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The point was that the loss of the front line starters affects the outcomes of games. To say the Yankees are as good with Marcus Stroman having pitched games rather than Gerrit Cole would be a hard one to prove. You would sign Anthony DeScalfini for the veteran’s minimum rather than Max Fried for $218,000,000. The numbers of pitchers out, Number is not a big deal, it is who. For Detroit, Jobe and Olson out, replaced by Paddack and Morton. At the end of the season see if the replacements got them very far in the playoffs. At the Al Star break they were over a .600 winning percentage, as they had been for most of the season. The second half they are at .483. Yup, the loss of starters did not effect them
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In 2 years Cleveland has not been able to replace Bieber. After Strasberg went down, Washington tanked. The Dodgers can overcome because they have the resources
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The Twins do not have the resources the Dodgers do. The Guardians are not going to make the playoffs unless a team collapses. Milwaukee is making it by hitting, which is also how the Dodgers are doing it. The Twins developing pitchers did well in AAA, called up to the majors, Festa and Mathew’s have struggled. That is also part of baseball.
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One of the biggest disappointments and underperformers of the 2025 season has been Carlos Correa. Yet there is this huge lament he was traded. It didn’t work. OMG they din’t spend. Yet with a whole season’s worth of stats at their fingertips they can’t figure out that Bader was actually one of the best signings of a position player, Coulumbe was one of the best signings of a reliever. Alonso did not want to leave the Mets. What other available first baseman that was available has a WAR value that would have made this team 15 games better? Complaining for solutions that do not exist when Lopez went down and Ober was injured and tried to pitch through it, this now ragtag collection of players had la record that was one of the best at the time. On these pages Ober was touted as a Cy Young candidate to start the year. How many teams can lose 2 pitchers of that caliber and compete?
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Week in Review: Reality Sets In
old nurse replied to Nick Nelson's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
When Nelson Cruz was traded I don’t think anyone thought Joe Ryan would become what he is now. The talk seemed to be he was a 2 pitch pitcher, which was not viewed favorably. The realities of the moment may not the future The hitting part of the Twins is a frustration. It seems like they can pummel most teams 4-5 starter except if they are left handed. It gives the FO hope but the record shoud have dashed it Trading even great relievers for hitting prospects is counting on the other team making a mistake on a prospect.. How many teams have traded a player that later regularly puts up 3 WAR as a near major league read prospect ? Reality has not set in -
The are a couple of possible answers The Twins scouting staff believe that Rojas will be a decent starter. Rolen was the return for France. The second part could be Varland is having a career year and next year there will be a drop off, so sell high.
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Other articles made it quite clear that Falvey approached Correa about being traded because a rebuild wasn’t what Correa signed up for. They then approached Houston as they knew that Crane liked him. Pohlad’s bit in the negotiations was to negotiate the money. So what is reality? Whatever the author of the story wants their readers to believe, Before anything could proceed, Correa had to agree with it. Nightenale would be correct that Houston used their leverage to give them nothing for the money. On the other hand, Corrrea’s season with the Twins and the contract ammounts, the Twins came close to getting what he was worth.
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Those player who couldn’t muster a 60 win season and got the GM fired as a total system failure. Who is attempting to not be honest?
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The 2 people were you and I. Joe said he knew they were trading players. I wonder how he knew that? Any guesses? When it came to how many in the end, he was not. They are not micromanaging the team He was involved in the Correa trade when it came down to negotiating money. That has been pretty much known that the Pohlads become involved when there are large sums of money involved. That is likely true for any team. When the team signed Donaldson and Correa it was brought up that the Pohlads had to sign off on it.
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A couple of division championships, a couple of wild card appearances and a winning record would say you are not paying attention. Now if your complaint was that they haven’t drafted more than a couple of competent positions players and have to rely on continually rebuilding with a short term position players, you would be correct. That is not your argument
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Yup, corporate speak and platitudes. You want something different. Yup. You won’t get fooled again. Just remember Townsend’s last line of the song
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Interesting how 2 people can read the same article and have different ideas what was meant. I read that Joe was surprised by the Correa moved when called in on it and joe stated he did’t think they were going to trade that many player. Maybe I read a different article that the same author. Maybe people just see what they want
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Since the beginning of sports team, winning cures chemistry, individual satisfaction, ….and any other complaints. Losing can bring out the dark side, regardless of leadership
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They would also complain if the team traded the underperforming free agents away.
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That is what right sizin a payroll means
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Twins score 5 runs and it is called anemic.
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As a RF Wallner is about in the middle of the pack for batting. As DH of LF Larnach would not have a trade market. Almost all teams have someone who can do the job better
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The Twins front office has 58 people listed i brand marketing ad ticket sales. Unfortunately, it is not satire to say that many people are ineffective. On the bright side, if the Twins would have spent the sales people’s salary on Josh Bell or Justin Turner rather than spending the little that they did on Ty France they still would have been hustled as mediocre at 1b
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They. Used to be. Times change
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Earlier in his career Jeffers hitting was said to fall off when he was behind the plate more. The team will find out if this still holds true. A .759 OPS makes him adequate for a starting DH If he maintains that he is in the very good status for a catcher. The use of OBP is pretty useless on a team that has one of the lowest OBP and batting averages in baseball unless they keep him near the top of. The order
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But, but, but, they were correct about France
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He was in the minors for most of July Abel. July 4, 2025Philadelphia Phillies optioned RHP Mick Abel to Lehigh Valley IronPigs. June 4, 2025Philadelphia Phillies recalled RHP Mick Abel from Lehigh Valley IronPigs.
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Service time is not an issue as he has about 31 days of service time with the Phillies. Had he spent 2 months with the Twins it would not change much. If he pitched so well as a super 2 to get a big raise, they would be ecstatic
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There is nothing in Adams game logs that say major league pitcher other than 1 game. Ohl may or may not develop, but I doubt there is much advantage to having him spend more time in the minors. So let him pitch every third day and see what happens.
