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  1. Major League Ready
    Did you forget he signed Correa, Cruz and Lopez? He signed Margot and Gallo when the budget dictated those types of players. You are also forgetting he got great value out of some of those modest price players like Bader / MAT / Santana and Solono. The trade for Gray was pretty good too and he got Odorizzi for nothing. I don't think Falvey is the answer but so far Tom Pohlad is a problem.
  2. Major League Ready
    Saying you are going to do something stupid and then doing it does not build much trust with me. He did a 180 in the middle of a rebuild, decreased spending, and told the fans we just had to be good this year. He told us no half measures but invested nothing. I can't believe people believe this BS. Lower revenue teams have to get value for assets before they expire, and this guy managed to erode virtually every bit of that value. How does that establish trust? I tell you would have established trust for me. Had they acquired Tolle, Arias, and Eyanson and then spent to get one of the top free agent 1B and a couple of good RPs. I would be OK with the right deal to extend Lopez too. The next several years would have a rotation of some combination of Tolle / Lopez / Bradley / Abel / Prielipp / Rojas and Matthews.
  3. Major League Ready
    That’s what’s so frustrating. The White Sox example is staring them in the face and before that the Guardian showed them repeatedly how to manage assets. The White Sox would not have been remotely close to the playoffs had sold when they were down. Their top two players by WAR (Vargas & Meidroth) were acquired as prospects. They produced 5.3 and 4.5 WAR. The Twins did not have a single 4 WAR player. The Twins only had one 3 WAR player. They also got Teel and Montgomery by selling. If the White Sox example was not enough, Cleveland has been showing them how to do it for a couple decades. Hopefully, this season taught Tom Pohlad he should not be making these decisions and he hires a competent PBO. If you really want to scratch your head .... how did they get Ryan and Duran? The level of incompetence was at an all-time high this past season.
  4. Major League Ready
    Because they love to do the same thing and expect a different result. They need to spend $30M or so for a good 1B and 2 good RPs. Not sure what they will do about the C position.
  5. Major League Ready
    Keaschall's wRC+ for the 2nd half was 163. The lack of power is not a problem. LF is the best place to hide his defensive deficiency unless they can convert him to a 1B. I wonder if working on 1B is in the off-season plan. That flexibility would be a big plus.
  6. Major League Ready
    Very good point. I think you and I may have discussed the fact that 60% of the rotation would become free agents in 2028 a couple years ago. This is not a problem that snuck up on them which makes it even more inexcusable. One of Ryan / Lopez or Ober should have been dealt at peak value. People talk about extending Ryan but the much more impactful move would have been to trade him. It looks like they could have had gotten equal or better production for the next 6 years for far less money and added a very good middle IF prospect as well. For anyone who missed it .... This is a shining example of why the Brewers and Guardians put a good team on the field far more often than the Twins. I would bet the Falvey told Tom Pohlad this was an incredibly bad strategic decision to do a 18o on a partially executed rebuild, ESPICIALLY WHILE LOWERING PAYROLL and Pohlad showed him the door. It looks like smoke and mirrors to me. Keep Ryan and others, declare we are a contender but spend almost nothing on rebuilding a gutted BP. It's either deception or incompetence.
  7. Major League Ready
    1. How Will the Lockout Impact the Winter? I fear it could be long. The players have been very against any cap and I am not sure the floor will appease them. 2. Is Joe Ryan Untradeable? No. He just lost a ton of value. 3. What Happens With Byron Buxton? He plays more corner OF but I don't see him DHing a bunch if he is healthy. Why would they play Keaschall in the OF and DH Buxton? 4. Is Royce Lewis Part of the Long-Term Plan? I hope not unless it's a bench role and even then, it's time to move on. 5. What Is the Long-Term Plan for the Rotation? Bradley / Abel / Matthews / Prielipp / Rojas 6. Is the BP good enough? God no! 7. What Happens at Catcher? Good question. 8. How Aggressively Will the Twins Spend? It would make sense to spend on one of the top free agent 1B and a coupe good RPs. I very much doubt we see much beyond those additions. 9. Is the Pohlad Ownership Situation Changing? If the CBA adds significant revenue sharing, the franchise value goes up significantly. That's the surest way they cash out. 10. What Can Jeremy Zoll Do With His First Full Offseason at the Helm? Hope they bring in a PBO that knows how to build a contender.
