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  1. NYCTK
    It's way less to do with online gambling, which I'm not a fan of, and more to do with the anonymity granted online. This culture shift is not just seen on Twitter or in the bleachers. Bullying is no longer publicly shamed, but instead championed and rewarded. Just look at the White House. Character is no longer an attribute that is valued.
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    Will I be able to watch them on Fanduel Sports Network?
  3. NYCTK
    I'm a dummy and was slow to adopt the Mets, out of some stupid loyalty to the Twins, so I missed out on peak deGrom. Only really saw post-covid deGrom unfortunately, which while still great, was severely hampered by injury.
  4. NYCTK
    Weird. Feel like I just voted last week. Oh well, thanks for letting me know.
  5. NYCTK
    Good list. I'll add some later quarter century names; Chris Sale, Gerrit Cole, and Jacob deGrom. We often don't appreciate our current stars until it's too late. Each of these three have, I'd argue, put together a better career than Johan, both in longevity and in peak.
  6. NYCTK
    Santana is 24th in fWAR for 2000-2024 and his best season ranks 33rd. Greinke is 5th and 8th. Santana is barely even worth a mention. Which is why there was no Hall of Fame discussion around his career.
  7. NYCTK
    Both agree and disagree. I think you're right that a moderately below average SS is nothing to get bent out of shape about if that player is able to provide at least average production at the plate. But also think too many people undervalue defense as a whole. Trevor Larnach and Matt Wallner aren't nearly as valuable as many seem to think due to the fact that they're simply terrible outfielders. At the end of the defensive spectrum and still really bad.
  8. NYCTK
    I will continue to discuss topics brought up, respectfully. I didn't bring up politics. I'm responding to someone that is complaining that they don't have a safe space from the highly triggering 6 words "especially in our current political climate".
  9. NYCTK
    Not even! The current president has never received a majority of the vote. Just need more than the other guy (or gal). But not even as he received even less votes than his opponent. Like you said, messy.
  10. NYCTK
    Gotcha. You were so NOT triggered that you took 6 words and wrote another 150 about them. Who the hell are YOU to police other people's writing? Do you understand how entitled you sound by saying that? If you don't like someone's writing, don't read it. BTW, AOC is beloved by her constituents which I regretfully am not one. I'm guessing you're the one that needs to stop listening to MSM, ie Fox News, who had to pay nearly a billion dollars for lying to their audience.
  11. NYCTK
    Absolutely could be. Another reason not to get annoyed over one sentence!
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
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    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?
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. NYCTK
    Yet another season with neither a 100 R nor 100 RBI player. That'd be 6 straight, not since the juiced ball year.
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