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  1. NYCTK
    If a batter can't find a groove because they're moved around in the order, that player is a head case and that's not on the manager. If a player is so fragile they must be coddled, that player sucks. I've heard this complaint so much, as well as Rocco moving players around the field, and they're just the worst complaints. As if Matt Wallner can't hit because he showed up to work and he was placed in the 8th spot in the batting order versus the 6th spot? Likewise with someone like Miranda, who played some games at 1B, as if THAT'S the reason he couldn't hit in the last two months of the season? Give me a break.
  2. NYCTK
    Wallner batting leadoff would be a disservice to him, and get him undue heat from fans. Fans don't want to see a .235 batting average to lead off the game, even if that same average did have a .350 OBP paired with it.
  3. NYCTK
    He very much does not. That's why he was DFAd and claimed four separate times last year. Why would a team trade anything of value for a caliber of reliever they know is going to be available throughout the season for a simple waiver claim?
  4. NYCTK
    Well. Now he just earn tons of money with an online grift. Blame cancel culture, or wokeness. Could be on CNN within weeks. This country loves a con man.
  5. NYCTK
    In our post-truth world you should always just lie. You got caught red-handed? No you didn't. Those were individuals were obviously involved in a conspiracy against you. Where's the evidence of the conspiracy? The evidence is the persecution. Timeline doesn't match up? Just keep lying and eventually people will get exhausted and stop asking. Is it good? No, but it's American as apple pie.
  6. NYCTK
    Career bWAR through age 25 season - Gaetti: 7.8 Gagne: 4.6 Viola: 5.4 Martin: -1.0 While it's true that those players struggled a little bit when they first came up, it's not really comparable. They were all 21-22 years old, ages when they ARE still a bit green of thumb and growing as players, and in the cases of Gaetti and Gagne, they only struggled in initial cups of coffee, showing real value as soon as they received significant playing time. Austin Martin was a 25 year old rookie, given significant playing time, and didn't excel at anything. There's no reason to believe he has any real upside. The only reason he's even in the majors is because of his resume as a 1st round draft pick and notable piece in a big trade.
  7. NYCTK
    Good players can pick it up just fine. It's baseball, not a foreign language. Just look at Jackson Merrill. Celestino didn't fail because he sucked in CF. He was pretty meh, but he failed because he couldn't hit. Austin Martin, similarly, isn't some victim of being moved around and unable to settle into a position. He's failed to produce well enough to get very high at any position on the depth chart, so his only chance to play is as a utility guy. He hasn't earned the right to be the starting 2B any more than Julien, Lee, or everybody's favorite Eeles! There's no evidence that Austin Martin will be able to hit significantly better than last season if he just got to stay at 2B, just warrantless desires.
  8. NYCTK
    True, both losing playing time to the far inferior Austin Martin. Fingers crossed this is the case.
  9. NYCTK
    I get giving Keirsey time out of CF. Maybe that's the only reason. Or, maybe Rocco is actually naive enough to actually think Martin can become a competent CF. Eeles! Eeles! Eeles!
  10. NYCTK
    Brock Stewart on the IL? I'm shocked!
  11. NYCTK
    What has Martin done to earn the chance to settle into 2B? Unless I'm misunderstanding and you mean that even in the minors to settle into the position and see if he can become a good defender there. Honestly, his best case scenario seems to be a 250/330/350 hitter with average 2B defense. He has zero upside. He's a significantly worse Luis Guillorme. I want to see Julien, Lee, or Eeles beat him out.
  12. NYCTK
    Plus, plenty of people are able to disguise their real personality or their ugliness under a persona. We were all of us convinced Puckett was a really good dude. And we were all proven to be wrong. Impossible to know, so fruitless to speculate.
  13. NYCTK
    This is the thing that keeps getting me. People here keep repeating this idea that he's still learning the position. As if he's brand new to baseball and never set foot in the outfield in his life. You either are instinctually good at certain things or you aren't. You can't LEARN to get better jumps on balls after a certain point. Another 200 innings in CF isn't gonna cause something to click. Jackson Merrill had never played the OF as a professional before last Spring Training, and because he's a great ballplayer with great instincts and Baseball IQ, he was almost immediately a great defender out there. Austin Martin is not Jackson Merrill. Sad thing, he's probably not even Payton Eeles. Only reason he's on the 40 man roster is because he was a 1st round draft pick and was the return of a higher profile trade.
  14. NYCTK
    Lol. Jfc. If this is a serious opinion and not just a manager talking to reporters, Rocco should be fired immediately. I'll give the benefit of the doubt and say it's just a manager hyping up one of his players. But Austin Martin has amongst the worst instincts in the OF I've ever seen. Is Rocco seriously dumb enough just to be tricked by just athleticism?
  15. NYCTK
    I just don't buy into a focus on "situational" hitting at all. The 125 milliseconds these players have to react should be instinct from their 10-30 years of swinging the bat. Plus, the Twins DID shorten their swing and focus more on contact in 2 strike situations, if this graph is to be believed.
  16. NYCTK
    Santana, Farmer, Solano, Taylor. Focus on the positives!
  17. NYCTK
    Don't forget my boy Bader, gonna carry this team for stretches. 82-80 - Call your bookie.
  18. NYCTK
    As has been said regarding baseball since at least 1888 - Hope Springs Eternal. No room for negativity until May 1st. That being said... ...jk.
  19. NYCTK
    You know who the "best" team was in situational hitting with the tying run on-base or at the plate with two strikes? The White Sox. Focusing on "situational hitting" doesn't really do anything. I expect zero actual changes in outcomes even if their "philosophy" has changed.
  20. NYCTK
    Only thing that would get me a bit excited is seeing hit something like .342/.468/.526 in with a sub 25% K rate in Spring Training. Just like he did last Spring Training...
  21. NYCTK
    You're assuming the Pohalds have any real business acumen and/or long-term thinking/planning just because they're rich and "successful". The reason they allegedly are looking to sell the team is because all their other businesses are struggling. Look at their estimated net worth versus the value of the Twins and then look at that ratio towards the end of Carl's life. Carl was a ruthless POS, which is why he was "successful" in business. There's nothing to suggest his nepo baby failsons have any real business acumen other than the fact that they have an important job that was handed to them.
  22. NYCTK
    They didn't even sell out their playoff games in 23 and attendance then fell. I have to agree that the fan base is shriveling and the Pohlad's are largely the reason. They could win 90 games this year and wouldn't sell out their playoff games until they get to the ALCS.
  23. NYCTK
    A billionaire worried about their wealth when the billionaire president that's using the world's richest billionaire to cut money for the poor to propose tax cuts for billionaires, well, they might be an idiot. But as we all know, plenty of billionaires are.
  24. NYCTK
    You forgot the humor part of satire.
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