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  1. TheLeviathan
    This ownership group has proven to have cornered the market on their hit rate for "feet in mouths" But I'll repeat what I've said elsewhere. If any of these silver spoon schmos want us to back off and accept their line of reasoning about how impoverished and indebted they are as owners they have a very simple fix: Release your finances to the public.
  2. TheLeviathan
    I thought in 2023 that this team's pipeline was about to start humming and that the true measure of this FO would be proven - one way or the other - at that point. But it didn't come to fruition. We just spent a deadline offloading half the roster and our primary target was starting pitching. If we had actually built the pipeline we would've been dealing arms for (desperately) needed offensive help. Instead.....we had to focus on adding more pitching. The pipeline failed. It really is time for this front office to go.
  3. TheLeviathan
    Great post. I'd like to add one more thing to it if I may? If the Pohlads don't like us questioning their commitment (or, frankly, their honesty about debt) than I have a very simple proposal for them: Open your books to the public and show us.
  4. TheLeviathan
    Josh Oliver. Though I'd love to have Ed Oliver too.
  5. TheLeviathan
    And we're overseas....so it's not like you can snipe someone off a practice squad and get them to practice in a timely manner. Vikings are going to have to consider this as a viable strategy:
  6. TheLeviathan
    I guess it depends a little on what this roster actually ends up looking like and what they decide to do with Lopez and Ryan. The end of the season at least offered hope that Bradley, Matthews, SWR, Abel could be guys to count on next year. It seems like if you plan on keeping Ober and Ryan and deal Lopez that you might make a dent in helping your positional side. The bullpen is a mess. Festa, Prielipp, Funderburk, Sands, and pray seems like the situation. OF is Wallner, Buxton, Martin. Outman probably 4th OF. C is Jeffers IF is Keaschall, Lee, Lewis. Clemens as a utility guy. So this team needs a catcher. They need a first baseman. If the team can move Lopez for a player at 1B and a bullpen arm they at least give the manager the bones of something that can develop. Well....and then probably lose a lot of games in the 7th, 8th, or 9th.
  7. TheLeviathan
    I'll give you Koskie, but Cuddyer was a butcher for his entire career. Dude just had a good arm. Morneau also improved at 1B but those guys you listed were mostly DHs. I have it on good authority that guys that play DH do make less defensive errors. I agree that Falvey has shown willingness to pivot. But then...so did Baldelli the last two months. I just think there needs to be a total organizational overhaul and so far we aren't getting that.
  8. TheLeviathan
    I think we look back fondly on the Kelly and Gardenhire days but it's not like Gardenhire got some butcher in the field in Nick Punto and trained him into being an elite defender. Did they refine and enhance players? Sure. But let's be clear: the organization prioritized players who had those fundamentals and they were coached to expect them from the moment they signed. All our big league managers did was continue to demand that level of play. Nothing short of magic was going to help Baldelli turn this bunch of oafs into a team with good fundamentals/defense. I'm of the opinion all the other listed criticisms you have were a top-down policy. We'll find out next yer though!
  9. TheLeviathan
    Put me down for looking at these three names: Rick Sweet Eric Wedge Brandon Dinkelman
  10. TheLeviathan
    I get this to some extent, but if your organization is banking on your MLB level manager to teach basic fundamentals..... What the hell were the minor league coaches actually doing?
  11. TheLeviathan
    Ok, so let's assume he got a raise from that? 9M would put him between Gary Sanchez and Max Kepler.
  12. TheLeviathan
    Well, we think it was an increase from the 2023 contract he had at 4.5M no? Let's say he got a 33% raise and is up to 6M. That means, on the open market, teams thought him equal to 2025 Justin Turner. A part-time player at the age of 40. Not a ringing endorsement on how the position is valued.
  13. TheLeviathan
    Great post and well made argument. Counterpoint: The Pohlads are the kind of people to live in a mansion and give kids a single candy corn on Halloween.
  14. TheLeviathan
    Probably asking the wrong guy, I think baseball managers don't move the needle much. I think organizations win in baseball today. It's why Milwaukee moved on from Counsell and continue to excel. Dodgers would win 90 with a potted plant on the top step. Fans believe managers are high impact, but teams don't pay like they believe in that differential.
  15. TheLeviathan
    I expect whomever we hire to be the equivalent of dumpster diving for dinner.
  16. TheLeviathan
    There is nothing more on-brand for the 2025 Twins than for the team to have handed Rocco an extension, talked up their long-term partnership.....and then fire him two months later. I'm fine moving on. I'm a bit shocked the owners are about to pay two managers at the same time and/or eat the buyout. That's "Sailors on Shore Leave" kind of wild spending from the misers in charge......but I hope they find someone who can help this team shape an identity and mold the young players into a contender. I'm not sure if Rocco was that guy or if he was being held back by the organization and their system-wide failures. I guess we'll find out what the new guy can do and how much it deviates.
  17. TheLeviathan
    I would argue our entire infield is a question next year. Keaschall has proven he can hit, but his fielding looks rough. Not that you replace him, but there are plenty of questions to go around on the positional side of things.
  18. TheLeviathan
    Will Fries getting flagged for being down field too soon and then, on replay, watching him mosey around doing jack squat was depressingly hilarious.
  19. TheLeviathan
    I would hope KOC could watch the first drive and see that it works. JJ had 4 catches and like 50 yards and never once was his QB holding the ball too long. This can be done.
  20. TheLeviathan
    Here's a bold call....but I think this game was truly lost on that third quarter drive that started at the 10, drove down and was moving the ball, then did two cutesy ass plays on the Steelers 40 before a tipped interception. That drive is the one that tipped the game. All they had to do was keep using Mason and the quick throws and instead we try a bunch of screens with a line already struggling to protect.
  21. TheLeviathan
    Agreed, but KOC needs to scheme around that then. You can quick hit people to death if you're willing to.
  22. TheLeviathan
    Agreed with you before, it'd almost have been better for him to just take the freaking sack than ground it. They had a chance and bungled it totally.
  23. TheLeviathan
    This is why we don't have conversations bout JJ not starting when he's healthy. This season is about developing him, not thinking Carson Wentz is another miracle.
  24. TheLeviathan
    For ****'s sake get the play in.
  25. TheLeviathan
    Honestly, I didn't see the flag come out either and I have a much better view than Wentz...
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