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  1. howeda7
    If Correa is not back, the opening day SS should be Jorge Polanco or Gio Urshella. Spending $10 million on the next Andrelton Simmons so one of Arreaz/Miranda/Urshella has to sit on the bench is a waste.
  2. howeda7
    While I understand he likely wouldn't have finished and they weren't going to let him go 140 pitches, they should have at least let him start the 8th and see what happens. If he got lucky and had a 10 pitch inning, who knows.
  3. howeda7
    How so? I'd say the original article is goal post moving. "If only Royce Lewis and AK had been healthy..." when one was not being counted on and the other was an unknown quantity to start the season.
  4. howeda7
    I'd look at it this way: Who were your 5 most important position players and pitchers going into the season and how many games did you lose due to unexpected injuries. Position Players: -Buxton: 100 games was a reasonable goal. Anything more than that would be gravy. That's just reality. He will come up a bit short of that. I'll also grant that he was hampered when he did play to some extent. Wins lost: 1.5 -Correa: He missed a few games with his hand and a few with Covid. Neither are enough to be deemed unusual. Wins lost: 0. -Polanco: Up until the recent IL stint, he was able to stay in the line-up even if he missed a few games. Wins lost: 0.5 -Arreaz: He has been fully healthy. Wins lost: 0 -The 5th spot is debatable, but I'll give it to Kiriloff. But we don't know how good he would have been when healthy. Even hampered, his #'s in 2022 were similar to 2021. Being generous: Wins lost 2.0 Pitchers: -Sonny Gray: He missed about 3 starts early. Not an unusual amount. Wins Lost: 0 -Joe Ryan: He missed 2-3 starts with Covid. Again, not unusual. Wins Lost: 0 -Taylor Rodgers: You willingly swapped him for Pagan on Opening Day, leaving Pagan as your default closer for half the season. Dumb move. But hey, he's been healthy! Wins lost: 0 -Johan Duran: He's been healthy and excellent. Wins lost: 0 -Baily Ober: Again, 2021 was a small sample size. He was essentially replaced by a combo of Winder, Smelzer and Sanchez. While they're not great, they also haven't train-wrecked. So again being generous: Wins lost: 2.0 Total wins lost due to injuries among the top 10 players: 6. I guess that would be enough to have us clinging to first place for now. But it wouldn't make this a great team.
  5. howeda7
    On AK, just that this procedure is extreme and has very little track record to go off of. Paddock may be back in time to make 10 starts or so. But how effective will he be? You can have to plan 2023 disregarding him as a factor.
  6. howeda7
    All of this. There has been some injuries. And if it required 95 wins to make the playoffs then *they never had a chance". But 85 likely would have done it and they still failed. And many of these injuries were foreseeable or should have been. Sorry, the front office does not get a pass from me. The way they handle and evaluate players, especially pitchers, is fundamentally broken. The Twins will never win a championship with Falvey at the helm.
  7. howeda7
    He might not be good. But his strength is his sinker and since he got here, he's throwing a bunch of breaking balls because that's what Falvine and co. "believe".
  8. howeda7
    I would assume you get nothing from Paddock or Lewis next year. Anything you do get is a bonus. Buxton will never approach 162 games, that's just a reality. 100 is all that's realistic. Kiriloff's seems like he's no better than 50/50 to play in the majors again, from what I've heard. The procedure he had was a last gasp. Some better health will help. But this team just isn't that great and I don't see them overtaking Chicago or Cleveland without some significant upgrades.
  9. howeda7
    I'd love new owners because Jim is not curious and too disengaged. But this is on Falvey and Rocco. Their payroll is appropriate for their market size and is not the issue. How the payroll is deployed is. Every year that Falvey remains in charge is wasted. They will never win a WS with him IMO.
  10. howeda7
    Season fading fast. If it means the end of the Falvey/Rocco era, and it should, that will be the only positive.
  11. howeda7
    Using Megill in a one run game when Fulmer hasn't pitched since Wednesday and both Jax and Duran were also available defies logic. And if Pagan is still on the team tomorrow, Falvey should resign in shame. I don't know what can be done about the offense, but call up someone other than Cave/Cellistino for the OF. Please.
  12. howeda7
    Right. But how much longer does the current deal go? Zero chance I'd extend if I'm the Twins.
  13. howeda7
    Netflix will eventually go the route of Hulu and have a package with ads that's like $10-15 and a no-ads version that's double. I'm actually OK with that. I'll watch a few ads to save $10.
  14. howeda7
    Annoying. But FYI, the audio package via the MLB app is like $20 for the full season.
  15. howeda7
    If Bally is going to play hardball and not be on any regular TV/streaming platform, there's no reason for the Twins/MLB to negotiate with them. They can just as easily just launch/use their own app and collect $10/month directly.
  16. howeda7
    If he was drafted in 2011, I'm starting to think he won't pan out...
  17. howeda7
    Our farm system is exactly average. 15th. Plenty of teams ranked lower don't sit on their thumbs at the trade deadline.
  18. howeda7
    This front office will do what it always does. Be "in" on big names but do nothing but sit on their thumbs in the end. I predict zero moves. If it means Falvey/Rocco are gone after the season, great. But it won't.
  19. howeda7
    In Rocco's defense, Duran was already warming up when it was 2-1 and once he's warmed up, they're going to use him.
  20. howeda7
    I'm OK doing what it takes to make the play-offs and win a game. Anything more is a bonus. Let's get over the hump and go from there.
  21. howeda7
    Using Duran in the 8th is especially hard to defend against the Brewers on the road because you knew they were going to bring Hader in for the 9th and we were extremely unlikely to take the lead. Therefore you were going to have to get an inning out of Duffy either way. Use him in the 8th and if he blows it, at least Duran is available today. If Duffy doesn't blow it, Duran can possibly pitch the 9th and 10th.
  22. howeda7
    No. Even if he hits .275 with 20 HR the rest of the year, no one will give him $14 million in FA, so there's no way the Twins should pick up his option. Period.
  23. howeda7
    This again. Regardless of whether it COULD be a good decision in some sort of fantasy baseball vacuum in the real world it's absurd. You're up 3.5 games 7 days before the deadline and you're going to trade one of your two best players? Are you also going to send your season ticket holders an email and tell them to go $%%^ themselves? Are you going to trade Kiriloff and Lewis before they have a chance to laugh in your face when you offer them a contract extension?
  24. howeda7
    Whoever wins the majority of the 9 games between them will likely win the division. I don't think the schedule strength gap is a big as they're making it out to be. Enough to make up 2-3 games maybe.
  25. howeda7
    I would do it if the price is right. I trust him more than Bundy or Archer even in his current form.
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