jaimedude

There is clearly something gone amiss in hitting even if I got hitting coach name wrong. Twins team not just struggling to hit, or score runs, they are utterly tanking. They are struggling at all levels of organization. Hitting coach could just as well be Randy Dobnak in disguise.

I know Baldelli is the manager but things seem really out of whack right now and it is more than the injury bug. This is more than a strike out issue or bad luck. The Twins hitting approach seems really flawed at least it appears so. Being last in all of baseball is more than poor. Team batting average of .195, before today, OBP .284, slugging .336 .For those totals we could have Joe Vavraa walk in the door and possibly do better coming in off his couch. Twins baseball has become unwatchable and it is the poor hitting approach(strategy) and execution as much as pitching. This isn't just this year either, this is carryover from last season. There really is a large enough sample size that there appears there is change needed. April is early but there are alarming things and trends happening daily. If the manager will not do it, make a change, then front office appears to need to do something. Are the Twins really this talent poor?

Still think Varland is mote valuable as short inning reliever than 5th starter. His stuff suggest one inning guy for being effective.

Cueto can still go a little, if they could sign him to Milb deal that would be good.

Probably a little panic to the pitching injury news. Thought Clevinger might help is. Varland would be a really good 7th or 8th inning guy. Not sue he has stamina to be a long term starter for Twins

Would be nice to have another experienced arm in the rotation. Would allow them to work Varland out of the bullpen. Clevinger gives you innings and can pitch. Seems willing to accept one year deal now.

Any chance Twins would try to get multiple year deals done with Thielbar, Farmer, Alcala and Gordon rather than go to arbitration.

I would like to see Michael A Taylor back with the Twins. His defense was a welcome addition this season and saved us from having a merry go round in Center Field, and Jake Cave.

I doubt the Twins want to go to one provider like Bally's again and have all eggs in one basket. Any chance Twins would try to put together a Midwest Sports or Victory together with other Sports teams in a regional Sports Network. Is there any chance with the collapse of Bally's Sports North and the end of the TV contract that the Twins would start up an LLC and see if they could build a regional Sports programing network to the upper Midwest. Try to develop parthnerships with the Wild, Wolves, MN FC the Loons, University of Minnesota, St Thomas, St Cloud State, Minnesota State-Mankato, UMD, Saint Paul Saints, maybe Horse racing through the local race tracks. Professional wrestling. The problem with Victory was cost and lack of programing. I know this is easier talking about it then actually doing something like this. To me the only way this works is if you build an upper Midwest Content sports developer that has multiple media rights, then negotiate a distribution rights deal to air with multiple platforms like Peacock, MAX, Apple, CBS Sports Network, Your probably going to have to offer tiered content where you have basic plans, that only get you so many games, and then a tier that gets you all of the games at a higher cost in order to make this work. Maybe offer smaller plans to the over the air networks for limited games. To me it makes sense, you want all the games you pay more, you only want weekend games you pay a little less, you want more viewing options you pay for a higher tier.

I too am hoping for Farmer at 3B, Castro in Left, Taylor in Center. I would add I want to see Vasquez behind the plate calling this game. Lewis back to DH and Julien at 1B.

It's awesome that the AJ Pierzynski trade in 2003 still paid off dividends in 2018 with adding Johan Duran. I had forgotten the Eduardo Escobar trade in 2018 did that. That is a cool tidbit and bit of history for 2023.

Thad Lavine is attached to Joey Gallo because he drafted him. He doesn't want to admit it was a bad signing and that Gallo was a poor fit for the Twins lineup. Frankly Twins fans are sick of his strike outs and lack of contact because outside of power threat he doesn't really bring anything to the table. The Twins will not eat the 11 million they spent on Gallo so we all know we are stuck with this albatross, black hole of strike outs on the roster. Rocco keeps putting him in the lineup so Gallo is here to stay whether we like it or not. Because the whole line-up has struggled, someone usually takes the brunt of the heat, seems like Gallo is our guy for that.

Gallo would be addition by subtraction if they could include him any deals or just DFA him. Removing so many strikeouts per game and because of the lack of consistent contact would be beneficial to the whole batting order to move on from Gallo.

We need to find a way to sign Buxton, you just cannot give up on that much potential. I know the injury history but Buxton is a real difference maker in the field and at the plate when he plays. He is just too talented to give up on or give away. I might be in the minority opinion on this but I think you have to find common ground and continue to pursue a deal with Buxton. I don't think there is any added pressure to trade him this deadline. We have the offseason and next season to work on this and I don't think the Twins should give up on an extension.

This is baseball and things like this happen. I don't blame the players for getting after each other a little bit. I would be more concerned if we didn't have interactions like this on the Twins because that would mean the players just don't give a rip or S about this game or any other game at this point in the season. It's no big deal really and I have no problem with how either player handled this type of situation. Like I said I would be more concerned if people especially the players, just didn't care.

Remember when the joke was throwing in the Brian Duensing for Mark Derosa trades back in the day. Well that makes about as much sense what Derosa proposes as those wishful deals did. No I would not do this deal and I don't see the Brewers doing it either. Would I try and conjur up something with the Giants who just lost Longoria for some considerable time, maybe on the Donaldson front I would rather get some pitching back from the Giants than do anything with the Brewers.