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People should listen to the entire clip. For many of the Falvey/Rocco years, a lot of us questioned what we thought was an over reliance on analytics. And a lot of us have questioned the lack of a winning culture. Seems like Donaldson felt the same way. One player's opinion, but I think it would be silly to ignore it just because he's a red a$$.

Because he's a d-bag? I mean I don't like him either but I don't think that means he's not qualified to have an opinion. If anything I put more stock into a true outsider's opinion vs. someone who was in the organization for several years and likely knows a lot more people that would be offended by such a comment.

Glen Taylor was in fact so amazed to see that investing in winning can actually be a good financial strategy for the owner of a professional sports franchise that he sued to try to undo the sale he himself had initiated. One would hope the Pohlads drew some sort of lesson from this. Alas...

I generally agree with Donaldson, but the Twins drew 3 million fans in 1988 and 1992, and every home playoff game in franchise history has been a sellout. And they've outdrawn the Wild every season of the Wild's existence. Fans will support good MLB teams, problem is we just haven't had many.

This is it. Have a plan! Selling off your bullpen one deadline, then rebuilding it the next is a really terrible way to build a winning team.

Let's frickin' go!!!

Lol. Yes, that was my exact point, play hurt guys more. Glad to see the bad faith is strong with you.

Ya got me! They were too busy playing Matt Wallner, Austin Martin, James Outman, and Luke "Concrete Glove" Keaschall in the outfield to find time for Gray (or Jenkins) I guess.

Yep, better keep Jenkins down another year or two. He might have a learning curve at the MLB level and we absolutely can't have that. Much better to give MLB time to players who performed even worse at AAA, like Tristan Gray.

Yes, when are the Twins going to learn how dumb it is to play young, cheap players before they are fully polished, 100% complete MLB players who will step right in to All Star level production? This organization is going to be much more successful holding back young guys as long as possible, and instead filling out the roster with more expensive, washed 33 year old DHs on 1 year deals. This strategy has been so successful over the past 35 years that the team even won a divisional-round playoff series 24 years ago! Four, five more years of seasoning in St Paul and E-Rod will be on the cusp of a call up!

Hey, don't blame me, I had nothing to do with this!

You said it!

Tom thinks Twins fans are stupid. The Pohlads ran a $160 mil payroll in 2023. This family is so dedicated to winning and running competitive payrolls that...the uncles stepped in, fired the failnephew who ran the high payroll, immediately told fans they were cutting payroll, and haven't sniffed that payroll since. This was not even 3 years ago. Tom first appeared in a Twins press conference in September, so he's been on the job almost a full year. His current payroll is $113m, up from $100m at the start of the season. Golden Rule of Minnesota Twins Fandom: Pay attention to what the Pohlads do, not what they say.

Fangraphs playoff odds on August 2: 32.9% Fangraphs playoff odds on August 4: 29.2%

Also it appears the Twins' playoff odds actually dropped a couple percent post-deadline. And the TD writing staff is celebrating this! Bizarro world.