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  1. Mahoning
    Shelton has said the Twins will rely on young players. These are them.
  2. Mahoning
    Depth? The only ones any other team would covet are Buxton and Jenkins. Total trade value of the rest is minimal.
  3. Mahoning
    Brooks Lee is 24 and everyone at Twins Daily has already concluded that he is a fraud, a bum, and a bust. Hmmm.
  4. Mahoning
    Brooks Lee has one season and people have already decided he is a flop. He is 24, hit .239 and drove in 63. In Lindor’s first season with the Mets he hit .230 and drove in 69. I guess he was a flop. Is he even still in baseball?
  5. Mahoning
    Elswhere I have seen specullation that Kaelen Culpepeer makes the team at shortstop, moving Brooks Lee to second and Luke Keaschall to 1B. In his news conference Derek Shelton emphasized developing young players. That means, among other things, not spending any money. Keaschall and Clemens at first is as cheap as you can get.
  6. Mahoning
    He's stuck with the players he has. When the Twins play, say, the Yankees, the Yanks will have a better player at eight of the nine spots on the diamond. What is Shelton supposed to do about that? How can anyone be evaluated in such circumstances?
  7. Mahoning
    It's all baloney, but you can't blame Shelton -- it's his first public appearance. He has to do what he's told. And if his so-called major leaguers are poor on the fundamentals the blame falls to all the coaches and decision-makers in charge of the minor leagues. Isn't that what the minors are for?
  8. Mahoning
    Rocco couldn't rightly be blamed for pulling pitchers early. If you watched what the Twins did at AAA with, say, Festa and Zebby, they were routinely pulled after five innings of shutout or one run baseball. This, evidently, is an organizational decision: They don't WANT their young pitchers to develop stamina. You can't expect a pitcher trained to go five at AAA to go longer, or even that long, in the majors. If the Twins had a young Bob Gibson it would be the same: "Great five innings. Bob. Now go get some rest."
  9. Mahoning
    Doesn't -- or shouldn't -- player development mostly take place in the minor leagues? If players are being promoted to the majors without being ready, that's not the manager's fault.
  10. Mahoning
    The Twins fired Rocco Baldelli in order to hire Rocco Baldelli. And the Twins' "next big push" is to continue being the Twins.
  11. Mahoning
    Will you commit yourself to winning ONE series from the Yankees?
  12. Mahoning
    The general tenor of comment seems to be that Larnach would be easy to replace. Maybe so, but with whom? Believe it or not he was third on the team in RBI (with a measly 60), the most of his career. (The player second was another that commenters like to dump on, Brooks Lee.) What Twins minor leaguer can anyone say with confidence will drive in 60 or more next season? The only honest answer is NONE.
  13. Mahoning
    You win with stars. Is Matt Wallner ever going to be a star? It's probably now or never for him.
  14. Mahoning
    After the July sell-off, Falvey described it as "the next big push." We are still waiting to learn what the "big push" consists of. The Twins' ownership and leadership test our patience, and encourage cynicism, by their lack of candor. They want fan loyalty, as all teams do, but never come clean. What are the finances? What are the plans? They don't seem to understand that honesty would cost them nothing and buy a great deal of good will.
  15. Mahoning
    Trading him to a good team would be an act of Christian charity. Rewards in heaven for Falvey and Zoll.
  16. Mahoning
    Wouldn't they get better value by signing, say, Ty France for one million? Similar production (which is to say, not much) for a fraction of the cost.
  17. Mahoning
    Almost all the playoff teams averaged 4.8 runs per game or more. The Twins averaged 4.2. No manager is going to make up that gap. It’s the players.
  18. Mahoning
    I like re-signing Vazquez for $3; he's good behind the plate. Just don't expect any offense. He's like Austin Hedges. I wouldn't waste fifteen dollars on Michael Tonkin. Yikes. Signing Carlos Santana for first base is like admitting "we have no idea how to develop talent." But he would be a better defender than anyone they have now. Your assembly is not a winning team. Is this Falvey's "next big push?"
  19. Mahoning
    Of course we have no idea if either of those guys can field a ground ball, much less backhand an errant throw.
  20. Mahoning
    You are, in effect, asking for honesty from Twins ownership. Good luck with that.
  21. Mahoning
    You could call it a two-year collapse, starting in September of 2024. They finished the season 12-27, then followed up with 70-92. That's 82-119, or a winning percentage of .400 over 201 games. That's just remarkably bad. That's a total organization failure (or surrender.) When Joe Pohlad says he wants to win, what does that mean?
  22. Mahoning
    Drafts are always chancy. But there is reason to wonder about the Twins' player development. What stars have they produced on the last decade or so? Johann Duran. And, roughly a thousand years ago, Byron Buxton. One star per decade is not going to get the job done. I don't think money has much to do with it.
  23. Mahoning
    I'm amazed at how many people seem to favor keeping James Outman. He seems like a good guy and all, but he hit about .130 and struck out in half his at-bats. In what situation do you want to see him come to the plate? The only answer can be NEVER! As for Larnach, third on the team in RBI and second in hits (126) only three behind Buxton. Does anyone really believe that, say, Roden is better than that? I'd sure rather have Larnach coming up in a tough situation than Wallner (whiff), Julien (K looking), Jeffers (whiff), and on and on. They should re-sign Vazquez for, say $2 million because he is a far better reciever than Pereda. And we sure never want to see the unfortunate Genesis Cabrera -- one homer per inning -- again. The roster does not look promising. What free agent who wasn't desperate for work would want to come here?
  24. Mahoning
    Even your positives are debatable. The farm system has "a reputation for developing arms?" Currently Bailey Ober is the only Twins' draftee in the starting rotation -- not exactly a Gavin Williams. Kody Funderburk seems to be pretty good. Matthews and Festa have proven nothing. Pierson Ohl and Travis Adams? Compare this crew to what Cleveland produces. Other teams -- Boston, for example, which always drafts lower than the Twins -- produce young hitting stars. The Twins? Maybe Keaschall. On the other hand, it's not quite right to demand a World Series champion because it devalues the regular season. If you have a team that wins more than it loses, it provides six months of baseball entertainment.
  25. Mahoning
    All of the starting pitchers (Lopez excluded because he didn't pitch) got worse as the year wore on, except for Simeon. Some teams (like Cleveland) bring up pitchers from AAA and they shine. Zebby, Festa, Bradley, and Abel have mostly been bad. If the Twins continue their cost-cutting over the winter (so long, Pablo, maybe Ryan too), then despite these little bright spots, they could be even worse next year. Rocco today before the telecast signalled as much -- he said improvements will be "slow." He also managed to emit the amazing statement that he liked what the lads have shown in the second half. Whew!
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