Blyleven2011

Just waiting for the game to Start ... A good competitive game with some old fashioned baseball thrown in ...

We are overloaded with infield talent , that can change during off season with some trades ... Even if we make trades I don't see Lee in the majors until around the deadline of 2024 but could be wrong and he proves himself ready and be up in mid april , also shortstop are athletic and can be moved to another position ( groom him for left field ) ...

Soto and Alonso are not realistic , no team control , FO would never consider a trade would they , had they won the world series this year then I could see the FO trading for either of them to defend a title for 2024 ... Santander is a switch hitter but do we have the pitching to trade for him , he's had a few decent years ... McCormick strikes out to much , we don't need that even with 3 years of control ... We already have strikeout artists we don't need another one ...

Arizona for me , but a competitive 7 game series is also important to me and i think we will have one ... Good analysis of both teams , I like good baseball games that are entertaining to watch and this has been some very good baseball games on defense in playoffs and world series ... The heart breaker for Arizona in game 1 was a good comeback for Texas , game 2 was a pitchers duel for 6 innings and then Arizona struck in the 7th , 8th and 9th innings with runs the old fashioned way and put the game away ... Both games were great suspense and glad the series is tied 1 game apiece going to Arizona ... Sure hope FO and Rocco are learning something ...

Centerfield is more important than rightfield , resign Kepler but this off season trade Kepler .... Then we have the 8 million for Taylor , they have kept Kepler for his defense over the years , time to keep the defense in Centerfield ... Our front office should be approaching this concern before the players declare free agency , I'm sure he will get more playing time in the Twins outfield than anyone else's outfield , he seemed to be happy here and we were fortunate to have him ...

Arizona Steals alot of bases to ... My style of baseball , get the runners on bases , get them into scoring position and hit them home , it's definitely working for Arizona ... Great defense in playoffs and now world series has been spectacular ...

With the uncertainty of Buxton playing the field , it is necessary to get it right ... They did have an ace in the hole with Taylor as his defense was very good ... I think it is necessary to resign him for his defense to fill centerfield because of the unknown of Buxton , if Buxton can play then Taylor can be a defensive replacement late in the game ... He made some spectacular plays in centerfield and was fun to watch ... Defense is very important , the 2 playoffs ( alcs and nlcs ) had some of the best defense I have seen this year , the 2 games in world series has also had good defense , Arizona is playing with the big boys because of their defense ...

No pitching mentioned in the article , every year it's the abundance of infield prospects we are talking about ,( trade this guy , play this prospect ) ... Of the three players that came up , Lewis and Julien have the most upside to be long-term players , Wallner I'm not sold on him yet , He has improved defensively , his lack of contact abilities lead to many strikeouts, both swinging and looking , Julien also gets called out to many times looking , I'd rather these players go down swinging on close pitches , than looking ... now the article mentioning Lee , severino and Martin I don't see any of them ready to make the team out of spring training , to many ifs offensively or defensively of the three ... Keep Polanco and Taylor , wallner can plug right field for now with that arm ... Get some pitching developed , Raya , Festa , Lewis , cullpepper and there is another one i can't remember from the draft of 2022 ... Trading Spencer Steer ( we needed pitching but got nothing but an injured arm ) , Steer would have led the Twins in almost all offensive categories ... It hurts but Cincinnati gave him his chance and he steered Cincinnati almost to a playoff position ...

Started the season at AAA and things went bad for 3 month ... It's better he finished strong his last 2 plus months to prepare for spring training , he may start again in AAA but should have some opportunities in 2024 Twins ... Still young to give up on but next year will probably be the decisive season if he stays on the 40 man roster ...

Send the two to driveline , get them straightened out with different coaching and voices ... When will preilipp be able to start his season next year , does he need a year of rehab again following latest surgery ???? As for driveline , there should also be some current players that want to save and improve their careers going this winter , larnach for one and if healthy Miranda , be ready to strike and hit the ball in spring training ....

Triple A should be a fun season for the prospects in 2024 one step away from the show ...

Last year 2023 was a great draft , besides walker Jenkins there is a good possibility that alot of prospects make the show from the draft class ... 2022 was a good draft class with Lee but not as strong as 2023 ... We should have a great future with these prospects ...

Players get traded and thrive elsewhere ... We trade or sign players and they decline ... What's wrong with this picture ... To my eye test nothing but those that follow data driven statistics are painting a picture of his decline , if statistics are measured when a team signs a player then why haven't our FO been savvy enough to stay away from players that are declining ... Is it because they are cheaper , I don't know ... Correa was good in the field but has to learn not to go after a high inside pitch ... Correa is a fine shortstop for now ...

It's nice knowing that people like our organizations people and we have given clubs permission to talk to him .... No body has said it yet , why didn't they come calling on falvey ... Mets went calling on Milwaukee's STERN and hired him away .... Just thought I'd mention it ...

It would be nice if Miranda can be a rh bat in the lineup ... He will definitely start at AAA and will have to prove himself all over again ... no way is a spring training long enough to evaluate , if his injury kept him from hitting and fielding last year , his mental approach to the game may need encouraging , did the pitcher's adjust to Miranda and he didn't adjust back ... Spring traing to short , prove himself in AAA and gain confidence ... If I was FO I would not be expecting Miranda to break camp and head north n 26 man roster ...

