mnfireman

Lopez haters are 🫏🤡

SWR had -2.24 WPA, worst on the team.....pick him

Better not look to closely at Kirby Puckett's personal life, both during and after his career ended...

Having no other MLB options at the position will do that..

The 3rd Cy Young award would have cemented his selection, but it's the HOF, Schilling checks every box, but evidently his political views put him in the same boat as (or below) PED users, gamblers, and sex offenders, a crying shame. The rest do not check those same boxes, but most have better bWAR and S-JAWS numbers than many others who are not in. It is the HOF, not the Hall of Very Good, it's just too bad that HOF can not be reversed because, in hindsight some players were not as good as originally thought, they were just likable...

2016 Twins had 6 current/former SS (Dozier, Escobar, Plouffe, Nunez, Polanco, Santana (7 if you count Sano)) and 3 current/former CF (Buxton, Santana, Kepler (5 if you add Rosario and Shafer) and lost a Twins record 103 games. It's a fine line to be able to play these positions, and to actually be good enough to be a MLB starter at them. Growing up, most MLB players are the best players on their team and played either SS or CF, and probably pitched. Most of these kids that get drafted get moved off these positions not because they aren't athletic enough to play there, but because the game is much faster moving from level to level through college or/and MiLB. Most of the Brewer players you are referencing, other than the starters at these positions, are below average when compared to their MLB peers, but are good enough to be used to fill in for short periods when needed. Not every team can target these types of players and be able to develop them to be successful at different positions (or buy into switching positions for the good of the team), whether it's due to coaching, the player's ego, or the fact that the player is just not that good (or some combo of these), we have seen this with the Twins many times. A team needs bona fide starters at most positions, a team of utility type players will not be successful long term. Getting coaches/managers and players alike to believe/buy into this is the big problem.

That pick-off looked like the P stepped straight towards HP.....

Not in today's game...

Long ball, small ball, MIL does what's needed to try to win.

Given all the movement involved with some MLB pitchers before the pitch, that was a pretty cheap balk call...

His fumble in the RZ wasn't so nice (but the team (read defense) did overcome)...

He wouldn't have had to, TOR OF was pretty weak last year, he more than likely would have been given a better chance to earn regular playing time there than he was given in MN.

Vlad Jr. is 27 years old, this big of a drop in production is not expected yet... I did see that he recently underwent Lasik surgery. https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2026/10/vladimir-guerrero-jr-undergoes-laser-eye-surgery.html

No team deserves Aranda at 1B...