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He was always a great personality in the clubhouse also. I know many people dont really care about that kind of stuff, but it's important to have those kind of dudes in a clubhouse during a long season.

Wade seems like the guy that always just needed a shot. I mean he hit .253 with 18 Hrs in 2021 and .256 with 17 in 2023. Pretty good production. His 2022 was down and his games were down so maybe he was dealing with some injuries that year or something. But my point is, if we were guaranteed .250 20 Hrs and an .800 OPS from Wallner we'd all be giddy about it. I hope Wade keeps producing for the Giants.

I think there is zero chance of this this season. Now I'm not 100% against this type of stuff, but you make a decision like this in October and get the player ready for the transition in the off season. You don't make a decision like this in May.

Dang Rocco must have fallen asleep in the dugout to let Ober come out for the 8th?

It's kind of a neat idea, but I don't think it would be a good idea to try to do this mid season. I think this has to be discussed in September so the player has the off-season to train for it, and spring training to ramp up. This isnt the first time Jordan Hicks has been tried as a starter.

I mean yeah why take Ober our with only 68 pitches? Ober was on fire.

He looked good for the most part. He went through the first 2 innings in about 12 pitches it seemed like. He had a bad 4th inning, but looked good the 5th inning. Can't give up 6 but hopefully he can go 6 - 7 innings per start.

Dang Wallner hit that shot over the batters eye. That thing was a shot!!

Sitting here at the last ST game of 24 and I like the fact that Buck is playing again even though he played CF yesterday. Good sign he's feeling good and ready for the season. Mostly the main starters are going today except probably Castro. Their record stinks but hoping for the best today. I know we were at the Baltimore game a couple of days ago and it got out of hand but it was tight for most of the game. So hopefully Twins handle the Braves today before they move north.

Well it seems weird to me that you already had Michael A Taylor, and now you have Margot, who is probably the same type of player but they had to give up a prospect for him where Taylor would have just cost 4 mill?? How much does Margot cost? Probably pretty close to the same and they had to give up a prospect?? That's the only thing that makes me scratch my head on this one?

I think in the long run it seems to be the Twins have the best shot at championships. A baseball team has the advantage of being able to draft and develop. So even when the Twins are crappy for a year or two they have a chance to rebound with development. It seems the other teams have to draft and win right away and that is really hard to do. Plus at least with the Vikings they always seem to have an outside shot so they perpetually try to add that one piece to get them over the top and it never works. Realistically the Vikings have a bad team with like 5 really good players. The O-line can't stop anyone and the D can't put pressure on anyone unless they are blitzing. So I'd give the Vikings a shot if they just blew the whole thing up, got rid of everyone. Go out and lose, save all of their money, get high draft picks and build a Defense and an O-line. Then use the money you saved and get a QB either with one of the top picks in the draft or through free agency. Then they'd have a shot, it would take a couple of years of straight up losing but then they could put the blue print together. The Wild, I'm not sure what they would need to do, and if the Wolves can do well this year then who knows when they will do well again because it always seems like the best players go to places like LA and not really Minnesota? I think with minor leagues baseball teams still have the easiest way to build a sustainable franchise?

I think it failed because they didn't do a great job of putting agreements together for the mediums that would be showing victory sports. I mean living in California, I know for that short period of time I had no access to Twins games. Thank God with my direct TV package that I could watch the other teams broadcast. I think back then they thought they were just going to force people to have to get Victory sports network. Once they realized that wasn't going to work they shut down instead of trying to cut some deals. It was probably a great idea, probably trying to copy the YES network, but they failed in actually getting the product out there on the platforms people could see. Now with the Internet so much more of a player, if they did something like that again they'd need to get those deals in place in a few more platforms. Because there is still cable, there is still satellite but now there are more platforms that need to be addressed. I think it would be great, especially if you could get the owners of all of the different teams to go all in on their own network. But they have to do some serious planning and deal cutting to get it done.

