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  1. Major League Ready
    I heard that same basic theme a lot last year. Didn't work out too well.
  2. Major League Ready
    Funny how that works!
  3. Major League Ready
    This IMO is the difference between Tampa / Cleveland / Milwaukee and the Twins. They understand that everyone gets 20 draft picks and they can't buy an advantage. Therefore, they must turn short-term assets into long-term assets if they are to amass enough impact talent to contend. If the report of Tolle / Arias for Ryan is true, that's the type of trade that elevates a team from a mid 80-win team to 90-win team. They also failed to cash in on Jeffers and to a lesser degree Larnach. This failure is one of the reasons we have perpetual mediocrity. It really rubs me the wrong way this time around because they well-positioned to rebuild very quickly. I think they will still be decent as soon as next year but they blew a chance to elevate the organization for several years based on the delusion this team was a contender.
  4. Major League Ready
    I will say this for him. His throws are very accurate. He makes it pretty stress free on the 1B. The power is ramping up too so I could see him being a 3 WAR player as he hits his prime.
  5. Major League Ready
    Put me down for Zebby too. Sure would be nice if this becomes his new normal!
  6. Major League Ready
    I have been keeping an eye on Ross for a couple years now. Good athlete and can play a lot of positions pretty well. I don't think the bat will play but it would be great if he surprised us all.
  7. Major League Ready
    They need to consider Lopez, Ryan, and Ober are free agents after next year. Sure, pitchers get injured and the other guys will get a chance but they need to start managing the roster long-term. Matthews was their best SP in August. I would not leave him off the opening day roster. Lopez is not bringing much in trade. I would move Ryan if they can still get an impact player or Ober if the return is not high on Ryan. Lopez / Bradley / Abel / Matthews and either Ryan or Ober still leaves Prielipp and Rojas in MILB. Kramer to long relief. They can use him as a starter when needed. They should also have Parades back for depth. IDK what to expect from Festa. One of Ryan or Ober needs to go and you could make a case for two of the three. If they are to become a contender, they need to develop Matthews, Abel, Rojas, and Prielipp into playoff caliber SPs.
  8. Major League Ready
    Maybe I was not following but I thought the discussion was that he is below average throwing out runners. No doubt it is a weakness. My only point was, and this is true of every player, we should look at both aspects of the game.
  9. Major League Ready
    I didn't know we were discussing what he might get paid in the future.
  10. Major League Ready
    The part being ignored is that Jeffer's wRC+ equates to roughly 15 runs above average. The net of those two numbers is a good player.
  11. Major League Ready
    Are you suggesting that two additional runs over the course of the season are important or are you suggesting the measure of 2 additional runs is a matter of opinion.
  12. Major League Ready
    I like the idea of Keashall at 1B. We need Houston to step up and push Culpepper to 2B. That's a better IF than we are accustomed to in MN. Match that with an OF that has Jenkins and Rodriguez and they should rate in the upper 1/3 defensively..
  13. Major League Ready
    Let's see .... They were bad in 2025. They lost one of their 2 top of the rotation SPs before the season started. The other looked suspect at the deadline as did their best position player. The guy they had to keep (Jeffers) in order to contend has am ops of .638 for the month. The other guy they kept (Larnach) has a .600 OPS for August. Their plan to replace the BP was to add Taylor Rogers and Anthony Banda. They actually decreased payroll again. Yet, Tom Pohald tells everyone he does not do half measures and this team must contend in 2026. I would hate to see a half measure if this was full-measure. Walker Jenkins was not going to put this team in contention. They were never a contender despite the insistence of Tom Pohlad. They managed to do slightly better than expected for part of the season by hitting out of their minds with RISP. That regression should not surprise anyone. Their plan for the year and the future is the pursuit of mediocrity. Tom Pohlad needs to find a guy to make the baseball decisions and stay out of the way.
  14. Major League Ready
    You forgot Duran.
  15. Major League Ready
    Duran and Jax both had 2 1/2 years left not 1 1/2. Trading away every decent RP on your team sure as hell is not an indication you are trying to contend. What were they trying to do with these moves trading for Abel , Rojas, and Bradley who had 4+ years of control if not rebuild? Falvey was removed because he and Tom Pohlad did not agree on direction. Pohlad wanted to go for it. Can we read between the lines and conclude Falvey wanted to continue the rebuild. Is there another direction other than try to contend or rebuild? Tendering Larnach tells us nothing. Maybe he thought he could get a prearb RP for him which would have saved money and filled a need. More likely, he believed Jenkins and Rodriguez were near ready, and he could eventually move Larnach to a 4th OF spot or out of the organization. That would not only be consistent with a rebuild strategy it would allow the team to time promotions with readiness as opposed to forcing the issue.
  16. Major League Ready
    While I completely agree with the part about new leadership, especially the part about Tom Pohlad getting out of the way, the existing leadership should not take all the blame given Tom Pohlad insisted on the path they took this year. To do a 180 in the middle of a rebuild is simply incompetent, to do a 180 and invest virtually nothing is next level incompetence if he actually thought they were going to contend. If the goal was to appease a given segment of fans in hope of improving the bottom line, he managed that pretty well.
