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  1. Whitey333
    Nice to win one that looked like was going to be another blown game. On paper the next two games look difficult. We have Bundy with an ERA over 5 then 4 inning Archer on Sunday. Glad we won Friday because Saturday and Sunday look like tough matchups. Come on now, any time I see Bundy then Archer back to pitching it's guaranteed a heavy bullpen usage and likely blow out losses. Then we get to go play the Dodgers. Good thing is after that we have several winnable games with Angels, Royals, and Rangers
  2. Whitey333
    Thanks for a well thought out and honest article about Carlos Correa. He has been a big dissappointment this year. He with our other " superstar" part time Buxton have been dragging the offense down for the past several weeks. People have been treating him like some kind of God that can do no wrong. Provus on radio broadcast gushes over the way he joins in with pitching conversations on the mound. So what. So do other players. Bottom line for me is I hope he does not opt to stay. The FO told us and demonstrated to us their repeated philosophy of going for bargain basement pitching citing in part budget concerns. Yet pay one guy $35 mil. Made no sense then and even less now with his mediocre play. I'm wondering if the option to return is Correa alone or if the Twins have a mutual option. I also find it ironic that the poorer he plays the more likely he opts in due to the huge salary. I know I'm in the vast minority here in saying I hope he doesn't opt in and the Twins reinvest that money in much more needed areas.
  3. Whitey333
    It's always fun to see how people throw out names from the minors like they were hall of famers. Most of those players mentioned in our minor leagues will not make it to the big leagues much less stay there and be productive for the Twins. I too believe the FO was caught by surprise with how well they started out and have hung into first place. But it is obvious this team may or may not finish in first place but they are not a first place team. The trades should benefit us for a few years though. Remember this FO assembled this mess of a pitching staff this off season. They elected to go bargain basement and holding pitching salaries down because of the budget. But yet we're able to spend 35 mil on one player. He hasn't even done that well this year. We could have had some mu h needed established major league pitching for that 35 mil. If the goal has always been to compete in 2023 and 2024 they must do a better job this off season putting the major league team together.
  4. Whitey333
    Thanks Duff for your years of service to the Twins organization. The writing has been on the wall lately. I'm hoping a national league team picks him up. I figured he wouldn't be back next year so I thought they would hang on to him through the end of the year. Pagan also needs to go. You can't trust him in any role. I believe he leads all a.l. relievers in home runs allowed this year. Rocco says he still has good spin rates and is missing bats. He's not missing too many. Rocco, as usual is missing the boat. Pagan needs to be DFA' d soon. Spin rates and missed bats mean absolutely nothing when the final result is you give up way too many homeruns.
  5. Whitey333
    Interesting discussion. I think Mahle will be just fine. What is almost amusing is the assumption the Twins will even make the playoffs. They haven't been playing like a first place team for 2 months. Lots of injuries and our top offensive players have gone into hiding. The great Correa, he of the 35mil (money that could have been used to get some good pitching) has been missing in action for several weeks. As I have been saying since the season started. What will stop this team is the 5 inning starters and using 4 relievers nightly, and a manager that relies on his computer analytics and avoid common sense managing too much. Rocco in the end will be the downfall of this team this year.
  6. Whitey333
    Wow what a terrible show for a sold out crowd. I imagine the many thousands that were there mainly for the concert won't be rushing to but Twins tickets anytime soon. I still applaud the trades. They were needed and will benefit the team for the next 2-3 years. Oh yes. Pagan can be blamed for giving up those runs. True the great, and lately invisible Correa, made an error but a good relief pitcher picks up hus team. Pagan is not a good relief pitcher. Arraez, Buxton, and Correa are hitting a combined 223 since July 1st. Yet everyone rightfully accuses our minor league bullpen of losing 22 games this year. Where are the people not analyzing the hitting. Thankfully we can get decent stats here at TD. The radio people seem very leery about any criticizing of the great Correa or Buxton. Provus will tell us all the time how great Correa is playing and how he is always involved in trips to the mound. Big deal. When is he going to play like a 35 mil player? Haven't seen it yet. It's getting late. This team has so many flaws. The bullpen is amongst the worst in all of baseball. Manager Baldelli is no better.
