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  1. EGFTShaw
    This feels more like an article to generate engagement. There is no way in all the lakes in Minnesota, or the Hamm's Bear or Paul Bunyon and Babe the Blue Ox I make this trade or even consider it as it is crafted here. If Ryan is leaving the Twins roster, he better bring back a significant haul. Very similar with Pablo. As much as the Twins crashed and burned, TWICE, there is good players here. Relief pitching: at this time is more like the sale bin Blue Light Special from KMart. Starting Pitching: Ryan and Lopez. Both teetering on the next step to up the pitching ranking ladder. Sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, if we can get our players not named Buxton, to HIT and the players not named Buxton to play defense and the fact they are in the Central Division, there is always hope. Big IFFs and so far they have led to Big WHIFFSSsss.
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    I am selling LOW on the Pohlads rebuilding. I think they are trying to make the books look good to any potential buyers. Am I a cynical MN fan? 🙃
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    There is a lack of base stealing and non-exist base stealing. Twins were in the latter. Again, I had no issue either way on it, except it can generate pressure on the other team if your team is good at it. Funniest Twins memory when it comes to base stealing is Kent Hrbek stealing 2nd base...😁
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    The Twins situation. Under Rocco the First's Reign I think these 2 things fall on his shoulders. Failing to continue the development of the hitters. Failing to improve the defensive fundamentals These 2 things do not fall on RtF's shoulders Trading players (fire sale of 10 people at the deadline) Payroll slashed after winning their first playoff series since the glaciers receded, (the last 3 were in 2023, 2002 and 1991) Strategy I don't think many of us are really qualified to talk strategy, although base stealing, or the lack of it, is fair to lay at RtF's feet.
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    Correct me if I am wrong, but I don't think I am. 🤭 Essentially the Pohlads didn't sell because they didn't get the selling price they were looking for, am I wrong? 😏 The prospective buyers decided the asking price was too high. Whether or not we agree is irrelevant. If I am the Pohlads, (eeeewwwwww, anyone got any hand sanitizer??), I need to present a better product or at least the perception of a better product. How would this be done? First, you don't want perceived as the not knowing what you are doing even if you don't know what you are doing. Ooops. Strike One Second, trade controllable team assets sparingly and only for direct upgrade to your team. Son of a biscuit that is called Strike Two by the ABS system and everyone else with a smidgen of baseball sense. First item led to the second item. The second item leads to: Third you want to build a consistent Central Division, at least, winner. This would increase ticket sales, merchandise sales and getting the product more exposure on the MLB network. This would increase the value or at minimum the perceived value of the product you want to sell at a price you have in mind. So instead of selling their car (an analogy) at a Hemmings Car auction you are on Facebook ads trying get top dollar for buyers are trying to pay bottom dollar. As Houdini has in its opening lyrics, "Good f*cking luck with that"
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    Or the Nat's former manager Martinez, and the analogy is Walker Jenkins is one manager from being the next Juan Soto. Any others?
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    Trying to figure out if your username is from Big Trouble in Little China or an Asian adaptation of Doctor Who. 😏 Ober was dealing with hip issues at least for the latter half of the season
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    If the fundamentals improve, [rubs magic lamp] The team will improve.
  9. EGFTShaw
    Indeed, maybe you could have parlayed that bet into 1.75B today and buy the Pohlad's out. 😁
  10. EGFTShaw
    Trying to quantify when the Twins World Series Window opens or closes is an exercise in wasted time. 1986: 71-91, West Division: 6th place out of 7 teams, AL: 12th place out of 14th teams, MLB: 24th out of 26 teams 1987: World Series Champs Replaced Ray Miller with Tom Kelly on 9/12/86 1990: 74-88, West: Last place, AL: 13th out of 14 teams, MLB: 25th out of 26 teams. Last place in the West Division to World Series champs. Sustained excellence? Not with this ownership No one, and I mean no one, had money on the Twins winning the World Series in 1987 or 1991. Personally, I think they have a lot of the talent to make a run IF: Hire smart in game manager (communication and use of ALL data available including analytics a given in the hire) Improve, not take them back to little league, hitters. Improve fundamental defense. Hitting is more difficult but fundamental defense should be a given. I am not espousing Golden Glove at every position, but they can sure be hell of a lot better. Continue the pitching pipeline improvements Can't improve ownership at this time, most unfortunate.
