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  1. HerbieFan
    Crazy theory. There is a lot of talk of moving some SP candidates to the bullpen. The risk, of course, is you basically give up on them as starters then. The risk of not doing it is is you don't have your best available arms on the 26-man. Last year at St.Paul there was a lot use of "piggybacks". MLB teams are always looking for a new advantage. I wonder if we may see more of these SP make the 26-man and more use of piggybacks at the MLB level. It would mitigate, at least a little bit, the need to completely rebuild the bullpen as the assumption would be there would then be fewer innings for a pen, SWR has shown he's basically a 4-5 inning guy. None of Festa, Zebby, Bradley have proven to be more than that either. What if the rotation looks like Lopez....Ryan.....Ober.....SWR/Zebby as the piggyback.....Bradley/Festa as the piggyback. Something like that. To help save the traditional bullpen arms you have, Lopez and Ryan could even be split up by a day or two.
  2. HerbieFan
    Cody you're using the word "evolving" pretty loosely...lol
  3. HerbieFan
    Because we're Minnesota sports fans and, as such, have come to just assume the worst. Maybe rightfully so.....
  4. HerbieFan
    Uh, yes.
  5. HerbieFan
    No. Just....no. I'm not sure which is the bigger reason for the "no, the fact that he's not a MLB level hitter for any position or the fact that he's a hatchet in the field. Just time to let Eddie try again for another organization.
  6. HerbieFan
    No one knows for sure, but I really like the Sizemore hiring. Also thought the Hawkins hiring makes a lot of sense. And I think adding Gardenhire to the big league staff is smart.
  7. HerbieFan
    Look, I love the Kody Clemens story. But I sure hope there's a Plan B.
  8. HerbieFan
    I'd rather read an article on four players that are most likely to PROgress in 2026 :)
  9. HerbieFan
    To me Prielipp and Festa are the most obvious high-upside guys. Similar story to Duran in terms of injuries. Bradley also makes a ton of sense....he just hasn't shown enough ability/consistency as a starter but if he can trim his arsenal to two pitches, he might be solid in the pen as well. I wanna see Zebby starting for another season. I hope Abel shows enough to threaten the rotation on opening day.
  10. HerbieFan
    Early in his career Hawk made the transition from starter to reliever as well. He has experience in all things this team will need to build a bullpen from scratch.
  11. HerbieFan
    BIN.....GO
  12. HerbieFan
    Falvey is always the smartest guy in the room, just ask him....that's why he talks to us and reporters like we're not-very-smart and can't see what he's really saying. To change his mindset would be to admit mistakes. And that is never going to happen.
  13. HerbieFan
    I mean.....how many candidates do we really think wanted to come here? The phrase "beggars can't be choosers" comes to mind. Was hoping for Servais, but Falvey was never going to hire anyone who might question him, his analytics nerds or their computer printouts.
  14. HerbieFan
    I can't wait. I can't believe it's become more important for a catcher to fool an umpire than it is to just catch the ball, block a ball in the dirt or throw out a baserunner. Now that framing will, theoretically, become far less of a thing, here's hoping catchers become good at playing their position again.
  15. HerbieFan
    I think what happens with Ryan is going to say a LOT about what Falvey thinks of his home-grown roster. If he trades Ryan it's b/c he doesn't think his roster (the one HE built) can't compete. If he (mistakenly?) thinks it can, then I don't see why you would trade a very cost effective #2 starter. I think Ryan gets traded and then we get to hear Falvey's word salad sermon about it being a move to improve the team now and in the future.
  16. HerbieFan
    This. This is THE biggest problem. I guess we can hope Rocco and his staff were the main reason for absolutely ZERO progress from their position players. I've felt for a few years it was more of an organizational failure. Stay tuned....
  17. HerbieFan
    We're all Twins fans. We should expect nothing less than Falvey dealing Ryan and Lopez
  18. HerbieFan
    Why did we ever leave??
  19. HerbieFan
    I'd rather see Bradley moved to the bullpen and Abel continue to develop as a starter.
  20. HerbieFan
    I'll have what Peter is having... :)
  21. HerbieFan
    A few thoughts. 1) Fire Baldelli or not, Falvey and the FO have done a p*ss poor job building a roster. 2) I don't think Rocco has much of a "gut" for managing, if any kind of one at all. The best...Francona, Bochy, Hinch, etc., know how to marry analytics with their gut instinct. 3) I don't understand why, after the deadline, the team was suddenly running more, playing more "small ball". Where was that before August 1? Rocco just doesn't seem to have a plan beyond what his computer printout from Falvey's analytical nerds tells him. 4) Let's be honest.....if Rocco is fired, no one is going to line up to bring him in as a manager. That should tell us all we need to know. I'm not a "fire the coach/manager" guy, but........
  22. HerbieFan
    I love Luke Keaschall. But he isn't exactly a Gold Glover at 2B....at this point anyway. But are were 100% sure that defensively they wouldn't be better off with Martin at 2B and Keaschall in LF? Keaschall did play some OF in the minors.
  23. HerbieFan
    Along with Luke Keaschall and Joe Ryan, one of the (very) few reasons to watch this team.
  24. HerbieFan
    Two things: 1) Festa is clearly headed to the bullpen IMHO 2) Falvey came from Cleveland. Has anyone noticed how quickly the Guardians/Indians pitchers struggle with injuries? We hear about these prospects and then they get hurt....guys like Bieber, Clevinger, Tristan McKenzie.....
  25. HerbieFan
    The most important thing to winning organizations....and the thing the current regime is the worst at, and it rarely gets mentioned. It's not just about payroll.
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