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  1. Whitey333
    You mentioned the Twins must see something in Ortega. Sure they do. Another cheap reclamation project this Team insists on. They have spent so much time on Correa it's ridiculous. I hope the Twins don't sign him.
  2. Whitey333
    Who cares? I hope Mets sign him. He won't make the Twins contenders. He's a water of time. Plus you can't use him as a center piece to build around if there isn't sufficient payroll. It's a lost cause. Let it go already.
  3. Whitey333
    Let's hope Mets finally sign Correa. Then hopefully we can move on from this fiasco. IMO we need much more than Correa to be considered serious contenders. If the Giants and Mets are concerned about his physical health shouldn't the Twins be as well? No more deals with opt out clauses!! It's a joke and hurts Twins, not help. If you are going to invest millions on a player then the commitment shouldn't be one sided. He never has wanted to make a commitment here at all unless it benefitted him only. Don't get used again, Twins. Forget Correa and make some real additions that improve your team.
  4. Whitey333
    Oh p-ah leese get over this Correa infatuation. Move on from it. Maybe I'm the only one but at this point I think it would be a huge mistake to re engage and maybe resign Correa. Yes we need a shortstop. But what good is it to tie up so much payroll on one person when there are so many other needs on the team. A less than mediocre team result with a high priced shortstop does not make any sense.
  5. Whitey333
    Your article is well thought out. I think relying on Buxton as a number 1 asset is foolish. This continues to be a Twins FO mistake. That is to assume he will come back and play a full season and perform like an MVP. They dont give MVP to part time players. For the Twins to count on a part time player to finally do something is ridiculous. This is where the FO must realize that you can't count at all on Buxton.
  6. Whitey333
    It's the same thing every off season. People speculate on Buxton. What if he played a full season? What if? To extrapolate his part time status into a season of full time stats is absolutely ridiculous. Comparing Buxton to players like Trout, and others is ludicrous. How can a normal logical person compare that way when Buxton never plays? The superstars are superstars because they produce throughout the season. And for season after season. Not by playing baseball in the trainers room. We've followed this B's for 8 going on 9 years. He shows flashes of brilliance. He also shows flashes of Sano. He is no superstar! To call him that with so little evidence does a great disservice to the real superstars of the game. The ones who play and produce. I hope he plays all year and has an MVP year. But I sure doubt it. Buxton is what he is. A good player, great center fielder, when he plays. Problem is he doesn't play nearly enough.
  7. Whitey333
    Great article. This FO has been very confusing from the start. There is no sense of direction for this team. They are listless and boring. I heard them say that for individual players and the team as a whole that the process is more important than the results. Really? That belief, and the support it gets from upper management is astounding. If your goal isn't to produce a winner, or a consistently competitive team you shouldnt be a general manager or manager. This team has very poor fundamentals, plays boring baseball,. It must be part of "the plan". Process more important than results will lead us to another boring season of Twins baseball.
  8. Whitey333
    Great article for discussion. Any of these players winning awards next year is pure fantasy. The only award Buxton could make is MIP. That's most injured player. To even be considered Buxton would need to play 140+ games. He hasn't done that in 5 years. I wish he could play regularly. How people project him as an MVP based on success from a limited playing time is beyond me. I'd love to see how he does in a full season. We will probably never know.
  9. Whitey333
    Nothing against columbe but this is just a typical Twins move. It's ok but very boring and doesn't move the needle at all. Nothing changes with the Twins off seasons.
  10. Whitey333
    I want to be optimistic but the Twins make it hard. As many of the people posted there's an awful lot of ifs. Depth in starting pitching? Where? Much of the so called depth is prospects with very limited or no major league experience. Plus many of the starters we do have are not established or are injured. Gray and Ryan seem to do well. Especially if Ryan can start pitching well against the good teams. Mahle is the big question mark to me. He must stay healthy and must perform. It shouldn't be that tough. He plays for a manager that generally doesn't believe in starting pitchers. Maeda? Jury is still definitely out since he hasn't pitched in over a year. Plus I believe he and Gray and maybe others are entering the last year of their contracts. Over has at times shown he's ready but other times us awful and injured a lot. Winder, Varland Richardson have far too little MLB experience to consider it depth. Like most of the team the pitching staff is littered with what ifs and has beens. Playing fewer division games may help but may be disastorus. I'm afraid it will be another season of boring baseball for the Twins. Their best promotion may be No- Doze night. Handing out caffeine tablets at the gates might be the only way to keep fans awake. As much as I would like to see 85-90 wins I realistically am anticipating only an 75 win season.
  11. Whitey333
    Wow. Excellent comments and opinions by all. My opinion, and I realize it's my opinion, just like your comments are your opinion. Mine isn't so much the payroll total as to how the FO distributes the payroll dollars. IMO I believe they have done a poor job of managing the payroll. The last two seasons + have been horrendous. They not only lose a lot, the play boring uninspired games. They rest star players too often for home games. To me this organization shows no direction to develop good talent. Not just talent you can name because they are prospects. Many are unproven at the major league level. To me compound the fact the Twins are boring and very fundamentally unsound is the way major league baseball has changed the past few seasons. We now have a new wave of baseball nerds that think they best know how baseball should be played. I think they are wrong. Baseball thrived for decades until these egg heads decided to change it. It is not the game I grew up enjoying for decades. IMO it's much worse. I e been a Twins fan for decades and will continue to be albeit begrudgingly. And that is not the fault of the Pohlad family.
  12. Whitey333
    Another interesting article. I always find it strange that many new wave baseball "experts" like to down play results. Here you try to compare Varsho and Kepler while implying the analytics are more important than the results. What good is the total analytical approach if you don't get positive results? Results, bottom line, is the most important thing. But Falvey of course was recently quoted " it's the process not the results that's important.". I don't understand why a major league baseball team would want a philosophy like that. If your goal isn't winning, you have no business running a team.
