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Counterpoint: they did sign some veterans in the offseason that they don’t think were washed up. They were just wrong about them.

Twins #9 hitters in the minors hit 5 HR yesterday

Of course it does. Getting fans back is a much different proposition than creating new fans from scratch.

I think it's a mistake to conflate awful attendance with no fan base. We have a very unhappy fan base. But not NO fan base.

Do you mean after 2027 or after this coming trade deadline. I agree that the odds of keeping him beyond 2027 seem extremely low (Basically zero). But what they plan to do with Ryan for 2027 has a big impact on what we should be doing with guys like Festa. I'm sure the FO actually isn't quite sure at this point what they think will happen. Injuries are a variable that they can't control, but the FO really needs to decide what they think is going to happen at the trade deadline. I actually don't mind if they trade Ryan, but if it's not seen as part of a larger plan, it's going to go over very poorly with the fan base. What might that larger plan be? Not sure. Pablo extension? Not sure what the parameters of that might look like, but I have it on good authority that Pablo just moved into a new place in Minneapolis, so it could be that he's open to staying here for a while. If you pair a Pablo extension with trading Ryan I think I could be convinced that makes some sense.

Duran for me. I always enjoyed watching him pitch and even if you disagree with the players we got back (I don't), it was a trade that made sense. Rooting for Varland is just too painful because that was always the trade that made the least sense. Some of the non-Varland trades you can point at and say "See! Cheap Pohlads!" but the Varland trade is just "See! Overconfident Front Office," which isn't nearly as fun.

Ownership deserves a ton of criticism for a ton of things, but I just fail to see how ownership are the ones creating a situation where veterans are winning out over youth. Is there some eventual 2nd tier indirect cause and effect? Sure. But I promise you Tom Pohlad is not ringing the bell for Luis Garcia over Kendry Rojas.

You stole my post. I was planning on saying basically exactly this.

I'm not really saying what Zoll deserves (although his track record as GM isn't looking great), I'm saying what new POBO Owner Representative Tom Pohlad might do.

I think he was extremely ignorant to begin with. I also believe that he is probably the type of guy who knows that, hates feeling that way, and is doing his best to become knowledgeable. Do I necessarily think this will lead to good decisions? Who knows. Maybe not. But I’m pretty sure guys like him don’t like losing, how this team currently feels like a loser, and how that reflects on some of his early comments on the team. There will certainly be change. …. Not necessarily changes related to spending more money though. So, yeah, Jeremy Zoll should probably watch his back.

Gotta think Jeremy Zoll is starting to feel a little heat from Tom Pohlad, largely because of the bullpen, but some other stuff too. He seems to have gotten away without much criticism from the fan base, but he has been the GM since late 2024. I’m not really ready to criticize Tom Pohlad yet. I mean he IS the ownership’s representative, so in that way there should be criticism, but that’s not really about him specifically.

I'm a little surprised it wasn't Rojas, but this is probably just kicking a decision down the road until Abel comes back and a more consequential decision needs to be made.

In my mind the same question exists, to varying degrees for each of Outman, Clemens, and Wallner Who are you going to replace them with, where you're happy with the roll that new player is going to take on, or what it does to the rest of the players playing time? a) Outman. He's barely playing. There's nobody at AAA that I want barely playing. Especially with the current emergence of Martin, who's soaking up what little playing time Outman was getting. b) Clemens. When he plays, it's 1B. There's nobody worth calling up from AAA that can play 1B, so you're going to get a heavy mix of Caratini and Bell over there. Not a great option (not that Clemens playing 1B is some great option). c) Wallner. Probably the easiest 1-for-1 swap since he's both getting a ton of playing time and is a lefty outfielder which we have in spades at AAA. The problem here is that he's the one I'm least interested in giving up on.

I would argue that that facade (or misbelief) has actually given us Morris, Rojas, and Preilipp (and maybe even Abel) before i would have otherwise expected to see them. Whether it's Tom Pohlad not wanting to look silly with his "contending" comments and pushing the FO to find fixes, or whether it's Jeremy Zoll realizing he's probably on a pretty short leash with ownership and wanting to do his best to make ownership look as good as possible..... Doesn't matter to me which of those it is. I like the new-found pitching/bullpen urgency and can't wait to see some of it on the position player side of things.

Yeah. I think it needs a little flavor added to it. But I was happy with the main premise. White Kastle White ꓘastle Maybe tweak this logo to add the "K" instead of the "C" and make the background home plate instead of the Castle.