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  1. dxpavelka
    Believe what you want. They still won them.
  2. dxpavelka
    I get where you are coming from but I think if the Twins had more guys like Freeman, Hernandez & Muncy they'd be less likely to move those types of guys around much. I don't recall guys like Mauer, Morneau, Buxton being move around much. Dozier and Kepler were pretty much penciled in at one position as well. If guys like Lewis or Lee became .300 / 30 / 100 /100 guys they'd probably be penciled in at one defensive position and left there for the most part as well.
  3. dxpavelka
    I'm not a huge fan but it seems foolhardy to overlook Larnach as the LF.
  4. dxpavelka
    I tend to agree about Keaschall in the OF. However, if a hundred years and a couple decades of baseball history tells us anything it's that having three top prospects in the outfield at AAA means that the most likely scenario is that one of them becomes all that is expected, one hopefully becomes a serviceable major league ball player and one flops. There, we just created a spot in the outfield.
  5. dxpavelka
    Lots of things COULD happen. All of the kids hitting well enough to keep Bell out of the lineup as the 1B or DH doesn't really feel like one of the more plausible ones.
  6. dxpavelka
    I have it on good authority that there are actually going to be games played next season to determine things rather than relying on Zips or FanGraphs or any other such things.
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  8. dxpavelka
    Again, I'm not using OAA or any other algorithm. I'm simply using Gold Gloves. Good, bad or otherwise. They give an award for it. Twins guys have won the last two.
  9. dxpavelka
    I played first base myself. A lifetime ago. And, obviously, at a different level. But guarding the line and being able to get to the base quickly to catch the baseball were tantamount to playing the spot. I don't know (or care) about algorithms but whatever they are doing seems to spit out Gold Gloves so it can't be all bad.
  10. dxpavelka
    If Wallner is a good fit for this list it likely means that one of Jenkins / Rodriguez / Gonzalez didn't pan out. I'd sooner NOT put up any impediments for any of them.
  11. dxpavelka
    I'll say it again: The most entertaining player to wear a TC on his hat since a guy named Kirby. Every at bat was MUST SEE.
  12. dxpavelka
    Santana and France didn't SUDDENLY become Gold Glove defenders. But they DID become Gold Glove winners. And as far as improving metrics by standing in a different place, if that also means improved performance / productivity, seems like that would be a wise thing to do.
  13. dxpavelka
    That's a lot of words and not one of them critical of ownership and / or the front office. Are you sure you're in the right spot?
  14. dxpavelka
    I agree that the Twins plans are not discernable. Not that they have any obligation for them to be so. Fans seem convinced that for some reason they have a right to know such things. They don't. But we live in an age when they think they do. Neither here nor there I guess. I'm fine with acquiring a big name guy. I would have been fine with keeping Correa. Bichette would work for me. I've been advocating for Alonzo in these spaces since last Winter. But for the most part, guys on big long term contracts seldom earn that money over the last half of the contract. If you spend that money on retaining your own players, that is kind of offset somewhat by the fact that prior to free agency said player often far outperforms his contract. I'm not all that concerned about what happened at the deadline either. I understand why they dumped Correa. Would have been nice to have kept Duran and maybe Varland but in all honesty, the return for those two should become mainstays before the end of the decade (not that far away). Jax had to go or would have become a cancer. Everyone else that went would, in an ideal world (possible exception of Bader) would have been gone by March anyway. The future is NOT nearly as bleak as most think. Play Ball.
  15. dxpavelka
    Twins fans can claim that they'd prefer we spend it all on one player but even when they do that fans aren't happy. Fans LOVED when we loaded up on Carlos Correa, Josh Donaldson and even Joe Mauer. Didn't like it near as much when they learned what even the big spenders learn: That when you sign a guy to a big money long term contract the results as that contract goes on generally tend to NOT be worth the investment.
  16. dxpavelka
    I also think the bullpen is the easiest area of a team to rebuild. Teams do it every year. Even successful teams tend to turnover half their bullpen every year. Not all successful teams, but more than fans might suspect. 90% of that effort is half luck. Make the right bullpen moves, you win. Make the wrong ones, you have a fire sale.
  17. dxpavelka
    The bastards. Promoting positivity. Don't they know? We only have two options. Minnesota nice. And "We suck." We can't handle anything else. Make them stop.
  18. dxpavelka
    Might not take until the end of the year.
  19. dxpavelka
    I suppose. If Uncle Rico can throw it over a mountain....
  20. dxpavelka
    I never get too concerned about "recent news" about anyone. One thing the internet age has brought is lots of folks who need clicks.
  21. dxpavelka
    if JJ has the longest climb it might stand to reason that it might take him the longest time.
  22. dxpavelka
    Kind got goosebumps when you said you didn't see a future for our two corner OF boat anchors but then I realized that just meant nobody else would be willing to give anything for them. Saw the name Jansen and kind of got excited about a catcher with a WAR over twice that of Jeffers the realized it was Kenley.
  23. dxpavelka
    Hindsight is 20 /20. Trust me, I'm a Vikings fan. I've spent most of the last month listening to fans gripe about moves that they cheered about when they happened.
  24. dxpavelka
    Botom line is Correa is a push that the had to do for financial reasons. Varland deal is a push. Jax was about to become a cancer so moving him before that happened is a plus. Duran was the one guy it really would have been nice to have kept but every time I pull up MILB.com's Twins prospect listing the guy we got in return sits squarely in top 3. The rest of the dudes we moved were putrid sludge and bringing them back in 2026 would only have lead to more of the same as 2025. So all in all, WIN.
  25. dxpavelka
    Also reminds me of the best pitcher on a team with the Cy Young winner.
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