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  1. NYCTK
    "OK"
  2. NYCTK
    It does make me chuckle the way people parse manager or front office comments. The right sizing one, obviously worthy of scorn because it actually meant something. But corporate speak? Who cares. That email "he" sent out? Anyone getting mad about it is mad for the wrong reasons. He didn't even write it. Their comms team did and he signed off on it. This is nice and all, but I don't care if my teams GM is friendly with some old guys in a training facility. He can be the world's biggest *******, and coldness might actually help in the job, I don't care. Falvey sucks because he did a terrible job building a major league organization, top to bottom, not because you can't imagine him shooting the **** with 70 year-old spectators.
  3. NYCTK
    This just is a misunderstanding of what they got in return. You can be disappointed they murdered their bullpen, I get that, but the returns they got on the last minute deals were pretty good, fair returns. Taj and Kendry are good pieces. Roden is a fine OF. That's a good return for bullpen arms. But be prepared to see Griffin Jax be used as a starter in Tampa and really become a valuable player.
  4. NYCTK
    Boston clearly has terrible leadership. Devers wasn't opposed to playing 1B as seen by him playing there in San Francisco, but Boston clearly pissed him off in a big way in they way they went about it. Devers was also wrong to complain publicly. Demonstrates lack of being a team player, someone that's clearly not a leader. And now he's sucked in San Francisco and that team just gave up on their season. Way more players are willing to move around positions than you think. The only ones that seem to put up a stink are the players that have always been THE guy, and often have hard times coming to terms with the fact that they're no longer the same player they used to be.
  5. NYCTK
    Royce is still worthy of criticism for this prima dona moment. You played a lot of SS in your career and you can't slide over and play 2B without complaining to the media? That's inexcusable.
  6. NYCTK
    Don't believe a single word that comes out of Correa's mouth. He's a Politiker. A PR savant. There's not a chance in the world he wouldn't have envoked his no trade clause to go play with the Yankees for example. He was very obviously in Minnesota only for a paycheck, after two teams took a look at his medicals and threw him out the door. And I don't blame him for it, but this idea that he came here to WIN is very obviously just BS. Not to mention this idea of him as a leader, while in the background asking leadership to move the 3B? Maybe now we know why he and Royce had words for each other through the media late last season. Maybe Correa was always overrated as the "clubhouse leader".
  7. NYCTK
    25th highest Win Percentage Added, 27th in Left on base percentage, 22nd in ERA, 18th in WHIP. Those kinds of results.
  8. NYCTK
    I don't like Falvey at all. I've wanted him fired for at least a year.
  9. NYCTK
    Both Abel and Bradley already have exposure. And so maybe it is that they want to work with them in a much less public forum before they bring them up. I see nothing wrong with that.
  10. NYCTK
    I don't LOVE Roden, but he already looks like a better bet for 2026 than Larnach and is 3 years his junior. He looks like he maxes out as 2-2.5 WAR player whereas Larnach can't play defense and therefore maxes out as a 1-1.5 WAR player. There's a really good chance Larnach gets non tendered now, though the roster is so light it's probably worth paying the 3.5 or whatever he's going to get in order to fill the roster and you can always try to trade him at the deadline.
  11. NYCTK
    That's not really unexpected or unique to the Twins. A lot of teams use the last spot in their bullpen to burn through waiver pick ups and AAAA pitchers with remaining options.
  12. NYCTK
    It's sort of irrelevant at this point, no? I can assure you that Taj Bradley will be competing for a rotation spot in '25 Spring Training, as will Abel. And both have a good chance of winning it, depending on the health of the others, and depending on if the Twins Front Office sells one of their more premium starters.
  13. NYCTK
    Am I wrong? Or do you just wish to be snarky. Yesterday was a big shock to many so I don't take it personally.
  14. NYCTK
    They're both in the running for 2026 rotation spots. That's immediate impact considering the Twins 2025 season is done.
  15. NYCTK
    This is the big thing people are ignoring though. The vaunted "best bullpen in baseball" '24-'25 Twins WERE middle of the pack, and arguably bottom half of the league. FIP/WAR is nice to look at but you have to also look at the results eventually. And a season and a half of results said the Twins were a pretty mediocre to poor bullpen despite how shiny some of those arms looked.
  16. NYCTK
    What if we once again tried to have the world's richest man cut more programs and kill more poor people? Would that help?
  17. NYCTK
    Ha, true. I am not advocating for Falvey at all. Nor Rocco. That man should have obviously been fired last offseason.
  18. NYCTK
    I decided to scale it down, since most players in the league are not paid full wages. Maybe doubling the sale and looking at 80 and 40 instead (7.75 vs 5.20). So that's about 50% more instead of the 100%. So, the point remains but less dramatically.
  19. NYCTK
    FURTHER sharing media revenue. They share about half right now. People act as though there's no revenue sharing at all. If your core is mostly failed SP then you failed and you should start over.
  20. NYCTK
    I simply don't agree and don't think anyone inside baseball does either. Just looking at the contracts of players we can see how much more the 40th highest paid SP is paid than the 20th highest paid RP. Feel like that's a pretty fair assessment. $17 Million vs $8.7 Million. Baseball front offices value SP more than RP and no team has prioritized money building up a super bullpen when that money can be spent elsewhere. RP are almost always failed SP.
  21. NYCTK
    Billionaires are well known welfare queens. Thankfully they just received another tax cut at our expense 🙏
  22. NYCTK
    Look at the bench. They have an IF that's making DaShawn's bat look good, and Straw who has a 640 OPS. France may very well be DFAd once their starters start to come back off the IL, namely when Santander is healthy. Not that he's been any good this season anyways.
  23. NYCTK
    It's simply that Varland is a bullpen arm. Bullpen arms are gettable. Case in point, I think I read that 45 relief pitchers were traded in the last couple of days. Many teams had ONE reliable arm leading into the trade deadline and were able to completely bolster their bullpen by trading away some mid tier prospects. The bullpen is the last thing you build on a competitor, not the first. Cleveland did well last year with a bullpen and little else, but they're really an anomaly, and the vaunted Twins bullpen had nowhere near the results of Cleveland's bullpen. The trade of Varland tells me that there IS a plan, or at least a semblance of an organizational philosophy.
  24. NYCTK
    I do not believe this will happen. There is no reason for the MLBPA to give the owners this. I can instead see even more aggressive luxury taxes and drastically increased revenue sharing (47% up to 80%?). If something like a salary cap DID happen, I think the trade off is pre-arbitration is a dead idea and players are going to start to become expensive right away. And I don't think that really helps smaller market teams.
  25. NYCTK
    France wasn't what Toronto wanted, I promise you that trade wasn't being held up if the Twins said no to trading France.
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