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  1. Unwinder
    I think the game only changes if Cohen's spending results in a salary cap. Otherwise, prices on free agents just go up, more owners have to bite the bullet and spend on them, and the eventual result is that every team ends up with the same free agents they would've signed anyway, but at three times the salary,
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    I am a lapsed D&D player, and I think it's no coincidence that me getting really into baseball happened around the same time that family obligations started making it impossible for me to keep a regular D&D campaign going. I have a lot of friends who are sports fans, and I was hoping that getting into baseball would give me something to talk to them about, but it turns out that the ones who like baseball are all nerds who I already had plenty of common interests with.
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    I would rather watch a losing Twins team. This is the only thing I can think of that would actually keep me away from Target Field.
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    It's pretty clear that the FO didn't drop Sano because they've lost their taste for all-or-nothing strikeout slugger guys, they just did it because they think he's cooked.
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    I think they got cocky after lowballing Buxton.
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    Yeah, I don't know if the doom and gloom is totally justified here. I'm very frustrated with the free agency situation and want to the FO to make a big splash, but the Twins' have had big FA names on big contracts for the last 2-3 mediocre years, and the last really good season the biggest free agent name was Nelson Cruz and he was getting paid 14 million. Different situation! Strong core! Career season for many players! Miguel Sano was competent! I know, I know, I'm just saying it's not inherently hopeless. We already have a better starting rotation than we did in 2019, an adequate if uninspiring plan B at shortstop, and we've figured out the catching situation. We're mostly free to look for upgrades wherever we can find them instead of desperately plugging holes, and we've got tons of spending money. Total optimism would be pretty silly right now, but total hopelessness is nearly as silly.
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    Nobody seems to be getting this reference, no Wolves fans on TD???
  8. Unwinder
    Yeah, this isn't merely a case of the haves beating out the have-nots, this is an absurdly long contract which could very well include more bad years than good. I feel like this deal would be controversial in Minnesota from the get-go. Long live Lewis, long live Lee. Thank you Farmer or maybe Swanson for being the bridge through hopefully only a few mediocre years.
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    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.
  11. Unwinder
    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.
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    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?
  20. Unwinder
    Eddie's in it again too. Edit: Oh yeah, the article is about AL teams.
  21. Unwinder
    Go Blue Jays!
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. Unwinder
    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?
  25. Unwinder
    I think that dropped fly ball was more of a no-brain problem than a no-heart problem.
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