Blyleven2011

Glad to see the AFL is under way ... Will continue to follow the performances of the prospects .... Go rafters ....

The pohlad boys inherited a baseball team they had no love for , but had love of money ... Their business tactics in making money interfered with bringing a championship to the Minnesota twins fans ... I'll take my chances on a new ownership that I wish for ...

Though this is good news and a step in the right direction for the organization and twins fans ... The key word is EXPLORE , so patience is necessary ... The pohlads are looking to cash in for 2 billion plus , the wolves sold for over value ( 1.2 billion ) , sold for 1.6 billion , the twins are valued at 1.6 billion , last I heard ... The pohlads could slap us in the face again as they head out the door if the team is sold , they most definitely will go after the highest buck and that owner may not like baseball either ( i rather doubt it though , you should like what you are buying , the pohlad boys inherited a team they didn't want ) , the pohlads didn't give a rats arse about it's fan base , just the big bucks ... Right-sizing the team , they may do more of that this off season , they may now reduce the payroll further now that they have announce the EXPLORE WORD , forget what Joe announced earlier about payroll , they can do what they want since they know how the fans feel about them and to help out a prospective new buyer by having a lower payroll ... A buyer like the wilds owner who wants to win and spends to the cap is what we need ... Even if we are a mid market team , we can draw 3 million fans if the new owners promote the team right , that's the name of the business game to profit , promote a team and make them perennial winners ... I mentioned above about the pohlads , we should becareful what we wish for , because the pohlads could milk out what ever money they can and tear down the twins just to piss us off more ... But it will be worth it , if we get rid of the pohlads and if we get a new owner that cares about winning and cares about it's fans base ...

With Jax's pedigree I think he could go back to starting and be successful , for that reason the twins should keep him and see for themselves , yes we need relievers badly but we also need starting pitchers to , give him ten starts and see if he can be a starter ... Look what we gave up for Lopez at the trade deadline and I see this proposal to trade Jax not in our favor , I think the notion to trade Jax would be a mistake , he is definitely a top 5 relief pitcher in the league , ið be more inclined to trading Duran , but here we are after the collapsed 2024 season talking about trading our best two pitchers in our bullpen ... Give Jax 10 starts and if he doesn't flourish , put him back in the bullpen ...

Yep , some pitchers could really hit , I was sad when the NL added the DH and no more hitting pitchers , loved to see a pitcher hit and win the game for himself by hitting a HR , I think Thor was the last one to do it , shutout opposition and hit a homerun , won it with his arm and bat , ohtani pitches and hits , or did with California ...

Ex twin luis tiant .... Great years of watching him , gone but not forgotten ... RIP El tiante ... I think he might be on the committees list for hall of fame in January , tiant with his pitching style and years of production should be in the HOF , REMEMBER wins don't count anymore , it's how you play the game and he pitched with style ...

The defining moments for the twins was reducing payroll and not replacing sonny gray or anyone of significance for the 2025 season ... They also live on hope of our prospects who they don't coach properly in the major leagues , they are coached in aaa for aaa games but our coaches and manager dont take that talent to another level in the major leagues ( they are ruining our talented players ) ... They also hang on to veterans or a player that should be dfa'd or optioned to minor leagues ... there is more but these are some defining moments ...

