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  1. Remember when the commissioner told the world that he was privy to inside information that the Twins sale would be happening soon?? Good times, good times. Those were simpler days back then.
  2. Let me be the first to point out that the Twins' offense is already down the Schlittler.
  3. Those old-timey 2023 videos still make me glad every time I watch them. Thanks for putting them out there again; I'm not crying, you're crying.
  4. I think it was in Moneyball that old-timey scouts were said to look for what they called "the good face," and I don't know exactly what they mean by it but sometimes I wonder if Julien is the opposite.
  5. You can't tell us the name of the new ownership, but you can tell us what they will do with certain players we have.
  6. He's batting .146. That's a catcher's profile if you ask me.
  7. In a thread annually titled Fun With Numbers, a little rowdiness is allowed.
  8. Oh, Another Tag Team Event Via Roccoball’s our shortstop!
  9. How did that 15-year contract with Hurricane Hazle work out for the Braves?
  10. He just wants to know, what is the name of the pitcher?
  11. Betteridge's Law of Headlines strikes again. Any headline ending in a question mark can typically be answered with "no." Not sure it really required the full 4 months to reach this conclusion, either.
  12. This post aged well.
  13. To some degree this is a fuzzy question. Tons of players under minor league contract are R5 eligible - it's just that no one would want them. I suggest you look at FangRaphs which has a pretty good page of Twins players, and form your own opinion: https://www.fangraphs.com/roster-resource/depth-charts/twins No one on the major league roster is subject to Rule 5 of course, so scroll down to the St Paul roster and go on down through Rookie league. They show "R5" for players who already passed through the Rule 5 draft in the past, and they show a date of Dec'25 for guys who will be newly eligible. Decide for yourself whether a given player is a "prospect" or a "suspect." We had a demonstration of that just over a week ago. 😀
  14. The band has a pretty fantastic repertoire that lets them cover a 75-minute set with ease. And two of the original three musicians are still going strong. It's interesting that they had to replace Mark Farner with two very good performers, a lead singer and a lead guitarist, both of whom had to cut a few corners on the licks that (a young) Farner used to handle.
  15. Just wanted to pop in to say, a) epic bad luck for the Twins to run into five definite Cy Young candidates all in the same game today, and b) Mrs Ash and I had a good time at a Grand Funk Railroad concert last night. Or, as I wound up calling this cadre of 76-year old performers, Grandpa Railroad.
  16. If you want a defense-first glove, just go ahead and bring up Culpepper. Miller is one month younger than Culpepper, and hit much less well than him at the same league level (and even worse at AAA, in a park that's usually a hitter's haven no less). If you mean "ever," I'm not quite willing to go that far. This year, yes, I'm with you. Neither of these two SS prospects is 23 years old yet. But right now, Miller would be made a fool of at the plate by any pitcher who has succeeded enough to escape AA ball himself. And all the above notwithstanding: Yes. I'd sooner have Miller. Perhaps the Dodgers viewed it the same way. Outman is one of the craziest looking trades ever - two months of Brock Stewart has to be worth more than him. If Falvey is eventually fired by the Twins, and if the Dodgers snap him up for any kind of role, I'm going to have some real questions. 😀
  17. I grit my teeth and try to ignore the omnipresent "the Pohlad's" in the comments section, but can we please ask the site's story editors to catch the mistake when it's in a headline? 😀
  18. Great, great attempt, diminished only a little in my own eyes by the sense that the umpire might have gotten a little too excited in the moment and robbed the batter of a single. 😀
  19. Chuck Norris has never blinked in his entire life. Never. I'm sure the Pohlads blinked at that initial offer, though. Houston knows the Blink Test as well as most salespeople. 😀
  20. Houston "could." But not "would," or even "should." I mean, why would/should Houston bid against themselves? They knew Correa had the no-trade clause, and they could infer they (themselves) were the only team he'd agree to go to. Minnesota really, really wanted out of that contract. Negotiation sessions were probably brief and brutal.
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