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  1. Danchat
    Luis Arraez was probably the best chance of beating the strikeout record - his lowest with us was 29, but his 2024 Padres sample size of 524 PAs had only 18 Ks.
  2. Danchat
    To be clear, I was a fan of selling off at the deadline, I just wasn't a fan of the return of the bigger moves. Getting quality talent under cheap team control is enough for me to call it a win, at least the Jax and Duran trades so far. The Varland trade looks like a mistake and I'd undo that trade in a heartbeat even though I like Rojas (and I don't see how they're going to extract value out of Roden outside of trading him). I'm not sure how much factoring in the front office's refusal to fix the bullpen after the trade deadline should be factored in, depends if you grade it in a vacuum or not. The reality is the majority of relievers in the pen right now are not going to be on the team / in the MLB bullpen next year. It's certainly easier [cheaper] to find relievers than starters, but they have to make an actual attempt to sign and develop some.
  3. Danchat
    Don't worry, Wallner is primed to do it again!
  4. Danchat
    Yeah, he just returned from an injury and last year he was aggressively promoted to AAA. If he's going to be a starter then I'd think he needs to spend most the season in the minors working on that. He could be an electric reliever if they opt to move him to the pen...
  5. Danchat
    So much for the "Abel can't figure out how to pitch at the MLB Level" narrative... turns out like most players he just needed more time to figure it out. This is why you give young players a chance after they've dominated AAA. Of course it's still early and Abel could regress, but he looks the part. The Duran and Jax trades are sure looking good now... somebody give Pete Maki a raise! And whomever is the hitting coach sure got them to turn around after a dismal start to the year, they're raking against really good pitching. Good stuff!
  6. Danchat
    You might want to update the name of this thread... though I'd love to be facing Scherzer again.
  7. Danchat
    Just checking in... holy barnacles! These bats are on fire!!
  8. Danchat
    Doesn't feel so bad to lose a game like this after inexplicably sweeping a 4 game series against a team that should be better than us... but they can't let this start snowballing. He can't turn water into wine, and coming into today I've thought they have pitched above their talent level. Talent trumps whatever a bullpen coach can offer.
  9. Danchat
    Pepperidge Farm remembers that Twins Daily article that called Banda an elite reliever...
  10. Danchat
    Tigers are 0 for 11 in RISP situations... they're making us look good by comparison!
  11. Danchat
    It's incredible how they found somebody worse than DaShawn Kiersey to replace him... and they had to trade for him!
  12. Danchat
    Also helps that Steven Hajjar did diddly squat... trading from our pitching prospects hasn't burned us in a quite a while (helps that they rarely move them). Though randomly, I did notice that the Astros have a former farmhand in Kai-Wei Teng in their bullpen, who once upon a time was traded for Sam Dyson.
  13. Danchat
    Two challenges on the first 6 pitches of the game... Tigers already down to just one challenge left.
  14. Danchat
    The Rays acquired nothing other than not paying Odorizzi's arbitration salaries, as Jermaine Palacios never played in the majors for them. Hard to call that trade a win for Tampa when we got a serviceable starting pitcher and they got zero value in return.
  15. Danchat
    We have a tendency to overreact to small sample sizes, looking at his 6.61 ERA in 6 starts last year for us and the Rays gave him around 90 starts and couldn't figure him out. Clearly my logic at the time of "if the Rays can't fix him, why do you think we can" was not accurate.
  16. Danchat
    That's two good wins in a row... impressive. Let's see if that's a flash in the pan or actual progress. Between Joe Ryan, Taj Bradley, and so far Orze, Falvey's best trades were with the Rays. Oh, and the Odorizzi trade too. They need to stop trading with us!
  17. Danchat
    From what little I've seen of Orze, I have a lot more faith in him than I do Topa.
  18. Danchat
    Easily the biggest appearance of Laweryson's young career... here we go...
  19. Danchat
    Looks like Wallner is heading down the 2024 route of having a putrid first couple of weeks... and the team's fascination with Outman needs to end. He's not a MLB caliber player and they have obvious upgrades waiting in St. Paul. I'm down for giving Abel a couple more starts, let him take his lumps and see if he figures anything out against MLB hitting. I have more faith that he will break through than Ober regaining his prior form.
  20. Danchat
    His MLB career isn't close to over, the Twins are gonna give him a lot more rope, and even when they eventually cut bait, his profile is the right kind for other teams to swoop in as a reclamation project because "look at his OPS!"
  21. Danchat
    I dunno, we need to have some depth in the minors with Ober not looking good. I'd give Zebby a few more weeks and see if things improve. If not him, then it's Morris and Prielipp for starting depth...
  22. Danchat
    Oof. Clemens and Wallner with the Ks today...
  23. Danchat
    I did not know you could challenge a shift violation... huh.
  24. Danchat
    And in actuality he's only getting $10M in new money, he was already getting $10M from Atlanta. The Raiders are paying $11.3M and the Falcons $8.7M now.
  25. Danchat
    Hmm, if this trade continues to go the way it looks to be, with Jax regressing sharply and Bradley seemingly turning a corner over the offseason, this could be the second time the Falvey regime embarrassed the Rays in a trade. Taj's stuff seems to have taken a big step up over the offseason, perhaps a reminder that players can breakout later into their careers. Though it's hard to call Taj a late bloomer when he's still so young.
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