PuckettProtector

It's almost like there are different people with differing opinions that react to individual situations and that no teams fans are a monolith or something. Sheesh.

Still could identify you at the bar friend-o.

Honest question - are you over 40? At 43 an RSS feed makes me feel like my parents did when I got a CD player. But checking yourself out isn't that hard at all and it is relatively quicker.

You must be a blast at parties.

You must be a blast at parties.

What is the consensus on putting Jax into the rotation and using some sort of combo of Festa, Matthews, SWR, and Varland to get them more experience and innings in the BP until they are ready to be full time starters? They've proven that they have the stuff to get through the lineup a time or two. Perhaps getting them more experience, especially in pressure situations, might be a benefit to their development? Real curious to see what people's thoughts are on this. Good arms with good stuff at very affordable salaries and years of arbitration left. If an injury occurs to the starting 5, we can easily slide one of them into the rotation and bring up the next up and coming prospect who doesn't have the burden of having to go 5+ innings to begin their career...

Lewis is unfortunately going to spend the majority of his career on the DL. That, or we trade him at mid value and he goes on to a HOF career. But man does he mash. It's just unbelievable to watch how he hits homers at will. Maybe seeing Spencer Steers progression on The Show has me more apprehensive than is justifiable in this case. But I feel as a tried and true Twins fan, we won't get the value we expected out of him, whether it be on the field or via a very difficult trade. Would love to be wrong.

Memories around here are getting shorter and shorter by the day. This is also not the year to be making trades due to so many teams being in contention unless you're taking on a ton of salary for a rental from a losing team looking to get a minimal return. https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/did-twins-lose-money-2022-revenues-losses/

Pedant is pedantic. :)

abovementioned is not a word.

It appears as though we are stocking up on hitting prospects. I wonder if their plan is to trade away some of the older but still high potential prospects in order to get the pitching they want/need.

Woof. 10 ply bud.

It was a decent trade, it just didn't work out. Don't know if that is on our medical staff or just pure bad luck. But imagine him when he is pitching well as our #3 with Maeda and Ryan in the BP in the playoffs. I honestly thought he'd sign with us for cheap out of guilt. Oh well. Could have made state.

Sell both Polanco and Kepler for pitching and to restock the farm a bit. Sign Teoscar Hernandez whose right handed bat should play well in TF.

They had the coolest intro for Duran when he came in to pitch the 9th. I wish I could find video of it.

Umm, there's been talk about moving Polanco for awhile.

So. Much. This.

No. This nostalgic whataboutism needs to stop.

This is solely on Baldelli and Pagan. We need to sweep this series to add padding for the 6 additional games that Cleveland has to play over us and, honestly the 5 that Chicago has. This was the time to play playoff baseball, next rest your core guys. It's frankly embarrassing. I get that the bullpen is weak, but would it kill us to have a guy pitch more than one inning? This great start to the season looks more and more like it is being pissed away because of this new age approach and an absolute void of killer instinct.

Why did they send Winder down?

I don't care what your opinion on the vaccine is, this has to be one of the dumbest takes I've seen on anything on this page in a long while, if not ever. I mean, I get it. Virtue signaling and running political cover for yourself that costs you nothing while trying to non-person someone who doesn't share your pathological obedience to authority or deranged hypochondriatic beliefs is a pretty easy and gutless position to take at the moment. I'd be curious how many people here who are correctly pointing out that the 1st amendment does not apply to an employer/employee relationship were espousing 1st amendment argument for the Kaepernick dust up. Considering the responses I've seen and the make up of the liberal Alabama known as the Twin Cities, I'm guessing the number is fairly high. I'm sick to death of people taking straight forward comments about a single thing and conflating them to be arguments that aren't made, extrapolating them into oblivion to look better to their friends and neighbors. Acknowledging that the vaccine has its downfalls and doesn't prevent you from getting Covid is just that. Any other sentiments or arguments gleamed from crystal clear syntax is your problem and shows a fundamental inability to understand basic language and argue in good faith. The vaccine does not guarantee you don't get covid, ergo it may or may not work. It does have some side effects. These are true statements. I get that standing on a soapbox to espouse really safe and popular opinions in an echo chamber is a popular strategy right now, but it demonstrates a glaring misunderstanding of and respect for any semblance of rational discussion and merely acts as a reminder to "not forget that I have the right opinions today". This page should be better, and the readers deserve better than this circle jerk of an article that only exists to remind us that Randball Stu believes he's a good person. It's gross.