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  1.    gil4 reacted to a post in a topic: The Twins Simply Don't Believe in Outfield Prospect Kyler Fedko
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  9. NYCTK
    When I choose to be. Ironically, no. lol If I'm not mistaken, Joey Ortiz was expected to get the bulk of the playing time at SS with David Hamilton at 3B. But Ortiz has stunk it up and lost a lot of playing time to Rengifo who is actually hitting even worse! Brewers fans are probably getting antsy, wanting to see one of their 2 very good AAA MIF prospects called up!
  10.    friedbrycenbeans reacted to a post in a topic: A Chance Worth Taking: The Twins Are Still in This, Somehow
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    Hey man, they led the ALCS, 1 game to 0, in 2002.
  12. NYCTK
    ...honestly, no. I'd watch, and I'd be excited if they won the Wild Card round. But I'd still recognize they're imposters who have no business being in the playoffs in the first place. Even at that point, I wouldn't even feel the team are contenders in the Divisional round, instead just there potentially acting as spoilers to one of the other, better AL teams. But, like I said, if this team actually turned it around and played like one of the better teams in the league for a full 3-4 month period, that's a different story.
  13.    Cory Engelhardt reacted to a post in a topic: The Twins Simply Don't Believe in Outfield Prospect Kyler Fedko
  14. NYCTK
    Let's be honest. If the team finished 80-82 and that was somehow good enough for a wild card spot, would you be excited about that team? Is the goal just to get to the playoffs? Or is the goal to put together a good team, one that can ideally contend for a pennant if not a world series championship. I got a lot of **** in 2024 when I, in the final days of the season, said that the Twins sucked and didn't deserve to be in the playoffs and I wasn't really all that interested in seeing that team limp into that last spot and be made fools. I still feel that way. I want to watch my team(s) do well, not delude myself into thinking they might do well. There's still time for a 2023 situation where this team actually gets their **** together and surprising players step up to make this team a truly competitive team. While that's not the case right now, so there remains small rays of hope. However, no, the team should not consider selling their future in order to bolster this current team. Much like 2023, this is the roster and they gotta sink or swim on their own.
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    Even if we're pleasantly surprised with the level the team is playing, I don't know that I'd say a team currently on pace for 75 wins is an on-the-whole positive season. And I know I've said this to you before. You dislike negativity, and I both get and respect that. I try not to feed into it, especially before the all-star break. But I just find it funny that Mr. Positivity is named Fire Dan Gladden lol.
  20. NYCTK
    Honey, I hate to break it to you...that's called depth. No one brings in a player to NOT use them. Regnifo has the 5th most PAs for the Brewers, Sanchez the 9th.
  21.    NYCTK reacted to a post in a topic: BREAKING: Twins Option Royce Lewis to Minor Leagues, Will Call Up Orlando Arcia
  22. NYCTK
    As much as I hate The Man, players underperforming is way more a PLAYER failure than an EXECUTIVE failure. So...this is why talking with you is maddening. On the one hand, the team needs to put together a 26 man roster, fill holes and allow competition and players to move up and down the depth chart. But on the other hand, they shouldn't bring in cheap players to actually do that. Instead, they should just do that at no cost...or only for premium Free Agents, which often aren't even available. Even if the Twins were capable of attracting more Correa's, true big money stars to add to the roster, there are always going to be holes to patch. As we saw when the Twins had Correa but still needed to bring in the likes of Bader to fill a 4th OF role that eventually grew to a near every day role when the predetermination failed due to injury and underperformance. Again I say, no one has ever suggested otherwise. So you're arguing with a straw man. Can you believe those poorly managed Milwaukee Brewers? They brought in Luis Rengifo and Gary Sanchez on one year major league deals this season. A true testament to their failure as an organization to develop every single need for their roster ...OR... maybe every team will bring in vets on one year deals to fill in depth and you have consistently gotten agitated over a complete nonissue? Nah. That can't be right.
