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Thank you for not screaming at me. All I am saying is that if you are going not root for bad people in baseball, or sports in general, the list of bad people is a lot longer than you think. That list of individuals all have public domestic abuse issues. Many of them are still revered... It is tough to be a sports fan sometimes.

I understand the point you are trying to make. Let me try this differently: In a bubble, the MLBPA's job is to fight tooth and nail for their players. Bauer did nothing legally wrong. There is evidence that it was consensual. Bauer has a claim that he should never have been suspended at all. (I am not going to argue semantics here, he had a claim). Do you think the MLBPA went zealously all out to protect Bauer? Did they throw everything but the kitchen sink at MLB, the media, the accuser to reduce Bauer's suspension? Nope. This suspension was all about perception. If they had done any proactive work to protect Bauer, in the eyes of the public they would be condoning domestic abuse. In today's environment, that was not going to happen. There is a reason why Bauer was willing to take this to federal court, he knew nobody had his best interests in mind. He also knew that if it went to federal court, his career would be definitively over instead of probably over.

You are assuming that the MLBPA wanted to fight for Bauer. They are in perception jail just as much as MLB. I want to cover a very narrow point here. Not about Bauer as a person, not his morals, not Bauer as a teammate: Public perception dictated a large percentage of this process. The public found him morally reprehensible and judged him before any law enforcement process. The actual morality of his actions are still in question, we still don't truly know if it was consensual. But true or not, the perception of him is that he abuses women. Neither MLB nor MLBPA could afford to take the PR hit by actively defending him, so they didn't.

I am going to pick on you for a minute... I hope that every commenter like this never talks positively about: Kirby Puckett Chuck Knoblauch Bobby Cox Darryl Strawberry Jose Canseco Albert Belle Milton Bradley Omar Vizquel Yasial Puig Jose Reyes Aroldis Chapman This is just the tip of the iceberg. I am not defending anybody, just trying to avoid any hypocrisy is all...

If you think things are that black and white, that the entire contractual relationship between MLB and the MLBPA is not vague enough to accommodate this type of action, not to mention the backlash both public and private against the mediator if he didn't suspend him, I can't help you.

Hey Paul, Thanks for the comments. Without going down a huge rabbit hole, I just think that Dan Gladden is an atrocious radio guy. He still makes multiple errors every game, leaves a ton of dead air time without calling the game, and generally provides little to no insight to the broadcast. He makes the Twins games unlistenable. I truly have no clue why he is still part of the broadcast team.

They have an almost full starting rotation coming off the DL, I would call that a boatload... I don't think I have been accused of being a "rose-colored glasses homer" in all of my comments. I am not really defending the FO, more calling out people making wild claims about the FO. Many to most of the comments made here are based out of anger and/or other emotions. Even the TD "insiders" only bring a certain level of certainty. Many, many assumptions are made. You can't use that type of historical data to account for the actions of this FO. To say that Terry Ryan wouldn't go after high priced FA is fair, but you can't hold that premise against this FO. A lot of people jumping on me for my initial comments: While not as aggressively negative as many of the other posts we have seen here, this article does attempt to attack a process without having all the facts. I appreciate the time and effort put into writing this post, but it cherry picks contracts to support the stance and uses it as a springboard into why other things did or did not happened. Show me how 1 year contracts perform as whole. Show me how 1 year contracts impact other signings by all teams, not just the Twins. Where is the statistical data to back up your statements. Without that, there is simply no proof or justification in anything, just a lot of conjecture. The bottom line is that all of us, myself included, that think they know what is going on in the Twins FO really don't know. Period. Nobody here at TD knows. I don't need to know who the sources are to know that everything that comes out of the FO, either publicly or "leaked" needs to be taken with a grain of salt. What are the motives? Lastly, TD is a place to share opinions. I get that. But the amount of vitriol and negativity on this site is overwhelming. As I was told elsewhere, if I don't like it stop posting. I have slowed my reading here because the articles keep retreading the same approach or the same conjecture. I have slowed my commenting as well. I don't need to comment on the two or three follow-up stories about a signing after I have already posted on the first one.

