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  1. TheLeviathan
    Martin's ability to both look incredibly athletic at times and beer league softball athletic at others gives me serious cognitive dissonance.
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    There is cherry-picking, yes. However, since June 1st this year we have been worse than the Rockies. (21-34 to 21-33) So as bad as you say they are, for a two month sample size....we're right there with them. I was simply saying that from the start of last year's collapse to now, the vast majority of baseball being played has been at bottom of the barrel levels. Are we still better than the Rockies? Sure. Not a high bar to clear...but one we've managed for fail for two months. That two week stretch, while glorious and the wins count, masked what had been a long-standing trend. Not only were we not good, we weren't even particularly close to it.
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    The premise I like....but Martin doesn't deserve the slander of being lumped with these two.
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    Well...encouraging start from Adams I guess.
  5. TheLeviathan
    I would change the title slightly - the team long ago fell apart. This was the Front Office razing the ruins and salting the earth. I'm not even saying that was the wrong call, but this has been the worst team in baseball (outside two weeks) for almost an entire season now.
  6. TheLeviathan
    I think what you see is the Twins spotting another Ryan. As @chpettit19noted earlier - his carry on his fastball is quite good. It's the thing that separates Joe Ryan because he can throw something really nasty high in the zone and couple it with his sweeper, splitter, or sinker to force hitters to cover a large area of the plate. Falvey said that what they were working on with Taj is the splitter. You can see here why - he's not getting enough downward movement to make that pitch effective. If they fix that pitch? Watch out. If they don't? I think he'll still be an effective reliever.
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    This is my belief, but it's also why I was fully onboard to dump him. He knows father time is winning.
  8. TheLeviathan
    Rojas seems to be the key to that deal. Roden is a bit redundant to Larnach from what I've seen (though a much better athlete).
  9. TheLeviathan
    That was my read. Like a video game where it automatically times the animation for the runner speed. It was the most unintentionally arrogant 6-3 put out I can remember.
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    That sucks man, sorry to hear that.
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    This is all completely ridiculous. All of these suggestions include the Pohalds spending money. Nice try Nick......you almost had me. :)
  13. TheLeviathan
    Outman not being in LF last night was super confusing. If you think Outman needs adjustments....why not make them at the big league level?
  14. TheLeviathan
    I want to ask the group specifically....why do we think Correa was quietly asking to move to third base at all? What would be his motivation?
  15. TheLeviathan
    I almost posted something yesterday wondering aloud how the lockout might be trickling down to team behaviors right now. The D-backs also got relatively mediocre returns on their sell-offs and it had me wondering if owners are already bunkering down. For the Twins this seems especially true. Hell, these very same owners had substantially gutted payroll prior to contraction efforts as well. It does feel like they're trying to pocket money, ride it out until the lockout, and walk away with a sale price then. If so....I have another thing to add here that people won't like: Falvey won't be going anywhere. Which means like neither is Rocco. This is going to feel like the late 90s again. We just have to hope some of these guys they acquired usher in a new early 2000s by the time the team is sold.
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    I think Correa is clearly a very savvy guy when it comes to politics. He knows how to grease wheels and have imput as an employee. I'm not 100% sure I like what reads between those lines (As in....why did he want to move to 3B? Is he feeling the decline?) or how that could grate on some people, but I don't think he's malicious about it. I also think Correa is probably done as a regular, high level contributor on the field. I know people don't like to hear about age cliffs (especially those of us well past those cliffs ourselves!) but the numbers don't lie about career trajectories. Maybe he's got something left in the tank....but I'm glad the Twins aren't betting on it anymore.
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    TBD is the unsexy, yet correct answer.
  18. TheLeviathan
    I mean....starving children can't hire lobbyists so it should work fine.
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    First off....100% agreed. This deadline reinforced my fears that they're keeping the team. I hope I'm wrong. To your first paragraph? It would take staggering incompetence to lose billions. Especially when we've allowed billionaires to make the rules, privatize the profits, socialize their losses, and never be bound by the law. Not to be political, but it's far past time people see that we left capitalism awhile ago and have pretended cronyism is the same thing.
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    I think the answer is yes. Also....part of the problem. The bullpen can't be your overwhelming source of strength. Even the vaunted Royals pen from not that long ago still had to have some dudes get them the lead.
  21. TheLeviathan
    To add to this now.....the hell is he doing in AAA?
  22. TheLeviathan
    I understand the pessimism on Outman....but like @Riverbrian I think I like him. I want multi-dimensional dudes and I like taking shots and rebound careers. He might be a Willie Castro type reclamation. I also admit....some of that is just personal bias and I'm overlooking age and recent stats. But I'm planting my flag on thinking he's worth a shot, however low those odds are.
  23. TheLeviathan
    A couple things I think are clear need to happen in the offseason: 1) Pablo Lopez trade. Right now they have Ryan-Bradley-Ober-Zebby-Festa-SWR and others that can fill in the rotation. If I had to timeline what they did today, it's build for 2028. 2) Shop Joe Ryan if you don't give him an extension. I'd rather give him 5 years 130M and call it a day....but if ownership and money is an issue - keep pressing the Red Sox for Roman Anthony. 3) Left-handed hitting corner guys are way too plentiful at this point. We're going to need to balance the roster out a bit. I like giving Outman LF for the next year and a half and see what we got. It's time for Larnach to go IMO. Give Roden 1B, Outman LF, Wallner RF, and get yourself a right handed guy. Larnach for bullpen help would make a lot of sense IMO. 4) Clear the path for 2026 to be young guys and letting them audition to see if they are part of the future. Austin Martin needs a spot. Julien needs a spot. Sabato maybe. Brooks Lee at SS every day. Keaschall at whatever spot he's destined for every day. I'm probably missing others, but it's time to invest in changing the culture here: Run the god damn bases. Play like athletes. Let Buck be the true culture leader in the locker room.
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    I won't argue all the deals made sense or maximized value or even that the returns yielded a vision/lane..... But emotionally? I did feel there was a lane: they sobered up and figured out it wasn't working. Problem is that all the upper management and ownership who built it are still here. That's the next gutting we need.
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