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  1. NYCTK
    The Yankees famously moved a good fielding SS to 3B in order to satisfy the egotistical bad fielding SS. And it worked out! Both continued playing like the hall of famers they are, and they won a World Series!
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    I simply don't agree if there's no actual attempt to ever contend. You can argue it's easier to get towards a contending team from 82 wins than 72, but if you're losing Ryan, Lopez, and Jeffers with no idea how to replace them, is it really? Nah, I don't mean specifically you. I think you look around at how people here are talking about the rotation though and you'd be under the impression that they're a top 3 rotation. Additionally, we know this rotation is not being helped this offseason, so that number is only going to get worse. Come opening day we should probably expect that projection to be 14-18. It's merely in the category of...fine. I don't know why you think this is some sort of point. Yeah! The Mets sucked last year, rivaling how laughably bad they were in 2023. And rather than being led by losers and seeing them cross their fingers and hope things change, they're actually trying to shake things up. The Twins suck and the organization is a league wide laughing stock, that's just a fact, and no fan should take offense to me saying. We all know it to be true. I will be optimistic in the spring, but this is the winter and I don't have to lie or pretend as if this Twins team is any good. A fine rotation isn't going to save them. If you love baseball, you too can follow a second team that isn't as terrible as the Twins. It doesn't make you less of a fan of the Twins, and actually allows you to be more honest about them.
  3. NYCTK
    Giving an unearned second chance to a wealthy nepo baby real estate business family famous for ruining their other businesses. What could go wrong?
  4. NYCTK
    Barely. I think fans here are vastly overrating the rotation. Fangraphs LIKES the Twins, and they still only have them tied for 10th in projected rotation. The Twins rotation has no ace, two #2s and a deep stable of #4s. The AL Central can be won by a team with 82 wins some seasons. This is no real accomplishment. The fact that they started a rebuild and then changed course has me so angry. You can be satisfied to win the AL Central in seasons like 2023, a year in which you're trying things out and ostensibly setting yourself up for future seasons. But to TRY to just win the AL Central is an absolute embarrassment.
  5. NYCTK
    Because this is a ****** team on a rebuild that's going to struggle to win 70 games. But as part of that, they're punting the season waiting for players to prove themselves, one way or another. He shouldn't be at SS, but really, what's the damage? First, the Twins don't care about winning. Second, you can settle for subpar performance on a winning team in short bursts if roster flexibility is needed, like when Carlos Correa went down and Brooks Lee and Willi Castro filled in. Third, utility defenders are often a bit iffy at positions like SS, see Willi Castro, but their ability to rotate into the position is still valuable. The back to back World Series champions say otherwise. It's very nice to think you have a set lineup and a set defensive alignment. But the reality is the season is very long and **** happens. This article isn't even proposing moving players around the diamond willy nilly. It's merely saying that these players can start in one position and if things don't go well, or if other players are introduced, they can be moved off a position to a different one. That's just the reality of baseball, but we STILL have people here complaining about that very simple concept.
  6. NYCTK
    LOL. This is hilarious. They're hoping everyone is stupid. It will work with a certain group and for a certain amount of time, but you can only lie to your audience for so long. This team blows and it's not going to get better anytime soon. I will continue watching (without giving them any money) because I love some Schadenfreude, but the Minnesota Twins are quickly falling down the organization rankings. 3 years ago they were probably middle of the pack, and now they might be bottom 3. The only thing better than a World Series is the complete cratering of the value of this organization to zero, so the rich idiots lose all their money.
  7. NYCTK
    OK. Not really wrong. But why all encompassing rejection at a baseball player being suggested to play at a second position on the diamond? Brooks Lee is going to need to be able to play a lot of different positions in order to have any sort of a valuable career, because he's neither good enough offensively, nor seemingly defensively, to be a longterm starting SS. It's frankly ridiculous.
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  9. NYCTK
    How terrible is this team, how traumatized is this fanbase, that they have the fans deriding positional flexibility, an undeniable asset, as some sort of weakness? I swear you guys forget how long a season is, and how fortunate it is to be called upon to play in major league baseball. I promise you, there's nothing wrong with the manager of the 2026 Minnesota Twins asking Luke Keaschall to play some games at 2B and some games in LF, and maybe some innings in CF. He will survive, I can guarantee you that. I can also promise you the terrible crime of Rocco Baldelli asking Royce Lewis to play 8 innings at second base didn't derail his career, nor his defense at 3B. This is a luxury reserved for good players. If you're good enough, you get to pick your position. And if you're extra good, you can be Mookie Betts and bear that terrible awful burden of playing multiple positions to be an MVP and then help your team win back to back World Series. This crusade by many here against the Twins having players take reps at mutiple positions is truly baffling to me. It honestly sounds like it comes from people who have never actually watched or played the sport. Which is obviously not the case.
  10. NYCTK
    I think this concern is completely fabricated, absolutely nonexistent. It's not like they're asking Wallner to play 2B which is how many people act here.
  11. NYCTK
    Glad to see people complaining about baseball players being asked to play baseball has survived the managerial swap.
