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  1. TNtwins85
    If you want something for him that can help you this season and for the next 6 seasons then you trade him. There will be plenty of suitors looking for a top of the rotation pitcher getting paid $6M. That type of pitcher gets you 2 really good prospects and at least 1 or 2 more lottery tickets. Regardless of what happened and what will happen to the Twins you trade guys like that. It’s just smart. In fact 1 or maybe both of the high level prospects bring value this season. High level value over the next 6. It may be unpopular but a mid market team regardless should almost always trade a guy like Ryan. It’s not about if the ownership is incompetent. It’s about is the FO competent? If they are they cash in on Ryan this offseason.
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    Oh I totally agree. I don’t think we’ll see him until at least mid next season unless he becomes the heir apparent to Jacob Wilson. I don’t believe that will be the case because Wilson had and does have a better hit tool but I’m open to being surprised! I was just stating 24 games at low and high A won’t show what he is in the batters box but my gosh the defense plays now! Gonna need to see the ups and downs at A+ over 100 games to get any idea of what his offensive profile looks like.
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    “What will the Minnesota Twins do with Matt Wallner?” play him at DH and bat him 5-9 and no higher. Never in the OF. That should be the plan. Don’t stray from this plan.
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    In 12 games dude. Read the above comment. After playing a full 70 game college schedule with playoffs along with A ball. Literally the most he’s ever played in a season and against the best competition he’s ever faced. Yeah, he needs to work on hitting but your basing his A+ OPS on literally a sample of a sample size.
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    Nobody said they would be Aguilera and Nathan. Adams’ velocity improved when he became strictly a short stint BP guy which plays up and he’s got an assortment of pitches to go to. No he’s not Duran but neither was Duran. Laweryson had good command. Threw strikes and got some good outs for only being in the majors for a few appearances. Duran was a failed starter with terrible command. Constantly injured. Jax was one of the worst starters in Twins history, had a -1 WAR and a 6 something ERA his first year. low velocity and iffy secondary stuff, Brock Stewart was a 30 something injury plagued scrap heap guy, Varland was a failed starter who couldn’t finish guys as a 15th round draft pick out of a tiny Minnesota college. Point is you never know where the next dominant BP arm will come from and if they show any promise they could be something. Especially when they can throw strikes and spot pitches. The eye test is superior to stats when it comes to spotting relievers. ERA is irrelevant as a few bad games blows it for the year. Nathan and Aguilera weren’t world beaters either unless you’re counting saves which is as good as errors as far as counting stats. As far as Lawerysons age, if he pitches good for a season or two what does that matter?
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    Also, being able to keep a guy like Enrique Hernandez around all year with a middling OPS and barely playable all year just to know once the playoffs come around he’ll be a nearly .900 OPS in the playoffs year in year out. Guys like that who always seem to be found and kept on the roster all year by these big teams just baffles me. But they all have them when they make those runs.
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    Kinda reminds me of those 2000’s Twins teams. Always one big pitcher or one big bat short for the title run. Play the game right all season only to not have enough to push them over the edge for a true title run.
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    Love this! Everyone talks about how the Twins need to spend like this team and that team. Complaining how they can’t compete. How they need to be able to spend. No, they need to create an identity, a culture. They had one. They hit HR’s. They brought in guys who could hit bombs and taught guys to hit bombs. They still bring in guys on the pitching side and develop them. They take guys who are failed starters or other teams scrap guys with upside and turn them into something. Then they tried to shift heaven and earth to bring in Correa. To bring the Astros identity in. Try to spend like the big dogs when even the Astros didn’t want to pay him. Bringing in Correa and spending, the big FA, to change the culture and identity instead of focusing on the identity. Then they switched the identity. Falvey needs to figure out who they are. The identity should last for a decade. Not a few years. In that identity you bring in guys to implement your strategy. They lost themselves somewhere between ‘23/‘24. One can blame the Pohlads but one can also blame everyone involved in not implementing the plan of their identity
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    Nolan McLean, Jett Williams, Dylan Ross, Chris Suero for Joe Ryan. That is a haul for a guy 2 years away from free agency. A top guy that tends to wear down in August and September and also a guy that will be turning 30 this year. I’d also be in on Jonah Tong instead of McLean but the Mets would probably need to add a lottery ticket in with him as well. Maybe Yovanny Rodriguez. I think this is a fair and balanced trade that helps both teams and isn’t crazy.
