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  1. NYCTK
    Michael Cuddyer also had better skills. He had a higher sprint speed at the age of 36 than Lee showed at 24, and his plus arm allowed him to be a passable RF while Lee lacks that as well. That's why Cuddyer was allowed to move around the entire field to find a fit and Lee is an IF with a high potential of being a utility infielder. Still a chance Lee continues to develop real power and still becomes a valuable player so I'm not quitting on him, but all this is why I wanted the Twins to trade him in '23 for a playoff push.
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    It's well known Joey Gallo had a pretty good career. Twins fans just hate on him unfairly because it wasn't in Minnesota.
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    I tend to be more on your side as opposed to thinking Rodriguez is going to be a stud. But your hatred of him is getting excessive! I think he could still be Joey Gallo with more walks and less power. Whether I hate him or not all boils down to his defense.
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    Why are so many fans seemingly completely oblivious to the fact that mlb shares nearly 50% of revenue right now? Should it increase? Sure. And I bet it will. I'm fine with 100% revenue sharing, but I'm a socialist, so that tracks. I just also think equitable environments are lot more important for poor people than billionaires. What is it about sports that turns Americans into full fledged communists? Of all the terrible opinions you've espoused, this is probably the worst. "For the good of all" is laughably stupid. Please explain how hurting a union helps anyone? It'd be for the good of the uber wealthy controlling the purses only. There will be no salary cap. There should not be a salary cap. If the owners went to increase equitable outcomes, they can share their billions with each other.
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    I love baseball. Love, love, love it. That's why I adopted a second team. Too many fans view the sport only through their favorite team's perspective. This is such a narrow view and really prevents many fans from truly appreciating this wonderful sport. I remember at one point someone here said Elly De La Cruz was a bad player, and I was flabbergasted. You can say he's overrated or that you're not a fan of that archetype of player, but to say he's not that good just tells me you don't actually like the sport. You only like the Twins. I think you're generally a well educated fan, way less guilty of this irrational homerism. But this consistent trade rumor talk, of which most fans are guilty of, often devolves into this sort of thinking though. Which isn't to say we should stop these trade ideas. It's fun! And there's little else to do in the offseason. But it often becomes a lack of appreciation of the players and the teams being proposed. The Ober for Vientos trade Blog a few days ago was a good example and was especially funny because it made no sense for either the Mets or the Twins. Soderstrom and De Vries is a fun proposal. But it's also pretty ridiculous to propose the Athletics would trade them, and it's not out of line to point this out. Twins fans will make fun of other team's fans for ridiculous proposals on Twitter. It's equally valid to point out ridiculous proposals from Twins fans. This is all just for fun.
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    It's not that. Your full proposal isn't too ridiculous. But like he said, imagine the Twins were coming out of a rebuild but still weak in pitching. It'd be infuriating to see the Twins trade away a key offensive cog AND their #1 prospect. Contrary to what someone else said, Soderstrom is not blocked with the Athletics, and he is one of 3 key pieces, and if De Vries comes up next year and adds to it, that is a championship level core. Now, it's the Athletics so they're going to screw it up regardless, but nevertheless Soderstrom and De Vries for Ryan and Bradley is a bad baseball trade.
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    We're in agreement on that. They should either extend him or trade him. Failure to do either is the mark of a terrible front office, but that's just one of many for this regime.
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    That's an interesting theory, but I have to strongly disagree with you. You could possibly win me over by saying the expected average contract is lower than what he could receive right now, taking into consideration all the risks of injuries, underperformance, and new market conditions post 2027 CBA. But if you're signing an extension in the middle of a contract you're almost always giving a discount to the signing team. It's the complete opposite of betting on yourself, opting for security. Which is a perfectly reasonable decision...if you're happy in that situation. You have to believe the new CBA is going to drastically reduce player salaries to believe an extension now is potentially more lucrative. I don't believe that at all. There will not be a significant work stoppage and there will be no salary cap.
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    I keep hearing about how the Twins have a near top farm system, and this is supported by national outlets right now. After the trade deadline a lot of folks ranked the Twins in the top or second tier of systems. And that may be accurate. However, I'm only intimately familiar with two farm systems, the Twins and Mets, and I can say the Mets system is significantly better today. Which makes this discussion about how good the Twins farm is harder to swallow. It can still be true, with the Mets a TOP tier system (1-3) and Twins behind but still significantly ahead of other teams (4-8). But it doesn't FEEL right. I tend to think of farms more like Fangraphs rankings, putting a lot more value in the top of the farm system and caring less about the 35 FV depth that fills out the minor league squads. Funny enough Fangraphs has the Mets as the 11th best system, with the Twins right behind them at #12. The Mets more plentiful top end prospects versus the Twins isn't quite outdone by the Twins depth in their ranking system. All this to say, I really struggle thinking of the Twins as a top farm system with only one top end prospect, imo.
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    Twins front office strategy is 100% just hoping their division sucks bad enough for them to win about half their games. And they're going to fail miserably.
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    If your employer exhibited pure incompetence and then tried to get you to commit to staying longer, it's not at all crazy to wait until your contract expired and risked it, especially with the additional earning potential at the end of the deal.
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    Kind of true. But even then, Petersons fastball is 2 clicks faster.
