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  1. NYCTK
    So...then we agree. He's a yes-man.
  2. NYCTK
    Well, then we go back to the original argument where someone claimed there's no evidence that Zoll is a yes-man. You're now arguing the exact opposite, and in fact, that it's his only duty.
  3. NYCTK
    To all this, I would respond, what do you think of Emilio Pagan? Good pitcher? Bad pitcher? Truth is, he's a good pitcher that a lot of people here hate because they're unable to look past 2022 where his results were...finicky. Just saying, if you take a look at payroll spending compared to output, the correlation is going to be weakest for bullpens compared to position players and rotations.
  4. NYCTK
    OK, and if Pohlad stopped him from doing his job then he should call up Jeff Passan and give him an anonymous scoop.
  5. NYCTK
    Yes. He should do his job, which is to improve the baseball team. Spineless yes-men acquiescing to idiot billionaires has sort of doomed our society. Zoll doesn't get my sympathy just because he wants to keep his job (and do it terribly, might I add). Most of these idiot billionaires are spineless themselves. Stand up to them, tell them off. Or, acquiesce, say "yes, sir" and enjoy your deserved ire.
  6. NYCTK
    On this point, we agree. On the point that bullpens are finicky, that's just a fact, whether or not you care to agree. Which sort of proves the point that you shouldn't overly invest in them. As for the "easily rebuilt" part, we may never know since we haven't had a competent GM is decades at this point.
  7. NYCTK
    We know that Zoll runs the roster. We know whomever ran the roster last season (ostensibly Zoll, perhaps Falvey) started a rebuild. Everyone who knows anything about the current state of the Twins organization recognizes a rebuild is the only prudent baseball decision. We know Twins ownership, in their quasi-change, declared there would be no rebuild. Joe Ryan, Trevor Larnach, Pablo Lopez, Byron Buxton, and Ryan Jeffers remain on the roster, signaling that Zoll has ceased any rebuild. That's the evidence. It sure seems like Zoll is an acquiescing yes-man to me. I get it, you want to protect your own neck, but that doesn't mean he doesn't suck at the job due to his apparent subservience to his boss.
  8. NYCTK
    You say this derisively, but what you won't admit is that there's a decent chance the bullpen is the most "successful" of the three units at the end of the year - looking at Position Players, Rotation, and Bullpen - when comparing them against the rest of the league. And this is precisely because bullpens are extremely finicky, not worth investing heavily into, and, yes, quite easy for a competent GM to rebuild. The Twins have made little to no effort to build a formidable bullpen and its still projected 20th, whereas their "strength" of the rotation is projected 14th and their position players projected 22nd.
  9. NYCTK
    I mean...have you seen the roster?
  10. NYCTK
    100 win team with a very fruitful farm! The future sure seems bright for that organization!
  11. NYCTK
    I feel like I need to pushback on this idea that he's a plus defensive CF. I think that could be true as a corner OF, but he doesn't seem to have great instincts out there. Good enough to play it, but not anywhere near good enough to be considered a plus defender. So, if he hits as well as Keirsey, but can't play a good CF, I don't really see any value in him. Arcia should easily win the job over him. Fun Fact Kreidler is the 2nd worst hitter in MLB the last 3 seasons with 100+ PAs. 3rd was Keirsey! wOBA xwOBA Kreidler 156 214 Keirsey 158 196
  12. NYCTK
    I just don't think that's true. Varland and Jax were both highly effective in their first season as a designated RP. You could argue the bouncing back and forth in the role doesn't allow someone to be an effective reliever, but that's irrelevant this season. Come 2027 you want to avoid that, that makes sense.
  13. NYCTK
    What use is a good reliever this season anyways? Besides trading them away come the deadline. It's far more beneficial to the organization to get as many of these guys as many starts as they can. The rotation is not nearly as deep as many here want to think, they will all get a lot of MLB starts.
  14. NYCTK
    But it's not common knowledge that this is reality with the Twins, or at least any more true with the Twins than a typical MLB team. I agree with him, this doesn't seem to be the case. Much like the fabricated Twins philosophy of "anyone can play anywhere" this just seems like something a fan says regardless of the truth.
  15. NYCTK
    With a new manager in the building, I don't see why the Twins baserunning from last season would be at all indicative of how they will approach baserunning in 2026. It's almost not even worth mentioning.
  16. NYCTK
    Noah Miller was lauded for all the same skills, with the same challenges. He was in High-A in 2023, and is just now, 3 seasons later, hoping to break through to the majors. I'm just saying, temper your expectations. Prospects take time.
  17. NYCTK
    I love optimism around prospects. But Twins fans here need to remember Houston struggled mightily in High A last season, and should not be expected to be a starter until 2029 at the earliest, appearing perhaps in the 2028 season.
  18. NYCTK
    Big bat, with a massive hole. Matt Wallner had the 2nd worst whiff rate on fastballs up in the zone out of 303 batters that saw at least 50 such pitches (behind only Luke Raley if you're interested). And that gets significantly worse with FB that are above 94 mph. He has a whiff rate of 65.3% on good fastballs up in the zone, resulting is a 0.021 xwOBA, both worst in the league out of the 183 hitters that saw 50+ pitches of 95+. Which, to be fair, is the same hole, if less exaggerated, as Aaron Judge, but Judge is obviously a lot better at punishing mistakes he sees. Waller is just a very easy hitter to approach if you have a good fastball, which most pitchers do these days. High fastball and offspeed/breaking pitch down and Wallner will get himself out. Which kind of explains his poor performance in high leverage situations, perhaps? Most decent RP are going to have a FB that's able to attack that zone.
  19. NYCTK
    Good to decent defense in CF Extremely high K-rate Similarly astonishing BB-rate Good power But enough about James Outman, let's talk about Emmanuel Rodriguez...
  20. NYCTK
    You can say that about much of the "young" players on the roster, which is why the multi-year outlook is so grim. The only position players in year 26 or younger season truly in line for a 26 man roster spot are: Roden, Lee, and Keaschall.
  21. NYCTK
    You need players capable of playing CF on your roster. Outside of Buxton and Outman, you have Jenkins and Rodriguez, and neither seem quite ready for prime time. Martin isn't a CF, nor is Roden, even if they're both capable of playing it occasionally. I don't think it'd be the worst thing in the world to lose Outman and force Rodriguez to the majors in the unforeseeable event of a Buxton injury, but I can understand why a MLB GM would hesitate to just release a player like Outman given their roster.
  22. NYCTK
    The sad reality that a DH with a 105 OPS+ just isn't very valuable.
  23. NYCTK
    Rodriguez is not necessarily helping his case, showing his biggest concerns are valid by striking out in 45% of his PAs in ST, while also showing his strength by hitting 2 homeruns.
  24. NYCTK
    Mostly nothing, but with Roden it's interesting since he both has so few big league plate appearances, and so many spring training plate appearances. 153 MLB: 555 OPS 94 ST: 995 OPS
  25. NYCTK
    I've been a big Roden > Martin guy and will continue to be so. Younger, and been better at nearly every step of the way. Martin had a great little stretch last year, but I still have my money on Roden.
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