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  1. Blyleven2011
    Is Sabato still in the system , just checking ... We need hitters that can hit and get on base , get crucial hits in a crucial moment to drive in runs , the homeruns will come but the players have proven they cant hit those in a pressure situation , this lineup has failed the past 2 seasons ... Let's hope there is some help coming from our prospects to help it be a more exciting game ... Keaschall helped spark the lineup in 2025 , who will it be this up coming season ???
  2. Blyleven2011
    It's the homeruns he's addicted to ...
  3. Blyleven2011
    There's been lots of trades , good ones , let's not forget that the twins re-acquired smalley from the white Sox and Blyleven from Cleveland a year or two before 1987 championship year , we definitely needed Blyleven cause all we had was straker as the third starter... Gladden too at the beginning of 1987 was acquired , Baylor a late add , so many helped us win that world series , yes we got lucky with only Viola and Blyleven but as they say a win is a win ...
  4. Blyleven2011
    What no love for Donaldson ... Anyone involved with a world series should be in the top five ranking , they all had role to play and they filled it ... Morris number one ...
  5. Blyleven2011
    I've never seen this written before ... The twins are adamant about 2026 being a season of developmental emphasis and roster evaluation ... From what I have heard from the FO is the twins believe their players are capable of winning the the division ... As of now i wish it was possible , but running the same player's out for the third season in arow with basically the same lineup it just doesn't seem possible ... These players need a break out season and I hope they are late bloomers ... New manager is going to help with a different approach to the game , it should help bring exciting and fun baseball to the players ...
  6. Blyleven2011
    Without seeing the whole list of ten not sure i can rank these 5 ... I will say this , berenguer and molitor we got our monies worth ...
  7. Blyleven2011
    I was a cuddyer fan , yes he was a late bloomer but every year he just kept getting better and better , loved his arm , played average defense at each position , he kept hitting and finally won a batting title as a rocky ( yes it was coors field but contact does weird things ) ... Cuddy was a great teammate and clubhouse guy , always free to giving advice and instructions to young players ... Killebrew is mr twin , but had cuddyer stayed with the twins he definitely would have come close to killer ... Cuddyer was great to the fans , top notch guy ...
  8. Blyleven2011
    A great rendition of a Christmas carol ... the past few years have sucked , present looks dreary , the future looks alittle better if falvey wasn't meddling with the baseball operations and lying to his bosses that we are good enough to win the weak central division, couldn't do it in 2024-25 , I would like to win it in 2026 but as of now it doesn't look promising enough ... New year is right around the corner ... Let's get some decent hitters that also can play defense , as most fans agree we have to many DH's and we don't need more ... Let do the right thing for the fans ...
  9. Blyleven2011
    We have to change our identity from a AAA team to a major league team ... I want to see yearly consistency from a prospect before I'm suckered in to believing the prospects is going to be a star ...
  10. Blyleven2011
    There was a chuckle from me too but I would of made it just a one way trip for the both of them to a desserted island ...
  11. Blyleven2011
    I'm getting alittle tired of reading about we shoulda, woulda , coulda articles ... Trade all the twins daily writers named Cody and see what we get in return , same old crap different day ... We have 2 more months to establish a team and I'm just going to wait and see what develops , can we put together a winning team , YES , can we put together a contending team, I DONT THINK SO ... Every year the twins construct a team to win enough games to draw interest to the fans to fill the seats, nothing has changed yet over the years , will this be the year Tom terrific changes the formula, it would be nice to be a solid contender ... Speculate all you want on trading Ober but he has no current value to trade for a useful return , he's just better off with the twins and if healthy can rebound from his 2025 season ...
  12. Blyleven2011
    The TD writers that come up with the most ridiculous trade proposals are all named cody ... We need hitters yes , but we already have to many players that are poor on defense....
  13. Blyleven2011
    ⁹This was a good article to read ... Can Tom turn the tables with his words , he sure better back up his words ... I've stated before , get Falvey out of the baseball operations and let him stay in the business operations , this should be Falvey's last year in the baseball operations ( their mind set at winning the division as of now isn’t worth a hill of beans ) ... We need exactly what the writer wrote , hitters , bullpen pitchers and some better defense , we need run producers and as of now we need to spend or trade for those players, bullpen could use a veteran if he is already better than what we have , the dumpster arms haven't been better than what we have and after the deadline last year our prospects weren't given a look see and we trotted out the worst bullpen since 2021-22 ... In conclusion : I like that we have a surplus of average arms or better , let them pitch , it's our strength until proven otherwise ... But yes we need a couple of bats that can make our lineup stronger , spend the money and keep the prospects or trade some prospects for the hitters we need ... A nice Christmas present would be nice Tom and Derek ....
