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  1. Old Twins Hat
    I don't ever remember Topa being considered a lock for this year's pen or even having had a good year last season. I know it's hard to come up with topics to write about early in Spring Training, I get that. But, I ain't losing sleep over this or even worried about the Twins bullpen until May. There's a million ways for this season's Twins to fall apart, and Topa is not like the key to the Jenga collapse, so keep fishing for topics.
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    This website has been harsh on a lot of Twins' prospects for the last number of years. Why call this a fan site if the actual product is about speculating on failure of prospects, the management, coaches, pretty much the whole organization? I don't want to read about failure, or even put that out there as a possibility. Emmanuel Rodriguez is a player. Let him play. The author seems to want to judge and toss him in the trash before he turns 23 -- WTF? Let him play the game he loves and try to prove himself. I call him E.R. and I hope he brings emergency relief to the Twins on the field.
  3. Old Twins Hat
    The word "solace" is doing a lot of work in this article, like $40M worth. Going to need to get out my Oxford English Dictionary, but I don't think you can stretch it like that.
  4. Old Twins Hat
    Am I a caretaker? I have three step-kids.
  5. Old Twins Hat
    Lots of hate out there. Going to check my browser because it says this is a Twins' fans site. Not sure what happened.
  6. Old Twins Hat
    What about Shelton, what's his record like in terms of using Openers, or piggy-backing? Any insight there?
  7. Old Twins Hat
    Hey, I had Neshek in a Spanish class at Park Center back in the day. Prolly last kid I ever had who is still a known figure in the world. Good on him.
  8. Old Twins Hat
    Uhh, he would probably pitch if he could, right? So give the kid a break, he's likely a human being.
  9. Old Twins Hat
    The only thing the Twins really lack at this point is a positive fan base, especially online.
  10. Old Twins Hat
    It's like this whole Board woke up one day and decided the Twins don't have a shortstop. You know, I hope some posters will follow up on Brooks Lee on a week-by-week basis and make a list of plays that he couldn't/didn't make and ones that he did make that looked above average. Then let's look at his hitting for the same week. I want to see that list and how accurate these kinds of discussions really are. Lee is a professional, his dad is a coach, he will likely end up playing hundreds and hundreds of MLB games on the infield, if not at SS. Correa was moved off SS last year at Houston after starting for the Twins for a couple years. let the chips fall where they may, but wringing our hands and crying into a towel before the season even gets started seems a bit excessive. Man up, boys. Lee is our SS.
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    I would rather think and imagine how the Twins core could contend than considering the endless chorus of how they will fail. Not into Woo-Woo, but there are fan bases out there that believe positive energy put into play near their home team actually makes a difference. Hey! Who out there wants to watch a loosing/indifferent bunch of millionaires getting their asses kicked around Target Field? Guess I'm in the minority.
  12. Old Twins Hat
    You know, if the Twins want to break the mold with the Bullpen, then I think they should keep signing these guys, get a zany camera crew, film the whole of spring training games from the bullpen, make it into a reality show and hope for the best. If they make the world series and even one guy from their roster is a stud -- this would pay back millions.
  13. Old Twins Hat
    Festa is a lanky pitcher, with a lot of herky-jerky in his motion. Is that common for high-leverage relievers? I don't know. Can he hold guys on base? Somewhat key late in games. If his fastball gets hit, do you really want a guy coming in and throwing a lot of off-speed? Will he spike curve balls and change ups and splits? I see commenters willing to throw him into the Bullpen, but we aren't looking at whether his mechanics make him a good candidate. I get that he has ice-water in his veins. He just goes out and doesn't seem to get rattled. That's a plus, if he can throw strikes.
  14. Old Twins Hat
    No, it's not about mutuality. What changed in the last couple months? Twins got a new leader, and it wasn't Falvey. Fair enough, give them a month or two to see how their visons align. In the end, Pohlad is the decider. My point stands: You can't criticize Pohlad and Falvey and now continue to criticize Pohlad for taking half-measures. Pohlad wants to compete now, and Falvey is gone. Get on the wagon boys, or get off it.
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    Well, been reading a lot of criticism about Tom Pohlad because he claimed to not be "into" half-measures and all he's seemingly done over the last month is tinker around the roster edges. Now he moves on from Falvey, which a hell of a lot of posters on this site have been screaming for for years, and suddenly it's just another Pohlad screw-up? C'mon people. You didn't want half-measures, but when you get a full sea-change in the organization it's just more of the same Pohlad incompetence? Can't have it both ways.
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    Catchers get hurt quite a bit; it's a position of abuse. And, that makes it hard to hit with all the dings and muscle exertions. Twins have two darn good catchers to start the year. Who else has that luxury? A small-market team gobbles up the best FA catcher left in MLB in early January? It's not nothing, especially if the Mets, or Dodgers, or Giants, or Red Sox have a problem later in the year. I can hear Falvey on the phone, "Oh, he's out for the year, you don't say..." Never hurts to load up on a position of need in advance.