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    As far as Laweryson or any other reliever I’ll never look at stats. It’s eye test 90% and K/BB to IP. The eye test showed he had command at hitting the corners and up and down. If he could get another 2-3mph he’s a solid reliever.
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    Yes, I believe he’s gotta be on the opening day roster. Starter/reliever, anything. He’s got the stuff now. Liriano him day one.
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    He had the command though right out of the gate. That matters. Stuff helps but after watching Deja vu of Duran in Philly walking batters like he did with the Twins and Abner Uribe doing the same and Roki Sasaki tonight with all the stuff and losing command. Also Griffin Jax had 3 incredible pitches but would struggle with command. Stuff and velocity doesn’t guarantee success. The Twins bullpen the last few years should have been a shutdown bullpen. It wasn’t. Go watch all the walk off games in Cleveland the last 2 years. Laweryson can get guys out. So can Adams.
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    Because when you have the analytics of who matches up best against who and what their strengths and weaknesses are it’s essentially playing the human side of things. Knowing the player, trusting the player and relying on your pitching coach who helps set the game plan and your catcher to help set the pitch by pitch plan along with the pitcher. Managing a bullpen isn’t rocket science when you have the stats in front of you gathered by your coaches and stats team and you know the players. Managing is simply creating and maintaining the culture and the goals, deploying the players in situations that give you the best chance to win and managing a team to all be headed the same direction at once. The position is manager. He manages. Who better than a guy like Hunter?
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    I would agree Hunter should be at the very top of the list. A true leader. Somebody that has the ear of everyone in any room. Not just the locker room. Someone who garners respect around the game. Someone who understands the value of playing hard all the time no matter what. This team lost its edge and Rocco lost the room. I believe Correa poisoned this well. You need leaders that lead by example. Putting in the work everyday and doing what they can everyday. You could tell something switched when Royce started talking about expensive guys and how he needs to be focused on his family until things got bad. Who was the most outspoken? Correa. Who made by far the most money? Correa. Who made the Dior comment? Correa. I think the Correa trade was more than just getting rid of an expensive player on a team going the wrong way. Hunter brings the right kind of leadership into the room.
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    A salary cap and floor are not the quick fix like everyone thinks they are. These two words are just the narrative being pushed by the league and the union to make it seem as these two things are the only option. Also, it doesn’t help the game, the fans, or the players. Quick fixes never fix anything and ultimately make things worse. Why do you think that NFL teams comprise 7 of the top ten most valuable sports franchises? Why has the average NFL ticket gone up over 500% since 1994? Just like everything it all benefits them and not you. Or the younger more cost effective and more exciting players that drive today’s game. Baseball isn’t football, or basketball for that matter. That’s a good thing.
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    I would tend to agree with you. I think they’ll meddle in the middle for sure and watch for two words. Attendance and compete. The problem with Nicks proposition and most others that see them shedding guys is one thing. Attendance. From what I have seen and heard is in all actuality the Pohlads could care less about how the team does, but what always seems to be a sticking point for them put through Dave St. Peter’s mouth is attendance. Every year what they expect and what they shoot for. It’s the main sticking point why they didn’t tear the team down to the studs in 2011-2012 like the Astros and Cubs at the time when they really should have. They continually semi competed despite rolling out one 90 loss season after another. They are gonna do the same thing even when I think they should trade any guy that has value for prospects. The Pohlads I don’t believe will ever swing hard to one side or the other for that one reason even though they maybe should. They will never let attendance crater even though it gives them a better chance to compete and succeed in the future. That’s why you always hear the word “attendance” and that they want to continually “compete.” Compete means something different to them and the meaning changes depending on how much risk a risk averse front office and ownership structure wants to take on. They won’t blow it up in one offseason when maybe they should.
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    I didn’t like him in Houston before but I fell for the expensive new shiny toy syndrome as well. Until the rift between him and Royce last year and Pablo’s comments after his trade. I believe it went deeper. Minnesota always wanted expensive toys after the 90’s- 2000’s teams that got trotted out. The realization is that Minnesota needs to play the organization game of Milwaukee and Cleveland and less like the Dodgers and Yankees. And that’s a good thing. Not a bad thing. Playing the game the”right” yields more dividends than playing the game on paper.