  14. Blyleven2011
    Walker was kinda a late bloomer , 30 years old before he really started to accumulate any war's ... Walked bats righthanded and his defense would be welcomed with Clemens then in the utility role ... So Christy is suggesting trading for Walker but only giving up a player from A ball and Houston sending us money to pay down Walkers contract , I think there is only 1 insane person that would do that kind of trade in baseball and that is falvey ... If Walker is 35 , why not go with Goldschmidt who is 38 ??? , who would be cheaper , but we have Bell so I don't think anymore is going to happen with the first base position ...
  15. Blyleven2011
    Yes the adventures will continue with the twins , but I wish the adventure to play baseball is not the boring baseball we have seen in 2021-22 or 2024-25 ... I'd like to see the young arms from AAA get there debuts in the bullpen and show that they are ready , but to start the season with some quality veteran FA signings or trades for the bullpen and our the young arm starters that there is no spot in the rotation have a crack at the bullpen or depth in AAA ... Someone mentioned Kirby Yates, he's been good when healthy and worth the risks ...
  16. Blyleven2011
    If you give falvey the money and he spends it wisely on quality players that perform and produce than we can celebrate ... Falvey hasn't been known to spend wisely so that is a detriment to this organization ... This is it , last year for falvey with the baseball side of it , have him just stick to being on the business operations and outcof the way of the game ... If he gets the money and we finish 500 or above , then he did his job , improvement is what we need , if the same players he trots out for the 3rd consecutive year don't improve it's time for falvey to step aside ... I was being nice and didn't say fire him ...
  17. Blyleven2011
    Notice the pole on pohlads approval rating , now that they have spent some money on Bell and announced the minority owners , the tally in approval has climbed to over 5 , i cant recall it being over 5 in a very very long time ... See what spending money does to a person , it makes them happy ... I personally haven't changed , i still want new owner , the pohlads screwed this organization up after 2023 and let the fans down with a window of opportunity ... With out looking it up , if GM's were given the wins just like the manager gets , who would have the most wins in a 10 season period , Derek Falvey or Mr Terry Ryan ...
  18. Blyleven2011
    Thanks for clarifying that , it was late and I was tired and thought the 3 investors were paying 1 & 3/4 billion for the 20% ...
  19. Blyleven2011
    Pohlads came out smelling like a rose if this is correct and i interpreted it right , what 3 investors would spend almost 1.1 billion for 20% of the team when they could have bought the whole team for 1.8 billion , if this is true nothing in sports makes sense these days ...
  20. Blyleven2011
    He probably wouldn't because he is 1 year from free agency and and his agent Boras wouldn't advise it this close to free agency ... This was about who the FO would consider to extend !
  21. Blyleven2011
    Nobody of the youth group i guess you would call them has not shown enough to deserve an extension yet , Lopez and Buxton have had there extentions , will they get another ( time will tell with this organization ) , Ryan is worthy but doubtful , jeffers is borderline extendable , 2 years at most
  22. Blyleven2011
    Fan research on Fandom , again the pohlads and FO haven't done there homework , attendance has been on the no where to go but up and that hasn't happened since the right sizing after 2023 ... Yes it would be nice to have a consistent power bat like Alonso , but the twins have only had 1 true power hitter since 1961 and that is the great memories of Harmon Killebrew crushing consistently 40 plus homeruns a season , yes we've had Cruz and Dozier even topped 40 homers for a season , we've had hrbek , Puckett gaetti , Bruno, willing ham all top 30 homer seasons but not as consistent as the killer ... We really just haven't been a homerun hitting team consistently over the years and it's gotten so boring that falvey believed we were a homerun hitting team and forgot that there is more to playing the game of baseball than the solo homeruns , ( small ball can be successful if done right and some teams have done it right ) , so much wrong with this team it's time to turn it around with our cheap minimum wage prospect's and teach them the right way or it's the highway ... The twins did well with the mentioned 3 free agents last year but even a blind squirrel finds a acorn once in awhile and falvey finally found the veterans after 8 years of dumpster diving ...
  23. Blyleven2011
    Keep banging the drum , it makes some of us feel better, but some it makes them more miserable ....
  24. Blyleven2011
    Mountcastle would fill the 1st base position for a year ... I don't think any trade will happen, the FO since 2022 deadline has horded their prospects and they just acquired a bunch at last year's deadline ... There are some free agents that the twins should go after first and once they are off the table then maybe trade for 1st baseman ... Goldschmidt , Hosken , bell , o Hearn and ??? A right handed 1st baseman should be the priority cause they have shown there love for Kody by stating he's our first baseman ...
  25. Blyleven2011
    It a no for me trading for Abrams , bat and speed but no defense at short ... Lewis in 2026 might just prosper into some good production , he improved on defense , now he just needs to get the MOJO back in his hitting , I'm sure he's working hard this offseason ... If he doesn't improve to above average in 2026 then his time with Minnesota could be short and we can discuss this next off season , shortstops are coming in the very near future if Culpepper takes the necessary steps ...
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