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  1. LastOnePicked
    For the time being, I've given up being worried about free agent spending for this club. Seems like when you have a roster near contention, you look at the gaps you have and target more aggressively in free agency to fill them. It's downright disgusting that this didn't happen in the 23-24 offseason, but we've all spent enough bile on that. Now, I want all focus to be on development, development, development. We don't need a Bader or a France or even a Correa. We need some of the best scouts, coaches and training facilities in MLB. I don't want them to spend a penny of Pohlad and pals precious cash on free agents this offseason. I want to see an organizational rebuild that will keep top talent from crashing out in year two of their MLB experience. I want young players to have a much smoother - and quicker - pathway to success. That's all I care about now.
  2. LastOnePicked
    Do we really want to watch a few marginal add-on bats keep our top prospects in AA and AAA for "additional seasoning"? I don't think that's been a great approach so far, and I was really hoping we were ready to make the transition to talent and youth. If we're going to have a low payroll, and least let the prospects make some major league money in the process.
  3. LastOnePicked
    It's yet another sign that the people involved in decision-making are just so over their heads. They don't have a vision, a plan or the skills required to put a winning plan into action. They aren't villains or bad people or anything like that - they just are making it clear with every action that the organization is totally rudderless. And that lack of leadership has a way of filtering down to on-the-field play. They simply don't know what they're doing, so it's no wonder we fans are also confused.
  4. LastOnePicked
    Of all the painful decisions of the last few years, this one hurts the most. I thought we were finally embarking on a journey with this team that was going to see young homegrown talent finally get a chance to sink or swim. To get out of the free agent and waiver claim dumpster and into the development of a real roster. Yes, it was going to involve some very bad baseball and some last-place finishes. But there's a difference between unwatchable bad baseball and very watchable bad baseball. Watchable bad baseball features the likes of Walker Jenkins getting ABs in unfavorable matchups. Unwatchable bad baseball has your veteran "core" on the IL as Mickey Gasper gets an exhausting extension of his MLB career. But now we're back to FO doublespeak and roster "nibbling" with the hopes that somehow a few marginal free-agents and an uninspiring and lackluster core will somehow - what? - catch lightning in a bottle and fall just 2-3 games short of a 2026 WC berth? That we'll end up picking 12th in the 2027 Draft instead of 2nd? If ever there was a time to commit to a full and total organizational rebuild, it's now. Lopez, Jeffers, Buxton and Ryan have value. That value - assuming Falvey is even half competent at trades - could be traded for prospects who could be leading the team in a 2029 championship run. Or it can continue to rot away on a well-below-mediocre roster, pushing the next playoff window further and further and further away.
  5. LastOnePicked
    "the front office emphasized stability and a plan to keep the roster intact while searching for incremental upgrades." I mean, I'm beating this to death and I'll stop soon, but just imagine writing this about a team that has made the playoffs once in five years, with absolutely dismal returns over the last two. This is a bottom 5 organization in all of MLB. Full stop. And yet somehow, "stability" and "incremental upgrades" are seen as good things?! This insanity has got to stop sometime, doesn't it? I thought this organization had finally realized where things stood at last year's trade deadline, but I guess not. It's sad, because all of this delusional thinking is going to push actual winning baseball, actual contention further and further down the road.
  6. LastOnePicked
    Great thinking. This kind of innovative approach landed us MLB-ready talent like James Outman, Taj Bradley and Alan Roden. It moves the needle now, turning a 70-win 2025 team into a 70-win 2026 team. When Buxton and Lopez are rehabbing from IL stints during the Trade Deadline and Joe Ryan's anger is inflating his HR allowed ratio, we'll all be able to look back to this fateful decision during the Winter Meetings and compliment this FO on another excellent offseason, setting the table for sustained future success.
  7. LastOnePicked
    I think we're struggling with the "buy low, sell high" part of rebuilding. Lewis needs to rebuild value. You wouldn't get much for him as it is.
  8. LastOnePicked
    Oh boy. Falvey is addicted to trades. Gonna need rehab soon.
  9. LastOnePicked
    They may be injured by then. You buy low and you sell high. That's how you build a winner if you can't buy a winner. The Twins are not equipped for winning in 2026. Falvey has to understand this. And no new ownership partners are going to be able to change that.
  10. LastOnePicked
    I think you're the best, Doc, but I disagree with this with every fiber of my Twins fandom.
  11. LastOnePicked
    Not selling high on Lopez, Jeffers, Ryan and/or Buxton would be the worst move possible. Will it really be thrilling to watch a 74 win team knowing that we've let future chances for impact players just slip away? Yuck. There is no core left. Get on with this rebuild now. This ratty, bloody band-aid is dangling - tear it off and let's get on with a new era of Twins baseball.
  12. LastOnePicked
    The beauty of baseball is watching a winning club in action, not imagining one. It's long past time for this team to pick a lane. and they seemingly did last trade deadline. It's a rebuild. So commit to it. There is nothing even remotely realistic about this club and the playoffs in 2026. And that's fine. Build now for future success.
