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  1. Blyleven2011
    I like this idea ... Preillip and canterino are getting older and probably have the best stuff ... Because of injuries the haven't pitched alot of innings in the minors , I'm ready to see these two as bullpen options sometime in 2025 . Like the article said crochet went right to the bullpen for Chicago , so because there getting older , it's worth the risk to see what they can accomplish and develop in a major league bullpen to limit their innings , doesn't have to be pressure situations , their pitches are major league ready , so let them pitch to major league ball players ...
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    The mariners are not trading for castro , they want hitters that don't strike out , If I remember correctly , castro struck out 150 plus ... The twins need to fill holes , I wait and see on the FO's creative moves ... Better get something exciting Going for the fans at twins fest ...
  3. Blyleven2011
    Cody mentioned that a 6 man rotation hasn't been universally tested .... Doesn't the baseball in Japan have a six man rotation ( ive heard they do ), if so then it is time to study starting pitchers in Japan ... With extra rest from 5 to six , how do they fair with results , fastball faster , better control or the opposite , by pitching every 6th game are they more apt to be stronger and less likely to have any arm injuries ... ?????
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    I'd take Reese at first base today if he was young enough , he should have followed Billy Martin as that was his best season ... Thanks for the memories ...
  5. Blyleven2011
    Sasaki said to be signing with Dodgers, no surprise ... Trade rumors reported this 30 minutes ago ... Ryan is close to your top 5 , there is decent starters on 4 out of 5 central teams , I know nothing of the white Sox starting staff ... Detroit has a Cy young , the rest of the top 10 are solid pitchers ... Playball ,
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    My first 2 thoughts were fantasy island and randball stu ....
  7. Blyleven2011
    The only way we will ever win consistently is to have a major league manager that can coach players and manage games .... The hitting roster has shown many years of blowing pressure situations , they choke with runners in scoring position , we have some pitchers that you can see the bulldog in them and they pitch through pressure , pitching is the name of the game , but the hitting also has to follow along ... As far as our hyped up prospects goes , the current rookies are not showing anything of a pedigree as of yet in the major leagues , I sure hope they can improve development one this level ... Every level you have a development stage before you step up to another level , the major leagues are no different .... I continue to emphasize how important it is to take this aaa talent and once in the major leagues the coaches need to help develop the talent and make this talent better to play consistently at this level .... Rocco said he never wants to see another season like 2024 , I hope the plan is to get better , we'll see how spring training games are constructed , this is when you want to experiment because that all it is , training , games don't count ...
  8. Blyleven2011
    First year 2022 , Correa had an OK year mostly producing at the end of the season after a slow start ... 2023 he had an OK season but foot injuries he played through some of it , he tried ... 2024 he was having a very good year and then foot injury to the other foot but he couldn't play through it , season was lost ... My point is one player like Correa cannot solely be the main contributor and expect to win , the other players have to step up their game ...
  9. Blyleven2011
    As of right now I wouldn't even give them an E for effort ,,, They first told us they were going to be creative and after the winter meetings they changed that statement to , We will have to wait and see ...
  10. Blyleven2011
    In order to purchase a baseball franchise the other owners have to approve a sale of the new owners , either the other owners are just as ruthless as Carl was , or they were not aware of the business tactics of Carl and associates , if you have a conscience you might not have accepted Carl as a new owner in 1984 , but as the old saying goes , MONEY TALKS AND BULL**IT WAĹKS ... I hope there is baseball in heaven and I don't have to see Carl there , the rich have sold there soul for the greed of money , they don't deserve the reward ... I'm happy with the little bit of money I've earned and saved , it's not alot but I might not spend it all before I go ...
  11. Blyleven2011
    I hope Serrano isn't bringing jo boo with him ...
  12. Blyleven2011
    Trading castro with value and a 6 million salary makes the most sense to me and bring back value , he's played well on the team but we have in homegrown players to really fill all of his position , he is kinda a luxury ... If the twins were contenders I would consider an extension for Castro , I liked what Castro does for the twins , maybe they have or are trying to trade him but falvey placed to high of a value the trading partners shied away from acquiring him ...
  13. Blyleven2011
    There's good reason that the prospects are failing , especially since this current FO has taken over ... I've said it many times , the prospects in the minors are very capable of playing baseball and developing their skills for minor league baseball , but once in the major leagues it seems like our manager and coaches don't emphasize enough fundamentals to play the game the right way ... At the major leagues level you still have to teach , take the talent that you have and make the talent better , fix their weaknesses so they can stay in the show , Kepler and Sano are only 2 examples , they were on the team to long , where other teams would have given up on them long before .... Other prospects are coming up and have had decent minor league stats but haven't shown us any real value yet , YOU just can't tell the young man to just go out and play the game , the player has to take the field with the right mental approach and preparation ... We have more than enough coaches , more than we have ever had , why aren't we getting the results that we should be seeing ... I rest my case , coaching at the major league level is a must , name of the game is pitching , hitting , fielding and no injuries please ...
