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  1. Unwinder
    I recall a lot of people on here holding their breath for another starter last offseason and feeling let down when Paddack was it and Montas was still in Oakland. Oh yeah, and there was a lot of angst when the Twins didn't make any moves before the lockout. But it was definitely way more of a go-for-it year than the front office gets credit for. Problem was the results (and arguably the gambles on injury risks) not unwillingness to make big moves.
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    I'd do it for a few years of a pretty good bullpen piece. I'm skeptical of him bringing more than that unless he's part of a package and not the headliner.
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    Saw this on Reddit and they put the new hat on the left and the old hat on the right, and a good handfull of Redditors are angrily bashing the old logo because they think it's the new logo.
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    I was expecting something almost exactly like this - A tweak that 95% of fans wouldn't even notice without seeing the two side-by-side. Nobody's going to be blown away by it, and I can understand not liking it. It's clear that the goal here was to not lose any of the identifiability, but to make the spacing on everything a little more even, and the lines are a little bolder and more uniform. The main reason to do this is that it'll look just a tiny bit clearer and read just a tiny bit better when printed at small sizes, or when viewed at a distance, like on a player's cap. THAT SAID, is that T Kasota Gold or is that just lighting?????? (Even if it is, they play around with the colors a lot on novelty caps like this, so it's hard to be totally sure that the standard T isn't still white) EDIT: I looked at the "southwestern" themed hats for the other MLB teams and all of them had the white in their logos replaced with beige for this particular series of hats, so it's very safe to assume that the Twins TC emblem will continue to use a white T.
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    Correa specifically called out the Dodgers last year as a team he didn't want to play for due to the Trevor Bauer scandal thing (or at least that's how everyone interpreted his comments about wanting to play for a team that "respects women"). Maybe money or ambition will change that equation, but as of now, the Dodgers are the only team I've ever heard Correa rule out.
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    I don't know if I've seen everyone's version of this yet, but I'm sort of surprised that everyone's been pretty conservative about next year's roster considering all the calls for change around here.
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    Also: If it did, seems like it would be pretty easy to change back.
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    I don't know, I remember Jax being used as a multi-inning reliever early on, and then getting limited to one-inning stints after a while despite being decently effective in multiple innings. There may have been some really good reason behind the scenes for this, but it feels like Rocco prioritized getting the best possible stuff out of Jax (and possibly some others?) over covering innings adequately.
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    Same. I feel like I can't actually critique Rocco without inviting another pile-on, so I avoid saying anything at all about him. I do think that some people defend Rocco a bit too aggressively and personally, and I think what's going on under the hood is that they believe in the analytical style of baseball that Rocco and the front office represent, and they feel like the Twins are going to lose even more if they're replaced by a more go-with-your-gut regime. I definitely feel a lot more inclined to leap to Rocco's defense when someone suggests that his problem is that he won't turn back the clock and ignore the last 20 years of baseball knowledge.
  10. Unwinder
    My serious answer is that Rocco can only regain fans' favor with wins. Whether or not he pulls starters early, plays bad relievers in high-leverage situations, rests good players, changes up the lineups every day, refers to "spreadsheets," emphasizes fundamentals, lets players bunt or steal bases, tells guys to swing for the fences at every plate appearance, holds players accountable for bad play, operates in lockstep with the front office, shows emotion when the team loses, or accidentally makes two mound visits in one inning, if the team wins enough, he'll be fine. If he changes some or all of those behaviors and the team wins spectacularly, he'll be generally liked. If he changes none of them and manages exactly the same way next year and the team wins spectacularly, he will be liked. If he can't get the Twins to start winning, he will be disliked. Being the lightning rod for fan frustration is part of the job.
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    I'm not sure what he could do, maybe he could try using more analytics?
  12. Unwinder
    Eddie's in it again too. Edit: Oh yeah, the article is about AL teams.
  13. Unwinder
    Go Blue Jays!
