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Makes sense. Can you imagine having to put up with my jeers?
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Plenty of players have waived NTC after saying they didn't want to be traded. Many have actually invoked it too. To think that Buxton would for sure reject any trade is no less ridiculous than suggesting he'd for sure waive it. I can absolutely imagine a GM telling him they were rebuilding and wanted to respect his remaining years of productivity and allow him to leave. I can imagine it because I've seen it happen with different players!
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Huh, I think I just realized I've never seen the Twins at home while Buxton has been healthy. Only seeing 2 PH ABs...which he's not done well. This is a bit ridiculous comparing a ten year history of injuries against a player who has lost significant time for the first time this season due to injuries.
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And a very obvious replacement in AAA that literally everyone is yelling to call up. Yeah, I don't think Tom Pohlad tackled Zoll as he was attempting to put Buxton back on the IL to stop him from doing so. But I also think it's kind of the CEO's job to have, at least, a weekly conversation about the baseball operations of the baseball organization and question the decisions that he's delegated. If it's been obvious to everyone here that Buxton isn't helping the team playing injured, and if it's obvious to everyone here that Jenkins should currently be starting at the major league level, then it should be obvious to Mr Pohlad too. And the fact that it's been a month of this nonsense tells everyone everything they need to know.
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Sure, but even though it is "skill" based, it's not at all indicative of a good pitcher. There were 4 immaculate innings last season, and 3 of them were by players none of us would have really wanted on the Twins. 2 were thrown by pitchers with negative 0.7 bWAR...each! And the three this season were all by good, not great, starting pitchers. So, it's cool, and worthy of recognizing, but not something anyone cared about 10 years ago.
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Immaculate inning is really cool, but one of those accomplishments I can't pretend to care about. Even watching the game (without commentary) I didn't even realize it happened until the next morning. Heck, you can throw an immaculate inning without ever touching the strike zone.
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If you ask "does Steve Cohen bear responsibility for the failures of the Mets" you'd get a pretty strong majority saying yes! You don't see a lot of fans reflexively defending Steve Cohen, because that would be ridiculous! As it is to defend Mr. Pohlad.
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Based on what are you claiming that? "He gets the "communication thing""? Ok. And what about the baseball thing? I feel like understanding the industry is at least as important as being a PR guy. Because, as much as you might have hated Joe, he was the one in charge (ostensibly) when the Twins finally made the good decision to trade off assets at the 2025 Trade Deadline. And Tom was the one in charge when that rebuild was halted, resulting in a half-measure that left the Minnesota Twins in a worse position both in the short and long term. So, no, I don't buy this idea that Tom is clearly better just because he's able to string together words that alleviate fan concerns. For the same reason Tim Brewster is no longer Head Coach of the Minnesota Golden Gophers. I honestly don't know how you're this naive about the Pohlads. It's the same ownership group, just with a different figurehead. Which is why we've seen no actual change in organizational philosophy in 35 years. Like father, like son, like nephew, like brother.
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Are you under the assumption that no criticizes Steve Cohen for his Met's failures? Because that would be a bad assumption.
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Prepare for it to get even stupider during the lockout. Lots of know-nothing fans will be blaming the players instead of their bosses that initiate it. Billionaire Tom Pohlad is planning on locking out his employees on December 1st because he doesn't think he has enough money. And a majority of fans are pathetically going to applaud his actions.
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Gotta be Stockholm Syndrome. This season was a failure on August 13, 2025 when the Pohalds announced they were no longer looking to sell controlling interest of the Minnesota Twins. You can also argue, as I would, that it was a failure of the CEO to refuse to sell off pieces last offseason, stopping the rebuild with the half-measure of just selling off the bullpen arms at the trade deadline. You guys, I don't mean to be controversial, but I think the CEO is kind of an important role in an organization!
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Quick question: Who's the CEO of the Minnesota Twins? Follow-up question: What is the role of a Chief Executive Officer?
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I took it out of context because regardless of anything else, Tom Pohlad is not the answer. The Pohlad regime doesn't care about winning and that's obvious to everyone. So me just clipping the ending sentence was a light-hearted way to say, yes, Tom Pohlad is not the answer and this team is going to have to be successful despite his and his loser family's leadership, not because of it.
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This was obvious since Day 1, and anyone that's ever convinced themselves otherwise was naive.
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It's apparently unfathomable to a lot of people that the CEO might be having regular conversations with the baseball operations team. And that those conversations might have any impact on organizational direction or decisions. I think a lot of people just imagine the CEO just sitting in their executive suite, occasionally picking up a putter and working on their short game, which would probably be preferable.
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The Buck with Buck stops...anywhere but the CEO, don't criticize the CEO!
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Everyone be nice to the billionaire failson CEO. It's not his fault 😭
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We can both recognize that Pohlad v4 is bad at his job, and the people that report to him in the organization he runs are also bad at their jobs. And because the 4th Pohlad CEO is the top dog, he gets the blame.
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What is with the reflex to defend the CEO of the failing company? Is the CEO not the top dog and responsible for the decisions of the organization? No one ever rushes to defend the CEO in any other industry, that I know of.
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Yeah, the Twins are an unserious organization. I could understand not calling up Jenkins for the first 2/3 of the season, but there's no defense for him not being a starter at the major league level right now. Quite simply, Josh Donaldson was right, and this organization doesn't care about winning. Thanks to the Pohalds, the Minnesota Twins are content being mediocre and have been ever since 1993. The brief period of competency in the 2000s was buoyed only by the hometown hall of famer and a desire from the front office to extract tax payer dollars from the population for a shiny new stadium.
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Goes to show, the only good billionaire is...well...you know. Oh no, the multibillion dollar organization had to take a bridge loan before selling their asset for a 3 billion dollar windfall. What a terrible fate. Correct. The Twins didn't sell for what the Pohalds hoped because they're cheap nepobaby failsons and terrible business people.
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This is definitely true for Larnach. The $7M he'd get in arbitration isn't any real discount on what you'd expect him to get in free agency, seeing as how the Twins paid $7M for Bell. Ober, I think it's closer to a value call, but similarly think he's not likely to get $7M in free agency, nor should you expect to pay more than $7M for a #5 caliber pitcher. For example, Griffin Canning got $2.5M this year. Non-tender both.
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Week in Review: The Dream Is Fading
NYCTK replied to Nick Nelson's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
Now Tom can whine to the fans over the winter about how unfair the system is, that he just can't compete financially with the big markets, and convince those same easily duped fans that a Salary Cap is necessary for the Minnesota Twins future. -
This might be a generational divide, and I don't mean to downplay his contribution to the '87 and '91 teams, but this extreme reverence towards Tom Kelly ignores his last 9 seasons as manager where they averaged 72 wins. So, I don't know that all that rigorous coaching had as much ROI as people here want to claim. Is he to blame why those teams were so bad? Not exactly, but I don't seem to remember those mid to late 90s Twins teams as exemplary in how to play the game the right way.
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Austin Martin Doesn’t Fit the Current Twins Roster
NYCTK replied to Cody Christie's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
This late in the season, using his last remaining option has to be considered carefully. Sending Roden down instead retains that option year which makes him far more rosterable next season. Tough equation.
