Jump to content
Twins Daily
  • Create Account

Whammy

Verified Member
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    3,878

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    3

 Content Type 

Profiles

Minnesota Twins News, Rumors & Analysis

Minnesota Twins Videos

2026 Minnesota Twins Top Prospect Rankings

2022 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks & Signing Bonuses

Minnesota Twins Trade & Free Agent Rumors

Minnesota Twins Fan Guides & Resources

2023 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks & Signing Bonuses

The Minnesota Twins Players Project

2024 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks & Signing Bonuses

2025 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks & Signing Bonuses

2026 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks & Signing Bonuses

Forums

Blogs

Events

Store

Downloads

Gallery

Everything posted by Whammy

  1. Whammy
    I view Royce as a better defensive option at 1B than Clemens. I don't care what the small sample of numbers might say for the time Royce was learning to play the new position. My eyes tell me he's a better long-term defensive 1B. But I don't really want either of them playing 1B regularly in 2027 because I don't find either of their offensive profiles palatable for a 1B. We just need more from that position offensively than we've gotten for several years. If we do make big boosts to the offense in other places, then I can live with Royce at 1B because, like I said, I kind of like him there defensively and he still has a tiny bit of offensive upside in my mind.
  2. Whammy
    I'd be OK with Royce back at first base, but only if we spend big money on other needs and are like "for $5M we could do worse than Royce. Let's run it back" I'd also be OK with Mystery Box. 1B seems like the best opportunity to spend big and have a great impact (I haven't looked at the free agents, but I'll assume there are some). The other two options aren't very appealing to me.
  3. Whammy
    Personally, I think the mute option that they have is enough. If someone is being such a problem that interacting with or even seeing your content is causing a problem, then that's a problem for the moderators to deal with (banning if necessary). Outright blocking of people, in my opinion, shouldn't be necessary in a moderated discussion board situation.
  4. Whammy
    If it makes you feel any better, they removed my comment in this thread regarding people blocking certain users (which I'm fine with, BTW. It was snarky, unnecessary, and didn't add to the topic). Perhaps you believe only your posts are being removed because you never see the posts from other people that have been removed.
  5. Whammy
    Unless he did something behind the scenes that we don't know about, I find it unlikely that he's traded this off season. There's no good roster reason to do it. In my opinion that would be a David Ortiz level blunder. That probably sounds silly, but only because we know how that turned out. In the moment Ortiz was confusing and unnecessary. The same way trading E-Rod for low value this offseason would seem confusing and unnecessary. BTW - Ortiz never had a global ranking anywhere close to as high as Rodriguez has/had). Ortiz had like a 110 OPS+ over 1400 Plate Appearances with the Twins and was basically just a DH by the time they parted ways. I'm not defending the unnecessary parting ways from the Twins, just adding a little context. It obviously looks horrific in retrospect. Back to E-Rod... If they do trade him this offseason and they get fine value, then I'd be more OK with it. Trading him should be on the table for the Twins, but not because they are worried about finding him plate appearances in 2027, but because they viewed the trade as a positive for the organization.
  6. Whammy
    I view the main reason for your opening day roster observation is that it's so rarely a requirement. The most prominent examples of it happening across MLB are related to the Rule 5 draft, which the Twins have done on occasion, because it's the requirement. Most of the time, not breaking camp with the big team is related to years of control, which will not be the case here. This is a pretty unique situation. Should he be with the Twins right now? Absolutely. Can I explain why he's not? Not really. But I expect that we'll see him in a week or so. Even if the FO plan is to trade him in the offseason, there's not really any downside to calling him up for a few weeks.
  7. Whammy