  14. Unwinder
    The Dodgers tweaked their official script logo and interlocking LA emblem in 2012, and have been introducing new uniform variants every few years, including this year. The logo changes are pretty subtle, but for all we know, the Twins logo change might be similarly subtle.
  15. Unwinder
    I have MILB.tv and love it, sometimes I really want to watch a particular prospect, sometimes I just want baseball on in the background when I'm working on something in the garage (or the kitchen). I subscribed during the offseason when it was going for even less than the 39.99 price, and used it to catch up on archived games with Balazovic, SWR, Martin, and Varland, who I hadn't had a chance to see in action yet. Only problem is that it has bad-to-no closed captioning, particularly in the lower affiliates, which is annoying because I often want to watch it while putting the baby to sleep.
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    One thing I really like about baseball in general, and the Twins in particular, is that old design elements are never really lost. Take the "m" emblem, for instance. The Twins phased it out of their everyday look, but it's still all over on merchandise, all over the graphics the Twins use on the scoreboard and on social media, and the Twins wore it on their hats for spring training this year. Or take a look at the original loopy "Twins" script with the big underline. This was updated in 1987, but since then, it's reasserted itself on retro uniforms, and appears almost as often as the "current" wordmark. I welcome a new take on the brand, because I know that the interlocking TC emblem, the hand-shaking Minnie and Paul, the underlined wordmark superimposed over a baseball, and all the other current brand elements that I like are always going to be in use on some level, and there will always be plenty of retro merchandise and throwback uniforms to showcase them. Nothing's really going away. so why not add something new to the mix?
  17. Unwinder
    I think that dropped fly ball was more of a no-brain problem than a no-heart problem.
  18. Unwinder
    I like Ohtani better and think that what he's doing is more special, but both are very good. Historically good. Since MVP is voted on and doesn't have standardized criteria I'm actually OK with it being awarded to Judge simply for the sake of variety, considering both have earned it.
  19. Unwinder
    Nothing left for me to look forward to this season except going to see Shohei Ohtani.
  20. Unwinder
    I have now given up on this season. I was a holdout and I give up.
  21. Unwinder
    I do feel like it's fishy that the Twins seem to be suffering disproportionally so many injuries over multiple seasons, but I have no idea who, if anyone, has dropped the ball. Are they drafting and trading for more risky players than other teams? Is it poor conditioning? Are players not being trained to play in ways that minimize injury? It seems like it's a too much to attribute to just bad luck, but I'm not totally convinced that it's a problem that requires tearing down leadership and starting over. People love to assume that Falvey, Lavine, Baldelli, etc. are completely set in their ways and can never fix anything wrong with any part of their system and I just don't have the depth of knowledge to know if that's true of this problem. This year they did try pretty hard to avoid injuries with the off days, and we wound up with another very bad injury year. Does this mean they're out of ideas and we can't get any more ideas without getting new management? I have no idea. As for the Mahle and Paddack trades, I don't have complete information, but I still view them as risks worth taking that did not break in our favor.
  22. Unwinder
    I feel like Ryan, Mahle, Gray, Ober, Winder, Maeda, Varland, and Paddack (though he'll be coming in later) make up the best starting point for a season that I've seen in a while. Don't see any room at all in there for a bargain-bin reclamation project. Obviously this isn't bulletproof since we have all these guys now and a bunch of them are injured, but if I'm the front office I'm spending my 2023 Happ and Shoemaker money on some relievers who can pitch more than one inning to make up for all these guys who are only going to cover five innings.
  23. Unwinder
    Sadly this FO treats position player pitchers as fungible. I knew this would happen when they let Astudillo go.
  24. Unwinder
    That ending was chaos. Madness. I'm not even really mad they lost because it was so wild.
  25. Unwinder
    I'm always interested in reading articles about Baldelli, but more than any subject in baseball, I need to skip the comment section for the sake of my sanity.
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