Kiriloff is an outfielder too ... So if they did sign a position player that can hit like Hoskins a right handed bat , kiriloff could platoon with Hoskins at first base and play outfield or dh when not platooning ... I'm also sure there are internal options at first base in the minors , though the depth might not be all that spectacular , they might give a kid a chance ... Solano opened the season of 2023 at first base while Kiriloff had the first month rehabbing his wrist ... Please no Gallo, I wouldn't even pay him the league minimum ...

Couldn't believe Sabato is out hitting Rosario and cosetti , Pitching is getting opportunities but not making the most of it ... 2 weeks in and the Twins players need to shine ...

Baldelli won division titles his first two years. In 2021, Josh Donaldson, JA Happ, Matt Shoemaker and Alex Colome made sure there wouldn’t be a three-peat. And dropping Gallo from the playoff roster this year helped get the Twins win ... With an article like this I miss the bashing that he got in the past , and some of those that think he is a good manager , they were bashers before , just because we won 3 playoff games they are now siding with Rocco as a good manager still learning on the job .... Is he a good manager , let's wait and see if he can manage through the entire playoff process and a world series victory , and then have a article of this topic ...

There is never a sure thing with this FO , to add quality is a must , stay away from dumpster diving as they continue to scan the waiver wire to frequently ... Impressive on what they accomplished with the record strikeouts .... The strikeouts sucked and the strikouts looking were alot worse especially when we had runners in scoring position .... Adjustments need to be made , the hitters just don't seem to follow through with adjustments with 2 strikes , identifying a pitch that will end up way off the plate swinging at s8trike 3 , and not swinging at to close for comfort pitches and making contact putting ball in play and standing there looking at strike 3 passing them buy... We need professional hitters for more consistency , plain and simple ... In my opinion the Twins lack a true homerun hitter and a producer of 100 rbi's or even a player scoring a 100 runs ... We lose by scoring only 3 runs or less but win when we close to double digits and that is why the Twins rank high in runs scored and are a 500 team ... That is why if they don't change there consistency they will be a 500 team again ... We need professional hitters and we need them to be clutch , we need a different approach pure and simple ...

A steady left handed starter has been missing for years , LHP Montgomery pitched well for Texas last night , LHP Rodriguez I'm not sold on him and he has personal problems I believe .... LHP Headrick hasn't been the answer and Smeltzer was a good story with small success ...

Nice to see paddack healthy and pitching well in the same sample size at end-of season and playoffs ... He's got fire in him , now he should have the confidence to get ready for spring training and the 2024 season .. You could just see it , he's hungry to pitch ...

They need to add and subtract players and coaching ... I love baseball and want quality killer instinct baseball , take the field and play hard ( the games against Toronto in the playoffs i thought was the 2 best games they played all year through each nine inning games ) , a killer instinct was showing there , as they put away Toronto in 2 straight games , still the hitting suffered to score crooked numbers but pitching was very good ... We need better contact hitters (the strikouts were maddening , strikeouts on close pitches looking was even worse ) , better coaching is needed for the players at identifying pitches and laying off balls out of the zone ( sure you can be fooled once in awhile but with some more patience they can be better hitters ) ... Scoring runs and hitting in the clutch is the name of the game ... I'll say it again , when was the last time we had any team player have 100 rbi's or score a 100 runs , it's been some years , hitters just haven't been productive enough ... Send them all to drive line for some different coaching voices , we need professional hitters ... We have made some progress in the second half of 2023 towards building a better lineup but again I will say a killer instinct is needed , determination and patience , hope the playoffs gave the players more confidence for next year ... Play to win and run away with the division , everyday take the field and feel confident that you can beat anyone , baseball is a mental game ...

Articles like this is why we post negativity towards our team ... Our team stunk in the first half , got better to watch in the second half but still was flawed ... Starting pitching kept us in the games most of the season , every game you thought you had a chance to win with that days starter , the lineup was a different story , you didn't know if you were going to win or lose , well sometimes you knew you were going to lose for sure ( getaway day) Sonny pitches a great game but lineup doesn't support him with any runs all season long ... Rookies played good, Kepler turned his season around ( will he perform next year as well ) ... No consistency plain and simple from the line up ... I have loved my Twins since the beginning , I'm negative because I want quality baseball and another world series win , we need consistency from our line up ( in the 6 games in the playoffs how many runs did we score with a single , double or triple in the playoffs ) ...

I like Vasquez defense more than Jeffers ( he still has some learning to do on moving his body and using his glove the right way to stop balls in the dirt and preventing passed balls or wild pitches ) , he did improve on throwing out runners this year and hitting was better to ... We sign a guy for 13 million ( Vasquez ) and he has experience in the past in playoffs and we don't play him at all , what did we sign him for ??? It tells me that our FO don't know how to evaluate younger players and don't trust them ... Just my opinion , Jeffers had a good season but I think it was alittle unfair not having Vasquez play a game , he played the whole season for opportunity in the playoffs ...

Better not be Gallo ...