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  1. NYCTK
    Sure, but even though it is "skill" based, it's not at all indicative of a good pitcher. There were 4 immaculate innings last season, and 3 of them were by players none of us would have really wanted on the Twins. 2 were thrown by pitchers with negative 0.7 bWAR...each! And the three this season were all by good, not great, starting pitchers. So, it's cool, and worthy of recognizing, but not something anyone cared about 10 years ago.
  2. NYCTK
    Immaculate inning is really cool, but one of those accomplishments I can't pretend to care about. Even watching the game (without commentary) I didn't even realize it happened until the next morning. Heck, you can throw an immaculate inning without ever touching the strike zone.
  3. NYCTK
    If you ask "does Steve Cohen bear responsibility for the failures of the Mets" you'd get a pretty strong majority saying yes! You don't see a lot of fans reflexively defending Steve Cohen, because that would be ridiculous! As it is to defend Mr. Pohlad.
  4. NYCTK
    Based on what are you claiming that? "He gets the "communication thing""? Ok. And what about the baseball thing? I feel like understanding the industry is at least as important as being a PR guy. Because, as much as you might have hated Joe, he was the one in charge (ostensibly) when the Twins finally made the good decision to trade off assets at the 2025 Trade Deadline. And Tom was the one in charge when that rebuild was halted, resulting in a half-measure that left the Minnesota Twins in a worse position both in the short and long term. So, no, I don't buy this idea that Tom is clearly better just because he's able to string together words that alleviate fan concerns. For the same reason Tim Brewster is no longer Head Coach of the Minnesota Golden Gophers. I honestly don't know how you're this naive about the Pohlads. It's the same ownership group, just with a different figurehead. Which is why we've seen no actual change in organizational philosophy in 35 years. Like father, like son, like nephew, like brother.
  5. NYCTK
    Are you under the assumption that no criticizes Steve Cohen for his Met's failures? Because that would be a bad assumption.
  6. NYCTK
    Prepare for it to get even stupider during the lockout. Lots of know-nothing fans will be blaming the players instead of their bosses that initiate it. Billionaire Tom Pohlad is planning on locking out his employees on December 1st because he doesn't think he has enough money. And a majority of fans are pathetically going to applaud his actions.
  7. NYCTK
    Gotta be Stockholm Syndrome. This season was a failure on August 13, 2025 when the Pohalds announced they were no longer looking to sell controlling interest of the Minnesota Twins. You can also argue, as I would, that it was a failure of the CEO to refuse to sell off pieces last offseason, stopping the rebuild with the half-measure of just selling off the bullpen arms at the trade deadline. You guys, I don't mean to be controversial, but I think the CEO is kind of an important role in an organization!
  8. NYCTK
    Quick question: Who's the CEO of the Minnesota Twins? Follow-up question: What is the role of a Chief Executive Officer?
  9. NYCTK
    I took it out of context because regardless of anything else, Tom Pohlad is not the answer. The Pohlad regime doesn't care about winning and that's obvious to everyone. So me just clipping the ending sentence was a light-hearted way to say, yes, Tom Pohlad is not the answer and this team is going to have to be successful despite his and his loser family's leadership, not because of it.
  10. NYCTK
    This was obvious since Day 1, and anyone that's ever convinced themselves otherwise was naive.
  11. NYCTK
    It's apparently unfathomable to a lot of people that the CEO might be having regular conversations with the baseball operations team. And that those conversations might have any impact on organizational direction or decisions. I think a lot of people just imagine the CEO just sitting in their executive suite, occasionally picking up a putter and working on their short game, which would probably be preferable.
  12. NYCTK
    The Buck with Buck stops...anywhere but the CEO, don't criticize the CEO!
  13. NYCTK
    Everyone be nice to the billionaire failson CEO. It's not his fault 😭
  14. NYCTK
    We can both recognize that Pohlad v4 is bad at his job, and the people that report to him in the organization he runs are also bad at their jobs. And because the 4th Pohlad CEO is the top dog, he gets the blame.
  15. NYCTK
    What is with the reflex to defend the CEO of the failing company? Is the CEO not the top dog and responsible for the decisions of the organization? No one ever rushes to defend the CEO in any other industry, that I know of.
  16. NYCTK
    Yeah, the Twins are an unserious organization. I could understand not calling up Jenkins for the first 2/3 of the season, but there's no defense for him not being a starter at the major league level right now. Quite simply, Josh Donaldson was right, and this organization doesn't care about winning. Thanks to the Pohalds, the Minnesota Twins are content being mediocre and have been ever since 1993. The brief period of competency in the 2000s was buoyed only by the hometown hall of famer and a desire from the front office to extract tax payer dollars from the population for a shiny new stadium.
  17. NYCTK
    Goes to show, the only good billionaire is...well...you know. Oh no, the multibillion dollar organization had to take a bridge loan before selling their asset for a 3 billion dollar windfall. What a terrible fate. Correct. The Twins didn't sell for what the Pohalds hoped because they're cheap nepobaby failsons and terrible business people.
  18. NYCTK
    This is definitely true for Larnach. The $7M he'd get in arbitration isn't any real discount on what you'd expect him to get in free agency, seeing as how the Twins paid $7M for Bell. Ober, I think it's closer to a value call, but similarly think he's not likely to get $7M in free agency, nor should you expect to pay more than $7M for a #5 caliber pitcher. For example, Griffin Canning got $2.5M this year. Non-tender both.
  19. NYCTK
    Now Tom can whine to the fans over the winter about how unfair the system is, that he just can't compete financially with the big markets, and convince those same easily duped fans that a Salary Cap is necessary for the Minnesota Twins future.
  20. NYCTK
    This might be a generational divide, and I don't mean to downplay his contribution to the '87 and '91 teams, but this extreme reverence towards Tom Kelly ignores his last 9 seasons as manager where they averaged 72 wins. So, I don't know that all that rigorous coaching had as much ROI as people here want to claim. Is he to blame why those teams were so bad? Not exactly, but I don't seem to remember those mid to late 90s Twins teams as exemplary in how to play the game the right way.
  21. NYCTK
    This late in the season, using his last remaining option has to be considered carefully. Sending Roden down instead retains that option year which makes him far more rosterable next season. Tough equation.
  22. NYCTK
    Royce Lewis is a great example of why complaining about roster flexibility is just complaining for the sake of complaining. He didn't get moved off of 3B because of some sort of organizational adherence to making everyone a utility infielder. He lost his 3B job because he couldn't hit and was demoted, and while he was down in AAA someone else stepped up and won that position. Calling him back up was the right decision, but why would the Twins then shift back to their old (significantly worse) positional alignment for the sake of positional familiarity of the guy who was just demoted? He fully epitomizes how a good player gets position security and a fringe player doesn't, and shouldn't.
  23. NYCTK
    No. It very obviously was not well placed. It was very obviously misplaced from day one. They ended up paying about $5 million for about 3 WAR production, one of the few "victories" of the 2025 season.
  24. NYCTK
    Well, considering the stink that was made about Harrison Bader and Ty France before the 2025 season, which had real expectations going in, I don't agree that that's the case. It's more from this misconceived notion that the Twins could simply refuse to hire any of these lower tier veterans and instead just pool all that money together and get a $100+ million free agent.
  25. NYCTK
    It's less that than it is that people on this website consistently underestimate the value and necessity of mediocre, role playing veterans. I do think the information asymmetry between fans and front offices in the Statcast era is pretty slim.
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