Richie the Rally Goat

I don’t get the current Ill will towards Falvey now that he’s gone. I get and accept that some fans didn’t like him while he was here. I agree with many that it was time for a change at GM, but I also think Falvey did a ton to improve this team and modernizing the front office. i hope Falvey does well in his next role, as long as it’s not in the ALC

@Cody SchoenmannFRED DURST?!?!?! it was George Michael… I’m so disappointed in you

Predicated on what?

You need a control sample to test the hypothesis. RB just has a real big control sample

Love that! Really encouraging for Jenkins’ and Twins’ future

Go Twins!

Putting Rogers in save situations isn’t doing him any favors. He needs to be put in the best position for him to succeed.

My “no participation trophies” comment was about the prior commenter wanting to give Maki a raise. He hasn’t earned a raise. I never actually said I wanted to fire Maki, but if they do, I can absolutely see why. The rotation has under performed expectations. Pre-season projections after Pablo injuries had them a top third rotation, they’re a bottom 5 staff. The bullpen that started the season as unserious, received 3 huge upgrades at the deadline and is still a bottom 5 bullpen. the rotation was supposed to be the strength of the team, and it was almost as weak as the bullpen. Every team uses 8-10 different starters per year, that’s the average.

Fangraphs pre-season has them projected to 78 wins, currently on pace for 72 wins. While I predicted the under, 72 wins does not exceed the predictions, Vegas, or my low expectations. no participation trophies

They shed $30m in payroll last trade deadline and offseason. They are having their third consecutive 2nd half collapse in a row, they’re having their second losing season. this team ranks 25th in runs allowed (not much to replace) 736, the hitters rank 9th in runs scored 681. Hitters and pitchers average age is 28 While I continue to believe that last year’s deadline trading away 10 major leaguer’s was a mistake, they did it and should have capitalized last offseason on the remaining contracts, OR invested heavily back into the team to make it actually competitive. They did neither and we watched more of the same. the same goes for this offseason. Go all-in on the youth, or invest heavily on competing. No half measures.

Technically, they can still trade both of them this offseason and the next trade deadline, but yeah, they missed their opportunity. They either should have traded both of them last offseason and started the season with a $70m payroll or actually invest into the payroll and put together a real bullpen and sign an actual 1b, and not have rolled with Lee at SS.

The opening day bullpen flies in the face of this assertion Relief pitchers (8): Justin Topa, Cole Sands, Eric Orze, Zak Kent, Cody Laweryson, Taylor Rogers, Anthony Banda, Kody Funderburk

Keaschall as well, he’s a DH, maybe he can play 1b and not be a liability

I want to see what Jackson has ahead of Caratini. back in August when they DFA’d Jackson and snuck him through waivers, he should have stayed in AAA. But now that he’s up? Caratini is clearly not the answer for 2027. good for Erod, he and Jenkins need to be on the outfield every day

This sees the forest for the trees, or Occam’s razor… or whatever… bad wording to say, it was obvious that there’s no conspiracy, just waiting for the AAA season to wind down