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  1. NYCTK
    Talk Radio, and now its successor dumb guy podcasts, is the worst and ruins people brains. Sports, and especially politics. Bunch of dummies without any expertise filling time to sell ads, taken seriously by even bigger dummies.
  2. NYCTK
    You lot truly need to stop getting triggered at every single minor thing. Life's a lot better that way. I don't disagree with you that it was weirdly inserted. But I laughed at it, scrolled up to remind myself the author, and then exclaimed "oh, Cody" and then went about my day, because I'm not under the impression that everything in the world has to tailor to my delicate sensitivities. Our democracy is currently, as I write this, voting to kick 5% of the country off their health care and give a tax cut to Jeff Bezos, not to mention the masked men abducting people off the streets and open endorsement of an apartheid state slaughtering tens of thousands of children. If you're more offended by someone making some off handed allusion to their displeasure of our political reality than those things, well you probably have your priorities out of whack.
  3. NYCTK
    Yeah, Yadier Molina has a claim as the greatest defensive catcher of all time and every single one of his 4th all time games at Catcher were in the 25 year period. It's not surprising he makes the cut. And honestly, Mauer and Posey are pretty similar in their careers. Neither played as long as you'd like to see, batting champ, MVP. But Posey was the leader of a quasi-dynasty, winning 3 WS in 5 seasons.
  4. NYCTK
    The issue is we know he's going to be due a significant raise, I'd bet north of $10 Million in 2027 and the odds of even a stellar RP being worth that in two seasons time is a poor bet to make. Relievers are finicky and a sudden change in fortune is not only uncommon, it's expected. Remember when Mason Miller was unhittable? Devin Williams? Ryan Helsley? Jeff Hoffman? Best bet for every mid to small market team is to trade these players away before they become expensive unless you truly believe they are borderline HOF material, like Joe Nathan. And maybe you view Duran that way, which is fair. But I don't that's the general view of him on this website, nor for me.
  5. NYCTK
    This is why they should sell. Aspiring to be an 85 win team isn't bold or inspiring. They should instead try to be a 90 win team in 2027. And trading Duran makes that outcome more likely.
  6. NYCTK
    3 caught stealing in only 8 attempts. He's not even Joe Mauer on the bases. Average to below average CF defense and a below average baserunner on top of being the worst hitting position player in Twins history.
  7. NYCTK
    So...forever. I think the Twins development sucks, but Twins haven't screwed up his development at all. He's taken over 2000 plate appearances in the minors, including over 600 in AAA. Put simply, his development was screwed up by way of not having enough talent. Fun Fact: DaShawn Keirsey Jr. is currently the worst hitter in Minnesota Twins franchise history, including only players with a minimum 80 plate appearances and excluding pitchers.
  8. NYCTK
    LOL holy ****. I always knew this site pumps out too much *content* and it turns out they're not even writing them? WTF? If anyone looked into it, I'm sure AI is being used to write a bunch too. Seriously guys, no one needs 6 Twins articles a day. If you're eschewing journalistic practices to accomplish your quotas, maybe it's time you cut back?
  9. NYCTK
    This team is near top of the league in terms of being healthy, yet still they are on pace for 78 wins. They should not buy and doing so would be hilarious mismanagement.
  10. NYCTK
    There is potentially a trade off in stuff versus control. And while a pitcher being able to throw a slider harder or with more spin is in theory better, there is always the chance that, for whatever reason, that a pitch becomes less effective, maybe the changes result in tipping, or the hitter being able to identify the pitch easier. Or maybe there's just a mystery of physics, that leaves a pitch flatter regardless of increasing spin rate. Idk man. Just saying Stuff doesn't necessarily mean a pitcher is better. Just like increasing exit velocity for a batter is great in theory, but doesn't necessarily make the hitter better.
  11. NYCTK
    In terms of stuff, yes absolutely. Stuff doesn't always translate to better pitching, but he's throwing a lot better quality fastballs and sliders with the Marlins than he did with the Twins.
  12. NYCTK
    Another Stuff incident. For whatever reason, his Stuff+ with the Twins was a pitiful 87, and immediately jumped above average once he went to the Orioles. Twins pitching coaches likely to blame.
  13. NYCTK
    He became an absolute stuff monster after leaving. Regardless of how the rest of his career goes, just seeing the massive jump in his stuff after leaving the Twins is a pretty big indictment of the Twins coaching staff.
  14. NYCTK
    Yet another season with neither a 100 R nor 100 RBI player. That'd be 6 straight, not since the juiced ball year.
  15. NYCTK
    No real chance at the current location on that footprint, and retractable roofs are almost always hideous monstrosities. Not at all worth the $100M+ it would have cost, even if possible.
  16. NYCTK
    When a billionaire asks for financial assistance it's capitalism, but when poor people do it, it's socialism. Go figure.
  17. NYCTK
    MSP should let the Twins leave if the billionaires that own them try to extort the local government like they have previously and the Athletics did to Oakland. Taking money away from the people to give to billionaires is the exact opposite of what should be done.
  18. NYCTK
    We sure about that? I'm being a bit catty, as that is the weird minor league park with unique lighting. But Larnach has only ever been a bad LF, marginally better than Wallner.
  19. NYCTK
    Twins fans maligning of Gallo is both understandable, and unwarranted. At the end of their respective careers, he's quite possibly been a better player than all of; Larnach, Wallner, Lee, and heck, even Royce Lewis. I for one am cheering him on in his attempt to reinvent himself as a pitcher. The reverse Ankiel. Unlikely but would be really damn cool.
  20. NYCTK
    No no no. Bat only players are NOT the exact type of player they should be looking to add.
  21. NYCTK
    He's a fine hitter. But he's a DH. Do you wish to build a team around a DH? Now, it's possible he's not worth much on the trade market and he's better than a AA non-prospect, so it wouldn't make sense to dump him for the sake of dumping him.
  22. NYCTK
    I'm sorry that I haven't scoured the top ten prospect lists of every single team that would be in the market for adding a top of the bullpen arm in 6 weeks time and put together an exact prospect package to your liking. I am concretely saying that they should trade Duran at the deadline, particularly in the hopes of receiving a BETTER package than the Marlins received for Tanner Scott. They are on about equal footing as players, and unless I'm mistaken Duran still has two years of control remaining. I am all in favor of a rebuild, not a half assed retooling. Which means 2026 should be considered a bit of a lost season and you hope on 2027. And frankly, closers are super finicky and Duran could be absolute junk come 2027 on top of being pretty useless in 2026 on another bad team. The argument some are giving against this sort of move, that Falvey should not be trusted to make any significant trades, is something that I cannot take seriously, because that's just an argument for the entire organization to just sit in the A/C until a sale to new ownership is complete. What's the risk? That the bad team becomes worse and fan interest, at a 25 year low, falls lower?
  23. NYCTK
    You needn't specify exact prospect targets to express that trading someone like Duran might be wise. I too think they should trade him, if not before the deadline in the offseason. Look at what Miami received for Tanner Scott last year. That was a great trade for Miami, and he had an expiring contract. And why is watching a 77 win team preferable to watching a 62 win team? I'd rather a team be a 62 win team with an actual plan than woefully mediocre in perpetuity which is the Twins MO at the present time.
  24. NYCTK
    I've essentially been there since July 31st, 2024.
  25. NYCTK
    Completely unfair to Gallo. He was a decent center fielder in his prime. Wallner is one of the worst outfielders in all of baseball in his.
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