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  1. sweetmusicviola16
    500k of IFA pool money is the cost. I'm neither here nor there on that cost, but I will say I wish the Twins would do a better job with Internationals. And if I had my druthers would have rather seen another significant future prospect picked up when signings were happening than have Banda. Just my opinion.
  2. sweetmusicviola16
    Whether his success can translate to MN is the question. Yeah probably the best move they've made this off season.
  3. sweetmusicviola16
    Can Banda do well outside of LAD? That's another question.
  4. sweetmusicviola16
    Nothing wrong with seeing what Hendriks has. I have doubts that much is left but its just an milb sign.
  5. sweetmusicviola16
    Yes. I would much rather see 65-70 wins for 2-3 seasons if you're making legitimate strides than seeing 75-80 wins over that same time frame when all you're doing is treading water. We have some pieces in place. But we have some pieces that should be moved to improve the teams future. And we have some pieces that it's just time to move on from. But 75-80 wins isn't exciting very many when the direction seems off.
  6. sweetmusicviola16
    At this point an F. Maybe they'll salvage something from some solid ST moves but the off season was a failure. It started with not firing your top guy November 01 and letting the new guy hire your manager and the new guy making all of the off season trades and signings. Dysfunction.
  7. sweetmusicviola16
    To me Bradley is the easiest choice of all of the options. He's failed time and time again as an SP. Make the move to the pen and don't look back and if he can't do relief then move on. Festa is the other easiest choice but I could at least get the rational of giving him one more chance at starting though I'd make the transition.
  8. sweetmusicviola16
    C'mon are you being serious? Reinforcement? Gio is going to be the closer along with infield. 8 innings playing between 3b,SS, 2b and 1B. Then he'll take the mound for the 9th.
  9. sweetmusicviola16
    It's an milb signing with an ST invite so I don't really care. I don't think there is a bad milb signing. But if he makes the team out of ST we have a huge problem. He's a poor 3B at this point and not much of an option at 2B with little experience at 1B. SS he should never play there. He isn't a player that a contender could use. But mostly we seem to have been picking up players that don't do much for us if anything at all.
  10. sweetmusicviola16
    Got Gio Urshela coming back now. The big contending moves continue.
  11. sweetmusicviola16
    Yep, and you will still have a fair amount of games that the SP just isn't on that day. Winning and bad D isn't the norm. Then you still need to hit the ball.....
  12. sweetmusicviola16
    This. If Houston has any chance of developing beyond a glove only SS we don't need to risk that development on a team that by all measures doesn't look good. Houston is a guy that we are looking at for 2028 if he doesn't burn out before then. But hitting .145 at the ML level isn't going to help him or even the 2026 Twins.
  13. sweetmusicviola16
    Right now I don't rush Culpepper. He starts in AAA or a little more time in AA. He has played all of 59 games at AA. He doesn't need to be thrown into the 2026 Twins until he is ready, assuming he has some things to still work on. Unless Culpepper is already at Bobby Witt levels he isn't going to turn this team into a contender with the supporting cast he would have. For better or for worse Brooks Lee is the best candidate to be the OD SS. Trading Joe Ryan on the other hand would make more sense to the 2026 Twins than rushing Culpepper would be.
  14. sweetmusicviola16
    "If the Twins want Lee's bat in the lineup consistently," My question is, why would this be a desire at this point?
  15. sweetmusicviola16
    Abel is my first choice for being in the OD rotation. Why trade Duran if you aren't going to utilize the piece that you got in return? And any talk of transitioning him into relief? No. More time at AAA? No. 5 days now until reporting for ST and this team is still very much a mess. I guess we'll wait and see if the next 6 weeks can clear any of this up or not.
  16. sweetmusicviola16
    A lot of people have suggested trading Wallner this off season. I personally wouldn't. I think he is the teams best candidate for a bounce back season. Granted he's likely never going to be an all-star. He doesn't come to the plate enough because he is platooned. A good fielder he is not, I've wanted him as DH. But if he can get those 350-400 AB's he'll be a 3 WAR player if he can get to career average levels. Larnach has shown that he won't. Now Larnach is not a black hole and not this teams biggest problem, but he's average. I believe this team has been trying to trade Larnach since Nov 2024. But there are no takers and I question in him making 4.5 that there will be. I don't know what they will do with him. Backed into a corner imo.
  17. sweetmusicviola16
    It's now 3 off seasons of payroll cuts, not 2.
  18. sweetmusicviola16
    No half measures.
  19. sweetmusicviola16
    My vote is for Abel to be in the rotation with Matthews waiting in the wings at AAA. Bradley to the pen, he's had enough chance at failing as a starter. See how the pen works for him. Festa if he's ready to start the season goes to the pen. Whether that means he makes OD at ML or starts in AAA is up to how he shows up in ST. Just like Bradley he's had the shot as a starter. Guys like Raya and Morris haven't even shown they can succeed at AAA let alone ML. Festa has at least done the job in AAA well enough to warrant a BP tryout. I also don't see Prielipp as being ML ready. He's proven nothing yet, but I'd keep him as a starter for now. But my candidates for a transition as of now are only Festa and Bradley. All this could change if some trades happen.
  20. sweetmusicviola16
    I personally would not call Falvey a scapegoat. But what I do contend is that this franchise is run by morons. Tom is front and center. You can't be so indecisive in October to not know which direction you are going in. If a switch from Joe to Tom was the direction you don't wait until December to do it. And it's not like Tom didn't have a clue that he and Falvey weren't on the same page. He has known and worked with Falvey for years. Falvey should have been gone in October as well. By the time the WS is over the direction for the organization for the off season should have been set. This is ridiculous. Contending to be a non contender and showing how dysfunction works.
  21. sweetmusicviola16
    You must mean the Po'or'lads? The ones who want someone else to pay their way throughout life. The taxpayers subsidize them a stadium. They want a new owner to subsidize their bad debt, when they wouldn't they found these minority ones to do it.
  22. sweetmusicviola16
    This is the culture of the Po 'or' lads. It will continue in the same ways until they are gone.
  23. sweetmusicviola16
    Hey bro, no, these are the Pohlads. They have zero ability to right this ship. These are the guys that got a beautiful brand new field in 2010 and stunk up the place for years with their abilities. Now this park is 16 years old and people want to see a "good" winning ballclub instead of just the field. Falvey needed to go. But the tap root of the problem remains firmly in place. The Pohlads.
  24. sweetmusicviola16
    Actually in this case it can be both ways. It was time to move on from Falvey, should have been October though. And thinking that you can compete with this team and the moves it has made this off season is half measures and incompetence. But parting ways in late January is stupidity and clear signs of dysfunction. At this point it would have been much smarter to take the hit and change GM in September. But almost everything going on with this organization these days is pure dysfunction at the greatest levels.
  25. sweetmusicviola16
    Pablo is a veteran. He knows baseball by now. He knows the state of talent here and what the roster looks like, and beyond himself and Ryan and the often injured Buxton that it doesn't look good. But what's he supposed to say, "this team is horrid and it sucks." No he's a professional and a team player and a competitor and has learned by now what to say out loud and what not to say. But his words don't change what we have in front of us and the state of the organization. Dysfunctional organization.
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