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  1. USAFChief
    The Polanco trade was, and remains, one of the worst in team history. Instantly made the team weaker, with zero short term and only minor, if any, long term help. DeSclafani. LOL. Just a horrible idea.
  2. USAFChief
    "And that is what the modern MLB manager really is. They are not the old-school tacticians from the 70s or 80s pulling every lever in the dugout. Most matchups, pinch-hits, and bullpen decisions are mapped out by the front office and support staff long before the first pitch." Nonconcur. Strongly. Mapping out bullpen usage (for example) before the first pitch is analytics gone bizarro-world. Good managers have lots of information before the game starts, but use their experience combined with situational awareness and smarts to make real time decisions. I hope to god we can get away from this idiotic idea that a baseball game can be planned out in advance. It's one of the reasons baldelli was so routinely outmanaged by actual managers. I don't know if Hunter would be a good manager. I'm not optimistic. But I absolutely DO believe he'd be resistant to the idea you can make bullpen decisions at noon for a 7 PM game, or preplan pinch hitters simply based on handedness. Or decide a starter will pitch twice through a lineup no matter his actual performance. And good on him if that's the case.
  3. USAFChief
    Minor point, but the idea of "replacement level" is zero WAR, not negative WAR. 0 WAR is represents a theoretically freely available player who would "replace" your regular players and provide no value in terms of wins. Zero "Wins Above Replacement. Your other players are measured against this zero WAR standard. A 4 WAR player is theoretically 4 wins better than a replacement player. Four "Wins Above Replacement." There can also be negative WAR players who theoretically cost you more wins than the zero WAR replacement player. Not that I believe WAR is very accurate or useful. But that's the theory.
  4. USAFChief
    This is a for-profit site. They make money by getting views. Content drives views. So yes. I'd imagine they expect their writing team to put out daily content. At, uh...Twins Daily. Now, if people want smoke blown up their collective asses, I guess that could be done. Personally, I'd rather the editorial marching orders be an attempt at honesty, good or bad. Call it like you see it. And again, Personally, I think there's precious little good about this organization to write about currently. I'd be hard pressed to come up with bunnies and unicorns to write about....daily.
  5. USAFChief
    It's not the commissioner that doesnt want a salary cap and floor. It's the MLBPA fighting tooth and nail.
  6. USAFChief
    I think his point, a pretty good one, is that last spring we were told the team was $400M in debt. Now, $500M in debt is floated. So they're claiming to have lost $100M this season. For the record, I don't believe either of those figures. Not a chance. I doubt they're actually in debt at all. Possibly a little leftover from 2020, but even that's hard to believe. That's 5 years ago.
  7. USAFChief
    We just witnessed what "blowing it up" looks like. Fugly.
  8. USAFChief
    Don Baylor and Lou Piniella were catchers?
  9. USAFChief
    4 and 2. Sometimes. Its complicated.
  10. USAFChief
    You're selling "y" short.
  11. USAFChief
    Given the state of the MLB bullpen, I expect to see Cabrera on the opening day 26 man roster. I did not say he should be. Non-tender date is in late November. We'll know more then.
  12. USAFChief
    Not a fan of hiring a manager who has never been a manager.
  13. USAFChief
    That's one thing money does, sure. But I'd say the reason people keep missing the money-winning correlation is they don't bother to do any investigation, and/or don't understand sample size.
  14. USAFChief
    Your first mistake is focusing on only the final couple months of Baldelli's tenure. Widen your view. He managed here for years. Managed poorly.
  15. USAFChief
    As to the Twins and 2026, I'll wait to form opinions until I see the roster. But as of right now, it's difficult to imagine any scenario that has the Twins even a .500 team. No matter the payroll add, And I'd be shocked if there's much if any payroll add.
  16. USAFChief
    Concur. There's an undeniable connection in MLB between payroll and winning
  17. USAFChief
    Update: Twins still not in 'em.
  18. USAFChief
    I hated that Polanco trade from the moment it happened and still do.
  19. USAFChief
    C'mon. It was a little funny. It was a lighthearted JOKE, FFS. For the record, -I have zero input on content here -talk playoffs to your hearts content. Nobody is stopping you
  20. USAFChief
    Update: Twins still not in 'em. I'll update again tomorrow.
  21. USAFChief
    The Guardians are like 446-1 in close games vs the Twins in recent years. That's not just all luck. Part of that is Baldelli getting owned.
  22. USAFChief
    I've done so multiple times in multiple ways, starting last season.
  23. USAFChief
    No objective analysis of Baldelli could reasonably conclude he was good at his job. His teams routinely sucked at the exact things a manager is directly responsible for. There are multiple things wrong with this Organization, for sure. Let's not pretend Baldelli wasn't one of them. A big one, at that.
  24. USAFChief
    And the accent is on the second syllable. Jrej JOR ee
  25. USAFChief
    Concur. And it actually was never announced. It was reported.
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