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  1. 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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
  8. 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...
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    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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    You need players capable of playing CF on your roster. Outside of Buxton and Outman, you have Jenkins and Rodriguez, and neither seem quite ready for prime time. Martin isn't a CF, nor is Roden, even if they're both capable of playing it occasionally. I don't think it'd be the worst thing in the world to lose Outman and force Rodriguez to the majors in the unforeseeable event of a Buxton injury, but I can understand why a MLB GM would hesitate to just release a player like Outman given their roster.
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    The sad reality that a DH with a 105 OPS+ just isn't very valuable.
  12. NYCTK
    Rodriguez is not necessarily helping his case, showing his biggest concerns are valid by striking out in 45% of his PAs in ST, while also showing his strength by hitting 2 homeruns.
  13. NYCTK
    Mostly nothing, but with Roden it's interesting since he both has so few big league plate appearances, and so many spring training plate appearances. 153 MLB: 555 OPS 94 ST: 995 OPS
  14. NYCTK
    I've been a big Roden > Martin guy and will continue to be so. Younger, and been better at nearly every step of the way. Martin had a great little stretch last year, but I still have my money on Roden.
  15. NYCTK
    Pretty sure he had a very costly error in the ALDS at Target Field, completely unrelated to his arm.
  16. NYCTK
    Well your stream of commentary betrays this fact. Your opening comment is just "Old Man Yells At Cloud" level of discourse.
  17. NYCTK
    Counterpoint: Lol, no he won't.
  18. NYCTK
    We watched that in the world series this last season. Bo Bichette played 2B for the first time in 6 years or something like that. It's not bad practice to move players around. In fact, it's bad practice to refuse to do so.
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    I just don't understand why a bunch of people on this website have seemingly never watched baseball before. A 2B also playing the OF is such a regular occurance in baseball, and always has been. Reading these complaints is like listening to people complain about the weather. People love to complain, they need to complain about something.
  20. NYCTK
    Looking at their depth chart, they already have a corner OF that can't hit lefties on their roster in Mike Yastrzemski, so I can't imagine the Braves would be interested. I could see them being interested in Roden however.
  21. NYCTK
    I probably also have Joe Nathan. Maybe even folks like Cuddyer. WAR is a nice marker to start the conversation, but playing games, especially meaningful ones, is pretty important.
  22. NYCTK
    For this season the decision is obvious - you trade Buxton and then it doesn't matter that Outman is lying around. But that's not happening, so in reality it doesn't really matter that much. Martin and Roden aren't actually CF so having a CF around isn't a terrible idea. I'm not going to get upset at a fringe roster player on a 72 win team.
  23. NYCTK
    Like everyone's said, this headline and premise is ridiculous. Now, I was fully onboard for the "most important offseason" of franchise history declarations because the sale of the team was so monumentally important for the future of this organization. Well, it went poorly, Twins fans are still left with the Pohlads, and there's honestly no reason to get excited about this current team. There are some individual players that are intriguing, and some that are actually exciting, but the team itself is an absolute mess. I said last offseason that I refuse to spend a dollar on this team until the Pohalds sell the team and I repeat my pledge. I have only worn my Twins cap out of deep respect of the people of Minneapolis and greater Twin Cities as they showed remarkable resilience and courage as they sat under siege, not with any sort of pride in a flailing baseball squad. Spoiled, rich, idiot losers have essentially ruined everything and the common folk can't do anything but look on in disgust as we're all forced to subsidize their failures.
  24. NYCTK
    I understand what you mean, but 1 of his peak years was in NYC, where he then capped his career with a no-hitter.
  25. NYCTK
    And what if he struggles mightily this year? Do you keep him on the 26 man roster and just cross your fingers? Considering the Twins still seem like they won't be contenders next season, maybe so. But that's an unfortunate condition that doesn't really disprove bean's main point. Once a prospect is out of options, they really, really become hard to keep on the roster.
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