For the Twins to really be successful as a business they need to figure out how to reach people. I mean I totally understand the idea of lowering ticket prices and I can also see that if the Twins do well then that will also help bring fans. But winning is probably the wrong solution. I mean everyone wants to win, but what I'm trying to get at is that the Chicago Cubs until a few years ago were perennial losers never winning the big one, on top of that most of the time just being really bad, but they still had a huge fan base. Red Sox very similar, not always bad, but were lovable losers for a very long time. How are they able to have such a huge following and not do well. Then on the other hand, the inventors of analytical baseball, the Oakland A's who have had lots of successful seasons, no WS victories since the last 80's or early 90's. But under Billy bean had lots of playoff runs, however they have alienated their fan base to a point where no one comes to the games. Similar with Tampa Bay, a team that is often very good but no fans come to the games. So somehow the Twins need to reach out to the whole state of Minnesota, North Dakota, Iowa, parts of Wisconsin, and South Dakoka because the people in those states all could be Twins fans. Maybe they need to be active in the public schools, or park board systems, put money aside to redo or build baseball parks in towns in these areas, where the Twins brand can be stamped on a field kids play ball at. I'm just coming up with ideas to make lifelong Twins fans regardless of their win loss record? I also think it's cool that the Saints are now the Twins AAA team, I get the fact that they can bring in a reliever in one day and send him back the next. But doesn't almost seem like the Saints and the Twins are competing with one another for nightly fans? What if their AAA team was in Sioux Falls or Fargo. Still really close where players could be brought in quickly, but there would be Twins fans created in those areas because they could follow those ball players from their area to the Twins. I don't know all of the answers, I'm just shooting out ideas.

I mean for teams to be signing 700 million dollar contracts the game must be doing pretty well.

Maybe lower the prices of the seats in the bad areas like the upper deck, but raise the prices of the seats in the prime areas like behind home plate to off set the costs. I'm also guessing they probably lost money on concessions and beer because of the new pitch clock??? I mean if games lasted 30 min longer wouldn't they sell more beer? Just a thought.

Remember the Victory sports channel? That didn't go over too well.

I mean if anyone has potential, probably have to give them a shot. Almost all minor league deals don't pan out, but once in awhile one of them does. Look pretty silly if the Royals gave him a shot and in a year or two he shows up and hits 30 bombs again. Most likely it won't happen, but you know the potential is there. At first I was thinking of that old don't use drugs saying from the 90's. Just SA No. But like I said, it couldn't hurt, could just cut him if it doesn't work out.

I think it would be fun to look at old projections.

Sounds like David Ortiz. Got sent all the way to the spring training facility??? I mean definitely sounds like a head case. I'd take him for little or nothing, that way if he is completely toast you're not out anything. I would not trade anything good for him at this point in time.

Maybe we can get 5 players from the Braves for him?

I hear what you're saying but I do think there is a certain energy that you feel playing in front of your home crowd, now the opponents can shut that energy down at times and you still have to create your own energy, but the home crowd does give a little extra energy at times. I feel at least.

I don't know, I mean Giolito wasn't terrible before he got traded. I mean he went 6 - 6 with a 3.79 era with a crappy white Sox team. 121 innings with 131 K's in like 20 starts. So the Twins could do a lot worse than Giolito. Granted his 2 - 9 after the trade is not good, in fact really bad. But it raises the question why did he fall off the cliff? Might not be stuff related. Could be other factors where he was just not at his best. Again if he is not expensive then I think he'd be a decent #4 behind Pablo Lopez, Joe Ryan, and Bailey Over. Now if you guys think he or the Twins are going to get someone to lead the rotation, well keep dreaming. The Twins are going to sign a #4 or 5 to add depth. To me Giolito is a good get at #4 spot in the rotation.

I wouldn't mind if they added Buxton as long as he was healthy enough to do Buxton type of things. I mean, they'd have to beat Houston then maybe you look to add Buck for the next round which looks like it will be the Rangers. Doesn't mean he would start, but if 90% healthy he'd be a really nice option coming off the bench.

I mean Verlander is sitting at 94, that's not much different. Just need to hit the right spots.

Dang I've seen a couple of Verlander's curve balls get called for strikes and they were just off the zone, I've seen a couple of Ober's pitches hit the line of the strike box, but they weren't called for strikes. Is that Jeffers? Seems like he stabs at the ball and even though it's a strike the blue calls it a ball??