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  1. Doctor Gast
    Well played game against the currently best AL team. Everything lined up; a rested BP, a rested Festa after having 2 short outings prior. Good pitching, good defense, good baserunning & clutch hitting, kept DET at bay. If the Twins can maintain this formula with good managing, we can come out well against this series.
  2. Doctor Gast
    So have I, ROX overpaid him, he's still owed $9.5M for the rest of the season. Don't think Twins will flip that bill.
  3. Doctor Gast
    I've always advocated to sell high (never low). Although GG should never make the Twins. It still never pays to sell low. GG was hyped up as a power-hitter, & his trade stock was too high & could have gotten us a much-needed impact player. Shortly after that his stock crashed & became worthless. His stock has risen slightly but very far from where he was. You could possibly get a poor lotto ticket for him but why waste your time?
  4. Doctor Gast
    Martin was really needed at 2B to begin the season with his getting on base, being a terror, & the fire that this team really needs. If he was placed there he might not have gotten hurt in CF. Martin is still needed there at this capacity, but he needs some time at AAA to be 100%, I wouldn't rush him especially not sending him to steal home shortly after his return like they did last time. Keirsey hasn't gotten any regular ABs all year except for his short stint at AAA. Send him down to AAA & keep him there until he's primed to face MLB pitchers. Twins have really screwed his hitting development.
  5. Doctor Gast
    Twins always say during the draft, "get the best player no matter the need, we can trade those prospects for our needs". That's nice but they never trade these prospects no matter how redundant they are. 2 yrs ago. I stated that Gonzalas was terribly overrated & needed to be traded immediately for needs. Never happened & his stock plummeted. Don't count on Falvey to trade any prospect we may obtain this deadline.
  6. Doctor Gast
    We could trade Coulume w/o any problem (we could bring up Prielipp sometime to substitute him). IMO, cOF is also a big need for PHI, IMO, PHI doesn't have anyone that can impact the Twins next season (which IMO, the Twins should prioritize). So, I'd be open for a 3-way trade, but don't expect Falvey to drive this type of trade.
  7. Doctor Gast
    I like Tait but we need someone who can come in now to get some reps this year to jump start for next season. I'd like someone like Tait at least 3 yrs. ago. It's too late now.
  8. Doctor Gast
    Very impressive that Sims had to wait 4 1/2 hrs. to start to pitch & came out focused & pitched a gem. If a SP can pitch 5 quality innings nowadays with all the stress of velo & spin, that's a big win. Times have changed & Twins needs to embrace that change & incorporate long relief to keep the pressure off the BP. Blow outs are still only 1 win or loss. Larnach's HR was hugh, Twins winning close games will be the true test.
  9. Doctor Gast
    I really like Duran, he's very important to us & he belongs on the list but he has blown & lost some crucial games for us. I'd be tempted to put Castro ahead of him.
  10. Doctor Gast
    I'd give him time at AAA.
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    No
  12. Doctor Gast
    We had postseason success in '23 to build off of. But instead of building on that core, they have been chipping away from it. That core swept the hot SF Giants this year w/o some of the offense absent, others not hitting on all their cylinders & Baldelli not micromanaging. If Falvey changes his ways, we have a shot, but that isn't going to happen, so we've been doomed from the start. We could start selling right now. But that's a bad look, so Falvey is saying we aren't selling, But inwardly waiting to blame the players & open up his fire sale & have everybody love him (except for some Twins fans).
  13. Doctor Gast
    Ryan was the anchor for a boat gone adrift. Like you said the defense was a little sloppy, but the pitching didn't unravel. That's what we needed, along with Buxton's aggressive baserunning & clutch hitting by Castro & Clemens. Just enough balanced effort for the win. Hope it's enough to stabilize the pitching staff & playing good baseball.
  14. Doctor Gast
    Baldelli isn't the main problem, but extending him was premature & crazy. Soooo Falvey.
  15. Doctor Gast
    Yeah, Dan. It has been the perfect timing for Adams to get his feet wet in long relief. Why pitch Bride when we had Adams to go long relief? Adams didn't pitch 1 inning while he was up, did he? I'd like every potential SP to be exposed in long relief in AAA & brought up in a rotational long RP & spot starting role. Instead of wasting his bullets in AAA while giving our rotation & BP a break. But that's just me.
  16. Doctor Gast
    If there is a will, there's a way. But the easiest way to solve this problem isn't a trade, but to sign FA Kyle Gibson. Gibson, who didn't have any ramp-up but had a tremendous AAA time with TB. He's an inning-eater & veteran presence, loved by the TC community & clubhouse.
  17. Doctor Gast
    Why couldn't they see the fragile position of our MLB rotation before? We don't need a AAA filler, we need a MLB SP filler & long relief. We needed one 3 weeks ago, where is that person? What's more important?
