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  1.    chpettit19 reacted to a post in a topic: Would Tom Pohlad Really Trade Joe Ryan?
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    This isn't "perception", it's the Pohlads' business strategy. Tom has been involved at least since last September, when he made his first appearance at a Twins press conference. Turning the "perception" around is extremely easy: spend money. The easiest thing in the world to do! He has had multiple opportunities to inject money into the team. Every day he wakes up and decides not to. Don't fall for what a Pohlad says. Look at what a Pohlad does. We've been through this so many times. Fans were so excited when Joey took over because he said he loved baseball and cared. We all know how that ended. You think fans are going to be furious if he's traded in a couple weeks, but they'll fall for the PR lies and be totally ok with it in the offseason? I'd like to believe fans are smarter than that by now. If you take Tommy's word that he truly wants to improve the team....which is going to do that: a) trading Joe Ryan at the height of his value for present/future prospects, or b)investing limited payroll over several years on the declining years of a pitcher who has not at all proved he is a playoff starter or even a guy you can count on in the 2nd half of a season? Your mileage may vary but I'm taking a) in a heartbeat.
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    Tell ya what. You choose what kind of fan you want to be, and everyone else will choose for themselves what kind of fans they want to be. That ok with you?
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    The box isn't official, and not using full ABS absolutely does not change the outcome of every game, lol. No one forced Ryan to serve up a center-center meatball to Alvarez. That changed the outcome of the game for sure. Throw a better pitch, Joe. Add all the ABS (which is only accurate up to about 1/6 of an inch) and replay you want, fans are still going to complain. Because fans don't actually want the "accurate" call, but the call that benefits their team.
  15. Woof Bronzer
    I'm guessing a combo of small sample size and the imperfect-at-best nature of defensive metrics.
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    Very interesting when one of those groups is quite famously also represented by a union, which also just happens to be in the midst of its own labor negotiations.
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  19. Woof Bronzer
    Encouraging week for Royce. I continue to believe his biggest issue is the mental fortitude required of a professional athlete. It's easy to be confident when you are knocking the ball around the park. A bit harder to maintain that when you are going through a 2-week slump (like all MLBers do from time to time.) To me his biggest thing is going to be not let 2-week slumps turn into 2-month slumps. Or let 2-month slumps turn into 2-year slumps. I think the Twins have to play the rest of this year with the big club though. Give him every opportunity to lock down a starting job for 2027.
  20. Woof Bronzer
    I feel like he could have served that role here too given all the bullpen churn. There really must be more to that story.
  21. Woof Bronzer
    Let him play. See what he can do. Give him the opportunity to make it impossible to send him back down.
  22.    Woof Bronzer reacted to a post in a topic: The Most Encouraging Early-Season Stories for the Twins Have, Sadly, Faded Fast
  23. Woof Bronzer
    But you think those same partners would have invested in an organization losing hundreds of millions of dollars every year despite receiving $200m/yr in welfare (revenue sharing)? Think about this for a minute. Agree on this. Total System Failure.
  24. Woof Bronzer
    Do you have access to the Pohlads books? Or are you just choosing to believe whatever the Pohlads want you to believe? Talk to anyone in commercial real estate in the Twin Cities how the Pohlads are doing. It's well known around town that at a time when most other companies were bailing from commercial real estate - especially class A office space - the Pohlads doubled down. They are now underwater on a large portion of their real estate portfolio through two companies (United Properties and Northmarq). Shifting debt around is actually a pretty common business practice for large corporations like the Pohlads. They just got caught with their hands in the cookie jar when they decided to sell the team. Here's the biggest tell: if the Twins were really losing hundreds of millions year over year (keeping in mind that they receive $200m in revenue sharing), the Pohlads would have sold the team for a dollar, not to mention $1.5b. So if what you are saying is true, that the Pohlads ran Twins-only operating losses in the hundreds of millions of dollars for several years (even though they received $200m in revenue sharing), then turning down $1.5b for the privilege of continuing to lose hundreds of millions of dollars every year would make the Pohlads quite possibly the dumbest businesspeople in the history of capitalism. The number of fans carrying water for the Pohlads in this thread is really surprising.
  25. Woof Bronzer
    Your entire premise is based on the false idea that the Twins debt came from operating losses which Falvey would have known about. It didn't. The Pohlads used the Twins as a debt shelter for their failing real estate businesses. Falvey was an incompetent GM and has played an enormous role in the sad state this franchise finds itself in. But it's silly to blame him for the Pohlad's dumb decision to double down on a dying market (commercial real estate post-COVID).
  26. Woof Bronzer
    Again, dude, your "plan" involved a laughable trade (for another outfielder) that Washington would never, ever, ever make; signing a crappy reliever for $7m, and illegally trading Bell less than 2 months after signing him and Mendys for no one (for some reason). Your "plan" would get laughed out of every front office in baseball. Don't quit your day job lol. Your narrative is also shifting. Yesterday Tommy couldn't wait to fire Falvey, now suddenly he wanted to work with Falvey. Which is it? How do you know this? I now understand why you are carrying so much water for Tommy. I'm guessing you emailed Falvey your brilliant "plan" about 7 times and got angrier each time he didn't respond, so now you hate Falvey because if he'd only listened to you the Twins would be World Series champs by now. I hate to break it to you, but Tommy isn't hiring you.
  27. Woof Bronzer
    Uh, what? This is nonsensical. Tommy first showed up at a press conference in September. He officially took over in mid December. Yet he waited til February to fire Falvey. Why didn't he fire Falvey on day 1? day 5? day 30? The original poster was saying this plan - to contend with a talent-starved roster while not investing any resources - was dumb, and Tommy Pohlad was dumb to think it would work. You seem to think it was a good plan and it's Falvey's fault it didn't work. Ok. lolololol yes why didn't the Twins simply do this, it's so simple. Finally, the Twins package Hendry Mendez to sweeten the deal for a team to take on Josh Bell's contract in return for a PTBNL. Ah yes, the classic 1) sign a guy 2) trade him 2 months later before playing a single game 3) give away another prospect in the deal too 4) get nothing in return 5) ?? 6) compete for the playoffs!
  28. Woof Bronzer
    How does one get bolder and more aggressive roster-building by giving a new GM $0 to work with 3 weeks ahead of spring training?
  29. Woof Bronzer
    He was very clear that he wants the 2026 season to be judged not on payroll but on wins and losses.
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