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  1. NYCTK
    I'm just saying that many here have an apparent instinctive hatred of external veterans, which is how so many fans here were made to look incredibly foolish when the Twins signed Harrison Bader last season, and even Ty France. Constantly complaining about a player 3 season ago now that didn't block any young players, and didn't even make the Twins only playoff roster in 5 seasons.
  2. NYCTK
    For all this complaining about the Twins refusing to move off of veterans, I fail to see any evidence. One of those truisms that lack actual truth. Plus, you don't actually want to see your young prospects come up and serve the role of these veterans. What good would it do Emmanuel Rodriguez to come up and play twice a week? Fans here just constantly complain about Manuel Margot and Joey Gallo, never mind that Margot's replacement would have been Keirsey (lose-lose) and Gallo's presence didn't prevent Wallner from establishing himself as a near every day player by midseason, and then Gallo didn't make the playoff roster. For some reason these same fans never mention Donovan Solano, Harrison Bader, etc.
  3. NYCTK
    It is pretty funny to read comments on the same website about how terrible Kreidler is (true!) after months or years of some other fans insisting the likes of Noah Miller (and now Houston) should be promoted regardless of how well they would hit. Not to say it's the same people with these countering ideas. Just funny to see the spectrum of opinions.
  4. NYCTK
    Fair. I guess I got confused and off track since they all suck at their jobs and none of them can build a respectable baseball organization.
  5. NYCTK
    Telling your idiot boss that he's an idiot, in politer terms, is a lot of people's jobs in every industry. My boss is an idiot in many matters. And it's my job to remind him of that when that's the case. And sometimes, it's fruitless, yes. But to oversimplify Zoll's job, if my only job were to hire staff and my boss disallowed me from doing my job competently, I wouldn't expect everyone else to have sympathy for me. If I were to stick around exclusively for the paycheck, I would also deserve the scorn. Yes-men are cowards, not victims.
  6. NYCTK
    So...then we agree. He's a yes-man.
  7. NYCTK
    Well, then we go back to the original argument where someone claimed there's no evidence that Zoll is a yes-man. You're now arguing the exact opposite, and in fact, that it's his only duty.
  8. NYCTK
    To all this, I would respond, what do you think of Emilio Pagan? Good pitcher? Bad pitcher? Truth is, he's a good pitcher that a lot of people here hate because they're unable to look past 2022 where his results were...finicky. Just saying, if you take a look at payroll spending compared to output, the correlation is going to be weakest for bullpens compared to position players and rotations.
  9. NYCTK
    OK, and if Pohlad stopped him from doing his job then he should call up Jeff Passan and give him an anonymous scoop.
  10. NYCTK
    Yes. He should do his job, which is to improve the baseball team. Spineless yes-men acquiescing to idiot billionaires has sort of doomed our society. Zoll doesn't get my sympathy just because he wants to keep his job (and do it terribly, might I add). Most of these idiot billionaires are spineless themselves. Stand up to them, tell them off. Or, acquiesce, say "yes, sir" and enjoy your deserved ire.
  11. NYCTK
    On this point, we agree. On the point that bullpens are finicky, that's just a fact, whether or not you care to agree. Which sort of proves the point that you shouldn't overly invest in them. As for the "easily rebuilt" part, we may never know since we haven't had a competent GM is decades at this point.
  12. NYCTK
    We know that Zoll runs the roster. We know whomever ran the roster last season (ostensibly Zoll, perhaps Falvey) started a rebuild. Everyone who knows anything about the current state of the Twins organization recognizes a rebuild is the only prudent baseball decision. We know Twins ownership, in their quasi-change, declared there would be no rebuild. Joe Ryan, Trevor Larnach, Pablo Lopez, Byron Buxton, and Ryan Jeffers remain on the roster, signaling that Zoll has ceased any rebuild. That's the evidence. It sure seems like Zoll is an acquiescing yes-man to me. I get it, you want to protect your own neck, but that doesn't mean he doesn't suck at the job due to his apparent subservience to his boss.