  18. Doctor Gast
    In the offseason, I addressed HOU as a trade partner. I focused on a promising MLB-ready LHP prospect, Colton Gordon & promising MLB-ready reserve catcher, Caesar Salazar. I'm still high on these guys, the current BTV is 2.6 & 0.0, respectively. I used Paddack as trade bait, current BTV (3.7). HOU could go with this trade, plus a lotto thrown in. HOU needs a LH bat, especially at cOF, but I'm not interested in anybody else on the HOU roster. Janek is too far away & I'm not convinced about his potential. We have an abundance of LH bats in the OF in the future with Wallner, Larnach, Castro, with soon-to-be-developed MLB bats in Keirsey, E-Rod & Jenkins. IMO, HOU doesn't have anyone who can compensate us adequately. A 3-way trade could be an option to supplement a trade. There are many teams that could use a good LHH cOFer, like PHI or LAD. I'd go to them 1st.
  19. Doctor Gast
    I became a Twins' fan with my Dad when they came in '61 along with the Vikings. I was more of a Viking fanatic but life had more opportunities in baseball than football so my interest tilted towards the Twins. Life happened & found myself in Brazil where there is no American baseball or football. I followed the Twins but after I retired, I came to be devoted to the Twins. Too many fans base their opinion on what they get from social media which is dominated by FOs, player agents, nerds & old farts, who want to live in the past. My objective is to get people to use their brain to observe, think, & make a rational conclusion on their own. The point that Nashville was making was that it isn't easy to give up something that has been a big part of your life for a long time. What do you substitute to fill that void? (I don't have the patience or drive to learn Chinese.) It's a process; I quit scouting other teams for acquisitions. I quit getting excited about draft picks. I quit my subscriptions like The Athletic & BBTVs. I no longer want to get access to watch Twins games or TD caretakers or go to the games alone. Twins have become boring under Falvey. I still find myself craving for the Twins to become the team that I hope they could be. I was a big Falvine fan, but as I observed, I could see the warts. As I shone light on those warts, I only experienced opposition from their fans. More they pushed back, the more I dug. IMO, for the Twin to achieve their full potential, it needs to be without Falvey & Co. After years of shining that light, that's what drives me but maybe one day, I'll give up totally & let the Twins become another CO ROX.
  20. Doctor Gast
    Falvey gets rid of coaches who don't agree with his stupid ideas & let great coaches walk, while promoting incompetent coaches that should be fired only because they don't question him. I like Baldelli & think he could become a pretty good manager if mentored by a good manager. He was hired because of his inexperience (or should I say lack of ability to stand up against Falvey) & ability to enforce his weird analytics. What do they say about keeping doing the same thing & expecting a different result? That's Falvey.
  21. Doctor Gast
    I'm sorry you're leaving, Nashville. I understand where you're coming from & I don't blame you. There is only so much a fan can take. I have considered the same thing many times. We must be delusional to think that Pohlads will become smart enough to fire Falvey & Co. I might be right behind you. Twins will lose a lot fans & lose a lot of money. Pohlads are crying that they are losing too much money the way it is. It's because they have no idea how to run a baseball team! The team should have been sold already. But they are holding out for more money! They'll only lose more money the longer they hold onto their incompetence. Pohlads, be happy with your $billion plus & step aside so someone else who knows what they're doing can take over. Because you have proven that you don't have a clue. Nashville, I hope very soon that we can come together & celebrate the Twins success after the Pohlads are gone.
  22. Doctor Gast
    I'm afraid you're maybe right. Falvey is running out of excuses. 1st it's injuries, it's always the hitting coaches, then the trainer, the weather, the cheap Pohlads (every team has these problems, it's how you deal with them that makes you a good FO); it can't be how he's running the team, so the next thing is to blame the players. Get rid of all of them & start all over. The Pohlads are buying everything Falvey is shoveling. I hope the fans aren't.
  23. Doctor Gast
    I'm not a big fan of an opener, when a RP comes in & pitches 1 inning & a SP comes in & pitches to X amount of batters. Because the mindset is different between the 2. What Baldelli did made sense, but in practice, it normally doesn't work unless both are ingrained in this process for the necessary amount of time to get accustomed to it. I prefer the SP to open & go as long as possible & go with a long RP after that. If you want to interject LHRP in between, that's OK too.
  24. Doctor Gast
    You have no idea what it has been like to be a Twins fan those past 20+ years w/o a postseason game win. To suffer from that humiliation. In the big picture of winning the big one, I agree that it's sad but to get that monkey off our back was huge; something to build off of, but that hasn't happened.
  25. Doctor Gast
    You gave tiers to the trade options, Where do you rank Escobar, Dozier & Pressley? 3 or 4? Duran was considered a dud until he was put in the BP, everybody else never really made much of an impact. I don't see anyone from tier 1-2 to offer up much, unless they are packaged up together & very good player evaluation on players we get in return. Larnach won't offer up much unless some team is desperate; he'd have been worth much more if dealt earlier. I'm a fan of Wallner, but I'm willing to trade him. Because, as I mentioned before, the Twins need a new identity of better defense & aggressive baserunning; Wallner doesn't fit into that mold & we could use him to pick up a promising young MLB-ready catcher. I really don't trust Festa or Matthews yet at this stage of their game to trade a SP, BP is tricky. Some suggest resigning some tier 1 or 2 tier players. I'd be open to resign Bader, Castro or Vazquez if the price is right.
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