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  1. Fire Dan Gladden
    It has only been a few days. Time will tell if the Twins are handling this correctly. With the way this offense has been playing, 75% of Buxton/Correa is better than nothing.
  2. Fire Dan Gladden
    I am not sure if this is troll or truth. If you are speaking the truth, then I firmly believe you have not been paying attention to anything Twins related this year. Everything you are referencing is 100% payroll related, so yeah ownership basically was responsible for this. The FO was not allowed to spend money, not allowed to go get difference makers in the rotation. That is why our young SP continued to get thrown out there even though they shouldn't be. Varland, Festa, Matthews should be starting for the White Sox or Marlins (learning on a bad team). Not constantly getting bashed in a playoff race.
  3. Fire Dan Gladden
    Personally I don't think you can run Festa, Varland, or Matthews out there again. They will because they have no other choice (thanks ownership), but if they get to the postseason, the #4 starter needs to be Sands.
  4. Fire Dan Gladden
    I would literally watch every single White Sox game this year if Hawk Harrelson was announcing. They joy it would bring me....
  5. Fire Dan Gladden
    I appreciate this post. I truly appreciate this post. The sad part is that the ones that need to read it won't, or think it isn't them, or jyst flat out ignore it and keep trolling.
  6. Fire Dan Gladden
    Martin has not exactly been tearing it up offensively. Maybe the hope is Keirsey can provide a little more.
  7. Fire Dan Gladden
    Some of these articles should show the real author as Captain Obvious. I would be interested to see stats on this, but I bet Watkins is top 3 in MLB in getting runners thrown out. He has been atrocious for years. The Kepler one from a few weeks ago (go, stop, go) pretty much sums it up.
  8. Fire Dan Gladden
    Would you rather have a "Let's annoint <insert untested rookie here>" article?
  9. Fire Dan Gladden
    I stand corrected on the age... I can't tell if this is real or sarcasm. This guy has been passed over time and time again over the last few years. It took the OF to completely fall apart before he got called up and now isn't getting any PT. Why am I supposed to see anything other than a fringe 4A player here?
  10. Fire Dan Gladden
    How about that "Festa is an MLB pitcher" article?
  11. Fire Dan Gladden
    A 28 yr-old rookie who is currently 0-3 being talked about as a "legitimate" Byron Buxton replacement...
  12. Fire Dan Gladden
    So let me get this straight... Major injuries have cost this guy multiple seasons. Injuries have further continued to plague him this year. While on the field, he was one of the most productive players on the team. Then management decided to totally throw him out of his comfort level by moving him to 2B. Now a large number of commenters here are acting surprised and angry because he is facing the MLB life grind for the first time, is experiencing some failure, and is unhappy because management is tossing him around like a potato in the lineup and on defense in the middle of a pennant race? I am truly at a loss for words...
  13. Fire Dan Gladden
    Sorry to burst your bubble, but wins do matter, even in a sabermetric world. I am happy to see everyone has turned the corner on expectations for this team. When you get excited about Festa, Matthews and other guys producing at a SP4/5 or 4A level, you really start accepting mediocrity. Strikeouts do not equal success. The fact that he is getting rocked second time through the order tells me teams are adjusting quickly. Could he start making adjustments? Sure. Could other teams start making adjustments as well now that he has been seen by most of the league. For sure. No problem being optimistic, but we need to cool the jets a bit on plugging him into the rotation. Have we not learned about anointing on relatively small sample sizes? Miranda, Julien, Wallner... all failed miserably after seeing some success. (Yes, yes, Wallner and Miranda seemingly have figured it out). Let's see where this goes.
  14. Fire Dan Gladden
    How low has the bar dropped when we are supposed to be excited for a 4.75 ERA?
  15. Fire Dan Gladden
    Start the bus... almost time to back it up.
  16. Fire Dan Gladden
    Good RP regularly come from being failed SP. We can hope.... Its a good thing ownership invested in SP this past offseason. Maybe the Twins should call Terry Mulholland. I am sure old rubber-arm could give them better quality than the current SP4/SP5 disaster.
  17. Fire Dan Gladden
    I believe a better indicator of this would be IL lost days for each team. Believe it or not, the Twins are only 9th this year... https://www.spotrac.com/mlb/injured/_/year/2024/view/team Probably not a coincidence that Cleveland and KC are among the healthy teams
  18. Fire Dan Gladden
    Anybody complaining about the Twins lack of "public" information regarding injuries really needs to stop. (By public, I mean I could know about it). Every team in every sport is not completely honest about injuries. All exaggerate, most obfuscate, many probably flat out lie. Any information that might give an opposing team an edge will be hidden. Imagine the vitriol of Rocco came out and said "Royce has a slight quad pull, but we don't feel it warrants a stop on the IL, nor do we have anyone else we trust to fill his spot in the minors. We are telling him to only give it about 80% on the basepaths while we try to let him heal." Why do you think NHL doesn't specify injuries? They call them lower body, upper body... They know specifics will be targeted by opposing teams. It is the way of the world.
  19. Fire Dan Gladden
    The decisions for Kepler to play through the injury, while technically his, was really a joint decision. You have to wonder what changed over the last 6 weeks that finally had the team putting him on the IL now vs June. At some point in the next few months he will get it cleaned up. I do not think he is done, he brings too much to the table when healthy. Some team will probably get him at a bargain next year. On a related note, I remember a few years back commentors on this site were obliterating the Twins medical staff, blaming them for all of the injuries. The Twins have been decimated by injuries this year, have players either trying to play through injuries or pointedly not telling the team about injuries. Why has there been no discussion about the role the Twins medical staff has played this season?
  20. Fire Dan Gladden
    Apologies, I missed that... However, the way things are progressing now, this roster will be littered with 4A players in the years to come. Not because of supposed FO ineptitude, but because of ownership mandate. No money to spend means you get the bottom of the barrel
  21. Fire Dan Gladden
    I would be interested to hear your opinion on exactly how the FO should find a player better than AAAA at this point in the season without being allowed to spend any money...
  22. Fire Dan Gladden
    Not the FO fault. Get ready for a stream of AAAA guys next year. Further payroll reductions are a-coming!!
  23. Fire Dan Gladden
    Elite fielding with a .735 OPS / 106 OPS+ for $5m per year is an absolute steal at basically any position. It looked like he was done a few years ago, but has improved his offensive numbers over the last few years. Lewis, Miranda, Kiriloff are not locks (injury and unsure offense), resigning Santana at another 1/$5 mil contract makes too much sense and fits the current "we are cheap" attitude of ownership. You sound higher on Severino than ownership. He has positional flexibility, including 2B. Why hasn't he been called up already?
  24. Fire Dan Gladden
    There are dozens and dozens of examples of players failing in one organization and succeeding elsewhere. Check out Jose Bautista, Randy Johnson, and Sammy Sosa... Sometimes a change of scenery is necessary.
  25. Fire Dan Gladden
    Basically saying we have to hope younger players step up and other teams fall apart. Sounds about right.
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