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For those wondering on Cano - the past month he has a 2.84 ERA, 9 K/9 rate, but he is giving up a few more walks and hits than before. Still a very good reliever. Jorge Lopez, meanwhile, has given up 3 runs in 5 innings with a fourth run unearned - 8 hits in that stretch. Flipping him for Floro seems to be a win so far.

Here's my latest depth chart for those interested, based upon the unofficial depth chart that recently came out. (Grades are from PFF)

Disappointing to see Winder as a struggling mop-up reliever, I had high hopes for him as a #4/5 starter.

He was considered a 4th-5th round prospect who some thought was too short (5'11") to play LB. They offered the most guaranteed money to him ($240K I think) and seem poised to reap the rewards. I don't get why teams don't spend a 6th/7th on a guy like this, who clearly had a higher ceiling then most of the guys going in the final two rounds.

Alright front office, you win on this one for ignoring us fans and sticking with Max. However, their same persistence with Gallo hasn't worked.

Good thing we didn't trade for Sewald, I guess!!

Because he's looked really bad lately? Perhaps the plan is to give him a short break from closing, or at least closing one run games.

KEPLER!!!!!!!!!!!

Get Moran to AAA already!

7 Ks on the last 8 PAs… But the pitching retired 15 men in a row! Probably good we didn’t trade Maeda away.

7 Ks on the last 8 PAs… But the pitching retired 15 men in a row! Probably good we didn’t trade Maeda away.

Picked a good game to go to! Great to see this lineup erupt. Jeffers is crushing it right now, it’s hard to remember how rough 2022 was for him.

That last pitch didn’t look like a strike, but we’ll take it.

Thanks for the bunt!!

Eh, for a guy whose niche should be mashing lefties, his career line isn't very impressive. He's basically a lesser Kyle Garlick in my eyes.

If that's all it takes to write-off a season, then this front office will be around forever because injuries / funks / regressions are going to happen to every team.

I wish we could also be only 2 years removed from our last championship.

They've gotten seven years and their promise of sustained competitiveness hasn't panned out. They're only 'competitive' this year because of the division and would be in 4th or 5th place in another division (8th/9th out of 15 in the AL). In my opinion they haven't fielded a playoff contender since 2020. The only other thing other than firing Falvey/Levine would be moving them elsewhere in the organization and having someone else run the team. I agree, but it should be up to the new FO to decide his fate. Many of the rationalizations around Baldelli's coaching have been misguided (for example, Rocco gets praise for letting starters go longer in 2023 compared to 2022, but that was because the majority of his starters sucked the third time through, and now he actually has a good rotation that can be trusted), or the bullpen issues that everyone complains about, but he's been forced to put in relievers who are not up to snuff into places they don't belong and people criticize even the tiniest misuse of a player. It goes to show that the roster just isn't good enough. The core from 2017-20 has been mostly dismantled and what we have now is middling, with the top talent we do have spending far too much time on the injured list. The pitching pipeline never materialized, forcing them to make several trades for starters (which aren't bad moves individually, but we were expecting a Cleveland-like pipeline that we would be able to draw from), and they have the hardest time building a bullpen (which is something I expect a hiccup from with the volatility of the position, but the past few years of Joe Smith/Emilio Pagan/AAAA arms/forcing them to acquire arms at the deadline has not worked. Frankly, I don't know. Perhaps reboot the team culture / fill out the coaching staff with new faces and see what works. Maybe that doesn't change the status quo or even backfires, but "trusting the process" without any results is futile. When it comes to the players/talent I don't believe a full-on rebuild is required to get this team into perennial playoff contender status, but the franchise needs a reboot via a new GM / team president.

Reminds me of when the Yankees traded away Aroldis Chapman, got the Cubs #1 prospect, then got him back the next year. Obviously not the same sequence of events here, but Verlander ends back up in Houston where he started, and the Mets got a top prospect out of it.

I know the whole hindsight thing annoys people... but I and some others called in in that "the Twins don't need to add relievers" thread right before the season began. There were far too many question marks, and the Twins made too many assumptions (Lopez would rebound, Alcala would be back to where he left off, no injuries, a veteran cast-off emerging or other young arms emerging). Pagan did rebound and Stewart was a big find, but that and adding Floro is not enough if this bullpen is going to make it through the playoffs. I suppose if the goal is to win the division then continuing with this cobbled crew could work, but if they are serious about winning in the playoffs then they're going to give up runs like they did in 2019-20.

I'd be down for the Cleveland / Tampa approach if it led to the results that Tampa gets, but with our current FO, heck no. Though I'd love to see what Tampa could do if they had the salary that the Twins do.

Late August at earliest, he will probably start a rehab assignment in a week or two.

I'd be ticked off if I were a Cleveland fan, a single 1B prospect for 2.5 years of Civale? I'm sure he's good, but you should get multiple prospects in return for multiple controllable years of a quality starting pitcher.

Impressive, I'm glad you did the research - though I have to say I'm interested to see if any sweeps happened earlier in the year? I also didn't realize how horrid their winning percentage was at this point... woof!