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  1. NYCTK
    Well thankfully that has been addressed...
  2. NYCTK
    Ha, I realized this about 5 minutes ago and just edited my comment. My bad!
  3. NYCTK
    Ryan and Lopez are free agents before the next CBA negotiation begins, so it seems like they're just all without any sort of strategy regardless of that agreement. Edit: Or not? I think my timeline is messed up.
  4. NYCTK
    As a Twins AND Mets fan, I was trying to will Jett for Ryan into existence. Jett on the Twins would have been such a shot in the arm to the franchise that is pretty lacking in MLB ready talent. Top tier positional flexibility, probably good enough to the be starting day SS for the Twins and ability to move off of it when pushed. But sure, having Ryan for a 72 win season with what will probably be near a 4.00 ERA thanks to the Twins horseshit defense, that's pretty cool too. I'm sure the fans will really show up for that.
  5. NYCTK
    Looking over at the Brewers and seeing how a well managed team trades away their "ace" in order to bring in talent to the organization. The Brewers adding two top 100 prospects from the Mets, they now arguably have the best farm system in baseball. What a concept! Seriously, this team blows and the fact that they held onto both Ryan and Lopez just tells me this organization has no interest in ever contending. A loser organization, top to bottom.
  6. NYCTK
    Freddy Peralta isn't that incomparable to Joe Ryan, and the Brewers just got 2 top 100 prospects for him. Twins could have been honest about this team, been on the phones and received 3 or more quality prospects into the system. Instead we're looking at another 90 loss team with no real short or long term hope.
  7. NYCTK
    I'll always defend Funderburk because he's the exact type of pitcher that was burned by the Twins terrible defense last year. I remember how Trevor Larnach hilariously turned two flyballs into 6 TB and 4 ER in back to back pitches.
  8. NYCTK
    Fans are often misguided. This was a great trade for the Brewers. Sproat isn't that special, a #3 in the rotation at best. But Jett Williams is the exact type of player that has turned the Brewers into perennial contenders, and the exact type of player that fans love to watch. Compare to the Sonny Gray trade and you see just how well the Brewers did on this trade.
  9. NYCTK
    He can also get sent to a strong contender come the end of July. Not a bad position for him. No he wasn't. He's no star, but is reasonable RP depth with options. No one was DFAing him.
  10. NYCTK
    This is just cope, man. Are you under the impression that prospect evaluators ignore stats, defense, and positional scarcity? People like myself and many others here have been warning people not to get too hyped about people like Culpepper and Gonzalez. Heck, one year ago no one here even liked Gonzalez, and for good reason. A below average defensive corner OF that doesn't project to walk much. His contact skills need to keep trending up, and that power needs to play. You're right that it's a weird, biased process. But, ballpark, they tend to get it right. And Baseball America didn't even rank Gonzalez in the Top 100 for those reasons. I just do not think there's anything special about the Twins farm system, with the exception of Walker Jenkins. Which isn't to say it's bad. It's just fine.
  11. NYCTK
    I think you're reading too much into it. It's more so that the Twins youth just isn't that good (or ready) either. Baseball America released their top 100 today, and Jenkins is the only one in the top 55 prospects, sitting at #5 actually, proving once again he's the guy worth getting excited about. Meanwhile, Rodriguez is just under 60 and then Culpepper is I think 74, having also failed to make the MLB pipeline's top 10 SS prospects this morning. The Twins minor league system is not bursting with MLB ready talent.
  12. NYCTK
    If Bonds puts some more mustard on that throw, the entire franchise history might have dramatically shifted.
  13. NYCTK
    Tom doesn't do half measures! This is the best we get as fans. Might I suggest again that other people adopt a second, national league, team to follow because this is going to be a really terrible run of seasons coming up. That they actually think they can be competitive is just so stupid that it's hilarious.
  14. NYCTK
    73.5 wins is the over/under for these Twins. And I think I'm taking the under.
  15. NYCTK
    Sure. I assume like 8-10 mil per season?
  16. NYCTK
    Likewise, I never heard any campaign to bring in Brad Hand.
