Jump to content
Our MLB mock draft board has updated to 70 names covering the first 2+ rounds, click here! ×
Twins Daily
  • Create Account

AlGoreRythm

Verified Member
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    127

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Profiles

News

Minnesota Twins Videos

2026 Minnesota Twins Top Prospects Ranking

2022 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks

Minnesota Twins Free Agent & Trade Rumors, Notes, & Tidbits

Guides & Resources

2023 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks

The Minnesota Twins Players Project

2024 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks

2025 Minnesota Twins Draft Pick Tracker

2026 Minnesota Twins Draft Pick Tracker

Forums

Blogs

Events

Store

Downloads

Gallery

Everything posted by AlGoreRythm

  1. AlGoreRythm
    Did you read this article as real? It's not. It's labeled satire at the top of the page...
  2. AlGoreRythm
    Are you also being satirical?
  3. AlGoreRythm
    It's pretty obvious the decade long boycott hasn't worked. They have a monopoly on MN professional baseball. They can do whatever they want and we can either watch or not. Eventually if enough fans jump ship, they'll move the team. There are no good options when dealing with billionaires. They have outsized influence in everything because money talks louder than anything else in this society.
  4. AlGoreRythm
    I think you're blowing it out of proportion with assumptions based on limited information like an after game quote. I think it's just silly to think the players have "no control on what/how they play". To me it sounds like the analysis of someone who hasn't played team sports Players and coaches build trust, and players are usually going to take the suggestion of their coaches. They game plan together and work together to achieve the goal of winning. Sometimes the coaches are wrong, sometimes the players are. I think what I'm seeing with so many of these comments is simply over-reaction to a few quotes from players and coaches mixed with another bad stretch of baseball and of course, the always present hate for the manager. IMO it's all motivated reasoning by people looking for reasons to complain about the manager again. Yes Duran gave up a couple HRs off his curve, but it's still statistically his best pitch. That type of things happens in baseball all the time, and 2 HRs in 2 games is far too small a sample size to come to the conclusions so many people are.
  5. AlGoreRythm
    I believe pitching coach Pete Maki suggested throwing the curve in that spot, but keep in mind the curve has been his best pitch for a couple of years with opponents hitting under .150 on it. Sometimes a good pitch gets hit. Sometimes a pitch gets left up and gets crushed. It's one pitch and that's gonna happen sometimes. I think a lot of people are making a lot of assumptions about "not having the option to shake off a pitch" or "analytics gone too far." On a team, especially at the professional level there is going to be quite a bit of game planning and information we as fans aren't privy to. To me Duran's comment suggests he's buying into the game plan and working with everyone else in the organization to work together toward their shared goal, even if he may have differing views on specific situations. Personally i don't think that's the most concerning issue with Duran. I'm more concerned his fastball is 2-3 mph slower than last year. That's more than one or two pitches in a couple games...
  6. AlGoreRythm
    Remove 7 wins from any team other than the Dodgers and Phillies and it doesn't look so great. That's not reasonable analysis. Every team plays crap teams every year. Those wins count just as much as any other, regardless of the level of competition and that applies to every team. I'd argue the 5th straight series win vs Seattle was helped due to confidence gained vs the crap teams in the 12 game streak.
  7. AlGoreRythm
    C'mon bud, you know the point being made. Would the Twins trade Pablo for someone like Ronald Acuna Jr., yes. Is that in any way a realistic trade? No, obviously not. They aren't looking to trade him. If a team offered a ridiculous overpay, then yeah, most any team would say yes to most any trade if getting an outsized return. The Twins didn't sign Pablo to that extension just to trade him a year in. They're looking for him to anchor the rotation for the next few years.
  8. AlGoreRythm
    I read the article as extremely effective dry humor due to the number of options stopping at 2 lol
  9. AlGoreRythm
    Funny how you left out the final paragraph from my post in your quote. COULD your proposed plan have worked? Sure. Was it just a likely they didn't end up needing a long man in the first 2 weeks, Varland ended up getting no work and ends up injuring himself or needing an extra week or two to build back up as a starter? Absolutely. We saw Sands sit on the 26 man roster for weeks without use as a long man last season. I'm hindsight, maybe what you advocate would've had a marginally better outcome, but you're acting as if your counter-factual argument would've 100% created a better result. We have past seasons to tell us that there's no way the outcome you pretend would've happened for sure was a sure thing in reality. Also, your doom and gloom after less than a week of the season is an extreme bummer, and one based on 2.5% of the season. Unless you're just looking for something to blame on the manager, like usual.
  10. AlGoreRythm
    Are you advocating for Rocco to change the whole plan for Varland as a starter on the fly mid-game to relieve Ober? Or are you suggesting they should have planned for a 4 man rotation to begin the year? Do you have any idea how long Cole Sands was in the roster last year and how often he pitched as the long reliever? Long relief isn't generally something you can plan for, because no one is planning to immediately give up 5 runs or have to pull the starter after 2 IP. There's no way they could ensure Varland would get in the major league work in a long relief role to stay stretched out and move to a starter role 2 weeks in. It really sounds like you're just looking for something to blame on the manager lol
  11. AlGoreRythm
