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  1. LastOnePicked
    No. Rehabilitate Larnach's trade value, and then trade him. There is no urgency. This team was going nowhere even with Lopez in the rotation.
  2. LastOnePicked
    Correct. This is why teams like the Twins have to be smarter and make hard decisions when those decisions need to be made. This is not a serious team. Disasters like this are the result.
  3. LastOnePicked
    Of course. This approach has never worked before. Except for the Rays, Tigers, Astros, Braves, Cubs, Rangers. Who am I missing? Maybe the Royals and Orioles will rejoin that group this year. The Twins need a superior player scouting and development system. They don't have that right now. The only other pathway to success is obtaining top-tier players. They won't sign them. So their only hope for the foreseeable future is through trades and drafts. No one has to like it, but lumps are necessary for growth. It's no sure path, but it's far better than being a nothing mid-to-low tier team year after year after year.
  4. LastOnePicked
    God willing, you have many seasons left to enjoy. I would so much rather see this team actually build a first-class farm system and be a legitimate contender in 2028-30 than to be a perennial AL Central nibbler. Nothing is as enjoyable as true playoff run. Nothing.
  5. LastOnePicked
    Because there's nothing whatsoever surprising about it. The only people surprised work for or own the Twins.
  6. LastOnePicked
    More than anything, let's hope Pablo is okay. But, folks, this is exactly what some of us were talking about all offseason. And it's possibly only getting started. When you have a glaring weakness or misstep anywhere in your organization, the fates will find it. And pretty quickly.
  7. LastOnePicked
    I hope he's okay as well, but the Twins are certainly not cursed. They don't evaluate the health of their players very well and they don't maximize their opportunities when trade values are high.
  8. LastOnePicked
    Trust me - the Dodgers know the current value of a player far, far better than the Twins.
  9. LastOnePicked
    I really, really don't need a guy who's always angling for MLB insider access to tell me to "give Tom Pohlad a chance" this year. The Pohlads have all had plenty of chances. Plouffe makes money from the organization, and he wants to keep making more, so of course he's going to say this. We fans pay in to this organization. Big difference. Respect will be given when it's been earned. Sorry to disappoint "Coach Trev" on this one. Plouffe is the one who was calling for Baldelli to keep his job for another year, too. So color me a little skeptical of his instincts and his motives.
  10. LastOnePicked
    The Twins gain a player and all they lose is the option to pay prospects more money? Tom P. must be in his glory. Zoll is getting a bonus $5 Starbucks gift card this week for sure.
  11. LastOnePicked
    Zoll knows it's legal to sign a free agent reliever who wasn't already with your team, right?
  12. LastOnePicked
    Oh goody, we're back to the "showed interest in X superstar free agent" years. But for now, I don't care. I just wanted them to show interest in building a world-class farm system. But they don't have any real interest in that.
  13. LastOnePicked
    F is the only grade that makes sense. The team ignored its greatest gaps and decided to let its greatest trade assets rot away on a half-baked roster.
  14. LastOnePicked
    No shortstop. No bullpen. Holes all around the rotation, the lineup and the field. But sure, first place is well within sight. After all, just four teams will be ahead of them. Come on, gang, we should be past this by now. It was foolish not to trade Ryan, Buxton, Lopez and Jeffers but we've crossed that bridge already. Now it's just a matter of silver linings and breakout performances for a few of the youngsters.
  15. LastOnePicked
    Baseball is still a beautiful game, regardless of where our Twins land. If I have hope, it's for tighter play on the field and feistier lineup.
  16. LastOnePicked
    Perhaps the biggest problem of the Falvey era wasn't payroll, but style of play on the field. Falvey should have addressed that earlier. Ownership is at fault in all kinds of ways, but a parting with Falvey was called for.
  17. LastOnePicked
    I still lament that Royce Lewis was popped back into CF immediately after his return from an ACL tear. I don't know if that was Falvey, but I'm guessing it was his decision. Sure, players can get injured anywhere, but dealing with a wall seemed to add a dimension of injury chance. Correa's second signing also seems like a blunder. Two teams tore up contract offers after reviewing his physicals, and it looks like they may have suspected future foot or leg issues. Correa had a nice 2023 season and excelled in the playoffs, so not a total loss. But beyond that, not much for a lot of money that could have been used in better ways. And bringing Rocco back for 2025 was a massive blunder. It signaled an era of no accountability and no expectation for success. The team looked deflated from Day One, and though they put together a nice little early win streak, they were a lifeless, rudderless club overall. Good work, Nick. A balanced look back at the Falvey era. We'll see if Zoll is worth all the hype Pohlad gave him in his Zoom press conference.