  12. NYCTK
    Zips also had the Twins bullpen as elite the last couple years. Biggest issue with these projections, they view everything as parts, not able to actually look at a sum. This team will have a terrible infield defense, and Matt Wallner still penciled in the outfield. How is that going to ripple to outcomes for the pitchers? I remember distinctly the terrible game in Florida where Trevor Larnach was unable to track a pair of outfield flys on back to back pitches that ended up inflating Funderburks season ending ERA from 2.63 to where it ended at 3.51. Bad defense, back to back pitches, inflated the ERA of one player nearly a full run. Now, the more important fact is that game was made out of reach, rather than someone's personal stats being messed up. But the point remains. What sort of impact will the defense of Lee, Keaschall, Bell, Wallner, Martin, et al have on the numbers of the decent pitching staff?
  13. NYCTK
    This is all true. But, as you said, Ryan McMahon has a significantly better resume than Royce Lewis. They have about the same level of bat, but McMahon is legitimately good at 3B and has no lingering questions about his health, that I'm aware of at least. No other team cares any longer about how Lewis was drafted first overall or was a top ten prospect in baseball back in 2019. They care that he's been marginally above replacement level the last couple years. They care that he's a question mark at 3B with a question mark bat to go with it, and a question mark on his health hanging over everything. BBTV is an interesting tool, but this is another example where I don't put much stock in it. Like I said, I believe Royce Lewis is quickly becoming a DFA candidate. A repeat of last season and a DFA is not out of the question at all. Ryan McMahon, for all his faults, isn't a DFA candidate at this point. I'm not being flippant, I truly don't believe other teams would offer much more than the 35 and 40 FV prospects the Rockies received for Ryan McMahon. 2 40/40+ FV? Maybe. Just pretending the Mets needed someone like him, I would be quite disappointed if they traded a single 45 FV or higher prospect for him, and absolutely livid if they traded a 50 FV.
  14. NYCTK
    Falvey heard all the fans here constantly whining about losing Noah Miller and got them this Christmas present. This is an even better Noah Miller. Enjoy!
  15. NYCTK
    Fair enough. I guess you and I are on the same page, but I just can't be bothered by a nothing deal like this. It's not stopping anything, nor is it really helping. It's just filling a hole on a bad team. I think they should have signed someone like Bell, but after trading away Joe Ryan and Byron Buxton and getting someone like Ryan Clifford into their depth chart in return.
  16. NYCTK
    The problem is not signing Bell. The problem is the Twins are run by idiots that think this team stands a chance at 85 wins, rather than the reality that this team will be lucky to get to 75. There is no magic solution to turn this terrible club into a contender this offseason, so there is no move that would placate fans like yourself. The fact that they aren't trading Joe Ryan, at a minimum, is malpractice. And as it is, I look forward to cheering on our lottery position next September.
  17. NYCTK
    If you view Ty France as a $700,000 contract that was then traded at the deadline for Alan Roden...yeah, that's a great deal actually. Why are we pretending that it wasn't? And knowing this team is pretty irrelevant. Knowing Bell, I think we'll probably see a lumbering 750 OPS splitting time between 1B and DH for aboit $4 million that is then traded for something of little consequence, like an A ball middle infielder. Sounds like an entirely reasonable deal.
  18. NYCTK
    Nah, last year I think they were more unaware with how bad their team was and were actually trying to put together a competitive team.
  19. NYCTK
    This team sucks so I can see easily be convinced that they should have just blown everything up and not even bother filling holes. I argued the same thing last offseason. But this exact comment could have been made last year about Bader. Now, Bader was a much better signing so it makes sense that there's almost no one excited for the signing, but it's still an entirely defensible move.
  20. NYCTK
    I think there's value in these sorts of contracts for terrible teams, especially for a team like the Twins with no one being blocked. I can't believe Falvey is stupid enough to think this team is any good. I just can't. I know plenty of stupid people get promoted up the ladder, but no one can honestly think that about this team.
  21. NYCTK
    You're pointing out two undeniably good deals and veterans that were used to near perfection?
  22. NYCTK
    Sure, but this is the Twins, not a good team.
  23. NYCTK
    You make a good point. This infield defense is shaping up to be one of the worst in the league. Woof! Well, at least they make up for it with their OF defense?!? Oh no!
  24. NYCTK
    Yes, but that's not unique to Twins fans. But it's not universal. And tends not to be the best players, but the second or third tier. I feel like Twins fans do overrate Joe Ryan a little bit, but not by orders of magnitude. The talk of refusing to trade him for anyone short of Nolan McLean is either overrating Ryan's value or underrating the value of a prospect of McLean's caliber (or maybe just overrating the talent on the 2026 Twins). But most people here are much more realistic about his value and for the most part the packages I've seen here have been reasonable. The prospects are overrated, but again, not unique to Twins fans, or fans here. Walker Jenkins is pretty appropriately rated, but nearly every other prospect is being held to too high of expectations. Which is how so many fans become disillusioned with players like Miranda and Julien. Those two were always likely to be busts. I'm worried about how Culpepper will be treated when he comes up and likely doesn't prove to be an all star caliber SS.
  25. NYCTK
    They do. They're just run by someone that's really bad at his job and the guys he's signed have become massive albatrosses and were traded away. That's basically been his job each of the last many seasons. Start the year with a bad team, do just well enough to get traded to a wild card competitive team. The fact that this is his 7th team in 7 years just shows the Twins are anything but unique in hiring a player like Josh Bell. The 2026 Twins suck and the talent brought in is kind of irrelevant. The deal is fine, and is paying about $4 million for 4 months of baseball, filling a hole and 1-2 middling prospects come August.
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