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  1. Blyleven2011
    When falvey and Levine were a team , i really believed they thought they were the dream team ... I catch your drift on this being a dream team though , this team is not competitive enough to be contenders ...
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    What has happened to the mentality of a relief pitcher .... Where are the goose gossages , mad Hungarian , the nasty boys and many more with a winning mentality , they did not want to lose and with that mentality they were a better player ... just like a batter if he gets 3 hits in ten at bats , he is a better player ...
  3. Blyleven2011
    The underrated / overated system of prospects ... The system seems strong enough to strengthen pitching but they lack at strengthening a position players ability to hit and field at the major league level .. Cody mentioned that development shouldn't stop at the major league level and I agree , there are adjustments to be made at the highest level but we haven't been able to tap into that to get over that hump from AAA to the majors on the position side of our lineup , we are failing at producing hitters and failing to develop fielding ... Pitching has been strong for 3 seasons now but hitting has gone in the other direction ...
  4. Blyleven2011
    Contenders or pretenders , that is and has been the question for quite sometime with the pohlads as owners ... Twice they have slapped us hard in the face in recent years , right sizing payroll for 2024 and deadline trades of bullpen arms in 2025 ... I understand keeping Ryan and Buxton but really expected them to be traded because their value has never been higher , Lopez too .... Stumble at the start , the twins play in Florida in nice weather in spring training and come north to a colder climate and have so it seems gotten off to slow starts due to the shock of colder elements ... This is a poorly run organization , never addressing the proper issues for this team to succeed , it's lost it's way with defense and proper offensive ... Hopefully our new coaches will emphasize how important it is to the players ,we need a cleaner game of baseball ... So coaches do your magic and emphasize that we need to play better exciting baseball , and please keep falvey away from the dugout ...
  5. Blyleven2011
    To answer your question, How well has the twins navigated the international draft ... When falvey and Levine cleaned house and hired all their people , falvey quoted ( we have filled every position within the organization with the top professionals ) , so one would believe they have the right personal doing their job , one would think ..
  6. Blyleven2011
    Zebulon has promise , he should try either moving over on the rubber and definitely should pitch high out of the zone and get batters to chase , worked for rocket roger clemens ...
  7. Blyleven2011
    And falvey and company hasn't made damn sure they are ready to contribute before a debut ... Sorry I couldn't resist the temptation to slam falvey and company , they are probably watching Moneyball and trying to figure out how all these statistics really can work with no strategy ...
  8. Blyleven2011
    My mistake ,I thought he was 3 million , is this his second arb of 4 ? ...
  9. Blyleven2011
    Wow , how often does a salary go down , even players that are injured and don't play a season usually re-sign in arbitration for the same salary ... I believe shelton could be an inspiration for Lewis , Lewis just didn't seem too like playing for Rocco , I still believe Lewis will be a fine player, hopefully with the Twins ...
  10. Blyleven2011
    Maybe the pohlads and FO personal watch the movie Major League everyday at Twins Way and pretend to be Rachel Phelps ( owner of the Cleveland Indians ) , she was intent on adding the worst talented team so she coukd relocate ... Maybe riverbrian and me should go check this out 🤣 ...
  11. Blyleven2011
    I'd play darts with falvey everyday , he can never hit the bullseye, infact he can barely hit the board .... He did hit the board on the 3 free agents last year , coloumbe , Bader and to some extent France , but it took him almost ten years to do it ... Billy beane he is not ...
  12. Blyleven2011
    I'd stick to that story also but I would include with these 4 acquisitions that need help , Beauregard should just resign now instead of getting fired , it's a no win situation for Beauregard and the organization to bring in players that are worse than our DFA'd players . . .
  13. Blyleven2011
    The way this FO has been operating the past few off seasons , I don’t think anyone is even awake at there desk , why would anyone call them when supposedly Lopez, Ryan, buxton are not going to be traded ...
  14. Blyleven2011
    He's so cheap he does it himself or maybe falvey once considered being a barber he keeps in practice with the pohlad family ....
  15. Blyleven2011
    Sorry to say this but wallner is ranked to high , he should of been in the 20th spot ... He looked totally lost at the plate , yes he hit an occasionally homerun with nobody on base ... If some other team came calling with a bullpen offer i would grab it ... His value to the team is as a DH if he can correct his offense deficiencies , his defense has never been great ... Like many of our players , this could be his last chance to prove he belongs in the majors ... A Joey Gallo he's not , Gallo could play defense in right field and first base and we all know how alot of fans thought of Gallo when he played for the twins , they wanted him off the roster half way through the season ...