  8. Major League Ready
    I was never of the opinion that the Pohlad's are Issue #1 but I am with you now. My guess is that they are waiting to sell, hoping the new CBA includes far more revenue sharing which would significantly increase the value of the franchise. This new CBA will be a very good thing for us as fans if the revenue gap is diminished and the Pohlad's cash out.
  9. Major League Ready
    Totally agree that it's not easy to manage assets in the way Tampa / Cleveland and Milwaukee have found their success. IF the Twins tried and failed, that would be one thing. The Twins never tried. They went down a misguided path of insisting they must compete this year. They refused to invest in the future. This is not new. I am pissed because they have never been as well-positioned to rebuild quickly with the chance of a very good team on the back-side of said rebuild. A lot of that positioning still exists in the form of young pitching plus Keaschall / Jenkins / Culpepper / Rodriguez and Lee. However, they could have added 2 or 3 impact players that could have taken this team to . real contender status. This is not hind-sight. Many of us said so at the end of last season and the entire off-season. The need a new PBO and they need to let him make the baseball decisions.
  10. Major League Ready
    There was no collapse. This team ended up right where they were expected to be. looking at 2027, they have already replaced 3B / SS (Lee / Culpepper) and 3 OF positions with Keaschall / Jenkins, and Rodriguez. 1B / 2B and Catcher need to be addressed. Naylor or Arraez? Naylor had a down year in 2026 but he might be a good bounce back candidate. Arraez could play some at both positions. Arraez and Clemmens might fit well on the same roster. Ty France had a big year. Fill 1B with one of these guys and spend some money on the BP. That would substantially change this team's trajectory.
  11. Major League Ready
    No. It's a matter of looking at how other teams are successful and apparently, you refuse to examine what has made other modest revenue teams successful. What would be more valuable to the Twins, one year of Ryan or 6 years of Tolle who was better than Ryan this year. Even up, Tolle is likely far more valuable that Ryan. Add the #3 prospect in the minors (Arias) and now it's quite feasible that trade could have been franchise altering. They probably could have also had the #46 prospect in Eyanson. They could have elected to at least attempt to build a contender. They chose a path of continued mediocrity to appease fans that think the way you do. I think differently. Dave Mason had a song in the late 70s that sums it up. It was titled ... We just disagree.
  12. Major League Ready
    Bullseye! We should be angrier about the lost opportunity. I think it's somewhat overlooked because we don't know for a fact what these players were offered which is relevant. However, these types of deals are what is necessary as proven by Milwaukee / Tampa and we did not take a shot. Bold moves are not limited to trading for acquired players. As a matter of fact, trading established players for prospects / unproven players has had a far greater impact for modest revenue teams than trading for established players. The organization was in a great position to lift the ceiling and the totally whiffed. They could have probably got a haul for Buxton too. IMO, Tom Pohlad's delusion likely diminished the team's next several years.
  13. Major League Ready
    Royce's wRC+ since 2024 is 90 and he is below average at 2B. That's simply not a solution. Royce is a bench player until he proves otherwise. Go ahead and put Clemmens at 1B but we need a different solution at 2B. Let's hope Houston plays well enough to warrant being called up and Culpepper can take over 2B. I agree with Vanimal that the ideal solution would be acquiring a 1B and let Clemens play his ideal role as a utility player.
  14. Major League Ready
    Hill, Amick, and Reyes are not high probability prospects but they had considerable ceiling. Those deals would have been fine if not for the fact this team was simply not a contender. This was really poor decision making by an owner insisting his team was a contender despite his unwillingness to invest dollars last off-season and the fact they just were not very good. It was delusional. That's not the headline. The much greater cost was the lost prospects they could have got for Joe Ryan and Ryan Jeffers, and perhaps even Buxton. Cashing in on that type of opportunity is what separates the Brewers and Guardians from the Twins.
