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  1. BsuNemo
    Gray, Lopez, Mahle, Ryan, Ober would have been fun to see for a year... Still have to score runs though.
  2. BsuNemo
    A lineup of Miranda at first, Lee at second, Correa short, Lewis third, Wallner right, buck center, Larnach left, jeffers catching With Castro, Vasquez on the bench is competitive - everyone else is tradeable Pitching with Lopez, Ryan, Ober... Jax Duran and Alcala - is competitive. Everyone else is tradeable. This leaves us with 11 spots to fill either via trade or from within. Those 11 spots plus staying healthy will determine if we are competitive or better than that.
  3. BsuNemo
    If we have this many players "fail down the stretch" maybe it's bigger than the players. I was trying to think of one hitter we've developed that has had major success through the minors and sustained success in the majors... Lewis maybe? It's definitely not anyone else on the team right now. It makes me worried about players like Rodriguez and Jenkins. It's not AK (.904 OPS over 7 minor league seasons - .728 majors) Miranda might be closer ( .777 OPS eight minor league seasons, .707 majors) Larnach (6 seasons minors .838, .726 majors) Wallner is fairly close(BA minors .271, majors .251, he's nearly identical in slugging and OBP) .886 minors .856 OPS Julien .904, .732 Jeffers .839, .737 Martin .760, .670 IF new owners come in and can't or don't want to spend more money - then we better develop the players we have. It doesn't feel normal for players to drop 100 points consistently as they make the final jump. It's not like we can say well this one guy is just a AAAA player... It's nearly every player this organization has developed over the last 6 plus years. I just don't think it's normal and that's where I'd start as a new owner...why spend more money if there's talent to be unlocked right here and the current manager isn't doing that. (also why are our top minor league players taking 6 plus years to make it to the majors) 🤷‍♂️
  4. BsuNemo
    "trade for players or find players across baseball that help us..." like Richards? Really!? Come on man. This starts from top down..... 🤷‍♂️
  5. BsuNemo
    It seems to be a management/FO theme. I truly think some of it goes back to how they go about spring training and some of it goes by what the manager puts in their head.
  6. BsuNemo
    Twins late September signing of Trevor Bauer for league minimum along with stellar performances from Lopez and Ober led them to their 2024 world series championsh....beep beep beep beep... damn alarm, time to get up and go to work....... 🤣😂🤣
  7. BsuNemo
    It's fun when you can see a future that could be elite while watching some from the recent-past minor leaguers (Lewis, walner, Julien, swr, alcala and now Festa and mathews) keep us in contention now.
  8. BsuNemo
    Max has never been extremely passionate about baseball. It's like he sees it as his job, but not his life. It may be a job he well enjoys but he has even said he has had moments where it has caused him some mental health issues. Maybe he's willing to take a two year deal with a lower salary to stay here and then if he feels like two more years and he'll be ready to hang it up. Maybe moving elsewhere for two years isn't worth the hassle of uprooting his family. It would be great to see him end his career here.
  9. BsuNemo
    He's one good off speed pitch away from being a solid #3 or a dominant closer in 2025. Right now he's a power arm that doesn't have the endurance. Let's roll varland 7th, Jax 8th Duran 9th right now!
  10. BsuNemo
    I guess I'd say more wins are a higher probability than more losses if you put someone in that gives you a better chance to win... Which it sounds like most people think varland would be... I mean could we say that we'd have more wins if buck and c4 were healthy? Not for sure but a higher chance than we'd have more losses right? I feel the same with varland. As for your bullpen game scenario... Maybe you're right. Maybe we'd just be better with rolling the dice with Dobnak and see if he can get thru 3 or 4 then varland 2 or 3? In all honesty, if we get to that point, especially if it's Ober or Lopez that goes down... We better just be in a place on offense to out score the other team. That would be a scary (in a bad way) scenario!
  11. BsuNemo
    It's great that we've played as well as we have through the injuries that we've had but it's also okay to say we should have two to three more wins this month. Would varland have helped in the pen in one or two or all three that's hard to say but probably... My biggest question is, it seems that there's a fairly high amount of confidence that varland would improve our bullpen... What's the drop off like between varland and whomever would be our fill in starter if need be? Because if that gap is smaller than our confidence level in him out of the pen then he should be in the pen and we should roll with Dobber or Morris or even have a pen day with varland starting. With how bad Varland has been the second and third time thru the lineup I'd say dobnak/Morris could do just as well in a spot start. Let's get him throwing gas in the 7th/8th inning now.
