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  1. Coach Wheels
    This conversation feels like more evidence of misguided roster building than anything else. 3 guys who can catch, 4 guys who can play 1st base, too many LH hitting OF'ers. 🤦‍♂️ Oh, by the way, the Yankees scored 17 runs in the spring training game yesterday. How's the pitching staff coming together?
  2. Coach Wheels
    Optimism is not growing roots in my summer thoughts on this baseball team.
  3. Coach Wheels
    Our goal is now to be "moderately successful" at 2 positions that require HR and RBI's on successful teams 🙂 This is not meant as a rip but it certainly validates the mediocrity of this organization right now.
  4. Coach Wheels
    I'm also ok with waiting but, honestly, waiting has now cost you your best asset for at least a year and his value has decreased immensely. I've said this earlier, you didn't build this roster to win in 2026 and if someone offers you young prospects for Ryan, especially with Lopez done for 2026, trade Ryan sooner. Start building for 2028 and quit pretending we're competitive now.
  5. Coach Wheels
    "The Twins set themselves up for a mediocre 2026 season at the 2025 trade deadline. They then spent much of the offseason sitting on their hands, as they tried to decide the organization's direction." This paragraph is accurate and, I agree, don't go spend on a SP when you have no expectation of being legit this season. Lots of arms for the rotation from within camp, find who can pitch. Personally, give the ball to Abel or Bradley and see who they are. We're a 70 win team in all likelihood. Let's this roster play this summer.
  6. Coach Wheels
    My thoughts would be this; we aren't winning anything for the foreseeable future so why give up the ship with this kid? Is our priority that he be a SS or an offensive threat? If he can't be both, does a position change make the team better? If we were close to competing I'd certainly understand his need to be a lot better a lot quicker. Since that is not the reality, let's continue to find out who he is and/or how he helps the organization
  7. Coach Wheels
    Let me be the first to tell Mr. Abel that there will be zero pressure in Minnesota!!! It's likely you'll be pitching in front of 12,000 people or less if that helps reduce your stress even more. 😃
  8. Coach Wheels
    There are 2 many starters currently and, I agree, one or two could be very impactful in the bullpen in 2026
  9. Coach Wheels
    Agree with this thought. This story sounds more like, "How do the Mets get better by making a trade with the Twins"?
  10. Coach Wheels
    This is fair because my expectations is we win about 70 games. If we win more than 75 I'll be pleasantly surprised.
  11. Coach Wheels
    When the team is no longer owned or led by someone named Pohlad, we can then talk seriously about building this organization and competing again.
  12. Coach Wheels
    100% agree with this. This is not even a "lesser of 2 evils" conversation. 2 average minor league guys with extremely limited major league promise. Ohl's reliance on the change up makes him only a bullpen guy in my opinion. Adam's might get 12 outs to start a game but.....
  13. Coach Wheels
    Kind of agree, I think Rogers professionalism can always be a positive piece of this current club. His main purpose is saving games and stacking wins for a team that might not win many games. Prioritize pitching, the team needs him to pitch well.
  14. Coach Wheels
    I consider the bullpen to still be a mess. Rogers was an average closer when he was here before and now he's 5 years older and less efficient. I completely agree with moving a current starter, Festa or Mathews come to mind but I'm open to anything. 1 month before pitchers/catchers report, lots of work has to still be done.
  15. Coach Wheels
    Fabulous and well deserved honor for Mr. Bremer. He was the voice of the Twins for all those years and he truly lived and died with them every year. Dick and Burt were the best and made watching bad Twins teams and good Twins teams easy to watch. Congrats to a real fan of the Twins.
  16. Coach Wheels
    If the offers for Jeffers now are fair and make the Twins better for Opening Day, move him now. If not, sometime before July 1st, he'll get moved because I don't believe they intend to bring him back in 2027.
  17. Coach Wheels
    Clemens is a career .206 hitter who hit .213 fir the Twins with almost 350 official AB's. He has a career WAR of 1.1 and had a WAR of 1.0 in 2025. While I'm too old to do a deep dive on the analytics of current baseball nerds, I am very comfortable stating that Clemens wasn't as unlucky as he was who he's been for every team he played for prior to Minnesota. He had twice as many AB's this year and hit more HR, that's the bright side for a team that has lacked power for a few years.
  18. Coach Wheels
    This roster isn't close to 80 wins let alone an A.L. Central title. Royals, Indians, and Tigers are all 6-10 games better now and none of them have made a big move yet. Bell may be the Twins "big move" for 2026.
  19. Coach Wheels
    I'm hopeful that Abel earns a top 5 rotation spot. SWR doesn't move the needle for me as a starting pitcher.
  20. Coach Wheels
    I'm not sure the Twins want to trade more.pitching for a corner infielder right now. 2hen you dump as many pitchers as we did in July, I'd like to get the new guys out there and see who they are.
  21. Coach Wheels
    Definitely taking analytics to a new level in this article, agree. For my 2 cents, Twins need power somewhere in the lineup and Bell fills that void. A 1st baseman with 25 HR potential for $7 million makes sense; at 33 years of age, he has a chance to help this team. He's not Santana defensively but I don't have an issue with Bell as our 1st baseman.
  22. Coach Wheels
    Playing in the AL Central makes for the theme of a modest budget being competitive. The Tigers shopping Skubal is an example of everyone in the Central lives modestly with payroll. However, there's "modest" and then there are the Twins; $110 million will not make this team better than Detroit, Cleveland, or KC and the White Sox might be closing in. Let's see season ticket sales tank and attendance go to about 1 million this summer and maybe then, a buyer will emerge and change can happen. I have no expectations for the Pohlads or Falvey making this better.
  23. Coach Wheels
    Boom!!! Everyone should be on the table for trades and if the whole thing is blown up and they win 60 games this year, so be it. Personally. I have zero faith in Falvey to get this right but this is our world now so let's see what where it goes.
  24. Coach Wheels
    There are way more questions than answers for Twins leadership. I can see them watching this week and getting leftovers after Jan 1
  25. Coach Wheels
    There is zero reason for the organization to pretend they are trying to compete as they reduce salary again in 2026. Byron has been a great Twin and an ambassador for the organization his entire time here. He deserves the opportunity to play for an organization that wants to win and he can bring young mlb ready talent to the Twins. The right move is to move him.
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