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  1. HarmonK03
    Roden
  2. HarmonK03
    He probably shouldn't be hitting that high up in the order, that is more an indication of the weakness of our roster.
  3. HarmonK03
    I will be surprised if Buxton is back before the homestand. Shelton always makes it seem like he is close without saying it outright. Buxton should have been on IL after the Colorado series, they are always indecisive on his injuries, then when he does go on the IL, there is no sense of urgency to get him back. We will arrange for counseling for you.
  4. HarmonK03
    I'm not the one making out the lineup card, take it up with the analytic nerds in the front office. Look at the trends of when Gray starts and this is how it has been working out.
  5. HarmonK03
    Church of Kreidler, hang in there, the Cubs have lefties going the next two days so your guy will be in there until the bullpen door is opened.
  6. HarmonK03
    Gray hits LH and they need to maintain the platoon advantage, defense doesn't matter in this case according to their actions.
  7. HarmonK03
    I agree Gray needs to be in St. Paul as insurance and Culpepper needs to be up here when healthy. Kreidler has cooled off as he has gotten more playing time. But he is our best option right now and needs to be the starting SS. He will start at least two games this weekend at least with 2 lefties starting Saturday and Sunday.
  8. HarmonK03
    I disagree, this was their plan that they started last year and have kept expanding it this year. No one is pitching past 4 to 5 innings in St. Paul with basically a max of 70 pitches. Their are guys down there were starters. But now they are not developing starters or relievers and this is why they have to keep going to the waiver wire, no is ready for a role up here.
  9. HarmonK03
    When did Kreidler become the everyday SS, he has had a couple of three day stretches where he was there every day, but he has been in pretty much a straight platoon with Gray.
  10. HarmonK03
    They haven't even attempted to develop a 7th starter, they have everyone pitching as a bulk guy. They seem to have pushed all their chips in on this concept and it will catch up with them when they need depth. And this is all the way thru the organization. When I was at a game in Cedar Rapids, their game notes had an interesting note, the Kernels starters are averaging 3.1 innings which is dead last in the Midwest League. This concept may have merit for some guys in the lower minors but it seems to becoming the prevailing method of development.
  11. HarmonK03
    First Tom Pohlad has to hire someone competent to run the front office that can identify the right FA's to bring in and fill the holes on the roster. And this person needs to be improve the player development side of operations. Just signing someone for the sake of making a signing does no good.
  12. HarmonK03
    Either he is a starter or a reliever. You would be running your bullpen short by one by saving Paredes every fifth day. And hoping he pitches into the 7th or 8th inning usually does not work out, so you are essentially turning this into a bullpen day.
  13. HarmonK03
    I would still take Lewis over Bell as DH over the course of a season.
  14. HarmonK03
    I get what you are saying about injuries. Buck has been mostly healthy the last two years. That is what you have a forth outfielder for. As for ERod, some of his injuries have come from dumb plays like diving into first base, can he get smarter as he gets experience you have to hope so. And Jenkins is only 21, I think it is too early to say he will be injury prone for his career. And he seems to have had a lot of soft tissue injuries, the team needs to help him find a training regimen to minimize these. And he is not someone that should be on a straight platoon. So the point still remains they can't go into 2027 with six outfielders in St. Paul. They still will need to make some moves.
  15. HarmonK03
    Make Royce Lewis a Platoon Bat Caratini is hitting a career .247 with an OPS .699 against RH pitching. So you are going to take a one month hot streak and sit a player with more potential and is better defensively even with limited experience. Yes Lewis has to maintain his production, but the talent is there and they need to give him thru the end of year at least. Otherwise trade him now, I think it would be a mistake. But you don't sit him for Victor Caratini. I would be upset too if I was Lewis if I was benched for a journeyman with 42 games started at 1B in his career.
  16. HarmonK03
    The Twins do have an interesting situation with their outfielders. They have five outfielders in St. Paul that will probably be ready to play up here between now and early 2028 at the latest. And that doesn't include Wallner and Fedko. And if you add Keaschall and Roden to this mix, there are 7 players competing for basically two spots. Buxton is not going anywhere and Larnach and Martin are still here. So if you add in the DH spot as a place to rotate players thru, you have three spots. Yes they may not want to give up on this year but they are going to have to make some decisions, either now or this offseason. First not everyone of those guys will live up to expectations and may bomb completely. But how are they going to clear space by either moving players currently on the big league roster, i.e. Larnach and Bell. Or who do they trade of that group to strengthen other areas of the roster. And can they self scout well enough to move the right players, which has been a weakness of this organization. Even when everyone is healthy, they don't have enough AB's to go around at St. Paul and players will stagnate. And right now I don't think playing Mendez or Gonzalez at 1B is an option other than as backups. I am not moving off of Lewis unless he falls back the second half of the season.
  17. HarmonK03
    I think they are in a tough spot with Roden. He has done nothing in his short time in the majors with both the Twins and Toronto. But he has had 170 AB's which is the same Martin has had over May and June. And many have said that Martin is not an every day player based on this, so is Roden who actually has not hit as well as Martin worth more of a look. Right now the only outfielder I would force into the lineup is Jenkins. I don't think Roden has earned it, and like you said he might be more of a fourth outfielder at best.
  18. HarmonK03
    What has Roden done that would give him AB's over Keaschall.
