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I'm not finding the game thread today, but 7-0 in the 7th. Where's the professional baseball? This new guy Bradley makes it apparent why the Rays moved on. Even with a worse record the Sox are now a better team. Fire Falvey.
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As far as Lewis goes he will not be discarded or moved for an underwhelming return. The organization has too much invested at this point. The return will be significant or Lewis will remain. As for Royce, if he would let his play do his talking and learn to play for the team his play might improve significantly.
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I'll be interested to see if Abel puts it together. I'm not concerned over one bad start. A history of control problems though? That's a concern. But since we have an FO who has a history of not getting the job done and is responsible for the team that is out there might as well watch a prospect play as opposed to a veteran who is finished. Going on 10 years this FO has proved they can't perform though and here we still are.
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Between now and ST there has to be some trades coming and a starter or two being moved into relief. We have right now, Lopez, Ryan, Ober, Richardson, Matthews, Festa, Abel, Bradley, Raya, Morris, Rojas, Prielipp, and Cullpepper on the verge. Yes you have injuries. But you can't keep them all. Doing so is malpractice. The acquisitions of Abel, Bradley and Rojas was a clear signal to me that multiple moves will be happening soon. They will have to sell off some assets. As for reaching a certain payroll to appease an agreement without suffering a grievance that is easily taken care of. You can move Lopez and his salary and overpay on a vet or two and the players association is happy. We have Falvey who is very good at overpaying for veterans already.
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None of these 3 players are make or break imo. Roden wasn't included in the Varland deal to be discarded after 40 or whatever AB's. SWR I could see potentially being traded if we don't trade someone else, Lopez Ryan Ober. I too would like to see a switch to relief explored. Lewis isn't being dumped. I could see if a high return was offered it would be considered. But Lewis still has many chances ahead of him. I'm with others, don't like some of his ways. He cut down Kyle Schwarber in a comment this spring and that wasn't professional at all. Too much about Royce if you ask me. Frankly he's stunk for over a year now. Let your play talk.
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Joe Mauer found out too. Instead of being surrounded by players who he could contend for a championship with he got Jamey Carroll, Kevin Correa, Mike Pelfrey etc. Nope. No tearing it down and no going all in for a title. We have history to tell us the direction of the Pohlads.
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Pohlad's are still the principle owners. Falvey is still heading the FO. And Rocco is still the Manager. All of that info tells us pretty much all that we need to know. We have the history to go by. They won't tear it down all the way to the studs and they won't go all in to build a championship caliber team. Correa found this out while he was here and we should know this as longtime fans. They'll continue to "hope" that every prospect succeeds and supplement them with over priced lower tier veterans. These over priced vets will continue to get favored over the younger players who they spent years telling us were our future. This is what they have done for years. Why would that change now?
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I think many of us Twins fans have checked out. I'm one of them. I'm still a fan, but something is different. I've been following since the very late 70's. Been through some lows. Maybe none was lower than the strike year of 81. But as bad as that team was I to this day didn't feel as if they were intentionally losing. This team of August 2025? I'm not so sure that isn't the case. The players no. But management.......
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Abel and Walker the guy they got from Tampa should be here.
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Though I didn't enjoy deadline day I actually had a ton of hope that day. But with the news since that day that the Pohlad's would retain control and Rocco would return and Falvey will be continuing, that hope is completely gone. I continue to check in only because it's something to do. I don't look forward to the "hope" that we'll be "competitive", meaning we are asked to get excited about a 83-79 team that can compete in a weak division in the "competitive" seasons. I want more. I want legitimate WS teams to be built. This regime has proven they aren't up to that task.
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They can't hit. They can't field. They don't excel at fundamentals. They have an awful bullpen relief corps. And right now starting pitching is not dominant. Matthews and Festa have only showed they can pitch to a 5.00 ERA at this point. Richardson is not even a 5 inning pitcher. I fail to see how this is a competitive team. Unless you consider competing for 5th place competitive.
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This team not too big into hitting the baseball. Don't they realize that's one of the key elements of the game? Along with fielding and catching the ball, which they're also not too good at. We won't mention base running and moving runners over, which you have to get on base to do that. Falvey built this team and hired Rocco to manage it. It's on them.
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Yup. The C FA's upcoming are not good to say the least. Best option for C's is Jeffers, and he doesn't actually improve the team since he's already one of us. Not holding my breath that he will resign here. Not to mention does he fit in the budget. Other than the standard upcoming arb increases I just don't see us spending. Aside from the 5-6mil vets, most of whom should be avoided.
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imo it is going to take at least 6 years and at or near 200mil to resign Joe Ryan, Joe Pohlad remaining principle owner is not going to do that. Who are we kidding? With him as the owner and Falvey as the head of the FO big spending is not on the horizon.
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Doc, now that I look at it from the perspective of creativity, no they didn't get as much as they could for Castro, Bader and Coloumbe. By adding cash they would heave gotten more. But now out of the blue this team is 400mil in debt and losing 40mil this season. I cry foul to that. This is a bunch of hooey that the Pohlad family is putting forth so that they will have an excuse for letting players leave and not signing better players either. I think a new owner is only a rumor. Just like I think the publicized debt is a falsehood. I don't like being lied to. 400mil of debt doesn't accrue overnight. Why was this not known a year ago? Because now the owners want to play poorball. Yeah my optimism is waning very low.
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The Paddack trade is probably the one of those 4 deals that I most had a problem with. Nothing against Jimenez himself, but when they attached Dobnak to Paddack that's where my issue comes in. By saving 2.3 mil they just decreased the value coming back to the Twins. If long-term was any concern to them they would attempt to bring back more and better talent. Not save present dollars. Very likely with any of the trades they made had they paid this seasons salary and covered for the other teams added overage on the salary cap they could have likely got a better return for the future. Isn't it Falvey himself that said they need to be creative? This entire regime is more concerned about short-term cash savings than they are about the long-term benefits.
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I'm fine with the returns of the trades for the soon to be FA's. One can argue we should have done better but those trades are what you expect. But the trades of Varland, Jax, Duran and to a lesser degree Stewart, should have blown us away as you say. None of them do. I agree, Falvey should not be the one dealing these guys. Fire him. The longer he stays running the Twins FO the more my optimism wanes.
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I'm not so sure they were operating at a loss. I have heard that they borrowed against the team to payoff bad real estate deals. Why would they have even signed Correa to his large contract if they were losing money? It was also reported that they will lose 40 mil this season. 40 mil in two years doesn't add up to 400 mil. Pohlad's been dipping where they shouldn't be. New regime maybe don't know business too well.

