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  1. NYCTK
    No big multiyear contract for someone that can't stay healthy. Give him the fair arbitration contract. I guess that won't be more than $6 Million?
  2. NYCTK
    Honestly, the Twins don't deserve to win the division. Guardians pulled winner moves with a winning team mentality. Whereas the Twins are struggling to throw a warm body into the rotation, the Guardians traded for a Starter who will be making his season debut against the Twins. Rather than lean on their crappy OF (Brennan/Margot) with a sub 90 OPS+ and continue to give him more than the 250 PAs he's already received, they upgraded their OF by acquiring Lane Thomas.
  3. NYCTK
    Willi Castro and Matt Wallner
  4. NYCTK
    Darn! If only the team knew this before the trade deadline. Oh well!
  5. NYCTK
    Big fan of giving pitchers every chance to make it as a starter. I'm someone that will say the Twins SHOULD give Jax every chance to become a starter again in the offseason. But Varland doesn't seem to really have the makeup of a starter. He hasn't shown anything special in that role at his high minors stops and obviously not in the show. The second time batters face him, they tee off. Happy to have him join the bullpen for the remaining 8 weeks.
  6. NYCTK
    Good chat. And as a button I just want to add my "hatred" of Wallner is just criticism. I like him. I like to see him at bat in the 6th inning with a runner on. I just think his weaknesses mean he's never going to be an everyday player. 400 PAs is still a lot to give to a player! He's good, just not someone any team will ever give more than a two year contract to.
  7. NYCTK
    Gunnar is/was good and is/was young. That's the evidence. Wallner isn't near the prospect and is much much older. Hoping an older player suddenly figures it out isn't exactly a good plan.
  8. NYCTK
    You don't have to preach to me about Margot. I've wanted to DFA since March 29th. But you seem to be just misunderstanding my point. Yes, a 0 WAR player is not something anyone's looking for, but Gunnar clearly isn't that. I'm going off the previously established fact that he "struggled" against lefties, but A) his struggles were far less severe than Matt's to the point he was STILL replacement level at that production and B) Gunnar is a very skilled all-around ballplayer with all the evidence in the world that he would improve. No team trying to be competitive would allow Matt to hit against lefties if at all avoidable.
  9. NYCTK
    I just looked at his output at 3B this season, total. As a 3B he's hit like 240/290/300 and has 0.0 fWAR at that position. I'm not suggesting Gio's splits or previous performances. But the point is, yeah, that sort of a line isn't good but is essentially replacement level. So as a weaker side of a split, its easy to roster. Maybe Wallner could eventually figure out lefties, but there's nothing to suggest he will anytime soon and allowing him important PAs against any is a terrible idea.
  10. NYCTK
    It quite literally does though? If you're a 291/301 hitter at 3B with an average-ish glove, you'd look like Gio Urshela and you'd be about replacement level. So, if we're just talking about the weaker side of a split with a good glove? Yeah, that plays.
  11. NYCTK
    Above average bat, below average glove. Wallner projects as a 2 WAR player for a few years and then that type of player that will move around the league for years, enough of a bat to get contracts but not enough of a ballplayer to start 100 games.
  12. NYCTK
    As a great glove at 3B? Yeah, that still plays. Gunnar has the potential to be an all-time great so it makes sense to allow him to work things out. Wallner has the potential to be...Miguel Sano, so teams will obviously be less willing to let him fight through slumps.
  13. NYCTK
    The difference is 293/324 plays at SS so you can ride it out. 189/235 wouldn't barely play at Catcher. Matt is no Gunnar. Happy to allow him to hit in low leverage PAs against lefties, but why would you want him starting against any left handed pitcher as a player that offers no value on defense either.
  14. NYCTK
    At a certain point it's up to the player to perform. Matt quite simply sucks, right now, against lefties. It's malpractice to allow him medium or high leverage plate appearance against one. 169/250/361 this season across AAA and MLB. 118/189/235 in his major league career. We can cry about small samples but he simply hasn't done anything to allow his manager to play him.
  15. NYCTK
    I mean, they're doing that right now and he's on a heater exceeding that. He's only started 5 of the last 10 games and on a full season pace of 375 PAs in that stretch. So...idk what to tell you.
  16. NYCTK
    He's never passed the eye test for me, and he's 5 runs below average in metrics. Which, in 2/3 a season of PAs isn't the worst. But not exactly something that gets me excited.
  17. NYCTK
    That was against LHP in the minors in 2022 or something. It's nice to see. But then you notice he had massive splits in AAA this year as well. So...I wouldn't hold my breath that he can figure it out.
  18. NYCTK
    I won't say he couldn't improve. His peripherals against lefties haven't been worlds different. But I don't have faith he'd improve enough to the point he's a good player combined with his bad defense.
  19. NYCTK
    It's not that we're not happy with the results, we just understand it's not sustainable. Wallner isn't going to have a BABIP of .500 the rest of the season. I'm not gonna say he couldn't sustain a 10% HR rate though. He does have that kind power.
  20. NYCTK
    Regular, yes! Everyday player that you set it and forget it, no! He's a 400 PA player on a good team. And he'd likely hit close to 30 HRs in those PAs.
  21. NYCTK
    Come on. That's loser mentality. If he was thrown so badly that a few small, bad calls made him become completely unplayable, then it goes to my point that he is not someone a good team should rely on to play every day.
  22. NYCTK
    His inability to hit LHP, a 37% K rate, and mediocre defense...
  23. NYCTK
    It's a heck of a lot closer to "plenty" than "none". And if it's 10% of hitters its not an outlier. It's just that Matt isn't good enough. Which is fine. He's fine. He's worthy of being a Major Leaguer in a platoon situation. But let's not pretend he's anything not way closer to being Joey Gallo with bad defense than an actual elite hitter. He's not Gallo because I expect 33% K instead of 40% but that frustration we have will resurface when his luck starts turning again.
  24. NYCTK
    Let's be serious. Judge struck out at a rate 5% lower than Wallner in the minors. Using him as a comp, expecting Matt to drop his K rate from 37% down to 27% is ignoring reality.
  25. NYCTK
    very good point. and they sold off some very valuable pieces. I don't know why people are pretending there was nobody good that moved teams. Elfin is another player that I wish the Twins were on. But he's owed 4 million for the remainder of the season and 18 Million next, so that was never happening. God forbid the Twins pay for talent.
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