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  1. sweetmusicviola16
    Like Gasper.
  2. sweetmusicviola16
    I wouldn't Bragg about Wagaman. This article does a bit.
  3. sweetmusicviola16
    Only on a bad team does a Wagaman have a chance to break camp. Miami, MN.... Falvey must have a secret fetish for bad men. First Outman and now Wagaman.
  4. sweetmusicviola16
    Too bad Terry Ryan and the Pohlad bosses didn't have the balls to sign Jim Thome in December of 2002. I've long contended that the Twins would have had a couple of WS titles in the 2000's had this one transaction been made. I'll continue to stand behind that belief.
  5. sweetmusicviola16
    Agree, Morris #1 and Chili Davis #2. Brian Harper #3. Iron Mike Marshall should have been on this top 10 list. Amazing 1978-79 seasons.
  6. sweetmusicviola16
    Chili Davis has to be in the next edition along with Jack Morris and Dave Winfield. My guess is Brian Harper is also top 5. The fifth guy is eluding me at the moment. Going on a limb and guessing Mike Marshall. I honestly would have put Berenguer ahead of Molitor and Winfield for the impact on the team. Shannon Stewart ahead of them too with an asterisk, since much of his impact could have been gauged from his first season when he was acquired via trade before he resigned with the Twins.
  7. sweetmusicviola16
    What will stop the Twins from returning to relevance is that this is a bad team. Doesn't matter if no powerhouse is in the division. It's a team with horrible roster construction. That is on the FO. With 2027 season having labor questions trade deadline deals for players with one guaranteed year of service time left will be significantly low imo. Fire Falvey. Tough talking Tom talks a good game but does nothing.
  8. sweetmusicviola16
    I have been one of Emrod's biggest fans but I now have far less hope. Just not seeing it anymore. Time will tell.
  9. sweetmusicviola16
    I'm fine with waiting to trade Pablo until the end of ST or even into May. As you pointed out other teams will have injury and this allows him to fully establish that he is healthy. If he indeed is..... Ryan should be traded now. Falvey is squandering his value. My honest take is that Ryan would welcome a trade and I see zero chance that he'd want to sign a long term deal here at this point. Unless it was a great overpay.
  10. sweetmusicviola16
    Vientos still has some potential and upside and I could see a possible bounce back, defense not so much. I don't know what it would take to acquire him from the Mets. But the Mets have two other guys that I would rather pursue. I don't know what it would take for them either and if the Mets would even move them, I'm sure they would for the right price. Those two would be either Jacob Reimer and or Ryan Clifford. I would love to see the Twins make this deal with the future in mind, a more competitive season than this 2026 one. Either one of these guys may well fit better in that soon future window then Vientos does. If these guys make it they are the type of player that will potentially put an end to the circus of revolution going on at 1B. What would it take for the Twins to acquire Reimer or Clifford? I don't believe it would break the bank.
  11. sweetmusicviola16
    I see the chances of this happening as being zero. I would have preferred Walker to Bell, sure. But with Bell already Walker isn't happening. What I would like to see happen is a trade for someone else's 1B prospect who could maybe get a taste of the ML this year and be the guy for next year. Some names I'll throw out there would be Collier from the Reds. Clifford of the Mets. Xavier Isaac of the Rays. We have next to no one close to ML ready in our system. Acquiring one of these guys wouldn't break the farm but it just might get us a 1B beyond the yearly rentals. Granted this isn't a splash move like a Walker but we just might be able to find the guy that could be our 1B for 7-8 years.
  12. sweetmusicviola16
    This is a horribly constructed team. Yes we are now behind the CWS. I don't mind being hopeful and positive but reality is still reality. I'm glad MN/TC has a team. That's the best I can say right now.
  13. sweetmusicviola16
    With the Orioles acquiring Shane Baz I'd guess they got their Bailey Ober type. I'm not saying they still won't be looking for more upgrades but they won't be looking for guys with diminished velocity would be my guess. Falvey/Pohlad regime is looking at a team with 65-70 wins as being competitive. There are ways to make this team into a very competitive one in 2-3 seasons. Continuing to sign Josh Bell's isn't the way to do it however.
  14. sweetmusicviola16
    By the way Tom, in the month that you've been in charge your new way has acquired Orze, Jackson and Bell. And you've announced that you're not moving any of the most valuable pieces that could be used to benefit the teams future the most. Enough said. Firing Falvey a month ago would have generated some trust from me. It's a team that can't spend the real money that is needed to compete and won't use the pieces that it has to compete. Dysfunction at it's highest level. If you're not going to extend Ryan, Lopez and Jeffers you're wasting their value. Dysfunction.
