Greglw3

I think their scouting department headed up by Sean Johnson is responsible for the astute picks. I would want to retain that whole group from Johnson on down. My take is that Falvey had 1 exceptional offseason 2018-2019 and since has fielded teams that average very little above .500. He’s had uniformly horrible trade deadlines and a plethora of bad offseason too, since then. And I feel Rocco is overmatched as a MLB manager. I think if all these prospects get up and they still have the systemic problems of poor analytics / pitching handling philosophy, poor offseason and poor trade deadlines, poor supplementation of a decent core roster, plus penchant for giving big money to chronically injured players, all the talent may suffer the same fate as now where we are loaded with young talent. There comes a time in all endeavors to recognize, this isn’t working and try to rebuild ones’ life or in this case our beloved Twins life.

How extensively have you studied him? How much video of his AB and defense? TFTwins has minor league footage on almost every night and that’s how I got to see and fall in love with Keirsey after extensive exposure. I trust my judgement after following the Twins and baseball passionately since the 1965 season. I’m a product of my experience, study of baseball history, many thousand tabletop baseball games played using hard righties, opposite righties, hard lefties and opposite lefties and exposure to so many great managers and players through the years. Not to mention, exposure to so many wisdom inducing announcers like Maury Wills, Joe Morgan, Herb Carneal, Frank Quilici, Roy Smalley, Justin Morneau, Latroy, Denard, Rod Allen (Tigers), Jack Morris, Paul Splittorf, Ernie Harwell, Al Kaline, George Kell, Tim McCarver, Dick Bremer. Nobody really knows how Keirsey will do or if the Twins will give him the AB he deserves (LaMonte Wade, Jr., Brent Rooker). I’m just an unabashed fan of DaShawn Keirsey, Jr. :-)

Very good thoughts. I think it’s 100% time to move on from Rocco and Falvey. I’d be in favor of dumping Correa and Buxton but who would want them? Lewis may bounce back like Wallner did. Time to give the McCusker, Rodriguez, Keaschal, Jenkins, Keirsey Jr, Austin Martin, Eaves?, Andrew Morris group their time The Twins have screwed up another window (2019->) (2023-2024). I would totally believe that the morale in the clubhouse is low. Ownership sucks and Baldelli just had possibly the worst month of any manager in Twins history with a cavalcade of wretched decisions, further sabotaging the team. -30 MM, injuries they’ve known about ahead of time and Rocco. Plus Falvey and Levines horrible track record at the trade deadline. Time to rebuild this organization. It would be glorious if a management group could be put together to buy the team from the Pohlads.

I thought long ago, from watching several TFTwins videos and more on YouTube that DaShawn Keirsey has a really sweet swing (over and over and over) and is an excellent center fielder. Note that despite making outs, the very accomplished Eric Karros said he really liked the swings that Keirsey put on the ball. Plus, Keirsey uses the whole field, left, right and center and hits lefties well. If he does a big flop, I’ll say I was wrong but don’t forget the Twins FO thought Brent Rooker was a big flop and they were dead wrong.

Talk to Tom Froemming, DaShawn Keirsey is an excellent defensive center fielder.

We'll see!

OK Let’s do Matt Wallner as an example: .888 - .150 = .738 .888 - .200 = .688 Actual MLB .926, Oops!

Late bloomers Nelson Cruz Jeff Kent Brian Giles Justin Turner Joe Nathan (Twins) Bobby Darwin (Twins) Mickey Tettleton Champ Summers

"Not known for offense" .292 this season, .294 last season Wichita/St. Paul with 75 RBI in 2024 while missing about a month and often batting leadoff + 75 SB combined. .821 OPS in 2023 and .839 OPS in 2024. And 29 HR combined plus an excellent defensive CF, I’ve seen lots of video courtesy of Tom Froemming and on my own.

"Not known for offense" .292 this season with 75 RBI while missing about a month and often batting leadoff + 36 SB

You may have a point there but that strictness is shallow and misguided IMO.

Ha ha!

I checked not too long ago and Keirsey hits LHP just about as well as RHP. I seem to recall he had a very high OBP vs lefties.

