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  1. LastOnePicked
    When this MiLB coaching staff starts churning out HOF-quality players, then we'll talk. I fail to see how another year at a level he's already dominated will help him conquer the level he's never experienced.
  2. LastOnePicked
    What else is there for him to work on? He can still train. They're not forbidden to keep their bodies in shape. He deserves to enter the offseason as a MLB player and to have a voice/vote in the CBA negotiations that will affect his future.
  3. LastOnePicked
    The Pohlads pulling this team off the market was the death knell for this organization. It signaled that nothing would ever change in competitiveness, intelligence or approach. When you don't understand the game and you don't care about winning, you'll miss every single opportunity to improve. I don't mean a forever death. Anything is possible over a long enough timeline. But so long as the Pohlads are pulling the levers here, this organization has zero chance at a title. Zero.
  4. LastOnePicked
    What kind of rebuild leads you to hold on to once-valuable but ultimately injured/underperforming veterans as well as lose your #7 prospect and three more in your top 30? And also blocking the pathway for other prospects to prove they can be a part of the future here? This wasn't a rebuild year. It should have been, but it wasn't.
  5. LastOnePicked
    New levels of failure are this team's speciality. Trust me, if they can find a rake, they'll step right on it.
  6. LastOnePicked
    Here's a decent benchmark: attendance. Twins set a record for low attendance last year. This year they're running 3% below last year's totals. If the goal was to boost fan interest, they have clearly underachieved. Ownership said it's a "win-now" era. Fans didn't believe it and the team certainly hasn't proven them wrong.
  7. LastOnePicked
    The real question was this: "Are we actually in a WC hunt? Are we putting our best players on the field in order to capitalize on this opportunity?" Imagine being a top prospect, doing everything you can to break down the door at AAA, and then being held down because your team's owner/FO is frightened of a work stoppage the next year. I wouldn't stay in that organization once my obligations were fulfilled. Not for any amount of money.
  8. LastOnePicked
    No, but this one at least has the benefit of not hearing the manager lavish praise on the players just for "showing up" and "playing hard." I'll take progress wherever I can get it.
  9. LastOnePicked
    I should have used another term - mostly I meant earning potential and salary. The daily bump in pay and benefits from AAA is very significant. But, I also doubt they will call him up at all this year. It's almost unthinkable at this point, but this team rarely fails to disappoint.
  10. LastOnePicked
    Get ready. All you're going to hear come October is how "close" this team is to contention, how there's such "potential" waiting at AAA, and that if they just "bring it all back next year," things are finally ready to click. Nothing can or will change for this organization until the sale is complete. Only new ownership will be able to see this utter mess clearly.
  11. LastOnePicked
    I don't think my point was clear. Young players - particularly players playing out of position - are going to struggle. That's not unserious. That's called development. What's unserious is that this organization looked at the post sell-off roster, added nothing in the offseason, and said to fans: "We're going for it!" They were ready to give up significant potential prospect capital because they believed they already had what they needed on the roster, or in AAA. And then, even in the midst of a bizarrely accessible WC race, they proceeded to ignore additional resources waiting in AAA. Fundamentally unserious. This continues to be a nothing organization.
  12. LastOnePicked
    What about this organization would suggest an ability to learn from past mistakes?
  13. LastOnePicked
    Nonsense. The Twins have assured us that anyone can play anywhere, and with little to no coaching.
  14. LastOnePicked
    Not too hard to imagine this one going differently if the Twins were willing to field the best players in their organization for a must-win game. I mean, who knows what would have happened. We can only know what did happen. It's over. It's been over for awhile, but it's really over now. Once the offseason starts, someone will have to explain to me how watching yet another pathetic late-season collapse was better for rebuilding fan interest than watching a young team of future stars take lumps and gel, with the promise of even more top prospects making their way up to join them in 2027 or 2028. This is not a serious baseball team. And they shouldn't be taken seriously.
  15. LastOnePicked
    If I were Jenkins, I would start counting the days until I could leave this organization. I would never sign an extension with a team that suppressed my big league service time as well as my opportunity to contribute to a playoff push. He's ready. He's earned it. There's room for him. And yet, he's not being given a chance. What a rotten organization.
