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  1. LastOnePicked
    To continue yesterday's bit ... Pffft. Not impressed. Not gonna happen.
  2. LastOnePicked
    Since my relentless pessimism about this team seems to be having some sort of weird cosmic effect on their resilience and resurgence, I guess I'll just have to keep it up. I'm not impressed. This team is going nowhere.
  3. LastOnePicked
    I really, really thought a trip to Yankee Stadium was going to end all this. But no, baseball is a goofy game. Should have remembered that. Worst possible scenario is to lose key prospects while trading for ineffective arms. All while letting valuable trade chips rot away on a team that falls short of the WC. They're headed in that general direction. Rough waters ahead.
  4. LastOnePicked
    I mean, it seems the right time to bring these back up, doesn't it? Go big makes you a buyer. Go home makes you a seller. The clock is ticking. Go smart makes you do a bit of both, which is why I wish Tough Talking Tom had emphasized brains over "big." More than anything, this organization needs to be smarter than they've been over the last five years.
  5. LastOnePicked
    "You can't take for granted an opportunity to make a push with multiple All-Stars." You're not wrong, Nick - but you also can't take for granted an opportunity to sell high on Ryan, Jeffers, Clemens and Larnach to replenish your farm system with potentially high-impact prospects. This team has hung in there, but teams in the Twins position absolutely have to maximize trade value when the opportunity is there. Unless they bottom out over the next week, there are going to be some very tough decisions ahead for Zoll.
  6. LastOnePicked
    Here's my Twins truth: I wish Shelton had been managing this club for the last five years.
  7. LastOnePicked
    If this team is ever to become a "big boy" of the MLB again, it's going to have to overhaul the roster. They gave up eight runs(!) in the final two innings of regulation against the Rockies. After being swept by the Dodgers. We may have had some hope, but this team is still exactly what we thought they were. Not at all ready for prime time baseball. Rebuild the roster. Now.
  8. LastOnePicked
    I'm on record for really, really pushing for a deadline selloff and a total organizational rebuild. BUT ... I'd rather see the Twins make a WC push than not. It would be hard to undercut a team that's fighting this hard to be relevant. It's possible that building a winning culture starts now, and you just hope that ownership makes up the remaining talent gaps with smart trades and, in the offseason, free agent signings. I still don't think it's likely, but I no longer think a WC spot is impossible. The next three weeks are key.
  9. LastOnePicked
    Any team can have a bad night, so I don't mean to take this too far, but ... this is not a team that should be talking about "buying" at the trade deadline.
  10. LastOnePicked
    See: "right-sizing the business." Circa the 2023 off-season. I love TF and I love the Twins, but I'm not coming back until there's new ownership OR I see a plan firmly in place to rebuild the organization and win a WS.
  11. LastOnePicked
    Please don't say "in the history of the franchise" when you clearly mean "in the last few years." In 1991, the Twins needed an ace and signed Jack Morris, who went on to pitch an eleven-inning shutout in the greatest Game 7 victory in the history of MLB. Buxton is raking on a 90-loss club. He's a wonderful ballplayer, but he's also just a potentially untradeable asset on a team the desperately needs to refresh its system with top-level prospects. The Buxton signing is not that epic and it hasn't led to much at all. Sorry.
  12. LastOnePicked
    But that's my point. Anyone who knows anything about the game would have looked at this roster - and the players remaining available in free agency - and determined that keeping your most valuable veterans was foolish at best ... catastrophic to your future at worst. This is the result. Some might say, well who could have guessed that Lopez, Jeffers, Ryan and Buxton would have all faced injuries this season? Anyone. Anyone who follows this club would have guessed that.
  13. LastOnePicked
    This old dad is going to point to Patrick Mahomes and Pat Mahomes as proof that it ain't dumbest question we Dads have ever asked. For the record, the dumbest question was asked in January 2023: "When Carlos Correa is a Hall-of-Famer, will he go in as a Twin?"
  14. LastOnePicked
    Completely agree. If Tough Talkin' Tom isn't spending his time scouring the league for promising GM and team president candidates, he's an even bigger fool than his interviews suggest.
  15. LastOnePicked
    If only ownership had understood this. Or, really, anything about major league baseball. Scouting, development, training, planning ... everything about this organization needs a total overhaul. But ownership can't envision a winner, so here we are. Maybe if we get lucky, we'll stumble upon a few game-changing prospects over the next few years. But I doubt it.
  16. LastOnePicked
    Here's the thing ... there's a lot more of these kinds of losses to come. A lot more. For everyone who thinks that a total take-your-lumps rebuild doesn't work, just look over at the White Sox. The Twins could gave started this process after 2024, but they've wasted opportunities. As a result, success is still further away than it needed to be. So the time to start is now. Right now. And it's gonna be 3+ years of truly dreadful baseball. But at least it might lead somewhere. The approach they took this offseason leads nowhere forever.
  17. LastOnePicked
    It'll be an interesting seven weeks ahead for Zoll. This team is years away from competing, so it'll be important to take offers on a large portion of the roster. Gomez might be great, but if you won't need a strong reliever for a few years yet, see what you can get that might be even better.
  18. LastOnePicked
    My bold prediction: neither Ryan nor Jeffers nor Buxton will not be traded by the deadline.
  19. LastOnePicked
    Oh no. I gave Murakami my social security number.
  20. LastOnePicked
    This team has to - has to - maximize their future value with every transaction. Ownership and payroll is still a question mark. They're still several strong arms and bats away from contending. Teams like the Twins need to use savvy trades to sell high and buy low. Jeffers, Buxton, Ryan and Lopez all should have been traded in the offseason. One is already off the table (Lopez), two are nearly off the table (Jeffers and Buxton) and Ryan has already had an injury scare. If they don't trade him and don't sign him, they will have lost tremendous future potential that could have been used to supplement the Abel/Jenkins/Culpepper era.
  21. LastOnePicked
    These are not mutually exclusive. The Twins don't have a plan, they don't have a world-class development staff and they absolutely cannot compete with the big boys of MLB. They didn't make enough moves in the offseason. True. They aren't looking enough towards the future. That's also true, And there nothing wrong with seeing things clearly. In fact, they can't move forward if they don't. I always want this team to win. But I want the organization to build a real competitor. That's still not happening. I hope it does.
  22. LastOnePicked
    On one hand, I admire a homer and an optimist. On the other, delusion usually doesn't lead to good places. This is a 70-win team, period. Over the next sixty games, the differences between the Twins and teams like Cleveland will become more and more stark. No checkbox has been checked. They aren't contending now, and they certainly won't be contending come August. Right now, they just aren't sinking quite as fast as we thought.
  23. LastOnePicked
    "Clemens has found another level offensively over the last few weeks. He’s now slashing .245/.341/.445, while adding 14 extra-base hits and five stolen bases." Every now and then, a little sentence reveals so much about how a season is going so far. He's no X-factor, but he could be a very modest trade candidate come July, which would be great.
  24. LastOnePicked
    This mismanagement and misfortune of this team's top prospects and overall roster should be studied in college classrooms. I think a full account would reveal that bad luck is just magnetically attracted to bad decisions.
  25. LastOnePicked
    His bats are right at the bottom of even the most thorough "blame game" list. Poor guy. It's not gonna happen here. It may not happen anywhere at this point.
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