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  1. NYCTK
    Tonkin's goal is for the elusive 4th DFA in a season. Go Tonkin!
  2. NYCTK
    Yeah. This season isn't a success if they somehow limp into that wild card. Pretending it is let's the team off the hook.
  3. NYCTK
    Does having a famous cousin not count as a tool anymore? Wokes gone too far!
  4. NYCTK
    This is a good point if the expansion were separate and not an active change of something already existing. If you hurt a product for the gain of a few, I am allowed to complain. Only 9.1 Million people watched World Series Game 1 last year. That's pitiful. What good is it to provide false hope to some people when the hope you're offering is less and less meaningful?
  5. NYCTK
    I get what you're saying and I believe that you believe it, but I don't think it's actually true. In general, it's not true. We all love a David vs Goliath story, but nobody wants to watch a David vs David story. And as for hope? How much hope you been seeing on this website this week?
  6. NYCTK
    There are 162 games readily available to watch for 6 months of the year. Unless you're telling me you're regularly watching the Diamondbacks, I don't believe you that you want more entertainment, not less. I want better entertainment. Not worse.
  7. NYCTK
    I agree with you that it's not the best way to find the best team but. But this is again why I don't want clearly objectively worse teams in there. Why other than money do we want to watch worse teams play more games?
  8. NYCTK
    Why criticize him for not compounding mistakes?
  9. NYCTK
    Well, all of your criticism of Rocco just lost of a lot of bite then, because that would have been a pretty weak move. To take out the only bat that can currently be classified as "hot" for a minimal platoon advantage against the best reliever in baseball with 2 outs that would make the team worse on the other side of the ball in the near certain chance they go into extras?
  10. NYCTK
    Yeah, true... Now do the previous 26 games.
  11. NYCTK
    Happy Birthday Brian of River!
  12. NYCTK
    I don't care. They can have some separate NIT-type tournament. If they wanted to be in the playoffs they should have won their division. Harsh? Sure, but they weren't the best team in their division so why should they have to right to play for the designation of best team in the league? Playoffs should mean something, and not just be an avenue for more revenue for our billionaire overlords.
  13. NYCTK
    I just don't get this argument. Why the hell would you want more teams? In my ideal scenario they'd add two teams, go to 8x4 team divisions and get rid of Wild Cards completely. Why we trying to reward teams for finishing 3rd in their own division? Force teams to strive for greatness, and not be content with mediocrity like the Twins.
  14. NYCTK
    It worked so well with David Ortiz. What ever happened to that guy...
  15. NYCTK
    This is really sad, and has me even more down on Lee now. He should start in AAA. If Pablo retires as a Twin, I'm betting it's because he had a career ending injury. Someone else said it, but when the Twins said they want to emulate the Rays, we should take that to mean we can expect the Twins to have Pablo on the market THIS offseason. His pay is tripling and the Pohlads don't want to see anything under 25 mil in net income on their asset.
  16. NYCTK
    Let's not pretend any one of us would have liked that.
  17. NYCTK
    Yet another way in which the expanded playoffs have ruined the regular season...
  18. NYCTK
    I am too tbh. The starting pitching should be OK with the rookies able to get more comfortable there. I think Festa is fine, and between Matthews, Adams, Lewis, Morris, Culpepper, and others I think their high minors depth is good enough. And, honestly, I don't think anyone should really concern themselves with the bullpen (more so with it's shuffling and management). But the bats just are not inspiring. I said this yesterday but Lewis has gone from a 24 stud hitting bombs in the playoffs and a franchise player to...a pretty good bat with questionable defense and major injury concerns. Lee looks like he's not ready. Julien lol. Wallner, major strikeout issues and questionable defense really limiting his upside. Jeffers was a mirage. And the most concerning thing is, Lee excepted, we aren't able to say about them "well, they're still young". No, these are players that should be hitting their stride. This was THE year. And it was a massive failure.
  19. NYCTK
    I just used to the comparison as a point that the Twins arms are not burnt out. If anything, they're coddled. Let's adjust our view a bit. Since August 1st, they're 10th in the majors in batters faced. Ironically, Detroit is #1, and by a wide margin. They must be using openers? I guess I haven't noticed but it seems that way, as Brant Hurter and Maeda are the bulk of their "RP" innings. Anyways, point being, Griffin Jax being the biggest workhorse in the bullpen isn't actually being worked that much. 67.2 IP is not a large load. He's faced the 48th most batters in the majors since August 1st. So, yeah, our bullpen is actually coddled, not overworked.
  20. NYCTK
    The White Sox, by losing 12 of 13 and providing the illusion of the Twins being a decent team, hurt this organization. Damn them.
  21. NYCTK
    Ignoring the on-the-field benefits (or detriments) of roster shuffling via trades or waiver claims, they act as such a signal to the players in the clubhouse. The season was over the moment Carlos Correa went to his bosses with a list of players that could help this team and management replied with the Pawn Shop meme and threw an objectively bad pitcher into the bullpen instead. Lane Thomas and Alex Cobb are not world beaters, but it signaled to the players in that clubhouse that the organization wanted to help them out. Erceg and Lorenzen, same thing. I already forgot the bum the Twins added, but all he signaled to the club was that they wanted to act like they care. Like buying pizza for an office meeting in which you're announcing layoffs.
  22. NYCTK
    This is the benefit of the Twins farm seemingly improving. There are a lot of interesting arms down there, and while most are going to stall out, some will chug along and become good BP arms. I have no faith in Raya ever becoming a valuable starter. But he seems exactly the type that could be a lights out guy at the end of the game.
  23. NYCTK
    If I were the Twins, I would trade him in a heartbeat. But what team is looking to add $133M over 4 years to their books? The Giants would NOT be happy to take him. The ONLY teams I can imagine doing something like this would be the Braves or the Yankees (moving him to 3rd).
  24. NYCTK
    This would be incredibly stupid. Bobby is better on the position by far and way younger.
  25. NYCTK
    This is just not true. The Twins bullpen is 20th in IP. The Guardians have 7 pitchers that have 54+ IP. The Twins have 3.
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