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  1. NYCTK
    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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    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.
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    Giving an unearned second chance to a wealthy nepo baby real estate business family famous for ruining their other businesses. What could go wrong?
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
  18. 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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    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.
  21. 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.
  22. NYCTK
    Glad to see people complaining about baseball players being asked to play baseball has survived the managerial swap.
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    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?
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    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.
  25. 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!
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