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  1. dxpavelka
    Maybe my Punto mention has aged well.
  2. dxpavelka
    Ray Miller was an outside hire. I'm not insisting on big league managerial experience but at least some time on a bench somewhere post playing career. Sounds like they may have read my mention of Nick Punto this morning.........
  3. dxpavelka
    Why are we overlooking OTHER guys with no experience as a coach and / or minor league manager? Kent Hrbek checks the fan favorite box. How about Nick Punto? Sure, Kirby's dead but, hey, why not?
  4. dxpavelka
    Nice to see a strong interest in guys WITH actual coaching / minor league managing experience.
  5. dxpavelka
    yawn
  6. dxpavelka
    Twenty-nine teams are NOT going to win the World Series every year. If you are one of those twenty-nine, you had BETTER be entertaining. We were NOT entertaining the last two months of the season. But ya have to admit, trade deadline day was entertaining as hell. AND, you also have to admit that in coming years it will also be exciting watching guys like Jenkins, Tait, Rojas, Prielipp, Gallagher, Ellwanger & Mendez. Oops, did I leave off Culpepper, Rodriguez, Houston & Hill? Gonzalez & Quick? What about DeBarge? But, hey, If guys like France, Stewart, Coulombe, Paddack, Wentz, Dobnak & Kyle Farmer are your jam, you do you.
  7. dxpavelka
    Gotta love all the folks on here bitching about the FO. Same folks who cheered when they replace T Ryan and co.
  8. dxpavelka
    Feels to me like writing an article about a guy who has never managed or coached at any level being a candidate for the manager job of a big league baseball team is just for clicks.
  9. dxpavelka
    Lee can catch a baseball and throw it to first base consistently. Which puts him ahead of a hell of a lot of other guys who have attempted to play shortstop for this team.
  10. dxpavelka
    Two things. Not sure why we would "expect a number to be released." # 2: It's easy to spend someone else's money. All that being said, I'd hold my cards and make one big acquisition: Pete Alonzo. He's a Boras guy, we have a history with Boras. We haven't had a real bopper at 1B in damn near two decades. If Martin is your LF, Klemens can play four other spots. Sure, we didn't like the way things turned out with Correa but there might be a way to get something done. It might take longer than we want but that's part of the deal. But, of course, there is one thing you can always count on from Twins fans: As much as they hate the team not spending money, in the end, they hate them spending money just as much.
  11. dxpavelka
    It only took four years to see a return on the Berrios trade. So, 2029?
  12. dxpavelka
    Add Jayce Tingler and Derek Shelton to the last and for the love of god take Torii & Cruz off.
  13. dxpavelka
    Hinch & Snitker could both be let go.
  14. dxpavelka
    The last guy before Rocco that they hired from outside the organization was Ray Miller. My guess is they stay in house this time. Think Tingler or Toby. I suppose Derek Shelton would be considered outside the organization although he was here before he got the Pittsburgh job. There will be the obligatory talk of big names like Bochy, Melvin, Mattingly, Hinch, Snitker but the last time they went big name was Gene Mauch and that feels like a long time ago. The only thing I really care about is that they don't let possible fan perceptions impact the decision. Like hiring someone like Torii Hunter or Justin Morneau. Or Joe Mauer.
  15. dxpavelka
    Feels like you weren't a Twins fan in the 70s.
  16. dxpavelka
    Really? Did you help formulate the plan?
  17. dxpavelka
    73 pitches one walk no runs. Old enough to remember when that would be been considered a good start. And the manager would have said "go finish it kid."
  18. dxpavelka
    Then why keep score? I just attended three of my granddaughter's soccer games this morning. The don't keep score. But you can be sure the players do. Does nobody trying to win in the minor leagues make the game better? Could we AT LEAST put the pitcher's records in the article?
  19. dxpavelka
    All of the same can be true in the big leagues. Again, the question is has any of this made the game better?
  20. dxpavelka
    You just wrote an article about the Twins Minor League Starting Pitcher of the Year and gave a whole bunch of stats and NOWHERE among them was his won / loss record. I get it, the game has changed. But has it changed for the better? This article makes me wonder.
  21. dxpavelka
    If you're going to write this article, take a stab at it. Tell us who YOU think it will be. That's what the headline teased.
  22. dxpavelka
    It's never been "planning" to sell the team. It's always been "exploring" a sale of the team. Will a sale be more palatable when a labor agreement is place? Sure. Might keeping the team also be more palatable at said time? Absolutely.
  23. dxpavelka
    I get the angst about all the trades. However, if done right, the easiest thing to do in terms of building a team is to rebuild a bullpen. You need a couple of bell cows and some wise decision making in terms of filling in the rest of the spots. They potentially have the bell cows if guys like Funderburk, Topa and Sands take a step up. Mix in couple of guys like Prielipp & Marco Raya and one of the guys they acquired at the deadline, make a wise choice or two in the free agent dead pool and you've got a bullpen. Of course, on the other hand, another of the easiest things to do in building a team is to screw up a bullpen rebuild. At least it will be interesting.
  24. dxpavelka
    Trade for a catcher? C'mon man. Pereda and Gasper are the real deal..
  25. dxpavelka
    I'm still in on Lewis and Lee. Larnach is the only one of these five with a thousand career plate appearances. He and Wallner are redundant. Lee at least possesses the ability to catch a ground ball and throw it to first base, a talent that 20 to 30 years was not a rarity in this organization. Sadly now it seems to be.
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