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  1. tobi0040
    GIven how terrible this team has been over the last five years, Buxton was viewed as a savior. So nobody seems to care he had a concussion, (right before seeing AA, AAA, and big league breaking balls).
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    Yeah, we just need a new GM and manager to come in. Take a fresh look at how things have been running. Laugh to each other a bit. And then find the low hanging fruit that is laying all over this franchise. TR, Gardy, and Molitor have been stepping around it for years. On a side note, Fowler would have been nice last year as a stop gap CF and corner OF as Levi points out, many of us were pounding the table for Colby Rasmus. He has been awesome the last two years and TR loves his one year deals (1-8 last year and took the qualifying 1-16 this year). .789 OPS last year and .830 this year in all 3 OF spots. A slight improvement over what we have been rolling out there and he is only 29. He could have been had for Hunter's salary last year, or Milone and Duensing's. This year, Fien and Milone would have covered half of it. You know, the guys we just gave away
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    Sign me up for Okey. Give me a catcher that can be up here in 2018. I will pass on a HS CF or SS
  4. tobi0040
    Yup. They call it no man's land. We have occupied it for some time.
  5. tobi0040
    While completely true, you can cope at a Twins game by jamming down adult beverages. Society tends to judge when you do that during a little league game.
  6. tobi0040
    That is the frustrating thing for me. You could have signed a Jepsen two off-seasons ago and kept Hu. We knew we would need more relievers this season and if we were sniffing contention, we would have done the same thing.
  7. tobi0040
    Pythag was exactly .500 last year (81 wins). I think when you put a list together, a strong case could have been made for fewer wins this year. I agree not a .250 clip, but we should not be shocked if we were a 4th or 5th place team Here are a few: Sano playing RF for 160 games. He is on a 3 loss pace out there defensively and it was bound to impact his offense. More innings devoted to Ricky Nolasco. Jepsen not having a career run like he had for the Twins last year. Regression out of Rosario and Escobar. Byron Buxton was likely not going to come out guns blazin but still likely to see a majority of the reps in CF Perkins had a pretty solid first half last year and for all we know, may never piece together another healthy season
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    I think the coach and GM have made too many poor roster decisions to put it on the players. Certain guys need to step up, but some guys shouldn’t be on our roster and others have not been put in the best position by the Twins. Sano is on pace for a negative dWAR of 3 this year. The move has definitely impacted his hitting. All of this for Trevor Plouffe? Who we keep hitting 4th for some reason. May to the pen has been beaten to death. But it is costing this team wins. And going back as far as I can remember, TR has extended mediocre relievers and looked to the dumpster for help. Every year. Here are the Twins pen rankings from 2011 to 2016: 29th in WAR (8.8 total) 27th in ERA (3.88) 30th in k/9 (6.95) The kicker is these numbers were padded by a few really good seasons out of Glen Perkins, who was closing on terrible teams and should have been flipped. And why would we DFA Ryan O’Rourke? He is young, has options, and has been un-hittable against lefties. This is a knee jerk, throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
  10. tobi0040
    I really hope the focus of this draft is not athletic prep players.
  11. tobi0040
    They strike me as a very insolar team, like a company with a do nothing, clubby, board of directors. They are all buddies and nobody wants to rock the boat and hold anyone accountable.
  12. tobi0040
    I think you are right that he would need to resign. I don't think he will until we have a good season. I think he is concerned about his legacy. The comical thing is they would probably have a series of interviews and then give the job to Rob Anthony
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    In the theme of accountability, which is what I took away from the article I am simply putting the case together about TR's role and would suggest this is on him more than anyone else . It is much more detailed than running a Monday morning QB situation or questioning one contract. He has fired the head coach, hitting coach, and pitching coach and hired the new coaches (as well as a minor league coach or two). And if you look at the roster he has put together, I believe that he would not find a taker for 9-10 of the biggest 12 contracts he has signed (although Smith signed Mauer when he was a consultant). Note: I am not saying he would not be able to give guys away, but if he has to eat salary to move a guy that is an indictment against the contract he gave in the first place. He has just DFA'd 3-4 others, including his rule 5 pick from last year that we stashed on our 25 man roster all year and refused to play him in a meaningful spot. And he appears to not be on the same page with his coach regarding guys like Meyer and Kepler. So it just seems to me that all the chairs have been shuffled except one.