  15. Major League Ready
    I think you have pinpointed the real issue. They had a great opportunity to lift the ceiling of this team for the next 6-7 years and they could not have blown it more spectacularly. Milwaukee / Cleveland would never miss an opportunity like the Twins had this year to elevate their team's chance of contention. They could of probably had Tolle / Arias / Eyanson or LeGrange. They probably could have gotten a decent prospect for Lopez as well. IDK about Buxton but there was potential to pull off a deal for him too. BTW ... Half of Chicago's position players we acquired when they sold off. This might be the dumbest sequence of events I have ever seen from this organization. Zoll just did what he was told. This is on Tom Pohlad. I was never thought ownership was our #1 problem but I am there now.
  16. Major League Ready
    I get it. This has not been a strength. However, drafting and development is a prerequisite to building a winning team with below average revenue. This is often taken position on TD as if there is an alternative strategy with any chance of succeeding. There is not. IYou are not taking this position but there are a quite few people who see little value in prospects when they are our best chance of building a contender. We should all be focused on the team getting better at this essential element of building a contender.
  17. Major League Ready
    Seems like a pretty good comp. A QO is not hard to imagine if the market for Jeffers is similar.
  18. Major League Ready
    He would have been roughly a 4 WAR player had he not broken his hamate bone. Jeffers is the only FA catcher anywhere near this level so scarcity will be his friend. I would guess 4/60.
  19. Major League Ready
    I like the idea of Keashall at 1B but I have never seen him play there. 1B is a good place to hide his throwing deficiency. Bring up Rodriguez to play RF and start the season with three OFers (Buxton / Walker) capable of playing CF. Non-tender Larnach. Martin and Clemens are you 4th and 5th OFers with Cody playing a super utility role. They also have Roden and Gonzalez for OF depth. Time to quit running the same players out there and expecting a different result.
  20. Major League Ready
    It's possible I guess it seems unlikely the Yankees would let the QO get in the way. What is Jeffers / Jeffer's agent thinking and I would guess they believe a big payday is coming. Perhaps more importantly, will the Twins make a QO?
  21. Major League Ready
    The unfortunate fact that Lee is hitting 2nd is just one of the signals that this team needed to be retooled this season. Lee is a decent player who should hit 6th or 7th on a team that is a legit contender. What they needed to do was add talent and they managed to find a way to get next to nothing for players that could have brought it the talent needed to get to the next level. We need only look at Chicago to see a stark contrast. They would not be looking at a playoff birth if not for the acquisition of Miguel Vargas who was acquired for Michael Kopech and Chase Meidroth who was acquired in the Crochett trade. Braden Montgomery and Kyle Teel also acquired in the Crochett trade. They have two drafted position players (Montgomery / Antonacci) who are contributing and the other player who has contributed is Murakami who of course was a free agent.
  22. Major League Ready
    Zoll does not make strategic decisions. He implements Tom Pohlad's decisions. Should we believe execution was the problem or was it strategic direction? Opinions vary but I think starting a sell-off and doing a 180 is pure incompetence. We don't really know what strategy Zoll believed supported building a contender. We do know that he would have joined Falvey in the unemployment line if he did not get on board with Tom Pohlad so I am not blaming Zoll.
  23. Major League Ready
    Culpepper has been the 2nd best hitter on the team since coming up. Ryan Jeffers has been the only tenured player to be slightly above average. The problem is the tenured players have been mediocre or bad in the case of Buxton / Larnach.
  24. Major League Ready
    I am not sure why anyone thinks Jeffers is signing a short deal which I would consider to be two years or less. Just not happening unless the Twins want to pay him very close to what he would get on a 4-year deal. Anyone think that will happen? Diaw and Lackey in 2028 should be a great Tandem. 2027 will probably not be great at the C position.
  25. Major League Ready
    Bradley / Matthews / Abel have to be there IMO because they offer something beyond 2027 and Matthews is earning it. I doubt they could get anything for Lopez so he stays even if he is not ready on opening day. I would trade Ryan if the return is an impact prospect but it's quite possible they managed turning what could have been Tolle / Arias into nothing of real consequence in which case they should keep him and see where things stand at the deadline. It they keep Ryan there are zero spots in the rotation to start the season. So what do they do with Ober and Kramer in that situation? Does one go to the BP and the other traded? That leaves Prielipp, Rojas, and Parades in AAA. Pretty fair depth I guess. IDK what to think for Festa . I have watched Quick quite a bit and he has not looked as good lately. He is not part of 2027. They should have targeted another AA/AAA arm for Jeffers.
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