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In a just world this article would start a revolution!!!!!!

Everything this guy said is correct! Thank you for putting this together. We need more of it on here.

I don’t like the move. Good for 2022 sure and might not be bad in the long run. But the problem is the Twins should be going into full on rebuild mode. This is the move of a FO that is insecure it won’t be around in two years or even one. Falvey and Levine don’t have the equity with the organization and fan base to go into a rebuild mode because their failings are the reason it’s needed. Thus a move like this done in desperation to “compete” this year. A competitive pitching staff is not going to be built here in 3 weeks, and the FO is making moves in hopes of saving their own jobs in the short term. These things never end well and are part of the cycles of organizations that spend full generations in the league’s doldrums

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Unlike say soccer, and at times football, baseball has never had a tradition of flopping and faking injuries. Could this be the beginning? Cause if Grandal gets on in that situation I’m wanting Clippard to hit the grass.

Why two photos of Gibson? Aren’t we looking forward to not having to see Kyle Gibson this year? And here have two photos of Gibson!

Guy throws f***ing lightning bolts out of his right arm. I’m sad he’s gone, he’ll be the Dodgers closer before too long and his play on the mound will do all the talking it needs to. Red Sox make me absolutely want to throw up.

Thank you.

Thanks Seth. Is it just because he’s a starter? Don’t talk right handed starting pitching prospects flame out/not pan out all the time? Graterol is the rarer talent isn’t he? Graterol could have been a force out of the bullpen this year, and chance Balazovic makes up that lost value? Trading Graterol is sacrificing talent from the pen to improve the rotation. Wouldn’t trading Balazovic have been trading value from the farm to improve the rotation? That would’ve been the better move for 2020 right?

Yes I know and knew they were bad rumors, though it was what I was hoping to happen, the veracity I’d the rumors makes no diff even I am only providing context for how I saw people on Twitter saying Balazovic > than Graterol. Now that Graterol is gone I’m requesting that someone make that argument to me (I don’t know much about Balazovic) as it would make me feel better about losing Graterol. Graterol could have been a dominant force out of the pen this year, does Balazovic offer that same upside?

Whoa whoa whoa. There were rumors both ways, see the link below which has the Tweets that spurred all that, clearly says Balazovic “replacing” Graterol, and when that was floating around there were Twins people, including people active on this site, who were saying Balazovic > Graterol. Is Balazovic > than Graterol? If is it’s news to me, and now they we have to say good bye to the Bruiser who was going to be our right handed 2018 Josh Hader, I would like to be convinced that Balazovic is actually better than Graterol and I would prefer an argument that did not overly rely on the “a starter is more valuable than a reliever” argument. I gotta believe I’ll have some takers out there. https://www.believeinbostonsports.com/2020/02/07/breaking-the-mookie-betts-trade-is-done-balazovic-replaces-graterol/

Can someone enlighten me…is this better than having the same deal where Balazovic is traded instead of Graterol. I loved what I saw from the Bruiser, guy threw lightning out if his right arm. I wanted him in the bullpen this year. When there were brief rumors that Balazovic would it take his stead in the trade I was surprised to see many Twins followers saying that would be a worse deal for the Twins.

https://youtu.be/gnsyS0fLKx0

…what the?……have we not spent the entire day obsessively reloading Twitter? Are we really just pretending…I don’t get it…I’m out fellas…I’m out.

But…wait a minute…they don’t have Maeda yet…just saying.

If he can go 3 or 4 innings per start without gettin obliterated for 6 weeks before we get Big Mike it’s solid

Seems Mandolin Rain by Bruce Hornsby could’ve made its way to this list.

Use the financial resources you have to extend Buxton, Sano, Berrios, Rogers, and Duffey TK reasonable contracts that you negotiate with leverage because they are not free agents.

There is nothing that makes sense about sacrificing long term resources, money or players, for short term gain for an organization like the Twins and the market they are in. I hate to break it to everyone but this team is 6 months away from embarking on a “mini rebuild”. Cruz, Odorizzi, Gonzalez, Rosario, Romo, Clippard, and even Pineda will all be able to catch valuable return in July. It makes way more sense for them to do that and double down on talent that is under team control for the coming years.

I’m not so sure that Teheran and Bailey having given up more hits to pitchers than Bumgarner is an argument in their favor.

I’m going to read the article but first I would just like to use this space to express my contempt for Rob Manfred. Thank you.

Is it a concern to anyone that Wheeler has never pitched up to 200 innings?

I’ve been haunted by this matchup in a certain way for almost my whole life. My father grew up a Yankee fan in New York and moved to Minnesota in the early eighties before I was born. He switched to cheering for the Twins in ‘84 when they fell short of a pennant run and because he had been becoming disaffected with the Yankees since the late 70s when free agency came and he hated the way Steinbrenner used money to build a team, and he respected the Twins as an organization that built their team “the right way”, this and of course they were the team he could watch on local television. Watching the ‘91 series encompasses the earliest vivid memories I have of my childhood, I don’t have a great memory generally, but that series inspires in a young person the belief that amazing things do happen in life and events can actually turn out the way one hopes and dreams. In ‘92 my dad’s work moved us to north New Jersey and we would go see the Twins play in the old Yankee stadium whenever they’d come to town. Almost every time we’d go there’d be some heartbreaking loss. I can remember Daryl Boston hitting a pinch hit go ahead home run against Rick Aguilera, I remember Bernie Williams hitting a grand slam off Brad Radke (searing number 59) to put the Yankees up 8-5 in a game the Twins led 5-0, a young Mariano Rivera had come in in relief early in that game and shut the Twins down for several innings. It was one of his “breakout” games. We moved back to the Twin Cities in ‘97, on a visit back to New York in April of ‘03 I was at the game Hideki Matsui hit a grand slam off Joe Mays. It was dumbfounding to me how revisiting Yankee stadium at 19 brought the same sting I experienced in preadolescence, I wanted them to beat them in the playoffs that year badly for the sake of vengeance. The amazing thing is I had so much vengeance built up against the Yankees and their fans since the time they first started playin in the playoffs because those games I attended in the nineties, the Yankee fans were just awful. Swearing, even physically threatening, taunting, and harassing to me and my dad as Twins fans, and this was to a Dad with a son who was 10-12 years old. So I’ve always hated them so much because of that and these games are just hard to watch for how predictable they have become and how constant this sentiment against the Yankees has been. Honestly, I read it into in my life now as a sign from God to stop devoting so much time to watching baseball and just accept that there are more important things in life and every minute in life is precious and not to be wasted on vanities. I know that as a practical point but somehow it’s hard when you have strong childhood emotions and connections to baseball.

I suppose Mississippi is actually east of the Mississippi