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  1. Danchat
    The KAM/KOC pairing was lauded as a "culture of collaboration", given how much the team strayed from doing things in what you would expect as analytically minded (what KAM was supposed to be), it didn't match that. If anything, I think KAM steadily lost power - given he was almost fired during 2023 training camp for spending too much time away from the team - so I have to wonder how much power he had in the first place. Methinks Tiernan over a center was BPA rather than reaching for a need. At least on my board he was, though I would have been fine with a couple centers at the end of Round 3.
  2. Danchat
    The Red Sox snatch defeat from the jaws of victory just like this Twins team did many times last year. I'm glad we have gotten back to bullying bad teams... certainly an improvement from last year.
  3. Danchat
    Gomez has been dynamite for us... can he clean this up?
  4. Danchat
    Gotta wonder if Gray is mad at the Boston manager for pulling him so early? 😉
  5. Danchat
    I guess they're only going to bat him against a lefty. I believe Gray will be back tomorrow and Gonzalez will likely go back down. The Sox took terrible.
  6. Danchat
    This Slaten guy had 0 ER in 8 IP so far this year, now 4 hits and a 1 walk and 4 ERs today.
  7. Danchat
    Red Sox manager needs to get out there and yank this guy... I did not foresee Martin hitting a HR over the Green Monster today.
  8. Danchat
    Nice first PA for Gonzalez, he didn't need to do much. Bad first inning for Prielipp, though to be fair his numbers have been so darn good to begin his career, you had to figure some crooked innings were coming.
  9. Danchat
    They are going to play him over Larnach when a lefty is pitching, though.
  10. Danchat
    Perhaps we have a Frank Drebin-esque situation happening in secret...
  11. Danchat
    Yup, sounds like the Twins are doing what I said except rather than Mendez it's Gonzalez. Give a rookie a cup of coffee and maybe a few PAs, then send him back to AAA. Kreidler and Arcia can handle 3B for the next 3 days.
  12. Danchat
    Teams will draft guys in the R5 and give them a shot in spring training before ultimately giving up on him and sending them back to their original team, Fedko wasn't able to get that far. Teams see him as an AAAA player, plain and simple.
  13. Danchat
    That's a player I never thought would resurface in the majors... good for him.
  14. Danchat
    This is an annual occurrence, an outfielder crushes AAA and the fans demand the player to get a chance, but most of the time the player flops in the majors as it turns out the team was right that they were an AAAA player all along. Anybody remember Mark Contreras? I was really high on him. It doesn't hurt to give a player a shot, though. Most of the time the Twins don't have a 4th OF as bad as Outman on the team...
  15. Danchat
    The easy option that doesn't necessitate a 40 man move is calling up Mendez and get him a brief cup of coffee in the majors, give him a few PAs and send him back down. They're already using his first option year so there's no harm, and it's not like they have to call up an infielder. If they weren't going to promote Culpepper to replace Lewis a few days ago, they weren't going to decide now's the time to call him up now based on Gray hitting the paternity list. Clearly, they're going to wait on giving him his first chance in the majors.
  16. Danchat
    Dang, he had been one of the most durable starters in the league. He's had 8 straight seasons of 30+ starts (with the exception of 2020 where he didn't miss a start).
  17. Danchat
    Gordon wasn't that good of a hitter in the minor leagues in the lead-up to him being called up, so him having one solid year and then falling into obscurity wasn't surprising at all. The others mentioned had good to great minor league careers.
  18. Danchat
    Very intriguing... I'm also hoping for Teasley. My gut feeling has been McKay (due to the Rams connection). Hiring Burckhardt, the guy a rung below George Paton, would be ironic given Paton was Spielman's right-hand man. Brez makes it to round 2 so there's clearly interest in bringing him back, but with the option to give him a side-promotion, perhaps that takes him out of the running.
  19. Danchat
    He's already on the 40 man roster. He's only played 11 innings this year at 1B and so far at AAA he's only played LF, so seems like they are still intending for him to be an outfielder. Another lefty OF! Funny how the AAA outfield was already stuffed with Jenkins, Rodriguez, Roden, and Gonzalez and now suddenly Mendez might make it to the majors first before any of them. I really don't know what the plan for the OF is, with Rodriguez out of options next year and only averages 2 healthy months a season, they didn't seem interested in giving Roden a chance, and Outman continues to accrue negative value in the majors.
  20. Danchat
    The offense may be above average compared to other AL teams, but going forward this offense is going to be a big problem. Which is a shame because the starting pitching continues to be great even with the injuries.
  21. Danchat
    It was always going to be hard for him to keep up hitting in the .300s. A mini-slump shouldn't be surprising.
  22. Danchat
    Imagine if you went traveling the last week of July last year and missed what happened then!
  23. Danchat
    Fantastic... and he's out of options next year, so he will have to be on the 2027 Opening Day roster without any experience in the majors. Not ideal!
  24. Danchat
    This is on the Twins Transactions page on their website:
  25. Danchat
    Nice to see Lewis finally get demoted, I'm not sure what took them so long. For a team that seems to think they are competing and calling up a vet like Arcia over Culpepper, they sure waited a long time watching Lewis continually harm the team time and time again. I get why they are waiting on Culpepper, he's doing fine at AAA but isn't ready yet. We should see him later in the season. I'm not convinced Arcia does much at the plate, his AAA hitting reminds me of when we had to call up Tim Beckham when he had an OPS of > 1.000, just for him to hit .080 in the majors. Rough news on Jeffers. I thought Caratini would be a good backup plan in case anything happened to him before the season started, but now he's hitting like Vazquez last year, and the Caratini / Jackson combo is going to be rough offensively. Not many teams have much catching depth. And the folks who wanted Topa DFA'd after Spring Training were right. ERA of 8, WHIP of 2, and he has the most appearances for pitchers on the team... he doesn't look like the same pitcher he was last year. But that should have been in consideration for a 35 year old with a track record of 2 decent years as a middle reliever. This guy was expected to be a high leverage reliever for us coming out of Spring Training!
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