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And we traded varland a relief pitcher with some good experience just to get Rojas that needs 2 years more to development , yes i know we got roden too but we don't know if he is just a AAA player or can hack it at the major leagues ... If twins fans think we are finished purging our valued players , they are in for a big disappointment ...

Amen doc .... Id still rather have francona , Rocco should have been fired last year and falvey could of gone after Terry, price would have been higher than a Sheldon salary , but the rewards would have been better ... Falvey is always a day late and a dollar short , don't have lunch with him because he will have you paying the check ...

Im waiting to see what larnach would do with another organization , he's right on the cusp of being a better than average hitter , can some other organization with a fresh change of scenery and a different voice help larnach at least be a 25 homer a year player with a 250 average ... No idea if he can be a better defensive outfielder , he's slow but does field better than others ....

The front office will continue to do it their way , we've had positions for years that should have been addressed and haven't , the positions haven't been addressed in our development system to fill the positions ... The twins haven't found any cost controlled replacements yet in trades for the positions ... I'm expecting the trend to continue with this organization , the press conference of shelton proves it and was a joke that anything is going to change ...

Not sorry to see him go , hope him sucess but wasn't to impressed with him as our bench coach ... Now we need more replacements, it will make my day when I hear Watkins has been let go ...

How's Arizona's farm system ranking ... I know we are talking san Francisco and what Cody is suggesting seems alittle weak in return , the 1st baseman eldridge seems to be major league ready and would come with years of control , but this trade should be mostly about getting hitting prospects with one of the pitchers mentioned by cody ... Its already been said during the world series that the twins want 2 of their top 5 for Ryan . I do not know if it was a reliable source , it popped up on my phone and it stated that redsox and minnesota were back negotiating .... I found it kind of odd that a trade was being discussed so soon after the season was over and world series wasnt quite complete , i know the front office knows more than the fans but i believe ryan has already requested a trade and FO is already acting on it , if the source has any merit ...

Damn sure could use some fun , williams astudillo would sure be my choice over Gasper as backup ... But you can bet Gasper is falveys guy , I hope im wrong and gasper get DFA'd ...

Nothing more and nothing less , it's what we expected from the operations department The B grade our OP gave them seems alittle high , a possible C- , nothing inspiring and the grade for the introduction press conference a F ....

It's a dysfunctional organization , all to blame from owners down to coaches at the major league level ... Development in the minors , who the heck really knows if the coaching is top professionals or not because we don't really see their day to day operations to evaluate them , like we do for our twins on a daily basis ... This organization has no class or a identity .... The press conference to introduce shelton was just going through the motions , nothing was gained by it , the media asked questions and the questions once again go unanswered , evading what we really want and that is ::: WHAT DIRECTION IS THIS TEAM GOING TO GO ... in one of this articles paragraphs it says falvey has control and authority well beyond his capabilities , THIS IS THE TRUTH , THE WHOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH .... FLOUNDERING FALVEY ...

Wow , same old crap , different day ... Shelton Seems like a smooth operator , maybe he's smooth enough to do falveys job ... But what's the big dark secrets that there always reluctant to share with the fans ... Fans want to know or there won't be anymore fans , this is getting real old ... Same old $h!? Different day ... Clone of Rocco only more intelligent is my take , hope we can at least be a 500 team with those 3 on the podium having so much enthusiasm ...

I do believe that a different manager could of succeeded in at least playing a better exciting brand of baseball , the entertaining value has been pretty low and the players who falvey has trotted out 2 years in arow from 2024 into 2025 are actually better than they have performed ( at least on paper ) , but why haven't they performed is maybe the question that Falvey's and Rocco's plan was dragging them down ... We will have a new manager and maybe a new spark will ignite some better play from the core players , sure wish falvey would keep out of the day to day game and let a manager manage , how can anyone and the players have respect for a manager that is only a puppet ... I would want to play for a leader for better morale and team chemistry , Falvey's and Rocco's players just went through the motions of playing for a failing plan which is sad ... Falvey and Rocco are not leaders and can't fight there way out of a paper sack ( where have all the leaders gone , even in politics we haven't seen a true leader in awhile ).. Has anyone heard definitely if rocco has had any formal interview with another team , there are just a few spots remaining to fill a teams manager position ...