  13. LastOnePicked
    Well, they've made the wrong move at every step, so I expected them to keep that streak intact. Selling high on Ryan, Lopez and Buxton is EXACTLY the RIGHT THING to do at this time. This is a nothing club. They'll be signing no one. They are going nowhere in the near future. So, of course they're going to keep the "core" together and let them moulder in the AL Central. It's the worst move possible, and they've proven a knack for pulling all the wrong levers.
  14. LastOnePicked
    There will never be a better time to make a trade. I don't want to see him flounder on a AAAA team. If he's got some left in the tank, let him excel on a grander stage.
  15. LastOnePicked
    A better style of play. More accountability and self-respect. That's all I'm asking of Shelton at this point. Ownership is going to leave him with absolutely nothing in terms of payroll. So be it. These are the new dark days of Twins baseball. But the players coming in have got to learn to play the game with more skill and composure. This is a AAA team for the foreseeable future. Let's be a AAA team that can at least look itself in the mirror after nine innings.
  16. LastOnePicked
    Still waiting for the "Rocco as fall guy" narrative to finally get buried. If ever a managerial firing was called for, it was his. Terrible ownership decisions after 2023 don't excuse abject collapses on the field in 2021, 2022, 2024 and 2025.
  17. LastOnePicked
    I don't think there's any way to supplement the roster to make a winner. As many have noted, the time for that approach was two offseasons ago. Now, the focus just has to be on building the scouting and coaching infrastructure for a winning club. Focus, attitude, fundamentals. Other teams are going to beat the Twins a lot over the next four years. I just don't want to keep seeing the Twins beat themselves.
  18. LastOnePicked
    That clip feels like it came from a lifetime ago. I can't imagine how any owner could see a raucous, electric postseason Target Field and not put more chips on the table. But that's the ownership we have. A nothing franchise, with no heart, no guts and no vision. Yes, baseball is often unpredictable, but trust me, the Jays and the Twins will not be switching places anytime soon.
  19. LastOnePicked
    "The club possesses one of the AL's strongest starting rotations alongside a top-five farm system in baseball." You're not serious, are you? This is just a big no. I'm not even sure if they're in the top ten in the AL. I mean, I appreciate the optimism, but come on. And working in unison with the FO is not at all something I'm looking for in a Twins manager. Not until that FO changes hands.
  20. LastOnePicked
    Yes to Hunter. Big yes. It gives him the opportunity to advance his career, and he brings an approach to the game that is sorely needed here. And he won't just let the FO or ownership puppeteer him.
  21. LastOnePicked
    Yes. The guy cannot communicate a single direct idea. Here are quick re-writes of his three corporate-speak quotes included in the article: "Not all of this is on Rocco, but we have to bring in a new voice." "There are a lot of skills we're looking for - I can't get into all of them right now." "We'll put an emphasis on player development skills for the whole roster." Falvey communicates like a man who's afraid to say the wrong thing ... so he ends up saying nothing. We've had too much of this style for far too long.
  22. LastOnePicked
    "And there are more ways to inspire people outside of yelling." I'm going to set aside this old strawman argument (for the record, almost no one was asking Rocco to flip chairs and tables - let's put this nonsense to rest) and just point out that you seem to have nailed Rocco's problem without realizing it: his teams played profoundly uninspired baseball. Again, highest payrolls in the AL Central. Top-ranked farm systems. Routinely picked in preseason and midseason predictions to be an AL Central Championship team or a playoff team. Flop, flop, flop. Over and over again. People love to say that his 2023 team broke the record playoff losing streak while conveniently forgetting that his tenure here actually set that record. Rocco absolutely was a part of the problem here ... and he may actually have been THE problem.
  23. LastOnePicked
    No, but Dr. Jeckyll might.
  24. LastOnePicked
    It's not a no-win situation. It's more like a 60-win situation. Hey, there are only 30 of these positions available. If you're a potential candidate trying to break into - or break back into - MLB coaching, you have to start somewhere. If any manager can just increase the quality of approach and play, that should be considered a huge win. Re-establish a winning culture through a few tough seasons and the bigger Ws won't be too far behind.
  25. LastOnePicked
    I just don't get the scapegoat talk. You look at the record, the underperformance, the collapses - Mr. Rogers could have bought this team and HE still would have fired Rocco. He certainly appears to be a truly decent guy, and I appreciate that he never dishonored the club with crude statements or behavior. But being a good guy is just not enough at this level. I mean, have we ever considered that Rocco actually was THE problem? That this team, at a crucial stage in their cohesion, needed something a bit more disciplined than a loose, friendly clubhouse? Something a bit more task-oriented that a "feel-good" guy that players liked? Somebody who, instead of getting praise from the FO for following orders, actually pushed back on commands that were making the team predictable and easy for opponents to game-plan against? I'm not saying definitively that Rocco was THE problem, but it's not out of the question. I mean, they often had a top AL Central payroll and a highly-ranked farm system. This team absolutely became sluggish, sloppy and listless, and often feel apart when faced with a challenge. That suggests a real problem with leadership in the dugout. Sometimes nice guys are not great managers.
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