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  1. Azviking101
    Of course they should be able to win the central without gray. Just in time to get swept in the playoffs. Is making the playoffs the only thing you value? Who’s this great 5th starter to come up and fill Gray’s spot? It’s not Varland or SWR. What’s the playoff 3 rotation going to look like? Gray, Lopez, Ryan is a good playoff rotation and capable of winning a playoff series even without a top 10 offense. Trade Gray and it becomes a below average playoff rotation with no hopes outside of a sweep
  2. Azviking101
    You’re all starting to sound like the A’s front office. So worried about losing a player for “nothing” that you’d rather abandon a season where they are half a game out instead of working to fix what’s going wrong. half a season more of all star Sonny Gray is not nothing and that’s what they lose by trading him.
  3. Azviking101
    Seems like you’re referring to 95% of the plays that include jogging over to catch a fly ball for fielding a single, but what happens when he’s able to catch up to a ball at the fence or the foul line in right? That’s what they’re worried about. When he has to make a low probability play, what happens?
  4. Azviking101
    First off, if they extend a qualifying offer, they get a top 40 pick. That is not nothing. also, teams lose players to free agency all the time. They’ll be getting 2 years of production for him, not nothing. If they trade him, the rotation is league average at best. Trading away a chance at playoff wins is not worth the couple of average prospects they’d get for a rental piece. Trading Gray regardless is such a ridiculous take, I’m sorry but it is.
  5. Azviking101
    It sucks watching a team with such good pitching be under .500, but they’re in that situation. I truly believe that a league average offense in the second half and this team can make noise in the playoffs. While I don’t believe in the front office, I do believe in their ability to try and do something at the deadline. They have made moves each offseason and trade deadline lately. Sure, they haven’t really gone well, but they’re going to make some noise regardless. If the moves fail, they’ll likely be gone. Gotta give them some credit for building the best pitching staff that any of us can remember on a Twins staff. We have to hope they can fix this team in the second half. If they can’t, they’re gone.
  6. Azviking101
    You don’t add to a team through subtraction. You’ve all complained for decades about the pitching sucking and now half the fan base wants to trade Gray simply because he’s a free agent at seasons end. Do the Dodgers, Astros, Yankees etc trade their players at the deadline because they’re an impending free agent? You don’t subtract from the leagues best pitching lol. What a ridiculous idea. If the offense provides league average production in the second half this is a team that has a chance to make noise in the playoffs if healthy.
  7. Azviking101
    You talk like the pitching is middle of the road. They’ve basically been the best in the entire league through half a season. This is also with an even schedule league-wide instead of playing half their games against their division. Sure, there might be some injuries and some pitchers like Ryan might continue to come back to earth, but you’re not giving this pitching staff the credit they deserve. They literally led the league in almost all pitching stats until the final game before the break.
  8. Azviking101
    Nearly every veteran is having a career worst strikeout season. It’s great that Rocco decided to speak up but this isn’t a coincidence. The direction that the FO and coaching staff have put this team on is wrong and needs to be remedied.
  9. Azviking101
    Started out watching every game but I’m over this front office, coaching staff and group of underperformers. It’s been a once or twice a week watch lately
  10. Azviking101
    I would not be shocked if Ober doesn’t come back out for the 6th. Exit velos are awful today and he’s surviving off his breaking and offspeed stuff today. Hope he gets his fastball back soon and it wasn’t because of the excess rosin and spit. At the very least someone should be up in the pen.
  11. Azviking101
    Ober’s fastball has looked like junk since being told to wash his hands. Not good.
  12. Azviking101
    So Royce gets Saturday off, team had Monday off, he gets pinch hit for yesterday and is off again today. What gives? Rocco is giving him more days off than St Paul did on the rehab assignment...
  13. Azviking101
    Carlos Correa, Mr rally killer himself
  14. Azviking101
    Bremer too happy about the twins having 4 hits with 0 runs
  15. Azviking101
    So hard to be happy with 90% of the trades Falvey has made over the years.
  16. Azviking101
    You did not read. I said scoring situations, with runner in scoring position. The last two years he’s had a batting average of .145 and .132 in those situations. His WPA is high from solo shots, home runs with runners on first and the occasional 500 foot home run with runners in scoring position in huge spots. Clutch players don’t hit that far below the Mendoza line with RISP. The eye test backs up his failures in those positions and he loses all patience and discipline. As most twins players do, he’s trying to swing too hard instead of putting the damn ball in play. we all remember his amazing walkoffs and game tying home runs but consistently when the twins need to add runs, he’s failing far too often.
  17. Azviking101
    Twins current issue is a ton of young hitters who either haven’t hit consistently or haven’t been healthy consistently. Most of that crop would fit best at first base or DH as wel. Since nobody has been consistent they can’t trade anyone so they have to ride it out and hope some of these guys come through. The other problem lies with the all world defender and platinum glove winner at DH exclusively
  18. Azviking101
    Looks like I was right
  19. Azviking101
    Every Twins player in recent history seems to fall apart in scoring situations and Buxton has always been among the worst for the Twins. 1.2 WAR through 31% of the season. It's honeslty not good enought for me. I think he's tied for 90th in WAR. However, he's been hurting lately and that's with him running a less than a football field length on average in a given game so it just appears like he'll never truly be healthy. I don't know what to do, but I know that watching him DH every game is not enjoyable for fans and not what any of us had in mind when he signed his extension.
  20. Azviking101
    and here’s the issue with Duran being closer only instead of Swiss army bullpen man. Hasn’t pitched at all lately so coming into 7-1 game. Dumb
  21. Azviking101
    I will never undertstand why they wouldn't just go after the relievers like Matt Moore who got 7.5 million and would rather give up prospects at the deadline. Seems backwards to me.
  22. Azviking101
    Because if he pitched a 1,2,3 inning in the third why would someone be warming in the pen in the fourth? This isn’t a video game. And with the pitch clock it’s harder to get guys warm quick. Can’t just stall out there
  23. Azviking101
    Expecting to see Kiriloff on the team tomorrow. He’s crushing and twins need to take advantage of that. If he hurts the wrist again it doesn’t matter if it happens in AAA or MLB since he’d hit the IL regardless (and his season would likely be over). Castro DFA makes the most sense.
  24. Azviking101
    Megill DFAd. There goes more of that “outstanding” bullpen depth Falvey went on and on about. Pretty sure 90% of us fans thought Megill was awful and didn’t deserve a 40 man roster spot. Well…we were right. If one of Jax, Thielbar, Duran, Lopez go down with an injury then this pen is on pace to be a disaster.
  25. Azviking101
    I think we’re nearing time to move on from Larnach. The worry with him since college was always his inability to hit offspeed. He’s now at .160 career BA against offspeed and getting a league low 40% fastballs because of it. He’s not just going to get it. His whiff rate is horrendous. Move Gallo back to the outfield, bring Julien back up for first base/DH, play buxton part time at CF and this offense improves drastically.
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