August J Gloop

I'm certain you are all well aware that women can practice misogyny as easily as men. If it's really TD's policy to allow driveby jokes that the punchine is 'women from somewhere are ugly' then they seriously need to take a look at themselves. Women face discrimination like this every day and being told to just ignore the everyday insult in places where the topic is supposed to be sports just reinforces that system.

Cool have fun with your misogyny.

It looks like some sort of AWS problem. Reddit comments keep going off line as well.

Dude, just delete this.

DFA Kepler. He's definitely not better than Wallner or Larnach (even with the bad foot) at this point. The Twins are the deepest team in the ALC next year and unless they have massive regression (or similar injury woes) should be fighting for the division again. These games are a lot more valuable for the players who will be here next year than they are for a guy who isn't going to help them win that much anyway. If they were going to get BombaKep, totally different. But current Kep is not good on either side of the ball. (I know this is not gonna happen and I hope that Kep does catch fire for 14 post season wins.)

Gotta be the most reliable thing in sports. Fans know they don't have the talent to play the game. But they think that they definitely could be the manager if only they'd had the chance. Their only evidence? That they would simply have made a different decision than the one that didn't work out. The premise of this thread is bad. The arguments put forward are bad. Rocco is unquestionably one of the better managers in team history. How do we know this? he has the 5th best winning percentage in team history. The Twins have been a top 10 team during his entire run as manager. It's embarrassing to argue otherwise.

I hope you liked Jake Cave. DSK's MiLB numbers are basically the same. He is better defensively.

My guess is that Royce is finally learning what not being bigger than the team really means. He's been bad at third, much of it driven by a surprisingly poor throwing ability. Second base makes some sense in that context. But he's out there pouting and temporarily forgot how to hit. What is the fantasy outcome of skewering a manager? He'll build a time machine and go back and tell Jorge Alcala not to blow that game? I literally don't understand what people are hoping for with those kinds of statements.

Tasty, tasty billionaire boot. Of course MLB teams aren't charities. But they're also not total free market enterprises, since the venues are by and large taxpayer funded. What allegiance do the Pohlad's have to this area? They threatened to move and outright murder the team in the messy lead up to Target Field. All of the Twins struggles this year are direct results of the truly moronic choices made on the business end.

The idea that Royce Lewis has worn down is a charitable reading of the situation. More likely, he's finally played enough games that there's a book on him and he's quite easy to get out right now.

It's also piracy.

Maybe they got a couple claims in while they were behind the Royals?

The bigger issue is that the supply just isn't there. Richards, as uninspiring as he is, is better than most of who they have at St Paul. Maybe they should have tried to dance with some of these trades, but who? https://www.mlb.com/news/every-2024-mlb-trade-deadline-deal Tanner Scott obviously, but outside him, who moved that would really be a clear upgrade? Carlos Estevez, Lucas Sims, Lucas Erceg, Kopech? The list is not deep with definite impact arms. Would you really want to move a prospect for a reliever? It's always risky. Matt Capps was actually good for the Twins. Yet that trade is (rightly) looked at with derision because Wilson Ramos had a workmanlike career.

But that's the worst! We shouldn't have to execute decade long boycotts to get people just to give a rip about the product they put on the field.

Which would totally apply if the Twins are just telling Richards to do exactly the same thing that he was always doing. All of these guys who make it to MLB are exceptional at baseball. All of them. Not a single one of the players who's gotten all the way to MLB has ever been bad at baseball, really. So keeping that in mind, it's never truly crazy to think that a team could expect an MLB player to be able to execute procedural tweaks, even at the ultra advanced age of 32. Obviously, they can't overhaul his entire motion and hope it will stick. Or even try to introduce a new pitch. There's no way they thought they could teach him a whole new skill, but they clearly saw something they thought they could reorganize and get some improved results out of. Just because we don't know what it is doesn't mean it's not there. We can only draw conclusions from experience. This team from the FO through the pitching dev team have prioritized unique pitches the whole time they've been doing things. They've had results go good, and others not. You are not being serious if you try to claim Richards throws a normal changeup. That's my main beef with this clickbait article. It's not real analytics, it's rage posting. I doubt that he's gonna work out, just as much as most of you do. There just isn't any reason to claim it's some total moron move with no basis.