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  1. h2oface
    Seriously? Baseball’s best? Counting on one year wonder, at 32, Topa? And Stewart to not regress? Counting on Theilbar to be ageless? Counting on quirky Funderburk to fool MLB hitters all season? Straumont to be healthy and achieve former potential? Alcala, Balazovic, and Headrick to contribute value? Jackson to rise? I would call it the most hopeful bullpen. Good luck to us!
  2. h2oface
    Apparently his stolen bases aren’t a highlight 😞. Some good base running and head first belly slides, though. Smart base running and some sneaky extra bases. Thanks for the speed update..
  3. h2oface
    I’d like to see them. Some kind of Defensive Indifference or charitable official scoring? Late in game that didn’t matter? Part of a double steal? Or a “real” stolen base? They all count on the stat sheet, but Santana is sssllloooooowwww And it is not like our Twins were prone to send a swift runner anyway.
  4. h2oface
    Yuk. And not the funny yuk. Wait until Santana is the leftover on the table when the other teams have picked through the desirables. So what else is new. My bet is he strikes out a ton just from being around the rest of the team. I bet Polanco could have played first just as well, so nothing gained except a heavy slow guy at first, that will be slow on the base paths when he gets on. And old. At least the brain trust didn’t pay him 11 million.
  5. h2oface
    Fa. Get the fa right.
  6. h2oface
    A one year flash in the pan? That’s all he has got so far. We got him now to find out.
  7. h2oface
    Topa (is that a typo?) was 10 years, count 'em, 10 years in the minors. 1 year, that's right, 1 year in the show, at 32, and that is what is the best part of the deal to help in 2024? I guess he relieved well 3 months more than Jorge Lopez, and we all know how that turned out. That is what we are banking on to be reliable? This deal is nothing but hope and dreams from all we now have. And the player of value is gone. A bonafide MLB top tier 2nd baseman and fan fav now gone for a net gain of $5.5 million in salary cuts. Half of what they "took a low cost flyer", they said, on Joey Gallo. Hey, any deal can go bad, and even the star players paid over 200 Million can sign for the big money and have their career worst year and have all those recent injuries. You just never know.
  8. h2oface
    I guess they are looking to add prospects. And get rid of another top of the order bat. And a switch hitter at that. SMH.
  9. h2oface
    No worries. He should have plenty of time to get those Ks up, not steal bases, and be slow in the outfield. He could fit in well with the Twins current MO. And DeSclafani can be cut by midseason when he tanks as the reversion seems to be on to the filler pitchers that get added to the mix (no need to have surplus of talent like Houston and actually get someone like Hader when you already have a great closer you fleeced from.....). And Topa didn't even really make it to the show until 32 to stay, so folks can call him a kid even if this will be his 33 y-o season. He has one and only one good MLB year, last year only, and that is a half a year more than Jorge Lopez had! And Bowen - they always need to fill minor league rosters. The most entertainment I see here is watching posters misspell DeSclafani in so many different ways. I guess it is only fitting to worry about injuries if the player is a homer (Polanco and Arraez) and a great value, but not if a $200 million new guy that has an excuse for something year to year (wonder what it will be this year) is signed to eat up the salary so you can't even supposedly afford what the rest of baseball considers a great value at 10.5 mil. Do they even save the precious $ we are hearing is necessary? Julien is no lock in his 2nd season, but he can watch the called third strike from lefties if they even let him hit against lefties without straining himself for the righties. Nevermind. Ignore all that. I hate underwhelming trades that don't improve a competing team this year. It is my problem. I just need to like strangers more, I guess.
  10. h2oface
    I don’t need a player to ever play in the post season for them to get in. But IF THEY DO, it means their greatness can’t lay an egg, but their star should shine at least as bright as their regular season record. To tank when it means the most is not helpful.
  11. h2oface
    Playoffs matter. A Hall of Famer needs to come through and perform when the pressure and stakes are the highest.
  12. h2oface
    $5 million. Less than half what the Twins were silly enough to pay for Gallo. I mean, it’s not like the previous years weren’t yelling at the signers “DON’T BE FOOLS!”
  13. h2oface
    Congrats to the recipients or their family. I always think of a Hall of Fame being comprised of extraordinary accomplishments and individuals, and not just good baseball men, but good for them.