  14. Blyleven2011
    Carl bought a team and he didn't even have an interest in baseball , passed it on to his sons and they hated baseball even more ... Attendance is down in Minnesota because the owners have no interest in the game , don't know how to promote their team , don't care about the fans ... Goes to show you , owners have to have an interest in the sport to succeed , you can run it as a business but you have to also care about the product , pohlads care about money only ...
  15. Blyleven2011
    I don't think they could organize or explore to navigate out of a brown paper bag , it's alot of twins gibberish before twinsfest .... Why couldn't they communicate with the fans earlier in the offseason and just tell us to be patient and that they would explore and be creative at making the team better , I'm not saying contenders , because I'm not a pretender ...
  16. Blyleven2011
    To bad Sid Hartman isn't aalive to find the scoop ... lol
  17. Blyleven2011
    I like these almanacs , good Wright up .... I do have to disagree with 2016 being the worst season for the twins , 1990 wasn't good but 1991 the twins went from last to first so they redeemed themselves , 2021 and 2022 and the start of 2023 , and the end of 2024 were some of the most laughable bad playing games I have ever witnessed , the reason I don't think 2016 was the worst is because we lost a tremendous amount of 1 run competitive games ... Thanks and keep them coming ...
  18. Blyleven2011
    What i like the most is twins baseball ... What I like the least is our manager and coaches not taking out talent from AAA to the next level of the major leagues , it seems our talented prospects stall at the major leagues or they just weren't ready to be called up ... You never stop learning to play the game and our manager and coaches should emphasize this to the players , take that talent and make that talent even better ... You just can't tell a young man , go play baseball, you've got to help their weaknesses , other managers help there players get better , past and present ... I will never cut our manager and coaches any slack , because the players may take the field but there are alot of games they don't come to play , sloppy sloppy baseball because they don't know how many outs there are , on the bases they run into outs on stupid mistake , out fielders can't hit the cutoffs or throw to the right bases , hitting suckks at times against good pitchers because they lack discipline and adjustments at the plate , even mediocre pitching the hitting make the opposing pitcher look like a Cy young candidate ... I'm not sorry for the negativity , I'm just telling you of the reality of the twins and management , that will not place better than 3rd in our central division , but I'll follow every game always because of the love of the game of baseball , I live for opening day and the world series and everything in-between ... go twins ...
  19. Blyleven2011
    Moreau was on fire , but even with him healthy I don't think we would have won in the playoff series , remember it was the Yankees , and we just seem to not beat those guy's ...
  20. Blyleven2011
    Someone has to fill the poor performances at 2nd base the past few years , keaschall or ????
  21. Blyleven2011
    Hook line and sinker , I agree ...
  22. Blyleven2011
    Jeffers is traded for a bullpen guy that has a player option after each season for 4 million , I don't see the logic in that and I hope our front office isn't crazy enough to do that trade ... While we are short handed in the catching department , I'm not sure if an extension is wise for jeffers , I just haven't seen enough consistency year to year ... Baseball has changed and they now use two catchers for the season ( if healthy ) to split the equal share of catching for the season ... Believe it or not their has been alot of great catchers that squatted 140 games a season and hit too , you have to be mentally prepared to do that though ...
  23. Blyleven2011
    Good logic doc , While lots of others don't think Vazquez defense is above average , I do , so I guess i must be watching the games with rose colored glasses because i see him doing everything right ... I'll take Vazquez's defense , smarts and durability over jeffers any day ... It's falvey and the pohlads who signed off on signing him for 10 million a year and fans should get over that , we needed a solid catcher and they signed one ... Is Vazquez worth the money , nobody is worth the money that these players are getting , in my day there wasn't so many prima donnas as today , we played because we loved the game ... Last twins player that I have seen play for the love of the game is luis ( major leaguer ) arraez ...
  24. Blyleven2011
    I was on the road all day so I checked into trade rumors and saw the twins made a trade ... I chuckled ... Once a promising prospect , still improving on defense but hitting has gone south of the mendoza line , hope in a year he can get it together with a change of scenery ...
  25. Blyleven2011
    I hear ya , I should have mentioned larnach adjusted better , started hitting off speed pitchers and cut down his strikeouts ... Wallner is who he is , hits the ball extremely hard and far when he connects , but strikeout are way to high , needs discipline in the box ... I'll take larnach over wallner to have a longer career , I'm not always right ...
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