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  1. LastOnePicked
    Here's what I think about the resurgent White Sox: Good. The Twins need more fierce competition, not less. If the Twins can't hang in this division, go rebuild. If they can, they should prove it against major league caliber competition. Who wants to win a joke division? Better competition will make the Twins better over time. It seems to have had that effect on the AL East.
  2. LastOnePicked
    Now that's satire with a little teeth. I like it. And having the Rays return the tee for payroll flexibility? Brilliance. Twins aren't in top form right now, but the writers on TD are.
  3. LastOnePicked
    I don't think they have a snowball's chance in a very hot place of winning the division. Cleveland will figure it out, just like last year. Chicago might even right the ship for 2nd place. The Twins have nothing in the tank.
  4. LastOnePicked
    "I choose to believe that the tides will turn, and the veterans on this team will awaken to some degree, enabling the Twins to pull away and avert all-out disaster. I choose that because the alternative is too depressing to contemplate." Good article, but being clear-eyed isn't depressing - it's liberating. We've just come off three games against a great team. Great teams are fun to watch. Draft. Scout. Buy low. Sell high. Develop. This is NOT the Twins. The Twins are not great. So, become great. Rebuild. Start now. Follow Baltimore or Tampa as an example. Let the youngsters play, Take your lumps with a new staff. Yup, it's 3-6 years of losing records. If we had started in 2021, we'd only be a few years from coming out the other end. I don't find what's happening depressing. When you have a FO that prioritizes injury-prone players and a poor manager who can't inspire, you get a middling team at best. We're just seeing the natural result. It just represents a chance for large-scale change. That's the only way forward.
  5. LastOnePicked
    I don't think this can be overstated, or said loudly enough. Spot on. Twins should make plenty of trades this summer, but not as buyers. Addition by subtraction will do.
  6. LastOnePicked
    We don't need him. 😃 Correa's postgame comments are alarming. This is becoming a mental issue for this team, and they are losing faith, fire and drive. Rocco is again completely incapable of providing a distraction, a spark or a redirection. Should have been fired in 2021, but certainly after 2022. Changes need to be made now. Like right now. Yes, this team has bigger issues. They need a new FO and new organizational philosophy. But this season can perhaps be salvaged with a new voice in the dugout.
  7. LastOnePicked
    I'm usually quick to fault the FO, but I actually applauded this trade. I guess I had assumed (perhaps wrongly) that Arraez was injury-prone (he had some bad knee issues here) and that Lopez was on the cusp of becoming a #1 starter. I should have remembered that these Twins can't develop or sustain a top starter, and that the injury bug seems to hit harder here than elsewhere. Maybe it's a team's energy or mojo or collective spark or who knows what. It's depressing (though I am happy for Luis). We'll see where all this goes. If it ends like this - with Arraez reaching the fabled .400 and Lopez regressing to an iffy #4 starter - this will go down as yet another great FO blunder. Perhaps their last one here?
  8. LastOnePicked
    I think the main problem is this - there's no one to get behind on this team. There's no "big dog" with a big bite. This FO has built around a perennially-injured former centerfielder, and then supplemented him with a former superstar SS who couldn't pass an offseason signing physical for other ballclubs. I don't like saying this about players I like, but you can't build around players who can't take the field or lead the charge. And with a milquetoast manager, there's no one for younger players to get inspired by or to at least have their yips diverted or distracted.
  9. LastOnePicked
    That's because they're not a serious ballclub, and they haven't been for awhile. I know it's still a bit early. I know I'm too negative. But this is not a team I can see winning a division. Not even this division.
  10. LastOnePicked
    He's playing solid defensively in LF and CF for the surprising Detroit Tigers. And he has a higher BA and OBP than Byron Buxton. Not a superstar yet, sure, but not sure he makes your point here. He was certainly a tradable asset.
  11. LastOnePicked
    It's not that trades are made that's the problem - it's HOW trades are made. When you give up massive value and get negative value in return, that's likely the result of haste and panic. If 40 man roster space is an issue, DFA veterans with no real upside or future (Kepler, Pagan) and let top talent develop for high-end return. Mahle had a history of injury, and Lopez had no history of success. These trades absolutely should be regretted.
