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  1. dxpavelka
    50 / 50 chance they keep him. If they do, 50 / 50 chance he continues to trend downward allowing the fans to say they have no clue what they are doing. If they move him, 75% chance he goes the Rooker route allowing fans to say they have no idea what they are doing. 100% chance that if it goes south the fan base will say they don't know what they are doing. Even the ones who totally agree with whatever they decide to do at the time they do it.
  2. dxpavelka
    care to put a few sawbucks on that?
  3. dxpavelka
    see
  4. dxpavelka
    I JUST said you don't get better by trading your good players. Do you not understand?
  5. dxpavelka
    how'd it work out for the twins
  6. dxpavelka
    the days of SPs going deep or a full nine more than once in a blue moon are long gone. sadly
  7. dxpavelka
    I can cite countless examples. Bert Blylevin traded to the Rangers. Rod Carew traded to the Rangers. Johan Santana to the Mets. I won't even bring up Lou Brock. How about Frank Robinson for Milt Pappas. I'll even cross sports. KG. Randy Moss. Trading your stars just makes your team unwatchable. Pass.
  8. dxpavelka
    a bullpen is probably the easiest part of a baseball team to rebuild.
  9. dxpavelka
    Not sure why you are concerned about success next season. The team is doomed. Have you not been listening to the fan base?
  10. dxpavelka
    No. Please. Those days are gone forever. Just let them go.
  11. dxpavelka
    that's not saying much
  12. dxpavelka
    You don't get better when your best players play for other teams
  13. dxpavelka
    Calling ******** on your statement that Brooks Lee has no standout skills. He can catch a baseball and throw it to first base. The Twins haven't had many shortstops with that skill since Greg Gagne became a Royal. Technically, Orlando Hudson & Luis Castillo could be considered to be in the mix but Hudson played one season here and do any Twins fans under the age of 35 even know who Castillo was? Other than that you've got Roy Smalley (more famous for being Gene Mauch's son-in-law and having been acquired in the Bert Blylevin trade than for his defensive chops) and Zoillo Versailles (been a while)
  14. dxpavelka
    James Rowson. Hire him. As hitting coach.
  15. dxpavelka
    No, but I'll be there are other major league teams whose fan bases feel this way.
  16. dxpavelka
    Actually they ARE top 5 in the AL and it's not really close. If you look at teams entire rotations, Texas actually has the best. The Twins, Yankees, Seattle & Boston are pretty closely bunched in the 2 thru 5 spots, granted Minnesota probably slots at 5 but very little difference between them and the other three. Detroit easily has the best # 1 starter in the league but when you consider the entire staff, there is a considerable drop off from Minnesota at 5 to Detroit at 6. Another drop off to Toronto at 7 probably tells the story of why there's a pretty good chance they're going to join the Twins on the golf course by mid week. I know you don't WANT to believe this but the numbers bear it out. Now the numbers I cited include a full season worth of data and the rotation may have been dragged down by the bullpen after the trade deadline. At the end of the day it's usually a lot easier to build a bullpen than it is to build a rotation. We HAVE a rotation. As long as we don't **** it up by trading guys that we'll find ourselves just needing to replace.
  17. dxpavelka
    Typically, the best managers are guys who were role players, sat on the bench quite a bit where they spent time picking the brain(s) of some smart baseball guys along the way. Guys like Torii & Albert Pujols, who were stars, and had everything come easy for them and never had to work to get an edge don't seem to be the best managers. Sure, you will be able to comeback with few exceptions to what I just said, but by and large, I'm right on this one. Cap Anson was probably the most successful player to have managerial success. Maybe we could reach out to him. Quite a reach since he's been dead for a hundred years but (insert typical Twins fan joke about him working cheap here) it's worth a shot. The perfect example would be Billy Martin. Played over a decade, less than a thousand hits, one All-Star team, finished 25th in the MVP voting, once. Basically a role player, sat on a lot of benches, learned a lot from some guy named Stengel. If memory serves me right, seemed to have a bit of an edge to him. Not sure about that. Guess we could ask Dave Boswell, but he's dead too. Gene Mauch played 9 years in the big league and totaled less than 900 plate appearances. Sat on a lot of benches and learned from guys like Leo Durocher, Charlie Grimm & Eddie Stanky. Guys like Torii & Pujols profile more like Ted Williams as managers. Also, hitting & pitching coaches tend to be specialized in their own field and NOT make great managers. Ray Miller was a great pitching coach. His biggest accomplishment as a manager was getting fired and clearing the way for TK. Guys like Punto, Suzuki & Ramon Vasquez profile as potential TK or Billy Martin types. Guys like Torii profile more like Ted Williams guys. You pick.
