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  1. h2oface
    Has anyone seen the details (I can't find it addressed anywhere) on whether this is Canadian or US dollars? If it is Canadian, and it is Toronto paying him, the talk should be about just under $105 million in US dollars by todays exchange rate - .80
  2. h2oface
    The Dodgers don't trade their stars - Kershaw, Jansen, Turner, Seager, Taylor because they only have one year left on their contract. They keep them because they make their team better! Then they resign them or not. And their farm system is still arguably better than ours. They certainly develop better pitching than ours. The Braves didn't get rid of Freddy Freeman because they were barely a .500 team in August. I could go on and on. Not all GMs do what ours always do. When you have home grown stars, many keep them. Because they are part of the fans' family, in a sense, and they make the team better. Sure way to make your team immediately worse.......... get rid of your best players.
  3. h2oface
    Damn. And it made so much sense! "Kidding on the square" I hope.
  4. h2oface
    How would I feel? I would feel they have no clue how to run a baseball team, that the Twins ownership and FO are liars, and they have no soul.
  5. h2oface
    The mantra remains until it isn't true, and not by what they say, but what they do. The Twins are just cheap. That contract should be able to go over 200 million with incentives! “Now, we’re working through understanding all sides of this ultimately. We’ll proceed accordingly. At this stage of the offseason, we’re still just navigating our strategy and planning and trying to understand what’s available to us and what the market looks like on all periods. As is always the case, this isn’t unique to Byron or otherwise, there are people on our team that are interesting to other clubs and we just always need to work through what does that look like, what does our team look like as we navigate it.” That is one souless and lost comment by Falvey. Still trying to understand? Seriously? Looks like the same old plan.... wait and see what is left, underpay them and make them happy like Lynn, and hope for the best. It sure was fun watching the Braves this year. They had some soul.
  6. h2oface
    I agree. Regardless whether the trade "works out" or not, the trade takes the team backwards on the way to compete in 2022.
  7. h2oface
    I haven't seen anywhere whether this is Canadian money or US dollars. If it is Canadian, at the current exchange rate, this is a $104.24 million US dollar contract. A mantra is a mantra, by definition, because it is repeated over and over ...... and over and over and over. It may be tired in this case, but "the Twins are cheap" rings true one more time. Mantra intact. I really am not liking my team that much these days..... Now they can sign someone that we can pretend to like, because that is the repeat here, and the other mantra that goes along with it.
  8. h2oface
    Maeda had a roughly 60 day hot streak. (Nolasco had a 2 month hot streak. Gibson had many 2 month hot streaks. Once about 28 consecutive scoreless innings.) This cannot, in my opinion, be an absolute projection to lasting a full season. That has never happened with Kenta. It could, maybe, in the future, but it never has to this point, even with the Dodgers. I think we were quite lucky it was a very short season for him. His performance becomes magnified, and so many were acting like, and expecting in the off season articles and preseason commenting that it was a sure thing to continue. History, and injury, shows the error. It could be all we get from Kenta, and Graterol becomes the dominant closer in the show. Calling this such a massive success of a move depends on the future. I hope it reaps more benefit than 2 months of very good pitching.
  9. h2oface
    "As with any young players, especially pitchers, expectations need to be tempered when making projections for their impact on the team next season." Ryan is 25, will be 26 in June. Ober is 26, will be 27 beginning of July. I don't really consider these guys "young". These are the prime years. Soto just turned 23 and has 4 complete seasons in the show. That is young. These guys need to get on with it, and playing baseball comes with expectations. The sooner the better. Time is relentless. Ober is a longshot, and I am sure the Twins will let it go too far if he is failing. I think Ryan will shine.
  10. h2oface
    Buxton in Atlanta? Hmmmmmmmm
  11. h2oface
    First of all, and mostly....... and will probably be ignored in any response made by any current or former management type fan commenter here that can't always help but align themselves with the organization (ANY organization) because it helps them self validate their lives and all....... one never knows how the changes will go, and all fans, including me, hope that the FO choices are successful (unlike just about every decision they made in the off season of 2020....). Wow. Every indication and SoCal gossip was that Tingler totally lost control of a clubhouse full of pretty damn good baseball players that the FO had given him, and they totally tanked in the second half of the season. Our guys have to know the history. This hire kinda blows me away. But I have no idea what happened to that team, and in the clubhouse. But I can't say, as a fan that pays attention to more than just Twins baseball, that I am any where close to a homer cheerleader about this hire.
  12. h2oface
    I think Mauer would have been a lock if he had retired (and therefore, forfeited his remaining millions) when he had the concussion. Like Puckett and Koufax (for example), there is a consideration for the lack of a lengthly career due to injury and forced retirement. Mauer was one of the best catchers that ever played the game. But......... he continued to play, and became an underwhelming bat at first base for many years, never made adjustments and became a feared power hitter (and he certainly had the size and and time to do it), and that will keep him out of the HOF. It might not be fair, as there is no doubt he was deserving as a catcher only, but the rest of the years count, too, and they are certainly not HOF caliber. My bet is that neither one gets in. But if I had a vote, I would vote for both. Molina, too.
  13. h2oface
    I don't know that being drafted #5 overall means all that much,..... as I have vivid memories of 2013s #4 pick - Kohl Stewart, and 2015s #6, Tyler Jay. Hype fades fast at times.
  14. h2oface
    Good luck to us all. I fear his decision to do nothing about his now stretched finger ligament will cost him 2022, too.
