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  1. TheLeviathan
    The new voice is really the only thing I think would change. I think a lot of the day to day, game-day stuff is organizational. The same guy who hired Rocco would hire the replacement and be looking for the same things. But yeah, sometimes a fresh human saying the same things the last guy did can lead to vastly different results. Humans are weird that way.
  2. TheLeviathan
    I'm not necessarily making a defense and the season is pretty young so I can't say I know of any quotes this year. My personal opinion is that our position players are just not good enough. Maybe someone else could squeeze more out of them, I'm not opposed to trying that. I just know where I'd put my money on how much that change would show up with a new guy. We have a bunch of #6 hitters who aren't great fielders.
  3. TheLeviathan
    In fairness, I think the majority of a manager's impact is outside public purview. Good or bad. Rocco's players talk about him in ways that would indicate he's good at that unseen element.
  4. TheLeviathan
    I just assume we are stuck with the Pohlads. We dont know their contracts, but I know if either were given a healthy extension....Pohlads arent paying double.
  5. TheLeviathan
    I mean.....are we sure that these guys won't keep their jobs? Isn't at least part of why Ryan was GM (both times) because he was cheap and the Pohlads weren't going to be saddled with paying both a current and former GM a hefty deal?
  6. TheLeviathan
    I personally don't see much upside in a replacement either. The only "solution" is fielding a much better group of position players and I don't think replacing the manager fixes that. But, as @Danchat mentioned, I'm game to see how much of what we see day to day as being organization vs. Rocco. I'm also willing to bet that whoever replaces him does things very, very similarly.
  7. TheLeviathan
    Unfortunately....we're the ones who reap what they sowed. We're stuck with them.
  8. TheLeviathan
    After yesterday? Yes. Before that? Too soon IMO.
  9. TheLeviathan
    This season's start has been miserable, but consider this: If our all-world reliever/closer/setup man Griffin Jax had just been competent.....we'd be 10-10. Nothing to write home about, but also nothing to be in panic mode about. Baseball is weird.
  10. TheLeviathan
    What? Jax is our best reliever. (At least he was as of 6 weeks ago) He was brought in to to a clean 8th with a three run lead. That is exactly how you help him work out of his funk and get back on track.
  11. TheLeviathan
    Oh for sure....my point was that it doesn't feel anywhere this close to reality and also.....who had Jax in their "sabotage the season" rankings as #1. Just weird.
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  13. TheLeviathan
    We are a .500 team if Jax is even 3/4 of last year.
  14. TheLeviathan
    He put in Jax.....in the 8th......how tf is this on Baldelli? Jax is single-handedly Paganing April.
  15. TheLeviathan
    I think that's a real possibility. The Vikings have set up next year's draft pick allocation about as perfectly as you can, leverage any QB in demand to get yourself another pick in the second/early third.
  16. TheLeviathan
    If one of the higher ranked safeties is there, I'd be good with that. Wonder if the Cine debacle squashes that though.....
  17. TheLeviathan
    This is it for me. Tampa always seems to have a couple speedy young players on the horizon. Or position players with huge upsides. Milwaukee is always churning out good defensive players. Cleveland has a lot of well rounded players. We're trying to win a beer league softball game it feels like.
  18. TheLeviathan
    I considered both of those, but I think they need a third tight end. Mundt was on the field a lot and Hockenson isn't exactly reliable. TE class is pretty good, LB class is pretty bad. Safety you're probably right, I may have neglected that. But something tells me Jay Ward is the new Theo Jackson.
  19. TheLeviathan
    With a week left I think the Vikings trade back to the early 2nd and end up making at least 5 selections with these positions being most likely: DT, RB, OL, TE, and WR. I think a record number of front seven players go in the first round.
  20. TheLeviathan
    One thing that makes the QB predictions difficult is that next year's QB class doesn't look great either. So....if you fall enough in love with Dart or even Shough.....do you overdraft them? I'm not with you on the bold take, but I dig it, :)
  21. TheLeviathan
    Agreed, the FO is where I point my finger - are you drafting the right players? Why aren't you developing them?
  22. TheLeviathan
    Fire the manager, don't fire the manager - it's irrelevant. Managers mostly make Ty France level wages, that shows you the impact they make to the game. Shake it up, do whatever makes you feel better from the couch - I'm going to focus on talent: The idea that the Twins have blocked Larnach and Julien and Miranda and whomever else just doesn't pass the smell test. Wallner? 100% yes....bad roster management. Larnach was up getting plenty of run and managing a high of .231 and 8 hrs. He just didn't deliver enough to stay in the lineup. Eddie Julian can't field and last year his at-bats were nothing short of painful. Miranda got a long run, hit like a beast, and then completely cratered. The problem isn't opportunities....the problem is development. We are not developing our hitters to handle the big league level with the bat or the glove. Feel however you want about Rocco, but the fact he has to keep running out a lineup of stone-handed, plodding oafs in the field is not his fault. The fact that these hitters - on their 81st hitting coach - can't hit isn't on Rocco. This is pure organizational failure to develop every day players. We aren't drafting athletes. We're not training those we draft to master a position and field it well. We aren't training them for the adjustments and challenges of the big leagues. We're going on 5-7 years now without a true impact player being developed. You want to point fingers - start there.
  23. TheLeviathan
    You know it's bad when a castoff from the Oakland As is on our radar as a beacon of hope.
  24. TheLeviathan
    There is absolutely no evidence that the ownership is changing, so we shouldn't plan on adding anything in free agency until it does. This team has to get better at drafting and developing hitters. They seem to be in a good place on the pitching side, but the offensive side has been bad for awhile now.
  25. TheLeviathan
    What a stunning indictment of how unseriously we should take BaseballTradeValues.
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