I really want nothing associated with Rocco's staff to remain because I want no remembrance of a manager that was not a major league manager ( i hope this is my final jab at rocco , but i want one more final punch at falvey when that time comes ) , if maki is retained i can live with it , but Tingler and Watkins should be out the door with a tazer prodding them on to move faster ... I really have no idea how many coaches we have and I don't even know most of their names , it's ridiculous that we have so many coaches to help with the teams players and so it seems the team has played more poorly under Falvey and his influx of coaches ... Terry Ryan had alot less to work with besides payroll ...

What falvey says and what falvey does are two diffent things .... When you going to stop believing what he says ... Yes we need to have development at the major league level , I have stated this many many times , it's a new level for a AAA player to learn in the hardest level ( the major leagues ), throwing players to the wolves isn't going to cut it , if the manager isn't responsible with the talent ( as some say hes not ) then he's got to delegate the responsibility to the right coaches to work with that players mental and physical approach of the game ... We are failing our prospects at developing them to play a major league caliber game , I've stated many times that you take a talented player and hone his skills to be a better player , it doesn't stop at the major leagues , once he is established than you can have him let go of his mother's apron string .. We need better coaching with shelton in charge ,, we need to clear the baldelli coaches and get some really top professional coaches Mr falvey ... We need shelton to have his own professional coaches , not falveys top professionals at every coaching positions ( Falvey's quote not mine ) to delegate to , if we keep a coach like Watkins there is no reason to be optimistic that anything really is going to change ... It's not whether you win or lose , it's how you play the game , help these prospects out at this level and let's play some exciting baseball , win or lose ... Solid defense , offense and fundamentals will go along way as long as there are no mental errors ( that is what we continued to see with baldelli in charge ) ... Remember what falvey says and what falvey does are 2 different things

Houston had a catcher that was an exceptional catcher ( maldonado )and didn't hit much but the rest of the lineup did to compensate for that ... Vazquez is still a productive defensive catcher with baseball smarts but the twins don't have the lineup to carry Vazquez like Houston did ... Maldonado is older than Vazquez and is still getting contracts as a backup but has been bouncing around from team to team ....

There will be some trades this off season .... I had a pop up on my phone of an article yesterday that it's already beginning with Boston and the twins on Joe Ryan ... I don't know if it's a reliable source but I just thought I'd throw it out there ... Im sure Ryan would like to go and play for a perennial winner and I wouldn't blame him or any other veteran ... Varland just finished fulfilling his dream playing in the world series and maybe more ... And it was definitely was a very good world series no matter who you were rooting for .... I will say this Toronto out performed the doubters and outplayed the dodgers but came up short of winning ...

Toronto played a terrific series and in my opinion outplayed the dodgers , but the dodgers prevail for their 2nd consecutive world series ... It was a classic

Okay I got it restored in time for the double

Who was pitching , so we are in what inning , still haven't been able to watch , keep me in the loop

I lost my feed , please let me know what's happening as I try to get it back ...

That's the twins way ...

Well the lead is gone , tied going to the bottom of the 9th inning , did Toronto script this to be a walk off ...

I run lead for Toronto going into the ninth inning , can't get any better in a game 7 unless your black jack Morris throwing a 10 inning shutout ...

I've stated this several times during playoffs and world series , I sure wish we could have gotten one of Barger or Clements in the varland trade along with that pitching prospect instead of roden ... I sure like what I see from Barger and Clements , not stars but they are hustlers ...

I had a pop up on my phone today that twins want two top 5 prospects from the red sox , fact or fiction , I guess we'll see ... Im sure Ryan wants out and thats what falvey will say , Ryan wasn't happy here anymore if a trade does happen ...

Toronto has surprised alot of doubters ...they really have out played the dodgers in my opinion ...