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  1. NYCTK
    Yeah, how so many fans deluded themselves into thinking this team was a quasi contender. This team never had any positional depth. Even if the roster was fully healthy, they're still rostering, and therefore playing, the likes of Keirsey and Gasper and regularly starting replacement level players like Julien, Miranda, Larnach, and France. How the projections didn't see that massive lack of depth and get to 77-78 wins is a puzzle.
  2. NYCTK
    Consider me one of the many that are completely unimpressed by the fact that Buxton has the highest stolen base percentage for this very reason. He's a good baserunner, but how he's never been a SB threat in his career is wild.
  3. NYCTK
    Bader criticisms were so clearly wrong, I was on my victory lap before spring training even started. I'm in the middle of a victory ultra marathon right now.
  4. NYCTK
    Only cause you weren't listening to the right advertisements :-) He's gonna struggle offensively for stretches, 100%. And he still may end up with an OPS+ south of 90. But people on this website were so irrationally angry, or maybe disappointed is the better word, about signing Harrison Bader. And for no reason. As it turns out, having a competent 4th OF is good actually. Here's hoping he can maintain a little bit better than replacement level play the rest of the season, and then the Twins can trade him for some A level CF or something.
  5. NYCTK
    Are the Guardians always top of the division because of stellar offensive output? I will happily serve up crow, because the vitriol directed towards Bader and the front office for what was always a very good baseball decision was ridiculous and very clearly wrong. He's arguably already been worth his contract, although the details of his contract make that harder to argue. I think he's due another 500K if he's traded, plus if/when the option is declined he's due another 1.5M. This is going to hurt his trade value, but not so much he's untradeable.
  6. NYCTK
    And Coulombe. Coulombe easiest to trade even. Every team is looking to bolster the bullpen in the second half.
  7. NYCTK
    Point being, you ain't getting a solid bat for $5M. Unless you're spending that on lottery tickets like Ty France and one of them hits. And even more to the point, you're not saving an offense with a veteran role player hired on the fringes. You need to spend at least twice that if you're going to get a legit offense boosting bat in Free Agency, a la Goldschmidt. Signing Bader was a great, and I do mean great, use of resources and I'm gonna gloat over that for the rest of the season.
  8. NYCTK
    Twins were dumb not to sign a bat only corner OF obviously... Anyone still wish Twins had Randal Grichuk (currently 220/289/390) instead?
  9. NYCTK
    He somehow made a playoff roster last year. The biggest red flag for anyone that thought the Phillies were contenders.
  10. NYCTK
    They're eating the dogs! They're eating the cats!
  11. NYCTK
    He was just missing the bottom of the zone for a stretch. I've worked with Malachi. Good man from what I could tell. Just had a bit of a bad day at work. Some umpires ARE, as Peter would like to say, scumbags. Malachi is not one of those men to my knowledge.
  12. NYCTK
    The league intentionally changed rules to increase stolen bases. It's not because of some league wide indifference. And the Twins gave up fewer stolen bases than 2/3 of the league and still about middle of the pack this year.
  13. NYCTK
    I can agree with your criticism of pitchers being unable to hold runners. But you've been making this complaint constantly and there's no evidence that I've seen that this hurts the pop time or ability for catchers to throw out runners. In fact I've seen claims to the contrary. 90% of catching league wide uses this method because every baseball team has concluded there's limited drawbacks that are outweighed by the benefits.
  14. NYCTK
    I heard that too. Just pure dogshit analysis. Sure, if the change up was a competitive pitch and forced the batter to take or foul off, that commentary makes sense. But the change was in the dirt, not even challenging the hitter. Everyone knew he would immediately go back to the fastball and he threw it right down the middle. Terrible sequence. Terrible pitching. Terrible commentary. #TwinsBaseball
  15. NYCTK
    They're not wrong. A new owner would be dumb not to clean house. In my mind, mediocrity, and the aspiration for it, is most evident in baseball. Maybe that is because it's the only sport without a salary cap, therefore all personnel decisions are only restricted by imagination. The Twins have rarely, if ever, actually attempted to put together a championship team in my life. They've almost always rather just had the goal of winning the worst division in baseball. And Twins fans have become wise to the con.
  16. NYCTK
    New Owners: You can't take it with you, and your idiot children are going to prove to be failsons, unworthy of the obscene wealth you intend on leaving them, just like nearly all obscenely wealthy children prove to be.
  17. NYCTK
    Far worse idea than any of the new Manfred rules.
  18. NYCTK
    Well, the Twins went 17-2 against the White Sox and Angels last season. And everything was smooth sailing after that I think.
  19. NYCTK
    A nice reminder that as incompetent as the Minnesota boys of summer become they're nowhere near as embarrassing as the Minnesota boy leading the DoD.
  20. NYCTK
    A. They effectively do, as a free agent acquisition cannot be optioned. Meaning high payroll teams have less roster flexibility than a team filled with a bunch of pre-arb guys. B. When did people start calling teams high/low revenue? Seems a very poor descriptor since the team has a say in that. Twins are low revenue right now because they are a terrible organization and no one wants to watch them. Whereas they could be a high revenue team if they ever got their **** together.
  21. NYCTK
    Damned if you do, damned if you don't. Large criticism I've seen here is Rocco doesn't get multiple innings out of his pitchers, but when he does with a pitcher on 4 days rest suddenly he's risking injury.
  22. NYCTK
    Speaking on behalf of all Mets fans...no thank you.
  23. NYCTK
    He'd have to turn it around significantly, but the contract is not really a hinderance for either of those teams. 4 yrs/$133 M not all that different than the 7 yr/ 180M that Adames received. It's a fair market contract IF he shows he isn't fully a lemon now. There'd be little to no return though. No top 50 prospect coming the Twins way.
  24. NYCTK
    No team will ever be able to depend on Royce. Any team that rosters him will have to also roster a solid, every-day caliber, player as his backup much like Buxton. And quite honestly, he's talked himself from one of my favorite players to one of my least favorite. There's a fine line between confidence and arrogance and Royce seems to have sprinted over that line (before he predictably pulled up with an injury that will sideline him for 6-8 weeks).
  25. NYCTK
    Yankees could use a 3B and Correa would waive a NTC for sure. If the Braves get their act together, they could also be a suitor to fill a weak SS spot. Maybe the Tigers decide this is their time and Trey Sweeney just isn't the guy.
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