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I'm not sure I will go for a 10-year career, but if the bet is "he'll be out of baseball in two years", sign me up for the over. No question.

True, I didn't randomly pick that sample. I was just providing more context to the 8 scoreless innings that started all this. Look at the whole year if you like. His ERA is 5.16, his WHIP is the same as it was in those 8 innings. His K rate is better for the full year than it was for those 8 innings. My point was, those 8 innings don't tell us much positive except he didn't give up a run. Pick any smaller sample you like to show me he's great, that's fine.

Putting on my Travis Adams Skeptic hat... 8 IP, 0 runs ERA = 0.00 that's good 5 H, 6 BB, 5 K WHIP = 1.375, K/BB = 0.83, K/9 = 0.625 that's less good I'm still not convinced, but he had a good outing last night (against a team without much offense).

He puts the ball in play and he runs it out hard. That's something to appreciate.

They absolutely should sell but the Pohlads are holding out for too much money. Oh wait you meant something else?

Great. Nice work. You have awoken Jontu and Cnthol. This is not going to end well.

Just noticed that former Twin LaMonte Wade Jr. was called up by the Astros. Good luck to him, as long as he doesn't help them win a wild card spot.

Henry Mendez for Bader's expiring contract looks pretty good. Garrett Horn for Coulombe's expiring contract too. Two pitchers for Castro's expiring contract. Jiminez for Dobnack and Paddack. Right now we could get any of those guys back for nothing or almost nothing. Wouldn't you characterize those as smart trades?

Right, because all good pitchers who come up with the Twins continue to get re-signed and spend their entire productive careers with the Twins...trying to think of one...nope, I'm pretty sure that just doesn't happen.

Who are you and why have you never observed what happens on the internet before???

Cole Sands would at least raise the floor. I’m ready any time.

Almost anybody looks good when you see clips of them hitting homers. But man, Cholowsky looked REALLY good.

Anything that moves Adams out of our bullpen... (not including an injury to Adams, of course, nobody should want that)

For those of you who enjoy beating dead horses, I'd like to suggest you drop Varland and start 5 threads on how letting the Yankees pick up Brent Headrick (2026 stats- 1.8 WAR, 4-1 record, 1.45 ERA, 2.65 FIP, 41 IP, 47 Ks, 16 BBs, 1.131 WHIP) on waivers was the dumbest mistake ever, because it was huge. Just don't start in on Lecroy/Ortiz again, please.

Let's make Adams' spot available.

Pitched four innings last night. 7 hits, including a homer, and one K.

" Travis Adams looked poised to do just that, retiring the first five batters he faced before Taylor Trammell spoiled the effort with a two-out, full-count, two-run home run in the ninth inning to trim Minnesota's lead to 5-3." Travis Adams looked poised to blow this game from the moment he took the mound. You said he retired the first five batters he faced? He walked two of the first five, not including a terrible call to prevent a walk to the sixth hitter.. 8th inning #8 batter: started with a wild pitch Caratini couldn't even touch. Second pitch was over 2" high (inexplicably called a strike, overturned on appeal). Third pitch was at least a foot outside. Fourth pitch was clearly outside, but called a strike. Fifth pitch was an actual strike. Sixth pitch was a foot outside. #9 batter: strike one, a hard-hit foul, a pitch several inches outside, then a line drive hit right to the first baseman for an easy double play. Well-hit ball, very fortunate outcome. #1 batter: Altuve flies out on a high strike. 9th inning #2 batter: strike one, strike two, bounced one a foot in front of the plate, Alvarez grounded out. #3 batter: swung and missed at ball one, then three straight balls (two not close), then ball four. #4 batter: got down 0-2, then a pitch way outside, fouled a pitch off, pitch in the dirt in front of and a foot outside the plate, another pitch just off the ground, then a foul, Then a pitch that was clearly high, but called strike three and no challenge allowed. #5 batter: strike one, ball one, ball two nearly hit the batter in the foot, threw ball three a few inches off the ground, fouled back a 3-1 pitch down the middle, Then he gave up a rocket of a home run. So in real life, he walked 3 of the first 6 hitters he faced, then he threw a gopher ball.

Adams has to go. And not come back. This is absolutely ridiculous. He has no business being on a major league team. Even one with pitching this bad.

If he thought the first DFA was a bad decision, the second one might have thrown a little cold water on any bad feelings. Hopefully he decides he'd still like to try and be a major league pitcher someday. He'll need to go to whomever makes an offer and is likely to give him another shot in the majors. Not sure who offers more opportunity than the New-Pitcher-Of-The-Week Twins.

Would be happy to trade Justin Lawrence for him. Oh wait, we did the opposite thing.

This bullpen becomes better the moment they replace Adams. I'm tempted to say with almost anyone, but I'll settle for anyone better than Lawrence or Garcia or Topa.

Wait- if they are still in the playoff discussion and you say Tom adds a reliever, why would he trade Ryan? How does trading Ryan make the playoffs even a remotely interesting possibility?

I think the problem is that there's depth, but not much top-end talent, especially in the outfield. We have maybe six guys that might be able to play in the majors, but we haven't sorted out who are the best ones (though Jenkins obviously has a head start). Probably low-ceiling guys but the team could easily end up dropping people who end up better than someone they keep.

But does he know the high school mascots of each player the way Atteberry does? I don’t think he can be worse until he works those mascot names in at least twice an inning.

OK, we all knew the Twins would miss Duran and Varland. But Perez??? Lovelady and Okert??? And remember that time we had Brent Headrick and put him on waivers? And he got all the way to the Yankees before he was selected. Ex-Twins Pitchers 6/16/26 Name IP ERA Record WAR Louis Varland 39.0 0.92 3-2 2.2 13 saves Jhoan Duran 23.2 1.90 1-3 1.5 18 saves Martin Perez 62.0 2.90 5-3 1.5 Brent Headrick 33.2 1.87 4-1 1.3 Sonny Gray 62.1 3.03 8-1 1.2 Richard Lovelady 28.2 2.83 2-3 0.9 4 saves Steven Okert 33.1 2.70 0-0 0.7 Yennier Cano 24.2 2.19 1-2 0.6 Jovani Moran 33.0 3.00 1-2 0.4 Tyler Wells 33.0 3.55 1-1 0.4 Tyler Kinley 28.1 3.18 4-2 0.4 Trevor Richards 23.0 3.91 0-0 0.3 Cade Povich 19.1 5.12 1-1 0.2 on IL Dietrich Enns 16.0 3.94 3-0 0.2 on IL S. Woods-Richardson 4.0 0.00 0-0 0.2 with Toronto Griffin Jax 44.0 3.68 1-5 0.1 now starting Trevor Megill 26.0 4.15 1-2 0.1 9 saves Brooks Kriske 2.2 0.00 0-0 0.1 Brock Stewart 2.0 0.00 0-0 0.1 on IL Luis Gil 19.1 6.05 1-2 -0.1 on IL Caleb Thielbar 19.0 4.26 2-2 -0.1 2 saves Charlie Barnes 5.0 5.40 0-0 -0.1 Shaun Anderson 16.2 5.94 1-0 -0.2 free agent Danny Coulombe 14.1 5.65 0-2 -0.3 Emilio Pagan 14.0 6.43 2-1 -0.4 6 saves; on IL Zack Littell 66.0 5.23 6-5 -0.5 Tyler Mahle 56.2 6.04 1-7 -0.6 on IL Chris Paddack 48.2 7.21 0-7 -0.8 Jose Berrios out for season Brusdar Graterol out since beginning of 2025 season