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  1. Danchat
    Have you seen our AAA pitching? It’s pretty bad, their best starter would be Headrick who just got drubbed, SWR is a disaster and Dobnak has a WHIP of almost 2. The manager means nothing when your players are bad.
  2. Danchat
    I have confidence that Lopez will turn around and be a fairly good starter going forward (confidence in Pablo, not the Twins)... but maybe don't trade the reigning batting champion in his prime. The front office wisely sold high on a few guys in early 2022 (Garver, Rogers, Donaldson), but it turned out Arraez didn't reached his ceiling in 2022.
  3. Danchat
    Eh, did you watch any baseball from 2011 to 2016? The 2011-14 teams were garbage while the 2016 Total System Failure was an abomination on the eyes. The pitching we have is way, way better than what those teams had. Then again, we are potentially facing a third straight losing season, getting close to matching the 4 straight losing seasons from 2011-14... Bold of you to assume there even is a DFA clock on him!
  4. Danchat
    He might be a DH-only, so it'd be nice if a certain someone could start playing in his natural position rather than DH...
  5. Danchat
    It's disappointing seeing Varland begin to crater like this. I wonder if it's a "hitters figuring him out" problem or just the fact that his stuff isn't quite good enough? I mentioned he had the look of a legit MLB starter in a post a couple weeks back, and while that was still as a #4 or 5 starter - this isn't a good look. And then we finally get to see Balazovic pitch for the first time with the Twins... it's hard to believe it took him so long to make it up here. The dude's already in his final option year! I can't say anything that hasn't already been said about the hitters. I'd rather see the young players struggle in the majors than the veterans, and it's incredible how much rope Kepler has gotten. I'm just about done with Gallo, but his OPS is still high enough that he'll probably be given the entire rest of the season to try and prove that the FO was right to sign him. He's just flat-out not a good hitter like Sano - he'll contribute with walks and a hit XBH rate, but the frequently of awful at bats is so high that it prevents him from moving runners or doing anything against pitchers with nastier stuff. The dude has 3 career sac flies!! In almost 3000 plate appearances!!! Having the easiest schedule in baseball is nice, but that doesn't mean you will automatically win a majority of those games. Good teams will lose a series every once in a while to a bad team, but I think we've seen enough from the Twins to know that they aren't good. Not bad, but clearly not going anywhere.
  6. Danchat
    It's inexcusable that Wallner isn't in the majors right now. Kepler is a sub replacement level hitter and the team needs a jolt, and we may as well figure out if Wallner can handle the majors now rather than later.
  7. Danchat
    The restricted list? Hmmmm... There might be a story here, or perhaps a personal emergency of some sort?
  8. Danchat
    Absolutely, Castro's speed on the basepaths and ability to play multiple positions decently well gives him utility over Kepler - not to mention that his career OPS, which is pretty bad, is still better than Kepler 2022-23. Oh, and he can at least play CF (even if he's not great at it) while Kepler simply won't anymore.
  9. Danchat
    I see Rodriguez and Martin as the primary locks. Enlow is probably back on the 40 man after getting removed. Severino is a tricky one because I think this will be the third year he is eligible, he makes sense as a trade candidate. Camargo fit the free agent market last year and returned on a MILB deal, and doesn't seem to be valuable enough to be protected. Funderburk and Grace are middling minor league relievers who don't need to be protected. Feels like we have a couple of these relievers reach AAA every year but then never end up doing anything, whether it be Mason Melotakis, Tom Hackimer, Jake Reed, etc.
  10. Danchat
    The problem, this isn't going to happen because the front office doesn't want to have a third straight losing season in a row. They pitched the idea of "sustainable competitiveness" and yet here we are in year 7 of the regime and we're not much better off than where we started. I don't know if the Pohlads are anywhere ready to be handing out pink slips, but Falvine is more likely to acquire a couple rentals or get a couple guys with control to at least win the division so they can buy some more time... despite the fact that the team will be totally buoyed by being in a horrifically bad division.
  11. Danchat
    I'd rather stick with just having the Paddack contract rather than having him and Mahle. With Ryan, Varland, and Ober on their rookie deals and Lopez just signing an extension, I think we are good with the rotation the way it is. And that's not mentioning what to do with Sonny Gray. Hard pass.