  23.    NYCTK reacted to a post in a topic: The Twins Simply Don't Believe in Outfield Prospect Kyler Fedko
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    I assure you, a SS playing 3B in an effort to give him more opportunity to break into the majors is not a bad thing. The Twins aren't making him a utility infielder. The player they seem to be turning into a utility player is actually Kyler Fedko, which is entirely appropriate.
  26. NYCTK
    You weren't wrong with your first thought: But this sort of comment makes me chuckle when I know you primarily as one of the people here that will inevitably complain about veterans brought in to fill out the roster. You complained about; Bader, France, Santana and I'm sure many more.
  27.    NYCTK reacted to a post in a topic: The Twins Simply Don't Believe in Outfield Prospect Kyler Fedko
  28. NYCTK
    Obviously. No one has ever argued that you can predict with 100% certainty how a player will play. If that's your whole point, I don't know why you're fighting straw men.
  29. NYCTK
    Death, Taxes, and TwinsDaily commentators complaining about baseball players moving around the diamond. IDK man. An 11 year veteran that's accumulated under 4.0 WAR seems the exact definition of a fringe player. Best case scenario, he lights the world on fire and a team trades for him and returns...a low A SP that was an undrafted free agent but put together 10 pretty good starts, in large part thanks to the fact he's 3 years older than his competition. There's no need to pretend as if he would return anything of any value.
  30.    NYCTK reacted to a post in a topic: Patience Now Could Pay Off Big for Twins and Kaelen Culpepper
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  32. NYCTK
    Good new is strikeouts are actually on the decline. They peaked 2019-2021 but are currently the lowest since 2017.
  33. NYCTK
    He's being given a chance, effectively. He keeps it up and he'll be able to call himself a major leaguer. It seems almost identical to McCusker last season, or Keirsey the year prior. Fans here were clamoring for McCusker to get a call up, he got a cup of coffee, went down and immediately lost it and is now struggling in Japan. Keirsey got his chance, proved the haters right, and is once again playing pretty well but unremarkably in the Braves AAA. Likewise, I think Fedko doesn't have the skills to be real player but the 4th OF who really cares, especially when you aren't truly contending for anything. With all the other outfielders hurt, I'd be fine with the team DFAing Outman and brining him up. He's played CF, I'm sure poorly, but probably well enough not to look like Wallner. And if not, Martin can, sort of, play it if needed. The Twins are right that Fedko is organizational depth and not a legitimate option.
  34. NYCTK
    Man. It almost seems as though the bias is coming from within the house...ie some fans are so biased they see any sort of discourse of potential or unlikely transactions as personal attacks.
  35. NYCTK
    Fair. Teams just aren't really interested in shaking things up this early in the season unless something happens. The Tigers might be an interesting trade partner since they're in free fall without Skubal. Don't know what's in their system so can't speak to that. Unless miracles happen, the Twins can and should explore trading Ryan before the deadline, but like you're saying, it's fine to wait too. I see nothing wrong with that. I remember rumblings, I think rumor not reporting, that Tolle was on the table in exchange for Ryan. If that's the case, that and a low/non-top 100 prospect are the appropriate goals in return. I was trying to manifest a Jett Williams trade for the Twins, and he's still looking like he could be anywhere between Turang or Joey Ortiz in the Brewers AAA. I still think that was the deal the Twins should have been hunting, but with Stearns history in Milwaukee I think he had a bias towards the Brewers system that would have been harder to overcome, but that's another top of the trade target player that I would love to see come back to Minnesota. In the real world there was none. But here there were plenty. I only mentioned it because fans will simultaneously propose ridiculously biased trade ideas while complaining about East Coast bias. And to be clear, that comment from me was fairly lighthearted, not an attack on you, more so a general eyeroll type of comment. The sort of response you'd expect from a Midwestener if an East Coast resident called Minnesota flyover country in conversation, for example.
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