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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
    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
  17. Azviking101
    Looks like I was right
  18. 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.
  19. Azviking101
    I hope this doesn’t mean a trade for a relief pitcher. They spent 13 million abouts on Bundy, Archer, Smith (after incentives and buyouts). Would have been so much easier to just give Chafin 6 or Moore 7.5 But we all know Falvey hates quality free agent pitching
  20. Azviking101
    More depth which is amazing. Just still don’t get why bullpen depth isn’t important
  21. Azviking101
    Why can't they just make one move to fortify the bullpen? Last year, Twins gave Bundy 5 million and I think Archer got close to 7 after incentives and buyout. Neither did anything for the team last year, but two legit setup men got 5.5 and 7.5 (Chafin and Moore) and the Twins scoffed at that. Brad Hand appears to be close to done in this league and would likely be a waste of money. Someone needs to have a quality over quantity conversation with the Twins brass when it comes to pitching FA deals,
  22. Azviking101
    The diamondbacks were very close to selecting Jay number one overall so yeah he was very much hyped up. Both had very similar size and a fastball/slider/change up repertoire all thrown at similar speeds. Jay was trying to move from a reliever to a starter Prielipp hasn’t pitched in 3 years. Similar hurdles I get why people are excited but I’ve seen him ranked as high as 4 on twins prospect lists. That’s ridiculous. If he showcased the same stuff but was a 5’9 righty nobody would know his name.
  23. Azviking101
    Excited to see what he does this year, but all this hype without seeing anything reminds me a whole lot of Tyler Jay
  24. Azviking101
    They’re so close, I don’t understand why they don’t throw a few more million out at a good quality reliever. I recognize that Falvey has faith in the current bullpen, but he’s formed a great backup plan for the rotation and the position players. Relief is the cheapest backup plan there is and he just doesn’t want to budge. there’s a lot of potential in this pen, but too much risk to sit around and do nothing.
  25. Azviking101
    Thank you for mentioning Ryan’s stats against everyone else. I just don’t see any overwhelmingly dangerous pitches and he can’t seem to keep his fastball velocity up. We’ll see 94/95 for an inning or 2 and then it’ll be 89-91 the rest of the game. I frankly don’t see him taking the next step
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