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  1. Beast
    Lewis is incredible. He just exudes leadership and success. You hear the Jeter comparison all the time, and I never saw until this last week. I agree with everyone saying Wallner needs to be up here. Absolutely gross roster mismanagement there. I don’t want to hear the excuses. Play your damn best players. He’s the hottest hitter in the organization right now and has the kind of power that can carry a team….as we’re playing our division rival. It’s moves like this that make me want this FO gone. Same thing with Ober earlier in the year. They need to learn when to cut the rope on dead weight. We got fleeced on Lopez. I was huge fan of the trade and still am of the attempt. But it’s looking bad at the moment. Lastly, the ads on this site make it borderline unusable on mobile.
  2. Beast
    We should be impressed that they’ve gotten elite starting pitching from multiple guys and still can’t find a way to separate themselves from the worst division in baseball? We’re talking about the likes of Sonny Gray, here. Good pitcher, but that guy isn’t going to throw up a 1.50 ERA indefinitely going forward. He’s going to come back to earth. So is Joe Ryan (as we saw last night). I’m not impressed at all that they’ve found a way to squander the best run of starting pitching I’ve seen here in my lifetime. I’m more worried about what it looks like when that normalizes and regression catches up to those starters. Things could get very ugly. We’re sure as heck not going to be carried by this offense or bullpen. We’re starting to see it catch up with them now, losing 4 series in a row and a likely 5th in Houston.
  3. Beast
    Lewis just seems to have a certain mental/internal fortitude that has largely been lacking from this roster. I’m surprised they called him up right away. I thought they would let him wallow down in St. Paul until their hand were absolutely forced. Good decision and good performance by Royce. What a stud.
  4. Beast
    This club is a joke. Get Baldelli out of here. The league needs to fix this crap (if it isn’t intentional). A team walks that many guys through the game (aka. done nothing to earn the benefit of the doubt) and you call a ball a foot off the plate a strike with bases juiced for a strikeout? Absolutely disgraceful. Winning and losing is such a fine line in this league that you just can’t be successful if you’re getting those called as often as the Twins are.
  5. Beast
    I don’t care whether they admit it. I’m more concerned as to why they’re repeatedly wrong, specifically on these relievers (and numerous times on starters), and why they seemingly can’t learn from it. There’s clearly a flaw in the way they interpret data. Throw all the fancy numbers out on Pagan you want. The fact is, he’s one of the worst relievers in major league history in terms of results. Get off my lawn with this “pitching + is in the top half of the league” stuff. What a waste of time and energy. Im tired of the excuses made for the FO. Sure, finding relievers is hard. It’s unpredictable. But, their job is to get it right. That’s their only job - and there’s two of them doing it. Similar to Pagan, I don’t care about the underlying trash-in trash-out computer program that contorts data to paint whatever picture you want. My great grandmother could throw a bullpen and have AI find a way to make her look like Mariano Rivera. I care about real things. Real things like them trading “the best reliever in game right now,” according to ESPN’s front page, for Jorge Lopez. The historically inept Orioles are now fleecing us and turning our castoffs into stars. We saw it with Liam Hendricks, Nick Anderson, etc. They consistently make the wrong choice when it comes to the bullpen. At some point, you have to stop pointing at luck and randomness.
  6. Beast
    Hader is a realistic target, IMO, who would have a huge impact. Our bullpen stinks. I don’t know why anybody still thinks Jorge Lopez is good. Is it the same formula that’s telling people Pagan is good? He’s had one good half of baseball in his entire career. The results since he’s gotten here haven’t been good, and the metrics don’t support anything (ERA and FIP are both in the neighborhood if 4.00+). I don’t care about his spin rate, etc. He can’t get hitters out. People are constantly ripping on the offense, but they haven’t been as bad as people think. This big issue right now is the ineptitude in holding a tight lead late in the game.
  7. Beast
    Pretty simple: Lower than ideal baseball IQ and mental fortitude. That’s been the problem with this team for multiple seasons now. My observation from recent situations: They seem to look hesitant to swing at strikes early in the count. They get behind, then wildly flail at sliders down and away or fastballs up and out of the zone. Once they get behind in the count, it’s over. There is no battle in any of these guys. You never see them go from a 1-2 count to a 3-2. They’re incapable of prolonging the AB by fouling off pitches or spitting on sliders in the dirt or fastballs at their shoulders. I’m not sure this is a small sample size. Has this not been going on for multiple years now? I could be wrong there. Haven’t looked at the numbers. Certainly doesn’t help when every borderline ball/strike call goes against them in those situations. There was an awful strike call on Jeffers again yesterday to put him down 0-1 (I believe). But, at some point, you have to swing the bat and get the ball in play somewhere. Nobody in this team can do that.