  12. Danchat
    You want those two months of Eduardo Escobar back for full control of Jhoan Duran, just because he gave up a single run yesterday?! BTW, Eddie would not be helping this team right now with his subpar 670 OPS.
  13. Danchat
    I don't think the roster is close to being great, they have several deficiencies in the lineup and the bullpen. The lineup was questionable from the start and has too many injury-prone players. Too many backup-caliber players are playing full-time roles and many situations are out of control of the coaching staff (Buxton not in CF, Wallner at AAA, Kepler still on the team are front office / collaboration decisions). IMO The biggest issue with the coaching staff is the fact that they hired an unqualified batting coach who is likely in over his head.
  14. Danchat
    I was referring to how the Astros tweaked Pressly's pitch choice and quickly turned him from a good reliever to a great one. Yeah, and that could also happen with Cano, but my point was that if Rooker did sustain his elite hitting, I wouldn't necessarily be mad at the Twins because the Padres couldn't figure him out, DFA'd him, then the Royals couldn't, and so on.
  15. Danchat
    Good point, it's simply lazy to criticize the team for the likes of Hendriks and Tonkin (Brent Rooker is a shorter example that still applies to me) when they went through several years of irrelevancy with other teams. With the likes of Pressly and Cano who quickly flipped a switch with their next team, that's where I'm a bit concerned.
  16. Danchat
    I think it'd be fair if those 3 pitchers made it and nobody else, seems pretty cut and dry.
  17. Danchat
    Heck of a game by an offense that didn't look like it would produce much! Weird how we're doing so well against the Astros and the Yankees. Varland is a legit MLB starter and I wouldn't move him out of the rotation for Maeda. Kenta hasn't been able to stay healthy and we could use him in the bullpen. I would hope he understands that, as I know he's not a fan of moving out of the rotation.
  18. Danchat
    I share similar concerns with SWR, he is really starting to scuffle. I don't care about the age, should we expect him to spend the next two years at AAA until he's 24 and then will arbitrarily be ready for the majors? Looks like Rodriguez is off to a slow start being sub .700 OPS, hopefully he kicks things into gear soon.
  19. Danchat
    Good win, glad to see the offense finally erupt against a pretty good starter. Gotta be concerned about the Lopez's, though. Pablo not as much, but he hasn't looked quite as good as he did the first few weeks.
  20. Danchat
    I agree, though I find it funny that many here were mad at Rocco for not using him in the 9th inning (which wasn't totally unreasonable because Pagan and Lopez were blowing saves) last year and instead utilized him as a firefighter in the 7th/8th innings. Now he's saved for the 9th, and it turns out the bullpen isn't good enough to get to the 9th. Yup, I agree with using him earlier in a jam. Better to use your closer to get you to the 9th rather than failing to get to the 9th with the lead blown.
  21. Danchat
    He was protected, but they DFA'd him a few months ago and nobody took him. That's pretty telling because if a team claims him they keep him, instead of having to carry him on the MLB roster for a full year.
  22. Danchat
    Still too early to tell for most of these guys, though I think we can safely say that Jeffers is a success as a 2nd round pick.
  23. Danchat
    Looks like it might be another lost season for Alcala. Not the news our bullpen needed, but it's not as if he was making a positive impact so far this year.
  24. Danchat
    I don't think it's hindsight, there were some of us - including me - that thought adding zero FA relievers was a bad idea and we could at least use a mid-guy like Chafin to bolster our depth. The offense is the bigger issue, but if we are expecting the Twins to build a team that can do damage in the playoffs, they've got to field a better bullpen then this. And yes, I know FA relievers are volatile - but at some point they need to roll the dice. Joe Smith was our biggest FA addition over the past two years, and if you look at the FO's entire FA history... is there a single success? It's not that they're bad at building a bullpen, but they should have taken similar steps to solidifying it the same way they were liberal with adding starters and adding depth to the lineup.
  25. Danchat
    Garlick is back again, it's kinda telling that they're bringing him up again instead of Wallner. At least he mashes lefties.
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