  19. HarmonK03
    I am not sure if you ever managed people. You give your staff parameters within which to operate and make decisions. And a good manager doesn't come out and say Jane or John made that decision when it doesn't work out, because they have the ultimate responsibility. This is how it sounded like Falvey managed. You make it sound like Zoll couldn't pick up the phone and talk without Falvey's approval. Zoll has been in this job formally for 3 years and probably informally for at least 5 years. He was not an innocent bystander as you seem to think,
  20. HarmonK03
    There are a lot of assumptions in your comments. We do know Zoll had decision making authority under Falvey, he said so himself. Does Tom P. trust Zoll, who knows, but that is I where hold him more accountable for not bringing a senior baseball advisor in to advise and lead the process. Falvey had a close relationship with Joe, so the switch to Tom was potentially going to be rough. Your boss sets expectations for you, unreasonable or not, you have to deal with it. We all have done that in our careers. I have had bosses tell me not to follow GAAP, standard accounting practices for recognizing sales at month end. You find ways to deal with it or find a new job, that is the way the world works.
  21. HarmonK03
    I am not in complete disagreement. But they have a dilemma with ERod being out of options after this year, they are going to have to make a decision. I feel Culpepper had played his way onto the roster, they were very slow in calling him up, then of course he got hurt. If Jenkins continues to hit, he will need to be up. I am not as high on Roden as others are on here, I think he is more of a fourth outfielder. I just want to get away from all the one year past their prime rentals or AAAA types. Prospects are not always finished products when they come up. And some of the learning is only going to occur in the majors. At some point you have to trust your player development. Some of these guys that may not be up here yet, are rated fairly well by different baseball sources, so there should be some value there. But you can't keep having players coming up at 25 or 26 getting their first look. Some of the recent youngsters they have broken this pattern and I hope they continue that.
  22. HarmonK03
    Zoll was not promoted when Falvey left, he still has the title of General Manager, the only difference is there is no baseball executive over him now. Falvey left at the end of February but Zoll was very much a part of the decision making of this roster throughout the offseason, Falvey didn't sit at his desk and decree all his actions. He either consulted his key decision makers or they came to him with suggestions. We don't know who is the true architect of this roster, Falvey was ultimately responsible but I am betting Zoll's fingerprints are all over it. Last trade deadline, Falvey said that Zoll was leading many of the trade discussions which you would expect. Also when Zoll was hired, Falvey stated at the time that Zoll had been involved in the personnel decisions for the past few years. And it sounded like Levine was being left out of the decision making loop, which may have led to his leaving. So I am not letting Zoll off the hook for this mess of a roster. One last point if Tom P. is making any personnel decisions, Zoll should be out the door now. Zoll is the top baseball guy who is supposed to have knowledge of players and baseball operations, Tom P. isn't out there scouting and evaluating players. He should just be giving a yay or nay to any budget additions. Zoll is too tied to analytics, that is why I am advocating for an overhaul of this front office, they need a mix and it is not there. They laid off scouts last year, I didn't hear of analytics staff being laid off.
  23. HarmonK03
    1. My point was how Falvey chose to spend money, he did not spend what he had on an obvious need. He stated at the time of the signing that Bell was signed to be the starting first baseman. I am sorry but no other team would have gone into the season counting on Bell to be playing 1B. I am looking at the time the signings were made not today. 2. You can throw any amount out there you want for payroll but Falvey was not a low level employee, his job was to present plans to ownership of how to build winning teams. Other than when the budget was reduced at what seemed to be more last minute, he needed to anticipate and pivot. He knew the team was losing a major source of revenue but still advocated to sign Correa. If he thought payroll was going to continue to increase and planned for it, than he was not the person for the job to begin with. He took a swing and could not put the players needed around Correa for a winning team. Falvey was not good at his job and has put this team in a very tough spot. 3. Where ownership failed the front office in my opinion was not resolving the leadership issue last October as soon as the season ended. Not resolving it by late November did make it harder for the front office to plan, Businesses go thru uncertainty all the time, it it the job of leadership to plan accordingly But again we know he had at least $14m to spend and he watched all the top relievers be signed by other teams, that is undeniable. The bullpen needed to be the top priority. We have no way to know how Falvey would have any additional dollars he may have been allocated. But based on history, he has never given the bullpen priority over other areas. He has always thought he could build a bullpen internally and on the fly.
  24. HarmonK03
    I get you want a larger payroll but you still have to operate within the resources given. Other GM's have been able to do it for other organizations. Last offseason there was at least $14m available to spend, but there were no dollars spent on the bullpen, an area of obvious need. The money instead went to Bell to be the starting first baseman and Caratini as the backup catcher after they had signed Jackson for the same role. At the time those signings were questionable at best. You have to believe that Zoll was a part of the decision making process and Falvey didn't make these signings in a vacuum. In fact Falvey has talked a lot that Zoll was very involved in and leading a lot of the trade discussions. I have seen nothing that tells me he is going to operate differently than Falvey and I think we need more experience leading the baseball operations. Especially to keep Tom P. on track, a good executive knows how to manage upward.
  25. HarmonK03
    If the current regime is still in charge, I would be surprised he is up here by late 2028 and probably 2029 at the earliest. As mentioned in the article, this organization has been very conservative in bringing up prospects. Nothing has changed in this regard except for Falvey leaving. It is still the same people doing the evaluating and advising and I have not seen anything that tells me Zoll is operating much differently than Falvey.
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