  14. h2oface
    Never a doubt. All those wasted words. Well played, Joe Mauer. Tori with 28 votes/7.3% after 4 years - and still on the next ballot.
  15. h2oface
    I’m just hoping for one, just one, just one great pitcher these self proclaimed pitching identifying geniuses draft and develop. Not trade the house for. But draft. And I mean like a Kirby, etc. Not an Ober. So far, there have been none.
  16. h2oface
    Some really want Kepler traded. Not me. Or Polanco. Amazing how Kepler is pitched as such a great value for other teams and for trading, but not a good value for the Twins. Keep Kepler.
  17. h2oface
    Stewart could have had a career year, er, 1/3 year. Theilbar's time could very well be up with Father Time's ruthlessness. He has always seemed like fool's gold to me as he has been surprising. Folks keep penciling them in like they are sure things, just like they are Paddack and Varland right now. To try to make your team better by selecting and adding hopes and players that have truly been given up on by teams that truly believed in them instead of pitchers that have proven their value is why the Twins are always hoping to get better rather than getting better. Now is the time to charge, not back off. Not a whole lot of vision shown by the FO.
  18. h2oface
    It amazes me that this is even a thing to be glorified. Big whoop. Sure, it is nice to hit the ball hard, but it doesn't really matter how the ball drops in, or out of the park. SMH. It is one thing to glorify the contact and distance of a rare home run, when the perfect angle and power meet in that amazing majestic blast that arcs so fine and goes so far, but just "hard hit", like the Buxton roller and the Wallner double that should have been stopped for a single? Exciting? To each their own.
  19. h2oface
    Jim Brockmire. We only need one in the booth, then. Hawkins would be great for Little League games.
  20. h2oface
    Really enjoying this series and countdown. Not for the ratings, but for the trips down memory lane. My only suggestion would be to include the team's record and the playoff record (if there was one) as you list which team it is, or as part of the overview at the top of the story. Sure, I can look it up, and did, because how many games they won was never mentioned once in the article, only at the very end with a Seth quote, and then still involved math to figure out the 98-64 record (the playoffs got their own short paragraph toward the end, that was nice, but maybe fits best in the overview? with the final record?). (I see this might be on purpose, too, as reviewing the other 3 teams articles, it is never mentioned until the very end of the article in any of them. Suspense? We will read them, anyway, you know.....) Remembering the 0-3 sweep in the playoffs two years in a row to the same team sure seems like practice for the 0-18 stretch we just endured. Ouch.
  21. h2oface
    If I'm getting paid around $10 million, I do what I am told by my boss. I don't think the boss wants him in center. That said, I hope he just isn't traded. And they sign Snell.
  22. h2oface
    TOS muah bye bye
  23. h2oface
    Spencer Steer on the list with Royce. Ouch.
  24. h2oface
    Almost all stadiums (all the ones I have gone to last summer, which was St. Louis, Dodger, KC, and Arizona) allow you to bring in food and a sealed drink if you like. I bring way more interesting eats than the overpriced concessions that mostly suck IMO. And if you need $20 beer, and can't do without for a few hours at the ballpark, you are the fool. I love beer, but I am no fool. And the seats, in the first upper level, even at Dodger stadium, and on the rail, I have never had to pay more than $30 on the resale sites for a ticket. Parking sucks when they charge you $20 to park at their parking lot, but that can be circumvented, too, with a little healthy walk, it you like. So I don't know why folks think they can't have a great time for a pretty small cost if they want to see a game live.
  25. h2oface
    Please don't pull a Mahle and assume Montas is OK. It will be a waste of money and time. Clevinger has a rebel personality, has made some bad choices during the pandemic, https://www.ksat.com/sports/2020/08/25/fresh-start-clevinger-back-with-Guardians-after-demotion/ the lost 2021 with TJ surgery recovery, and there is the closed investigation with no discipline imposed in 2023...... https://soxmachine.com/2023/03/regarding-mike-clevinger-who-is-no-fun-to-regard/ While the FO forgives cheating (as do most fans if they play for the Twins), I don't see them looking past a possible "mis-fit" in the clubhouse. But he might be the best of the lot for the money they won't be willing to spend.
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