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  1. NYCTK
    So you're passing on the only two premium defense free agent outfielders but are so sure you can find one just as good and cheaper... This is why I'm saying you Bader haters are just objectively wrong.
  2. NYCTK
    So Michael A Taylor? You would have preferred the 2 mil to him?
  3. NYCTK
    Irrelevant when Martin can't play the OF. LET THE KIDS PLAY is a terrible strategy if they suck. Which people are happy to say about Julien but hesitant for Martin even though he's actually older and, I'd argue, much worse.
  4. NYCTK
    Look man. I'm not opposed to a rebuild. But don't think for a second that your desire to just let the kids play in order to see what you got and gain experience isn't a rebuild by a different name. A rebuild of one year is still a rebuild.
  5. NYCTK
    Oh. So a rebuild.
  6. NYCTK
    Agreed. How does that help this year?
  7. NYCTK
    When those cheaper guys are Nick Gordon, DaShawn Keirsey and Austin Martin it becomes entirely reasonable to stick with the underperforming guys.
  8. NYCTK
    If you're not making marginal improvements, nor spending big money, you're rebuilding.
  9. NYCTK
    I also want the Twins to spend hundreds of millions of dollars. I have been hating on the Pohalds, Falveys, and Rocco my entire time here. I'm just not so deranged enough to think that improving the team is bad actually.
  10. NYCTK
    If your barometer is "is this player good enough to be on the Steve Cohen Mets" then you should be hating on about 2/3 of the Twins.
  11. NYCTK
    Are you under the impression that a team should play bad players instead of better players just because they're cheaper? Oh no. The Twins hired the player that ended the season as the valuable 4th OF for arguably the second best team in the league. What a terrible turn of events! Let's say the Twins didn't completely choke...who do you think was going to start more in the playoffs? 2023 hints towards the answer!
  12. NYCTK
    Martin sucks, which is why he dropped off of top 100 prospect lists before he debuted and why failed to show any real skill in the major leagues. And Wallner was handed a starting job at the start of the season and proceeded to strike out in half his at bats. Yeah, he was kept down in AAA for a few weeks longer than he otherwise would have in AAA but he played himself into becoming the starter, thus proving he wasn't blocked.
  13. NYCTK
    Instead they should have played Nick Gordon...
  14. NYCTK
    OK. I don't agree that's it's useless, but it's clearly a shorthanded way of conveying a player's value. We can go through the specifics if you'd like. I know everyone hates Joey Gallo, but he did have a 300 OBP and 440 SLG while playing decent defense at 4 different positions so it's not difficult to understand why it portrays him as a positive value player, despite that massive K rate being no fun to watch. And did he really block anyone? Larnach a little bit, but Larnach was in his third season in the majors and wasn't performing. Wallner a little bit, but Wallner was an everyday starter the entirety of the second half essentially, so how much was he blocked? Pagan pitched 130 innings with a 1.149 WHIP so it's not hard to see value there. And Simmons is perhaps the best defensive SS in history, so it's not to imagine value there. And who was HE blocking? Nick Gordon? If we're being rational, Manuel Margot similarly wasn't really truly blocking anyone either, even if I do feel bad that Keirsey didn't get a true big league opportunity. I think we all agree that he deserved it more than Margot. But are we supposed to believe that they would have kept Margot over a player like Jenkins had he shown he was ready for a chance in the show? So, no I'm not at all worried about this front office holding onto a valuable major leaguer longer than the curmudgeon armchair GMs of Twins Daily would personally like.
  15. NYCTK
    0.5 WAR 1.0 WAR 1.5 WAR These aren't really disasters, and unless you can point to players that were blocked because of these decent players, you're kind of proving my point.
  16. NYCTK
    If one of the catchers is clearly the top of the depth chart, how is it ridiculous to point out the other guy is second? If you want to be pedantic and say 'actually he's 1b'...ok. He's still the #2 catcher.
  17. NYCTK
    Oh, idk, maybe the 2024 opening day lineup? Or how about the 2023 playoff lineups? Do those count?
  18. NYCTK
    Yeah. Totally. We all love to get mad that the GM won't cut a player before they've played a single inning.
  19. NYCTK
    That's not remotely true. With Austin Martin, for example, he sucked everywhere so they kept moving him trying to find him a home.
  20. NYCTK
    '..that being said I just know in my heart that the Twins will never cut him when he inevitably sucks' Subtext is all there. Based on Manuel Margot, you're assuming that there is no lengths that the Twins won't go to in order to keep a player you believe will suck (without good reason). You've all apparently convinced yourself that Rodriguez is blocked all season due to the presence of a 4th OF that makes more than the league minimum.
  21. NYCTK
    Absolutely ridiculous for anyone to say the second catcher on the depth chart is the #2 catcher. Anyone that thinks that is stupid.
  22. NYCTK
    How dare I suggest the Twins #2 catcher is the Twins #2 catcher. I must be an idiot.
  23. NYCTK
    Martin. Great. Can't wait to see him fail at one final position before he's sent back to the minors for good. I just don't see what Martin excels at. His defense wasn't great at 2B but that was in limited time, so maybe that's his calling and his position. But ultimately, the other 3 guys competing for 2B all seem to be better baseball players than him. The only reason Martin is in the discussion is because he was a first round draft pick. To me, he's third in line for the job. AAA peripherals BB% K% ISO BABIP Eeles 12.7% 14.6% 0.201 0.331 Lee 8.9% 15.6% 0.234 0.275 Martin 16.8% 15.2% 0.120 0.315 Julien 19.4% 28.5% 0.182 0.371
  24. NYCTK
    Clever, if the Mets didn't replace him with a near identical archetype, as the starting CF no less. But not everyone can be as picky and choosey as those high and mighty Twins.
  25. NYCTK
    No, probably not. Everyone here has been throwing out wild and dumb ideas about how to get rid of the salaries of Paddack and Vazquez but the fact is, other teams view those contracts the same as the Twins. Why would THEY want them? Nick Pavetta is still a free agent and you think a team wants to trade for the pleasure of paying Paddack? Jose Quintana pitched two great outings in the NL playoffs and still doesn't have a home. But let's say you even did get a team to take Paddack on and signed, for example, Michael Conforto. Ok. You still need a 4th OF. You still need a 1B, unless you're now throwing Larnach or Wallner into that competition and calling it good. And you're now down an arm, albeit an entirely unreliable one. Is that really a better team?
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