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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. NYCTK
    You're pointing out two undeniably good deals and veterans that were used to near perfection?
  8. NYCTK
    Sure, but this is the Twins, not a good team.
  9. 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!
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. NYCTK
    For as weak as he was with the higher value assets, Falvey actually got good returns on his rental pieces.
  13. NYCTK
    I said that I found that comment ridiculous because I find the comment I was responding to ridiculous. I know you watch a lot of baseball, but it really doesn't seem like you follow the business side all that closely if you make a comment like that. Teams like the Brewers, Royals, Guardians, and Rays also hire veterans on small one year deals. There's no actual juxtaposition.
  14. NYCTK
    Are you getting these "good" players on one year deals? If not, then it's not at all comparable.
  15. NYCTK
    True. Which is why refusing to trade Joe Ryan is a far greater failure than signing a bland veteran player plugging a massive hole.
  16. NYCTK
    Absolutely ridiculous framing. $7M commitment versus a $200M commitment. One doesn't preclude the other, and even so, you recognize the latter was never ever happening.
  17. NYCTK
    I can tell you that no one looks at him especially fondly. His comments to the press have made him a bit of a joke league wide. Someone that fans of other teams actually enjoy watching "slump". He's viewed at like all the other once promising highly touted young players that couldn't quite cut it. If trading him for a prospects, I would anticipate he's worth about as much as we saw for Ryan McMahon; one 35+ and one 40 FV propsect. He's actually someone that might be a DFA candidate next offseason. Similar to Larnach he'll be due $5+ million in the next season. So, he has 3 years of control, but is due increasingly more money in each subsequent season.
  18. NYCTK
    Good for him, but even if that's true he really sucked, so how does that help the team? I for one don't find it refreshing to hear a player complain about playing baseball. How? A lot of fans get all behind their favorite players, which is nice I guess, but has them then saying stuff like this. How has he been horribly mishandled? Positional musical chairs? He's played a total of 8 innings away from 3B the last two seasons. He was called up and played at different positions, sure, but that's how nearly every team will get their young players playing time to start their careers. We're now complaining that the Twins made room for Royce Lewis to play even though there wasn't a positional hole for him to fill? Beating him down in arbitration? He avoided arbitration. That makes no sense and tells me you're just making excuses for him. Having a manager relive his career? Huh?! The front office sucks, one of the worst in all of baseball, but Royce Lewis has hit .223 / .273 / .372 in his last 666 plate appearances. That's not because of Derek Falvey or Rocco Baldelli. That's entirely on Royce Lewis.
  19. NYCTK
    Who is he blocking? The reason this is completely inoffensive, if unexciting, is because there is no one.
  20. NYCTK
    Yeah. Sure. Fine.
  21. NYCTK
    Weird non sequitur. Kodai Senga is a diva I guess. Wonder if they trade him.
  22. NYCTK
    He's just not good enough to be this big of a focal point, or diva. I simply can't believe the Twins organization is so bad they are now seemingly half assing a rebuild. They quite honestly deserve to lose 95 games.
  23. NYCTK
    You may as well as ChatGPT. That's fine that BTV says that, but we live in reality and no team would trade any decent prospect for Brock Stewart. This trade was a complete nothing, trading a completely unreliable arm for a completely unreliable outfielder. I get the Twins thinking, with no standout defensive CF in the system ready to play at the major league level, Emmanuel Rodriguez being the closest, as unreliable as he seems like he's going to be himself.
  24. NYCTK
    That's a nice wholesome thing to believe, and for a batting champion I can put some belief in it. But there's no way anyone believes attendance was actually in any way increased by the guy with a career 291 OBP. Attendance went up in 2019. But I suspect that has to do with the 101 wins and towering homeruns, not a pudgy guy sprinting hilariously slow.
  25. NYCTK
    A lot of people here, myself included, are just annoyed with the many people here (and certain former #1 draft picks) constantly complaining about a baseball player being asked to play a different position on the baseball field. It's not some Rocco invention. There's nothing new school or analytical about it. It's just baseball.
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