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Whoever it might be, we can be certain that the people on this website are going to think he's terrible and should be fired.

Good pull. 3.70 xFIP in the 1st vs 3.84 in the 2nd. He's actually pitched pretty consistently. He is not an ace, never has been, but is a very consistent #2. If a team wants to trade for him as an ace, the Twins would be foolish to hang up the phone.

Can we stop talking about the Twins pitching pipeline? It's nothing but Twins propaganda at this point. 9 years in and their pitching development can't be described as anything other than mediocre.

If you think you are actually a front line starter from being a true contender it makes all the sense in the world. Especially considering Tolle is 22 and it seems like he's just not quite ready yet. I can PROMISE you the Red Sox didn't come to some conclusion that one of the top pitching prospects in the game has no future as a major league starter at the age of 22...and then proceeded to call him up to the majors to start important games at the end of their playoffs hopeful season. This is defensible position, especially considering the sad state of internally developed pitching in the Twins system. I can see why they focused on bringing in some SP talent in their trade offs. There are about 600 minor league SP prospects with 60+ IP, and in the top 100 by xFIP, there is only one Twins prospect, Cole Peschl. Only one more in the top 200, Prielipp. That's really bad results for a front office whose stated goal was to build a pitching pipeline. A flat out failure if we're being honest. Peralta will be in his last season under Milwaukee's control. Milwaukee is a well run organization and tends to trade away players at the end of their team control. Brandon Woodruff is actually a mutual option, not a team option like I believed, so I do imagine he's going to decline the option, which would increase the likelihood Milwaukee makes every effort to sign Peralta to an extension, but we'll see.

I have double rooting interest for the Pirates right now! The help rescue the terrible Mets in the race for the last playoff spot (which shouldn't even exist) AND for the lottery odds. Raise that Jolly Roger Buccos

I think the Mets would offer something like Sproat plus 2 of Vientos/Mauricio/Reimer/Clifford/Acuna for Lopez/Ryan. Should the Twins talk with the Red Sox? Of course, but now there are a lot more teams that will be in the bidding for a good #2 starter. Tolle plus something is a really good offer. I don't know that they're going to beat it in the offseason, so I can understand why this deal almost happened. But, at the same time, players like Sonny Gray or Freddy Peralta/Brandon Woodruff might also be put on the trade block so who knows what the trade market even looks like.

If we're gonna cherry pick, his last 200 PAs he's hit .233/.270/.397, that's a .667 OPS. He had a very good month of play in the middle of the season, but otherwise has been downright terrible since his June 17th, 2024. Even with that scorching hot month he's hit .227/.281/.387, a .668 OPS. since then over 658 PAs.

He's 26, widely considered a player's peak age, has been and remained relatively healthy, and will finish the year as a massive disappointment with less than 1.5 WAR. Any belief he'll ever be a 2+ WAR player again is now wishful thinking instead of any sort of rational thought. I'm happy he's shown some improvement at 3B. But even so, looks like his peak is a .250/.300/.430 player with average defense. No longer looking like a building block but instead just a decent everyday guy or even a role player, a la Kody Clemens. Every team can use a player like that so I'm not trying to **** on him too much. Just really sad at how his career has gone.

You care way too much about the Yankees. They went 2-4 against them, all after they gave up at the trade deadline. That's exactly what was expected.

Two straight seasons under a .300 OBP. I don't care that he's stealing more when he's on base as infrequently as he is.

Nor is it why last year either. But a lot of people wanted to believe it was so they could convince themselves this team was significantly better than it actually was. If you require perfect health to be a good team, you're a bad team. Oh well. Back to the drawing board.

Wait a minute, aren't you the one obsessed with Pre-Arb players and making sure these jobs go to internal options? Why are you suddenly changing your tune for a nepo baby replacement level player? Kody Clemens is the EXACT type of player you should hate. He's an old, external, replacement level player, at best, and his roster spot should probably be used developing a young player, not hoping baseball is genetic and that three weeks of excellent play are somehow more indicative of his talent than the entirety of the rest of his career?

I don't know that the Mets got discount but they were gonna match any offer he received and I could see them doing that again this year. But maybe not. This Mets collapse might have them ready to move on.

A fan of TWO teams? Literally impossible.

Lot of people really upset at me pointing a baseball player refusing to leave a bad franchise that won't compete any sooner than 2027 might not be all that interested in winning. I know fans like to think every player has a championship at the forefront of their mind. But that's clearly not the case with Buxton. He could have been a Philadelphia Philly or a New York Met and increased those odds tenfold if that's actually what motivated him.

Quite frankly, I don't think you understand why this team sucks. You seem to be under the impression this team sucks because they hired Ty France. Not that they hired Ty France because this team sucked. If France wasn't hired maybe Miranda miraculously turns into Pujols! They didn't hire Harrison Bader because they have in it for their younger internal outfielders and refuse to let them develop. They hired Bader because they understood betting on Keirsey and/or Martin was a BAD bet. Even in the event one of them turned a corner and become a legitimate major leaguer (Martin maybe right now?) they also understand depth is greatly important and lo and behold, Marin was injured half the year. They hired Danny Coulombe not because they refused to give Funderburk any chance, but because they understand that Funderburk isn't quite up to the task to be the primary left handed reliever on a roster they hoped might compete for the division. If hiring a veteran like IFK would be your breaking point, I simply don't believe that you actually do understand MLB roster rules and construction strategies, even though you clearly seem to. Hiring a veteran middle infielder on a rebuilding team with ample 40 and 26 man space is exactly what a well run MLB team would do, regardless of how many pre arb guys you count each week.

Why do you constantly engage in conversations you are unwilling to actually have? This is a pretty big thing not to care about if you're going to rally against signing ANY veterans. Instead you sit on this site and just complain about something we literally all agree on, yes the Twins have been pretty bad at developing Major League talent.

Actions speak louder than words. He was asked if he wanted to move to a winning team just 6 weeks ago, and he said no. Clearly he doesn't value winning more than loyalty to the Twins (which I hope is minimal), stability, or sticking around Minnesota, and honestly, there's nothing wrong with that. Him NOW saying he wants to win is just newspaper fodder.

If he didn't waive it this year, he's never going to. This was the perfect chance for him to get traded to, and be a key figure on, a World Series contender (or the Mets) yet he firmly rejected any chance of that happening.

Fun little followup just for your tracking purposes that could spark some debate. A player like Pete Alonso, brought up through the system, hit free agency, but then stayed around. Would your tracking designate that as FA player or an internal player? This then leads to a player like Buxton who signed an extension before ever reaching FA. I think that's completely rational to count as internally produced. Anyways, just looking at the Mets, they're about 50-50 on Internal/External WAR, helping explain why their big spending ways haven't been able to produce anything more than a decent, but not great, team this season.

This is an American problem in 2025. We live in post-truth society with the very obvious political ramifications. When these types of people are called out for just saying ****, they never ever apologize, never reflect on why they're constantly proven wrong, never take any accountability. They just repeat their post-truth "reality" and expect you to fall in line.

If he wanted to win, he would have left in July. He doesn't care about winning, and that's fine.

Nah. Embrace debates like that. Only one team wins the World Series but 30 teams get to have meaningless discussions over the merits of their fringe players.

Guys like Bader?

Signing IFK would be quite similar to signing Bader. An obviously good move **** on by know nothing fans. That THIS would be your breaking point is pretty telling. Fire Falvey. Fire Rocco. But not because of good things.