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    Stop that. My blood pressure is loving these games.
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    Exactly like I predicted.
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    Look, I think this is still a sub-.500 team. On paper, they're certainly still a sub-.500 team. But they don't seem to want to be a sub-.500 team ... and that's what I like to see. That attitude may make all the difference.
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    "At least one asset acquired last summer is making a name for himself, at least in a tiny sample size to date. Taj Bradley ...what say ye?" I say he ain't doing too bradley so far. Keep it up, young feller.
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    I love how we get when these Twins are just a single game above .500. And I'm feeling it, too. Bring on the prospects and let's irritate some division foes.
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    Probably too early to say this, but I do like Shelton as manager a lot better than Rocco. A lot. A lot.
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    Same here. In fact, they've just bested my predicted season win total.
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    Cy Bradley. A taj overdone ... but I like it.
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    Twins Daily's members are some of the smartest (best-looking) posters around! Well this is definitive proof that Twins Daily doesn't access my laptop camera. Whew!
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    Excited for the next Tom Pohlad interview. Maybe after the opening homestand.
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    It's not just that they lose ... it's that, as an organization, they're losers. They don't act and set a winning agenda - instead they react and are constantly scrambling to patch roster holes and catch up to the latest trend. It starts with ownership. The "Spin the Pohlad Wheel" offseason got us Tom, a guy who clearly had no ability to assess the quality of the roster and decided to kick tough decisions down the road. A critical injury to Ryan, Lopez and/or Buxton was entirely predictable ... and this roster clearly needed all three at peak health just to start sniffing around .500. I wouldn't have been pessimistic about a commitment to a rebuild. I don't mind watching a young team take its lumps if there's a greater plan in place. But watching fringe veterans and failed post-hype prospects attempt to "compete" for the AL Central is nauseating. And the fool's talk of "we expect to win" makes it so much worse, because you realize that there's still no one competent or cognizant in the organization to steer the ship.
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    The only optimism I feel for 2026 is that we won't have to hear Baldelli give flimsy excuses after crushing losses. That alone is a major improvement going into the season. They need to develop a signature brand of fundamentally-sound baseball, they need to help young players adjust and excel, and they need to trade assets as soon as the market offers opportunity. They'll lose at least 88 games, but if 2026 proves that 2025 was rock-bottom and that the bounce up has begun, that'll be a major win for the franchise.
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    Slow and sloppy baseball is the worst kind of baseball. Shelton can't make this roster more talented, but he can help the team improve on-field focus and at least make routine plays look, well, routine. That's the improvement I'm looking for.
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    Read the fine print. If you win, you also have to pitch the 6th inning.
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    The third one will not happen. Prielipp continues to be wildly overrated as a prospect in this system. He's not consistent and he's not yet durable.
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    I'm not mad that it's going to be a bad year - I expected that. I'm mad that it's not a productively bad year. Halting the roster fire sale and the team sale are going to turn out to be two of the most damaging decisions in recent franchise history. The first means that they let future value slip away for nothing. The second means that fans will stay away even if they somehow start to become competitive again in 2028 or 2029.
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    "That distinction highlights the real criticism facing the Twins right now. It is not just about wins and losses. It is about perception." With respect, it's not about "vibes" or "perception." It's about gravity and reality. A team in the Twins' position has only a few options for building a real contender. You have to draft exceptionally well, develop talent exceptionally well and trade exceptionally well. You have to accumulate top-tier prospects in the down years and open payroll spending when a core begins to gel. And you have to be absolutely laser-focused on building and recycling value. A team that wanted to contend in the foreseeable future absolutely positively had to trade Buxton, Lopez, Ryan and Jeffers this offseason at the height of their value. The Twins couldn't take action, and were only left with a vague mandate from an out-of-touch owner to "win now." As a result, the Twins are still too far away from a full and productive rebuild and way too far away from being a contender. In other words, they're in the worst possible spot to be in heading into the CBA mess. It's sad, but it is nice to have some national writers supply this much-needed splash of cold reality on the FO, and maybe the fanbase, too. I hope the Twins eventually turn things around, but they haven't even started the process yet.
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    "Fortunate" and "bold" are maybe the last two words in the English language that I would associate with the Minnesota Twins, so that last prediction is a big no. A big, big no. In fact, this is a magical thinking wish list, not a set of predictions. Nice wishes, though, I'll grant you that.
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    How does a contention window that is already firmly shut somehow "remain open" with this extension? That's the only part that confuses me. Something has to be open in the first place to remain open. If this was his first TJ surgery, I think I'd do this in a heartbeat. But after his second? I think I'd get him ready for a strong 2027 and move on at the trade deadline.
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    And here I thought Gleeman and Bonnes had the hottest ticket interview this week with Derek Shelton. This blew that one out of the water. Great work. Did they have any thoughts on an early Spring for the Midwest? Seriously, this one goes in the all-time greats of Stu satire. Hall of Fame post. Come June, you might wish you were writing for Rockies Daily.
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    It's a swing only a spreadsheet could love. But hope springs eternal.
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    Is it legal to have two Culpeppers on the big league team at the same time? Hope they both make it, rules or no.
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    Cody, I get where you're coming from on this, and you've articulated well. From a certain perspective - heck, from Tom Pohlad's perspective - the future is now. Expanded ownership team. New manager. New-look FO. Arriving prospects. Let 'er rip! But for me, the most consequential moments already happened. T3 set this team on a path of short-term PR at the expense of longer-term success. Instead of value for Lopez, they'll get nothing. They have to pray for Jeffers, Ryan and Buxton to remain healthy and productive in order to recoup even just a bit of the value they lost by ignoring offseason trade offers. And I don't think they'll fall flat on their face right away. I think Shelton will lead the team to a better quality of baseball. I think folks will look at this team come mid-May, squint, and think that maybe everything might come together after all. It won't. By July, the rotation will look like Swiss cheese. The bullpen will be a carousel of waiver claims and St. Paul call-ups. Teams like the Tigers, Royals and Guardians will start finding all of the soft spots. The cream will rise, as they say. The wheat will be separated from the chaff. And the Twins, unable to get any further on T3 "good vibes" will sink to the cellar. Deadline returns - the lifeline of potentially-elite prospects this organization desperately needs - will be uninspiring at best. 2026 was lost on July 31st, 2025. Sadly, the pathway to contention as early as 2028 has already been set back, too. From here on out, it's just a matter of watching the slow-motion crash.
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    I can see it. I just can't see too many wins above that.
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