Riverbrian

Somewhere in the universe... there is a way to get your best pitchers more innings and your worse pitchers less innings. I don't know the answer but somewhere in the universe there is an idea that will allow you to increase the innings of your best pitchers. Some of your bullpen guys are your best pitchers and some those sitting in the starting rotation are your worst. The standard rotation and bullpen utilization that has been in place for decades surely can't be the method that will be used in the year 2057. So yeah... I agree with you. To me... Jax doesn't even have to start... he can come in any inning and throw 2 or 3 innings... just increase his work load incrementally like the Dodgers are doing with Shohei Ohtani right now. Just figure out a way to increase his innings, determine what the rest interval should be and get your best pitchers to cover as many innings as they can. I'd love for someone smarter than me and the authority to give it a shot give it a whirl.

Agree 99% The 1%... I continue to believe that you don't trade for Rushing or Basallo to fill the massive hole at catcher. Take your limited trade capitol that you'd spend on a catcher and trade for a player who can in theory play 162 games instead. Rushing will play 120 games max or in the case of the 50/50 thing we do... 100 games. On the other hand for a similiar price... if not less (Insert 1B Prospect) could potentially be available for all 162. I get the importance of catching but I'd rather the organization sleep in the bed they made rather than over pay to fix it. Everything else is spot on. The Tigers are another prime example. They sold last year at the deadline because they thought the season was over. It ended up being the fastest rebuild in the history of the sport. I'm sure Tigersdaily was pissed initially and look at them now. The trading of Joe Ryan doesn't have to signify a full rebuild. The teams you have mentioned have kept their train rolling with these types of moves but they have been able to consistently capably succussfully backfill with home grown talent making the minimum. However, the trading of Joe Ryan so they can take the money he would get in arbitration just to spread it around and fill 9 open spaces is what signifies it time for a full rebuild. When JT Brubaker, James McCann, Dominic Smith come rolling into Fort Myers with Baldelli gushing about them to the press with payroll still around 140 million. You might as well start over at that point. I have no reason to expect this front office/manager will leave Fort Myers with a plane containing, 7 or 8 rookies sitting in the back of the plane. Not with the faith they exhibit toward their own product, not when they demonstrate that they would rather roster cast off's developed by other organizations when 26 man spots open up.

Can you flip a switch? I wouldn't. Can you dial it upward? Yes you can. Get the innings count up from 70 to 90 or 100 innings. But... I get it. Boxes. Players must be placed in boxes. There is either or and nothing in between. He either starts and throws 180 innings or he makes one inning appearances for 60 innings a year. Nothing in between. Can you hang a zero and how many can you hang?

I spent almost a day trying to figure out how to quote this line from this discussion and respond to it in a more appropriate discussion. Couldn't figure out how to do that. So... Oh Well. Yes... it is quite possible that they will not offer arbitration to Trevor Larnach. If they don't offer arb... That's pretty impressive. They literally waited until Trevor's last year with the club to give him AB's vs lefties.

Your scenerio would be awesome... I've just lost faith. We have had a top ranked farm system for back to back to back to back years and still find the team in this position. A mass import from the farm like you suggest would change the ratios and provide payroll flexibility to keep players we'd like to keep. But... I'm just not in a good place right now. I can't shake the feeling your scenerio is a ready or not here they come because we have no choice scenario. Now that scenerio did work for the Tigers very well last year but do the Twins have that in them... I'm not sure. The Brewers have been steadier in a year by year filling of the gaps from within which doesn't require the mass harvest.

This is a great post. I have my concerns and I'm not afraid to express them but I'm pretty sure it's a tough tough job that comes with immediate expectation and future expectation. You got to balance winning today with an eye toward the future. The gray area is immense... the black and the white areas are thin thin hard to see lines. I just can't endorse these guys handling a rebuild because if we require a rebuild, it will be due to this development lull that has happened on their watch. I don't who or why... but the what seems to be apparent at this point.

No argument. I'll add a couple of thoughts though. Arb players are generally cost effective unless... they are really successful like Joe Ryan. That changes the equation and of course... and I know you know this... the years spent in arbitration. We will only have two entering Arbitration next year on the low end of the pay scale. That 22% is about to go up. Anyway... I know we are not in disagreement. This team has a budget and how that budget is spent... either big at the top or players at the minimum will determine if you can afford Joe Ryan. Correa certainly creates an obstacle that the front office needs to work around. But, this Correa obstacle was placed into the path of this car 3 years ago and it's not really movable but it's existence didn't sneak up on the front office driving the car. So the next thing to look at is... How do you work around it? or better yet and more positively how do you work with it? The money is spent... what are you doing with the rest of it?

