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  1. NYCTK
    The Twins famously fired their hitting coach after 2024, meaning there was a different hitting coach in 2025. Dude is stubborn, and has demonstrated it through his comments to the media. And now he's a stubborn AAA player.
  2. NYCTK
    But you're ignoring how it was a really good thing the Twins listened to him and let him stay comfortable at 3B. He went on to finish the season hitting .150 / .218 / .188.
  3. NYCTK
    That leaves only one option. Put him in bubble wrap and hope the pitcher just walks him, after which point the Twins must immediately pinch run for him.
  4. NYCTK
    He also publicly suggested he was going to continue doing what was comfortable last season when he also sucked. I just don't see why many fans are constantly blaming everyone but Royce for Royce's descent into obscurity.
  5. NYCTK
    He made public comments rejecting the Baldelli regime, sure fine. He sucked under it, maybe the management style didn't work for his specific personality. It happens. But guess what? He went off, got his own hitting coach and new manager, and now he sucks even more than before. Who else are we supposed to blame? Is it Baldelli's fault that Wallner sucks this year too?
  6. NYCTK
    There really was no need to continue typing after this. Royce had a bad coach or bad coaching? Who can say since he very publicly rejected it? Seems like he's entirely to blame then for the fact he's now a replacement level player that no one really likes.
  7. NYCTK
    Great. A baseball player was willing to practice. Let's build the statue. If your company is up against a deadline and your boss asks you to do something you either do it, or you face the repercussions. Royce is facing the repercussions in the form of rightful fan scorn.
  8. NYCTK
    Royce complained about being asked to play baseball in the middle of a stretch where his team was struggling to right the ship. He could have just done what his boss asked him to do but the simple fact is that he publicly complained about it. I'm guessing that if he wasn't a 1-1 draft pick you wouldn't be granting him this grace. He's a PR nightmare with his many comments to the press. The 2B comments weren't the first, nor the last.
  9. NYCTK
    It was fun! I'm not saying it wasn't. But it also wasn't that big of an accomplishment. Much like the 2009 Game 163. That will likely be the best baseball game I'll ever see in person and nothing will ever take away the feelings it created. But, like the 2023 series, it was a small accomplishment that allowed them to advance to the ALDS, not even the ALCS.
  10. NYCTK
    It's actually wild how even more than his playing, his mouth turned him into one of the least likable players in the league. Not true bad guys like the many wife beaters or psychopaths we see in baseball, as we do all sports, but just unlikable in a normie way. 2024 alone, with his "slump" comments, complaints about being asked to play second base, and pushback aimed at Correa after he called out no one in particular. It was clear this was a man with either severe attitude issues or a Trump like uncontrollable mouth. But most here continued to defend him. The most egregious headline in this website's history was posted nearly a year ago: I don't know if I was among the first here to do so, but I feel vindicated calling to trade him back on August 15th, 2024. If you try to pinpoint the inflection point of when he went from a formidable hitter to replacement level I'd throw out August 13th, 2024. Since that date he's been worth EXACTLY 0.0 fWAR. And that stupid face paint. Much like a professional wrestler, if we ever see him again, I hope it's with a new Gimmick.
  11. NYCTK
    Au contraire. I've heard so much about the great success of the 2023 season that you'd think we appeared in the ALCS. It was a temporary step in the right direction that was quickly, unfortunately back-tracked.
  12. NYCTK
    This is more true than people here want to admit. The twenty years without a single playoff win was rough, but winning a 3 game home series isn't some true accomplishment just because it happened in October instead of August. It was nice to see, and it was fun, and no one should be celebrating it.
  13. NYCTK
    Ironically, no. lol If I'm not mistaken, Joey Ortiz was expected to get the bulk of the playing time at SS with David Hamilton at 3B. But Ortiz has stunk it up and lost a lot of playing time to Rengifo who is actually hitting even worse! Brewers fans are probably getting antsy, wanting to see one of their 2 very good AAA MIF prospects called up!
  14. NYCTK
    Hey man, they led the ALCS, 1 game to 0, in 2002.
  15. NYCTK
    ...honestly, no. I'd watch, and I'd be excited if they won the Wild Card round. But I'd still recognize they're imposters who have no business being in the playoffs in the first place. Even at that point, I wouldn't even feel the team are contenders in the Divisional round, instead just there potentially acting as spoilers to one of the other, better AL teams. But, like I said, if this team actually turned it around and played like one of the better teams in the league for a full 3-4 month period, that's a different story.