  7. Whitey333
    Great moves by the Twins. Now if somebody can train Rocco how to use a pitching staff it may work out great. The starting pitchers need to regularly go 6-7 innings at this point in the season. If the philosophy is to only let your starters go 5 innings then I'm afraid the new additions may succumb to lower expectations for Mahle and burnout use for the new guys. Yesterday the Twins won 4-1 with Ryan pitching a very good game. Yet not even allowed to pitch 6 innings we wound up using 4 relievers. I view the trades as good not only for this year but for most for the years ahead. They gave up some prospects but none of their top ones. Grade B+. Not quite an A because we still have Correa who hasnt performed at a superstar status. We likely lose him for nothing after the season. Could maybe have replenished some prospect pool.
  8. Whitey333
    Pretty typical Twins game. Our core hitters are ice cold and have been for quite some time. I agree that Correa has been a big dissappointment considering his superstar status. He's had plenty of opportunities to carry the team. Buxton? What you see is what you get. He's been doing this for seven years. He IS injured all the time. Unfortunately he's not reliable and you can't count on him. It will probably won't change for the seven years remaining here. It's sad and frustrating. I do like the trades the Twins made. It may or may not help them win the division. But since they are under team control for a couple of years sans Fulmer, they can be part of the next playoff push.
  9. Whitey333
    Interesting article. The Twins have been dumpster diving for pitching during the Falvine regime. That's the way they function. And the results? You get what you pay for. Twins new this past off season they didn't have much of a pitching staff. The starters were ok early but what you see is what you get. Except for Ryan and Gray it's a losing crapshoot. My question has always been with the Correa signing. Why pay one guy that much money when you know you don't have the pitching to contend. I kept waiting for more significant moves and signings after Correa. I figured we would surround him with some other great players. During the shortened off season all we heard from the FO was that starting pitching was hard to find and too expensive. Then they sign one player to that much money? I like him but it seems the FO had no plan. Maybe they still don't. So now we have a huge asset in Correa that will likely leave after the season. We will have nothing to show for it assuming they don't trade him. Very strange plan to me. I will admit they have had a ton of injuries. Way too many and also way too many prospects underperform. Seems like they are in a tough position.
  10. Whitey333
    Nice win against a very poor and depleted Tigers team. Twins need pitching and catching help. Not sure if Twins will pull off anything, or at least anything worth while. Way too many injuries. Plus our great prospects are either injured or underperforming or both. I hope Falvey and Company can figure out something to help a floundering team. That is their job isn't it? But we already hear the same excuses that everyone is looking for pitching. The problem in my opinion is the Twins didn't do nearly enough to upgrade the pitching this off season. Entering the season with such questionable starting pitching was fool hearty. And the short starts, either by design and/ or performance has put a huge strain on an already shaky bullpen. Let's go Twins. We need to sweep the Tigers. We have Toronto and the dodgers on the horizon.
  11. Whitey333
    Sano clearly has no place on this team now or the future. The strikeouts are alarming. For the few prodigious home runs he's hit and even the few games he's won with Homer's for the Twins, he just never seemed to adjust to situations. Where a sac fly or a single may have produced runs he was incapable of doing it. It was all or nothing for him. He should be DFA as soon as possible
  12. Whitey333
    Nick, you always have such thorough well thought out articles. I always read your stories first. The Twins have a lot of flaws and holes not to mention the injuries. I don't want to mortgage the future either but is our farm system so great that it's the future? People need to be realistic. Most of the prospects in any organization are just that, prospects often over- hyped.
