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  1. Coach Wheels
    Completely uninterested in comparing Buxton to any former HOF player, he's not close to that caliber. I'm thrilled hes been healthy through 40+ games and I've enjoyed watching in CF. The Twins have 120+ games left, let's hope we see him all year; we're a playoff team with him in CF and the rotation staying healthy as well.
  2. Coach Wheels
    A piece on Rocco overthinking the bullpen could be a weekly copy and paste if you want it to be. Just change the names of who/when he pinch hits or uses his bullpen. It's a tiring conversation going on 6+ years of his work
  3. Coach Wheels
    There is so much to hate about Twins baseball right now, it just feels like piling on. A) Key players can't stay healthy. B) Key players aren't as good as advertised. C) Young players don't get better. D) Ownership didn't care enough to spend more than $10 million in FA and they are more interested in getting out of baseball than making it better. This organization is a drag.
  4. Coach Wheels
    Regardless of the outcome, getting 18 outs out of Ober yesterday should have been the minimum of what he pitched yesterday. He was 2024 Ober yesterday and when the 3 at the front of your rotation are pitching like he was yesterday, 18 outs has be the goal. The Twins lost because the offense is awful through 13 games; a real lack of power and hitting for average. Twins have never been a team that's built to run. 6 at home with Detroit and the Mets..........April is looking like a long month.
  5. Coach Wheels
    I'll be showing my age with this response but I don't care what your swing speed is if you consistently strike out with runners in scoring position. Put the ball in play and the rest will take of itself.
  6. Coach Wheels
    Their goal every off season to get the best of the leftovers. Correa fell into their lap but the rest of this is just about getting a deal on guys no one else really wants. I can't imagine going to work every day and knowing I'm leading the "best of the worst." #Common man 😉
  7. Coach Wheels
    If they are seriously thinking of flipping Lopez (he'll bring great prospects) then adding Cease makes perfect sense for 2025. Guessing you give up Larnach and Vasquez; the trade be 1 for 1. I'd make the trade if I'm trading Lopez away, for sure.
  8. Coach Wheels
    Let's just get Byron to play 130 games, then we can talk bat speed. Here's a fact I've researched with Byron a lot. When he's hurt, his bat speed is 0.00 mph
  9. Coach Wheels
    With arbitration complete, trades can begin. Castro, $6.4 million, most likely gone. Paddock, with no spot in tje rotation guaranteed, most likely gone. This team will add minor league guys and roll with the roster they have. Platoon at 1st, Julien & Miranda. Lewis at 2nd, Correa at SS, Lee at 3rd, and an OF of Larnach, Buxton, Wallner, Martin, and 1 more guy. The rotation isn't bad if all stay healthy and the 8th/9th inning is above average. We'll see how it goes.
  10. Coach Wheels
    "Minnesota signed Mike Ford to a minor-league deal Thursday, and he has some potential upside." Lew Ford has more potential upside than Mike Ford.
  11. Coach Wheels
    I think you'll find me watching games in St Paul next summer. Super tired of stories of us selling off players to get younger when, 2 years ago, we had one of the youngest teams in baseball. How about no more stories of the 24 year old minor league players we can get for our guys. Spring training is 6 weeks away and we're planning to get worse. 🤮
  12. Coach Wheels
    "Let's talk about the factors that made Gasper an appealing target to Minnesota, aside from being inexpensive" There is nothing appealing about a 29 year old career munor league player with zero big league hits. This is a financial deal and nothing more. This is who the Twins will be in 2025, let's not try and spin positivity out of deals like this.
  13. Coach Wheels
    If this is the desparation we're sinking to at 1st base, just platoon Miranda and Julien. Rehashing guys from the past and "hoping" it works creates zero interest for me.🥱
  14. Coach Wheels
    I am completely open to Laureano being a part of the OF for 2025. 30 years old, lots of experience in the majors, and he can hit for some power. I'd be open to seeing him as a Twin.
  15. Coach Wheels
    "Castellano is an intriguing right-handed pitcher on the verge of MLB readiness, and Minnesota is hoping it stumbled upon a steal." This comment should be framed and hang on Falvey's wall at Target Field. The guy has spent his career trying to find nobody's who turn into diamonds. Whatever happens thos off-season will most likely not bring me.back to Target Field this summer. Until we get a new ownership group committed to serious baseball and trying to be great, we'll continue lose quality players and gamble on less than guaranteed players.
  16. Coach Wheels
    When you have a commissioner more interested finding gimmicks to "enhance" the game than thinking about bringing the elements of the game that made it great; pitching, stealing bases, hitting the ball the other way, etc., the game is doomed. For small market teams, the game is about dead now. Gimmicks as dumb as this aren't helping.
  17. Coach Wheels
    Since I am absolutely not an analytics person, my generation still prefers the "eye test" to measure talent and whether or not a player can play. The 2024 Twins pitching staff lacked talent. Once Ryan went down, the hole in the rotation was glaring, in my eyes. 😀 The bullpen, up to Jax and Duran, was less than perfect and I would hesitate to ever take Jax out of the bullpen and make him a starter; my eyes tell me he has stuff that can finish games or be the set up guy for many years. My eyes also tell me Duran needs to become a 2 pitch closer and eliminate the curveball from his repertoire. Fastball and hard sinker are wipe out pitches and the velocity he throws both of them with gets LH and RH hitters out. Bottom line, talent makes pitching data better; go get or build more talent and all the data will fix itself.
  18. Coach Wheels
    Keep: Correa, Buxton, Larnach, Lewis, Castro, Wallner, Lee, Miranda (?), Ryan, Lopez, Ober, Varland (bullpen), Jax (bullpen), Duran (bullpen), Alcala ( bullpen), Everyone should be available for trade and regroup. What we found out for most of this year is the depth of young talent we thought we had was either badly overrated or had horrible years. Either way, half this roster needs to be retooled.
  19. Coach Wheels
    Kirby hit that mark in game 104!!! That's why we won 2 World Series and was an MVP.
  20. Coach Wheels
    I don't know if 4-2 will be enough. Royals get Nats and Braves, Tigers get Rays and White Sox, we're a game back of both and I don't see either of those 2 going 3-3. I think we're iIna spot where 5-1 might the only way we control our destiny. 4-2, with the tiebreaker, maybe that works.
  21. Coach Wheels
    100% agree. These 2 leaders of the front office have historically shopped for players like my wife at Sam's Club. Always signing guys coming off injuries and no one else wants. It's crazy
  22. Coach Wheels
    I'm not sure of the point of the essay. Guys have always gotten hurt; I remember being frustrated by Hrbek missing games every year. He was blamed for not being in shape, now we blame them for being too good of shape? I would love to see this team have their best players play 140 games together. I think they're talented enough to win this division by 8-10 games
  23. Coach Wheels
    October? There's a great chance after this week, Detroit has passed Minnesota and we're out. 3 bs Cleveland and 3 vs Boston.....easily the potential for a 2-5 week
  24. Coach Wheels
    Kepler being hurt is par for the Twins; we can't count on guys staying healthy, the last 3 years have been tough. It would nice to see our best 8 guys in the lineup for 135-140 games in a year; I think we'd be pretty damn good. For Kepler, it's his last year as a Twin, guessing we'll need him in October bit we honestly can't count on anyone to be healthy right now.
  25. Coach Wheels
    Completely agree. In 23 Varland was dominant from the bullpen and could easily be a 7th or 8th inning guy right now. Why we continue to think he's a starter is odd.
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