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    My biggest issue is we are on about a 60 win pace. One top pick, even if we hit on it with a 8-10 WAR player doesn't put us in contention. It takes several of them. Now I would like to see the Twins continue to go young this year and that may result in a few additional losses. I would not mind either the youth or additional losses. While we are at it. May as well move May to the rotation. Add another pitcher and forgo the late pinch hitting opportunity
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    It will be interesting how the next 110 games play out. For instance, if They think may is a long term starter, what better time to make the switch?
  16. tobi0040
    I think Jim has no idea what he is doing. None.
  17. tobi0040
    We also DFA'd Graham and O'Rourke. La velle speculating Rosario to AAA
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    We are not on the same page regarding the value of these guys. I just know that I have heard countless times. We need to get rid of Nolasco, or Mauer, or Fein, or Milone, or Ervin but nobody will take the contract. At some point if I am the owner I am asking the GM, why do you keep signing guys that no other team wants? Why did you convince me four months ago we should tender Milone, now we can’t find another team in the league to take him, etc. With Ervin, I think it is the combination of he was durable, then PED’s, now is not anymore. People probably question his durability now . And Hermann, Butera, etc. were not making any money or on long term deals.
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    I think there is literally zero chance Nolasco, Santana, Suzuki, Mauer, or Hughes find a taker at full contract. None whatsoever. Mauer is owed too much for too long. Ervin is a guy who tested for PED’s so nobody knows what to make of him. And Hughes has had a velo dip the last 1.5 years so going out four more is risky. A good litmus test on these would be what would these guys get on the FA market right now. If the contract is drastically lower than they are owed, then nobody would by definition take their contract in a trade (unless you are also taking a bad one back). Then you have a few, if they came back healthy and were on a good streak maybe, Perkins and Dozier. But probably not Dozier, I think he has red flags abound right now about his health. A good month probably does not put those to bed. I put Jepsen and Plouffe in the probably not category. Park would net something real nice, no doubt.
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    I don't think we are talking past each other. Just not on the same page. Mauer is playing well. Nobody would argue that. I am just saying, relative to the prices TR has paid people, we could not get rid of them if we wanted to. That fact, and wins are about as good of a metric as I can think of to assess how a GM is doing. I think we have taken the wrong approach in free agency and with re-signing our current guys. We have targeted back end rotation types that are on the wrong side of 30 and given them four year deals at inflated annual amounts. In the rare case one of these deals initially looks good, we have doubled down at the players absolute high point in their career (Hughes) and quickly fliipped those contracts from a bargain to an anchor. Other tendencies, like tendering players that are not very good and unneccesarily extending guys has also gotten us in trouble.
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    I was purposefully only looking at higher priced guys, because they were likely signed or traded for by the GM. For example, the Cubs are probably the team that says no to Sano for Bryant. I don’t know how you anyone can defend the value of the Twins players and what we are paying them. We could go through the list of these guys and ask a slightly different question. How many of these guys could we trade for nothing and have the other team pick up their complete contract? A vast majority would not be traded for. I don’t know how we could define negative value any better than that.
  22. tobi0040
    Well if we offered Nolasco and Ervin for Lester, the phone would be hung up. That is my point. We have a roster, chock full of guys that have negative value to other teams. It is hard to swallow that pill, then give the GM a pass (not saying you are).
  23. tobi0040
    You missed a few on the Cubs roster though making money. Arrietta at $10M would be about the most sought after guy in the league. Fowler has an OPS over 1. Anthony Rizzo would get plenty of takers. Lester is a very good pither. Overpaid, maybe, maybe not. But they knew that the day they signed him. Big difference between him and Ricky Nolasco and Ervin Santana. Heck, I would rather have Lester than the both of them which is the same salary.
  24. tobi0040
    Great analogy with the Wolves. They hired the best coach available. The Twins didn't even call Maddon. The Wolves hired a young GM from about the best run franchise in the league over the last 15 years. The Twins kept the status quo.
  25. tobi0040
    There is one single move the Twins could make to improve the most would be selling the team to a different owner. That would trigger a lot of questions about strategy, payroll, vision that likely haven’t been had in a very long time. Of course that would be the first in a cascade of moves. But I just don't see Jim Pohlad being the guy to do what needs to be done. A new, fresh approach from oustide the organization at the GM position.
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