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The 2025 Twins sucked and were right to trade away their assets in the bullpen to try to rebuild a competent team. The 2026 Twins still sucked and should have traded away more assets before the season to get their house in order for 2027. Looking back on solid decision making and questioning it because you ONLY finished 7 games back is just a fool's errand. Fun fact: The 2026 Twins bullpen was the 19th best in the bigs in Win Percentage Added. Not great! But also not a disaster. In 2025, before trading away their assets, they were 25th. The bullpen has been more successful this season than last season, with all those studs.

Last season the Twins had the 26th best run differential with an expected win loss of 71-91. This season the Twins currently have the 24th best run differential with an expected win loss of 73-86. Optimism is for the spring, so this fall let's be honest about how bad this team actually was.

Biggest need is for the Pohlads to collectively jump off a cliff...metaphorically of course.

There's a difference in playing prospects when they've proved themselves at various levels and counting on a prospect being ready on a projected timeline. Houston has been pretty decent at AA. But if the Twins were serious about contending a good team wouldn't go into Spring Training with a vacancy at the major league level hoping he's ready for the majors quickly. Players plateau, struggle, or get hurt all the time. Fans here were getting mad that Harrison Bader was added to the roster last spring because they thought Emmanuel Rodriguez deserved to start the year in the majors. That would have been incredibly foolish, even if it ultimately didn't matter since that team sucked regardless.

Too many fans count on prospects to develop linearly, both here and IRL, and not exclusive to the Twins of course. There's a decent chance neither Houston nor Lackey become reliable every day starters in the major leagues! I like them, but planning AROUND prospects is a good way to make sure your team continues to suck.

You can stay mad, whatever, but those prices aren't falling, and they're high not because of the "greed" of the players but the greed of the uber wealthy billionaires that ruin everything in this world. Would you rather that money go to the players that we pay to watch, or the billionaire owners that do literally nothing?

Oh well. The only important thing is it's still very affordable to go to a professional baseball game, and blaming the players for a non-existent problem is especially foolish.

No, they just signed Andy Green as their manager yesterday.

There's a lot I disagree with here, but I'll focus instead on the inflation since that's an interesting question. Seems based on the other information you provided that $4.50 would be something like $50 today. But more importantly, I want to point out that despite everyone loving to complain about rising ticket prices, MLB tickets are one of the entertainment products that have failed to explode in cost. Outpaced inflation, perhaps, but not by massive leaps and bounds. Helps that the Mets are atrocious, but I think the average ticket price I paid in my trips to the ballpark the last couple season was something like $15-$20. Comparing that to concert tickets or a lot of other entertainment products, a trip to the ballpark is still a remarkably good deal! The concessions are another beast.

Looks like it's a done deal... To be honest, I've always said Falvey wasn't really the issue anyways. The Twins issues were always the Pohlads. And Falvey isn't even taking over an executive role it sounds like. Go Mets! Go Falvey!

We'll see about that when he maintains a 33% K rate over the course of a season... TBF I have that opinion of "Emma" too. Until I hear him or a teammate affirm that nickname I refuse. His nickname on BBRef is The Dynamite, which seems more appropriate, particularly for his swing. I will never say the swing of someone with that much swing and miss is beautiful. But Dynamic, or Explosive? Sure.

I haven't been watching since he came up. My question on his Savant is about the sprint speed. It's showing 60th or so percentile. Does that seem about accurate to those watching the games? Or has he not yet had a chance to unhitch the trailer and show top speed yet?

Those articles were laughable, and there were like 4 within 24 hours. What the heck were the authors smoking?

Attendance STILL went down this year because fan's aren't complete idiots. The only thing that could have brought the fans back out would be an actual investment in the team/organization or following through on their promise and seeing the Pohlads finally get the hell out of our lives. Tom instead hampered the health of the organization for a small, short term, questionable, gain. BUSINESS GURUS!