  13. NYCTK
    You say this derisively, but what you won't admit is that there's a decent chance the bullpen is the most "successful" of the three units at the end of the year - looking at Position Players, Rotation, and Bullpen - when comparing them against the rest of the league. And this is precisely because bullpens are extremely finicky, not worth investing heavily into, and, yes, quite easy for a competent GM to rebuild. The Twins have made little to no effort to build a formidable bullpen and its still projected 20th, whereas their "strength" of the rotation is projected 14th and their position players projected 22nd.
  14. NYCTK
    I mean...have you seen the roster?
  15. NYCTK
    100 win team with a very fruitful farm! The future sure seems bright for that organization!
  16. NYCTK
    I feel like I need to pushback on this idea that he's a plus defensive CF. I think that could be true as a corner OF, but he doesn't seem to have great instincts out there. Good enough to play it, but not anywhere near good enough to be considered a plus defender. So, if he hits as well as Keirsey, but can't play a good CF, I don't really see any value in him. Arcia should easily win the job over him. Fun Fact Kreidler is the 2nd worst hitter in MLB the last 3 seasons with 100+ PAs. 3rd was Keirsey! wOBA xwOBA Kreidler 156 214 Keirsey 158 196
  17. NYCTK
    I just don't think that's true. Varland and Jax were both highly effective in their first season as a designated RP. You could argue the bouncing back and forth in the role doesn't allow someone to be an effective reliever, but that's irrelevant this season. Come 2027 you want to avoid that, that makes sense.
  18. NYCTK
    What use is a good reliever this season anyways? Besides trading them away come the deadline. It's far more beneficial to the organization to get as many of these guys as many starts as they can. The rotation is not nearly as deep as many here want to think, they will all get a lot of MLB starts.
  19. NYCTK
    But it's not common knowledge that this is reality with the Twins, or at least any more true with the Twins than a typical MLB team. I agree with him, this doesn't seem to be the case. Much like the fabricated Twins philosophy of "anyone can play anywhere" this just seems like something a fan says regardless of the truth.
  20. NYCTK
    With a new manager in the building, I don't see why the Twins baserunning from last season would be at all indicative of how they will approach baserunning in 2026. It's almost not even worth mentioning.
  21. NYCTK
    Noah Miller was lauded for all the same skills, with the same challenges. He was in High-A in 2023, and is just now, 3 seasons later, hoping to break through to the majors. I'm just saying, temper your expectations. Prospects take time.
  22. NYCTK
    I love optimism around prospects. But Twins fans here need to remember Houston struggled mightily in High A last season, and should not be expected to be a starter until 2029 at the earliest, appearing perhaps in the 2028 season.
  23. NYCTK
    Big bat, with a massive hole. Matt Wallner had the 2nd worst whiff rate on fastballs up in the zone out of 303 batters that saw at least 50 such pitches (behind only Luke Raley if you're interested). And that gets significantly worse with FB that are above 94 mph. He has a whiff rate of 65.3% on good fastballs up in the zone, resulting is a 0.021 xwOBA, both worst in the league out of the 183 hitters that saw 50+ pitches of 95+. Which, to be fair, is the same hole, if less exaggerated, as Aaron Judge, but Judge is obviously a lot better at punishing mistakes he sees. Waller is just a very easy hitter to approach if you have a good fastball, which most pitchers do these days. High fastball and offspeed/breaking pitch down and Wallner will get himself out. Which kind of explains his poor performance in high leverage situations, perhaps? Most decent RP are going to have a FB that's able to attack that zone.
  24. NYCTK
    Good to decent defense in CF Extremely high K-rate Similarly astonishing BB-rate Good power But enough about James Outman, let's talk about Emmanuel Rodriguez...
  25. NYCTK
    You can say that about much of the "young" players on the roster, which is why the multi-year outlook is so grim. The only position players in year 26 or younger season truly in line for a 26 man roster spot are: Roden, Lee, and Keaschall.
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