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  1. Fire Dan Gladden
    This is an accurate and profoundly sad statement...
  2. Fire Dan Gladden
    From least to most I think you hit the order on the head perfectly. Players gotta play!
  3. Fire Dan Gladden
    I only wish Hawk Harrelson was still announcing. The joy of listening to him complain about how bad the Sox are would warm my heart.
  4. Fire Dan Gladden
    The only real answer here is SWR. He will get every opportunity to hold that spot. The real question is who is next? There is no reasonable expectation that the other 4 starters will stay 100% healthy all year. We know the Twins will not spend a dime on increasing payroll. Who is next? Will they rush Festa? There is literally no other options in the minors... I continue to be amazed there is not a mass riot outside Twins Field every day for the way ownership has destroyed this team and alienated the fanbase this past offseason.
  5. Fire Dan Gladden
    The other factor in the Taylor discussion was that his asking price was higher than $4m before the Twins acquired Margot. Once the Twins got Margot and were out of the bidding, Taylor had to "settle" for the $4m contract. MAT was playing chicken with the market and lost.
  6. Fire Dan Gladden
    I think they were hedging their bets, especially in the public eye. If Santana performs well, they can move Kiriloff to the outfield with little fanfare and move on from Kepler at any point.. If Santana is bad, they can play him at first "as was always their intention". What the FO says to the public always needs to be taken with a grain of salt. Dishonesty and misdirection are part of the game. Who knows what the actual intention was behind the scenes.
  7. Fire Dan Gladden
    Yep. Games played this year: 9 - OF 6 - DH 4 - 1B Kiriloff is a decent OF. 1B is fairly easy to replace. Unless they pull the plug on Santana (very possible), I would expect those game's played ratios to stay about the same
  8. Fire Dan Gladden
    100% this. You can add the complete meltdown of Santana to this unexpected mix as well. (IMO Santana was brought in with the intention to have Kiriloff play more outfield) All of the Twins fandom that has been screaming to give <insert Twins prospect here> an opportunity on the big team, be careful what you wish for. Watching them play for a sub .450 team is just about here.
  9. Fire Dan Gladden
    Should we be surprised at how this season has started? Lopez, Ryan, and Ober have been as expected. Paddack was a wild card that blew up. The Twins lack of faith in Varland was strong enough bring in DaSclafani in the offseason. That lack of faith is showing in spades... While the amount of injuries is worrisome, they are really not the primary blame for the poor start. Correa, Kiriloff, Jeffers have been good or better. Everyone else has been exceedingly poor. I find it hard to blame the coaching staff for a majority of offensive issues. The lack of player moves in the offseason has severely handcuffed them. You currently have 12 players with 33+ PA, six of them are batting under .200, three of them are batting under .100. This is a player issue. They have to perform on the field. This isn't just a bad start, but a historically bad offensive start. I do expect some regression to the mean (i.e. improvement), but the hole they have dug is almost insurmountable at this point. The one issue that I have not seen addressed so far is the clubhouse morale. To go from the highs of last season and the initial optimism of the offseason to having ownership basically say we are gutting the team and do not care about winning. Moving Polanco, possibly the strongest clubhouse presence outside of Correa, for nothing. It is easy to see a very negative clubhouse environment to start the season. You can compound that with the high number of injuries. Yes, they are professionals, but they are human. Confidence and morale are very, very real when it comes to success...
  10. Fire Dan Gladden
    Not ready to totally dismiss him yet, but considering the Twins offense has no ability to pick him up, he probably needs a reset in AAA. As for who replaces him, it really doesn't matter any more. The Twins playoff chances are hanging by the slimmest of margins right now, and a 9+ ERA shouldn't be that difficult to replace.
  11. Fire Dan Gladden
    And now that the season has started we are beginning to see the destination that that horse has brought the team and the fans...
  12. Fire Dan Gladden
    With 100% blame on the Front Office and coaching staff and no accountability to the Ownership group that hamstrung the organization this winter... Don't forget blaming the culture/approach for the lack of offense instead of the players who can't hit the ball.
  13. Fire Dan Gladden
    Blame everybody but the players... Sorry you gotta be the "we have to do something" sacrifice TC!
  14. Fire Dan Gladden
    You were expecting 5 Justin Verlanders in the rotation? Define pipeline. Shrewd trades for quality SP or prospects has to be in there... Up until this year, the pitching has improved steadily basically every year. After last year, there was some expectation that there would be a step back.
  15. Fire Dan Gladden
    I am not seeing this as a Falvey issue... yet. Other teams with lower payrolls have had years to work their way through that process. Falvey has basically had 6 months to deal with a 20% payroll cut for a team that had high expectations. The ST question is real. Over the years, it seems many players have had offensive issues at the beginning of the season. This probably needs a deeper inspections.
  16. Fire Dan Gladden
    This. 100% this. Rolling with Varland and Paddack without any reliable depth was highly questionable at the start of the season and looks disastrous now. The Santana signing wasn't terrible at the time, but is now looking to be a failure. The same statement can be said with the Farmer pickup... Correa, Kiriloff, and Jeffers have played to expectations, everyone else has been bad to brutal, with no reliable help in the wings. The writing is on the wall. They are already 5.5 games back with no reason to believe the ship will right itself. Those 85-87 wins everybody was expecting at the beginning of the year? 75 wins would be a godsend at this point...
  17. Fire Dan Gladden
    It isn't snark, it is the current reality. The Twins decided to move away from keeping/signing established players this past offseason and roll with a number of relatively unproven players with potential. You have to accept the results. The Twins obviously do not have as much faith in the youth movement as the fans. Why else did they go out and sign DeSclafani, Margot, Santana, keep Farmer instead of rolling with the "prospects" in AAA?
  18. Fire Dan Gladden
    The decisions weren't questionable. They made basically zero effort to improve while cutting payroll.
  19. Fire Dan Gladden
    Keep throwing things against the wall, hopefully something sticks.
  20. Fire Dan Gladden
    The Division can't be won in April, but it can be lost. The Twins face the Tigers 7 times in the next 10 games. They are already 4 games out with three teams ahead of them. The next 10 days could very well make or break the season. Before you all scream "it's only April", do the math: Say after 20ish games, the standings look like this (it is not unreasonable to see this): CLE 15-6 KRC 14-7 DET 13-8 MIN 7-14 If all three teams ahead of them only play .500 ball the rest of the way, the Twins would need to play at a .560 clip (90 win pace) the rest of the season to win the division. If the division winner ends the season with 89 wins, the Twins need to play at .590 (95 win pace) to win. Everyone better hope the Twins fix this right now.
  21. Fire Dan Gladden
    Sing-along? I thought this article was referring to the Twins offense this year.
  22. Fire Dan Gladden
    You could be right... If that is the case, then there really shouldn't be an argument of him vs any of the AAAA pitchers in the minors.
  23. Fire Dan Gladden
    Tonkin's time on the roster will be counted in days. Will probably only pitch in mop up duty. Twins are not willing to lose a guy, even an emergency choice, for that short period of time
  24. Fire Dan Gladden
    MLB has many very good umpires and a handful that are utterly atrocious. It is MLB's fault for not getting a handle on the umpires union. MLB's inability to fire bad umpires is the major problem here, not technology. Technology isn't going away. Uniformity would help the viewer, but MLB has taken the stance they do not want to share the technology on how they enforce the rules (ie the strike zone) because of said umpires union.
  25. Fire Dan Gladden
    0-9 is basically season over. 3-3 is not. Numbers are numbers. Teams that are 5+ games back at the end of the first month are basically done. Twins can't afford to flounder much longer here...
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