I'm glad you see it. Welcome to a very small club. Most the time I have to over explain to no avail how I don't have a problem with Harrison Bader himself but have a problem with the need for Harrison Bader. Everybody not making the minimum is a dent in payroll. We are in this situation because of arbitration raises. We spend too much time looking at the big contracts. The goal should be to keep a healthy pipeline of prospects (Like other teams are successfully doing) so we can hang on to the money in the budget so we can keep players like Joe Ryan when they go up in price or add another big contract via free agency. This isn't a problem that just sprung on us. It's been building because of low numbers of making the minimum over the years. It's been building because of the strip mining of parts of our left handed hitting prospects, the failure (thus far) of those that they placed bets on... like Julien and Miranda, the trading of prospects like Steer for more expensive players and last but not least... the lack in faith the organization places on players that the manager won't utilize when they get a cup of coffee on the 26 man because he is too worried about the game today with no regard to tomorrow or how they could work into the future of this organization. Lee comes up and gets every opportunity. Everybody else requires multiple injuries for the chance to show they could help. Producing a 900 plus OPS in St. Paul does not remove this lack of faith in their own product at the major league level. Vet players producing below .700 OPS does not create a lack of faith in the vet or move the needle on the lack in faith in the prospect at the major league level. The result is a concentration on one or two prospects a year that they do have faith in. Lee and Keaschall for example and that will not produce the numbers necessary to afford Joe Ryan when his arb number goes up 16 million a year. Eventually it crashes, We can't afford the players we want to keep and we are forced to turn the kids loose anyway due to a lack of options but we will starting two years behind our competition because our influx of young talent will be year one and the other organizations will have year one, year two and year three of players making the minimum. There was always a bill to pay for how they have been treating young pre-arb players. For this lack of faith in them. The possibility of trading Joe Ryan is what it says on this invoice. If not Ryan... others.

Correa at that dollar figure is certainly going to have consequences and I do agree that Twins can't afford to swing and miss on deals like that. Only the top ten money spenders can afford to swing and miss... that's what money does... it allows you to absorb the bad contract and carry on. However... I'm not ready to call Correa a swing and miss. He may have not lived to the value of the contract but as you said... he still provides value and he's good for the team. I also agree that 34 million off the books would save multiple players that we would like to keep... players like Ryan. I still contend that the biggest financial problem the Twins have is coming from the lack of players making the minimum. The difference between what the Twins are producing from the farm and the numbers the Tigers, Brewers are producing could be around 50 million in available payroll to spend. If you didn't waste that money... You could keep Correa and Ryan, Duran, Jax and still build more aggressively then Ty France on a cheap deal.

You can't really trade Correa... At best... you can give him away. He signed with Minnesota because it was the best offer he could get. Nobody else would pay more. This alone eliminates almost all trade value. Nobody wants to take on the back half of a big contract because those are typically the worst years and especially when the player has under performed in two of the three years in the front half of the contract. To get any value back in a trade for Correa. The Twins will have to include large amounts of cash to make the contract palatable for the other team and we can't afford the cash. The other option would be to provide an additional player instead of the cash they would need to include. That additional player or players would have to have pretty high value and be painful to lose. Much like the Twins did with the Josh Donaldson trade. The Yankees really wanted IKF so they agreed to absorb the Donaldson contract. All in all... in order to get out of the Donaldson deal. It cost them Mitch Garver and Ben Rortvedt getting back Urshela and Sanchez. Could that be done... I suppose. It would be helpful if Correa wasn't sitting here with an OPS under .700.

Let me correct this. Moveable from a value standpoint. Buxton could get quite a bit in return in regards to the money owed. However... I believe that Buxton has a no trade contract and that likely suggests that he would require a significant raise from the team acquiring him in order for him to waive the no trade. That's why they put no trade into deals... they do it for the leverage. Once he gets a significant raise in order to agree to a deal... the contract isn't as valuable and the return lessens significantly. Buxton at 15 million plus bonuses gets back a lot. Buxton at 30 million AAV doesn't return as much and it gets worse if Buxton's agent demands additional years in the negotiation. Unless... Buxton is willing to give up that leverage, that pay raise, just to escape Minnesota. I don't get the impression that Buxton wants to leave Minnesota. I have no information but I think he would be happy to retire a Twin and I would love to see Byron retire a Twin with a forthcoming statue in the plaza.

