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  1. NYCTK
    Keirsey tracker: He has been the worst (non-pitcher) hitter in Minnesota Twins history with at least 90 PAs, by wOBA.
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    Don't disagree with any of that. Just comparing, in the wake of the fire sale, how people are talking about him versus how people are taking about Roden, who is, I'd argue, the much better bet.
  3. NYCTK
    Just like Kirby Puckett... Fans need to stop acting as though they know someone because of their public persona. Buxton MAY be the world's greatest guy, but not one of us actually knows him.
  4. NYCTK
    It is pretty funny how biased people here are towards Martin. And it makes sense for two reasons: He's been in the system for 5 years now so they've grown attached to him as well as and this sunk cost fallacy. Fans want to feel like they won the Berrios trade (which they arguably already did). And he looks like a good athlete, a proper ballplayer. Just like the scouts in Moneyball, people have a hard time looking at players objectively.
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    I don't think anyone should really feel bad for him because his baseball team stinks. He has the chance to change that and actively chooses not to. And you can just as much make the argument that he (or rather his porcelain body) has failed the Twins. We'll see if he gets to 500 trips to the plate but it's looking less likely, and that would be 8 straight seasons. If he was good and healthy in 2023 or 2024 would the front office have pushed some chips in and tried to make a splash? We'll never know. Anyways, loyalty to an employer is always stupid. They don't care about you. Whether you work for McDonald's or the Minnesota Twins.
  6. NYCTK
    The hope for 2026 before the teardown was just as, if not more, foolish. These hot prospects will almost certainly be burdens more than benefits next year. That's as true now as it was last week. So where was the hope for 2026 otherwise? An older Correa? A healthier Buxton?
  7. NYCTK
    I've said as much that he doesn't really excite me. But I am still significantly higher on him than Austin Martin, and that is likely not an opinion that is shared by many people on this website.
  8. NYCTK
    The only one that the Twins should (and have) given up on is Miranda. He's a bust. 1000 chances and he just wasn't good enough. Larnach, similarly, has been given the chances and while fine, has shown he's not good enough to put in any near or long term plans but decent enough to just hang around if it works out. Wallner...I'm tempted to say the same but still leaving some hope there that he just becomes the DH or maybe 1B and contributes, but I have nowhere near enough confidence to consider him part of the plans either.
  9. NYCTK
    Yes, but I disagree on soon. Obviously this season is lost and all these players should be able to rest assured their performance doesn't really matter for the following days lineup. But I would mostly say that's true of next year too. Not completely, of course, you're resetting the standings, and crazier things have happened than a team you expect to be bad playing well, but no crazy moves are happening with the intention of competing in 2026. This team is learning and building towards 2027.
  10. NYCTK
    The Twins are currently in the unenviable position where they can allow young players to just flounder for week long stretches. The community here is often completely contradictory. People seemingly both want the Twins young players given the chance to fail at the major league level so they can learn and grow (as if Trevor Larnach's 1500 PAs haven't told us much of his abilities) but also want to give up on players as soon as they have a 1-20 stretch. Which is it!? This prevalent idea that Roden's 100+ plate appearances have proven he is a bust is just wild to me. Give him another 100 this season, and at least another 300 next season (I promise you there's enough playing time to go around). Then we can talk about how he fits into the 2027 picture.
  11. NYCTK
    Are we giving up on Lee too? He has more than 4x as many PAs as Roden and about 2x as many as Martin. He's barely been given fewer chances than Julien (823 v 527) and has actually hit significantly worse.
  12. NYCTK
    I wasn't around then!
  13. NYCTK
    He didn't impress you in 12 innings, so he's out of chances in your mind?
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  15. NYCTK
    Well then people had terrible expectations of what sort of caliber of MLB ready talent the Twins could receive in return for trade deadline moves.
  16. NYCTK
    Fair. But I also keep hearing from people on this very website that you need to let the kids play and fail to learn and grow. His strikeout issues are a bit weird in the bigs because he's had very good K and BB rates in the minors, including AAA. As for his defense, it's significantly superior to Larnach and Wallner as well as last year's Austin Martin, but that hasn't stopped fans from insisting all year that Austin Martin should get another chance in the bigs (which I now agree with since the immediate goals of the team have changed). Player A Player B Age 25.6 26.4 AAA K% 12.6 14.5 AAA BB% 11.9 16.4 AAA ISO 0.185 0.109 AAA OPS 0.917 0.816 Minors OPS 0.866 0.764 OF JUMP 33.2 32.0 LF OAA 2 -3 Arm Strength 88.6 87.0 Sprint Speed 27.9 28.3
  17. NYCTK
    There seems to be a lesson here about many very effective arms being readily available to stick in your bullpen. Almost like...teams, and more importantly their fans, shouldn't stress too much about the long term viability of their existent bullpen arms.
  18. NYCTK
    Everyone keeps ignoring Roden. Before the deadline folks here were asking for major league ready position players to help the team right away in 2026, and Roden is exactly that type of player. But now that the Twins have received that type of player, no one wants to see him on the team.
  19. NYCTK
    OK. That also means no Harrison Baders or Michael A Taylors. No Buxtons either if we're not concerned about defense when viewing prospects. 25 year old with a career 700 OPS? BUM.
  20. NYCTK
    Survey Says: Yes!
  21. NYCTK
    He just got into yet another twitter spat, this time with Jeff Passan. I don't think Doug would be able to handle the job. He seems to lack the maturity or leadership you would need in that level of position.
  22. NYCTK
    FIP and WAR with is nice and all, and may be most indicative of pitching performance, but if you actually look at the totality of run prevention the Twins are 16th in ERA in that time and 17th in Runs Allowed and Win Percentage Added. They're actually 14th in runs in that same time frame.
  23. NYCTK
    That sort of thinking is how you end up with a team of Mirandas, Juliens, Larnachs, and Wallners. How'd that turn out again?
  24. NYCTK
    I don't think this is clear at all. Before the trade deadline I said here that it would wise to: 1) trade all expiring contracts that anyone wants (obviously) 2) try to get a team like the Yankees or Phillies to just take Correa and eat 1/3 of his contract 3) sell 2 of the 3 of Duran, Jax, Stewart 4) see if anyone would take Topa or even Tonkin As we saw 1, 2, and 3 all came true and seeing it all unfold it was then, if reporting is accurate, that Jax requested to be traded as well. So that really only leaves Varland as the unexpected trade, and if you take a step back and ignore the human side of him being a Minnesota kid, that trade is completely defensible. If you were told 6 months ago that Varland would be traded for 2 of another organization's Top 10 prospects we all would have been elated. A run of success in the bullpen doesn't change that for me.
  25. NYCTK
    I've also read the power consumption issue with Ai is overblown. Read it compared to a hamburger, and God knows I'm not quitting hamburgers. My issues are mainly accuracy (none) and the fact that it's driven by a bunch of loser dweebs in California just destroying the world out of pure greed.
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