  13. Whitey333
    Enough of Correa already, enough!!! For the Twins to re- engage contract talks with Correa would be one of the worst moves in club history. Signing him last year sure didn't move the needle for the Twins. With the twins history of staying in the bottom half of payroll teams it means there is little to no monies available for real team improvements. An argument about whether the twins should be in bottom half is for another topic. Way too much on Carlos. Get over it people.
  14. Whitey333
    I've always liked AK. But his injury situation is a big problem. I'm concerned that those injuries could soon force him out of baseball. Very nice article. But what good is a great walk % if you can't play?
  15. Whitey333
    It's hard to be optimistic about the Twins in 2023. You can't just assume all the injured players will not only be healthy but perform at a high level. Way too many "ifs" on the team. Id love to see them win the division. But as of today I think they will win about 75 games.
  16. Whitey333
    I agree. This Correa saga is a joke. It's even more of a joke that some people think the Twins should sign him. I say no and I hope they do not sign him. The whole thing is ridiculous. He's used the Twins many times already just for his own financial gain. Why go through that again when two teams didn't like the results of his physical. Twins would be foolish to sign him. Move on. I'm just getting so tired of hearing about Carlos Correa. Please stop the stories. He was only here for one season.
  17. Whitey333
    Nice article. I was going to point out that Rogers was actually very good for the Padres the first few weeks. While he was saving them Pagan was blowing them. Someone else did a great job reporting this. Pagan is a joke and the Twins insistence on process over results cost us many games last year. Pagan has been bad most of his career. Rogers has overall had a decent career. Also if baseball is trending to less importance and length placed on starting pitching, you better have a damn good bullpen. The Twins have some but overall it's not that great. If bullpens are pitching half the games each year they deserve big increases. The fact that the Twins won't pay market value for the product they need is not unusual. They bargain basement shop for their pitching staff and it shows. IfJoey Gallo is able to command a job on the Twins at 11 million, Rogers and relief pitchers like him deserve it more. Remember Gallo is a career .199 hitter. Yes that is CAREER. He also strikes out more often than Sano. And he is a terrible clutch hitter. The bullpen needs to be beefed up if the manager only lets starters go 5 or 6 innings. The bullpen was burned out last season. Twins need to pay at least market share. Good relievers cost money. Apparently Twins only want " affordable" ones.
  18. Whitey333
    Baldelli is number one improvement needed. IMO he has been mediocre at best. He's a very boring manager that manages a very boring team to play even more boring baseball. If they are always going to stick to the plan and are unwilling or unable to actually manage a game, then they should just set the laptop on the bench and let it manage lol. This is one of the most boring baseball Twins team I've ever watched. As they discussed about Pagan, it's the process not the results we are interested in. It's obviously the same philosophy the whole FO has. If they really don't care about winning and are only concerned about the process and not results, they should be fired.
  19. Whitey333
    Nice article on base stealing. Too bad it was diluted by a self serving infomercial.
  20. Whitey333
    First ballot is a tough gig. Unlikely Joe makes it on the first ballot. He should make it in the first 5 years. He deserves to be a HOF member.
  21. Whitey333
    I hope the Mets keep him. I don't want the Twins to resign him or have anything to do with him. I'm absolutely sick and tired of all this Correa garbage. Let him go. It's over. Who cares anymore?
  22. Whitey333
    Anything the Twins sign will definitely be a below average player. They traded a decent player Urshela for a low level pitcher we will probably never see. Apparently the FO wasn't excited about paying an arbitration salary of around 9 million for him. By trading Urshela for a song and dance they had created even more questions. Miranda could maybe go to third. He's played there before and looked pretty bad. Maybe he will be better. Seems this FO has created most of their own problems. I don't see them trading for any of the players mentioned. So far the off season has been a disaster. Signing Vazquez was one of the better signings as we needed a catcher and now they have one. Gallo? 11 million for a career .199 hitter is way over spend IMO. If they were able to spend it on him why wouldn't they have invested that money into some much needed pitching? He does homer in about once in every 15-20 at bats. But seldom homers in the clutch. He strikes out more than once in every three at bats. Come on Falvey, and Levine. You can do better than that. If not you should be gone. And take Rocco with you.
  23. Whitey333
    No Ted, in my view your view that Gallo is a good signing is way overblown. My guess is he may start kind of hot and everyone will get rel excited thinking it was such a great deal. But by mid season the dwindling fans in attendance will boo him mercilessly for all the strikeouts and low average and his continued poor clutch hitting. IMO he isn't needed. If another outfielder needed to be signed I believe better players were available. This will go down as another one of their strange signings. It will not make the team better. This FO will go down as one of the worst in Twins history. This team has very little direction. When 2023 ends, the Twins will have played another year of boring, losing baseball. Then it should be the end of Falvey, Lavigne, and Rocco.
  24. Whitey333
    If Twins start season with no more significant additions I suspect they only win 70-75 games. The fans will have pretty much booked Gallo out of town for his .199 batting average, a strike out rate in high 30% and his horrendous clutch hitting. IMO that 11 mill could have been better spent on the bullpen. I suggest that if these prospects everyone is so excited about don't have productive results in 2023, it's time to move on. That includes Falvey, Lavigne, and Rocco.
  25. Whitey333
    Absolutely not. To say he is vilified by the media is a poor excuse. MLB isn't a courtroom except as it applies to it's employees, owners, and players. An independent arbiter found enough there to suspend him without pay. I'm sorry, but Bauer brought this on himself. They sign contracts agreeing to policies negotiated between the players and the owners. This is part of that process. Bauer would be a terrible addition to the Twins. I say NO.
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