Danchat
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The Pirates' interim manager was considerably better in the win% metric, and even if you use Shelton's career win%, he's still short by quite a bit. It's quite apparent that the manager before and after him in Pittsburgh are/did a better than Shelton did with what little they had. -
Is he related to Drew Butera?
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I didn't have Wolford on my bingo card, but I do recall that he was their top option in 2023 when Kirk went down. He chose to get elevated to the Bucs 53 man roster instead of play for us, then we traded for Dobbs. O'Connell loves his QBs that have experience in the McVay system... even if they aren't any good.
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I'd put it mostly on talent. Our hitters just aren't very good and the Blue Jays have better hitters are nearly all positions.
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Nice, they went with the option that the comments section was least enthused about. Of course Falvey did...
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BREAKING: Twins to Hire Derek Shelton as Manager for 2026
Danchat replied to knothole61's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
Not a fan of bringing in a former Falvine hire, and a guy who didn't do much in his first stint of coaching. Of course, that was because the Pirates stink and have little talent, but did he do anything to elevate the young talent they had coming up? The only thing I can remember about him as a Twins bench coach is that he took over a game or two when Rocco missed time for some reason. I recall in a game thread on one of those days somebody complained that Rocco pulled the starting pitcher too early, but they realized Shelton was managing. Tiny sample size there, but I expect more of the same. I wouldn't be surprised if this is a short-term deal with the lockout coming up, but I just don't see Shelton making it as our "manager of the future". Also worth noting the Pirates' interim manager had a .476 record after Shelton was fired with the team starting with a .316 record, and they were at .410 over his five years there. Sheesh.- 250 replies
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He played 500 snaps for the Bucs last year and was league average, he's been way worse with us. I liked the move to sign him, but for whatever reason every OL we brought in is underachieving while Bradbury and Ingram are having career years with their new teams. Which explains why many Vikings fans are calling for the OL coach to be fired.
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It's all PFF, but I blend the players' previous 3 years of grades other and weight it to favor current season play over previous seasons. There are some grades I don't agree with (i. e. Addison and Nailor), but generally I think it paints a fairly accurate picture.
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The NFL actually does have different balls they use for kicking. I believe that's one of the reasons you see so many long FGs made.
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Just checking in... I did not expect the game to still be going!
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There are some sports markets where he'd be getting scrutinized over it, but Minnesota is not the state that's doing to do that.
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For anyone interested, here is the latest update to my PFF depth chart: This roster is a lot worse than it looked on paper at the start of the year, it's not just an injury thing. Basically every FA addition outside of Rodgers has been bad, and we don't have a single rookie playing well. As usual.
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My quick list for QBs: (in parenthesis is the year they last played for us if they did) Desmond Ridder (2025) Taylor Heinicke (2017) CJ Beathard (Lions PS) Easton Stick (Falcons PS) Brett Rypien (2025, Colts PS) Trevor Siemian (2018, Titans PS) I'd claim Beathard off the Lions PS just to get some knowledge of their playbook and what they might throw at us this weekend.
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I'd say the canned phrase of "you only trade him if the return blows you away", but the 2025 trade deadline showed that Falvey's definition of that is very different from ours. I thought they'd have to get more to move Duran and Jax, but evidently that wasn't that case.
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Another day closer to Twins Daily becoming a full-on satire website... 😉
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Castro was at least hitting .245 ba, .670 OPS with the Tigers... and Castro's first year with us was when he was 26 years old compared to Kreidler who will be 28. Castro had a OPS+ of 87 compared to Kreidler's 11.
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Geez, under .200 is one thing but a career .138 hitter in the majors? The next Willi Castro he is not.
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Looks to me like it was a sound idea to trade Polanco, given his declining defense / health and then he had a poor 2024 season. As Hambino said, the package they took back was a strange one, trying to mix some marginal bullpen and rotation help with a prospect who was by far the most valuable part of the deal. Not sure why anyone would lump his 2025 season in there when he hit the open market and any other team could have signed him away, and if that happened we wouldn't count that against the trade. Nothing was stopping us from bringing him back. I'm interested to see what Gonzalez can do in the majors... still odd that he was the most valuable part of the trade, a 20 year old outfielder who was years away from helping the team. In the context of the 2024 season it didn't help the team and I think Falvey did a poor job in the short term. Long term, well, they already have a bunch of OF prospects and added more at the 2025 deadline. At the time of the trade I wondered if they'd flip Gonzalez for a veteran to help the 2024 roster, and I stand by that. So on paper, getting Gonzalez and change for one year of Polanco out of his prime is a good move, but the move didn't synergize with what Falvey was doing with the rest of the roster.
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Uh, I think beat-writers should have a dash between the two words, because the title of your article can be read differently... 😆
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Geez, Louie's getting used even more with the Jays than Rocco was. Gotta love the big hits from Jorge!
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Fun fact, both teams are 1 for 7 in RISP tonight. 13 innings and only 2 RISP hits!
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It's like we are watching a game of MLB2K and they didn't put in sound clips for the announcers to say new things further into the overtime innings.
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We got an exciting game here, boys!
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Nope, I had a 3rd round grade on him and I wanted him with our late 3rd, even with Jones/Mason at RB. He's also a really good receiver which we didn't see much of yesterday. This was a crazy good RB class with already multiple starters from Day 3 (even the 7th round!) that I wish the Vikings would have dipped into. I would kill to have a 4th round pick deliver value for a short stretch of time like he will. Meanwhile we spent our late 3rd on a WR who is only playing as a gunner and is a developmental project... yeah, give me Skattebo any day. Or one of the (without hindsight) far better WR prospects that were sitting on the board over Felton.
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The Giants are soundly outplaying the Eagles... no reason why we can't beat them next week. Sure, but Dart is coming off a bad second start (sound familiar?) where they just lost by double digits to the terrible Saints. Way, way too early to think JJ can't play like he is right now. He's just gotta get healthy.