I like the article and attention on one of my favorite players! One note, Keirsey isn’t 28 but only turned 27 in mid-May, born in 1997. He’s just coming into his prime. I’m betting on your article being "prophetic"!

Homework time. He is 27 yrs and 3 months old born in May of 1997. 0-3 means nothing, He has a chance to be a quality MLB cf. Just coming into his prime.

Given Correa’s extensive unavailability, You’re probably right. I think Lee would also be good at short. SO far, we don’t know who either Lewis or Lee will be offensively. I’d love to see Lewis come out of his deep slump.

I've long wondered what Levine really does because I think Falvey controls, ultimately the trades and signings, even if they may work together sometimes. Also, aside from the one season that they actually really tried on free agent signings with Cron, Schoop and Cruz, they are averaging about 3 to 3.5 games above .500 per year. The player development is the strength (credit Sean Johnson?). The trade deadlines have been positively abysmal going all the way back to 2019 as they detailed, season by season on the SKOR North Twins Show with Declan, Phil Mackey and Judd. Lots of bad trades and signings Happ, Shoemaker, Sam Dyson, Mahle, Archer, Lopez, Dylan Bundy, DeSclafani, Topa, Keuchel, Pagan, Jake Cave, Donaldson, Gary Sanchez, holding on to an ineffective Kepler for so long. Positives are Correa, SWR and Martin for Berrios may be about even or in the Twins favor. I consider Rocco to have gone from an initially badly overmatched manager to an average to slightly below average manager who at times pulls it together in certain games and manages a very strong game. I base this strictly on alll the other managers I’ve seen in my lifetime and how he stacks up. He’s made several embarrassing mistakes lately, costing them games. Right now, the ownership is a big part of the problem. When Declan made his responsibility pie chart on the Twins show the other day, he assigned a 55% responsibility to Rocco and ownership combined,, 25% Rocco and 30% ownership. For me, give me a front office like the Royals this past year or the Padres - aggressive and knowledgeable difference makers.

I agree, I think Mauch, Martin and Mele all massively better than Rocco with Mauch the best manager the Twins have ever had. A brilliant tactician, Molitor deserves credit, too. I think it was really dumb to fire him, one of the elite Hall of Famers with great instincts for the game in many areas. SO let’s go with alliteration in Mauch, Martin, Mele, Molitor! And Kelly, even though he had players that most any manager could win with deserves credit and definitely better than Rocco. I fail to understand the logic behind even suggesting Rocco might be the best ever. It would be like suggesting Max Kepler is the best Twins hitter of all time.

Not even close. I can make a much stronger argument that he’s the worst. Gene Mauch was the best, Sam Mele, Billy Martin, Frank Quilici, Tom Kelly, Billy Gardner. Paul Molitor all better. Huge mistake firing Molitor!

I agree on Jax that he’s the Twins best reliever, that he’s elevated the team mightily through his reliable and often brilliant pitching. He’s also impressively elevated his own game to a place I sometimes doubted he would ever get. But here he is. Without Jax, maybe 5-6 less wins as a guess. The other player that I would put neck and neck with Jax for Twins MVP is Carlos Santana. He has been the glue, keeping the Twins as a high level team, with highly professional at bats, consistently, and an unbelievable amount of clutch performance ability. And there’s no doubt that he deserves the gold glove and maybe platinum glove for his unreal work at 1B. I could see the Twins being about 5 games above .500 now without both Jax and Santana. The guy that was on his way to winning the award for team MVP was Carlos Correa but he’s probably disqualified after missing so much time.

I think they could get a very good return for Keaschall but I would have Zebby as an untouchable right now. He’s been so phenomenal that he could be a #1 starter unless scouts suggest that’s not possible.

In the past, I would have been interested in Kiermeir but not now. The only one of the group that looks like he could help is Yimi Garcia.

Yeah, it’s almost like the fan vote has an inverse correlation with reality.

That's a very good point!

I'd love for Keirsey to get called up ASAP but I keep looking for info on his return from the 7 Day IL (about 3-4 weeks ago) and I can’t find anything.