USAFChief

Yes.

Try the local food. I know it sounds crazy, but trust me on this.

They can put it in a closet and let it age for 2025.

That was NOT the original point. No sir, it was not. And furthermore, you know it.

121st loss for the White Sox. Inconceivable.

Ridiculous. 1 step. Clank. "Base hit."

Cowser, 151 games, 552 PAs coming into tonight. Baltimore must never play teams with LH pitching.

D. "Development" This is where I have some major issues with organizational philosophy, which I'd say falls under the PBO. I hate that players arrive in the big leagues not ready to contribute. Position players haven't learned a position. "Anybody can play anywhere" starts in the minors. Royce Lewis is a former number 1 overall pick, has been looked at as a franchise cornerstone for years now, has spent parts of muktiple seasons in the show...and to this day neither us or the Twins know where he'll be playing next year. Jeebus. This is exactly how you get a team that plays shoddy baseball. Not just errors, but shoddy baseball. A world in which fundamentals don't matter, and your new kids don't know how to play the game. I hate that pitchers arrive in the big leagues unready for a big league workload. Festa hadn't thrown 100 pitches in a game in 2024 prior to being asked to do so in the Twins rotation. He'd rarely been asked to go longer than 5 innings. Never more than 6. Not even once. Then suddenly three rookies are in your rotation, pitching important games, and they can't actually pitch. I also hate the attempts to substitute platooning for acquisition and/or development, as an organizational philosophy. Particularly when they're so godawful at pitching the players to implement this idea (hello Manny, hi Joey), and so pigheaded about admitting mistakes. I loath the inattention to bullpen construction. "Just throw warm bodies at it. Who cares?" isn't my idea of how to go about this critical task. I'll hold off on roster construction since I'm guessing that falls under the GM.

Is there also a Levine thread coming? Or is this a combined "front office" thread? Honest question. For one thing, I don't know where Falvey's job ends and Levine's begins. It'd be a lot easier to discuss if someone could explain that to me.

The value of the franchise hasn't grown by a billion dollars. It's grown by almost a billion and a half. Bought for $44 M. 2024 Forbes estimate $1.48 B.

Not much work involved in that job.

Your "crew" could just admit you were wrong. But no. And BTW, yeah, there's more blame to go around. That doesn't excuse Rocco.

Are the Twins a team that plays the game well? Executes sound baseball strategies? Gets the most from their talent? Forces the other team into unfavorable matchups rather than the reverse? Plays players at defensive positions they're suited for? Give them offensive roles and try hard to keep them there? These are all big picture managerial issues. And the Twins suck at all of them. They "suddenly stopped hitting?" They were the only team to lose a starter? And that's the story of this team? You're missing a lot.

I'll lay 2-1 Margot leads off and Farmer is at 2nd base tonight, even with the season over and neither will be a 2025 Twin. Anyone?

Focusing on the severely underperforming players failures WON'T turn this site into a "cesspool?" This team needs a MLB manager. That seems as obvious as the sun rising tomorrow. There are personnel issues, to be sure, but without a manager none of that will ever result in good baseball.

And some of y'all must be embarrassed holding to the preposterous position that a MLB manager doesn't have time to prevent a reliever from caughing up a 4 run lead. Which is just one example of ya'll shouting down anyone who dares question whether manager can impact wins and losses.

Martin also, once again, failed to score from second on a hit to the OF (Larnach). That's the second time just this week. Effectively they were 1 for 19 with RISP rather than 2 for 19.

Why must there be a metric? Not everything that can be measured matters. And not everything that matters can be measured.

A fitting epitaph tonight on a really, really bad trade.

It's almost like a manager gets the performance he accepts.

How is this related to managerial decisions?

Yeah, it killed the Cleveland pen.

IMO this season turned as Rocco watched Alcala turn a 4-0 lead into a 4-5 deficit on an August Sunday afternoon. I've been told there was nothing the manager could do about that...it all just happened too fast. I call BS. BS then, still BS today. Witness: in tonight's game, Carlos Correa leads off the 6th with a HR. Miami's manager activates the pen. Has the pitching coach amble out and stall at the mound. Ambles back to the dugout. The pen WAS NOT active until the HR, as called out by Provus. Larnach is the next Twins hitter. On the second pitch, he gets an infield single. Miami manager waits the extra 20 seconds between hitters...and then ambles out to make a pitching change. It took a total of 2 pitches to activate the pen, and get a relief pitcher in the game. Two. Pitches. And a little legal stalling. Now tell me again how Baldelli sat through 7 hitters, 5 runs, including 2 HRs, a 3 minute wait while they searched for Wallner's glove, and DIDNT HAVE TIME to make a change anywhere in there.

Some of us happen to think results matter.

Someone tell me why Martin is in this game.