  15. h2oface
    I don't even know what you are talking about, now. Too much conjecture and projection. All yours. Stay tight. Adios.
  16. h2oface
    So sorry. I was thinking Rooker was on the team, and the article had quite a bit of Garlick on it, as well as age focus. FWIW, there is a 22yr old (Christian Pache) still playing, 3 23 year olds - Brusdar Graterol who just turned 23 in August, and Huascar Ynoa- remember them? - and Ian Anderson, and Ronald Acuna Jr is 23 too and would still be playing if not injured. Yordan Alverez was 23 at the start of the season and turned 24 in June, and Austin Riley broke out as a 24 yr old this year and Ozzie Albies is 24 but was in the show since he was 20 in 2018, and Kyle Tucker is 24 and played last year at 23. That's not even getting into all the others who were that young when they made the show and are still playing....... If they are in the show, they are staring in the show. And this is just the 4 teams that are left. Up to you whether that makes them "stars". Shame on me for wanting youth for my favorite team, too, instead of possible break outs at 27. But I do pine for it. I bet I am not the only one, either.
  17. h2oface
    So many other teams have players that are 22 and 23 staring in the show........ and we are hoping someone who will be 27 selected 35th overall is finally ready. I try to find the positive, here, but it is difficult.
  18. h2oface
    The wait and see with rest will probably mean, I am betting, that Rogers, Duran, Dobnak and others will be out for all of next year or much of it when the fingers and arms finally get the repair surgeries that were delayed and took them out for much of this year. I hope not, but I fear that will be the case.
  19. h2oface
    "We?" To have some of the most important baseball of the year in September be played with super inflated rosters was always ridiculous. Just like the neighborhood play and being allowed to not even try to get to second and hurt the defender, and to block the plate or kill the catcher was. All the sudden, when games mattered the most, the teams had too many pitchers and bench players and it was not representative of the baseball previous that qualified them to compete for the playoffs or what will come in the post season. For a team that is in last place to play an uncompetive feel good story and perhaps tank a game to a team that should be tested to earn the post season spot was not a good thing for baseball, ever. "We" all know this. I think 2 additions might be a bit low - 30 instead of 28 would be the best, I think. But the whole 40 man roster? This "we" boy hated it. But like I said, most Minnesota fans love the feel good story even if it sacrifices the desired results. Have at it, Dude. I said I was happy for him already. I can be happy for the person and not like the process. Nuance.
  20. h2oface
    Feel good stories rarely make for a competive winning team. I am happy for Maggi. I really am. I don't know that he feels like he earned it, or got it out of pity and kindness, but it makes him feel good, and that is nice. I don't see how this makes us better for the future..... but so it goes. It appears that many fans like it, and it makes them feel good, too. One could say that a season like this is for seeing young players who could be part of the future instead of for feel good stories. Those teams might win championships instead of division titles. They didn't play him, though, today. I guess the story with riding the MLB pine makes it a better feel good story?
  21. h2oface
    If this season isn't depressing enough, and the popular excuse of the 2020 lost minor league season.... all of the 1-11 prospects either did play, are not playing, are out for the season and injured, or on leave. Only 6 of the 20 saw any action, and one of the 6 is really not a prospect anymore - Rooker - as he now has 172 ABs in the show.
  22. h2oface
    Pitch five was a foul ball, so we are only talking pitch 2. They should get them right. The Twins didn't "get" them. They deserved them all. If it was the opponent, they did too. I don't like wrong calls, no matter if they go to our team, or the other. I hate all wrong calls. None of them have to be wrong. Baseball choses to continue to let people guess. You don't see them guessing at the swimming pool on who touches the wall first. There is a reason to use a better system when one is available. It doesn't matter who is on the Twins, who is managing, or who the FO is when it comes to playing the Yankees, apparently. They all choke. They get an early lead, a bad call or two, and choke. Year after year after year after year after year. It would be comical if we weren't Twins fans. Just something for others to reinforce calling us Twinkies.
  23. h2oface
    The size of the box changes for every batter, accordingly. Arraez' box is much smaller than Judge's (as is everybody's) for example.
  24. h2oface
    Pitchers and Batters DESERVE the border line calls the most! This is what their special talents are for, to descern the small differences. Getting robbed of the close ones - the perfect take because it is just outside the zone, or the great pitch that is just barely touching the zone at some point - is the worst, if you ask me. That is why we can no longer leave it up to the best guess by a too proud person. Donaldson (righty) got called out on a ball 3 to 4 inches outside. The ump was giving Yankee pitchers strikes on balls, and Twins pitchers balls on strikes. Nelson didn't have any problem calling pitch one a strike, as it was (pretty similar to pitch 6 to Gardner (lefty) that he called a ball- both pitches were the inside corner to the batter, with the ump looking right at it over the inside shoulder of the catcher. Gardner's was even more in the zone, but both were strikes) ......... but pitch 7 to Donaldson was clearly outside! It is so past the time to take strikes and balls away from the guessing umpires. It is really not their fault. Humans do the best they can, I guess (- at Yankee stadium this is debatable). It is just impossible for them to do anything but guess the best they can in the split second. There is just a better way to do it now.
  25. h2oface
    Cruz was at .294 for the Twins when traded, and is hitting .245 for Tampa Bay - .277 on the season. So not except for Cruz, either. Arraez at .294 and Buxton at .290 (who, if he gets hot, with his low ABs, would surpass .300 easily) have the best chance to satisfy the mark. And if Polanco now at .280, stays torrid, he could do it, but not likely.
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