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  1. Blyleven2011
    If they were to trade the VERSATILITY of castro , I sure hope the front office is smart enough to get a future catcher in return , they could have thrown in henrique too , whom someone is is going to get for nothing ... How creative was that ... 40 man rosters are pretty much full for most teams so I'm not sure we would get a good package unloading castros contract even though he was voted twins MVP and an allstar for 2024 ...
  2. Blyleven2011
    Good article ... Willie is a versatile athletic player , Willie had a resurgence with the twins for a year and a half but that second half slump concerns me , was it overuse and lack of stamina or is he back to his detroit numbers after his good rookie season ... I cant resist .... The only square peg in a round hole is our FO and owners ...
  3. Blyleven2011
    I stated a day or so after the signings of coloumbe and bader that the pohlads are looking for love by trying to win back the fans by increasing their payroll ... Ain't happening here , I'm still not spending any of my money , I passed on twins fest , I'll be in Florida playing softball soon and don't plan on spending any money on spring training and I'm still not planning on buying tickets at target field or any fan apparel ... I still have rocco's jersey thats full of holes from playing darts during the games , thats what I think of the twins management ... Another statement i've made several times is the twins will never win a world series with Rocco as manager and tingler as bench coach , they just can't seem to light a fire in their players ... I still see this team as a 3rd or 4th place finish unless the 3 new hitting coaches do some magic , jo-bo where are you ...
  4. Blyleven2011
    Article has Julian in the equation to play firstbase , if Julien is going to be positioned at firstbase it should be in AAA , Julien needs to clear his head and earn his way back to the show , his hitting and defense were terrible last year ... If luis arraez can play firstbase , then the athleticism of castro should allow him to play fistbase with Miranda splitting time ... Larnach should be the one twins management should be considering on transitioning him to firstbase , twins like versatility make larnach a versatile player at first and outfield ... Then there is ford on a minor league contract and not on the 40 man roster , most likely destined for AAA ..
  5. Blyleven2011
    One can dream a dream or two ...
  6. Blyleven2011
    Comparing Bader to the others is fine , I wish a more indepth comparison of free agent players signed early for same amount of money Bader may get with incentives could have been done ... How many in the same price range that could hit better and field just as well as bader signed in free agency earlier , guess I'm off to FA tracker ... Edited less than 10 minutes after posted ... Wasn't much to compare in the price range of Bader , the good ones got mega money and years , in other words ( out of price range ) ...
  7. Blyleven2011
    Teams have to like what players we have , so far no one has been traded ... I guess falvey thinks he has a gold mine to sell and the asking price hasn't been met ... Are the twins going to have a larger payroll or are they still planning on reducing payroll with trades , it's anyone's guess as we are once again left in the dark ... Maybe the pohlads are looking for love and realized their mistake and are trying to capture the love of fans by raising payroll on there way out ..
  8. Blyleven2011
    Helman traded to cardinals this afternoon ...
  9. Blyleven2011
    I don't know if they're 2 different things , I will say they are 2 different people ... Ryan liked to draft pitchers and centerfielders in the first round , but had a few like Mauer that were not ... Falvine liked to draft shortstops that are athletic with exception of Jenkins and sabato in the first round , its really a small sample size compared with ryans years ...
  10. Blyleven2011
    Yes , I did ... He had good ones to and im sure you know who the are ... Falvey has had a few good ones but the jury is still out , except for the sabato and cavaco they were a bust 2 years in arow 2019 and 2020 ... Do you know if sabato is still in our organization ???
  11. Blyleven2011
    Yep , it's going to be Gasper or I think headrick next since we already traded a position player , headrick dfa'd because of coloumbe signing ... They've carried headrick but have no confidence in him , so why hang on to him any farther ...
  12. Blyleven2011
    Ryan was a well respected baseball man and still is in the Phillies organization ... If Ryan was given an open wallet like falvine had been given , he would have addressed our needs alot better , Ryan was very good at talent evaluation , some might disagree with that , but he was a workhorse always scouting other teams players ...
  13. Blyleven2011
    Helman just got traded to the cardinals , opened a 40 man spot for 1 of the 2 that we just signed in free agency ...
  14. Blyleven2011
    I think they're gun shy of the young and the feel good stories , since they blundered on the dobnak contract ...
  15. Blyleven2011
    They continue to want to give roster spots to veterans , what have they done for us ( with the exception of Solano and Santana ) , they take away playing time from our young players ... I'm done listening to the FO raving about our prospects when they won't play them once they are at the major league level , I've stated many times that the reason the rookies are failing is because rocco thinks they have been taught and developed in the minors and once here should be thrown to the wolf's , every level has a learning curve and that should be no different here at the major league level , the propects have fullfilled their development at every level of the minors , at the major league level the coaches need to take and develop these talented players from the minors and make that talent even a better for the major leagues , a good manager should know this and implement the learning curve at the hardest level of them all ...