  17. NYCTK
    I think people are really overreacting to how much fans care to watch a local relief pitcher for the Twins. Varland was on the team last year and we saw attendance plummet well before the trade deadline sell off.
  18. NYCTK
    This just sounds like nothing but baseless hopes and dreams. What if I posit that the new manager is actually going to have a detrimental effect on Lewis's results because of his complete lack of success in any regard in baseball, having failed (due to injury) as a player and never managing a winning team. That this resume will not allow his veteran players (like Lewis) to ever respect his leadership. That a player, like Lewis, that complained about his manager to the press, isn't exactly the type of player that is really ever going to benefit from a change in leadership because he's never been a player that's listened to leadership, complaining about being asked to play 2B and whining that coaches were mean to young players that were struggling. Do I actually believe this? Not really. But it's as evidence based as this idea that new management will be a boon to Lewis's career, thanks to the ouster of a manager that, by all accounts, bent over backwards to be liked and accommodate his players.
  19. NYCTK
    2025 Twins offensive players: per 600 PAs PA WAR/600PA $$ per 600 PA Fringe Roster (waivers, etc) 1142 0.11 $3.52 Free Agent Commits (multiyear/significant deals) 578 0.73 $38.20 Internal (drafted/acquired as prospect) 3645 1.05 $4.44 Free Agent Supplements (1 year vets) 694 3.03 $3.63 No one ever said acquiring Bader and France was going to make the Twins a contender. Everyone understood that they were veteran role players that are compensated at a very fair rate, supplementing the larger roster. And they more than did their job. Why you expect other people to get made at the fact that the Twins sucked despite the front office fulfilling one aspect of roster construction competently, specifically their job of supplementing their roster with some low risk veteran additions. Yes it is. And it's not going to be at all the fault of a minor league SS acquisition. You don't know me then. I am very vocal about how much this team sucks. As I was last season. But I also refused to put any of the blame on the veterans that were doing the job they were paid to do.
  20. NYCTK
    This is just undeniable fact. Only someone with a fetish for being publicly humiliated would fight against a claim this weak.
  21. NYCTK
    He could have tried to completely kill the franchise like the Pohlads. John Fisher seems like a slight step above if we're being honest.
  22. NYCTK
    IDK. They are the only owenership group that I know of that literally agreed to murder their franchise for financial gain.
  23. NYCTK
    I don't know what to tell other than you're just wrong. The front office sucks, but signing minor league free agents to supplement the ****** roster they built is not why. You finally got to the correct point at the end of the paragraph. They suck, and need to sign ****** veterans like Arcia because they suck, not the other way around. Lee didn't hit for **** in '25 because he was afraid Arcia would steal his job next season.
  24. NYCTK
    If the team were any good, Bader would have been a 4th OF. Unfortunately the team sucked and his role was heightened. The front office didn't plan on Julien and Miranda sucking so much, and they didn't plan on Lewis, Wallner, Martin, Lee et al getting hurt and missing time. But they obviously knew it was possible, and they knew Keirsey sucked, so the obvious need for another OF was perfectly met by acquiring Bader. And I will repeat that any complaining about it was done by people that don't know ball. I don't know who you're accusing of having billed Bader as a late inning replacement. No veteran acquisition is ever billed as a late inning defensive replacement. That's playoff roster talk, not regular season roster talk. Gallo was removed from the regular roster in late 2023, hence proving your own point wrong. So, I don't know why people keep pointing at him. As for Margot...the backup was Keirsey. So, in hindsight I understand why Rocco was playing him (but not pinch-hitting, although I'm happy he did because we saw an MLB record 🥲). Yes, Arcia is potentially going to spend a fair amount of time on the roster. But it's because this team sucks and he's the next best player on the roster, not because this team has a hard-on for bad veterans.
  25. NYCTK
    That's all fine. I'm perfectly content with a strategy of signing a batch of $0.5 - 1.5 million bonuses to prospects, but the headline clearly implies a $3-5 million prospect signing that would immediately slot into the top 20 prospects. Terrible, dishonest headline.
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