TheLeviathan

I wondered the same thing. I'm happy to see the kid up and improving his game but titling the article this way when his last 7 games are sporting an ERA close to 6 is weird. Why not "the new pitch connor prielipp is developing"?

Yeah I really don't like this. I'm actually kind of a fan of having players develop more in college as a general rule, but this isn't the way to go about that. The NHL system of very short contracts for draftees followed by restricted free agency and then full free agency is the way to go.

We should be selling aggressively. Keep building around Jenkins and Culpepper and anyone else that supports them.

He's just got a really, really bad arm. That makes it difficult to play him anywhere unless you think he can be a super rangy LFer. I think that's really the only option to try though, he can't stay at 2B in whatever version of the Twins takes the next step into contention.

They can't, but in the NFL they can hide him away unless he looks amazing and then people will forgive it.

People will probably forget that in 2021 the Buxton we see today wasn't exactly the one we slapped this contract on. Byron was an incredible player, but one that couldn't get to 400 at-bats in a season. (He was somewhere between 250 and 300 depending on how you want to count his early career) As a result he took a deal that offered the team significant upside in what they were paying him versus his talent if he could stay on the field in exchange for him getting a life changing guarantee of money that he may not have gotten if he gambled on his health. Luckily for him (and the team), in his late prime he has found the ability to be a much more consistent player in terms of availablity. The contract has worked out beautifully, I only wish Buxton would've hit the escalators and got the payouts he deserved.

This sentence! This one right here! Yes...Joe Pohlad cut the payroll. We agree! That's all I've ever said! That act felt like the turning point from "things aren't going well" to "holy bleep we're back to 1995 again". That's all I was saying. I was pinning the blame for that tone-deaf decision on ownership. You argued that Falvey is responsible for that and I never understood, at any point in our conversation, why you kept trying to absolve Joe Pohlad for a decision taht was 100% his. Falvey was not responsible for that. We got there my friend, I'm happy to see it! Now here's where I want to make sure you feel like I'm not excusing Falvey or the level of blame you assign to him, because we agree there too! What he was responsible for was all the other things you list here and I totally agree! He mismanaged the payroll he was given. Butchered the draft. Failed the development process. Meddled with on-field management. I even agree he didn't "deserve" higher payroll! None of that changes that it wasn't his call and undercutting the payroll was a really dumb move. Both things can be true. What I acknowledge is purely my bias and opinion was emphasizing that move as a turning point. Maybe yours is somewhere else in the process but for me that was where we got gut-punched into today's travesty. I'm glad Falvey is gone and I'll be even more glad the day the Pohlads sell. In the meantime.....let's hope we're not stuck in 1995 too long and this next wave of Twins players can give us something to root for again.

I think we found the crux of our disagreement here. I am down on the Pohlads and like Woof I suspect "right sizing" was driven by failures outside baseball. That only adds to my opinion but regardless it isn't Falvey's job to dictate payroll increases or decreases. It just isn't and even you basically admitted as much. Knowledge or not, it isnt his call. Definitely not if outside real estate blunders by the Pohlad family add to it. And that's the crux, if you go back to my original comment I was purely talking ownership and their post-2023 decision as feeling like the turning point on this steep decline. But you are 100% right that the equation contains many components. I wouldn't even argue that Falvey owns blame on most of them! I've been in the chorus here wanting him fired. I just can't fault him for the one component I feel like was the seminal moment that really set this death roll into motion. The tone deaf Pohlads in charge now own that one. Along with a bunch of ****** downtown real estate properties, :)

More young kids and play them daily please!

I'll let the Guiness Book of World Records know about your entry for "Longest Spelling of the word "No"" I think it's got a chance.

You are correct in the timeline, I'm playing loose with the word GM, but the point was that he never had business control until after the decision was made. Even then I question whether the appointment in November of 2024 constituted that kind of power. Simple question: at any point in his tenure with the Twins in any of the different hats he wore did Derek Falvey have control over and dictate the payroll cap of the Minnesota Twins?

It's pretty impossible with no money to spend unless you set the trade logic in MLB the Show '26 to "Take whatever deal bean concocts" like your Nats deal for Wood and Abrams.

Falvey was not the head of baseball operations until after this. He was the GM. GMs do not set payroll. He absolutely was a passive bystander in the budget waiting for orders from his bosses on what he would be capped at for spending. That's what the job of GM is. He was then in charge of how that money was allocated. Which he was bad at.

This is the correct answer. Sorsby's case won as yet another outcome of the NCAA believing they had omnipotent, unchecked power to profit off young adults.

Hear me out....with KAT and Darnold having won championships.....we trade Ryan to the Dodgers so he wins a World Series. Former Wild defense Mike Reilly wins a Cup. Curse is finally broken.