I think they can get a decent return. Where I doubt this front office... is the ability to develop what they get back in return.

Correa and Buxton are under contract through 2028. Buxton's contract is moveable... Correa's is not. Lopez is under contract until 2027. My guess is that this front office would like to keep going forward chasing what they can catch while those contracts are in place. My guess is that they don't want to trade Joe Ryan so the can continue the dream. In order to retain Joe Ryan... they will have to: A. Move money elsewhere... perhaps multiple players instead of one player. If you are moving players to clear financial space... Joe Ryan will bring back the biggest return. Perhaps more than the multiple players you are moving for the same financial space. B. Convince the Pohlads that they need another 20 million added to payroll in 2026. C. Convince the new owner that another 20 million added to payroll could make him a hero in Minnesota. Options B and C will be a bad look for a newly appointed President/President of Baseball Operations that I'm sure understood the financial limitations when he took the job. Option A... Will be bad look to the fans who create revenue and it will make winning baseball games harder in 2026. Because whatever money they move to free up cash... they will go from 7 roster spots to fill to 9 roster spots to fill and that will be like shoveling snow while it's still heavily snowing.

I mentioned this in two other topics... including it's own topic "What's Next" It is appropriate to mention this again in this context. How much will Joe Ryan get in arbitration next year? Myself... I don't know but take the best guess that you can. Then take whatever that guess is and add it to the payroll next year. Add in whatever guesses you have on the 9 other Twins due arbitration raises to the payroll next year. Then of course... subtract the expiring contracts , the deduction in pay that Correa will get and dont' forget to factor in that they will have 7 roster spots to fill and then ask yourself with that projected figure in hand. How can the Twins afford what Joe Ryan will get in arbitration? The Twins have painted themselves into a corner. Someone is going to have to go. It's either Joe Ryan or Pablo Lopez just to make the money work. It's either Joe Ryan or multiple players.... Like Duran and Jax. The Twins have painted themselves into a corner. Don't expect a new owner to save them. There may be a honeymoon increase in payroll so the fans can applaud the new owner for a brief period of time, there may also not be a honeymoon increase... as they negotiate a sale price between 1.7 Billion and 1.5 billion, discuss the debt that comes with the deal in order to acquire a club with the same revenue market conditions that 20 other teams in baseball have to contend with.

I applaud the effort. It's a first step experiment toward where baseball broadcasts need to be in order to grow. Please continue and work toward making it better. Traditionalists probably didn't like it but the traditionalist will age out the sport if you let them. If you want to hold your audience for 9 innings tomorrow. Figure out how to entertain for 9 innings or you have no chance. Not jut entertainment on the field but entertainment in the booth. Entertainment in whatever nook and cranny you can place it.

If the Twins trade Joe Ryan. Don't stop there... sell everyone. Then kindly exit your office, shut the lights off and don't return. This front office is not the front office that should be in charge of handling an influx of youth.

Your grand plan to create these 6 platoon dance partners in a pretty package will last until the injuries come and make it impossible to maintain the pretty package clean line separation. It takes one injury to make a platoon specialist every day necessary against both hands and not so special anymore.