  13. Whitey333
    I noticed the guy on the radio broadcast was saying the road trip was decent as the Twins went 3-4. Wow. How could anyone say the road trip was successful. Did they not notice that they finished the road trip 1-4 against good teams? It's been such a frustrating season. I'm not one of those that says we should be happy because of August we are in first place. I'm frustrated because even with all the injuries we should be way ahead of the others in the division. The pitching has blown so many games. It's frustrating watching such a flawed team flounder like a fish out of water. With Toronto coming in for four games this weekend the Twins need to either sweep or at least take 2 of 3 from Tigers. While we will be playing blue jays and then dodgers while the white Sox play royals in two series and rangers. I don't think the twins have the pitching to make it. For white Sox the next 2-3 weeks provide an excellent opportunity to bolt ahead in the standings if they take advantage of an easy schedule. If Sox don't then they could be done. Trade deadline? Like the team as a whole, I don't know what to expect. So many of their tradable assets are injured. Go Twins
  14. Whitey333
    I totally agree that this Twins team is totally unpredictable. Yesterday's win was welcome but definitely had some flaws and question marks in it. Rocco continues to misuse this so-called pitching staff. All year long over- using the bullpen. IMO Gray shouldn't have been pulled after 5 innings and 79 pitches. He was pitching well. The starters should be able to go 6 or 7 innings by now. This just wears down the bullpen. Using Duran in that game was a waste. A pitcher doesn't have to go in to pitch just because he had been warming up earlier. Pitchers have been getting warmed up and then not pitch for decades. It shouldn't kill them. Duffey unfortunately turned a romp into a closer than should be game. We should be used to that. The umpire getting hit by that batted ball surely helped. It would have tied the game at that point. On the other hand, Padres still had two chances to get him in and they didn't. Glad we won 7-4. Just keep in mind that we are 1-3 on this road trip. Even a win today would be nice but still be a bad road trip. We need a win today then come home to beat up on the tigers for three games.
  15. Whitey333
    Yes Seattle gave up 4 prospects including a couple of high prospects. But they haven't been in the playoffs since 2000 or 2001. I don't think it's an overpay for the moment. You can play your prospects if they are so great or use them in trades. Prospects are an asset. At least the few that may be able to make the majors. But what good does it do to hoard prospects when the major league team is floundering and in obvious need of help. This team has been so flawed from the start but the FO so far has only been good at signing washed up pitchers no one else wants. Yes I agree we should be thinking 2023 and beyond. But first there is no guarantee as of today that the team in 2023 will be any better than this year's team. So what's wrong with adding a little major league pitching now and getting someone good enough to help with that supposedly open window? My opinion is if Falvey and Company is unable or unwilling to make some noticeable improvement on this team they should not be here. That's there job. I'm expecting some kind of help coming via trade. Some significant meaningful help. Can Sano pitch? He's not much good at anything else.
  16. Whitey333
    Very sad performance by Ryan. But he's been the teams best starter. What's frustrating is we were counting on him to be a stopper. At least in this case. Hopefully Gray can do well on Saturday but the ship is rapidly sinking. I agree with the contributed questioning Rocco's handling of pitching staff. Many times he takes the pitcher out way too early then other times he leaves him in way too long. He should have gotten Ryan out of there much earlier. It probably wouldn't have made any difference in the final score. But maybe by letting him get hammered and embarrassed you hurt his confidence. I've been saying since April. This team is not good enough to be a serious contender and Rocco will wind up managing his way out of playoff consideration. Front Office, where are you???
  17. Whitey333
    I believe this bullpen is accountable for 20 losses. They have given up a league leading 58 homeruns ouch! Twins also need a starter or two, or at least find someone that can pitch to the 6th or 7 the inning on occasion. Or a manager that should have stretched out the starters long ago. Most of these pitching problems were not adequately addressed this off season. Top 4 guys in batting order yesterday went 0-16. They are starting to look like last year's crummy team.
  18. Whitey333
    I hope they don't trade either one of them. I like them both and they have a huge upside. But keep in mind if people are looking for trade help you need to be prepared to give up something good to get something good. Hoarding all your prospects is not the answer either. The Twins, like most teams tend to over hyped their prospects. Remember most will never make it. If we could just draft and develop our own pitchers much better than we have in the past we would be much better off.
