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  1. umterp23
    Morneau with all kinds of excuses for the closer Duran. Closer doesn’t need to start inning with no one on to close the game. Hang pitches down the middle and more times than not they are hit hard
  2. umterp23
    The healthy hurt chart is color backwards. Green to me means go you are healthy and red is stop your hurt. Don’t think Vázquez is hurt as he just wasn’t playing enough to be out there every other day. Yes he and Jeffers had banged up hands but Jeffers has earned some more starts as he is playing better both offensively and defensively than Vázquez. Play the schedule you are given, so beat up the teams you are supposed to and then build momentum. Big stretch of games this week
  3. umterp23
    Twins have just spent more $$’s on diamond dry than they did in off season in free agency
  4. umterp23
    Hard hit off the bat is something I’d be curious about as well combined,with launch angle. Don’t have the time to research all at bats, but looked at last night. Double, high launch angle and 100 mph off the bat having 1 strike on him in 1st at bat. Singles at 2nd at bat 109 off bat with no strikes in count. Singles in 3rd at bat 94.5 off at bat with 2 strikes. 4th at bat line drive out 95.7 off bat with 1 strike count. Last at bat after a brutal way outside strike2 call popped up to right at 86.2 off bat. Seems like when he is aggressive in the at bat his bat speed is higher. One of the few on the team with two strikes that is contact oriented.
  5. umterp23
    I like Vader and he gives you speed, hustle, solid defense and some grit at the plate. Dust, foot on base and a video review you make the call. When you watch it real time he is almost a full body length past the bag. One thing if you are sliding head first is touch and holding the bag with a hand. Take off the oven mitt these guys wear and he holds the bag vs flying over the bag. For a split second there wasn’t a single body part touching the bag per video review.
  6. umterp23
    Always interesting to hear about injuries when we see them but the excuses that it has been lingering for weeks to months coming out afterwards from players just sounds like excuses. It’s like when you hit weak ground balls and basically walk to first base for easy out, well,shucks, I was going to be out anyway. Miranda going on IL after demotion for really bad play and bad baseball IQ, but I’m hurt so maybe that’s why I wasn’t good. Twins fan have been hurt watching bad baseball, but last night was fun. Maybe some youth on this team can lead the way to allow the fans to enjoy good, playing hard brand of baseball.
  7. umterp23
    No matter the lineup, is any opposing pitcher scared of this group?
  8. umterp23
    Jeffers had quality at bats. Didn’t chase anything outside the zone to draw the two walks. 1st at bat was very high fly ball onto warning track. Slight elevation change on that trajectory would have been 1-0 twins in the first. Dribbler happens to even out hard hit balls that are outs, so good with his effort. Button only at bat was to swing at first pitch for a ground ball out to start the game. 1stmpitchnof game and you swing you better not make and out. Correa had to talk about not worried about spring training results went he went 0-for, I guess when you are pulling in $30+MM, results be damned. Julien proves he can’t field. Now field may have been sloppy but he still made an error. always tomorrow, go twins
  9. umterp23
    Vázquez has smarts? How do you say that or measure it compared to Jeffers not having them?
  10. umterp23
    Voters dictate starters and so twins players will have to go the route of of selected and not auto vote in. Fan vote has skewed the game on occasions as with every other all star game including awful skill flag football pro bowl. I like our chances with a couple guys being included.
  11. umterp23
    People talk of salary relief if trading Vázquez. The assumption is we aren’t eating any of the salary to move, which is what Twins would have to do. Most likely teams are going to ask twins to eat $5MM and what relief is that? I don’t see twins trading Jefferson unless it is a sizeable offer in favor of twins, not sure FO has ever won on sizeable offer though. What team is going to trade for Vázquez and also give us a joint ready MLB catcher, not happening. $5MM to spend on FA catcher won’t get us much I don’t think
  12. umterp23
    Blinded by the signing dollars and opted for shades for indoor picture. Too cool for old school
  13. umterp23
    How many trade a catcher articles will be written? Break glass if necessary depth what we have at AAA, not ready ply 81 games like Rocco wants.
