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Sudden Onset High BABIP Syndrome is not a plan. 😀

Ding dang it. The TD user interface when replies go to a new page got me again.

I trust then that, if a ton of people are "uncomfortable" with Torii as manager because of what he said, it should be given weight too.

Wait, I hadn't heard about this on top of everything else. Pretty dire diagnosis.

Yes, because high draft pick position players like Buxton, Correa, and Lewis rarely get injured.

Cut to the chase and just promote Byron Buxton to player-manager, then.

Sad.

We're getting creative at 1B, and no mention of Aaron Sabato? Uh, yeah, I guess not.

Maybe it's obvious to everyone, but I didn't see anyone (including the OP) explicitly bringing out the headline's connection to the legendary Soul Patrol of 2000-01: Jacque/Torii/Matt. Nicely done.

I disagree. What is a spreadsheet but a list with a college education?

Why are we to believe that Robo-Skipper 5000 will perform any better than prototype 4999, 4998, and the others before those? Give me AccuBoss 3.2 - after the minor disaster of version 2.0 (second system syndrome), the back to basics approach of version 3.0 plus a couple of maintenance updates has resulted in a proven system used in the oil refining industry, supply chains, and AYSO soccer leagues.

Then let me be the first to say I'm in favor of offering him a contract.

Falvey essentially did this already when he traded anyone good in the bullpen having 2 years of control remaining

He'll probably sign cheaply. That means it won't be too financially painful to fire him after a 100-loss season, in conjunction with bringing in someone new at the top of the FO.

Neither did the Mariners. He started 34 games at the position.

If I were a managerial candidate, the lack of a viable major league shortstop would look like a red flag to me.

Something as good as the U of M Rouser, specific to the locale, would be ideal. Sweet Caroline was organic to Fenway - it just caught on without anyone visibly trying - so trying to create something like that won't be easy.

Hmm, when I read something labeled as Satire, and I recognize myself in it, usually I keep that information to myself. 😀

Nothing would be an improvement.

From the article: "Those guys [López and Ryan] are part of it, right? So that's my vision, that's my hope. That's my expectation as we sit here. It still requires some ongoing conversations with ownership and what that looks like." He's talking about cashflow, isn't he? Who is he talking to? He switched mid-thought from roster decisions to budget decisions. The public doesn't want to hear this form of Inside Baseball, If he wanted to express his uncertainty, he could have positioned it as "if some team offers us a deal that makes us better, of course we have to listen. But the plan is Lopez and Ryan topping the rotation. We think that's exciting." Cashflow is whatever ownership, with manifestly deep enough pockets to run a big-time business, decides what it is. This isn't some mom-and-pop operation like a restaurant, where they can't perfectly forecast their hiring and personnel decisions a year in advance, and they could literally be out of money to write their payroll checks against. No, if the Twins are running in the red, they have the means to cope. So pull up those big-boy pants and run a big-time business. This was the internal discussion the FO presumably had in July, before the deadline deals. "Where do the numbers look for next year? If we conduct a fire sale, what does that do to revenue for FY 2026?" Why the continuing uncertainty 3 months later? "Expectation" as corporate-speak is nearly as tone-deaf as "right-sizing." Don't cut your marketing department off at the knees. Make a commitment at the top level and stick with it. If it turns out a year from now the forecasts were bad, then cover it, and figure out what made those estimates bad and don't keep repeating it. But don't make it a topic of public discourse. Nobody cares about what the FO "hopes" and "expects" and their "conversations with ownership." That's saying the quiet part out loud. It feels like Dave St Peter never left. (Because apparently he didn't.)

So you have information that the Pohlads have found a buyer, after all? 😄

One run scored by the offense today, and that's your take?

We kept them to a minimum.

I thought Kepler supposedly refused to play CF in his last years as a Twin.