    I feel like your pessimism is getting the best of you here. You're connecting a ton of very blurry dots. And the conviction with which you say it is... odd. Like it's already happened.
  8. Whammy
    This is going to sound crazy, but if the Twins can get hot and somehow sneak into the playoffs, he'll probably get some down-ballot MVP votes.... deservedly
  9. Whammy
    Over .229? So.... .290?
  10. Whammy
    I think people aren't giving Ross enough of a chance to be a contributor for a few years. I'd rather see E-Rod, but I have no problem with a month of sporadic Ben Ross play.
  11. Whammy
    I'd rather have Emma, but I'm fine with Ross. Need to find out whether he'll fill the Kreidler role next year or whether you need to hang on to Kreidler. Kreidler can be a semi-valuable (cheap) part of a winning team, but if you've got a similar player with more offensive upside, there's no reason to keep him.
  12. Whammy
    I liked it when they threw 70-80mph. But I hate this version of it.
  13. Whammy
    Jenkins and E-Rod have been splitting time in CF this year. No reason that Jenkins can’t be your everyday CF and when Jenkins isn’t in the lineup for whatever reason, E-Rod can slide over from LF. If you want to flip flop those two, I’m cool with that, but to me, Jenkins feel more like your primary CF than E-Rod. But whatever.
  14. Whammy
    I’m a huge Buxton fan. So, I largely agree. But what I WILL say is that up to this point I haven’t seen much of a reason to not let him sort of call the shots. Not completely, of course, but I’ve been fine deferring to him on some choices (IL and positionally). But I’m sort of past giving him carte blanche. Especially when it comes to what position he’s going to play in 2027. We need him to be ok moving to a corner OF spot. He’s going to miss time. And trotting out a rando for a couple games when Buck needs a little break is so much easier in RF than in CF. Everything just works better with Jenkins as the everyday CF, even if it’s possible that a healthy Buxton is still a better CF than Jenkins. And dont waiver on it. Move Buxton to RF and don’t even get tempted to slide him to CF occasionally. He’s not your backup. He’s your Right Fielder. Let him be elite there for a few years.
  15. Whammy
    I only really care about the hitter they call up. I'm hoping it'll be Rodriguez. He needs MLB experience and he seems healthy. It seems silly to kick the can down the road on his callup. I suspect they view Gabby Gonzalez as a place holder until Martin or Buxton come off the IL. As others have said, they seem to have mentally moved on from Wallner. I will say, even if that's the case, there's an argument for trying to showcase him a little bit in September to generate a tiny bit of trade interest in the offseason. Jackson seems locked in to the roster the rest of the year. 1) They seem to view him as, in some way, valuable 2) With rosters expanding for everyone, the odds of him getting through waivers again seem lower than the last time. Say what you will about his usefulness in 2026, but having him in the organization at least gives the Twins options for 2027.
  16. Whammy
    Record crowds were Thursday and Friday. Attendance this weekend was pretty average.
  17. Whammy
    History has told us no such thing. The last time he played less than half of the games was 2021 (and before that it was 2018).
  18. Whammy
    I can't directly comment on the ads on this site, since I have a subscription, but they seem to be a point of frustration. Part of me is like "Well yeah, if you don't want to pay for content/access you should expect some ads," but that's too flippant of an analysis. So, two thoughts: 1) I agree, on other websites, when I'm scrolling and ads and maximizing and minimizing and is messes with the scrolling or where you are at on the page, that's super annoying. I'm not paying, so I understand there will be ads, but it sucks when they really take away from the experience. So, improving that, seems like would be appreciated by the non-subscribers 2) Maybe the caretaker structure (pricing/features) needs some revamping. I was going to suggest a "Bronze" level support that only achieves removal of the ads. But then I was looking at the subscription levels and... Do Silver caretakers still have ads? It looks like that. I'll be honest, that feels kind of greedy. These people are doing what you want (spending money for better access) and it seems like for $60 a year, they shouldn't have ads.
  19. Whammy
    I want them both up. As you note, the mechanics of option years has put us in the weird spot with Emma. Emma needs to come up because he needs MLB reps. He's ready... just not AS ready Jenkins, in my opinion. We aren't in a weird spot with Jenkins other than it being painfully obvious that he can probably add a spark to the major league team.
