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  1. Danchat
    Shelton let Prielipp stay in too long... but seems like folks only get mad at the manager for pulling the starter too early, not too late. Thanks for jinxing it! Also, Yoendrys has been really good so far, and they haven't needed to have a full-time closer.
  2. Danchat
    Mendez has also stayed healthy unlike nearly all the other OF prospects, I hope we see him in the majors soon. There's really no reason not to give him a chance, he's already on the 40 man and is using an option year. If he continues to rake, he should be up before September.
  3. Danchat
    That was my reaction too. They need flexibility in the pen and Lawrence gives them less. Not to mention unlike other waiver claims, Lawrence has an extensive MLB track record... as a reliever with an ERA over 5. I don't think he's gonna be the next Yoendrys Garcia.
  4. Danchat
    Tristan Gray is at 22 RBIs, 5th on the team... as expected!
  5. Danchat
    He was given 3 PAs and hit a double in one of them, and then sent back down to the minors, he wasn't given a real chance like others mentioned. He has legitimately nothing to do with your point about Wallner and Lewis vs "vets we shouldn't give up on".
  6. Danchat
    I'm fine keeping Gabby down for now, he's overall not hit well at AAA and he's still very young. Let the guys who have earned a promotion get a shot What would the other shoe be? Him asking for his release, an off the field issue?
  7. Danchat
    And most of their draft picks have just been bad... Larnach, Wallner, and Lewis are their primary successes. Jeffers has probably been the regime's best draft pick. At most, a DFA trade or a throw-in like Ty France was last year. Even then, France was hitting better than this and wasn't close to as old.
  8. Danchat
    Just checking in... Clemens in CF, Arcia at 1B... yep, we've reached that portion of the season.
  9. Danchat
    I hadn't heard of Paredes until he was promoted to AAA, we are really delving into the farm system's pitching depth. His numbers in AAA were pretty good, but I don't think anyone would have guessed he'd be pitching in the majors at this point.
  10. Danchat
    Correction, I was thinking of when SWR was optioned at the end of 2024, and he was already optioned back in April so optioning him in September didn't change anything. I must have forgotten in 2025 SWR was demoted to AAA for a month... at that point he only had an ERA at 5.02 after a bad start. Looks like Zebby Matthews replaced him in the rotation, but he was worse and SWR came back in June to supplant him. Using his final option year there seems to be a mistake in hindsight.
  11. Danchat
    I didn't see this coming now... I felt like there was some life when he was throwing in the 1-2 inning range. I'd be hesitant to give up on a guy who was a fairly decent starter last year. He will be claimed. And they're doing this not to give up on him, but just for the spot in the bullpen? This team isn't in the midst of a playoff run and badly needs bullpen depth... strange move. But it's not a corollary to Liam Hendriks, he was very bad in the majors and then after a good 3-4 years he re-emerged as a legit reliever. SWR was effective as recently as last season. Too bad they used one of his option years at the end of last year IIRC... whoops!
  12. Danchat
    Heck yeah! IMO he was the best candidate they interviewed.
  13. Danchat
    This was posted on May 7th: https://www.mlb.com/news/mick-abel-experiences-right-elbow-inflammation-during-rehab-process
  14. Danchat
    Small sample sizes, but both Laweryson and Funderburk have been pitching very poorly at AAA the past couple weeks... Not great to see Rojas go down like this. Another reason why trading Varland for what I've been told is just for Rojas (and Roden was supposedly just a throw-in) was not a good idea, it's never good to put all your eggs in one basket, especially when that basket is a pitching prospect.
  15. Danchat
    Laweryson is ready to come off the IL so you'd think he takes Adams' place, but his rehab appearances at AAA have been pretty bad. Lewis with 7 HRs in 9 games, 40 PAs at St Paul... gee whiz!
  16. Danchat
    Blankenhorn? The dude only got 4 PAs in the majors as a Twin, how on earth is that an example of "giving prospects too much rope"?!
  17. Danchat
    Yeah, it's not so bad when it's been quite some time since the last blowout. And only 5 HRs in 210+ PAs. But since this is the Twins, they'll give him probably until the Trade Deadline to turn it around. They do not give up on their biggest offseason acquisitions lightly.
  18. Danchat
    Eh, I think this is getting overblown. Rodriguez and Jenkins are hurt and Emma is already on the 40 man roster whilst Jenkins seems like he needs more development time when he does get healthy (last update I saw stated he's 3-4 weeks away from playing). Culpepper is debatable, he is only in his second full year of minor league baseball, but if he finishes the season well they should give him a chance in September and he should start the next season on the major league roster. If not earlier.
  19. Danchat
    Wright was the guy I wanted, he did provide some value but he fell off a steep cliff... like most the others. I never got the fascination with McKay as a high pick. Too bad we got nothing from Enlow, IIRC they spent most the money that they saved by drafting Lewis by paying him overslot. The MLB draft is such a crapshoot, seemed like it was a decent gamble to try to hit on one of the two of Lewis or Enlow than putting their eggs into one basket.
  20. Danchat
    Shelton has absolutely been an upgrade as the manager... but with starting pitching this good, any manager looks better (Rocco sure did when he had quality starters, and pulled them at a league average rate). The ability to score runs has been way better than this lineup has any right to be. They're lucky their bad of random utility former DFA collection has hit so well, at some point there's going to be regression. But with how dreadful the American League is, their record is going to look better than it'd be if they were an NL team. At least you can see the foundation of a good team here, which makes the ownership situation even more frustrating.
  21. Danchat
    The thing is, I think it's more likely McVay retires than there being a power struggle - there was talk of him already hanging it up in 2023-24. I think Simpson is going to be their QB post-McVay. At some point McVay will retire and take up a job for one of the networks, get a fat pay check and have a lot less stress.
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. Danchat
    Gomez has been dynamite for us... can he clean this up?
  25. Danchat
    Gotta wonder if Gray is mad at the Boston manager for pulling him so early? 😉
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