  16. LastOnePicked
    Are we really at the "Hey, the Twins may stink, but at least they didn't sign (insert washout free agent here)!" point already? Let's save these kinds of puffy posts for November.
  17. LastOnePicked
    This I agree with, only because there is no other choice. There's no offseason value in Lopez, Ryan, Ober or Buxton. Jeffers will walk for nothing. There's no one left to trade. However, there will be a work stoppage next year, even if it just impacts Spring Training. When free agency finally begins, the Twins will be slow on the trigger as they always are, and will be seen as a much less desirable landing place than competitive teams like the White Sox and Guardians.
  18. LastOnePicked
    Sad that so many - including team ownership - just cannot understand this. It's very possible that this '26 team could have traded and promoted wisely - could be without Jeffers, Ryan, Lopez and Buxton - and still be in this same WC hunt. All while watching other high-end prospects work their way into 2027 plans. But there's no vision here for building a real contender. There's just hope, an overprotectiveness of a mid roster and some vague notions of "winning now" from an owner who admitted that he knew nothing about baseball as recently as eight months ago.
  19. LastOnePicked
    This is a head scratcher. The Twins didn't have excess value at DH when they traded Nelson Cruz. They bet on future value. And they won. Players are drafted on future value. Four tiers of baseball exist to develop future value. If you don't have a roster that can win or ownership that can effectively sign free agents, future value is really your only wise investment.
  20. LastOnePicked
    I don't think there's any grand plan or vision here. They believe in veterans, they believe in their "way," and suppressing service time is definitely seen as a bonus.
  21. LastOnePicked
    I would bet that Tom Pohlad doesn't even know what an "Injured List" is. I doubt he's making any roster decisions during the season.
  22. LastOnePicked
    I feel for Buxton. I really do. It's a tragic story. But it's getting tragic and tiring for the fans, too, and it really would have been better to move on last offseason. I know he wanted to be here, but he also indicated he wouldn't stay for a rebuild. It made zero sense to try and build a winner around him because he's just not capable of staying on the field. If you want to build a winning roster for this team, you have to assume that Buxton is your 26th roster spot - not your starting CF.
  23. LastOnePicked
    This 2027 team will need at least two top-tier starters, a closer and a 30+ bomb slugger to even sniff contention, though. The cost of those contracts will be far, far more than the Pohlads will pay. Anything less leads you right back to .500 baseball. And that's not going to put butts back in seats. And then you've got the same revenue problems all over again. You miss 100% of the shots you try to take when you can't even see the basket.
  24. LastOnePicked
    100% agree. Since "going for it" at the trade deadline, they have been borderline embarrassing. This organization has become incapable of rising to a challenge. They don't do the kinds of things that would make this happen. That's why they're again whithering under a spotlight.
  25. LastOnePicked
    The Twins have an uncanny ability to steer their ship straight into worse case scenarios. And they're headed there again. The Twins are not going to make the playoffs this year. They should remember that this was a historically weak AL Wildcard race and take this as a sign that "going for it" was unwise. They should look to revamp their development and training philosophy and prepare for an uncertain 2027 in which you seek to rehabilitate and trade Ryan and Lopez as soon as possible and let the youngsters play. Find out what you have. Instead, Tom Pohlad will take a victory lap, claim the team was playing "meaningful games" in September, and just bring it all back with very few, if any, additions. Expect to hear: "We expect Buxton to return to his first-half 2026 form." "We know that Pablo Lopez and Joe Ryan are one of the best 1-2 starters in any rotation." "We really feel our trade deadline additions are ready to anchor the bullpen." "We have top prospects waiting in the wings to contribute." None of this will happen. Buxton will never be healthier than he was last year. Lopez will certainly struggle in the first half and Ryan will certainly fall apart in the second half. Hoffman has clearly lost his edge. And the Twins will certainly sign a few fringe veterans that end up blocking prospects. If baseball is played in 2027, the Twins won't be terrible. But they certainly won't win anything. And because they whiffed on making necessary trades last offseason, they'll be even further from building an elite rotation. Until there's an actual long-term plan to win here, there will only be failure. Again and again and again.
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