  8. Beast
    It’s not just Pagan, although the should’ve been gone long ago. The entire pen stinks. Duran is all we have. Even Lopez, who had been good, can’t be trusted. I’d bet anything he unravels at some point this year, like he did last year. The FO needs to figure out how to get a serviceable bullpen cobbled together. None of the good things with the lineup and rotation matter if our pen gives up 3+ runs every night.
  9. Beast
    I’ve had it with this FO and the bullpen. Just awful.
  10. Beast
    Huge bounce back win after one of the most epic and blatant ump screw jobs in MLB history.. That’s not easy to do - ask the Minnesota Wild. Should be up 2-0, already locking up the series win. But what can you do? Ober continues to expose the absolutely awful decision to send him to AAA so they could continue to run zombie Kenta Maeda out there. Who knows how many games that cost us. If their hand wasn’t forced, we’d probably still be burning these superb outings in AAA while the back end of our rotation loses games. That’s concerning to me. The FO deserves a ton of credit in some aspects, they also deserve to be roasted in others. Overall, pretty happy with how things are going right now.
  11. Beast
    Absurd. Baseball games are routinely very close. Expanding the strike zone by a foot on either side of the plate in extra innings with the bases loaded, then shrinking it back the next half inning, isn’t just missing an inconsequential call. That’s changing the game entirely. That’s NBA level manipulative foul garbage right there. Let’s say he did just happen to “miss” those calls at the unbelievably important juncture of the game. The ones he somehow got right for Lopez’s walk off walk. He should be in the unemployment line before the game ended last night. That’s a level of incompetence that is unacceptable (if “missed”). There’s a big difference in missing a pitch on the black that a computer called slightly different. This was multiple pitches in the most important AB of the game. Look at the WPA swing as a result. An ump swinging a game that drastically is a major, major issue. Absolutely ridiculous, IMO, to write that off as a non-contributing factor, and we should’ve done more. Could we have done more? Sure. But, we shouldn’t have had to. That’s a huge issue, and fans should rightfully be pissed off and expect some consequence.
  12. Beast
    That game is why people think sports are rigged. And they’re right. That’s just blatant. Whether it’s an unconscious or not. The umpire took one of the hottest hitters in baseball out of the game with the bases loaded in extra innings. Same ump, if I recall, that turned the Yankees playoff series on its head by Joe Mauer’s clear double a foul ball. If the Twins even rarely got these calls at the expense of the Dodgers or Yankees, I’d say fair play. Win some lose some. But, there is such clear bias at work there, I can only conclude it’s flat out rigged.
  13. Beast
    With Kirilloff seemingly back to pre-injury and Correa heating up….buckle up. We might have something here.
  14. Beast
    Getting Larnach going, and Royce Lewis back up to speed, could have a huge impact on the Twins offense. Good to see.
  15. Beast
    The “surplus” has evaporated pretty quickly. Kirilloff is done as an outfielder. Larnach can’t hit the broad side of a barn right now. Gordon, despite some good ABs recently has been one of the worst players in the MLB. Taylor started off great, but is back to earth. Buxton has been relegated to DH duty. Remember when about 75% of the people here thought the Gallo signing was awful and we absolutely had to move Kepler for a bag of peanuts? We might be looking at the worst hitting outfields in the history of the game right now. Pretty good moves by the FO despite the public backlash.
  16. Beast
    He’s been a good pitcher for a long time. He just struggles to stay healthy. I think that’s where the sustainability question comes in. I was a huge proponent of piggy backing him with someone else when the consensus was “there’s no room” (which was always absurd). Similar to the opener concept. Let him go 4-5 innings in tandem with someone else. Use him as a long reliever, but not a throwaway type role. Put him into a 5-4 ball game in the fifth inning and let him bridge to Duran in the 9th. Get creative. The dumbest thing you can do is waste his limited innings in AAA. That was idiotic from the beginning. Never should’ve happened, especially when it’s for a guy like Maeda who hasn’t been healthy or good in 3 years. Awful use of resources. He’s a heck of a lot more sustainable than Varland, SWR, Maeda, even Mahle at this point….anything outside of Gray, Lopez, and Ryan
  17. Beast
    I think Gordon has played well enough lately to save his roster spot just before the clock struck midnight on his career. Good for him. I’ve changed my mind from jettisoning Gordon all together to sending down Larnach for Kirillof. An injury will present itself soon enough to get Larnach back up if he performs.
