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  1. farmerguychris
    I've been around long enough to know better than to get too excited about being in first place at this point in the season with the roster we have. I also know that sometimes a guy is just a good ballplayer. Maybe he wasn't a top prospect, but if we don't call the guy up the first time someone in our OF goes on the IL, why is he even in our system? No need to let Outman go, injuries will happen -they always do. When that happens, give him his shot. We've gotten to see people with lower floors on the Twins before - whats the worst that could happen?
  2. farmerguychris
    If I were him, I wouldn't worry too much. It is only a matter of time until someone gets injured, and then he'll get his chance. Its up to him what he does with it. I would expect he'll be in MN before June.
  3. farmerguychris
    I don't get this. While underwhelming as far as a signing goes, he was the best we did - so to see him leave is frustrating. Maybe we'll see a young guy in there after all. A failed starter I expect who does, probably have more long term upside if they can figure out life as a reliever. Still, confusing as to what happened behind the scenes as it felt like he was going to be our best righty out of the pen.
  4. farmerguychris
    I just hope that 4-5 starts doesn't turn into 9-10 or 15-20 because they want to let the 'veteran' figure things out as we lose most of his starts. I've seen some pretty long leashes for this franchise.
  5. farmerguychris
    Not all pitchers are made to have 10 year careers, even if they start well. Not sure if he's the kind of guy who can dial it up for 2 innings in the pen - but maybe time to consider if he can do that?
  6. farmerguychris
    This is perfectly said. Until Wallner can make the adjustment to connect on high fastballs, why would they throw him anything else other than junk out of the zone? If he can't make this adjustment, his career could be much shorter than hoped for - IMO.
  7. farmerguychris
    I would bet money that he'll make the opening day roster and someone else (possibly deserving to be in the majors) will start in AAA. This team loves their depth and hates to let people go, even when they should be.
  8. farmerguychris
    lol - I expect we will be competitive.... in at least a handful of games.... right?
  9. farmerguychris
    Agreed - I think these are all fantasy outcomes, but this is at least visible if I squint hard enough.
  10. farmerguychris
    This may the last chance the FO has to help get a return for our overstocked OF. Don't care which spare OF they send, just send someone for something we have a need for.
  11. farmerguychris
    Competitive window open or not, I'll always be willing to spend Billionaire owners money on my favorite team. Pablo seems like the kind of guy who might consider an extension like we did for Paddock. Maybe we could get him (at least for the first year of new deal) below market value and then maybe some team outs in case he doesn't recover as expected.
  12. farmerguychris
    I'm of the mindset that the traditional 'closer' can be part of the past. Put your best pitcher in to face the best batters - 7th, 8th, or 9th. That could mean we'll have 3-4 guys with at least 10 official 'saves'. Didn't think about having Hawkins being in the coaching staff could help us get an extra year out of older pitchers who may be running out of gas. If anyone can tell experienced guys how to make the best of what they have left in the tank - it would be him.
  13. farmerguychris
    Why do I feel a money savings idea is coming our way. You think if the Astros offer us a reduction in the amount we have to pay them each year for them to have Correa, they won't be happy to take one of our (or more than 1) extra lefty bats for salary relief? They take Larnac, Jackson, and we get $6M in relief going forward - only needing to pay the Astros $4M each year left in Correa's contract instead of $10M? Sounds crappy to me, but well our owners?
  14. farmerguychris
    What a sad state of affairs for MLB when one team's castoffs can become a star on a different team.
  15. farmerguychris
    Here's my 2 cents towards what Tom is saying. First - he's not a baseball guy. He's admitted that, and he probably doesn't understand that a below average regular can make $10M a year. In the normal business world - that's an awful lot of money. But now that he's in baseball, its just 'normal'. I wonder if he's having trouble digesting that as he makes this transition into the baseball world from his other Pohlad companies role. He probably figures other than stars Buxton and Lopez, we are paying, in his mind 'fair' wages for people playing baseball. Due to having a couple stars, and paying 'fair' wages, we should be competitive. I have a bad feeling that having a non-baseball owner leading a baseball team is not going to work out well for the fans. They may make more money, his top goal, but none of us will feel any benefit from that. Hopefully I'm wrong.
  16. farmerguychris
    Who did you expect mgmt to sign with a budget of $0
  17. farmerguychris
    It just feels incomplete to me because he never got the chance to continue the momentum we were building with our playoff victory in 2023. I'm from the mindset that only 1 team every year has a successful season - but until a payroll cap and floor go in place, some teams will never likely taste 'success'.
  18. farmerguychris
    Spot on article. Well said and glad you took the time to communicate this to any Falvey haters out there.
  19. farmerguychris
    It was a work in progress when they parted ways with him. But - our pitching has been doing better than our hitting the past few years, so I'd have to say it had more potential than the offensive side of things.
  20. farmerguychris
    I disagree. From my perspective the Pohlads deserve all the sh*t they get. This new version under Tom appears to be heading towards being the worst owners in MLB.
  21. farmerguychris
    Expect a new team manager next year with the last name Pohlad.
  22. farmerguychris
    Editor's Note: An earlier version of this story indicated the team would begin an immediate search for a new president of baseball operations. During his press conference, a reporter asked Pohlad about that search, and Pohlad corrected the record: Zoll will be in charge of baseball ops. The team is not pursuing a replacemeny for Falvey outside the organization at this time. This is what I expected to be the case - I also think you get what you pay for in this case. No one in that role will save them at least a few hundred K right?
  23. farmerguychris
    Why would Tom have a different philosophy than any other Pohlad who has ever run the team. Objective #1 - Make as much money as we can. Objective #2 - Try to scam the fans to believing we care if we win or lose.
  24. farmerguychris
    I can't disagree more. I think Falvey at least tried to put a winning team on the field. Now with Pohlads making a change, I expect someone added that knows going in we're not going to put a decent team on the field because making money is the only thing that really matters to this family.
  25. farmerguychris
    I don't care for this move at all. I have a feeling the Pohlads were telling Falvey that the payroll available for players in the future is not going to allow Falvey to put a competitive team on the field and Falvey wasn't interested in that any longer as he's already had to put up with that for 2 years. I prefer Falvey's leadership to what the Pohlads probably want to put in place - a owner 'YES' man.
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