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Many, myself included, don't think they can win 90+ in 2026 and are completely over this strategy of shooting for 84 wins and hoping it's good enough to lose in the first round of the playoffs.
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As we all know, normal career path SPs never get injured. Can't wait to see Pablo pitch this weekend.
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What? No, they haven't. The Twins the last two seasons have been a pretty darn healthy team compared to the rest of the league. I encourage you to look at the injuries for any other team at random. I wish fans would quit complaining about injuries like this. It's only second to fans excusing poor attendance by saying Minnesotans are unique and like to go to the lake house on the weekend.
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It's both lazy and often wrong. Someone else on this site used AI to try to convey their arguments and the data was just plain ****. Not to mention AI is just an extension of the flawed people that create and train it, yet again proven by the nazi Elon Musk's AI turning into a nazi that calls itself MechaHitler.
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What if you're passing up on the chance of him being Michael King? He struggled as a starter right away and was then relegated to the pen until he proved he had grown as a pitcher and was given another chance as a starter and has flourished. Bubic, moreso due to rehab was put into the bullpen last season but was given another chance to win a spot in the rotation and has done extremely well. The Twins haven't provided that sort of chance despite Jax saying he wanted to try to start again.
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Uh...there's been quite a few over the last 3 seasons. This is becoming a fairly common practice now, due to the low risk and high reward. 3 of those converted relievers to starters earned CY votes last season - Lugo, Lopez, and King.
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Man, he's struggled since he was sent back down. Not really a shocker, but in 139 PAs he's had an OPS of 0.638. Yikes!
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I was right there with you. It was dumb for the Twins not even considering it. We were definitely in the minority on this site though. And I agree that it would be incredibly dumb to attempt it midseason. He should be traded if we're being honest, but I can understand how many would prefer to keep one of Jax or Duran.
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This is more like someone's been a pretty decent cook, but shown in 254 attempts to be a pretty lousy baker. Keep throwing him out there, I don't care because this season is lost, but let's not pretend as if Larnach isn't also to blame.
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He didn't last season, so I don't know why we'd expect him to this season. There's a reason he was below replacement level last year. But I do wish to see him playing because I think this season is lost and next should be a punt (maybe something good happens!). But I have zero faith in Austin Martin being a competent outfielder and thus a decent big leaguer. I highly doubt any contender wants to roster either of these guys.
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Here's hoping he miraculously learned how to play a competent OF. Sorry to Austin, but I am such a hater. He's older than Julien yet for some reason a lot of people here are hopeful he can learn a new trick while happily giving up on Julien (which I'm also ok with). He's also somehow older than Aaron Sabato. Go figure.
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I think they would do this deal. Dinges is on the peripheral of their top 30 prospects according to Fangraphs and MLB. The fan scouting report ranking him higher could very well be in line with how they view him internally, but I'm guessing the 2024 4th rounder isn't exactly prized by their front office. Especially with them getting 4 picks in the top 70 next week. No one's trading for him until deadline day, making very sure that he's healthy before committing to him. But this is potentially a great deal for both teams.
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Not an issue once they're traded too 🤞
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If you have an athletic, flexible roster this sort of player is pretty useful. But if half of your roster are similarly immobile, bat only players his value really is minimized. He's in the 10th percentile of range and 6th percentile in arm strength. 2025 is done, and I have zero faith in this roster, wanting to see the Twins aim for 2027, ie, when Jenkins and/or Jenkins are ready to be contributors. So I really see no value in Larnach on this team. He can be a mediocre player on a mediocre team, or he can be traded away for a middling prospect. Neither is a great option but I'd still take the latter. A bit, not a lot. I can see him traded for a single prospect in the organizational #10-15 range.
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I agree he shouldn't be hitting against LHP but that doesn't suddenly make him a good player. There's also the unfortunate fact that he's a bad athlete that plays a poor outfield and is a poor baserunner. He's a perennial 1.5 WAR ceiling player making him a good bench player, not a core player.
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Twins 8, Cubs 1: Ryan Jeffers, Twins Ambush Cubs
NYCTK replied to Steven Trefz's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
I think this shows why a rebuild is necessary. They had timed this to be their peak. The height of this group of player's windows. Tear it down. Sell, sell, sell.- 66 replies
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You want the Twins to be buyers? Oh boy. OK. We'll just not agree on strategy then.
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Minnesota Nice™️
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Just to completely refute this article, would you believe Matt Wallner had a 182 plate appearance stretch just last season where he hit: .169 / .275 / .338? And if you want to be cheeky and include exhibition stats, that is actually over 226 PAs with a 0.614 OPS. Seems relevant if you're going to claim this is his first real slump.
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Feel like it's pretty self explanatory.
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He also has a career 102 RBI. In over 700 PAs and 219 games. Not what you'd expect from one of the very best hitters in baseball...
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I mean...this is just not true, considering we all saw him striking out in half of his plate appearances at the start of the 2024 season, coming out of a spring training where he was similarly struggling. And he continued to struggle for weeks at AAA until he got his swagger back. I don't know what we call that couple month stretch if it wasn't an "awful streak". You can't just pretend that didn't happen just because it didn't meet a particular MLB PA minimum that you've arbitrarily put in place. And I just am not overly impressed by someone with a relatively minimal number of plate appearances appearing in a rate stats leaderboard until they've put up full time work. That top 10? Well, he's 24th now, which is cool, but not showing how he's "established himself as one of the very best hitters in baseball".
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Here's an example from my primary team, the Mets. Billy Eppler wasn't viewed real great as a front office executive by Mets fans. The 2023 season was a complete disaster and everyone knew that Steve Cohen was eyeing the hiring of David Stearns in the offseason. Come late June the lame duck GM nonetheless started selling off players, trading away 7 players, including some high payroll players with multiple years remaining. In return he was able to acquire a prospect that was then flipped for their current CF, their #1 Setup man, and #6, #9, #10, #13, #25 prospects in addition to the previous years #3 prospect that's been fairly effective as a sparkplug utility man. If you're going to sell, sell with purpose.
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This question just makes no sense to me. It keeps getting repeated as if it's some sort of brilliant point. Sure, I don't like Falvey, but that doesn't mean I want to see the Twins just refuse to make any move at all for the remainder of his tenure, however long that might be. This organization already sucks, and trying to improve it is better than not trying to improve it.
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The thing is, given the state of the organization, this SHOULD be the signal. And the fans are already acting accordingly. They drew under 18K on Saturday? That's pretty darn awful.
