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  1. TopTwinsFan
    Rocco Baldelli is a D to D- game manager. D- to F with pitching decisions.
  2. TopTwinsFan
    It is surprising to me that so many people look at this like a video game. These are real people with real human emotions. That is critical to what happens, especially in big situations no less playoffs. Pagan has an extemely low probability of ever being a clutch pitcher again. Its like giving your poor driving teenager the keys every night and being surprised she keeps getting in accidents because she got 100 percent on her driving exam. I cant remember sacrificing so much (loss after loss). Also is cruel to Pagan. Getting booed off the field half the time you walk out there cant be fun at all. He clearly cares a lot. Just failing FAR to much. If the season ended today I would look back at this season as the year Pagan cost us a playoff spot. Thats on him, but its also on Baldelli and the Front Office.
  3. TopTwinsFan
    I cant wait until Baldelli is fired. Cant stand watching him and his weak team anymore. Im out. Cant take the losing as well as he can. He has ruined our season. He will never win us a playoff game no less a playoff series. Watching the Twins just makes me angry. What a loser. Skol Vikings! Go Gophers!
  4. TopTwinsFan
    The Twins rarely win because of Baldelli. They frequently lose because of him and his low key "we'll try to win tomorrow" attitude. Outside of blowing up in the Toronto game he is weak and unimaginative. He has no feel for human emotions. Pitching coaches dont just abandon their teams in the middle of the season if they respect their boss. Time to find someone who can add wins not subtract them.
  5. TopTwinsFan
    In the postgame last night Baldelli said he is waiitng for one of the hitters to carry the team. Im paraphrasing. However, I think the Baldelli is uncomfortable with guys who are too intense about winning. This team badly needs that kind of player. Guys like Eddie Rosario and Arraez make him uncomfortable and he would rather lose that use a player who questions him (see Smeltzer).
  6. TopTwinsFan
    The team has gotten so hard to watch that as a huge Twins fan, I can barely take it. I cant imagine how frustrating it is for the team to live in that world every second of the day. Baldelli is simply not a good manager. He may be OK but I have come to the painful realization that he is not capable of understanding the non-metrics part of the game. How many times has Pagan been put into a big spot and cost the team the game. Why does Arraez not bat first every game. Why does it sound like Buxton largely determines when he will play and if he plays in the field? Why are our hitting and pitching coaches poor and now coaching in college (after leaving mid-season). The Twins staff is pretty awful and it only takes a computer to use analytics. TIme to find a head coach who understands the rest of it. TIto is one of the best managers in the game and those managers are not easy to find. However, if he was the Twins manager the Twins are 10 games ahead of the White Sox and the Guardians are a third place team.
  7. TopTwinsFan
    I cant stand Whit Merrifield.
  8. TopTwinsFan
    This was a big game for the Twins and may be remembered as the day the Twins laid down the gauntlet and started to truly kick ass. That horrific call was mind numbingly frustrating but the Twins played excellent baseball overall on a day many players needed a day off and our 5th starter started against Toronto's ace. It may well be remembered though for galvanizing the team. Baldelli's response to the call was appropriate and inspiring. As a Twins fan I am now ready to go to war for this man. Great managers react and act in moments like those. He is becoming an excellent manager. The Twins are going to finish this season strong and win a playoff game. Heck maybe even a playoff series.
  9. TopTwinsFan
    Is Celestino still on paternity leave? He has been absent the team since Saturday, i believe. Anyone know when he will be back? He has been a quality utility man and we sure could use him now.
  10. TopTwinsFan
    Important game for our Twins tonight. I hope Baldelli is on his game tonight and that Pagan is only used if the Twins are up or down by a touchdown. Good luck tonight Mahle! Go Twins!
  11. TopTwinsFan
    Rocco is not comfortable with very competitive guys. Im sure he didnt like Smeltzer, who is very intense and competitive caring so much about winning. Rosario and Berrios were both this type of player as well and it may be why Duffey is gone instead of Emilio (Game Over We Lose) Pagan. I have no idea how he Pagan could still be on this roster no less used in an important situation (cough, last night in a 1-0 game) but Rocco has little feel for human emotion and doesnt understand that a man isnt a robot and blowing game after game bring a horrendous vibe to the ballpark, fans, dugout and certainly a player like Pagan feels that. I know I look away or try to stop watching when he is pitching. It is just too painful. Rocco is a solid but not great manager. His lack of understading the psychology of players is best exemplified in his bullpen decisions. Of course this weakness is magnified in his playoff decisions pertaining to when a starter is taken out and who to put in. Last nights game was a perfect example of this. We may win that game if Fulmer is put in to start the 6th or if Gray stayed out to at least start the inning. The rest of our season, and whether or not we win that elusive playoff game may depend on if Maki and Rocco can get this right more often than not., Start by not using Pagan in ANY competitive games. That is what the rest of the bullpen is for. Its not complicated. Go Twins
  12. TopTwinsFan
    We have one of the best offenses in the league and a great manager. LMAO. Season starting to stink. Unwatchable baseball that a competitive person cant enjoy watching. ? Baldy Ball '22. Bring a gag bag.