  17. Major League Ready
    I can't believe anyone bought the BS. If Tom Pohlad was serios about doing a 180 on the rebuild and contending, they would have spent some money in the off-season on free agent RPs to replace at least part of what they had traded away. They had $110M payroll to start the season if my memory is correct. They spend $2M on Rogers and $1.65M on Banda while telling fans he is not a half-measure guy. It looks to me like nothing but smoke and mirrors.
  18. Major League Ready
    We don't know what happened, but it looked to me like Falvey tried to push-back on the we must be contenders' theme and Pohlad showed him the door. We do know that Falvey had started down a rebuild path. Zoll may have realized that he could fall in line or join Falvey looking for a job.
  19. Major League Ready
    A) It is not hindsight. There were plenty of posters who said investing in this team was foolish and that it would cost the team long-term. As @TheLeviathan pointed out, there was a significant opportunity cost, especially given that this team was only in contention for a playoff spot because of the overall weakness of the AL. B) Players were not called up because Tom Pohald is/was under the delusion this team is a contender. You can't count on even really good prospects to hit out of the gate. That's a reasonable fear when you are contending. The management of this organization was never going to replace Larnach as long as they thought there was any shot at the post season. They could have / should have made personnel decisions based on building a contender rather than pretending they were a contender.
  20. Major League Ready
    No. There is no Icon because it has no function on your own post.
  21. Major League Ready
    What color is the sky in your world?
  22. Major League Ready
    I was always pretty indifferent to the Pohlads. They didn't add much as owners but they spent consistent with revenue and let the baseball people run the show. I think Tom Pohlad's decision to do a 180 on a rebuild is the dumbest thing I have ever seen from this organization. Had he been willing to spend significantly on a BP it would not have been quite as bad. Instead he headed down a half-assing it path and a lot of people were just fine with it because they were not trading Ryan. They were really well-position to add impact players by trading Lopez, Ryan, and Jeffers. They managed to turn that opportunity into absolutely nothing. Does anyone here think Milwaukee would have squandered this opportunity. They probably could have gotten something for Larnach too. Being better than Joe Pohlad was a low bar but Tom managed to screw this up as badly as possible. We will never know exactly what the cost was to "go fo it" but it probably starts with Tolle and Arias which alone would have made us considerably better for 6+ years. This was an opportunity to elevate the organization. The entire league expected us to trade Ryan. Tom wanted to believe he was the hero when he simply knows squat about building a MLB organization and he should have left those decisions in the hands of someone who has built a MBL organization. This coming from a guy who tended to defend the Pohlad's or at least say they are not as bad as they are made out to be.
  23. Major League Ready
    Oh man, you went right to my least favorite draft pick, perhaps ever in Keoni Cavaco. I was expecting Corbin Caroll's name to be called for the Twins Pick or perhaps Stott and they pick a guy nobody had going in the 1st round. Of course, they also could have had George Kirby. Keoni Freakin Cavaco. Still Pi$$es me off.
  24. Major League Ready
    I disagree. If you are going to rebuild, tear it down to the studs. Going half-way like the twins did just promotes perpetual mediocrity. The strategy to go for it or rebuild both look to concentrate assets in a given period of time. So, the question is ... would the twins have a better shot at post season success by investing in this Team as they did or building for the future. I agree you miss 100% of the time when you don't take a shot. This includes not taking a shot at amassing assets in a rebuild. They are going to let Lopez and Jeffers go for nothing. They might still trade Ryan but they could have had Tolle and Arias. They would have gotten something like Eyanson or LeGrange for Jeffers having already added Abel and Rojas. IMO, they would have had a better shot at being good for several years vs being mediocre this year and next. They were in a position last year to rebuild quickly and contend for several years and they blew it. Milwaukee and Tampa would have never missed this opportunity. Speaking of Milwaukee. They have 17 players that are going to produce greater than 1.5 WAR. One somewhat established player (Contreras) was acquired via trade. The were eight others that were acquired via trade but they were prospects/unproven players. They don't have any players that were acquired via free agency that will produce 1.5 WAR.. Tampa has one player (Martinez) that was acquired via free agency. They have no players that were traded for as established players. By established I mean ever produced 1.5 WAR or greater in a season. Now, no doubt, smart free agent signings are advantageous. At times the Rays have gotten great production for modest investment. The same for the Brewers. Their role however is far less essential that developing players acquired through drafting and prospect trades. The value of Trading for established players is tweaking a roster and filling a hole but it's only valuable if a team like the twins can develop young/inexpensive talent.
  25. Major League Ready
    Does it make more sense to assume as you have that he would have been good here? We should make an assumption not based on what he did but what he would have done. He has been gone for 5 seasons and produced one good season. In the other four he produced 3.3 WAR. Yet, you want to make the case it was a terrible mistake to let him go. I would bet that had he been good, you would not have been to accepting of the premise we can't assume he would have been good here.
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