  12. BsuNemo
    I see Glen Perkins when I watch varland.
  13. BsuNemo
    We could've offered him 100 mil - he wasn't staying. You can make up whatever reasons you want.
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  15. BsuNemo
    Rocco's best pitcher last year wasn't allowed to pitch into the 6th. He left because of that and without him our pitching staff has fallen farther than any other staff from last year to this year. Francona didn't pinch hit his best players. Didn't have his best pitcher not willing to resign with he team because of his analytics. You prove my point. Francona used both and did it very well. The team you are seeing this year is the fruit of his labor just as baldelli benefitted from the team and players molitor built his first year. We won't agree, and that's fine but this team would be better than they are with a different approach by a different manager. Zero doubt in my mind.
  16. BsuNemo
    The question isn't whether the twins are playing well right now - is whether another manager would make better moves to help us be a better team. The players will play how they will and that can be influenced, albeit in minor ways. Some managers have a feel for the game. They don't need to look at stat sheets in the 3rd inning and then pull their best hitting option because a lefty comes in, knowing full well he would've gotten more ab's later in the game. Terry Francona had this. Tony Larussa. Dusty Baker. Rocco does not. He's a product of the system and he does not add value to the team during the game. Will we win 93 games this year - more than likely more. Does that excuse Rocco and the ridiculous moves he makes in pinch hitting? No. That being said. He learned and made adjustments in his starting pitcher usage over the last two years (to the betterment of his bullpen, especially late in the season) and they have seemingly have move from the high strikeout agenda they had, so maybe he will change some of his other approaches that don't work or make sense too?
  17. BsuNemo
    I think next year we will see Miranda at first, Lee at second, C4 at SS and Lewis at third with Castro filling in for everyone. I think that means Julien is trade bait or is out of position - obviously injuries happen, and I truly think Julien is a mlb player. Just hard to see where he fits right now.
  18. BsuNemo
    As a kid he was my favorite after Morris and Tapani left. Maybe you know, but I wonder how Ober's first couple years compares to young Radke. The thing I liked most about him was he looked like a regular dude and didn't rely on anything special outside of control and a great ability to just get people out.
  19. BsuNemo
    I think Ober can become that if he can stay away from injury. At his best he doesn't blow people away but controls the zone and the game. Radke did the same. I have a special place in my heart for him as he visited my 14 year old self in the hospital as I was going through chemo in the late 90s.
  20. BsuNemo
    He's always felt very "Brad Radke" to me. I know he has a stinker every so often but I think Ober will be a starter in the majors for a long time! I enjoy watching him pitch.
  21. BsuNemo
    ESPN has their farm system 9th, USA today had them 16th so I think we can say they've drafted as well or better than others the last 3 to 5 years.
  22. BsuNemo
    Any wonder if having Gray around last year helped Lopez out? Maybe a mentor or someone that knows what they're doing to bounce things off of? Sometimes taking the heavy load of being the top guy gets less heavy when there's someone there to share it with you...
  23. BsuNemo
    When we were sitting at 7-13 and really frustrated with our offense I told a friend, to right this thing we need a 15 game win streak like the 91 team (they were not great really until that streak)... 5 more! Let's go! It honestly feels like maybe they're getting a very slightly different message on hitting approach right now as well. Kep "I just needed to put the ball in play. I shortened up my swing to make sure I just made contact" ❤️
  24. BsuNemo
    I, like many others have said, come here every day during the season and at least weekly in the off-season. I like the lay out. I like the articles that dig deeper than just the game recap. I disagree in the "let's keep it positive" tone here. I think more along the lines of let's keep it respectful and let's keep in honest - and what I see as honest may not be what another sees as honest but it opens up a conversation if it is not allowed to devolve into name calling and fighting (i.e. Me saying the Twins really did a number on the fans by cutting 30 mil this year vs someone else saying we can still win because we've got young guys that can play). I'd be dang sad if I didn't have my Twins Daily.
  25. BsuNemo
    Zero chance of this happening with our management - wayyyy too much pride to dump even one of them let alone two! Neither should have happened and both will go on wayyyy longer than they should.
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