  19. Whitey333
    I think the whole thing is a crap shoot. Any of the three teams could win it. All are decent teams with lots of flaws and the ability to choke away games. After a very good start Twins have been below 500 for the past 50-55 games. Their ship is sinking but Sox and Cleveland can't seem to take control either. The trade deadline could prove the difference the rest of the way
  20. Whitey333
    Another sloppy Twins game. I didn't see in your article that after Garlick was gifted on a poor defensive play by Brewers to get him to second did you mention his base running good. He got doubled off second on a good outfield catch. He had a runner in front of him who rightfully wasn't running waiting to see if the catch was made. Garlick, like usual, played it poorly and took us out of a potential good inning. It doesn't help when your own pitching staff continues to demonstrate how poor it is. How has Duran done the past several games? He sure didn't pitch a clean inning yesterday and has struggled the past few outings. Yes even the good ones run into slumps. Wednesday 4 innings Archer is pitching. Look for bullpen overuse again and Twins struggling to score against a very good Brewer pitcher today. Twins may be in first place but they sure aren't a first place team. Way too many holes. They are well below 500 the past 55 games.
  21. Whitey333
    Correa is a member of the Twins. He does not have a no trade contract Anyone in the team can be traded. I don't think they will trade him because I don't think they will find a team trading partner. But that doesn't mean they shouldn't listen to any offers. Correa has been a good player but looks like he took could be a rental for the Twins. I would expect that when the Twins don't trade him and he leaves the same fans will start complaining because they let him go for nothing. I'm for keeping him but not at all costs. I still can't figure out why they signed him without making their pitching staff a major league one.
  22. Whitey333

    Correa for Soto???

    Whitey333 commented on Doc Munson's blog entry in Fantasy GM

    Obviously no way that is happening. The main reason we got Correa was because his agent, Scott Boras, contacted the Twins. Not the other way around. But the Twins DID elect to sign Correa. As it is currently turning out I'm not sure it was for the best. After all if the FO refuses to invest in major league pitching what good does Correa do? Yes the team is 3 games in first place. Without the regular implosion of the bullpen, and with a superstar at short Twins should be 8-10 games in front. Soto is likely going to a big market team. My guess the Dodgers or Cardinals. It's also possible the Yankees could sweep in but the asking price is very high.
  23. Whitey333
    Enough said about Sano. He is probably playing his last couple of months with the Twins. It's time to move on from Sano. He enters his return hitting .093 with a ton of strikeouts. He was a liability this spring when he did play. Oh that's right the weather was rotten and cold. But it was only cold for him I guess. As he starts taking at bats away from some proven younger players, I wonder how happy people will be when he strikes out at a career rate around 35%. But people always remember a grand slam against Cleveland or a ball that went 500 feet. He may win us a game or two. But it's also safe to say he may lose us a few as well with his inability to advance runners. He hits a homerun abour once per every 18 at bats in his career but strikes out about once in every three times. Strikeouts are part of the game. But when all is said and done a batter striking out produces close to nothing.
  24. Whitey333
    Catching definitely needs an upgrade. People act as if Jeffers is a superstar. My god he's hitting .214 with 7 home runs and 25 RBI. He's struck out 58 times which translates to about 31% of time. Plus he's poor defensively. He's worth keeping but I sure think at some point we could find someone better. Our catching over all offensively and defensively is well below average. Much like our pitching staff. Pitching must be added if Twins have any chance
  25. Whitey333
    If the Twins pick up his 14 million option for next year then the FO people should be fired. I'm not a Sano hater but his time here has run its course. Yes as sime people always seem to mention he can get hit and carry a team for a short period of time. But his other streaks of striking out 2 or 3 times a game last much longer. Often those strikeouts are with runners on base and he normally doesn't deliver consistently. It's all or nothing for Sano. We all knew he was coming back. I hope he is helpful. I won't like the days when he takes at bats away from better players. Does anyone think it would be great for Aareaz, Miranda, kirilloff to lose at bats to Sano? He's coming back. He played 17 games and he is hitting .093. I sincerely hopes he helps but I am more worried that his performance and presence may hurt.
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