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  1. h2oface
    Well, I took it as a question asked in order to create a dramatic effect or to make a point rather than to get an answer, so I chose rhetoric instead.
  2. h2oface
    I would disagree. The youth that is playing baseball in the minors have been playing most of their life. They now have trainers and family and coaches that groom them to be baseball players with fervor with clinics and camps and weight training and cross training and private coaching at very young ages and carry it on and on. I see it all the time. They spend a lot of money on it, too. So by the time these youth are 18 and 19, they have had more baseball than players used to have accumulated well into their 20s, and certainly by the time they are 23. Their development is heightened and accelerated immensely year by passing year now. And I doubt many of them stopped working on their game on their own during 2020, either. In this light, one could say that the same applies to any minor-leaguer. In this light 19 is the new 23, not the opposite. One year doesn't really take away all the others. And in regard to the last time an AL Central champion was propelled in any significant way by a big free agent starting pitcher..... I don't know why that statement must be limited to an AL Central champion, and not all of MLB, because it has happened in MLB a lot. And the AL Central is in MLB. After all, the goal is always to win the World Series, not the AL Central, right?
  3. h2oface
    If I stand outside of being a Twins' fan and look at these pitchers that are supposed to be the future and the saviors of this team and it's seemingly now 7 year plan FO (is that enough time, yet?), I am not impressed at all, and with only Balazovic raised in our own farm rated in the top 100 of MLB prospects (Ryan is a recent trade), it seems that others outside of being a Twins' fan are equally unimpressed. It is what it is, now, as our guys were trying to figure out how to navigate while others were already sailing, and already caught all the fish that weren't in the home net. It could all happen. Sure. Maybe it will. I hope it will. That would impress me. Right now, I enjoy the optimism, but am not pretending to be impressed just because I am a Twins' fan. We will need a lot of luck. A ton of luck.
  4. h2oface
    This team is in big truouble from the mound, all aspects. And when you look at the Top 100 and top 10 MLB position prospects, only Twins' fans seem to think our farm is promising.
  5. h2oface
    No. I am saying what I said. I keep reading people say that the Twins won't be competing for the playoffs in 2022. Nobody gave the Giants a chance last year, and they won the most games in MLB! I don't believe any team should consider themselves not competing. The whole point is to compete. No need for a self fulfilling prophecy in my look to the future. With this FO and how they handled 2021 and the run up to the lockout, I have become quite ambivalent about what they do at all.
  6. h2oface
    Thankful Diaz is out at third base. We need Ron Washington there! Tony was just a rally killer, holding the speedy runners and sending the turtles. Just awful.
  7. h2oface
    Remember..... The Giants weren't going to be playing for the playoffs last year either..........
  8. h2oface
    This FO seems to just not like flame throwers.
  9. h2oface
    " a 2020 season in which he finished ninth in AL Cy Young voting. He went 6-3 with a 3.29 ERA and a 1.04 WHIP over 11 starts and 65 2/3 innings. He also struck out 72 batters and walked just 17. He was in a lot of rumors at that season's trade deadline. The Twins certainly are hoping that he returns to that form. " Again, a 60 day, 2 month season. Like Maeda. They have not proven that it will ever happen again. Even Nolasco had a 2 month streak like these guys! The Falvine braintrust spent the whole sprint up to the lockout navigating only to Bundy for pitching needs (does one even count Jharel Cotton?) , while the rest of the league did the real work, and now the shelves are pretty bare at the free agent store. These guys are asleep at the wheel.
  10. h2oface
    This is kinda funny to include Ortiz in the "make a case" club for the Twins. Sure, he is an ex-Twin, and a tragic story for us, but anything he did while on the Twins is just a reason for him not getting in the HOF. Anything in his line as a plus for the HOF happened on the Red Sox.
  11. h2oface
    Between the Baseball Writer's and Golden Days 40 players on the ballots, 7 are former Twins! Good luck to Joe. I would vote for you. It could be a 10 year process, though.
  12. h2oface
    The Hall of Fame is a private club, its leaders make the voting rules, and they say a voter must consider the candidate’s character. While it is not the same as likeability, it is kind of similar, so as long as that is part of the voting rules, it remains a valid reason. Bonds (61.8% on the ninth ballot), Sosa (17%), Clemens (61.6%) - as well as Curt Schilling, who is not on the steroid list and got 71.1% - are all on their last "Baseball Writer's" ballot in 2022. We will see if the passing years mean that they got less guilty, I guess.
  13. h2oface
    I think they should all get in, the steroid tainted stars. Bonds, A-Roid, McGwire, Sosa, Clemens, Manny Ramirez, Palmiero, and Ortiz (did I leave someone out?) There should just be a special room, or branch in the HOF........ the HOS or the HOSF - the Hall Of Shame or the Hall Of Shame Fame. Most would have gotten in without it, and it was their own vanity and morality and greed that took them to the chosen behaviors, because they were addicted to the admiration and fame and all. The "everybody else was doing it" or "management and the commissioner looked the other way" excuse doesn't make it OK, just as it doesn't for most families' children. But they are part of baseball, and they were among the greatest that ever played. HOS is for them to be showcased for the truth and performance.
  14. h2oface
    "1962 was his last full season with the Twins. In early May of 1963, Kralick was traded to Cleveland in exchange for righty Jim Perry. Yes, the Jim Perry that is in the Twins Hall of Fame. " Yes! When MLB players were traded for MLB players............ not a bunch of prospects. I miss those trades. Perry was overshawdowed by Camillio Pascual, Mudcat Grant, and Jim Kaat in the 1965 World Series (Grant and Kaat each started 3 games!) and pushed to only 4 innings from the pen, (giving up 2 tack on runs in the final 3 innings of the game 5 7-0 Dodger win, and the final scoreless inning of the fateful game 7 2-0 loss), and Dean Chance got the thunder in 1967. Perry had those amazing 2 years in '69 and '70.... we just couldn't get past Baltimore and in the ALCS those years....
  15. 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
  16. 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.
  17. h2oface
    Damn. And it made so much sense! "Kidding on the square" I hope.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. h2oface
    I agree. Regardless whether the trade "works out" or not, the trade takes the team backwards on the way to compete in 2022.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. h2oface
    Buxton in Atlanta? Hmmmmmmmm
  25. 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.
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