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  1.    TheLeviathan reacted to a post in a topic: Twins (Matthews) Vs White Sox (Fedde) 9/4/26 6:40pm CDT
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    Agreed. I think people ignore that the expanded playoffs have not created a frenzy at the deadline either. With everyone believing they're in it it's created a trade market with very few sellers. Baseball's flukey playoff nature should make it imperative not to water it down more. You want your true contenders battling not some lucky bunch of scrubs who get hot in the small sample. At least whoever gets hot and wins it will have earned the right to be there.
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    This team is hitting .273 with RISP this season, which despite the slide in August, is still third best in the league. They're hitting 30 points higher than their usual average in those situations. Their BABIP is .319 with RISP. Their nemesis this entire season was always going to be regression. It's been lurking behind the curtain with a steel chair from day one.
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    I think two things that seem somewhat contradictory but I believe they are totally reasonable: KAM had TERRIBLE drafts. I'm also not sure if he's a bad drafter. Between the Wilfs pressuring him to competitively rebuild and coaches hounding him for "their guys"....I think he might have gotten hosed.
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    Buck...I love ya....but go get your hip fixed.
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    I hate the idea of expansion except for one small carve-out - a return to the four division layout of old. I'd bring in Nashville and Charlotte personally and do this: Twins with the Cubs, White Sox, Brewers, Cardinals, Guardians, Tigers, Reds. Angels-Dodgers-Padres-Seattle-Colorado-Arizona-Giants-Vegas Charlotte-Tampa-Atlanta-KC-Texas-Houston-Florida-Nashville NYY-NYM-Bos-Balt-Tor-Phi-Wash-Pitt All major rivalries would remain, games would be much closer to their usual time zones, regions would make much more sense. (Adding this line as fine print so I can sue MLB when they use my idea!!!)
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    Almost like dealing guys for prospects pays off sometimes rather than taking an L and getting nothing. Who'd have thunk it!
  24.    TheLeviathan reacted to a post in a topic: The Twins Have the Pieces for a Dominant Starting Rotation in 2027
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  29. TheLeviathan
    Yeah I can't disagree too much, obviously we're all guessing until we get info like Tolle/Arias down the line. Your stance is definitely plausible. And what I'm about to say for those reading is a fact: we lost that value and have absolutely nothing to show for it. Walker Jenkins and the rest of the new Twins will get zero of that lost value to help them rise up. This board should get used to hearing about opportunity cost. We've been swimming in it.
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    I look at it slightly different than you and @Mike Sixel. I think the value last deadline (2025) was peak. I'd probably quarter it in the offseason and half it since then. So for me the dip from offseason to deadline isn't nearly as steep. However....whenever we deal him from now on the values get steeply worse.
  31. TheLeviathan
    I thought we should have moved him last year, but I just want to be clear: You think from January 2026 to July 2026 his value halved?
  32. TheLeviathan
    I agree, the time to push chips in was the offseason. Doing nothing and then bypassing on continuing the rebuild at the deadline was the worst of all possible strategies. They made a mess out of what was actually looking to be in a good place.
  33. TheLeviathan
    Sure, we should always be mindful of making judgments based on small samples. I agree. That's precisely why there is reason to criticize the moves and judge ownership for pushing forward with contention. To put it succinctly: the framework of a "collapse" is the necessary rebuttal to the falsely premised "we're contenders!" argument that got us into this current dilemma. Both are driven by small sample thinking. Had ownership, sports media, TD article writers, and some diehard posters not fallen victim to the very problem you are suggesting, we wouldn't need to talk about a collapse. The larger sample made clear we were not contenders, that we should embrace the rebuild started last year. Had we done that, and not overemphasized the noise of June/July, we could be reveling in phase 2 of a rebuild (calling up the next wave of studs) and care less about wins and losses and more about develop. Complete with bonus assets that we have otherwise frittered away by the logic you rightly criticize above.
  34. TheLeviathan
    I admire your optimism.
  35. TheLeviathan
    It's also absolutely inevitable. Save your tears friend, you're going to need them.
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