Jump to content
The 2026 MLB Draft starts in two days, click here to get up to speed on the weekend's action with our draft primer! ×
Twins Daily
  • Create Account

TheLeviathan

Old-Timey Member
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    21,007

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    47

 Content Type 

Profiles

News

Minnesota Twins Videos

2026 Minnesota Twins Top Prospects Ranking

2022 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks

Minnesota Twins Free Agent & Trade Rumors, Notes, & Tidbits

Guides & Resources

2023 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks

The Minnesota Twins Players Project

2024 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks

2025 Minnesota Twins Draft Pick Tracker

2026 Minnesota Twins Draft Pick Tracker

Forums

Blogs

Events

Store

Downloads

Gallery

Everything posted by TheLeviathan

  1. TheLeviathan
    Look, I admire the amount of turd polishing you attempted here, but Aaron Hicks is just not good at baseball. I'm not sure how many hundreds of at-bats you require to demonstrate this, but we're at 860. And he's been putrid. We appear to have targeted another putrid player, but let's not pretend we gave anything up. The problem was that this was the solution to C and nothing was done to insure CF. Aaron Hicks and his god awful play wouldn't have sufficed as Plan B either.
  2. TheLeviathan
    No, they aren't THIS bad, but at that point we're splitting hairs about how bad is bad. Even if half the things on your list were suddenly sunny side up we'd still be a bad baseball team. The point is that if you're going to blame this all on "under-performing" you're giving the roster construction a pass.
  3. TheLeviathan
    Perhaps all these "slumps" and "under performances" only look that way to an inflated set of hope-fueled expectations rather than reality?
  4. TheLeviathan
    Give the Twins of the 2000s credit for this - defense doesn't slump. The fundamental problem with this team has been a rejection of defense in lieu of offense. If you field a competent defense you can generally avoid being god awful but this team has insisted on the notion that you can just move guys around any which way you want and still field a fly ball pitching staff and things will be fine. The "Twins Way" has lots of problems, but an emphasis on good defense was not among them.
  5. TheLeviathan
    And sometimes the game passes you by. Phil Jackson, granted in a new role, is finding that out. It's possible he's just not the right guy any more and it's time to move on. Unfortunately, I think the only man who can really make that decision is Terry Ryan and not his bosses. But it's time to move in a different direction as an organization.
  6. TheLeviathan
    I'd argue not understanding their place in the rebuild process is THE fundamental problem for this team.
  7. TheLeviathan
    Yeah, his results weren't good....do the Twins bear some of that responsibility? I'd say so. Let's put it this way, would the Twins jerk Hughes or Santana around like this? The answer is no and the reason would be because it isn't fair to the pitcher to expect them to be at their best without consistency in their role and expectations and yet we routinely do this to young pitchers and then sit around talking about how they didn't immediately pitch an amazing game. I don't see why young players should have any different expectations for their role or usage than veterans, if anything they should get MORE understanding. Yet the Twins have had this backwards for a long time.
  8. TheLeviathan
    It's not a mistake if you gambled another bad player to get him. I'd like to see him get a good, long run as the starter this year to see what we have. We know Hicks is awful, let's see if we can still win this deal.
  9. TheLeviathan
    If only there was a collective period of time in which players were free to be signed or added. If only such a thing existed we might have been able to fix our depth issues. Alas, it appears such a thing does not exist. Or so I'm lead to believe.....
  10. TheLeviathan
    Was fun to see him last night and the game of adjustments and learning begins. I hope we get to see it the rest of the year.
  11. TheLeviathan
    Yup, invest innings in these kids when you can. The team needs to stop letting Milone get in the way of the future.
  12. TheLeviathan
    Yeah, let's hope the young guys do force some hard decisions. And let's hope the FO actually considers a decision should they do so.
  13. TheLeviathan
    Good lord.
  14. TheLeviathan
    Great to hear, hope this is the first of a few moves that we can applaud rather than groan through.
  15. TheLeviathan
    It's not necessarily the player, it's the stupidity of doing anything to make way for a guy who retires hours later. It just looks so bungled.
  16. TheLeviathan
    Milone always should have been a reliever.
  17. TheLeviathan
    I'm with nick, it's abundantly clear our hitters are going to need more time to adjust and thrive. Might as well call the young arms up to do the same rather than staggering everything.
  18. TheLeviathan
    She's got that girl-next-door cute thing going on. That's what it is.
  19. TheLeviathan
    Seriously, can anyone explain why these have been around for like 5 years? Who are these annoying ads effective with?
  20. TheLeviathan
    The ball jumps off his bat for sure, but that's all I'm comfortable concluding so far.
  21. TheLeviathan
    I'm fine with it, seems like a good position for him. It's just a bit hard to get excited about these things when the Neil Allens of the world are the exception. This team just gets too comfortable for my liking and this move is extremely comfortable. It's fine, I'm sure he'll do well, it'd just be nice to get out of our comfort zone a bit more often.
  22. TheLeviathan
    A foot lower and that's Sano's knee. Maybe less than a foot.
  23. TheLeviathan
    If this is a year of development, every inning Sano is in the field better be at the long term position. Whatever that is. If it switches in a year or two I'm going to really sharpen my pitchfork.
  24. TheLeviathan
    Highly doubt it, so is your contention he got hurt during his blown save? Or sitting around in the bullpen the last few days? Because I'd contend the far more likely scenario is that he's been hurt for awhile and the part he really has been making up is that he's "fine". His responses to legit concerns about his velocity were aggressive and now here we sit. Perhaps he should have been the one questioning it. Why does a gutcheck on his health/prep/fitness only have to come after he costs this team games?
  25. TheLeviathan
    Yeah, I think you said what I'm trying to say better than I'm saying it...or something. But what bugs me is that we keep going down the same road, with the same excuses, the same bristly responses, and the same over-confidence issues. I want Glen Perkins healthy and helping this team and it sometimes seems like the greatest enemy of that is Glen Perkins himself.
×
×
  • Create New...