As long as the topic is about Rocco Baldelli ... A dream debut , I wish everyone would stop with the praises in his first year as manager , get it right , he didn't manage during that season because the players had career years , all he did was make out a lineup to present to the umpire .. then in his dream debut as manager of the 2019 he had to manage and he and the FO failed miserably ... Rocco still had the Bomba squad in 2020 and did okay ... 2021 -22 was just aweful , Rocco doesn't seem to take his job seriously as a manager , he is also a coach and his duties are to take the talent and keeping teaching the players to be a better talent , he and his coaches fail ... 2023 , finally we have pitching and the pitchers are allowed to go more than 5 innings , pitching wins games and makes a managers job easier , it was a bad start but a great finish .... 2024 , the writing on the wall was written during the offseason , we had okay starting pitching ( bullpen on paper was solid but didnt meet the challenge ) , but more of the same , our lineup was not fun to watch and defense got worse as the season yet along , again Rocco and coaches did not take the talent they had and make that talent better , there were a few sophomore slumps to start the season and it was also a slow start for alot of the players except Jeffers ... They get off to slow starts because it seems the twins play mostly the rookies or prospects in spring training game , the veterans work out but don't get much game time action to prepare for the season , ( restting players doesn't seem to keep our players off the injured list ) .... 2025 I don't see much of change unless he will implement more strategies of old school technics along with his analytics and more emphasis on defense and fundamentals ... I've heard Rocco say he expects his players to be ready to play , but no batting practice or infield / outfield practice is required , boy look how the team performed in 2024 , if Rocco can't see the players weren't prepped before the game and ready to play , he better start the season with a new prescription , I hope Rocco won't be an embarrassment again in 2025 , i want exciting competitive baseball , ( win or lose ) ... It's along off season , I hope the 3 ghost of Christmas visit the pohlads , Front office and Rocco at Christmas and they see the light and can give us a happy new year ...

Castro has great value as a super utility player , I see his salary to high for the payroll so he will be traded and replaced with younger and cheaper players , the FO has no choice if they are to keep the payroll around 130 million ... Others have earned a raise , others have not , it's what to do with the have not that the FO needs to do with them ....

I agree with this ... STOP SPENDING YOUR HARD EARNNED MONEY ON YHE TWINS and hope they sell ... They already are losing money by suspending a fan from target field for displaying a sign , keep it up pohlads and even you won't be able to afford the price of admission ....

He did have a good half season , don't really know what to expect from him yet because of injuries ... I guess we'll just have to wait and see next year , won't we ????

Looking at wins and saying he is a good manager is crazy , 2019 the players had career years and Baldelli sat back and hardly had to manage for a 100 plus win season , the playoffs were different , he managed and it was awful and has been awful since , their game is not exciting unless they use a juiced ball ... win or lose , it's how you play the game , and the game isn't exciting , because Baldelli's technic is not exciting ... The players have no comfort in an ever changing unstable lineup ... Expect more of the same next year ..I'm done spending money on the twins , ( twinfest , spring training , target field games and apparel ) ...

But they hit more solo homeruns than 3 run homers because they can't get anyone on base ...

I'd be surprised if they move on from Levine but it could happen , this has always been a trio ( falvey , Levine and Rocco ), falvey has given the green light on Rocco to remain , the pohlads have given falvey the green light to remain , it's now up to falvey to either dismiss Levine or retain him ... The pohlads have always shown loyalty to their employees even when necessary changes should have been taken , they wait to long for changes ... It's up to falvey to make the call for a front office change , if I was to make a change in the front office , the pohlads shoʻuld dismiss Dave St Peter , he has been a detriment to the twins ownership in my opinion ...

What about Paul Molitor , hitting coach and running the bases instructor , we need help there as well and we could kill 2 birds with 1 stone ... Oh , you answered your own question , he is a stay at home dad ...

You see the ball , you hit the ball ... Adjust your swing to make contact for singles , doubles and triples , the homeruns will come without trying ... We are not a Homerun hitting team without a slugger capable of 40 plus honers a season ... Hit the ball and make it exciting baseball again ... They better get it right this time because I'm tired of them being wrong alot ...