  18. TNtwins85
    "When I go to the mall and I go to the Dior store, and I want something, I get it... I'm the product here, and if they want my product, they've just got to come get it". Carlos Correa this from the supposed eventual leader of the clubhouse. Derek Falvey’s eyes were bigger than his stomach and the real leaders that play with heart and conviction(Lopez, Buxton) took a backseat to a guy that thought he was more valuable than he was. I liked Correa and he performed ok to get the Twins past the hump in ‘23 but he wasn’t the leader he was thought to be for those Astros clubs( obviously it was Altuve, Verlander and Bergman) and he played himself up. He wanted to be the guy in Minnesota and Falvey and Baldelli wanted him to plant the flag and he fell on the way to the hill. I believe he was the cancer in the clubhouse though it may have been unintended. Real leaders lead by example and it became obvious Correa had to lead with his mouth instead of his actions the last two years and that led to dissolution of the young guys over the last two years. I blame Falvey and Baldelli for falling for Correas BS( they should’ve known better and let him walk after ‘22) that’s why I blame Baldelli. He bought the lemon on the lot from the cologne stinking salesman. Correa then led the Astros to a disastrous second half collapse down the stretch just like in Minnesota. Coincidence?
  19. TNtwins85
    Yeah but it’s not a regular job and in all reality if anyone could get this job as manager of the Twins there would be MILLIONS of applications submitted. Maybe you wouldn’t want it but imagine all the people that have played baseball between the age of 30-60 for instance. That’s millions of people who would love the opportunity.
  20. TNtwins85
    I would tend to agree. I guess the question maybe should be more geared towards has he made a competent pitching pipeline compared to the rest of the league to merely be average or above average to what he was handed from the previous regime. You all remember. Where every offseason they had to go out and sign a Sidney Ponson, an aging Bartolo Colon, Livan Hernandez, etc just to field a somewhat competent MLB rotation. They had to do that in the beginning but now those types are in house, not 35, and potentially have some upside and possibly a future. I guess my idea of a pitching pipeline is not having to go out and sign those scratch and dent 35 year olds anymore and instead there is a constant stream of 20 something year olds always cycling through. Every so often you get a Ryan or a Lopez but for the most part you’re building your rotation and bullpen with in house guys or guys you traded for and made them better. As opposed to what Terry Ryan would do every year for 2 decades. They haven’t developed a full blown “Ace”, but they haven’t had to sign scrap heap guys either in a while.
  21. TNtwins85
    Very well spoken.
  22. TNtwins85
    He’s now got guys waiting in the wings at all positions. If the lineup fails he’s got guys to plug in. If he keeps the SP’s they’re solid there with depth behind them. The bullpen… sure you’ve got some guys auditioning there and some guys that can be converted during the season to step in. That’s going to be the big question mark. Bring in a FA or two, a bunch of non roster invites and maybe one or two stick, transition a couple minor league guys there and see what happens and that’s your bullpen. He’s flipping a coin and that’s bullpens really in general for most teams. Will he keep his word and does his belief in this team match reality? I guess we’ll see. He knows more about these guys than we do. Is he lying with corporate speak? 2026 will tell us.
  23. TNtwins85
    Varland is not young. Soon to be 28. They got Roden who despite his small sample size with the Twins was a top 10 prospect for the Jays who put up a career minor league line of 302/409/457 with solid BB/K ratios. They also got Rojas who is an exciting lefty who put up video game numbers up until his one start with AAA Buffalo and 8 starts with the Saints after the deadline. Those 2 guys for a RP? I call that a win in the baseball trade world if one takes emotion out of the picture. The more time goes on the better these trades are looking if we’re being honest. As far as Falvey goes, if he keeps Lopez, Ryan, Jeffers then we know he’s not lying. Even if he trades one of them for close to MLB talent or actual high end MLB talent that still holds true.
  24. TNtwins85
    OK. lol!!!
  25. TNtwins85
    Ok, he’s a sub par defender and you’ve got 2 prospects about to come up who are much better defensively and project to be equal or better hitters. AAA? He’s dominated AAA the last handful of times he’s been there. He goes to a different team. What do you get for him? Probably something but nothing good. Maybe a low minors lottery ticket at best. At worst maybe an older AAA prospect who has stalled out or in a similar position to Wallner. Your 3 options leave little hope. I suggest he plays 1B/DH and stays out of the OF.
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