  16. NYCTK
    Let's be honest. If the team finished 80-82 and that was somehow good enough for a wild card spot, would you be excited about that team? Is the goal just to get to the playoffs? Or is the goal to put together a good team, one that can ideally contend for a pennant if not a world series championship. I got a lot of **** in 2024 when I, in the final days of the season, said that the Twins sucked and didn't deserve to be in the playoffs and I wasn't really all that interested in seeing that team limp into that last spot and be made fools. I still feel that way. I want to watch my team(s) do well, not delude myself into thinking they might do well. There's still time for a 2023 situation where this team actually gets their **** together and surprising players step up to make this team a truly competitive team. While that's not the case right now, so there remains small rays of hope. However, no, the team should not consider selling their future in order to bolster this current team. Much like 2023, this is the roster and they gotta sink or swim on their own.
  17. NYCTK
    Even if we're pleasantly surprised with the level the team is playing, I don't know that I'd say a team currently on pace for 75 wins is an on-the-whole positive season. And I know I've said this to you before. You dislike negativity, and I both get and respect that. I try not to feed into it, especially before the all-star break. But I just find it funny that Mr. Positivity is named Fire Dan Gladden lol.
  18. NYCTK
    I hate to break it to you...that's called depth. No one brings in a player to NOT use them. Regnifo has the 5th most PAs for the Brewers, Sanchez the 9th.
  19. NYCTK
    As much as I hate The Man, players underperforming is way more a PLAYER failure than an EXECUTIVE failure. So...this is why talking with you is maddening. On the one hand, the team needs to put together a 26 man roster, fill holes and allow competition and players to move up and down the depth chart. But on the other hand, they shouldn't bring in cheap players to actually do that. Instead, they should just do that at no cost...or only for premium Free Agents, which often aren't even available. Even if the Twins were capable of attracting more Correa's, true big money stars to add to the roster, there are always going to be holes to patch. As we saw when the Twins had Correa but still needed to bring in the likes of Bader to fill a 4th OF role that eventually grew to a near every day role when the predetermination failed due to injury and underperformance. Again I say, no one has ever suggested otherwise. So you're arguing with a straw man. Can you believe those poorly managed Milwaukee Brewers? They brought in Luis Rengifo and Gary Sanchez on one year major league deals this season. A true testament to their failure as an organization to develop every single need for their roster ...OR... maybe every team will bring in vets on one year deals to fill in depth and you have consistently gotten agitated over a complete nonissue? Nah. That can't be right.
  20. NYCTK
    I assure you, a SS playing 3B in an effort to give him more opportunity to break into the majors is not a bad thing. The Twins aren't making him a utility infielder. The player they seem to be turning into a utility player is actually Kyler Fedko, which is entirely appropriate.
  21. NYCTK
    You weren't wrong with your first thought: But this sort of comment makes me chuckle when I know you primarily as one of the people here that will inevitably complain about veterans brought in to fill out the roster. You complained about; Bader, France, Santana and I'm sure many more.
  22. NYCTK
    Obviously. No one has ever argued that you can predict with 100% certainty how a player will play. If that's your whole point, I don't know why you're fighting straw men.
  23. NYCTK
    Death, Taxes, and TwinsDaily commentators complaining about baseball players moving around the diamond. IDK man. An 11 year veteran that's accumulated under 4.0 WAR seems the exact definition of a fringe player. Best case scenario, he lights the world on fire and a team trades for him and returns...a low A SP that was an undrafted free agent but put together 10 pretty good starts, in large part thanks to the fact he's 3 years older than his competition. There's no need to pretend as if he would return anything of any value.
  24. NYCTK
    Good new is strikeouts are actually on the decline. They peaked 2019-2021 but are currently the lowest since 2017.
  25. NYCTK
    He's being given a chance, effectively. He keeps it up and he'll be able to call himself a major leaguer. It seems almost identical to McCusker last season, or Keirsey the year prior. Fans here were clamoring for McCusker to get a call up, he got a cup of coffee, went down and immediately lost it and is now struggling in Japan. Keirsey got his chance, proved the haters right, and is once again playing pretty well but unremarkably in the Braves AAA. Likewise, I think Fedko doesn't have the skills to be real player but the 4th OF who really cares, especially when you aren't truly contending for anything. With all the other outfielders hurt, I'd be fine with the team DFAing Outman and brining him up. He's played CF, I'm sure poorly, but probably well enough not to look like Wallner. And if not, Martin can, sort of, play it if needed. The Twins are right that Fedko is organizational depth and not a legitimate option.
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