  13. TopTwinsFan
    The culture of this team is starting to really concern me. As a huge Twins fan I find myself expecting them to lose most close or important games. The Record Playoff Losing Streak is almost like a disgusting centerpiece of this Culture of Fear of Winning/Poorly Built Team. I sure hope I'm wrong but the lack of much high end pitching and the homer or nothing offensive approach looks more and more like a recipe for frustration. So bummed about how this team makes me feel like it picked up right were it left off in 2021. I'm afraid this team has the wrong leadership in place and is doomed to fail until we fix it. Last year I thought it was just Baldelli who was inferior but the more I see how deep these teams failures run, I'm realizing Falvey has no solid long term plan to getting this team back to consistent winning. This wasnt fun to write but 20 years without so much as an ALCS appearance and dozens of straight playoff losses havent been fun either. I want to have fun watching the Twins again. And feel like our goals are to win more than the AL Central again one day.
  14. TopTwinsFan
    Falvey's approach: We can win despite much quality pitching. Drink the Kool Aid please.
  15. TopTwinsFan
    Good luck to Joe Ryan, an exciting, "winning pitcher" type with great mound presence. Wish the Twins had a couple studs in front of him but may this be the first of a dozen Opening Day starts for Ryan. Win Twins!
  16. TopTwinsFan
    Falvey and co. consistently show that high quality pitching does not interest them. From passing on Hunter Greene to trading Berrios. The Twins won their last World Series by developing and aquiring top end pitchers. This regime just wants pitchers to fill out the roster. Year after year they pursue Donaldsons and Simmons types and ignore pitching collecting also rans and has beens instead and anxiously trading away Graterol, Berrios and Petty. Note that the trade for Graterol trade netted them Maeda but they aquired him expecting him to be a #4 starter, the only type of pitcher they are interested in. Imagine how good Berrios or Rodon would made this club. Actual ace (or #2) types who you can build your pitching staff around. Instead Gray is our ace. A one to two year rental who we traded a top pitching prospect (Petty) to attain.
  17. TopTwinsFan
    Just having some fun with your comment but how drunk do you think a Twins fans would have to get to get excited about this move? Do you think anyone woke up their spouse or kids screaming "YEEEEESS, we got EM! Archer's a Twin!!!"? Being a Twins fan is like Christmas with parents who dont give you the great gifts some of your friends get but also make sure you get a couple nice little toys to go with your pants and dress shirts to keep you satisfied. This offseason was different because Fathers Pohlad and father Falvey could tell the fans were pissed so they rented us a PS5 to make sure we'd keep attending Christmas dinner. High quality pitching costs a lot of money and none of the Twins owners cares enough (perhaps not even at all) about winning to allow the front office to get more pitching so they try to cobble together a cheap staff and spend more on hitting. So far, a fairly unsuccessful formula- winnless for 20 years in the postseason. The current regime of Falvey and Levine seem less interested in high end pitching than any I have seen: - Traded Berrios -Never made a splash pitching signing, even a one year deal (that I can remember anyway) -Have not developed or traded for one solid young pitcher (though we hope Ober and Ryan can change that)
  18. TopTwinsFan
    If he gives the Twins what Rich Hill did a couple years ago, I think most of us will do back flips. I like the move as the Twins obviously have monitored his pitching closely this off season but I cant help but wonder about management's approach to pitching in general. Pitching is the most important part of the game (good pitching beats good hitting, etc) but it feels like for Falvey and co. its an afterthought. They almost seemed anxious to trade Berrios. A guy they could be building this current staff around much like the Twins did with Radke to begin our run of divisional dominance from 2001-2010. If you dont believe how important pitching is, look at how hard it is to get a #3/4starter. I really like Ober and Ryan and they give me hope for the future for this staff, but currently Sonny Gray is our Ace and that's just sad on a club that wants to feel competitive. If you are expecting him to dominate, you need to build a time machine. Hoping Bundy will control his pitches as never before and the young guys can be dominant enough to keep Gray from needing to be the Ace.
  19. TopTwinsFan
    I keep checking in religiously (appropriate since baseball and football are my man made religions) for a pitching signing but crickets for about a week. Rumors are that the As want 3 of our top prospects (Lewis, Martin, etc) for Montas and 2 of them for Manaea. Is one year of Manaea valuable enough to lose that much controllable talent? There is a need for a 5th starter earlier this year than most but I think it is smart for the Twins not to overpay. The As firesale has attracted plenty of attention and the Yanks, Cards, Royals, Twins (and probably others) have taken notice. No reason to overpay now. The playoffs start in October and there will be plenty of teams whose seasons have been derailed by then and are willing to trade away a rental. Keep wondering, "Why did we trade Berrios again???"
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