The splits are real... The platoon advantage is real... The left handed hitter vs left handed pitcher is without question the toughest task of all matchups and the numbers bare that out. It can't be denied. But let's not pretend that right handed hitters are stunningly successful against left handers. Here are the OPS league average numbers for all players on all teams in 2025: LHH vs RHP: .744 RHH vs LHP: .709 RHH vs RHP: .703 LHH vs LHP: .656 Turns out that the right handed hitter vs Left Handers is barely better than the right handed hitter vs right handed pitchers. Turns out that right handed hitters average 53 points higher than left handers vs lefties. On the other hand (pardon the pun)... It also turns out that Left Handed hitters average 41 points higher against right handed pitchers. THESE ARE BOTH PLATOON ADVANTAGES let me repeat that... these are both platoon advantages. But our Twins live in fear of the one that exists only 25% of the time. As you can all see... It turns out that everybody struggles against left handed pitching. Left handed pitchers against every hitter regardless of the box the batter stands in produces a league average OPS of .693. While Right Handed pitchers average .723 against all human beings standing on whatever side of the plate. Yet we have a front office and Manager that will kill every left handed batter before they can even get their career started and they continue down that path willfully year after year, announcing every off season that they are looking for a right handed outfielder despite having 10 right handed hitters already on the roster so they can continue to cower in fear of the .656 of LHH vs LHP while ignoring the .744 produced by LHH vs RHP. We are so afraid of that low number that occurs 25 percent of the time we are willing to sacrifice the high number 75% of the time by over loading the roster with righties and looking for more. Not just sacrifice the high number that occurs 75% of the time but also sacrifice their young developing left handed hitters in the process. By playing the split right... THEY ARE PLAYING IT WRONG, And to make things even worse... Despite the platoon splits that we can all see and I'm sure they have seen them because they sure have overweighted that low .656 number and built a roster that suggests that low .656 is their sole focus. To make things worse. THE TEAM DOESN'T HAVE A SINGLE LEFT HANDED STARTER IN THEIR ROTATION despite a clear 30 point advantage held by left hander pitchers compared to right handed pitchers. As a matter of fact... They haven't had a left handed starter since Dallas Kuechel showed up and made 6 starts in 2023. If they were so afraid of this split... that they would kill all left handed hitters... then why are they not taking advantage of it on the MOUND!!! I get it... The Twins care deeply about this... .they do not want left hander hitters facing left handed pitching because .656 is a low number... Does it not work in reverse? We don't want left handed pitching working the majority of innings as starters to put the shoe on the other hand (Pardon the Pun). I mean C'mon, Let's get real, we believe in this.. why don't we attack our opponents with the same problem we are so steadfastly committed to solving and compromising prospects to solve. They overweight this set of data so drastically that it negates every other data set known to man. Good against sinkers... not good against sinkers... Doesn't matter... He's left handed. Ignore that sinker data stuff, we can't take all these numbers seriously... we gotta focus on what's most important and we will steadfastly adhere to preventing the .656 at all costs. And as it turns out... they STAND ALONE in this overweighting of a single platoon advantage that shows its face 25% of the time. NO TEAM IN BASEBALL platoons left handers this severely and absolutely. You all want to fire the front office and burn the manager at the stake but you'll stand here and defend the right to hire cheap right handed crap to continue the year by year compromising of developing left handed hitters. Larnach can't hit lefties. Case closed. But... Hey... that's alright. Keep bringing in that LEFTY KILLER for 4 million dollars. Let's Pay Larnach 8 million in arbitration next year and handcuff him to that lefty killer for 4 million. That's a good idea for a team with 6 pre-arb players and a limited budget. I know all this stuff is boring. Larnach can't hit lefties. Wallner can't hit lefties... Margot can. That .656 is a low number... Case closed. In consideration of that .656 number... Wouldn't it be funny if the player with the most at bats against the left handers in all of baseball in 2025 was a left handed hitter. It is funny and I'm rolling on the floor. It is a left hander... a pure left hander with a .572 OPS against left handed pitchers. Jarren Duran with 136 AB's. Wait a second... the top 6 batters with the most AB's vs left handed pitchers are all left handed hitters.. Durren, Devers, Ohtani, Wood, Kwan and Schwarber are 1 through 6. Nootbaar, Tucker, Arraez, Donovan, Yelich, Henderson, PCA, Lowe and Albies are all in the top 20. That's 15 left handed hitters out of the top 20 in AB's against left handed pitchers. 10 of those 15 are below the .656. I'll bold the 10 players. I get it... The Red Sox, Guardians, Cardinals, Padres, Brewers, Orioles, Cubs, Nats and Braves probably don't have access to the same data our Twins have. I don't know if Larnach will ever be able to hit left handers. But I do know this... He got 23 scattered PA's against them in 2024 and 21 scattered PA's against them in 2023. Go ahead and tell me how this Trevor Larnach guy is complicit in this tragedy. Go ahead and point at the number and say see... look Riverbrian... those 44 AB's say it all.. Case Closed. Go ahead and tell me that he had poor splits in the minors... That's great... Case Closed... Let's take a 23 year old, dip him in cement because there is no chance of him improving at anything from age 24 to 27. I know we have coaches but let's be honest... they don't do anything. They are playing cards in the clubhouse. The players are not in the cage working on things. they are playing XBox in the hotel. Players don't improve from 24 to 27. What they are at 23... is what they will be forever. I get it. Jenkins... Emma... You think they will be treated different. We'll see. I'll wrap this up with this... and I will mean it with 100% sincerity. I am the worlds biggest Twins fan. If I'm not the biggest... I'm top 5. As much as I have devoted my life to this organization. As much as I base the enjoyment of my summer on the ups and downs of the Twins. If I had a son who was a left handed hitter projected to be drafted in the top three rounds. I would drop on my knees and pray that the Twins DON'T select him. At least not by this front office.

