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  1. karcherd
    Reports were the Nationals were trying to give him away. He has no pathway to playing for anybody other than the Twins in the major leagues. No one else will play him at 1B, which is a smart move. And he hasn't hit well enough the last few years consistently to be a full time DH.
  2. karcherd
    Based on comments last week, it sounds it is the Twins that are trying to protect Buck from himself, their words. They want him at 100% before playing in the field. But it is getting old and seeing Clemens in CF is not a solution. Again why are Outman and Kreidler even on this roster. It would be nice if we had some reporters in this town that would actually track Zoll down and ask what the plan is.
  3. karcherd
    If they are not going to put the best out there in 2026 and also look to the future, that is management malfeasance. They can't stop and run status quo just because of a potential work stoppage. And actually the moves I am suggesting will actually help the team be prepared for when baseball resumes again whether at the beginning of next season or mid season. I am not accepting mediocrity and just standing still when you are running players out there that have no business being in the major leagues.
  4. karcherd
    We have four starters and no one prepared in AAA to step in to a starting role. Some of this is injuries but the other reason is they have turned the majority of the staff in St. Paul into bulk relievers. So they are not prepared from either a pitch count or facing a lineup multiple times to be starters. So bring up two of those guys to replace Ober and run your bullpen short. Even with injuries you have to have guys in roles prepared to come up and help out the team. They may not have much success, but you can't run a bullpen game every 5th day. They really need someone to come in and be a senior advisor to Zoll, I don't think he is up to the task of being the top baseball voice in an organization. And every day he flounders sets this team back even further. Last thought, they really need to consider extending Jeffers, hopefully he would agree to it. Do you really want to see Caratini behind the plate for 100 games next year.
  5. karcherd
    No one will want them, Washington had no takers for him last year at the trade deadline and his numbers are worse this year. He doesn't hit enough for a full time DH which is all he is. You can easily move on from these guys if the front office really had a plan. But they are just winging it day by day.
  6. karcherd
    I am not sure I would compare Larnach to Wallner. Today everybody looked like it was the end of a 10 day road trip. Larnach has had a rough two weeks but I am not sure he is at Wallner's level yet. I am waiting for ERod and Jenkins to get healthy to replace him or least reduce his playing time.
  7. karcherd
    Any hope that changes might happen tomorrow with Outman just vanished with his pinch hitting appearance.
  8. karcherd
    A lot of people have been down on Jeffers, but I don't recall a catcher's interference call on him.
  9. karcherd
    Why not let him start an inning in his debut. He has not pitched in relief this year that I saw.
  10. karcherd
    How much did Zoll pay for this comment.
  11. karcherd
    So who is our fifth starter if Paredes comes in today. Do they have any kind of plan as an organization. They need to bring a senior advisor to Zoll this week. Zoll is in over his head.
  12. karcherd
    The article is not about having a long reliever. It is about having pitchers pitch bulk innings on a predetermined schedule. That is why you can say they are innovative and everything else, but you can't have a predetermined plan going into the game without being prepared to deviate from the plan based on the game flow. That is exactly what they don't do. And then you use up two pitchers in one day as others have said and you are backing yourself into a corner in future games.
  13. karcherd
    Lewis has been hitting over .300 since being sent down, might want to look at your source again.
  14. karcherd
    I agree 100%, I think the problem was Joe actually worked in the marketing department and had an office at Target field. I think he developed a relationship with Falvey from that time working with him as more of a peer and it became a blind spot to evaluating his performance. And that is where I blame the Pohlad family for not having a clean handoff to the next generation because it has set this team back.
  15. karcherd
    Lewis will not be released,
  16. karcherd
    I blame them for that as well. But it feels people on here like to blame the Pohlads for every personnel move, and Falvey always gets a pass. That was my whole point.
  17. karcherd
    The Pohlads didn't decide to keep Outman over Roden, there is no other backup catcher in the minor leagues. You can thank Falvey for that, not the Pohlads. The only prospect that is potentially being kept in check for service time is Culpepper. There are many other guys they could bring up, that would not be impacted by service time. The Pohlads screwed up last offseason by not getting rid of Falvey in October so that they could get a real baseball executive in to lead the team.
  18. karcherd
    I think it is fairly safe to say, they are not going to play Larnach at 1B, they have had 4 years and haven't done it yet. Right now with this roster what difference would it make, who would play LF then. They need massive changes to this roster.
  19. karcherd
    I don't disagree about Shelton. But some of this is dictated by the front office analytics of how they play in all the different situations. I was hoping we would get further away from this without Falvey, but we haven't gotten far enough away.
  20. karcherd
    Should be two outs but they keep playing the infield in and prolonging these innings.
  21. karcherd
    Arcia at 1B, Clemens in CF and Gray at SS. Yet we have no room for Fedko, Sabato or Culpepper. Outman can not be on this roster on Monday, why isn't Shelty being asked why Outman isn't out there for Buxton. That is why he supposedly made the roster specifically over Roden.
  22. karcherd
    Now we are going to see the fruits of this awesome strategy. They have called up Paredes for Ober. They have no starting pitching in St. Paul and so now they will call up a bulk guy and burn the bullpen when he starts or they will do a bullpen day. But you can't do that every time Ober's turn comes around.
  23. karcherd
    So is Paredes the fifth starter, if so, he isn't stretched out. On days he pitches you will need 5 innings from the bullpen. This is the result of their awesome bulk pitcher strategy.
  24. karcherd
    Was he a bright spot in April, no he was not. Clemens is not an every day player, I have nothing against him on the roster but playing him every day doesn't happen on a winning team. And I want the Twins to build toward being a winning team, have a plan that doesn't include relying on scrap heap pickups.
  25. karcherd
    We are on pace to win 74 games with 5 players on this roster that should be the 26th man on the roster. I don't care about one game's results. I want to see a plan that moves us towards being a consistently competitive team. Playing all the AAAA and aging vets is getting us 74 wins. Bring up Fedko, Sabato and Culpepper, even if they are not all prospects. These are guys you have invested in and see what they can do. Maybe one breaks thru and you have a hole filled for next year. Or you know where the holes are and allocate the resources as needed. Non prospects are called up all the time but for some reason this team wants to stick with someone like Outman who has done absolutely nothing. And they aren't even playing him for Buxton which was supposed to be his role. What is the downside to bringing up Fedko as the fourth outfielder to see if maybe you have something there. He can at least produce Outman like numbers.
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