  18. LastOnePicked
    Can't speak for everyone, but here's the concern: Pohlad should have been calling for Falvey's job because Falvey's claim of "we'll compete in 2026" was looking more and more ridiculous. It was time to rebuild. Instead, Pohlad seems to think this pitiful team should see itself in "win-now" mode. Which is even more insane. In short, glad that ownership made a FO change, yes, but frustrated that they're taking even a longer detour into delusional thinking.
  19. LastOnePicked
    No. Sports are always secondary to larger issues, but winning brings people together. Winning heals. Winning inspires. Difficult times call for everyone to conduct themselves with integrity and dignity. Owners and fans alike can and should reach out to legislators as they see fit. Making a show of quitting and stepping away from responsibilities does nothing and solves nothing.
  20. LastOnePicked
    I can see KC, CLE and DET being pretty good teams in 2026. After all, they'll each be playing against the Twins thirteen times. That's gotta be a 10-3 boost to their records right there.
  21. LastOnePicked
    There's the narrative about all this that I want to be true ... and then there's the mounting evidence against that narrative. I really, really wanted this to be about Tom Pohlad waking up, realizing that Falvey's insistence that this team was on the cusp of contention was nonsense. Maybe he looked at the Vegas odds (Twins as a bottom-5 club in MLB). Maybe he read Keith Law's farm system ranking (Twins organization ranked 21st). Maybe he saw the moves that other clubs were making and realized that this team, again, was just sort of foolishly trying to nibble their way forward. I wanted to believe that he realized that there was no path to a championship with Falvey's way of thinking. Because there isn't. But then I read Tom's comments, I don't know if it's delusion or deception, but the idea that this team will "compete" for anything other than the cellar in 2026 is ridiculous and insulting. These are the AL Pirates with a worse farm system. Free agency has dwindled to a trickle. Teams are prepping ST rosters. I don't like being lied to. I like clear-eyed honesty from leadership. It's increasingly clear to me that instead we just have another inept, out-of-touch Pohlad at the helm.
  22. LastOnePicked
    Aside from the timing, no one should be surprised. One of the most disappointing teams in MLB, hundreds of millions of dollars in debt and a very low ranked farm system according to Keith Law's new ranking. The business side is a disaster and so is the overall roster. It's long past time to clean house.
  23. LastOnePicked
    Here's what makes me doubt this - Pohlad was the only one who mentioned tearing things down, and Falvey, by his own admission, talked him out it by showing him the early FG projections. I'm guessing that the more Tom has gotten involved, the more he's realized that Falvey's been misleading him and the team is in far worse shape than he realized,
  24. LastOnePicked
    Using FanGraphs as evidence that the status quo was the right choice this offseason is really a stretch, Scratch that - using a Fangraphs projection that has the Twins in the bottom half of all MLB teams is really, really, really a stretch. Look, for folks who wanted the status quo in 2026, you can relax. You won. The FO and ownership have agreed. The Twins will run it all out again, nibble at the fringes of the roster and see if they get a different result. Yes, they do have a new manager. No, he didn't seem to have an impact on a similarly-run franchise in Pittsburgh. All of this reminds me of my mother's garage sales. She inevitably prices everything far too high, because she believes that all of her things have great value and she really doesn't want to part with her stuff. So she expends a lot of energy for very little reward, and she ultimately has to just give things away a year or two later to clear space. This is not a good baseball team. This is not a team on the cusp of contention. Watching last year's playoffs was a stark reminder that the Twins aren't really even playing the same sport as their competition. I thought it was finally time to stop fooling ourselves and make wholesale changes. But apparently, that time is not now. So, enjoy. We'll revisit all of this in the 2025 offseason. Maybe even sooner.
  25. LastOnePicked
    Sure, the platoon matchups unlocked with these specific marginal free agents could potentially boost this club from being a 70-win team to being a 72-win team. Is this exciting? It doesn't feel exciting. I mean, these things are important and Cody does seem to have sussed out Falvey and Zoll's plan, but does any of it move the needle? Just feels like more obsessive nibbling on the fringes of the 40-man roster.
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