  17. Old Twins Hat
    Hey guys, this is a class move by an organization that demonstrates the Twins really care about their players. Neither Julien, nor Ohl were going anywhere with the Twins, and so the Twins made a deal in which either or both of them would have a shot at a Major League career with the lowly Rockies. No other way to see this. And you know what? Other MLBers notice and it inures to the benefit of the Twins organization as being a class operation. Whatever else happens, Julien and Ohl have careers on the line, family, friends and a lifetime of working to make it in MLB. Hats off to them and the Twins for providing this opportunity.
  18. Old Twins Hat
    Yeah well, if the ceiling for Lee is Jose Ramirez, we will take it. But, you know what: Every single one of the Twins young core needs to play better. Every. Single. One. If they don't, then we don't have a credible young core and, at some point, Twins will need to start again on a young core. Hopefully, some of the young core take steps forward. That's it. We need players to play well. And I hope they do.
  19. Old Twins Hat
    Problem with match-ups is pretty straight-forward: teams will simply deploy "openers" for one inning or two innings. Then what? Happens all the time. A little surprised the author does not bring this up.
  20. Old Twins Hat
    "Patience, Grasshopper." The Twins don't need a great bullpen until they see how good of a team they've got. A team can totally retool a bullpen during the season: promotions from the minor leagues, waiver claims, trades. I say "no rush". Everything is as it should be. If Twins suck to start the year, then they don't need to do anything at all. Why trade your talent or stock the bullpen before you understand how good your squad is?
  21. Old Twins Hat
    What I see is: Twins picked up Jackson because they knew they would need to have someone with credible MLB experience as a backup catcher, If, If they could not land a second catcher in Free Agency. And when you are a low-budget team, you have to protect against an outright disaster. Because you know what: one injury to Jeffers in Spring Training and the Twins' season goes down the drain counting on Jackson. And guess what, after Realmuto signs, Phillies withdraw from the catcher market, Twins swoop in and bag Caratini. Smart move. Minority opinion, but, Falvey played this perfectly. He had to have set this all up in advance; it was just two hours after Realmuto signed. Not only is Caratini a competent, above average stick at catcher, he switch-hits and can play 1B. The flexibiiity this offers the lineup, with switch hitting Bell at 1B and DH, while Caratini can play 1B, C, DH is as good as a budget team can put out there. And guess what: Baldelli ain't managing and I would bet my step-son that Shelton won't be shy about hitting Caratini or putting him at 1B while Jeffers catches. (My step-son has high test scores and lives in the basement. Call me.) Jackson will not be on the Twins team unless Jeffers or Caratini get injured. If there's one position you do not want to suck at, it's catcher. They're literally involved in every pitch when on the field. Twins will not suck at catcher. It's a good move.
  22. Old Twins Hat
    Promote Quick rapidly. Or quickly I guess. Yawn. How many weeks to spring training? And, will there be Ice.
  23. Old Twins Hat
    In 2025, I watched Lewis in the batter's box, and it sure seemed like he was stutter-stepping forward and was way off-balance. I couldn't understand why a guy would be so active with his feet just as the pitch was coming into the plate. It looked impossible for him to generate any power. I figured the Twins would work with him to be more centered and not moving so much. Definitely a weird approach, but, he's Royce Lewis and if he wants to do it like that, well, that's his prerogative, I guess. Doesn't work for him but, he's a great personality and he'll have a good life beyond baseball.
  24. Old Twins Hat
    Falvey gets a ton of criticism on this site but if you look at what he has done, he has taken positions of the highest cost/most return and stocked the Twins with them. 1. Starting pitching. Twins are loaded with the most valuable of all baseball players: starting pitchers who are pre-arb and show potential to emerge as standout arms. That's the place a team can really lock in value. Add them up, Abel, Prielipp, Rojas, Soto, Bradley, etc., -- it's a surplus as big as the Twins have ever had. 2. Catchers. Twins have really loaded up with catchers, Tait and the kid from Detroit, then drafts in previous years. One or two of these guys will put it all together, down the road. But, they are all young and have high quality tools. 3. Shortstop. Marek Houston, Culpepper, Winokur, plus this year's most likely 3rd pick. We are in good shape on the infield at Short, with or without success from Brooks Lee. Say what you will about Falvey, he understands where the smart money is and what it moves toward in baseball and he is building it for the future of the Twins. A corner infielder or outfielder, even a CF guy, they can be had for much less than SS, SP and Catcher. We a small market team and Falvey's strategy to get ahead of the money game at these positions is our only chance --only chance to make a run to the World Series.
  25. Old Twins Hat
    As long as I follow baseball, I will never forget Cuddyer's AB in Toronto in 2010 when he hit a ground ball to the shortstop in the 8th inning. That was the biggest AB of the century for the Twins IMHO. Morneau was on an MVP run, homered in five straight games twice that year already, and he never got that back. Ever.
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