  18. dxpavelka
    Typically, the best managers are guys who were role players, sat on the bench quite a bit where they spent time picking the brain(s) of some smart baseball guys along the way. Guys like Torii & Albert Pujols, who were stars, and had everything come easy for them and never had to work to get an edge don't seem to be the best managers. Sure, you will be able to comeback with few exceptions to what I just said, but by and large, I'm right on this one. Cap Anson was probably the most successful player to have managerial success. Maybe we could reach out to him. Quite a reach since he's been dead for a hundred years but (insert typical Twins fan joke about him working cheap here) it's worth a shot. The perfect example would be Billy Martin. Played over a decade, less than a thousand hits, one All-Star team, finished 25th in the MVP voting, once. Basically a role player, sat on a lot of benches, learned a lot from some guy named Stengel. If memory serves me right, seemed to have a bit of an edge to him. Not sure about that. Guess we could ask Dave Boswell, but he's dead too. Gene Mauch played 9 years in the big league and totaled less than 900 plate appearances. Sat on a lot of benches and learned from guys like Leo Durocher, Charlie Grimm & Eddie Stanky. Guys like Torii & Pujols profile more like Ted Williams as managers. Also, hitting & pitching coaches tend to be specialized in their own field and NOT make great managers. Ray Miller was a great pitching coach. His biggest accomplishment as a manager was getting fired and clearing the way for TK. Guys like Punto, Suzuki & Ramon Vasquez profile as potential TK or Billy Martin types. Guys like Torii profile more like Ted Williams guys. You pick.
  19. dxpavelka
    Fine. Since you are waiting for THE Smartest Man in the Room to announce something regarding the possibility of Rocco being interviewed, I'll do my part and weigh in. https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2025/10/rocco-baldelli-interested-in-managing-again.html#:~:text=With the Padres now in,View Comments (37)
  20. dxpavelka
    then i guess they should just put the decision in YOUR hands.
  21. dxpavelka
    I like Rowson but it's a tough sell to tell me that HE "launched 307 home runs with the Bomba Squad any more than HE launched 274 for the Yankees this year or 53 for Aaron Judge. The players did all of those things and in the end what happens on the field is because of the players. A manager / hitting coach plays a small part, an important part nonetheless but a small part. Managers like quarterbacks get too much credit when things are good and too much blame when things are bad.
  22. dxpavelka
    You have to go back to Gene Mauch to find a Twins manager with major league managing experience so going the route of NOT hiring someone with big league experience would NOT be a shock nor would it not be on brand. AND, you're really going to hate this one, it goes back to forty years prior to Falvey so you can't just hate it because it's the Falvey way.
  23. dxpavelka
    Can't bury the lead
  24. dxpavelka
    Totally agree. The fact that he's been retired for 11 years and hasn't taken a coaching or minor league managing job just says he wants this handed to him. Sorry. Not interested.
  25. dxpavelka
    Seattle is getting results NOW but only because they signed Polanco to a 1 year deal for $3 million less than last year. And they didn't sign him until February and he hit .183 in May & June so what he is doing now was never a slam dunk. Won't even bring up the fact that he hit .190 in the 2023 post-season. Were we seeing him as an integral part of the future worthy of ten and a half million dollars at that point?
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