  16. Blyleven2011
    First of all I'm old school and don't go into the moneyball analysis ... You make contact or you don't, you make contact and find a hole through the infield or a hit to the grass , you get a good pitch to drive and it may go in the bleachers,.. It's all about selection of what pitch the batter swings at , exit velocity squaring up the ball is nice and forcing the defense to make or not make the play , getting on base with soft contact is fine with me , a Texas leaguer hit is fine with me, getting on base is fine with me because it's the name of the game , I've seen many games where a team doesn't get the ball out of the infield and they score runs in an inning when we think they shouldn't , is there analytics on that ... To many aggressive hitters today that don't have the patience or can't recognize what pitch is being thrown results in alot of outs ... There seems like the batters lack strategy , discipline and adjustments in the game of baseball today ...
  17. Blyleven2011
    Is kiner Falefa still available , he would have made a better utility infielders... We now have oswaldo' brother who actually had a better career than oswaldo ..
  18. Blyleven2011
    There's got to be a wild thing out there somewhere , forget get the curveball Ricky give them the heater ...
  19. Blyleven2011
    As of now i think falvey is sticking with his statement from the general managers meetings , ( we will see our homegrown players in the bullpen , Festa, raya , Prielipp , Morris and anyone that doesn't hold a starters role ), will he add a veteran , he should ( someone like coloumbe as a veteran )... He will be adding pitchers to the minor league to bolster the depth in AAA, because if we use our pitching pipeline for the bullpen this season we won't have much for depth ... Any word on Canterino ???
  20. Blyleven2011
    Maybe they see something in him and hope he becomes the next Rooker ...
  21. Blyleven2011
    It's confusing to say the least , how they continue to carry other DFA candidates and end up DFAing Fritzgerald who we know is a good defensive player , we add a bat but not above average in fielding , another DH type ... Just another trade that doesn't point the needle in the right direction other than a bench player ... Why can't we find a player that can hit and play defense , oh that's right , we dont pay enough ... I didnt read or I missed it , does he have options available yet ???
  22. Blyleven2011
    Their plan , it's always their plan , for once i would wish for them to listen to the fans plan ... Construct a consistent team capable to contend for a world series , window was open in 2023 and the pohlads slammed the window shut , no wonder why the fans are frustrated and have no love for the pohlads ... Falvey is no better , the 40 man roster has plenty of AAAA players on it and he won't move on from them even if we have players the could replace them and improve the team , falvey signs a 1st baseman every year or a veteran that's just plain unusable but they keep him playing them ... Falvey found his acorn last offseason ,,France, Bader and coloumbe were his best crop of free agents he has signed ... Will Bell perform on offense , let's hope but he isn't going to win a gold glove ... Still 6 weeks to go as spring training starts alittle earlier this year because of World baseball ...
  23. Blyleven2011
    Thanks for the list of players in the minor leagues , some i wasn't sure were in the system any longer ... Winokur isn't rated as a prospect anymore or was that just overlooked ... Surplus of outfielders , I'm not going to name names but someone needs to go ( it wouldn't do any good , falveywould do the opposite ), we addressed 1st base for another year , we have to address the lineup and defense ... Sure hope Sheldon can work sone magic a make this team exciting to watch ..... ...
  24. Blyleven2011
    I hope the new year will bring more substantial articles to read ... It falls on the owners and FO shoulders that there is no excitement as of yet to even be considered in contention ... I may believe we have decent pitching and can fill some positions in the bullpen but trotting out a lineup that can't score runs with no outs and runners on third and can't even hit a sacrifice fly ... The recipe has to change , discipline , adjustments in situational hitting ... The mental toughness just isn't there to succeed and the players need to go out and find it ..,
  25. Blyleven2011
    Can the twins compete , be competitive or contend ... As of now the twins haven't the roster to do any of the above mentioned , so we'll finish right where we left off in 2025 , unless we have breakout season from players that want to, as they work through the winter to better themselves ... I think we can better ourselves over the white Sox but that's the race we will be in as of now unless we add a significant bat or 2 and maybe a reliable relief pitcher , the youngsters are going to get there chance in the bullpen this year ....
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