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    First working in the "Mendoza line" gets a 5⭐rating. Along with words like audacity. I always believe there is room for improvement. Pluses: POWER: Prodigious Power. (also working in the word prodigious gets a bump) HIT: I am hesitant to add hit, because at the moment it is mainly POWER. Minuses: HIT: things other than POWER. DEFENSE: 🙄 He will never be confused with Buxton or Bader regardless how much he improves defensively, but I think he could be coached up to be an average defender. He could be coached to walk more, be a more discerning hitter, (never going to be Rod Carew), and learn to take what the pitchers give him. Some talents are not really teachable, Vlad Guererro, Sr golfing a home run. The basics should be. This is what has frustrated me about the Twins coaching. The fundamentals of hitting and fielding seem to be a lost art. Quick get MapQuest and find the way back to the Twins Way.
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    A lot of comments. A lot of MN Twins, better not get too excited comments. (and if you look at the history, rightfully so) As anyone who have tortured themselves and read my posts you will notice I tend towards optimism and potential. EXCEPT, what makes me nervous is not the overall history of MLB with tall athletic guys, (by the many people forget that Dave Winfield was drafted in MLB, NFL, NBA and ABA; unicorn my a$$, this guy was god's gift to Gophers Athletics), but the history of the Twins organization to develop hitters. But with nothing to lose, I am going to bet on the upside. I'll save my disappointment for later.
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    With the Angels poised to bring in a Suzuki the Twins quickly pivoted to acquire a Yamaha.
  14. EGFTShaw
    Ding Ding Ding... @Twodogs got it as well. Why yes I did grow up in East Grand Forks. The Red Pepper was, not sure if it still is, the place to go after a night out for Grinders. Sad that Whitey's Wonderbar, I know it relocated, is no longer there. The flood of 1997 led to eminent down fall on my childhood home on Forrest Ct. It is now a levee
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    Despite being MN raised, hence the username, currently in Virginia. The Washington Caps have a color commentator Craig Laughlin who I have tried to trade to any NHL, AHL or ECHL team for bucket of used hockey pucks. Even tried sending him the KHL as well. Unfortunately, still the color commentator
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    Not disagreeing with your assessment of Falvey, but the manager/coach should know more. GM/PresOfBaseballeOperations is a different job. And if you are not actively doing "it" your skills at "it" will diminish. Again, I have no opinion at this point aside from the Hamm's Bear, on who the next manager should be other than he better not screw up our development of pitchers and better improve out hitting and defense. Team Piranhas
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    Played enough sports to know, just because you are good at one level, doesn't mean you are going to be good at the next level up. BUT this trend and it has not been just this year and last year, is absolutely abysmal. I can see some hitters flaming out, it's the nature of sports. They are now going against pitchers, (even it is the 5th starter or a spot starter), that have been deemed good enough for their Cup of Coffee. But this is an ugly trend that points to coaching. (Spoiler: Same with defense) Scour the baseball landscape for a hitting coach who can, oh I don't know, IMPROVE our hitters. I really think that the hitters need to be at least league average with the proper coaching.
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    I personally don't have any, but maybe @Fire Dan Gladden can fill you in on his Twins Daily ID. 😏
  19. EGFTShaw
    From @Aaron Gleeman, aka the Singing Gleeman of Minnesota. 😎 in THE Athletic: "Miranda and Julien are prime examples of the Twins’ inability to develop promising young hitters into quality veteran hitters" Twinkies Mailbag brought to you by the Pillsbury Doughboy and the Hamm's Bear. This trait, more than anything else - yes even the soft tissue injuries, as irked me beyond anything since Skorts. How on earth can you take good to even bordering very good players who hit well at all 3 levels and turn them into the 21st century version of Mario Mendoza?