Fan attendance .... Attendance will continue to fall until they do a better job at promoting the team , it has been awful for many years now ... It started with twins fest being a 1 day affair and reducing the twins caravan to just the state of Minnesota , THEY HAVE LOST FANS BECAUSE OF THIS ... They don't promote the history of the team with a killebrew , Oliva, carew , puckett , Blyleven ot kaat day , if they did , grandkids could be taken to the park and given a history lesson on how these player's impacted the game and made them HOF's ... GRANDPA , WHO WAS KILLEBREW , grandpa replies to granson that Harmon killebrew was the twins most prolific homerun hitter in it's history , he hit 573 homeuns in his career and he was feared by major league pitchers , I can just see the grandsons face now , eyes wide open with excitementy on what he just absorb from grandpa , he becomes a real fan of the twins ... We need to promote and honor these players for our youth to be loyal twins fans ... THIS WILL DRAW NEW AND OLD FANS TO THE GAMES ... Best game I ever saw at met stadium as a 10 year old was a LOSS , 2 outs bottom of the ninth down by a run against Oakland , second game of a doubleheader , Harmon killebrew at bat and roð carew at second , Harmon hits a towering fly ball to left center , Joe Rudy climbs the fence and pulls back a potential homerun to win the game , great catch by rudi , but also a great effort by Harmon who gave it his all that at bat but came up short of winning the game , we split the doubleheader ...

AMEN ....

Rest in peace Pete rose , please watch over our hitters .... It's a start , assistant coach Rudy hernandez should be Gone to , all new voices needed there ... Let's just clean house , 2 pukey season in the last 3 seasons is enough reason for changes .... already posted by a member , I agree with his displeasure that the higher Pay grade wasn't going with him ... Today I was thinking to myself , WHO WAS A WORSE OWNER ???? CALVIN OR TODAYS POHLADS , not Carl or Eloise ....

My thoughts to , while reading the article , Correa has seen the twins flop twice now , 2022 and this year ... He just might opt out of his no trade clause , he's a normal human being and wants to win , just like everyone else ..

Yes thanks for the week in review reports , the past 6 weeks or so have been tough to re-live .... Now with the announcement of the return of FO and Rocco it is time for the fans to speak out ... Do not attend twinsfest ... Do not attend spring training games ... Do not attend target field games ... If you are a serious loyal ( old fart ) fan you can see my reasoning to not line the pockets of the pohlads ... Win or lose we just aren't getting any exciting competitive games with their plan of baseball .... Stop doing business with the pohlads , it reminds me of doing business with a used car salesman , YOU Constantly get SCREWED and never get KISSED ... IM BITCHING , IM DONE VENTING ...

And the fans shouldn't give a crap about the owners , if you àre a serious loyal twins fan you should boycott the stadium and not attend twins fest in the spring ... Find a stream and watch the games on TV or listen on radio , that's my plan , they get no more money from me ... I am not pleased with the owners , FO and the manager and coaches ..... I'm also not pleased with the OP 's reference to the total system failure of the decade , that total system failure in that decade was alot more exciting than the crap we are seeing today .... This regime is wasting our talent with their style of baseball , this regime is never going to bring us a world series ,( I've stated this many times since the 2019 playoffs against the Yankees ) ... The owners don't care about the fans , they continue to tell the FO to put together a team that is capable to win enough games to keep the fans interested in filling the seats ( its not how you win the game, , it's how you play the game that excites the fans , for me anyways , win or lose , a competitive game is ŵhat I want ) Then before the last game of the year they inform the fans with a slap in the face with their announcements of rocco and FO retaining their jobs , they keep quiet about informing the fans during the season about baseball matters ... they are a total system failure on how they play the game , yes they have had some success on winning the division , but as I stated above they are not motivated to win a world series .... Don't go to spring training , don't go to twins fest , don't go to the field to watch games .... I stopped venting , I'm bitching now because I want competitive baseball played the way it should be , they are not a Homerun hitting team or at least we don't have a slugger that hits 40 or more homeruns ... Did I already mention , don't do business with the pohlads, they remind me of used car salesman ...

Dreams die hard , this one hurt and disappointed , time to start a new one !!! ....

And you shouldn't feel bad in Italy , but thanks for checking in ... Have a good time ...

You forgot to mention blewett , he hasn't blown it in his small sample size , wait till next year though ...