  18. Beast
    Another bench bat would be nice. But, if Kepler continues to hit a little bit, and Miranda and Correa get going as the weather warms, we’re going to score plenty of runs. We’ll get Kirilloff back shortly. We should get Royce back at some point to be, hopefully, a much better version of Nick Gordon and get 4 starts a week in LF/CF/SS. We have Garlick as an emergency lefty masher if needed. I think we’re fine offensively. I can’t see them giving up anything for a bat. As mentioned above, some bullpen help is probably the biggest need. We can’t throw Thielbar, Jax, Duran, and Lopez every night. We can’t afford to keep throwing away games with these other guys. Unfortunately, they could’ve addressed that with a few million dollars instead of prospect capital, but that ship has long sailed.
  19. Beast
    He doesn’t deserve anything. He’s been awful. He’s already been afforded multiple opportunities other players don’t get due to his draft position and family name. Its so strange to me. I don’t know the root of the blinding bias, but it’s clearly there. Numerous people here want to jettison players who have much better and longer track records, and provide more value, but have this unshakable loyalty to one of the worst players in the major leagues right now. He literally has no redeeming skill that should keep him on a major league roster right now. It would be one thing if he had defensive value, but he doesn’t.
  20. Beast
    So they’re just going to keep running Maeda out there aren’t they? Get him out of the damn rotation and get Ober in there. My God. What is with them and their inability to recognize when a pitcher stinks.
  21. Beast
    This is where the FO has struggled. It’s already cost the team a couple of of games. They have this pompousity that they can turn guys Pagan and Megill into good pitchers where nobody else could. You’re better off paying a little money and signing somebody. If they’re so smart in regard to pitching, why can’t they go identify someone like Chapman on a 1 year $3M deal? He’s got 17 strikeouts in 10 appearances and a WHIP under 1.00. I know that’s hit or miss also, but a lot more likely to succeed vs. just throwing Pagan out there over and over for like 5 years.
  22. Beast
    Current core? Yes. Current supporting cast? No. If guys like Maeda or Mahle are starting playoff games, and guys like Pagan and Moran are getting playoff appearances, I don’t think the pitching staff stands a chance. To avoid that we need Gray to stay healthy, which he hasn’t been in a number of years. The position players look good enough on paper. Taylor has been great, but I wouldn’t trust him to get a hit with 2 guys on in the bottom of the 7th in a one run playoff game. I’d hope Buxton is back on center. Kepler needs to return to form, which is a huge ask. Alex K as well. Miranda needs to hit for more power. I like our chances much more than previous years to win a playoff series. I don’t think we can make a run to the championship yet. Another good offseason and some prospect development - maybe in a year or two.
  23. Beast
    And they want to keep Nick Gordon n his place. I don’t know what is going on either, but it’s gone off the rails. Maybe ergot poisoning.
  24. Beast
    It’s mind blowing to me that some are still clinging onto to Gordon. Most have come around. He can’t hit. Never has been able to, aside from the outlier last year. If you were able to get that from him consistently, he may pass as a platoon, replacement level guy. We have 4-5-6 of those guys in AAA right now at their floor. He has no defensive value whatsoever, don’t know why his “ability” to take up space at multiple positions matters. Great guy by all accounts. But, there’s a lot of great people out there that don’t get free rides in the MLB. Wallner is a much better player right now. Larnach is a much better player right now. Julien is a much better player right now. Kirilloff is a much better player right now. It’s absurd to have a list of guys like that stuck in AAA for Gordon. If he catches in and succeeds somewhere else, good for him. I hope he does. But, he’ll probably go unclaimed. Nobody is banging down the door for a nearly 30 year old with no high end tool or upside. 40 man spots are too valuable.
  25. Beast
    Such a waste having Ober down in AAA spinning 5 inning shutouts. Get him up here. Piggy back him off another one of these starters that cant finish 5-6 innings. He’s probably better than Maeda and Mahle right now. Last night would’ve been a good example. He could’ve come in and thrown 3-4 innings after Gray, you don’t burn every quality bullpen arm we have, and we probably win the game.
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