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    I could see Punto ripping off the shirt of opposing players as they round 3rd base starting a bench clearing brawl with Kent Hrbek coming out of the stands to delivering a Bolo Punch while Greg Gagne sneaks in from the dugout to put the Gagne Sleeper on the opposing manager. ;)
  21. EGFTShaw
    Unlike Stephen (I've Got An Opinion On Everything) A Smith, at the moment I don't have an opinion on the manager unless it is the Hamm's Bear. I do have thoughts about what they, (manager and coaches), need to be able to do. keep developing the pitching. teach and stress defense (I honestly don't believe that these athletes with proper coaching cannot be at minimum average at their positions. Two exceptions, maybe 3, would be shortstop, CF and catcher). develop a hitting program that improves the players similar to what the pitching program has done. OK - that's the coaches and mindset. manager know how to use pitchers, starters and bullpen hold the players accountable resurrect "playing the Twins way" but now perhaps with better talent and better coaching take advantage of every angle; running, challenging balls/strikes next season, pitch/hitter clocks, etc. good rapport with front office and St Paul For the love of 11,000 Lakes and the hunt for the elusive Musky, these soft tissue injuries are driving me to fish for sun fish. I don't know if it is over training, under stretching, dumb players...but I do not understand the spike in soft tissue injuries. I learned that we cannot Crowd Source Purchase the MN Twins. But I think we could Crowd Source a corporation to purchase the Twins. (precedence is the Atlanta Braves) Twinkies Baseball, Inc?
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    @Fire Dan Gladden have any comments lol
  23. EGFTShaw
    "Pohlads have been clear and unflinching in their assertion that their financial state of affairs had become entirely unsustainable" In my opinion, given what was reported as the outstanding debt of around $450M, speaks to malfeasance by the Pohlads. We are not the Dodgers nor the Mets with deep pockets and can buy themselves out of mistakes, but we are not even remotely living up to the expectations of a small market team. Is there an unwritten rule, (MLB loves unwritten rules), that states the owners of the Twins must be a tight fisted and incompetent financially? I sincerely believe the Twins could spend to the area of maybe 12th to 17th in MLB and make money...IFFFFF they commit to winning. The Brew Crew, and Tampa, have shown that small market teams can be successful. In another related note to this article, spending middle of the road money and the Twins Way, (of excellent defense, aggressive base running, and fundamentals while continuing to, (FINALLY), developing pitching) are NOT mutually exclusive. Out of the Box Idea: The population of MN is 5,737,915 If each person CrowdSource $296.27 the state could buy the Twins from the Pohlads. Be like, (cough, cough), the Packers but on a bigger scale. 🙃 Anyone But Pohlads. (ABP T-Shirts anyone?)
  24. EGFTShaw
    Not commenting on a manager, but the soul part. I mentioned this elsewhere. Bomba Squad Piranhas TK's The Twins Way (or maybe the Last to First Comeback Kids) They need an identity, a soul.
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    The premise, although he did present as kind of an either/or scenario, is not about which pitcher is better long term for the Twins. But the premise really is, which pitcher signals a true tear down. At least in my viewpoint that is how it is presented. Keeping Ryan is about future potential and striking while the iron is hot. (BTW - who strikes a hot iron anyway). Two years ago, I saw an attitude from Ryan, when Rocco came to take him out of the game, that pointed towards his potential. He Did Not Want To Come Out. You can go back and look at tape of any pitcher who ascends to the top, and they have this type of attitude. Of course you do need talent to go with the attitude. Maddux, Pedro, The BIG Unit and so on. So, with Ryan I think he still has a higher ceiling. Pablo is very similar in attitude AND has demonstrated he is the consummate professional. I can see a good argument for keeping either one. Right now, Joe will get you more in return despite being less proven than Pablo and Pablo will free up more money. I don't think this team needs to free up more money unless... .... It is going for the all-time loss record set by the White Sox AND the all-time run differential in the modern era set this year by the Rockies. My pipe dream. Keep both. Develop the pitching assets picked up in the fire sale this July. FIND a manager that will get them back to the Twins Way of TK and the Piranhas of Gardie and for love of all things Hamms Bear, stop killing off our hitters. Find a hitting coach who Improves the hitters instead Unimproves them. Pax y'all
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