The entirety of your article dances around these statements. Why aren't the Twins spending more money and only signing one-year deals. When they do sign long term deals, the look to trade them right away. They are penny pinching on Correa. You cherry pick contracts that did not work, many of which were fliers that everyone knew were lottery tickets, or make good deals that came very late in the signing season and use that as a basis to describe the entire Twins ethos. Outside of a very few, players sign short term deals and move from team to team. The days of collusion and players staying with one team their entire career are basically over. As an overarching statement, this article is yet another in what has become a reoccurring theme over the last few months: Focus on everything bad that is the Minnesota Twins. No new information, just regurgitation of the same opinions.

So the Twins have something like nine OF on the 40-man, they just signed Joey Gallo to an eruption of negativity, and you want to gauge the whether the Twins should sign another OF that brings virtually nothing to the table but a name?

I am so tired of commenting on articles and stories like this. The Twins didn't sign anybody, so they have no focus, no direction, the FO sucks, torch the owner... 1) Stop assuming efforts aren't made. 2) Stop assuming the Twins aren't willing to spend money on a particular player. 3) Stop assuming they should be in on every FA on the market 4) Stop assuming every FA wants to come to MN The Twins have a boatload of talent coming off of injuries, they upgraded at catcher, got a placeholder replacement for Correa, made the decision to go with MIranda at 3B, and picked up another viable piece in the OF. Stop saying there is no plan. Stop saying everyone is dumb or cheap. Just say you don't agree with the plan currently being taken.

Wouldn't that be something...

Kepler and Arraez for Devers? A salary dump and a a fragile hitter for a $331m player...

Spelling... really?

Sorry guys... Gallo is not penciled in at RF. At the moment he is penciled in at LF. Kepler is still your RF. He will be until he is no longer here. Still waiting to hear anything other than conjecture he is on the trading block...

WE MUST TRADE!!!!! sorry mob, Be prepared for your Opening day starting OF to be Gallo, Buxton, Kepler. There has been zero discussion on this being the best defensive OF in baseball. You don't think that will help our SP?

I understand the logic. For me, especially if the price is right, he represents potential veteran pitching depth at a higher level than Archer or Bundy. He may be seen more as a BP guy, depending on how they are looking at him. It is getting tiresome of people trolling every single move the Twins make. "Everything is wrong because the Twins don't pay and nobody wants to come to Minnesota."

We can't do that. You see the FO sucks because we didn't sign [insert player here] so we need to complain about signing [insert potential useful player here].

Wow... lots of comments on a MiLB signing. Everybody must be bored...

Buxton... Sure. Anybody else, nope. Maeda will have his innings monitored too much to be in the conversation. Gray would have to pitch out of his mind. No rookies will get enough time to warrant consideration. Lewis would have the smallest of chances (80 or 90 games could do it if the impact was great enough), but it would depend on when he returns to action.

Really good article here talking about the potential long term impacts of Correa's health and what might be going on. https://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/mets/ny-carlos-correa-ankle-contract-physical-20221229-2sldlmrspjbrznzpc4cuzgjlsy-story.html Another plausible explanation as to why the Twins are holding firm on their 10 years

Kepler has more value to the Twins and more value than most people think. Look beyond bWAR and fWAR. His contract is not overbearing, he is consistent, there is a huge potential for an offensive improvement. People have been questioning the Gallo signing since day one. Gallo can easily be summed up in the following paragraph: If Kirilloff... If Wallner... If Larnach... If Gordon... If Buxton... That is a whole heck of a lot of "ifs". That is why Gallo is here. He covers all of those ifs, not to mention his ability to play corner infield spots. Also, an outfield of Gallo, Buxton, and Kepler is the best defensive outfield in baseball. Gallo in does not mean Kepler out. I am expecting Kepler to be on the Twins roster to start 2023.

I will bet my left shoe that one of the main reasons the Twins have held fast at their current numbers is due to the fact that this was a line for insurance purposes. The Twins (and Astros) have the best medical information on Correa. This has not changed.

Of course (don't bring logic to an emotional discussion...). But you can't deny that the tone of the comments has changed considerably.

The complete 180 being done in these comments just cracks me up... Two weeks ago the Twins were too cheap to sign Correa. Now they would be stupid to sign him to the contract they offered. Absolutely nothing has changed in the Twins knowledge of Correa's health.

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