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  1. DJL44
    Keep running him out there. Every time his ERA increases, his arbitration award decreases.
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    What an absolute disaster year for Jose Miranda that he can't even get called up to play on this lousy team. Is his career over?
  4. DJL44
    They're going to need to have Nelly show up every week.
  5. DJL44
    I really hope the owners aren’t planning on sabotaging their product by accelerating the decline of MLB with a lockout.
  6. DJL44
    Wacha throws 93-96. He’s not a soft-tosser.
  7. DJL44
    I think his hitting will improve but he’s not a shortstop. He is less athletic than most MLB middle infielders. He’s 24, so not that young, and has had access to high level coaching his entire life. He’s as experienced as any 24 year old player can be. His path to contributing is at 3B, but the Twins have Royce Lewis there. The Twins have known this since they drafted him, or they should have if they read any scouting reports.
  8. DJL44
    There has to be revenue sharing. The Yankees and Dodgers need other teams to play to fill out a 162 game season and those teams are going to demand a cut of the revenue. How the revenue is shared matters. Right now the Twins only get 50% of the revenue for each additional ticket sold but they're 100% responsible for additional payroll. MLB needs to revamp it's revenue sharing to share more of the the media money (which comes from existing) and less of the attendance-generated money like parking, concessions, and ticket sales (which comes from winning).
  9. DJL44
    My uncle said to hope in one hand and crap in the other and see which one fills up faster.
  10. DJL44
    Who else is going to hire Falvey or Rocco to run a team? I agree that the MLB revenue sharing model creates really bad incentives.
  11. DJL44
    They will make about $35-$40M more profit by losing. It's included - "Other".
  12. DJL44
    I expect them to trade Larnach and I expect them to sell Joe Ryan at peak value. That brings the payroll down to $83M. I think they will shop Ober, but won't like the offers so they'll keep him and hope for a bounceback so they can sell him at the 2026 trade deadline. I am a little worried they will sell Jeffers and go with Pereda and Gasper behind the plate.
  13. DJL44
    To win next season they need those prospects contributing on day one and they still need to add 4 relievers, a first baseman and a catcher. Do you think that is likely?
  14. DJL44
    I'm guessing the investors bought in knowing the Twins were going to cut payroll and cash revenue sharing checks. It's the most profitable business model under the current CBA. Shared revenue in MLB is over $200M per team. Will the Twins even spend half of the money they get from the league?
  15. DJL44
    They have two below-average 3B to show for those picks. I really don't know how they fix this without finding a new team for one of them. I guess they'll keep putting Lee out at SS to try to prove everyone else in the world wrong. Trust the process.
  16. DJL44
    I would still rather watch a random baseball game than a random football game.
  17. DJL44
    Brooks Lee had an awful night on defense. Pereda had a good game, he can stick around.
  18. DJL44
    I think it's basically Sands and Topa returning. Funderburk, Adams and Ohl should be AAA depth and not on the 26-man roster to start the season. I would put Festa and Prielipp in the bullpen. That leaves 4 more spots.
  19. DJL44
    Not if you want hope for next season. If you want to believe they can turn it around, you don't want to see them playing like the worst team in baseball (which they have been since the ASB).
  20. DJL44
    I believe this is true. They don't have a dozen guys ready to debut who have MLB starter upside. They have a few - Jenkins, Rodriguez, Gonzalez, Culpepper - and they're mostly outfielders. If they're really lucky, two of those guys will transition well to the majors in 2026.
  21. DJL44
    It's not all the bullpen. They also have a terrible defense and no hitting.
  22. DJL44
    I could say the same about Gasper, Julien, Fitzgerald, Keirsey, Outman, McCusker, Miranda, Pereda, Vazquez and even Brooks Lee. That's 10 more guys on the 40-man roster who have an "upside" of 0 WAR replacement player. Lee is the only one who is young enough to expect more from, but it will have to be at the plate because he's a bad middle infielder. As bad as Clemens has been, he's 5th in WAR among players currently on the roster. Clemens will be around next season because they can't replace 12 guys in one offseason.
  23. DJL44
    We have spent a lot of time talking about how bad the bullpen is, and how bad the hitting has been but we haven't spent much time talking about how bad the defense is. Buxton, Vazquez and Lewis are the only defenders still on the team who rate above average. They may have had the worst middle infield in baseball all season - Correa was below average and Castro, Lee, Julien and Keaschall have been bad. Their best defender in the middle infield was Kody Clemens and they moved him to 1B.
  24. DJL44
    Torii was a late bloomer. He played 11 seasons for the Twins (but only technically, he had 0 plate appearances in his first season) but only 7 of them were productive. Torii's two best seasons were with the Angels, in fact his WAR for the Angels is 20.7 in 5 seasons vs his Twins WAR of 27.1 in 10 seasons. Lining up by best 10 seasons BB 5.0 4.9 4.5 3.9 3.6 3.0 2.1 1.7 0.7 0.3 TH 4.7 4.2 3.9 3.8 3.5 3.3 3.1 0.8 0.2 0.0 Buxton's 4.5 WAR season is now, and it keeps going up. His 2.1 WAR season was the pandemic-shortened 2020. The other thing you're seeing is how much the run-scoring environment matters.
  25. DJL44
    Half of those guys would be on a list of my least favorite Twins of the past 25 years.
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