  12. LastOnePicked
    You're a Twins fan. You can answer that question already. :)
  13. LastOnePicked
    I understand your points, but when you're in a pennant race as Summer starts, don't you want every possible advantage you can get in the lineup? There is no advantage to Kepler at this point, and when you're losing tight games - where a single crucial at-bat here and there makes the difference - you need to put your best out there. This isn't some slump - this is who Kepler is. I think that's my biggest frustration with this organization - there's just no killer instinct. "Close enough is good enough, we stick with our guys, we played our best game, there's always tomorrow." That kind of attitude is perfectly fine for kid's sports, but I find it disgusting when used by or for professionals. What's worse is that the Twins will need these games later on. A big division lead means you've got buffer to rotate in youngsters. Hanging on in July means hasty deadline trades and additional injury stresses. But this club just cannot and will not learn from their mistakes.
  14. LastOnePicked
    I think the division will stop doing us all of these favors soon. And when that happens, look out. .500 baseball won't cut it.
  15. LastOnePicked
    My frustration in all this stems from being stuck in "win-now" mode. Smart rebuilding teams look to pass off their "fools gold" players to teams who have to make quick decisions at the trade deadline. The Twins were - and are - in a bind. No playoff wins for 20 years. Fanbase is disappearing. They probably had to do something, but poor decisions are made like this. I'm just afraid we're going to see the same thing happen again this year, and the future is going to continue to suffer to serve the not-too-promising present.
  16. LastOnePicked
    Twins practicing catch and release again with their top competitors. Okay for fishing, but terrible for winning a division.
  17. LastOnePicked
    This is 2023 Buxton we're talking about here. That Buxton cannot sustain the impact of patrolling CF. If we want to maximize what Buck has to offer, this is the only way forward. We can hate it, but that's who he is now and it's where we are now. Chances are this isn't going to be a productive contract. Let's all hope we can get a little more magic at the plate from him - and for him - before the contention window closes.
  18. LastOnePicked
    Sadly, I think this is very likely. Falvey/Levine set aside the x-rays and picked up rose colored glasses instead. Boras was probably only too happy they came back around to help him and his client save face. I like Correa. I wish this wasn't happening. But he's no superstar at this point, and it's only year one.
  19. LastOnePicked
    Yes, it's almost as if this organization is either terrible at prospect development or staggeringly bad at talent evaluation, particularly when making trade or Rule 5 decisions. Looking forward to the Yennier Cano/Tyler Wells article next.
  20. LastOnePicked
    It's odd that folks keep assuming that the hitting will "naturally" improve, but the pitching somehow won't decline. It will. We see that already. They had a clear opportunity to be ten or more games up in the Central, with a large enough buffer to let the summer play out without too much stress on the recently-recovering players and prospects. Instead, they'll be lucky to not be surpassed by Detroit in a week. There is almost zero fight in this team. No, I can't share your optimism. They've been gifted a hefty payroll (by AL Central standards), "superstar" signings, enviable rotation depth, and yet they can't make anything happen. Most of the players and prospects they gave up are shining, and most of the ones they kept are sinking ... or already sunk. Fans are down because we can clearly see what's on the horizon - another winnable division and another lost season. This team will continue to reward skeptics and punish believers. Good for you for believing, though. Honestly. Personally, I can't.
  21. LastOnePicked
    What happened? He became a Minnesota Twin in the Falvey/Levine/Rocco era. It's where grit, hustle and fire go to die. I wonder how long it will take to deflate Lewis. Systems are more likely to change people than people are likely to change systems.
  22. LastOnePicked
    Exactly this. When this FO gets a little "too precious" or "too cute" with their decisions, they seem to go off the rails. They are perhaps not as smart as they think they are. The picks you mention were even predictably bad at the time, and that's exactly how they've turned out.
  23. LastOnePicked
    "I wanted to be up there in the 9th and I knew I was going to get the job done." What is this attitude? It's totally unfamiliar to me coming from someone in a modern Twins uniform.
  24. LastOnePicked
    What's additionally frustrating is that when they get 2-3 runs ahead in the late innings you can pretty much count them out as well. Let's hope that they figure it out now, or that another sunk season makes change inescapable.
  25. LastOnePicked
    Heartless, gutless baseball. Things won't change for this team until large-scale changes are made in the dugout and/or the Front Office. The longer we wait, the worse this will get.
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