  20. Whammy
    Generally I don't bag on people for their glass half empty opinions/attitudes. This isn't even really glass half empty. This is just the exhausting negative attitude around baseball happening next season. And like I said, I generally see people think this negatively and just treat it as "whatever. Their crappy expectations don't have to dictate me having positive ones" But this idea of not bringing him up so that he can play in the minors next year (and it's not just you. There are lot of people saying this) crosses the line into pissing me off. Because now, you're making decisions that are affecting this year's team and their ability to fight for a playoff spot, and adjusting them because of this negativity around next year. Your negative assumptions for next year are preventing positivity this year and that's no way to be.
  21. Whammy
    I think sometimes the discussions around the "front page" articles get a little buried. I tend to spend most of my time in the "Minnesota Twins talk" forums. That's generally where the most discussion takes place, but it's obviously not exclusively there. It's just habit to go to the "Main" forum. When I wander over to the other forums often I'm greeted with a topic I wish I would have known about. I'd love a tweak so that "HOT" topics in the other forums get temporarily shown in the "Main" forum. And then back to my first thought about front page articles getting lost, same idea... I'd love it if on the first day an article is published it was shown a bit more prominently in all forums. Or at least have all new articles, regardless of topic, shown in the main forum.
  22. Whammy
    I don't really care whether Jenkins gets called up tomorrow and then Rodriguez when rosters expand on 9/1 or visa versa, but both of those need to happen. Jenkins needs to happen because he's earned it and the team deserves to have the best lineup put on the field. Rodriguez hasn't earned it quite as much but he needs MLB reps before he's thrown into the fire next season. I'm not QUITE as concerned about getting Emma in the lineup EVERY day, but at the very least he needs to be in there against all righty SP. Jenkins needs to be in there almost every day, regardless of SP handedness.
  23. Whammy
    One thing that laying it out that explicitly does is show how little money we are actually going to have tied up in the lineup next season (I'm going to use 1M for the pre-arb guys for easy math) Buxton - 15M Keaschall - 1M Jenkins - 1M Emma - 1M Lee - 1M Culpepper - 1M Clemens - 1M Royce - 4M Caratini - 7M Jackson - 2M 5th OF - 1M (Roden or Mendez, or Gonzalez) Super U - 1M (I'm assuming this is going to be Kreidler) 13th man - ?? So, can we afford a DH Masher? Yes. We have $36M committed to that half of our roster in 2027. But more to your point, do we want to spend on a DH? Does that hamstring us in other ways, in sort of the same way Outman being on the roster hamstrung us unnecessarily early this season? I'd so much rather use that "payroll room" to splurge on a Jeffers QO and hope he takes it (he probably wont).
  24. Whammy
    I might argue that calling up Emmanuel Rodriguez is kind of more important for the Twins long term. But screw long term. Give me Jenkins!
  25. Whammy
    I have a few different opinions related to the high level 2026 AAA prospects. 1) We hamstrung ourselves with some 2025 trade decisions as well as some offseason choices. We made the path to the majors more convoluted for these prospects than it should have been. This is a totally self inflicted wound 2) We've generally drug our feet with promotions. There were very logical points earlier this year where it would not have been surprising at all to have called up Culpepper, Emma, and to a lesser extent Jenkins (that's definitely the case with Jenkins now, but wasn't the case in May). We didn't make those call ups and then.... 3) The Twins and those prospects have gotten historically unlucky with the timing of some injuries. I don't however give the Twins a full pass here because if you're going to drag your feet with promotions, you're going to get the prospects pressing even harder to impress the MLB club. Were their injuries a result of pressing? Would those injuries have happened if they had gotten called up 1 day before they happened? Impossible to say. But I do think some extreme unluckiness has played a big part in where we are at right now.
×
×
  • Create New...