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no, totally wrong. We definitely have an excess of catching on the team....so much so that the THIRD catcher on the team has sat on his butt nearly all season! Now that is just useless excess! Well played, Mr. Zoll....

You are exactly right here! But, remember, the Pohlads are largely in the commercial real estate and finance business. And, I am gonna go out on a limb here and say they are probably equally skilled at the running an MLB baseball team as they are in manufacturing widgets. Here is the point: the Pohlad family are the owners and the financiers of the Minnesota Twins. They do not manage the Minnesota Twins. They HIRE people to do that for them. They hire an Executive Team, who, in turn, hire Managers, Coaches, Trainers, Marketing staff, Groundskeepers, etc. It's that Exec Team that comes up with a Strategy that will 1) lead the team to on-field success and 2) make the owners richer. By now you get the gist of this: The roster is an embarrassment, the coaches keep getting replaced, player development sucks, attendance has caved, and they are losing money. But, don't blame Pohlad for choosing which players trade at the deadline...remember, he hired people to do that. BLAME FALVEYZOLL (yeah...they are the same person). I hope that they finally realize that they hired the wrong Executive Team that has been rapidly devaluing their investment for years! Only then can they fire Zoll and hire an experienced baseball executive to lead the organization with intelligent baseball decisions. I am guessing that Tom is starting to realize this. I sure hope so!

yeah, watch....they will sign a catcher over the winter (either Jeffers or another MLB C) and we would have wasted a roster spot on Jackson all season. Just idiotic. Zoll, cleanup in aisle 13, asap! Please leave the Twins!

LOL...nice quote!

Well....nice start to his career with the Twins! A HR on his first AB! Really! First to do so since Eddie Rosario. And a great throw from CF to nail a runner at 3B! Other than Buxton, I don't think anyone else makes that out on the team. You know, when I watch Emma running around the bases, he kinda reminds me a bit of Puckett--he's got that big smile and that seemingly pudgy body. There is a lot to like with Emma...hope he never goes back to AAA. End of the road for Wallner, Kriedler. Maybe even Martin?

I couldn't agree more about ZOLL! PULLLEEEZZZE, Mr. Pohlad, give us some hope! As far as Ryan goes, I'd make him an offer to stay with the Twins for 3-4 more years. He can be an anchor with the team. Sorry that we missed out on Pablo this year, but I love him on the team...maybe we can extend him another couple of years. Ober...geez, I dunno...I am pretty sure i would trade him for a prospect. Agree with Jeffers and Larnach. That they are still on the team is just management malfeasance. We have not been a contender since at least August. Zoll really messed up with Jeffers--because now he is forced to give him the QO just to cover up his idiotic non-trade. Even if we had gone on a heater and made the playoffs, how much more money would the team have made (could have made the same bucs by dropping Jeffers salary!). People are just not showing up at the stadium until they start making smart moves!

And we already know what Larnach is…and Wallner, Roden, and Kreidler, Keaschall, and Clemens…. of the bunch, I’d only keep Clemens (Util), Keaschall (needs fielding training badly! but can’t ignore the bat) and maybe Roden as backup in AAA. We are being delusional if we think we can pass up FOUR other teams to make the playoffs. And so what if we did? We’d likely not last the first round. At this point in the season, the only thing we should be doing is testing unknown players at the MLB level to better understand what we need to do over the off-season for planning the 2027 roster. We don’t need to play Wallner or Martin or Larnach. They know exactly their skillsets and limitations. Thank you Zoll ( and still Falvey) for this mess!

Twins we’re out of contention in August!!

So the only options are: Keep him in AAA until he’s 100% ready and you know he will stay or bring him up and play him until: injury Send him down and expose him to waivers—probably losing him for nothing stash him on the bench and train him at the big league level (like we have done with so many other players) anything I missed?

