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  1. NYCTK
    Yet another way in which the expanded playoffs have ruined the regular season...
  2. NYCTK
    I am too tbh. The starting pitching should be OK with the rookies able to get more comfortable there. I think Festa is fine, and between Matthews, Adams, Lewis, Morris, Culpepper, and others I think their high minors depth is good enough. And, honestly, I don't think anyone should really concern themselves with the bullpen (more so with it's shuffling and management). But the bats just are not inspiring. I said this yesterday but Lewis has gone from a 24 stud hitting bombs in the playoffs and a franchise player to...a pretty good bat with questionable defense and major injury concerns. Lee looks like he's not ready. Julien lol. Wallner, major strikeout issues and questionable defense really limiting his upside. Jeffers was a mirage. And the most concerning thing is, Lee excepted, we aren't able to say about them "well, they're still young". No, these are players that should be hitting their stride. This was THE year. And it was a massive failure.
  3. NYCTK
    I just used to the comparison as a point that the Twins arms are not burnt out. If anything, they're coddled. Let's adjust our view a bit. Since August 1st, they're 10th in the majors in batters faced. Ironically, Detroit is #1, and by a wide margin. They must be using openers? I guess I haven't noticed but it seems that way, as Brant Hurter and Maeda are the bulk of their "RP" innings. Anyways, point being, Griffin Jax being the biggest workhorse in the bullpen isn't actually being worked that much. 67.2 IP is not a large load. He's faced the 48th most batters in the majors since August 1st. So, yeah, our bullpen is actually coddled, not overworked.
  4. NYCTK
    The White Sox, by losing 12 of 13 and providing the illusion of the Twins being a decent team, hurt this organization. Damn them.
  5. NYCTK
    Ignoring the on-the-field benefits (or detriments) of roster shuffling via trades or waiver claims, they act as such a signal to the players in the clubhouse. The season was over the moment Carlos Correa went to his bosses with a list of players that could help this team and management replied with the Pawn Shop meme and threw an objectively bad pitcher into the bullpen instead. Lane Thomas and Alex Cobb are not world beaters, but it signaled to the players in that clubhouse that the organization wanted to help them out. Erceg and Lorenzen, same thing. I already forgot the bum the Twins added, but all he signaled to the club was that they wanted to act like they care. Like buying pizza for an office meeting in which you're announcing layoffs.
  6. NYCTK
    This is the benefit of the Twins farm seemingly improving. There are a lot of interesting arms down there, and while most are going to stall out, some will chug along and become good BP arms. I have no faith in Raya ever becoming a valuable starter. But he seems exactly the type that could be a lights out guy at the end of the game.
  7. NYCTK
    If I were the Twins, I would trade him in a heartbeat. But what team is looking to add $133M over 4 years to their books? The Giants would NOT be happy to take him. The ONLY teams I can imagine doing something like this would be the Braves or the Yankees (moving him to 3rd).
  8. NYCTK
    This would be incredibly stupid. Bobby is better on the position by far and way younger.
  9. NYCTK
    This is just not true. The Twins bullpen is 20th in IP. The Guardians have 7 pitchers that have 54+ IP. The Twins have 3.
  10. NYCTK
    Ironically, I went to a game this year only because Ohtani was in town. He sat. 😭
  11. NYCTK
    Hey! While this collapse is bad, we gotta remember this is a collapse from 5th best team in the league to maybe out of the playoffs. It doesn't meet the standards for worst of all time imo.
  12. NYCTK
    You are right, it's not just payroll. But the Cleveland organization is just better top to bottom. They've produced so much more talent over the last two decades than the Twins.
  13. NYCTK
    Season's over. You're all welcome to join me on the Mets bandwagon. I'm headed to Citi Field here shortly!
  14. NYCTK
    I think that has been seen already.
  15. NYCTK
    That's baseball. FAR better is hard to be, but clearly better is a fact.
  16. NYCTK
    "Fine, we'll trade Pablo, cut payroll and rebuild" - Pohlads probably
  17. NYCTK
    This really has been the biggest disappointment of the season. I thought he was a franchise player. I thought he was a 6 WAR player for years to come. Instead he's going into his age 26 season with only a season's worth of PAs, slow, a weak arm, and no defensive position.
  18. NYCTK
    Guardians are just, top to bottom, a better organization. Scouting, development, etc.
  19. NYCTK
    Today's an outlier then. Because while Ks were a HUGE issue last season, they really have improved in that regard this year. Getting rid of Gallo and Julien not playing as much will do that. But even looking only at the Twins collapse, since August 18th, the Twins K rate is 17th. Right smack dab in the middle. Of course, you can argue that this mediocrity leads to the overall mediocrity which I'd partially agree with, but is a very minor issue in the team overall. The red hot Mets and Tigers for example have significantly higher K rates in that same span.
  20. NYCTK
    Eh, the tradeoff is players are hitting for a lot more power, which isn't boring. So, it's a tradeoff. Matter of opinion on which is more "exciting" I guess.
  21. NYCTK
    Compare that to an actual team leader that's on the bench with injury...
  22. NYCTK
    Gonna push back on this criticism. The Twins are actually in the top half of the league in K-rate in high leverage situations. The Guardians are better but it's marginal 22.6% for them vs 23.3% for the Twins.
  23. NYCTK
    This is why I can't watch/listen to Twins broadcasts. The inability for anyone inside the Twins Family to be even remotely critical is infuriating. We saw that with the previous Baltimore Orioles ownership last season and all baseball fans rightfully protested.
  24. NYCTK
    I love the big meat pete, but I don't know that the Mets give him the contract he wants. I think it's dependent on how it goes with other FA. They're very obviously going to be in on Soto and can't see them adding them both, considering a contract to Pete is going to age as well as everyone expects. Just look at the Ryan Howard contact for a comp.
  25. NYCTK
    Could be for 5+ years. He seems fairly legit. Cleveland did a good job getting him for Civale.
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