    What does a successful 2024 look like for Varland statistically? How many innings? ERA? Whip? Or another way to approach the question... Is there a point at which you decide he needs more time at AAA or a move to the bullpen? How much runway does he get if things don't go as well as we all hope they do? If he stays healthy, does he stay in the rotation all year no matter what, or is there another solution if he still gives up too many HRs?
  12. AlGoreRythm
    I believe this was also the IL stint where he came back without a rehab assignment. Seems to back the idea as he'd have been catching back up to game speed in the Majors for a bit after the injury.
  13. AlGoreRythm
    He wasn't banished, he never played here. I'm saying they were never going to take a chance on a guy with those allegations, not that Clevinger should be put in the stocks or blacklisted from baseball.
  14. AlGoreRythm
    This front office didn't put KP in the Twins Hall. Clubhouse vibes are something they're trying to build with this team, as some stories and posts have noted. Whether you agree or not, it wasn't ever going to happen.
  15. AlGoreRythm
    Clevinger was being investigated due allegations of domestic abuse a year or two ago. Regardless of the claim's veracity, that's not someone the Twins are interested in bringing into the clubhouse, and I don't blame them.
  16. AlGoreRythm
    You believe KC and Detroit will be on top of this division in '24? Talk about a hot take. I'm sure you can get great odds on those bets lol I suppose when you start the post by advocating to trade Correa it should be expected lol
  17. AlGoreRythm
    You say there's a "decent probability" Lee out-produces Correa over the next 5 seasons. What is "decent probability" in your mind? 5% chance? 50% chance? You're stuck on this idea that the value proposition for Lee is obviously better without Lee having played a single major league inning. So what is the probability you're right and what's the probability you're wrong? From my perspective there's a far greater probability your assertion has less than 50% chance of working out the way you expect.
  18. AlGoreRythm
    You must see that a no trade clause and the idea of start power make your argument to trade Correa completely moot...
  19. AlGoreRythm
    There's 0 evidence the shift restrictions have anything to do with Kep's great 2nd half. It was a good half season, but let's not assume it's his new level of play because now something clicked with shift restrictions. I'm not convinced his 2nd half is even repeatable, let alone his new normal. Just look at the rest of his career. He grounds out to 2nd and pops up, hits .220, then has a good stretch of an undefined length during the season, That good stretch lasted most of the season in 2019, the second half last year, and I believe he had one other very good half season earlier than 2019, but that's about it.
  20. AlGoreRythm
    Correa has a full no trade clause bud. He made it clear he wanted to stay and raise his family wherever he signed his big contract. I seriously doubt he'd waive the no trade clause this early in the contract simply because you want him to lol He's also the best SS we've seen in MN since I've been alive. You don't trade those players in real life if you're a mid-sized franchise like the Twins, even if you'd do it in a video game in favor of a youth movement. Also everything I've read on Lee indicates he's not an MLB SS. He'll move down the spectrum to 2B or 3B according to literally anyone who's not just an Internet commenter.
  21. AlGoreRythm
    Kind of amazing how many people took the OP personally and got offended. They're the same people posting not about the baseball implications, but just how bad crime is in cities. Almost as if they have skewed perspectives...
  22. AlGoreRythm
    No one called anyone a bigot so don't get offended. Does anyone deny that those who live in rural communities have, let's say, perhaps a skewed perspective on cities? I grew up in rural MN and heard the phrase "citiot" every time people came to lakes country from the cities, be they from the Twins Cities or Fargo. Even the perspective of the Twin Cities from where I'm at in the FM area now is skewed. Best believe I'm being warned 3-4 times to "be careful down there" if I mention I'm going to the Twin Cities for an event, yet I've never felt unsafe in the Twin Cities once. That doesn't mean those who give that warning are bigots, but it does show they have a vastly different perspective which is more often than not cultivated from watching TV rather than living or spending any amount of time in the city itself. Would it surprise me to find certain players don't want to play in SF? It wouldn't. Would it surprise me that the human idiosyncrasies of people that Matthew mentioned in the OP can overlap with their perception of a city and keep them from wanting to sign there long term? That wouldn't either. But is it likely there's a widespread feeling by players toward San Francisco specifically? If that's actually the case, it's certainly helped along by the reporting Matthew cited in the OP as well as political media, specifically 24hr cable news channels that have a whole lot of time to fill and an agenda to push. The reality is that people are complicated and very often make decisions based on incomplete or even completely faulty information along with whatever vibe or feelings they have going on in the moment and choosing to push the idea that the Giants biggest issue is a "city issue" and not one of the actual team is irresponsible journalism. Thanks for the write up Matthew!
  23. AlGoreRythm
    From my understanding Bellinger got hurt and was never right because of the injury over those 3 seasons. Last year he got right, and his performance got better. I think he's a really good player hampered by injury, so keeping him healthy could easily make the first half of a 10-12 year contract worth it for the right team. Not saying I'd want him on a 12 yr contract, but I think barring injury the Bellinger from last season is the Bellinger you'd be getting.
  24. AlGoreRythm
    I'm pretty sure C4 had a full no trade clause in his contract...
  25. AlGoreRythm
    The Twins could contend in the AL Central right now even if they traded Kepler, Buxton and Polanco for buckets of balls. The division is absolutely terrible, and payroll cuts shouldn't affect this teams ability to compete for a division title. Now if we're talking about getting through another playoff series, I agree with you. But I'm not at all worried about the Twins not having the talent to compete for the division, because the other 4 teams are really bad...
×
×
  • Create New...