Uhhhh...the Twins were eliminated from the postseason in August! As far as Erod....I only have two words to say: BIG PAPI Dumping Erod before he ever sets foot on Target Field would be as embarrassing as dumping Big Papi at in 2002, just in time for him to hit and average of over 35 HRs/year and drive in an average of 108 RBI over the next 13 years...of a first ballot HOF career. Now, will Erod match this extremely high level of performance? Well...their AAA stats are roughly similar....Erod 256/423/912 and Ortiz 309/381/913. And, yes, Ortiz had his share of injuries throughout his career too. So, why would you give up at Erod at this point? So you can play Roden? Larnach? Clemmons? Martin? Wallner (choke!).? Gimme a break! Roden, Larnach and Wallner don't hold a candle to Erod--not even in the same league. Clemmons is one of the best utility players we have had for a while...keep him there. Martin is OK, but powerless. This roster is totally F'ed up! There IS an easy fix here...maybe Erod plays in the AFL then Start him out in AAA,, but when you bring him up....sign Erod to a 2 year contract. That bumps him up to MLB minimum wage, but it also protects him in case we want/need to send him down to AAA for some more at bats--he'd just be under MLB contract But, just abandoning him with a trade this off-season would be as lunatic as trading Louie Varland. Sooner or later, we have to get adult brain cells in the GM chair. I just hope that happens before we destroy this team any further!

right....it was a gamble by the Zoll. And a stupid one! Look at it this way: suppose we did win a wild card playoff spot. Just making the postseason is not the goal here and should NOT be a measure of success. ADVANCING in the playoffs should be our goal. Building a team that can achieve that should be ZOLL's #1 goal. Pohlad said he wants to be competitive, sure, we were kinda competitive this year..probably thanks to the change in coaches. But, we are not good enough to compete in any playoff scenario. Which playoff teams could we have actually competed with this year? None. We probably would have matched up against the NYY, BOS, CLE or HOU....and I doubt we would have been able to put up much of a fight. So what was the point of the trade deadline non-deals? Larnach, Wallner and Jeffers should have been traded. Probably more. Those returns would have been better for the team than Jeffers hitting another 10 HR. We have been fumbling around with losers in the OF all season and it has cost us many games. Our pitching staff was miserable all season (injuries on SP, and a horrible RP staff) and it cost us many games. Could some smart trades shored up a couple of these positions? We could have brought up Emma and/or Jenkins and our OF would have been far better. We have been carrying three C's pretty much all season...what the heck for if you didn't trade Jeffers? Zoll's mishandling of the roster is beyond inane---its insane.

Andy, I am so sorry, but Zoll is simply Falvery #2. Born and bred. He has to go. The sooner the ownership understands this, the sooner the Twins can start forming into a winning organization, top to bottom. Can anyone name one thing that Zoll has really done differently than Falvey? He's on a one year contract for a reason. Pohlad had little choice when he fired Falvey. So, he gave Zoll the rope to try. It hasn't been pretty. As I said many times, it will take years to fix the mess that Falvey gave us. But Zoll does not have the experience, the knowledge nor the respect to pull it off. Sorry, we need someone far better than Zoll. Do you know anyone who is interested???

oh come on.....the Twins website news is shouting: "Urgency ratcheting up for Twins in do-or-die stretch" OK. . . it might be a little over-optimistic, but, here, 2.3% chance means there is still a chance! Personally, I say that the Twins are dead for this year...a year badly mismanaged by Zoll......

Catching may be the most difficult position to learn on the entire field. Lackey looks very good, and we all expect him to be lights out great one day, but rush him? It all depends on his performance next year and how quickly he learns, absorbs, grows, and matures. Much of that depends on good instruction and smart advancement (challenges). But I have high hopes for him. I'd love to see him grow into the MLB next year, but I am not counting on it. Since Zoll screwed up the trade deadline, we are likely going to lose Jeffers with nothing in return in a season where we were really never going to succeed (even if we made it to the playoffs as a WC, we would likely not go far). That is management malfeasance. Dang it! We might get something back with the QO, but I hear that the Twins are afraid to offer it for the fear that he might accept it! Such stupidity. Just piling unforced errors on top of errors!

NO! YOU DO NOT KEEP ZOLL !!!! This team has failed for several years now as a result of the bad team management. We have had many good/great players pass through Target field. But, to build those players into a complete, competitive team is the management's job. They scout, they draft, they trade, they hire, they put together all the pieces. And, hopefully they hired a good staff to train the players in a consistent, modern approach, from low A to MLB. And, they have to get the right facilities and get the players all the modern tools they need to succeed. All of this...is up to the GM and his staff. Do you think Zoll up to the task? Well, lets look at it this way: It is obvious that Falvey was not. The Twins did not exactly flourish under his administration. So, he get's canned and his sidekick takes his place. Could Zoll change the organization for the better? I don't think so because every move that Zoll has made is right out of the Falvey playbook. So, Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.....So sad. If there is any single change that Mr. Pohlad needs to make, it is to install an experienced, professional management team to run one of his most valuable assets. Sigh....we can hope!