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  1. JDubs
    I saw someone post this online: Tarik Skubal, Framber Valdez, and Garrett Crochet at Target Field in the last week: 11 innings pitched, 28 hits, 7 walks, 22 earned runs. That's an 18.00 ERA for the three All-Star lefties.
  2. JDubs
    Shelton is not leaving the starters in longer for some weird ideological notion they need to learn to get through things or whatever, it's because the bullpen is absolute dogshit. The reason Rocco pulled starters earlier is because he could turn to Stewart/Varland/Jax/Duran to slam the door shut. When your options are waiver wire guys either long past their prime or who will never have a prime, you don't really have much choice but to hope the starter eats a lot of innings.
  3. JDubs
    Hey, lookit that: an honest-to-God winning streak!
  4. JDubs
    Aged like sour milk my dour friend
  5. JDubs
    OK, we won a game yesterday. [Now] we win today, it's called 'two in a row'. And if we win again tomorrow, it's called a 'winning streak'... It has happened before!
  6. JDubs
    Can't find the exact piece where I read it several years ago, but there is a statistical argument that Johan's 6-year peak was better than Koufax's. If he'd pitched in a big market, I have no doubt Johan would already be in the Hall.
  7. JDubs
    "Tom brings a strong business background from running other family enterprises" I keep seeing some version of how Tom has this "strong business background" and it's so funny. You mean the guy who oversaw all of their tanking businesses that are run so poorly they had to offload $500 million in debt onto the Twins? That strong business background?
  8. JDubs
    I dunno. Having the top of the org leave with clearly no plan for his replacement is pretty much the ideal Pohlad poorly thought out half measure
  9. JDubs
    Obviously we're not seeing any major signings and we all hate the self-imposed payroll cap, but this actually seems like a clever move in getting somewhat decent return for two DFA guys. Will miss that weird Canadian, though -- couple years back saw him absolutely crush a monster homer for Team Canada at the WBC and joked to my friend we should trade Polanco and hand him the starting job. And then they did! And it worked (until it didn't).
  10. JDubs
    Yeah man, Twins should definitely model themselves after a notoriously stable and well-run franchise like the Nationals
  11. JDubs
    Seems like it would be quite possible to sneak Jackson through waivers and see if you can't assign him to AAA and thus have a decent backup stashed away in case anything happens to Jeffers or Caratini. Unless Jeffers is absolutely opposed to an extension or wants some ridiculous number, it doesn't make much sense to sign a guy at basically exactly Jeffer's contract if you were looking to shed him.
  12. JDubs
    You never heard of a dude named Joe Ryan? A fringy pitcher with one good pitch who is now a frontline starter?
  13. JDubs
    Did the Mets have a higher payroll than any of these teams?
  14. JDubs
    By wining this one, the Twins made it much more likely they can win Sunday as Philly officially has nothing at all to play for now. And if they manage to pull it out, that means two series wins in a row to end the season. Which means...well, absolutely nothing, but it would be a nice way to close everything out.
  15. JDubs
    Great piece -- would be nice to see more of this kind of deep dive here on TD
  16. JDubs
    The only thing this demonstrates is that the role of big league hitting coach has incredibly limited impact on how a team performs one way or the other
  17. JDubs
    Rocco has a better win percentage than TK by a healthy margin
  18. JDubs
    This one really hurts. Been a fan my entire life and this is the first actual, genuine star free agent they've ever signed and they chuck him out a few years later in a gross salary dump. The Pohlads cannot sell soon enough.
  19. JDubs
    Yeah man, a good FO should always be thinking they will have $30 million less for no reason the next year. In fact, they should really just stop signing players, period. Who knows if next year ownership will say they're folding the team? They sure would look stupid if they had players under contract then!
  20. JDubs
    Do you seriously think when they inked Correa the Pohlds had told them they were cutting $30 million from the roster the following year?
  21. JDubs
    Yeah totally. That's why I would definitely rather have a guy hitting .190 who hUsTlEs OuT oF ThE BoX than a gold glove shortstop who is also a league average hitter.
  22. JDubs
    I don't think it's really fair to judge a front office when ownership refuses to spend. You really can't include the at least last two years in evaluating this FO because no one would have been able to cut salary and put out a better team. The reason people always point to the Rays' success is because it's such an outlier -- any other team with penny-pinching ownership pretty much always has a terrible record unless they luck into something. Just imagine where this team could be if they simply kept stable at the 2023 payroll.
  23. JDubs
    For someone who didn't want to overstate things, you made an incredibly silly overstatement here. That team lost by 12 runs over 3 games -- you seriously think one more reliever would have changed that? Somehow Randy Dobnak magically pitches late into the game because he knows Pressly is back there? Come on, be realistic.
  24. JDubs
    Lost in all of this is I think the Twins got a guy on base in almost every conceivable way in the second. There was a hit batter, a walk, a single, a double, a triple, and a homer. Other than a strikeout/passed ball, not sure there was any other way left to get a guy on.
  25. JDubs
    I disagree with the idea that trading Ryan wouldn't be waving the white flag. He's pretty much the only good pitcher on the roster right now; other than maybe Paddack, the Twins are basically sending out a prayer every other 4 days. Will there be any fans of the team left if they follow the first playoff series win in forever with not only not adding any good players but instead starting a tear down?
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