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  1. USAFChief
    Any lingering sympathy towards the MLBPA surely has to be gone, no? Objecting to an international draft? There is no good reason for that. None. I call again for ownership to break the MLBPA once and for all. It's been done in other pro sports, and helped the game.
  2. USAFChief
    I'd argue the organization was in better shape when this FO took over than today.
  3. USAFChief
    The 2017 team won 85 games. Most of the 2019 team was in the organization. They had some money to spend, and only Mauer's contract to deal with. It was time to change leadership, but the organization wasn't without talent.
  4. USAFChief
    Let's real in the personal attacks, please.
  5. USAFChief
    Of course we should hold this FO responsible for contention this year. They promised us as much, enherited a pretty good situation, and already have a massive failed season to their credit. Back to back losing seasons is not "sustained contention."
  6. USAFChief
    FWIW, Mrs Chief often has the same reaction. She recovers quickly though. No shortage of words.
  7. USAFChief
    I thought, and think, that the short 2020 "season" wasn't any kind of accurate indicator of the quality of teams. I didn't trust the Twins pitching in 2020, despite the veneer of decent stats. Grabbing relievers off the scrap heap and getting 15 good innings out of 18 isn't a good plan, despite lucky results. It wasn't that surprising to me it all collapsed the other way over a full season in 2021. And if 2022 happens, it may well be worse.
  8. USAFChief
    You have that backwards.
  9. USAFChief
    I wish the owners WOULD set about busting the union. You act as if the MLBPA has anyone's interest at heart except themselves. That's laughable. They don't care about fans, they don't care about the health of the sport. They care only about making more cash. They have that right, but get off your high horse. You can pick a side, but stop insisting it's the "right" side. I want a healthy MLB, with some semblance of parity. Only owners can give me that.
  10. USAFChief
    I go to baseball games at all levels quite often. If it weren't for the names on the uniforms, most fans wouldn't recognize the difference between AA and AAA players and major league players. In any case, I side more with owners than players in this ridiculous display of greed, although there's plenty of blame to go around. But I believe if owners opened camps, this would end quickly. Players aren't opting out of hundreds of thousands, or millions of dollars. They'll cave, and who cares? Both sides will still get to chop up billions, and I'll get to watch MLB, either way.
  11. USAFChief
    I hope the owners do just that. Play ball. Open camps, and play with whoever shows up. The union will cave within weeks. And we'd all be better off for it.
  12. USAFChief
    First, I'm not "blatantly ignoring" anything. I quoted your exact words. Which, by the way, you seem to be backing off of now. Second, the entire Twins farm system vs Freddie Montas isn't the fair comparison. You wouldn't need to trade "12 pitchers" to get Montas. Pick 2. Any 2. Then let's bet. Lastly, I'll back out after this...I'm not even advocating a trade, unless it's part of an actual plan to put a competitive staff on the mound. I simply reject two ideas: that the FO has demonstrated any sort of plan to put such a staff together, and that "known commodities" are no better than prospects. I think both of those things are undeniably false.
  13. USAFChief
    Again, this is simply not even close to true. You can list all the isolated examples you wish, but you're cherry picking, and even then you're overstating the case of even those few examples. The 2021 Rays, for example, didn't rely solely on their prospects. Among their top starters were Micheal Wacha, Rich Hill, and Tyler Glasnow. None of those are/were products of the Tampa system. More importantly, you're focusing on the few prospects who eventually get there, while ignoring the approximately 1.6 kajillion prospects who never make any impact. Prospects occasionally work out and become productive big leagures. Once in a great while, they become impact players. But to suggest prospects have an equal chance of becoming productive big leaguers as players who ALREADY ARE productive big leaguers isn't a rational look at reality. I don't think trading for Montas, for example, will get the Twins far in 2022 or 2023, at least not in isolation. The FO has put this team too far in the hole. But I'd wager large amounts of money Montas is a better MLB pitcher over these next 2 years than any two Twins minor league pitchers you care to name. Deal?
  14. USAFChief
    This is simply not true. Not close to true.
  15. USAFChief
    "Hope" is not a plan. That much seems crystal clear to me. And currently, that's all the front office has, is hope. They don't know who, or when, nor even if. The "hope" is that at some point in the future (2023, at the absolute earliest?) enough minor league pitching (can't say which ones) develops into enough quality to contend. Again...that's not a plan.
  16. USAFChief
    First round drubbing? See! Just more proof Monds was a wasted draft pick!!1!
  17. USAFChief
    No Brendan Harris article is complete without mentioning Brian Buscher. The Harris-Buscher ("Harrischer") platoon was going to be an AS 3rd baseman for years, for the price of 2 backups.
  18. USAFChief
    When was the last time the Twins had a 6 man bullpen? A 6 man bullpen is simply not workable in today's brand of baseball. That's the problem with the "piggy back" starter model. It chews up too many roster spots.
  19. USAFChief
    I wonder what Lewis would say if asked "would you rather be on, or off the 40 man roster." I'd guess he'd prefer to be on it.
  20. USAFChief
    Apparently about the same way I view a plate of gray tofu.
  21. USAFChief
    Top 30 for sure.
  22. USAFChief
    Another BYTO refugee, washed up here when that commie Beauchamp closed that place down.
  23. USAFChief
    Winner.
  24. USAFChief
    I'm pretty sure he won't hit as well as he did at Coors Field. I still can't imagine Twins fans not wanting this to happen.
  25. USAFChief
    I can't even imagine a reason why anyone wouldn't want Trevor Story. I think maybe fans have been conditioned to believe such a thing is beyond the Twins finances. It's not.
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