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  1. 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.
  2. USAFChief
    How many games did the Angels win last year? They obviously should have traded Shohei Ohtani.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. USAFChief
    Someone else.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. USAFChief
    Holy ****.
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. USAFChief
    You keep on using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
  14. USAFChief
    I don't think not dismissing Varland, and scoffing at the idea this front office has established any kind of "pitching pipeline" are mutually exclusive
  15. USAFChief
    I was at 2 of these 3 games. Never seen worse body language or energy from a team, and I've been to a fair number of big-league games. I do not understand how nobody has lost their job yet.
  16. USAFChief
    Someone tell me why Julien isn't pinch hitting for Solano. 100 percent Rocco PHs Solano for Julien if it's the other way around. Baldelli must go.
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  18. USAFChief
    People keep pretending there's such a thing as a "low leverage" reliever. There isn't. But even if there was, why would you want any? "Pagan is valuable in his role" misses the point by miles. The "role" this author is trying to assign to Pagan doesn't exist.
  19. USAFChief
    Have they? Are they?
  20. USAFChief
    The irony.
  21. USAFChief
    It'd be nice if people could voice an opinion without being attacked.
  22. USAFChief
    All Star, gold glove, 30+ HR free agents make 3 times that. Gallo is none of those things. He's had 30 HRs once since 2018. "SABR darling" might be accurate, and yeah, watching him hit is offensive, to me at least.
  23. USAFChief
    Tonight's view
  24. USAFChief
    Yup. 5 runs is the magic number. And the Twins fail to reach 5 too often.
  25. USAFChief
    I don't think there's much future in playing for the future. Thinking past the current season in big league baseball is wishful thinking. Got a chance? Go for it. Prospects are Prospects. Most won't end up being big losses and there's always more Prospects.
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