The Great Hambino
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I can appreciate you trying to be optimistic, but that is not even close to a competitive bullpen. It's basically what the bullpen is now (which is awful) plus a $5M fee agent and the hope a failed starter can reinvent themselves on the fly. And paying market rate for a closer is one of the most unreliable investments a team can make, especially a team on a budget. There's also one outfielder that has any business starting on a competitive team. This is why people are advocating moving the quality starters. Legitimate contention just isn't realistic for the duration of their contracts.- 137 replies
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I don't know if we've seen a single substantive action taken by Joe since the right-sizing that suggests a desire to win. Unless you count open letters as a substantive action. Now, whether Joe is lying about wanting to win, or telling the truth but getting overruled by his uncles, or telling the truth but simply grossly incompetent, I don't know. But I'm done listening to anything he or anyone else in ownership has to say. Show me you want to win or shut up and enjoy pretending to be a grownup playing with grandpa's expensive toy.
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PNC Park Threatens To Move Unless Better Team Is Built
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Until they take one single action that suggests they are not gutting it to the core, I will continue to assume they are gutting it to the core. Because every action they've taken so far points to gutting it to the core. To play devil's advocate with myself, I suppose you could argue that not trading Ryan offers a slim chance that they aren't taking this route (Lopez and Ober were injured at the deadline so there was no action available to be taken in either direction). But I think they held firm on their price for Ryan since it could be argued that the offseason provides a better trade market for starting pitching than the deadline (whereas the trade deadline may be a better time to trade relievers). So I'm not giving them credit for retaining Ryan until he shows up to spring training.
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I don't know why they would be having attendance issues with the BeSt FaNs In BaSeBaLl (they are so smug) I don't know where I heard it, maybe a podcast where Dan Hayes was a guest, but someone said they had info that the Twins season tickets were going to increase 5%. I guess we'll find out by the end of the month
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As a fellow Youtube tv-er, I've been looking into this a lot. From what I've found, it sounds like this is more due to the timing of their agreement with ESPN. It's set to expire in December, so this direct to consumer platform was never considered when they drafted their last agreement. Other providers with more recent agreements with ESPN were able to include the DTC platform in their latest contract. So I don't think there's anything to worry about ... yet. If their agreement renews without it - or worse, doesn't renew at all - then let the asterisks fly.
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One cannot shame that which is shameless For them to feel humiliation, first they’d have to actually care about the team and what the fans think. Second, they’d have to have the capacity to feel human emotion. Doubtful on both counts
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A lot more info has to come out about this (obviously), but you can get access to ESPN’s DTC platform and all of their offerings by authenticating through your TV provider at no extra charge … if your provider has struck a deal with ESPN. (There’s a list somewhere of participating providers - YouTube tv is not currently one). There’s a possibility they also charge extra for MLB tv the way apple does for MLS, but they’ve confirmed that there won’t be an extra charge for big WWE shows on their service, so who knows? In other words, it might cost more or less or the same amount you currently pay. Clear as crystal
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From what I can tell, Abel was up in the bigs for essentially a month across two different stints (one for a single day!). If he were called up now, that would be another, what, 40 days? Down the road, assuming he sticks with the big club permanently, he would be at 2 years + 72ish days at the end of 2027. Would that make him a Super 2 in 2028? I don't know, but I'm guessing no. I know there's those prospect incentive draft picks out there, but my understanding is he'd be ineligible to earn the Twins one of those picks because he didn't make his MLB debut with them. So to answer your question: Technically yes, but probably not in practice? Harder for me to say, a lot can happen between now and then, and someone like him is more likely to be sent down again in the future than someone like Bradley, given option count and MLB experience
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The NFL does have one thing that makes 4-team divisions more palatable, at least in my mind: because of the short season and playing a double round robin within your division, schedules can become extremely imbalanced. You don't even play 6 of the teams in your own conference, while others you play twice. With that kind of imbalance, more weight should be put on winning your division. There wouldn't be imbalance in the schedules anywhere near that degree in baseball. That increases the chances of an unworthy team getting into the playoffs on the technicality of winning an awful division. When the 1994 season got shut down, the leader of the 4-team AL West was 10 games below .500. We don't need teams like that in the playoffs. Give me two 8-team divisions per league
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After some extensive research*, if we assume Bradley is down the rest of this year and up all of next year, then he'll have 2 years and 132 days of service time by my rough count at the end of 2026. The top 22% of players with between 2 and 3 years service time at the end of the season get granted Super 2 status and get an extra year of arbitration. Would 2+132 days put him in the top 22%? I don't know, probably? Long story short: the Twins probably aren't gaining anything by keeping him down. *-research was not extensive
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One word: megabus
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I don't know if we're disagreeing as much as making two different points. I agree with you in general. Rocco's ship has been too loose for some time and no one wants him back. Just saying that if someone in Outman's position can't be internally motivated, then they really don't need to be here
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Jones had just turned 21 when that happened. I'm not saying managers shouldn't hold players accountable. I'm saying players are ultimately responsible for their own actions, and dumping it all on the manager every time absolves players of their personal accountability. A 21 year old doing it should be benched - Cox did the right thing. a 28 year old fringe player doing it should be DFA'd
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Sorry wasn't clear, I was trying to add on to what you were saying, not push back against it. I think we can expect players to act like professionals independent of the manager. Not everything has to be blamed on him. There's already enough legitimately put on him.
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I mean ... he's 28. If he needs that level of babysitting at this point, he doesn't need to be here
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21,837 I guess this is one of those "matching T-shirts in the upper deck" days that doesn't necessarily translate to TV
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Shouldn't someone with the drive and determination to get to the majors in the first place not need the external motivation from the manager to try at a baseline level? Understand that they're playing for their next opportunity and that everyone around the league is watching? I know Rocco is some juicy low-hanging fruit, but aren't professional players responsible for their own actions at some point?
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Go on...
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What do you mean, no repercussions? He got traded to the Twins! Oh, you mean repercussions from the Twins?
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The lowest announced attendance in the second half was 18,448 yesterday. I think it will be within 1,000 of that
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There's a difference between aggressive an reckless
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Well, Clemens certainly was aggressive there ...
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We just missed the elusive 3-4-1 putout at first
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Does that count as another failed contact play?
