Richie the Rally Goat

That would be some very small font

Who knows what their record would have been, but I can guarantee that it would have been less than 82 wins. If you like watching losing teams, you would have loved 1995 to 2001, and basically the whole TR2.0 tenure. Me? I’ll take a winning record over a losing one, every year

If last offseason they had traded Correa for prospects, it would have traded away 20% of team fWAR on a team that was 4th in runs scored in the AL. They would have gone from 10th in MLB fWAR to 18th.

That and Royce is already on the roster, they would still need to replace Correa’s output.

I’m not even a millennial and I find this post a sad facsimile of satire.

Good for Kep!

Ya, and Castro is still the utility but now free

Polanco was the glue that held the 2023 Twins together? 2023 Twins were 5% above AL average in runs scored, ranked 5th. 2024 Twins were 15.5% above AL average in runs scored ranked 4th. Correlation is not causation. i think it was all the injuries happening at once in August 2024 that caused the collapse, and not some clubhouse cancer that Polanco would have saved. edit to add: agreed with the OP that chemistry does matter, but it’s not black and white. Social chemistry is harder to quantify than molecular chemistry.

Agreed, the pohlads are private equity investors too. They all seem to follow the same model, buy distressed assets, strip cost (frequently painfully) to save the asset from itself, sell or invest heavily to put it on a growth trajectory. We just watched this happen. new ownership if they are fans might be more creative and more personally invested to turn the asset into growth, and that’s exciting.

Ehhh, many Twins Fans have been Anti-Pohlad since the mid-nineties when they let their team be one of the worst in the AL for 6 years and another big chunk when Carl voted for contracting his own team in 2001. I let the small market thing slide in the mid-nineties as a “well, it’s the Metrodome, they can’t afford…” type of thing. When Carl voted to contract his own team after mismanaging it for half a decade…. He lost me. The whole Pohlad family has been lying, cheating garbage in my eyes for 23 years. As to whether a potential new ownership group is better or worse than the Pohlads: Griffith was awful, The Pohlads were in some ways better, it’s hard to say how Griffith would have responded in the Dome and faced with the contraction issue, and was dead when Target Field. The only thing I can say with certainty is an owner that wants to own the team is a hell of a lot better than an owner who doesn’t. whether the new ownership group are going to manage the team better, I have a hard time imagining they’ll be worse. It’s possible, but then why spend the money at all? Where the buyer beware issue is, the Cardinals grew from 1.5B to 2.5B during the cable tv boom. What direction is that value going from here forward? It could be the new ownership of the Twins are buying the dip. Short term revenue is dropping. It sounds like MLB has a plan to turn that around. I hope for all of us fans that is the case, or the pain of industry change will reduce the number of teams or reduce the quality of available players.

They’ve been visiting Phoenix for a year now

Ron Davis?!?!?

The only way it would make sense to trade either one, is a Hershel Walker colossally stupid lopsided trade in the Twins’ favor. That doesn’t happen

Too much patience becomes apathy, all those Terry Ryan years, just siting on those prospects waiting for another development that never came. Rooker was waived by KC. The Twins got value for Rooker knowing they didn’t have room to develop him on the big league roster. Far more self aware than trading for a guy and giving up on him for nothing and then he develops into a good player.

Florida is to summer as Minnesota is to winter

Florida July heat at an outdoor park? Yuck, no thank you

The problem was hitting (at the end when the injuries mounted) fielding, and middle relief. in the last 6 weeks of the season they went from first in runs scored to fourth. The fielding was awful, and the fielding metrics don’t do justice to the pitching ERAs are ballooned by terrible fielding. All the complaints about losing Gray, while it would have been awesome to have him, SP wasn’t the problem. Twins Sps were 5th in the AL in WAR, first in K rate, second in BB rate, 3rd in xFIP. Edit to add, I think they added depth in the right places, but bad additions, exacerbated by incessant platooning

The Twins ended 2024 with the 4th most runs scored in the AL, but cratered down the stretch as injuries all mounted at once. Especially during the 162 game marathon, depth matters a lot.

The entire Oakland Coliseum was in this year’s rule 6, but went unselected.

Hmmm…

@Cory Engelhardt with prospects being the currency of trades, I think your blueprint is heading down a reasonable path. agreed w/Brock and Levi, not sure how I feel about this much salary dumping, but my picture is a couple of offloading moves for prospects, then packaging prospects together for a trade of a major leaguer. buying the dip on Goldy might be a good move, but I doubt they spend that big. Probably run it back with Smooth. great work

It was a BAD 6 weeks, but they still ended 2024 with the 4th most runs scored in the AL. 4th! Injuries are going to happen, building a better bench, some fielding fundamentals, and better middle relief will go a long ways. All cheap fixes

From Kitty to Cooperstown

Other than your utility infielder doesn’t play SS, I really like this fairly plausible plan. It’s a lot of trades to bank on, but what fun is this if you can’t do anything?

Joe Ryan, Jake Odorizzi, Jhoan Duran, Sergio Romo were all acquired via trade