  16. Blyleven2011
    Cory , I've got to say you are the most enthusiastic twins daily writer , it's good to have enthusiastic twins fans ... Reality says the twins haven't had the 2nd best off season , but it could change before the season starts ... We signed coloumbe as a bullpen lefty and he's had some years of success , Bader will give us depth covering the defense in the outfield , it would be helpful to the twins if he could hit around 250 ... Let's take a look at the hitters , the streaky hitters that is , 2023 it took half the season before the hitting materialized for a divisional win ... 2024 they were once again asleep at the wheel for a month , May through July they raked and then August through September they took the field and did not come to play ... If the FO thinks that is going to change overnight with 3 new hitting coaches , then once again they are living on hope ... Projections are nice on paper but they still have to take the field and come to play ... Pitching will keep us in alot of games , but the twins will lose alot of 1 run games if our hitters get just 3 hits a game ... Again pitching is our strength and our hitters and defense are a concern until they're not , they didn't improve the lineup with the addition of Bader , they helped the defense in the outfield is all ... Still sticking with my prediction of the twins finishing 3rd or 4th in the division with royals and Tigers , the team's to beat , I really don't know how Cleveland does it , they are a beatable team but they win with less quality then most teams ...
  17. Blyleven2011
    If I felt the FO was competent , then I'd feel more confident in the signing of Bader , there was better options for the money ( wouldn't you think ) ... We'll have to wait and see Bader play in a twins uniform , hopefully he comes to take the field and I hope he comes to play , he was once a yankee , maybe they instilled some killer instinct in him , maybe ...
  18. Blyleven2011
    Didn't read past the title , I'll go back and read in a bit ... It's a real free agent signing because of the money being paid out , by waiting this long in free agency did the the twins get a worthy player to help the twins in 2025 ( would have preferred grichuk who signed the day before , better hitter and can play all outfield position as well as Bader and got less money ) ... Was the front office savvy and creative enough to save any money for the payroll by waiting this long in free agency and did they get the right player ???? .. seems to me if they would of struck earlier in free agency they could have found a more reliable hitter with good defense and a right handed bat for about the same money , Bader receives a guarantee of 6.5 m with incentives, plus a buyout on a option year ... Bader hasn't played a game for the twins , so it's still a wait and see how productive he will be , seems like we saved some money by replacing Bader for Kepler ( kepler great defense but a streaky bat and said he didn't want to play centerfield ) It's okay to be excited about Bader to some extent , but you got to remember most veterans come to Minnesota to end their careers ( gallo , Margot for example have no reason to be major league players , minor league contract is all their worth ) ... One can only hope he finds his hitting stroke and his defense remains strong in order to take at bats away from larnach and Wallner ... I'll go back and read ...
  19. Blyleven2011
    That's the best way to go through the whole season , expect nothing and get surprised , wins are just as important in April , may , June, July, August and September , the twins don't usually have to many winning streaks , but it seems they have quite a few losing streaks ... I know you were talking about Bader ...
  20. Blyleven2011
    Some people wake up angry at the world ... Not me , I wake up angry at the twins , would have preferred grichuk at 5 ML than Bader at 6.5 ML plus ... Grichuk could have been capable of playing centerfield and his hit tool is alot better with more power too , Maybe the FO tried to sign grichuk and he didn't want to come here even for more money ...
  21. Blyleven2011
    That's because this FO drafts shortstops and then makes them something else , they definitely haven't drafted many sure thing centerfielders , Jenkins and windomur kid could be centerfielders but I'm sure the jury is still out deliberating . ..
  22. Blyleven2011
    It's a surprise signing and the salary raises the payroll unless we trade someone like Vazquez and then a hole opens up at catcher , paddock remains the most obvious choice to trade now because everyone needs pitching , pitching and more pitching , a team with money has got to be bold and creative to add paddack , the money teams are out there but they've already depleted their prospects in trades elsewhere ... Pros ... What we will get from Bader , above average defense and some speed and the righthanded outfield hitter we needed ( i guess ) ... Cons ... A below average hitter that doesn't belong hitting leadoff , sure hope he doesn't pinch hit as bad as Margot , a 250 batting average would be nice ... Go Bader go , baseball is a mental and physical game , get that MOJO mental game processed in your mind and take the bull by the horns and run with it ... I feel bad for the players that have put their time in at the minors and a cup of coffee last year , they'll have to start in AAA once again or be dfa'd off the 40 man , we need 2 roster spots , my guess Is headrick or gasser or 1 of helman or keirsey ...
  23. Blyleven2011
    Wallner and Julien came up the same year ... Julien showed a good bat but Terrible defense , but that defense improved , then his bat failed and his defense floundered in his second year ... Wallner had a decent bat with strikeouts but his defense to start was uninspiring but again he improved with more playing time at the position , he's considered better at right field because of his arm strength , I'm not quite sure , he might end up being a better left fielder when someone better comes along to take rightfield away ... Wallner has power when he connects , Julien needs to go to AAA and regain his focus on hitting and defense and earn his way back ...
  24. Blyleven2011
    The twins are in need of filing holes at a few positions but are only adding pitchers up to this point ... It's called building a pipeline of pitchers , haha ... 3 million on coulombe is a gamble worth taking , Gallo at 11 million was not ...
  25. Blyleven2011
    The writer gives way to much credit for this FO being creative ... Being creative after all the better players are signed and now you begin the dumpster diving in free agency is not creative because the prices have dropped , well if your smart you have to realize the talent has dropped significantlyas well ... Why didn't the FO be bold and creative when they signed santana last off season and give him a base salary with incentives and a club option for a second season with a base salary and incentives , santana was fun to watch at first base , this year our pitchers era's are going up... Because the talent that mostly remains in free agency is the lesser talent , it only makes sense to go with our younger players who are just as capable to play the game as the remaining free agents are ...
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