason list. He was a potential #4 type starter, but likely a #5. I guess he was young and cheap. I'd maybe put him 3rd on the list in terms of value drop. Wallner dropped a lot, 2nd seems appropriate. Pablo, unfortunately, gets the top spot for me. He came in as a #1/#2 type of starter, and now I think it is likely that he never throws another pitch for the Twins, and obviously won't bring back anything in a potential trade. Much like SWR, his value is now unfortunately zero.
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    Ridiculous... as in ridiculously optimistic? I'm starting to think so. Starting to look like a team that will win about 65 this year. Yikes and Yuck are good words for this, but I think I'd choose "Yawn". I don't see much upside for this collection of position players, and the young pitchers are now getting beat up pretty good.
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    It seems the Twins FO will, on an average year, try out a dozen or two pitching castoffs from other orgs. Most will fail, but a few will succeed. If you throw enough stuff against the wall, some of it will stick I guess. Looks like Gomez is this year's lotto winner. I can't say this is a great way to build a competitive bullpen, but the bright spot in Gomez's case is if he truly is fixed he is controllable and affordable for a long time yet.
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    Indeed. And if that isn't damning with faint praise, I don't know what is.
  23.    Road trip reacted to a post in a topic: Royals 8, Twins 6: It was Like Tug-of-War Between Two Pigs in the Mud
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    If they believed, he'd already be with the big club. Maybe some other org believes in Fedko? Fedko could easily be packaged with an MLB trade piece (Jeffers, Ryan, whomever) to sweeten the pot to acquire whatever it is that this FO believes in. Trade from excess, and the Twins certainly have excess corner outfielder prospects/suspects.
  25.    Road trip reacted to a post in a topic: Should the Twins make Ryan Jeffers the Qualifying Offer?
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    Yup, keep cycling through them. Give Martin some run till July or so to see if he can rebound. Find out if he's a starter or a backup. It's a 85+ loss team regardless. And old friend Royce is absolutely on fire with the Saints, so I expect him to get another shot in a couple of weeks. There are no shortage of placeholders who can be removed from the current roster, be it Outman, Arcia, Bell, or someone else.
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    That contract worked out well... but even if you are only talking free agency signings, the value the Twins got from signing Jim Thome absolutely blows away the Bader contract. For a mere $1.5 million, supposedly "over the hill" Jim Thome slashed .283/.412/.627 - an OPS+ of 182 on a Twins team that won the AL Central. After Morneau got hurt Thome was easily their best hitter that year.
  28.    Road trip reacted to a post in a topic: The Twins Should Capitalize on Carmen Mlodzinski’s Awkward Standoff with Pittsburgh Pirates
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    Good grief. Seriously? Only 6? I did not know that. Trying to be innovative is important for a small-ish market franchise, I get it. But only 6 guys threw over 100 innings? So Paredes was actually a work horse by Twins minor league standards? Every good MLB starting pitcher threw more innings than that in the minors and/or college. I'm not just talking about the Johan Santanas and Brad Radkes from years ago. Pablo Lopez had years well over 100 innings in the minors. Same with Joe Ryan. It really seems like the Twins are now risking entire development cycles on this theory that pitchers shouldn't throw too many innings or they will get hurt. I guess we can look forward to a whole lot of guys who are only able to throw 65 pitches per game, or who have to be shut down for the year in August. I don't like being "grumpy old guy", but I'm kinda feeling that right now.
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    I'm mildly hopeful. I remain unimpressed with developing pitchers under "the Travis Adams plan". Paredes hasn't been built up to provide much length as a starter, and while a 3-inning reliever sounds appealing in theory, opportunities for such a beast are few, and usually occur in blowouts. With a low-90s fastball he probably won't become a 1-inning bullpen guy. So.... I hope he can develop a meaningful role, but I can barely speculate what it will be. A guy accustomed to throwing 65 pitches has really limited usefulness in MLB.
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    Well, I appreciate the optimism, but the bolded word choice below made me laugh out loud. "Tristan Gray, Orlando Arcia and Ryan Kreidler form an underwhelming but extremely intriguing collection of role players on the infield." I'm neither entertained nor intrigued by that collective, even if I'll root for them. On the other hand, wouldn't it be peak irony if the "pitching pipeline" finally arrived after Falvey left? Other than SWR's implosion, the performance of several young starting pitchers plus Morris in the pen is a cause for real hope. Bonus points as well for Ober's performance.
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    I saw that too. Olivar absolutely hit the snot out of the ball this year at AA (.978 OPS). Everything I read on here is that he is "barely" a catcher... but maybe if Brian Harper could learn well enough to be passable, so can Olivar.
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    There have been some rough games for the offense, and with Jeffers hurt it will likely get worse. The eye test says the Twins offense is bad. And yet... still 3rd in the AL in runs scored, and a mere run behind 2nd place Tampa. AL teams are all struggling to score runs. We've had some good pitching performances to be sure, as JD-Twins noted above. But there have also been some horrible clunkers. SWR a real disappointment. Essentially the entire bullpen is very bad. Overall, the Twins rank a very distant 12th in the AL in allowing runs. Every team in the AL Central is better, even the recently horrible White Sox. Despite some good individual performances Twins pitching (and defense) is NOT a strength relative to the rest of the league. I don't know that our eyes are deceiving us, but perhaps our perspective is. A few years ago the Bomba Squad scored runs with ease, but that era of baseball is long gone. Pitching rules the game currently, and pretty much every team can throw good starters out there, and most of them have vastly superior relievers than the Twins.
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    Makes perfect sense. Culpepper is a possible future Twins shortstop, and needs to get the innings there at St Paul. The Twins need to figure out if he can play major league caliber SS. Arcia is a former shortstop at this point in his career, and likely not a member of the 2027 Twins. He's logged thousands of innings at SS, but not many at other infield positions. Prepping Arcia to play 2B was only wise, given the lack of depth behind Keaschall.
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    Wrong wish granted... Jeffers is going to be out a while. Hamate bone fracture. AI says out 6 weeks.
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