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  1. USAFChief
    $3 if you attend all 81 home games. $229 per game if you attend 1. Somewhere in between if you attend somewhere in between.
  2. USAFChief
    I'd conservatively put it at 70% of TD's readership want some or all of those 4 traded.
  3. USAFChief
    If the ALC winner ends up with ~74 wins, the Twins might contend.
  4. USAFChief
    10x better? In what ways?
  5. USAFChief
    Not a Clemens fan, but why would anyone be trying to wedge the backup catcher into the lineup? Let him catch twice a week.
  6. USAFChief
    They're leaving the open 40 man spot for Framber Valdez... .... Hahahahahahahaha I kill me
  7. USAFChief
    You jus' listen here, you hornswagglin' varmint you, you ain't'a no Festas, you
  8. USAFChief
    Tom Pohlad didn't make the decision to keep Lopez and/or Ryan. Falvey was fired, he didn't resign. Those are my points.
  9. USAFChief
    Complete fantasy.
  10. USAFChief
    "As spring training approaches, the Twins bullpen sits in a familiar place." uh...wut? Unless you mean "just past the visitor's bullpen in Target Field's left center" I'm not sure what the **** you're talking about.
  11. USAFChief
    Polanco for Desclafani has to be in the worst 5 somewhere. Awful trade that instantly made the team worse.
  12. USAFChief
    Correct. They aren't in the business of gambling. And they're way more accurate than fangraphs. Miles more. Orders of magnitude more. They're not going to offer 82 wins for a 72 win team.
  13. USAFChief
    Which they do by - refraining from gambling -not making poor decisions on what wagers to offer. If Fangraphs says 82 and Vegas says 72, I know for sure which is going to be closer way more often than the other.
  14. USAFChief
    In addition to the preposterous notion the Twins were going to spend $33M on the pen, neither Suarez or Dominquez were 1 year deals. So you're not talking about $33m, it's $71m and that's if the Twins got them for the deals they signed. And who would sign with the Twins for the.same money Atlanta offered?? Not to mention good bullpens aren't 3 or 4 deep. Nor are teams trying to sign the top half all at once in free agency. The 2025 deadline ruled out the 2026 bullpen. And likely longer.
  15. USAFChief
    Pfffft. He's not in the best shape of his life??
  16. USAFChief
    Was Tom CEO of all Pohlad companies? I thought he was CEO of PAR, and a member of the Board as far as all things Pohlad companies. In any case, I'd say you're exaggerating with "had no idea" and "zero idea of what needed to happen." I'd say it's more likely he and the board were unhappy with the situation and canned Joe. Tom them took a month and a half to assess, and decided Falvey wasn't getting things done. Which is objectively true, BTW. The Twins are a mess, by any measure, and if the POBO doesnt have ultimate responsibility for that, I dont know who does. Ownership certainly hasn't helped, but I doubt they're the ones drafting and developing, trading specific assets, or making the decisions on which free agents to spend on.
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    The pen is an absolute disaster and there's no path to fix it in 2026. There never was. You can't trade away your entire effective pen in July and expect to recover by April, even WITH money to burn. And, of course, the Twins don't have money to burn. Whether you supported the fire sale or not, Falvey's 2025 trade deadline made contention in 2026 virtually impossible.
  18. USAFChief
    Nitpic. When Carl passed, Jim Pohlad took over managing the Twins, not Joe. Joe took control in 2022 from Jim.
  19. USAFChief
    Tom Pohlad didn't take over until mid December. If Falvey wanted to trade any or all of Ryan, Lopez, Jeffers or Buxton he had from July until then to do so. I think not doing so was Falvey's plan, not Tom Pohlad's
  20. USAFChief
    Nitpic, but the Twins didn't trade David Ortiz. They released him.
  21. USAFChief
    I don't give ownership a pass. But that doesn’t mean Falvey was anything but a colossal failure. Look at the state of the roster.
  22. USAFChief
    Tom Pohlad certainly has a flawed vision of the Twins chances in 2026. But he's been in the picture for what? A few weeks? At the risk of repeating myself, let's look at the POBO's resume: 9 years into Falvey's tenure, the Twins have - 2 above average position players: Buxton and a part timer in Jeffers. Only one of those came to the Twins during Falvey's time. The other is aging and a constant injury risk. That's it. Question marks or outright failures everywhere else - zero bullpen assets. Zero. 4 or 5 mediocrities or worse, then squadoosh. For what many people here like to refer to as "the easiest thing to build" (those many people are way wrong, of course, but I read that often.) How do you get to a position where not one, single solitary reliever in an 8 man pen is someone you can depend on?? - 2 good starters, neither of which were developed under Falvey - 1, maybe as many as 3, prospects that have a realistic chance at being above average MLBers some day. Whoop-de-doo. That and 5 bucks will get you a coffee. - a team that, if we're honest, has no chance of being competitive in several years No matter who owned the team, Falvey was a failure, by the standards he himself set when hired. They weren't perpetually competitive. Just the opposite. One strong team (2019) that he gets partial credit for, and a couple teams only in contention for the weak ALC. 9 years in, we're objectively terrible. Somehow blaming Tom Pohlad for the state of our favorite baseball team is...well let's just say missing the Forrest for a few trees.
  23. USAFChief
    Here's the bottom line: 9 years into Falvey's tenure, the Twins have - 2 above average position players: Buxton and a part timer in Jeffers. Only one of those came to the Twins during Falvey's time. The other is aging and a constant injury risk. That's it. Question marks or outright failures everywhere else - zero bullpen assets. Zero. 4 or 5 mediocrities or worse, then squadoosh. For what many people here like to refer to as "the easiest thing to build" (those many people are way wrong, of course, but I read that often.) How do you get to a position where not one, single solitary reliever in an 8 man pen isn't someone you can depend on?? - 2 good starters, neither of which were developed under Falvey - 1, maybe as many as 3, prospects that have a realistic chance at being above average MLBers some day. Whoop-de-doo. That and 5 bucks will get you a coffee. - a team that, if we're honest, has no chance of being competitive on several years No matter who owned the team, Falvey was a failure, by the standards he himself set when hired. They weren't perpetually competitive. Just the opposite. One strong team (2019) that he gets partial credit for, and a couple teams only in contention for the weak ALC. Adios.
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  25. USAFChief
    They'll hire a new president of business ops. I never understood the need for both a "President of Baseball Ops" and a "GM" anyway.
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