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.

It's like he didn't leave home to go live at summer baseball camp when he was 16 or something. There's no way that any person could ever change their mind about what they prioritize in life, just cuz they once loved it. Divorce never happens, so on, etc.

We got a Julien at first sighting yesterday. Maybe finding a platoon bat at first is a good way to cheap in to some power. Maybe Santana is that platoon bat? Lee seems more and more like a 2B in the Jeff Kent style. And Jose Miranda has mostly been a pretty great MLB hitter when healthy with pretty even platoon, so an every day role is good for him. He's been trending up with the glove over there. So Lewis to Left and Miranda at 3rd seems like a couple good every day players.

The Cards are pretty mediocre. They are 5 games ahead of their pythag, definitely related to how the Reds sit 5 games below theirs. This series will be a minor disappointment if it's not a sweep, considering the Twins need that extra win to make up for the three straight losses that should have been wins they just had. Obviously, if they 'only' win the series, it's still good, but there will be a little bit of regret there. Losing this series could be a real kick in the teeth. The cards pitching is average to slightly above, but the offense is so bad that The Twins shouldn't have to score too much. On paper of course. That's why they play the games.

And he's quickly become actively bad as a defender in the back half of the year. I'm not sure how much of that is physical and how much of it is emotional , but it's definitely there. He just gives the vibe of someone who has lost the joy. Right but like most 16 year-olds, what you dream about then isn't often what you dream about when you're 32. I also wouldn't be shocked to see Max retire rather than chase an MLB gig.

ACE? They have one. He's just not the same one we had last year, nor did many expect the coming of The Nightmare. They have the talent to have three aces right now. Pablo hasn't had his best season, but he can still be excellent going forward. Joe is down, but when his shoulder heals up, he has the makings as well. They were never going to sell out for an ACE. But as far as good starting pitching, who should they have signed and why is he wearing a Cubs uniform? (Shota is the only FA the twins should have spent any energy on). CF - Just Cuz you don't like Manny Margot doesn't mean he's fictional. He's not a sexy backup but that's why he's here. RH power bat? Look who leads the team in HR. Almost all of them hit right handed at least some of the time. You're also wrong about your statement that the Twins always stand pat at the deadline. They just have the last two years. Other years they've made moves that have mostly not worked out. I wouldn't be surprised if they just text each other Tyler Mahle's picture from time to time just to wind the other up. But even that's a great example. The Reds made off like Bandits at that deadline and now they have basically sweet FA to show for it. Spencer Steer is the only guy they got from trading Mahle and Castillo at that deadline who's still providing value to the big club. CES might if he recovers from his injury. They spent their trade chips and got an OK power hitting corner bat. If they really had wanted that they could have kept the starters and signed Jorge Soler.

They tried to fill holes and just made more holes. It's not a binary and the reason people aren't engaging with your claim that the current FO doesn't do trades is because it's exhausting to argue with bad faith statements. Unless you're having memory issues, you're more than aware that they have made deadline trades to attempt to help the ML roster in recent seasons. Some of those trades have kinda worked, but by and large they have been bad moves, since deadline trades usually are bad moves in the big picture for teams that operate on the Twins budget. Which is where the real trouble lies. They simply can't take the same chances because ownership doesn't give them the same latitude. But since it seems your argument stems mostly from the perspective of Playoff wins, let's look at that. What move from the '23 deadline would you have made that would have changed their fortunes in the Houston series? I assume it would have been to get another starter they could trust to bump Maeda to the pen. The only two Starters of note that i saw in the trade recap were Michael Lorenzen and Jack Flaherty. Every 2023 MLB Trade Deadline deal Lorenzen was awful for the Phils and Flaherty even worse for the Os. Fail to see how sitting still at the deadline last year hurt the team. What hurt the team was Joe Ryan Getting hurt. What cost the team in the playoffs was Sonny Grey having is worst start in his last one as a Twin.

None of the incessant whining and foot stomping changes it either, but yet here we are three weeks later.

Most teams who make trades are in fact wrong. Trades more often than not don't benefit either side. The Lane Thomas and Alex Cobb deals have been immediately bad for CLE as Cobb has made 2 bad starts and is now on the IL. Thomas has played 18 games and been downright terrible. The Padres traded all that for these specific two months of Tanner Scott, since to keep him long term is no different than if they hadn't traded for him. So unless you're certain they would not have made the playoffs without him, what was the point? In the Pads case they make tons of trades so their farm is usually pretty bad so trading away from it in quantity like that makes some sense. The Twins have worked hard to develop a system that is producing good players on both sides of the ball. They do this by only making trades they feel they can win or break even on, and even then the outcome is not great half the time.

It only feels that way. Alcala has made 43 appearances this year. Runs have scored in 9 of them. Two of them featured exclusively unearned runs. More than one in 4. More than two in 2. It's just that the one is super recent and annoying.

The Pohlads are terrible. But that's cuz rich people don't need to care about the outcomes of their actions, nor react to any sort of criticism. We have no democratic process to force them to actually consistently provide player payroll in keeping with their standing as 10th biggest combined market in MLB. It would be cool if Ryan Reynolds bought the team.