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  1. 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?
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. Doctor Gast
    After the '24 offseason, I predicted that the Twins would finish in 4th place because of the offseason transactions. I had predicted the same after this offseason. While still being a firm believer in this core & deep hope that the Twins would change their mindset of big bat is everything & heck to with everything else. It's a pleasure to watch a team like MIL playing baseball the right way & wish the Twins could copy them instead of the NYY. You wonder why we always get embarrassed by the NYY? It's because we are a very inferior copy of them, because we can't come close to competing with them in FA to fill our needs. You say it's not too late. If we don't change our identity, it's too late & a long time overdue. Twins need to be a lot more proactive. Lopez has been injured for almost 3 weeks & nothing has been done. They are waiting for everything to unravel 1st & put a band-aid on it. IMO, we can be a better version of MIL.
  11. Doctor Gast
    Thank you, T&R, rest assured, my objective has remained the same. That is to win a World Series. So, what or who is standing in the way of obtaining that objective? Is it Byron or Carlos? If it is, how much can we get in return for them? I'm all for trading away any player at their high trade value to obtain a player that fills a greater need (which I'm often highly criticized for). We've had many great players to go through this organization the past 20+ years, 1st ballot HoF Mauer tops that list, and you can add Morneau, Hunter, Santana, & Liriano. But none of them helped MN win a postseason game. Lopez & Correa not only helped us win a postseason game but also a postseason series. Falvey boasted how his "all or nothing" hitting approach was the factor that took us to the postseason. But I differ; we won despite this philosophy. (They went all in on this philosophy in '24 to our demise.) I believe we could have gone further w/o Failvey's philosophies. Correa & Lopez fell into our laps, they bring w/ them a lot of intangibles. Do you know how difficult it is to bring in this caliber of talent? Yeah, we wasted their talents & our open window in '24, This season, Lopez is on the IL, Correa starts slow & seems to be playing hurt & the Twins are losing. Falvey loves social media blaming the core for our problems because it takes our eyes off our real problem. The point of my post of not trading off our core, isn't that I'm sentimental. It's because I see them as part of the solution of obtaining my hopeful objective not a deterrent. & my lack of confidence in Falvey to be able to produce a core that'll take us to the big dance (which I won't list because I've posted & blogged so many times before.) I don't hate Falvey, I just see him as a deterrent of that objective (it's not subjective). IMO, our main core can show the next core how to do it & mentor them. This is the best way to prepare them, not having them floundering under Falvey & Co.
  12. Doctor Gast
    Twins did a great job trying to climb out a very deep hole. Our pitching is going down the crapper since Lopez got hurt almost 3 weeks ago & the Twins haven't done anything to get us out of it. I don't like the talk of trading the core, of blaming them for management mistakes. Management likes to blame, the health trainers, hitting coaches & now the core. Yeah, it's not management's fault so get rid of all the core, trade them away for nothing & start all over again & make all the same mistakes all over again & sign management to extensions again. & lose a lot of fans while you're at it. IMO, for Twins to win, they need a new identity. That means that we need to ditch the old big bat, poor defense, poor fundamentals, poor baserunning, poor clutch hitting, Ks, ignoring intangibles, etc., philosophy. "You can't put new wine into old wine skins". If you want better defense, fundamentals, baserunning, clutch-hitting, etc., we may need different personnel.
  13. Doctor Gast
    The main point on my post isn't about Lewis or Wallner. It's the correlation of the change of how Baldelli changed his managing & us winning & losing.
  14. Doctor Gast
    Like I posted earlier on the game thread. MIL is playing smart ball & MN can't handle it. Now this isn't a knock on Wallner. When Wallner was out, Baldelli decided he wanted to change things up more. The team played better defense, smarter baseball, more aggressive baserunning, less micromanaging, more fire with return of Lewis & Castro & more clutch-hitting. & we went on a 13-game winning streak. When Wallner returned, Baldelli went back to his old losing way of doing things.
  15. Doctor Gast
    Good point, I took what you said under consideration. But IMO, right now we have Ryan, Ober, Paddack, SWR, & Festa with no long relief. IMO, we don't have anyone in AAA ready to be called up any time soon. Our rotation is spread very thin. Lopez is out (I thought he'd be the last to be affected), Matthews is on the IL already, Festa had a fatigue arm already, Ober & especially Paddack's (arm history) velos are down, SWR arm is young and Ryan had problems last season. IMO, the best thing is not to overextend & put too much pressure on our young guys so they don't end up on the IL & or not pitch enough quality innings. Gibson can be the best thing for our young arms, besides eating innings & also be that extra veteran presence & mentor. One of the biggest reasons we won't make it to the postseason is by ignoring failing starting pitching from the beginning. If our young arms don't land on the IL & not peter out, they'll pitch more.
  16. Doctor Gast
    MIL is playing good baseball & MN can't handle it
  17. Doctor Gast
    Ufta Twins!
  18. Doctor Gast
    Looks like Sims is having some command problems
  19. Doctor Gast
    I don't understand why Baldelli likes to place Jeffers at the top of the order. He's not fast, has others with better OBP & IMO as a catcher he should have less ABs to conserve him.
  20. Doctor Gast
    Kyle Gibson, had a great AAA time with TB. He just became a FA. He's ready to pitch MLB now. Twins should jump all over him right now. He'd be a great veteran clubhouse presence, an inning-eater, cheap & Twins desperately need him.
  21. Doctor Gast
    Here where I live, the low of around 60 degree & high around 80. Not bad for winter, yet my wife still complains that's it's too cold. I sure won't complain.
  22. Doctor Gast
    Defense is very important & yet is so very difficult to measure. I basically agree with the assessment, IMO, Buck should be higher. Correa was not listed, but he hasn't been the same. INF is fragile, France has been surprisingly solid (although his score seems a little high), For all the 2Bmen we have on hand, it's still a weak position defensively (valuable up the middle position should be better). IMO, Lewis is better at 3B. I'm satisfied with Vazquez & Jeffers but could use some help to be better.
  23. Doctor Gast
    You probably want McCrusher up instead, which is fair. Keirsey w/o regular ABs will never adapt to MLB pitching, nobody can. If he won't get it in MLB, he should be in AAA. But this seems like an undeserved rip at him. What did you expect from him last night? With 1 AB, single-handedly carry the team to victory? He did get on base & scored at that AB & played good defense. What more can you ask?
  24. Doctor Gast
    Twins bringing home the "road kill", I still stand by our core but it seems Correa is playing hurt. Ryan pitched a good game but Misiorowski was better. Congratulations to Lee on his hitting streak. Twins won't amount to anything as long Falvey & Co are at the helm. They have put together a pitching pipeline which I give them credit but they have failed at everything else. MIL is a small market but they know what they have to do.
  25. Doctor Gast
    I feel sorry for Buxton because he is very deserving of being an all-star this year. But because Twins fans are so indifferent to the team, many don't bother to vote. I'm don't care about HR derby, I don't care who's in it or wins. I do care that it often screws up our hitters after they're in it. So I'm against Buxton or any other Twin in the contest.
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