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  1. Fatbat
    This could get messier.
  2. Fatbat
    Castro must have read this thread because it didn’t age well at all.
  3. Fatbat
    Varland and Festa sent down today. Henriquez up for 2 games and then festa back up to pitch saturday?
  4. Fatbat
    Thats how I meant it. He was never a great hitter but everything else was rock solid. I especially loved the way he played defense.
  5. Fatbat
    The FO definitely has a bat first focus. Plenty of guys have the ability to be gold glove but it takes focus. I still see Noah Miller being a greg gagne type if/when he gets his shot. Culpepper and Jenkins may come with defensive chops but so far, there has been a lack of defense development/focus.
  6. Fatbat
    and someone better account for K. Culpepper in ‘26! He could be the real deal.
  7. Fatbat
    Lewis is going to have a few defensive homes in his career. Has anyone else noticed that he has added weight and muscle mass to his core? He isnt lanky anymore. Eventually he will probably move to 1B and when he is still hitting HR’s every other AB, he will become a DH at 41 years old.
  8. Fatbat
    Oh boy, you got some guys worked up. You can wish in one hand…. That old saying that Slim always says while doing shots….
  9. Fatbat
    I was all for spending $20-30M on a vet SP. its not my $$$
  10. Fatbat
    In 2023, Texas and AZ had a great mix of vets and youth. Without their reliance on kids, neither team would have been in the WS. AZ is about where we are this year, fighting for a spot somewhere in the post season, Texas probably won’t be there and they have been selling farm assets. It sounds like the Astros out bid us at the deadline for Kikuchi on a classic overpay by Houston. Our ‘24 season and the future is better if we don’t overpay. Trust the youngsters!
  11. Fatbat
    These kids have talent, skills and the drive to all be #2,3 or 4 SP for 5-8 years. The only thing that is gonna be scary going forward is the success they have a chance to achieve. Scary good success. They have 2 great catchers to throw to even next year. The rest of ‘24 is going to be remembered for the young guns that stepped up into the Twins rotation. There is some exciting baseball on the way!! 2025 will start with talk of sophomore jinx and who is coming behind them. A whole 2nd wave will be coming to the saints. Lopez, Ober, Ryan, Paddack, SWR, Festa, Matthews, Varland will all want to be in the top 5 SP in ‘25 and we will have 3-4 more knocking on the uber door. WOW 🤩
  12. Fatbat
    Andrew Bryzgornia wrote an article published 7/6/2016 in SBNATION about the systematic failures in the Twins Organization. It has aged well. People on this site should go back and study how bad things were. Mauer played with a lot of sub average team mates and its sad that he had to. Experts on this site claim you can’t hit on every prospect or trade which is true but to fail at 99% of every player transaction for year after year is not normal. A lot of posters on here still think that is normal. I do criticize Falvey when its due. His team has made some horrible draft picks and trades but he has also made far more brilliant picks and trades. Some posters on this site are shortsighted when it comes to the health of the whole Twins organization. Its easily in the top 10 in MLB and getting stronger. Drafting players is done with a purpose, not just to fill a hole in the minors and hope a kid finds the light. The Falvey pipeline and the future drafts/signings and trades will continue to build the talent pool because its all highend. Not 100% but its not the garbage normal that was sold to us decades ago. Its taken too many years to get to this point but hey, here we are. Ride the wave after wave of young talent cause its gonna keep coming.
  13. Fatbat
    I can’t imagine Matthews getting sent down until he has a couple bad games or Ryan/Paddack come back. It would also have to be a Varland resurgence as a starter but I bet he will be going to the bullpen in a week or two. Paddack may be joining him in the pen.
  14. Fatbat
    Baldelli wrecked my quality start prediction 😑
  15. Fatbat
    It makes sense to option Winder. If Varland has a bad day, we will need Matthews in 5 days to get another quality 5-6 innings.
  16. Fatbat
    My money is on Matthews throwing a gem of a quality start and he begins his MLB career. 1-0. 🤞🏻 Good luck 🍀 kid!!
  17. Fatbat
    5 pitch mix and pounds the strikezone. Speed/location and movement all change. Off balance hitters is exactly why he is successful.
  18. Fatbat
    Not much as his mri came back clean today. He just is day to day with a penchant for hanging out with medical staff.
  19. Fatbat
    Prato, because they should have drafted a pitcher in the 7th rd. Prato was a wasted pick. Cavaco, and Sabato… because any other draftee which a blind, deaf and dumb guy could have done better picking. There is a reason why our farm system and draft has improved in the last few years and luck is just a part of it. Doing skillful research and development is most of the success.
  20. Fatbat
    3 guys on the team from that list. One on IL and zero pitchers in our org from your list.
  21. Fatbat
    It wasn’t meant as a knock of Falvey so much as what he had to work with when he arrived.
  22. Fatbat
    I agree! The farm system was so far behind the 8ball by 2016 that Falvey had to spend extra years to get to where he can now trade or not from a position of power. We have never had 3 SP rookies deep that we basically have to count on for multiple starts in Aug/Sept to get us a division championship. The fact that we are even in this position instead of selling the farm for an aging vet that might be worn out but we hope he has 80 more innings in the tank. Maybe. Before his next IL stint. How many times have we HAD to make that trade? Now we just trotted out Rookie SP #3 that has arguably the best stats in all of the minors. Realistically, we could do about the same next year with different names and we still have all the other prospects that will be that much more developed and valuable. The FO could then look at trading an extra/backlogged player straight up for a position of need. Think about next year if/when AK and/or Julien come back to MLB and have a Miranda ‘24 season. Someone will over pay for that type of player. We were super lucky to find that type in Castro for FREE. We got luck and momentum on our side!
  23. Fatbat
    Just imagine what the pipeline would look like if they hadn’t traded away so many prospects or drafted so many bad position player prospects. seriously tho, did guys like Sabato, Prato and Cavaco need to be drafted?
  24. Fatbat
    There are lots of twins draft picks that won’t make it but we do uve ones that have high ceilings and solid floors. Its a completely different scenario than 10-25 years ago. Those years were brutal in high end player development.
  25. Fatbat
    Morris, Lewis, Culpepper, Raya, Hall, Preilipp and others in the pipeline!
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