My wife wouldn't let me in the kitchen for decades. I spent 9 months on my own in Grand Rapids Michigan where I suddenly had to learn to cook for myself. I wasn't Wolfgang Puck on day one. I wasn't Wolfgang Puck by month one either. Eventually got to the point where I could make delicious scrambled eggs (using an entire stick of butter was the secret to make them light, fluffy and flavorful). I came back home after the job was done and my wife still won't let me in the Kitchen. But I'd like to get better at it. Nope... I got it. He's been starved from left handers for two years. But... that's OK... Here's your chance... Perform NOW.... RIGHT NOW... DAMN IT. It's universally agreed that left handed hitters have the hardest time against left hander pitchers so you hide your left handed hitters for two years and say... OK...Now. Go Ahead... Blow my socks off against the hardest of all split advantages. Hey this isn't working. We will stop. Someone get me a Jonah Bride. Hopefully you can get a Joc Pederson type one year deal when you reach free agency. I ask the question of all of you... I question the front office. Have the Twins just plain failed to produce a left handed hitter who can hit left handed pitching adequately. Other teams are developing players who face left handed pitching to varying degrees of success. Are the Twins simply the worst team in baseball at this specific area of baseball development? Serious question because we have to deploy Christian Vazquez against every left hander so Ryan Jeffers can DH against every left hander just so EVERY LEFT HANDED hitter doesn't. Is this a philosophy that the Twins have adopted or do we absolutely suck at training our left handed hitters so they can be as good as... I don't know... how about... Sal Frelick. In the end... Who cares... We will keep compromising our left handed hitters so we can just sign another Manual Margot to cover for 4 million.

I generally don't have a problem with options being used when players have options. I mostly have a problem with players getting called up and being pre-determined to sit and watch because of lack of faith from his manager or a severe lack of development from the organization. That problem that I have only grows to double/triple in size when a player without options, who can't be sent down is simply allowed to continue with average at best, many times below average, sometimes way below average numbers. We have one player in my opinion who shouldn't leave the lineup ever. Byron Buxton, the rest can give a day up here and there to foster competition. Bottom Line to Me: If they can miss on Julien to the downside and they do. This can't be argued... they miss frequently to the downside. Why can't they miss on a McCusker or Fitzgerald to the upside? Of course in those cases... we will never know because they get 4 AB's never to be seen again. But that's OK... because the front office/manager can pick them out of pile just like they did with Julien. I'm never pining for a specific player like McCusker... I never want to get into a discussion about opinions of McCusker. If not McCusker... somebody... anybody has to rise up from the farm and fill these spaces adequately. I don't know who but it starts with whoever was given a 26 man roster spot. I don't have the exact number but there are probably close to 400 pre-arb players across major league baseball on 26 man rosters right now. Very few of them are in Minnesota.

