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Do you think Baldelli actually has any instints left? I kinda doubt it. New ownership will take care of all of this I figure.

Took them long enough. Admiral and Captian Obvious. DUH! Probably too late for this roster design, but maybe not. I really don't think it was the players as much as the Ortiz Syndrome...... not letting the guys be themselves and approach the at bat with game and inning and current situation considered. Do it this way, everyday. Management, Baldelli refused the do anything different, even at the end of the collapse. "Where's Margot? Get a bat!" I don't know how you change speed on the bases from most of these guys. Gotta get sneaky.

The only team with a true surplus, is the Dodgers. And it doesn't look like that is gonna change this decade, or maybe longer.

Or they could both just work on hitting lefties all off season(s) and be a full time player, and the Twins get their prime instead of trading it away for a righthander that doesn't hit like Margot. Or the new owner will fire Falvey and Baldelli and the incessant managing with no intuition is gone and over, and the new plan is to have complete players.

Overwhelming must mean something different than I understand it to be. Literally. Or is it figuratively?

I just get confused when you refer to yourself as...... me.

Here we go again! I knew that was coming. Just a matter of time. Ha! BEST BULLPEN IN MLB!! Inherited runners be damned. Baaaaaaaaaa.........

When you get paid 10s of million for not playing about half of the season(s), hard for me to wonder about his state of mind.

Hey, they only lost to 2 teams all year, twice to each.

So far, they seem to have a pretty bad track record of picking the prospects to keep.

Bummer. Jenkins still in the minors getting old 😇.

Articles like this are sooooooo desperate. Glad I have second and thrid favorite teams, and love baseball, so I can get my fix from teams that care about trying to improve instead of just hoping.

Writers here will probably refer to him as young, just because he hasn't been in the Show (much) yet. They also think 27 year old Moran ("...still only 27") is young.

Atlanta won a World Series with Freddie Freeman's help in his Free Agent year. There is often a lot of value to gain from fullfulling a contract instead of trading someone for hasbeen prospects that never do anything except clog up the minors and then take up a few hundred of pretty worthless MLB at bats......

Kepler had a longer contract(s), but he also fulfilled his contract. I see non-tendering instead of offering a contract more fitting. Kepler really doesn't even fit the "let walk for nothing" post, and it was about him. Free Agents that fullfilled their contracts aren't really "let walk" in my opinion. The team gets the whole final season of their services. Guys that are cut and still paid millions of the rest of their contract "walk" for nothing. Or even worse, a team pays for them to play for another team.

Just go with what you got at this point. Falvey is so smart, right? See what the not so young young players can do that he knows are great because he picked them. How can one care much, anyway. Maybe the "core" is good and they just choked with fear last year. But to trade the best talent for more hope and dreams or sign dumpster fluff would just drive away more lifelong fans. One thing for sure, before the season starts, we know that the hype is coming for "the best bullpen in MLB"! What? Best bullpen in MLB!

Trade him for Hunter Greene

So this is satire and the funny stuff, eh? Well, OK. But all suggesstions seem presented as actual proposals, and not satire. In fact, some are just reporting what is already happening elsewhere, no? I seriously don't think there is any hope for the younger crowd to be attracted. The fans that will be dying out now were obsessed as kids. There were only a couple of channels, usually, until the mid sixties, and even in the early years of "cable TV " into the 70's, access to watch games was easy. We scoured the newspaper box scores every day when the newspapers arrived, as we spread them out on the floor, laid down and memorized batting averages. We traded cards, played the game through at least Pony League, watched Basin League live games, and had transistor radios with the single ear piece that we treasured. That Peach sports page in the Sunday Minneapolis Tribune was worked over all week with the full list of current averages and stats. The Sporting News was King. Now..... with all the media, everything is a distraction. The thing I miss the most now about going to the games is the sound of the ballpark. You could hear the concession guys' unique calls ringing through the staduim. We actually were glued to the action of the game, could hear the interesting chatter. The transistor radio was playing in one ear with the game call from Halsey and Herb. To go to Metropolitan Stadium to see the games was magic. Now, I am bombarded with deafening loud music and bombastic lights flashing and hundreds of things distracting from the game instead of attracting one to it. Kids are not learning the rules to the game, so they have no idea what is so interesting and miss the whole mental part of the game. When I see them at the game, they usually aren't even paying attention, and are living in their cell phones that this generataion of parents have used for parenting since they could hold something in their wee little hands. I really don't think there is much hope. Especially as access is choked out by media contracts that prevent even those that love it from easily tuning in. Players are strangers, and even intense fans here so often just want to get rid of the whole team year by year. The Audio in the ballpark is torture, like the loudness war that happened to music when CD's became the format and since. Incessant. Never stopping, even between innings. I don't care about concessions. I haven't found any ballpark, these days, that won't let you bring in a healthy amount of food, and the food I bring is always way better than the ballparks serve. I don't need a $20 beer, ever. I don't really see, with all the distractions and competion for attention of all the entertainment options, that baseball will be able to sustain or grow a fan base. So many great lifelong fans, those misunderstood boomers, will be dying in the next 10 and 15 years now. So many that baseball will surely face decline in fan numbers even if they continue to make it less about baseball and more about distractions for the younger few that do find baseball. I guess many of us won't be around to see what happens. But we saw Harmon Killebrew, Willie Mays, Mickey Mantle, Sandy Kofax, Bob Gibson, Camillo Pascual, Zoilo Versalles, Tony Oliva, Rod Carew, Mudcat Grant, Kirby Puckett, Kent Krbek, 2 Twins' World Series Championships (and the 65 Series, amazing) etc etc....... and know and love the game. It was a fine run. And like the climate, we might have gotten the best there will ever be without suffering the impending consequences.

I wasn't really comparing anybody to anybody. Just noticing that Badoo has had the same progression of so many first month to year flash in the pans from our farm system, and it carried over even on a different organization. Hell, it all is just trying to make sense of the continuing lack of a real breakout that stays broken out from our system.

It's a pisser, but the history rings true. I was thinking that just the other day reading about Badoo getting let go by the Tigers. He still qualifies, as he came up a Twin, just started in the Show with a bang fresh from our farm. He fit the mold perfectly, however.

There are only 2 fan bases that don't boo Correa STILL so loud it rocks the stadium on every at bat, and that is Houston and one that used to make that number only 1 fan base......... Minnesota. But hey, there might be more somewhat two-faced fan bases to embrace him. You never know. This is sure a depressing off season to read about the Twins. But then, it has been a bore since August 17th. I can't blame anyone for trying. It is hard to care that much as it seemed the whole organization has just given up since then.

" Miami acquired four prospects for Arráez: Dillon Head, Woo-Suk Go, Jakob Marsee, and Nathan Martorella. It showed how much his value had dropped in one season." 4 prospects. Isn't that what we got for Johan Santana from the Mets? I guess you are right then. Santana's value didn't drop, it was just not there, I guess.

As long as Watkins is still at third, we are losing runs.

Yeah. Detroit was just lucky.

My wife’s value has never been higher. Hmmmmm And the kids…….? I know it is a crap shoot, but does my team deserve players at their supposed highest value? Or cheap uncertain hope and dreams at much lower value?