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  1. USAFChief
    Good start.
  2. USAFChief
    The 8th was the top the order for Baltimore. I have no problem with asking Duran to get the top out in the 8th, and someone else take the 9th I kind of doubt the 8th would have been Stewart's, even if he was available.
  3. USAFChief
    Also nice to see Lopez have some success and get a W against a good offense.
  4. USAFChief
    I don't know what I expected in the way of change, post Rocco-rant, but "minor rearrangement of deck chairs" wasn't in my thought process.
  5. USAFChief
    Arraez has 20 XBHs and is SLG .485, higher than every Twin not named Matt Wallner.
  6. USAFChief
    Wut?
  7. USAFChief
    Concur, concur, concur. Regardless your position on the "pitching pipeline," it's painful to look at position player development under Falvine. They've not brought a single diference maker to the lineup from the minors outside of 2023 Arraez. Not one. Lewis still has a chance. Maybe Kirilloff, if you squint and cross your fingers. But to date? Nada. Zip. Zilch.
  8. USAFChief
    Sano last did either of those things in 2019.
  9. USAFChief
    I have zero issue with current Twins player expenditures. None. That hasn't been the case until recently, but they're spending approximately what they should in 2023. I wish they could spend more on international free agent youths, but I believe they're capped by rule. I will accept that ownership wants to win. I just do not believe ownership is more interested in winning than profits. And I'm not sure we should expect them to be, even if perhaps other owners don't operate the same. Clearly Twins ownership isn't just milking profit sharing to make money.
  10. USAFChief
    Does it? I'm not sure. Maybe.
  11. USAFChief
    I think it's naive to believe Twins ownership believes winning is more important than profits.
  12. USAFChief
    Attendance has been pretty stable. Yr / Ave / MLB rank 2016 24,245 23rd 2017 25640 21st 2018 24489 20th 2019 28322 15th 2021 16377 19th 2022 22514 20th 2023 23038 18th Post pandemic attendance has been down across baseball, but the Twins relative position hasn't changed much. https://www.espn.com/mlb/attendance
  13. USAFChief
    Again, not the point. But since you asked, Lopez is 3-5. Mid 4s ERA. Team is 8-8 in his starts. Lopez hasn't been any kind of real asset to date, and finding a similar starter last winter that didn't require trading the league batting champ wouldn't have been tough. He has provided innings, at least by 2023 standards, I'll give him that. It's ok to have been in favor of the trade and still recognize that to date, it looks awful. And he better get better, because the team invested a lot of money, and he's not only getting the money but he's going to be in the rotation because of it for a long time. Do you think anyone in Miami regrets this deal?
  14. USAFChief
    You don't have a point. That's the point. Last year's record is irrelevant to whether or not Luis Arraez would help the 2023 team.
  15. USAFChief
    How many games did the Angels win last year? They obviously should have traded Shohei Ohtani.
  16. USAFChief
    Most teams play their best players nearly every day, if healthy. Freddie Freeman ain't getting load managed. Mookie Betts, Randy Arozerena, and on and on. Shohei Ohtani, who legit might have a case for a rest day after pitching, plays every day. 80 games this year so far. "Scheduled day off" is mostly a Twins thing, at least to the extent they do.
  17. USAFChief
    That might be one of the most profound and damning statements about the state of the Twins I've read on Twins Daily ever.
  18. USAFChief
    Your position is a team struggling daily to score runs wouldn't benefit from having a .400+ OBP leading off? But to address your non-point, the 2023 team with Lopez has fewer wins on June 29th than the 2022 team with Arraez did.
  19. USAFChief
    I don't disagree the lineup is talent-poor. At all. I was one of the few who spent all winter and spring questioning where the runs were coming from. My exact quote: "there's no there there." However, I don't think that invalidates my points. They certainly have "best players," even if said best players aren't really all that good compared to others. And it just makes it even MORE important to not exaggerate the talent deficit by intentionally putting in even less dangerous hitters. Why TF wasn't Correa in yesterday's lineup? Against a below average leftie, no less? Nor do I think this is a recent issue with Rocco. I know we've discussed this previously. I've had this issue with Rocco (and/or the FO) since season 1. I firmly believe if Rocco had Atlanta's team 2 or 3 players sit out yesterday's "day game after night." It's somehow too hard on players, supposedly benefitting from the best training and conditioning on the planet, to play every day. Even though players did it for a century or more.
  20. USAFChief
    Someone else.
  21. USAFChief
    I disagree with most every word. Since it's tough to find 9 really good position players, I don't mind an actual platoon at one spot, provided both players can actually hit. More than one is tough, but maybe two, or at catcher. 13 man pitching staffs don't allow for more. Beyond that, play your best players. Every day. "Who needs a rest?" Good lord. Stop this nonsense. "Who needs some ABs?" Why? Why would you intentionally play lesser players, just in case you need them later on? That's...not very well thought out. Play them if/when needed. Play someone based on 7 or 10 ABs against a given pitcher over someone else and his 7 or 10 AB? Nonsense. Play the best players. Same for "stadium." AFAIK, it's 60 ft 6 inches from the rubber to home in every MLB stadium. Once again: Unless hurt, Play your best players. Every day, or at least almost every day. There is NO REASON most players can't be expected to give you 156 games.
  22. USAFChief
    I'll echo RB: start by looking in the mirror, Rocco. Management tends to get the workforce they allow. Stop coddling. Stop the "load management" BS. Stop allowing less than max effort. You have fricken' BACKUPS jogging to first on ground balls. Even players striving for playing time don't feel any urgency to earn it, ferpetesakes. Your team reflects you, Rocco. Start demanding more. Immediately. And institute some immediate and consequential penalties for non compliance. MLB is a zero sum game. There are winners and losers. Start acting like it.
  23. USAFChief
    Holy ****.
  24. USAFChief
    Here's the bad news: I don't think there's any possibility the starting pitching is as good in the 2nd half. Some ideas: 1. At a minimum, they HAVE to change hitting coaches, immediately. And hitting philosophy. This is ridiculous. How can someone be hired for a job, produce such awful results, and keep that job? Would any person reading this keep your job with similar results? I'd fire the manager too, he's not very good at it, but at LEAST the hitting coach(s). 2. Buxton is in CF 6 days a week, or on the IL. "Physically incapable?" Then IL him. But I don't buy that line for a second. 3. Gallo, Kepler, Pagan are gone, by tomorrow. Might not help but it might and at least we'd be losing without wasting time on things that just aren't ever going to be assets. 4. Something needs to change with minor league drafting and/or development. Failure after failure. How do we not have a single lineup centerpiece after this much time? Sheesh. Start with that
  25. USAFChief
    I was talking about body language and energy, Mike. You can scoff at that if you wish. Rocco seems to agree with me, but I'd ask Rocco to start by looking on the mirror. You in charge or not, Rocco? https://sports.yahoo.com/twins-manager-baldelli-closes-clubhouse-210133297.html?src=rss
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