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    His velocity has always been a weakness and the Mets are one of those front offices that overly worships it. This trade is the most not happening trade in the history of this website. Both sides hate it. I keep hearing people proposing trading Twins junk for Lawlar. Lawlar was a consensus top 30 prospect last offseason and continued to hit in AAA. People here are really overrating Ober if they think he's going to return someone of his caliber just because he struggled in limited playing time in the majors. I don't even like him as a prospect, but I would be livid if the Twins traded Emmanuel Rodriguez for someone like Bailey Ober.
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    I think the value of Vientos for Ober is pretty fair, but I can tell you the Mets wouldn't be interested. Someone said they have a hole in the rotation? Kind of, but they're missing an ace. They wouldn't really be interested in a pitcher with a 5 ERA. They have plenty of options in that department.
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    David Ortiz.
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    Yeah, as nice as it is his team's won 2 World Series, I only know Tom Kelly as the guy with tenure that managed terrible teams and then ran a hall of fame bat out of Minnesota.
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    Completely honest, I totally forgot about him. I guess he's gonna spend half his time at DH but you are right.
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    The guy that started complaining about this team's imagined "any one can play anywhere" strategy endorses moving a player to a different position, thereby dismissing his own complaints.
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    What does this even mean? Having him learn no position? Do you think he's been DHing his entire Twins career? Are you under the impression Keaschall hasn't played OF before? You just sound like you've never watched baseball before. I'm being honest with you, you sound like you don't know anything about the sport. Like at all. Pre-complaining about the Twins potentially moving a defensive question mark player to a different position he's potentially better and more comfortable in. BTW @USAFChief, you just thumbs downed my honest question for you. Are you able to acknowledge that 6 of the 8 primary position players were never asked to play a different position on the field? And one of the other 2 just moved around the OF, which is hardly moving them, meaning you can argue 7 of the 8 primary players were never asked to play a different position. This is, as I said, less positional flexibility than asked of the terribly managed and know nothing Los Angeles Dodgers.
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    It would be a mistake if it were true. Twins primary SS, 3B, CF, 1B, RF and C didn't play a single game out of those respective positions. Pretty hard to accomplish with a philosophy of anybody can play anywhere! Almost as if the primary players are allowed to effectively remain in their primary position for the season and the supplementary roster is positioned around them. You know, like every single baseball team in the history of the game. Do you even acknowledge this is true? That the primary position player for 6 of the 8 positions on the 2025 Minnesota Twins was never asked to play another position? And this is more than the Dodgers, 5 of 8.
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    Lol. No. No, Tom cannot win back the fans. No amount of bloviation is going to increase attendance. We as a society need to stop giving so much credit to the billionaire class. The Twins didn't win the world series because of some ******* banker, and they only partially actually suck now because of that same *******s loser nepo babies. The credit for the failure does fall more at Falvey's feet, but because the Pohalds are incompetent, they haven't canned his ass.
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    Thank you! I really, truly, don't get this crusade people here have. It seems like it's old school baseball heads but...this isn't unique to modern baseball either, so I really am at a loss for why this insanity is so prevalent here. Is it just an ignorant manifestation of frustration with the team?
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    Which is oddly commendable from a humanist standpoint. This sort of loyalty and respect for employees is what you'd like to see all other companies show, especially smaller, family owned companies. But this is a sports league and is the one industry in which it's kind of unacceptable!
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    Very simply because they're not convinced he can be good enough at 2B to become a full time starter there. And they want to give him the best chance to succeed while also making sure they're helping the team. You disagree, see him as a good 2B and want to criticize their player evaluation? Go right ahead. The Twins LF right now is Alan Roden and Austin Martin. You can't tell me with a straight face that you're comfortable with that and there's no room to improve the team. Everyone keeps pointing to the depth of the Twins OF farm, but I see one great prospect, and a bunch of question marks. I've never been convinced Rodriguez will make a nice transition to the big leagues with his sky high K rate (but still hope he can still adjust in time) and everyone else seems to be 4th OF fodder. Looking to your farm in order to predict your needs at the major league level is a great recipe for failure. Which is all just to say that this makes this definitive statement quite foolish. I will rephrase what I've said before. This great angst here, that the Twins want everyone to be a utility player, is unfounded. And quite simply, silly.
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    You'll notice I also didn't use "I" or "we" when talking about the Mets. I didn't even mean "you" as in specifically you, yourself. You, an agreeing pronoun in the sentence, as in the hypothetical of if "you" are in charge of running the team. So...nice gotcha bro. Yes they are. And it could go terribly wrong. But I also don't know any Mets fan upset with them trying to make drastic change. If it blows up, Stearns is done. But it's better to get a new voice in there, rather than a decade with some loser like Falvey. Breaking News: Twins fan on Twins message board argues with other Twins fans when he thinks they're wrong about the Twins. Like baseball dunces complaining about a SS being asked to play 2B as if it's some sort of new age crime. You don't think I'm polite? That's fine, I really don't care. More prolific posters here are wrong all the time but still somehow even more rude. If I didn't care, I wouldn't be advocating for anything. The fact that I have, ipso facto, I care. Just because I refuse to buy up lies and propaganda doesn't make me a bad fan. Like I said, maybe you should also adopt an NL team. You might view the Twins more objectively, and therefore harshly at that point.
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