There are so few I can have discussions like this with and I appreciate it as well. How do the Twins know what is the best lineup? They don't. Don't get me wrong... they do this for a living and they are better at it then you or I. They have more access to data to put together intelligent guesses. However, putting the best lineup together is next to impossible and their evaluation mistakes every year, every month for that matter are clearly visible for all to see. Eduard Julien for example. They departed the off-season with Julien as the chosen guy. They didn't search for better, they thought he was their guy. Maybe he is but he certainly wasn't and now he is in St. Paul still trying to become what they thought he could be. Kody Clemons for example. When they signed him out of necessity. They were down Wallner, Castro and Keaschall just got plunked by a pitch. Despite the rash of injuries... He still only got inches of playing time for a couple of weeks until there was nobody left to turn to when Buxton and Correa collided. He is inserted into the lineup because Rocco has nobody left and he becomes one of the best hitters in baseball for two weeks. They may have signed him with some belief in his abilities or lack of faith in what was available on the farm but that belief didn't translate to opportunity until there was no one left to turn to. His bat has calmed down a bit since but Rocco believes enough now to keep giving him opportunity. This was another missed assessment and I don't blame them because this type of stuff happens to every organization. I just believe that the only thing that can fix that is to utilize all 13 roster spots and create actual competition so a Clemons can rise. You can go back to every season and see the mistakes every organization makes. Rooker was a missed assessment. Celestino was a missed assessment. There is a huge pile of possibilities of player skils in the middle and the differences are slight. Hard lines are drawn on thin margins. The only solution in my mind is to keep your 26 man roster spots in competition with each other. Don't ever waste a spot. Basically... If the manager doesn't trust a player on the roster to give up a mere 4 AB's in one game out of 6.000 in a season because they might be slightly compromised for that one game. Get that player off the roster and give the manager someone he will believe in and allow to compete. If you don't have sufficient answers on the farm... you've got a development problem and you end up with year after year of Margot's. I was against the Clemons signing mainly because the faith in Clemons over faith in the farm is concerning to me but at the same time... Clemons is also a good example of what can happen with opportunity. It's why I think it's a huge deal that McCusker and Fitzgerald watched from the bench. It's not that I believed in McCusker or Fitzgerald specifically, it that we are wasting these roster spots and these roster spots should be used to try and get better even if just incrementally better. That's why I say being concerned about wasting 4 AB's out of 6,000 in a season and not being concerned about wasting 1 roster spot out 13 is a mistake. It's too focused on today. Providing opportunity for players you believe are good enough for one of those 26 spots costs the minimum. One day of playing time spread across a roster of average players will do the trick.

I like hearing that Rocco is playing the match ups in regards to Clemens and France. Use of data other than the left/right split data that had seemingly trumped all other data. How can I argue the logic that Rocco needs to put the best lineup out there. I really can't argue that statement. But I'll ask the question... how do you know who the best lineup is? Was Royce Lewis part of that best lineup a month ago? Is Matt Wallner? How come Kody Clemons isn't suffering the same fate Jonah Bride is suffering. 4 AB's out of 6,000? WIlli Castro gets on base 36% of the time. Royce Lewis gets on base 28% of the time. We are so afraid someone might be 28% that we allow 28% because we think he will 36%.

Once a series I will post the number of players on the opposing team that have 3 years or less experience. I do this so anyone inclined can easily compare and contrast. The Cubs are one of the few teams that compare with the Twins in regards to the youth on their roster. The Cubs came to Target Field with 9 pre-arb players (less then 3 years experience) which is ranked near the bottom. The Twins are now up to 11 players with less than 3 years experience. The Cubs are currently 54-37 The Twins are 44-47 Cubs payroll is about 192M . The Twins payroll is 145M

Nice job with the predictions. I'd have Martin up yesterday if Rocco would schedule playing time for him because he ain't doing it for Keirsay. I'll contend until I can't contend anymore that we do not have a roster that prevents the utilization of 13 players. We have a roster that makes the utilization of 13 players necessary. And I would prefer a rotation to a platoon. I think Clemons/France is turning more into a rotation than platoon. With a tonight's lineup... it appears that we are back to all lefties sit.

Could be The only argument to your post is that Falvey extended Baldelli and has kept his guy in place for many years now. So... I'm going to point my finger above Baldelli's head. If Falvey has bigger development dreams, then Rocco is allowing, he is offering an extension that is counter to the direction the front office wants (needs) to go. In the end... Falvey has to approach Joe or the other Pohlads and ask for 20 million every year or so... just to roster 5 or 6 low cost vets to enable his manager to work with the personnel he desires. Meanwhile, the Larnach's and Wallners are in arbitration or reaching arbitration unable to hit left handed pitchers, the Royce Lewis first pick overall in the draft is reaching arbitration carrying a year long slump on his back. Jeffers will have to catch 100% of the games next year and will be backed up by Chance Sisco or something. A DFA find developed by other organizations like Castro is reaching free agency and now beyond our price point. The DFA find developed by other organizations like Kody Clemons are about to reach arbitration as well. We are about to transition into 2026 with Lee, Keashall, Wallner pre-arb and that's it, no budget, holes that need filling on the 26 man and a bunch of question marks on the farm, plus a manager (Front Office) only willing to give select young players sink or swim opportunities because he feels he can't afford to take Ty France and Christian Vazquez out of the lineup for a single game because... if he takes Ty France out of the lineup, the team won't be able to keep up with the Brewers or Tigers who are beating him anyway with 18 players developed primarily by their farm system. I gotta look Falvey in the eye on this one.