  14. umterp23
    AAAA and High Leverage situation verbiage getting used makes me laugh. Last time I checked AAAA doesn’t exist. AAA minor league deal would be fine and if anyone makes a case to be on 26 man than they are a major league player not some made up A status. bullpen and being brought in to do your job is do your job. Any relief pitcher is in a leverage position except a position player
  15. umterp23
    It's truly a damn if you do and damn if you don't time for Lewis. I don't slump comments truly shouldn't have been uttered last year and then truly slumped for last few months. He is good, but can't get past the injury bugs year in year out. If you backload the contract sure I would do it, but hasn't been a full year guy. If Mgmt claims they are severely cash strapped, then there will be more rookie salaried players on 26 man which hurts team as well
  16. umterp23
    Lewis can be a really good player... but... as comments have shown, injuries, lack of quality defensive chops and a arbitration eligibility for 3-4 years to come I can't think why you extend him now. His first cup of coffee for arbitration projects to be $2.3MM for '25 season. Why would we throw out there an example of 8 year $70MM deal concept at him. Would he most likely sign it? Absolutely he would but now you are cash strapped for all your arbitration players this year to get them signed. His locked up deal would have to be escalator driven for early years to have higher number in later years and no way it should be a full no trade clause contract. Would give him an opt out after year 4 before higher backloaded money kicks in. Just don't think it is necessary prior to him playing at least 125-140 games with 80% defensively and not a crap ton of DH games
  17. umterp23
    Something really satisfying to me when a teams make the playoffs and make a run with payrolls lower than then the big markets. Billionaires can do what they want, can't control that, but players playing on the field for teams that shouldn't be there makes me root for them even more.
  18. umterp23
    Monopoly money being thrown around year after year by select few who are "buying" championship opportunities. I'll continue to root for teams with modest payrolls all day long.
  19. umterp23
    If we think trading Vazquez is ideal to get some money relief, let's look at todays catching news. Danny Jenson signed 1 year deal for $8MM + 2026 option and $500K buyout, Played 91 games, hitting .205 with 9 HR's and 24 RBI's with 324 plate appearances. His only calling card was blocking pitches.
  20. umterp23
    If Kiersey's benchmark is Margot, the only thing he has to do is get a base hit pinch hitting!
  21. umterp23
    Easy change that could have been made was to end the game in a tie after a normal 10th inning of baseball. Ties aren't a great thing or a bad thing. Football games can still end in a tie at the NFL level, used to end in a tie at the college level. Hockey can end in a tie. Next thing we know the guy will be put on 3rd base to start the inning vs 2nd base and you get one shot to bring him home. Batter scores on fly out with 1st batter up, you win. Batter Strikes out or force out and home team gets on shot to win it. Neither score in 10th then be done with the game. I don't like extra innings format, so just end the game in a tie and move on. Players don't like extra inning games, too hard on their bodies over 162 game season. Guess what, play less games in regular season and don't play 25+ games in spring training. Argument will be made that players need time to ramp up in spring training so play the whole month of March to do that. Come to camp in shape and ready to go to start the season in Mid-April by starting spring training Mid-March. Later start to season gives northern cities who play outside better chance of warmer weather. End season Mid-September before crappy weather happens more often in northern climates. Worn out bodies through the year, change roster size from 26 in spring and make it 35 for first 30 days of season and last 35 days if we are worried about guys getting hurt when not ready to play more than 4 innings at a time or fatigued at end of the year. Baseball Pastime doesn't exist the way I grew up with and I never complained about how long a game took. Baseball was baseball. Instant gratification world is upon us and will only get worse.
  22. umterp23
    So a scenario of what ifs was played out I think in a The Athletic article that said what if you are Bobby Witt Jr gets the golden bat to start the 9th inning from a poor 9th in the lineup hitter. He either strikes out or gets a base hit. Now lets say he gets a hit, a double. They pitch run for him and guess what he is back at the plate as the leadoff hitter. Gets 2 for the price of 1 plate appearances. Or he strikeouts but still stays at the plate to take his normal turn. Next thing you will get is team A has hit too many homers and the next one is an automatic out when they blast one. Beer softball leagues here we come under this clowns leadership.
  23. umterp23
    So for all the articles, comments that he is not very good and time to trade him, let's look at this quick FA recent signing. Travis D'Arnaud, 36 years old who got 2 years $12MM deal with Angels as a backup. Trade Jeffers and now you are relying on Vazquez and Camargo as your backup or you have to spend more than Jeffers new salary in FA or strike a no-brainer deal for a new catcher that most likely is competing vs AAA Camargo to be on the big club. Not sure trading makes sense unless you get a steal in return coming back.
  24. umterp23
    If we are looking to move Castro, throw in a Zebby or Festa along with Lee/Julien and go after Matt Shaw with the Cubs. Shaw was a stud at Maryland in college as a SS but very easily could slot over to 2nd base to solve our need there since no one believes either Castro there full time or Lee, Lewis, Julien in near term. Don't have a numbers/value idea if that would work but can't hurt to poke the cubs on what it might take. Most likely a front line starting pitcher but not sure I would want to give up our top 3 established guys
  25. umterp23
    A trade like this all comes down to optics. Does it get categorized as a salary dump or a mega deal of Correa for 3, 4 or 5 parts to the puzzle of having high quality at multiple positions of need. Not opposed to the idea and while yes he was good in '24, he was good for barely half the season on the field. Open to any and all trades that could give the team financial flexibility, but that has to mean they will invest dollars in new assets and not pocket the financial gain of such salary traded. Not sure we win in any of these scenarios
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