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  1. tony&rodney
    The Twins gave up on Austin Martin when he could not produce home runs with a new batting approach. When was the 3 week period where Martin received regular playing time? Martin switched back in an attempt to find a groove. He has struggled. His time will have to come with another team. He may or may not carve out any time in the majors but he doesn't have a future with the Twins. The new CBA should be tweaked to prevent teams from sitting on too many players that they do not use at the MLB level. I would suggest the number of option years be reduced.
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    Fair to say that Jenkins is the best prospect in the organization but Winokur may be the best athlete. We need more than one full season at the minor league level before it is determined whether he can make all adjustments. He made enormous growth from the start of the year to September last year.
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    Simply put, the Twins have become the anti- Rays as a baseball organization.
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    How many times have you seen him play?
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    Yes and if Vazquez, Gasper, Keirsey Jr., or Bader are in the starting lineup versus Sonny Gray today Baldelli may not share that view.
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    85 wins seems fair. There are some prime players, good players, and some prospects that could lead the team to an AL Central Division crown and more. The Twins have a number of variables that can affect the end product. Health is the most obvious concern, but player usage could be involved in game outcomes as well. The Twins have been very committed to playing their newly signed role players. Formerly it was Gallo, Margot, Farmer, etc. We can hope for the best from France, Gasper, and Bader but how often will these players resemble past signees? The wild card can be the inclusion of significant rookie talent. Can Emmanuel Rodriguez, Luke Keaschall, David Festa, Zebby Matthews, Andrew Morris, Connor Prielipp or others earn important game time and plate appearances to make valuable contributions to the team this year? Will they be given opportunities when the time calls for it? I'm pretty excited for the possibilities but apprehensive about the style of play and management of the roster. Baseball is the longest season in North American sports which means equilibrium, patience and faith is necessary to keep up with all of the twists and turns in the 162 game season. Good luck to all the players and fans. Go Twins.
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    No, good try. 1977 wasn't very long ago. It was a time of civil discourse. You can in senior men's leagues though.
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    FWIW, the Reds hosted Opening Day for years with other teams playing on the same day. MLB is pretty messed up under manfred. Let's just keep North American leagues in North America. For those of you who want an American business in other countries, there is already McDonalds.
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    Jenkins should be healed from his ankle sprain by now. Hopefully, he plays an entire season to gage his skills.
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    Fun article starting with a brilliant warning about baseball's nemesis (manfred).
  11. tony&rodney
    The Pohlads have bungled so many things in their long inglorious run as the owners of the Twins. Perhaps a public statement or two might be useful. I just don't know about that. However, the composition of the roster is exclusively the responsibility of the front office led by Falvey. We may give the credit for the Correa and Buxton signings to the Pohlads reaching out to create some waves, but the Twins have not been restricted by payroll despite the 10,000 takes to the myth. If the 2025 Minnesota Twins cannot play good baseball, pull in the fans, and win the AL Central it will be on the players and coaches. Falvey has put together the team he wants, Baldelli gets to mange the troops, and ownership signs the checks. Let the games commence and the crying cease.
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    The beard is worth his contract.
  13. tony&rodney
    Paddack was as good as he can be this ST. Those expecting 100 innings should not gamble. Earned? The Twins stated he was in the plans for the rotation at the beginning of ST. There were $7.5M reasons that the front office made the call. The best we can do is wish him luck.
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    At least those people who want to forecast future payrolls can begin with an understanding that $100 M is an expectant ceiling. I'm not surprised because while people always talk about bloat in public budgets the real excess is in private corporations. Often these corporations receive various and sundry forms of bailouts and tax benefits, none of which are available to small business or working people. An exception would be the military, which is truly excessive.
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    Yah. Manfred is ..... manfred. MLB wants to expand at the same time as two teams play in minor league venues and a host of other teams struggle. Meanwhile the Twins cannot find anyone to televise their games, but they have plenty of company.
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    Did you watch the games? Red the comments related to the games?
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    I cannot agree with international expansion of MLB. If leagues in other countries want to play series after the seasons end between various teams, fine. The recent LAD-CHC series smacked of imperialism in many of the comments. The history of imperialism should be avoided - nearly no good comes from it. I also thought using those two games as regular season contests was unnatural. The teams used their pitchers differently than if they had a 3 or 4 game series with another series to follow immediately, which does not mirror regular season action. Japan has their own leagues, as do other countries, with specific differences in play and fan experiences. It is enough to have exhibitions or traveling teams play in the offseason and a type of World Cup every four years. My cent.
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    I wonder if Bader ever imagined that he could be compared to Max Kepler? I'm quite sure Max Kepler never imagined himself as a LH Harrison Bader. It is an odd comparison, but serves to keep Kepler alive in our minds and hope for the best.
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    Sometimes I wonder how much confidence is lost by certain players from the Twins roster configurations. MLB is a difficult business for the players, coaches, scouts, and trainers. People need to earn their keep. When an opportunity arises it is go time. We are likely to be seeing the last of several Twins this year if the opportunities presented do not result in strong performance. All of the guys you mention may be marked. Will they perform?
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    A legitimate question would be - How many ground balls do Twins infielders take each day in ST? How many each week during the season? The same question could be asked on pop ups and fly balls. Fairness would require an answer to the same questions from other MLB teams? However, I don't believe a player like Carlos Correa (or Byron Buxton) needs the same number of repetitions as all of the other Twins position players.
  21. tony&rodney
    Nice play by Varland to run down grounder and flip to first base. Perkins suggested that "very few" pitchers in baseball could make that play. Varland must have called early for the ball because it looked like an easy 3-1 putout off the bat.
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    No, that is not what I'm saying. The Twins emphasize offense, even if that affects the defense. There are a pile of options at second base, none of them are good defensively. This is how the Twins put a roster together. Actually, as I stated in another thread, second base is way down the list of my concerns. Play Julien and if he doesn't hit and the Twins lose all confidence in Eddie, the team can simply release him. There are other options. The comment on Larnach doesn't make sense unless you saw it. It was reflective of how the Twins run the bases. Last season, the Twins were arguably the worst base running team in baseball. The roster on the whole is pretty slow. In the play, Larnach was on first base with two outs and just stopped at second base on a two out slow roller to the rightfielder. Any player in baseball could have gone first to third on the play. I like Larnach and hope he gets 600 plate appearances this year. The comment was more about how little the Twins practice or care about details like base running. The starting pitchers and the bullpen are really going to be good in my opinion. I'm hoping the Twins bats are solid because there isn't much to fall back on with the gloves.
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    Bats alive on Monday thus far.
  24. tony&rodney
    Rest easy on Julien because that is all the Twins have. If Julien doesn't hit he is off the team and the Twins finish fourth. Unless a healed Keaschall or Eeles steps in magically. I see Julien as among the least of the Twins concerns, probably down around #10 of possible issues.
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    My sources include zero defensive statistics. Julien is not a good fielder, period. The others are not either.
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