  15. sweetmusicviola16
    How do you trust someone that you can't trust?
  16. sweetmusicviola16
    I like your ideas tony. I like your GM direction more than the present. With your proposals we'd also have some available money to delve into the dwindling FA market. With the loss of Pablo I'd propose signing a guy like Zach Littel to a FA deal to steady the young rotation. Yes he's a step back from Pablo but he's been productive, and can use up innings. 2/25 And he can be traded at the deadline too. Changing direction does not have to be a dumpster fire.
  17. sweetmusicviola16
    Want real change? Fire Falvey.
  18. sweetmusicviola16
    hmmmm, I can already see why.
  19. sweetmusicviola16
    So we get these new minority owners but the same old routine. Example #1 is yesterdays signing of Bell. Nothing has changed. Next to come will be 4 more FA signings at 3-4mil each. Same old **** different ****ing day. Someone will say "you don't like Bell then what should they have done? He's the best we could get." You don't keep chasing the same rabbit down the same old hole. This is what is continuing to occur. nyctk have a great idea in another thread. You trade for a ML ready prospect. His proposal was Ryan Cliffrord. No this doesn't ooh and ahh but it's a change of direction and since we have zero ML ready 1B in the system you use someone we do have to acquire one, didn't have to be Clifford. But the new regime chose to do it the same old way again and next season guess what? It's what we're likely doing again. Stop.
  20. sweetmusicviola16
    I'm not an advocate of a full all out rebuild. I'm not even suggesting it. What I do suggest however is a trade of Joe Ryan, He is very unlikely to ever be worth more than he is right now. Pablo would soon follow. Shortly into the season, sooner if the deal was right. Trading these guys for the very most top close to ML ready players you can get will enhance the competitive window of this team when it arrives. It isn't that I don't like Ryan and what he brings. Quite the opposite. This isn't tearing the entire team down. Without trading Ryan and Lopez it actually leaves me very confused. Why acquire Abel, Rojas and even Bradley along with holding onto Matthews and Festa? I get it, injuries happen. But if Ryan and Lopez go down then what? What value will they be then? If everything in 2026 goes right with Ryan and Lopez we're an 80 win team. I for one am willing to gamble and deal them for a package that will allow us to be a true contending team in 3 years. And I'm not naive, I know it's a gamble. But I assess that it is just as much a gamble signing a handful of players to build around them for 3-4mil each is even more of one.
  21. sweetmusicviola16
    Jorge Polanco signed with the NYM today for 2 years and 40mil. So we have 20mil to spend on additions. Guess what? 20mil to sign on 3 BP guys, a 1B and a middle infielder. We'll see 5 guys in here with no future who no contending team wants. This is just plain stupid. Round and round we go and no sense enough to stop.
  22. sweetmusicviola16
    I have said for over a year now that this is the off season to move one of Ryan, Lopez or Ober. We now know it isn't Ober, not if you value the return. I concur on Pablo, but if he shows out of the gate that he is good I would be shopping him to every team by mid May. So it is Ryan. Why? Because the return will never be greater than it is now. The return is worth more than the wins he will get in 2026. As you stated for this team to contend it needs an influx of millions of dollars of talent. That talent continues to slowly drop off of the board and the reality is the Twins can't afford it anyway. Move Ryan sooner than later. As for the kind of prospects you suggest the teams that have them would very much like a Joe Ryan I can assure you. Arias from Boston. Lombard from the NYY. Miller from the Phils. Even Rainer from Detroit, though he's a little further out he'd still fit. Rainer might actually be the guy I like the most of those I listed. Yes I'd expect other additions to one of those guys but each would make an adequate center piece for us. Just my opinion on moving Joe Ryan. Not moving him now is actually doing an injustice to the future of the team. Again my opinion.
  23. sweetmusicviola16
    Julien, Gasper, Outman remain untouchable. So yeah it's close to set up.
  24. sweetmusicviola16
    From what I can tell it's a solid trade to pick up a prospect that we wouldn't otherwise have had. I would like to have seen us pick a pitcher in round 2 that we could have had in camp and gotten a look at for essentially 50k. As the old saying goes you can't have too many pitchers.
  25. sweetmusicviola16
    My thoughts when I heard that Falvey is now spending his time advising these new minority owners is, here he is adding another duty to his job instead of spending his time trying to improve the Twins team. How many hats this guy must be wearing. Why does this team not learn?
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