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  1. gunnarthor
    Seriously, we load the bases, I go away for a few minutes and we're down 7-3?
  2. gunnarthor
    Sorry I'm late. So, this article didn't age well?
  3. gunnarthor
    Well, good luck to him. Seems like the type of guy you take a flyer on and see what he can do with a few tweeks. And he got 150k from us to pursue his dream a few more years.
  4. gunnarthor
    Well, credit where credit is due. They should sweep Oakland and they did. They are back in first. Good work.
  5. gunnarthor
    This was a really bad article for so many reasons. But to suggest that Gray is no Viola regarding innings, misses the mark. He's 42nd in baseball this year. And I have no idea who thinks Kenta Maeda's 66 innings in 2020 make him the second greatest season ever but they are wrong. Just simply wrong.
  6. gunnarthor
    Checks standings - sub-.500. Second place. Sounds like the right time for TD writers to talk about a dominating post-season rotation.
  7. gunnarthor
    I think the thing about being "fun" was a warning, maybe, to the Twins. But that's as far as I'd possibly go and even that seems iffy. He's not going to turn down millions of dollars at 34.
  8. gunnarthor
    The headline makes it sound worse than it is. He'll be playing next year, somewhere.
  9. gunnarthor
    That's a lot of kool-aid, man.
  10. gunnarthor
    That looks pretty good. Our garden got away from us this year. We planted a ton of flowers a few years back and now they are everywhere. It's a strange looking garden. But we got some good tomato and pepper plants to grow.
  11. gunnarthor
    Liked the pick. Seems like we're starting to focus a bit more on hit tools again - Lee, Martin, Miller, etc - Twins aren't grabbing the 1B/DH slugger as much. Good to see. Obviously, the draft is hard to predict but this is a nice, solid pick. Made a lot of sense.
  12. gunnarthor
    I liked this pick a lot. Two pretty solid drafts in a row for the FO. Nice to see.
  13. gunnarthor
    I think this is mostly right but I do think there are real differences between guys like Gardy and Rocco. Both have their faults and strengths. Gardy definitely had teams quit on him down the stretch but also had his team outperform their pyt w/l in 8 of his 13 seasons. Rocco, with the caveat that this season isn't over, doesn't have that track record but hasn't quite had that level of success. But I'm not sure if there is any one thing that is the problem/solution. Gardy had some great team leaders for most of his run - vocal players in the locker room who didn't always like losing and young up and coming stars who had overcome stuff. And Gardy also had cy young caliber pitching in a lot of his seasons. That probably helps a lot, too.
  14. gunnarthor
    I'm really impressed that they won this game. Nice to see them fight back to .500 and first place.
  15. gunnarthor
    I don't know enough about this draft to say that drafting Teel is a mistake so I'll let the FO make its pick and hope it's a good one. That said, they've made a few bad ones and they sometimes try to get cute. So, let's hope they made a few changes to their process.
  16. gunnarthor
    Not sure I'd put some of these in the worst category. Again, like the best, you need to take a few things into account. I think the Jamie Garcia experience - giving up Ynoa for him in a "win-now" trade and then trading him to NY for future pieces a week later showed that the FO just didn't have a clue. Add in the Kintzler trade - where the FO essentially gave up on the season while the players went on to make the playoffs - cemented that the new FO had no idea what it had or what it was doing. Trading for Dyson made sense so I don't blame them for that one as much UNLESS they didn't do their due diligence on his injury (which may have been a repeated issue in the Mahle trade). My main problem, well, not my main problem, but a problem with this FO is that they don't seem to know where they stand/what they have. We add Gray but don't reinforce the rest of the pitching staff so we give Petty and have a losing season. We panic, and try to bolster the problem a year later and lose Steer and Arraez (among others) but don't have a plan to fix the struggling offense. It's like the FO wants to dip its toe in the water but never commits, one way or the other.
  17. gunnarthor
    Berrios was an established ML pitcher at 23.
  18. gunnarthor
    The reason you know the odd ducks like Johnson or Lee who broke out relatively late is because those were odd. So, yes, some people take longer than others but they might also have other things going for them - like being considered a strong prospect (which we could see on top 100 lists) with potential to being a top of the rotation arm or being a top draft pick, giving reason for the club to support the player longer. That said, I like Varland. I hope he establishes himself as something more than a back end starter. But when we're talking about a pitching pipeline, we wan to see a copy of what the Twins FO pulled off in the 2000s. That means smart trades (Ryan fits well here), rule v/amatuer free agents, waiver picks ups, but also development of internal players (which we haven't seen enough of)
  19. gunnarthor
    And how old were they after those 56 and 63 starts?
  20. gunnarthor
    I don't think anyone in good faith can say that we have an established pitching pipeline. It's so barren that we've had to trade for Gray, Lopez, Mahle, and Gray (among others), which added salary and took away talent. The reason to have a pipeline is so that very thing doesn't happen.
  21. gunnarthor
    If the point of this article is to suggest that the FO is competent, then there needs to be some additional information included. For example, if the FO had managed to keep the Twins in contention in 2021, they don't make the Ryan trade. But, because the team had Total System Failure, we could make that trade. And, while Petty for Gray makes sense, it was a "win-now" trade and the team finished below .500 and 14 games out in a pretty bad division.
  22. gunnarthor
    I really think they should be sellers at the deadline. Or, at least, listen on offers for Gray.
  23. gunnarthor
    Didn't we have the salary cap to pay him this year?
  24. gunnarthor
    I think this post is more or less where I'm at. The trade, standing alone, made sense although I wasn't as big a fan of Arreaz as others are. I figured we traded him at the right time, rather than a year too late. But the bigger point is that this trade happened b/c we were unable to build the pitching pipeline we were promised and several of the trades before it didn't work as we wanted. The loss of talent like Steer and CES but also guys like Wells and even Baddoo, limited how the Twins could get new talent. I think that's been my biggest complaint about this new FO over the years - they've done a pretty crappy job of recognizing/measuring internal talent. But, to the Lopez/Arraez trade, Miami is the winner right now but Lopez seemed to me the type of pitcher we should try and get and if he can stay healthy for his contract, I'll be pretty glad we have him.
  25. gunnarthor
    I love gardening, too. We planted a ghost pepper this year! I actually have a really good line of raspberries growing - red, black, and gold. Delicious. Can't grow blueberries worth a darn, though.
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