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  1. palmspringstwinsfan
    Kelly is not a free agent. He signed a 2 year deal last year. Ballesteros is weak defensively but the Cubs are very excited about his bat-much like they were for Schwarber when he came up. Amaya is a good all around catcher but hasn’t stayed healthy. He might in a platoon with Jeffers
  2. palmspringstwinsfan
    To the Cubs for 1B Long and catcher Amaya or Ballesteros. Accept nothing less
  3. palmspringstwinsfan
    The Twins sure don’t care about creating excitement for the fans do they? Someone on these pages suggested Rowson with Ron Washington as his bench coach. I thought that was a fabulous idea. And Tori Hunter sure would have been fan friendly. Now my optimism for maybe a $120M is gone. This move suggests further payroll cutting to me as the team moves closer to becoming the Pirates 2.0.
  4. palmspringstwinsfan
    Clearing rosters spots this year should be incredibly easy. There are 9 or 10 names that don’t belong anywhere near an MLB team.
  5. palmspringstwinsfan
    The only lesson to be learned from the Polanco trade is that it should not have happened. Falvey is incompetent and TD writers rarely say it. Cleveland sure hasn’t missed him. The reality is that he was a cheap hire based on his potential, not performance. He’s just another Twins prospect who didn’t develop.
  6. palmspringstwinsfan
    Well said Parker. Thanks
  7. palmspringstwinsfan
    Thank you Seth. You’re a daily habit. Great work.
  8. palmspringstwinsfan
    Why we acquired 3 more left handed hitting OFers when we have so many almost ready in our system will always be a mystery to me (though Mendez maybe becomes a 1B). Falvey has a fixation I guess. In any case there’s no evidence that after all these years that Falvey is competent at his job so it’s no wonder that these guys aren’t particularly good.
  9. palmspringstwinsfan
    Given their ability to develop position players, you just gave to cross your fingers and hope…
  10. palmspringstwinsfan
    Since Falvey is obsessed with “value” and the Pohlads are obsessed with saving money, it would seem that trading Lopez is a no brainer. I’d be ok with that if it brings some right handed power back, especially a 1B and a catcher. A team still needs a leader for the pitching staff and Joe Ryan at ~$10m is high value in that role, so he’s likely to stay. Falvey has pre-filled in behind Larnach with the approximately 10 LH outfielders he’s brought in so I expect Larnach is gone, which is no big loss.
  11. palmspringstwinsfan
    The Pohlads will own the team as long as brother Bob runs the Pohlad companies and he can’t find anything else for son Joe to do. Joe has screwed up everything else he tried so Bob doesn’t want him near the other businesses that Joe’s brothers run. The Twins start off every year with almost $200M from MLB and have a compliant exec running the team so how much bottom line damage can he really do? (The debt was rung up mainly by Jim.) Joe found the other investors so he could save his job, blindsiding a group that was raising the funds to buy the club. Jim wanted to sell and Bill P doesn’t care. This is all about Bob finding employment for Joe, so long as there isn’t too much damage to the family fortune.
  12. palmspringstwinsfan
    The only thing left to debate is whether the front office is worse at evaluating talent or developing it. I can’t decide but it’s clear they’re awful at both. Of course no one in the offices at 1 Twins Way seems to care. Hope is gone
  13. palmspringstwinsfan
    A big question to me is how this team managed to run up such a huge debt, given the extraordinary amount of money they receive every year from MLB. Some things I’ve read suggest those payments are far more than the payroll. I understand that the local TV money is way down, as is attendance, and there is debt service to pay. But I have to conclude that the 12 or so Pohlads who own the team must be getting big dividend payouts. No wonder they didn’t want to give up their gravy train.
  14. palmspringstwinsfan
    Eric, it’s incumbent on you to share what you’re smoking or ingesting with all the other Twins fans. We should all get to hallucinate like you
  15. palmspringstwinsfan
    Well reasoned article. I would keep the pitching core and make everyone else but Buxton available
  16. palmspringstwinsfan
    Good story about a great guy
  17. palmspringstwinsfan
    Why not let Varland pitcher the 9th?? He only threw 9 pitches in the 8th and tomorrow is an off day. Trusting Topa in that situation was/is/and always will be a mistake.
  18. palmspringstwinsfan
    The article misses the main problem with the payroll in that it’s way too top heavy. Three players, two who are frequently injured, make up 50% of the entire payroll. And the next 2 more highly paid -Paddack and Vazquez-provide no positive value. So the Twins have a Kirk Cousins issue-poor allocation leading to a lack of investment in quality depth, meaning over reliance on prospects and suspects. Couple that with very little recent investment in the major league roster and you end up with a 15-35 record in the last 50 games.
  19. palmspringstwinsfan
    On a related topic, seems to me the 1B for the next several years should be Royce Lewis. We have plenty of people to play 2nd (Castro, Julien, Hellman, Martin and Keuchel is coming soon). Lee is a good 3B and Miranda is best used as an almost everyday DH who fills in at 1B and 3B. Lewis is a much better athlete than Miranda or Julien and, in time, could become a great 1B.
  20. palmspringstwinsfan
    Hire the hitting coach from St Paul.
  21. palmspringstwinsfan
    Best idea in here in a long while. Keep Polo and use the assets returned from trading Kepler, Farmer and Vazquez to get a starter and a RH OFer
  22. palmspringstwinsfan
    I’d suggest next year’s outfield starts with Buxton, Martin, Wallner, Gordon and Castro (of/inf) after Kepler is traded for pitching. Then we’ll see.
  23. palmspringstwinsfan
    Baltimore, because of its Houston bred FO, is really good at fixing pitchers-Lopez, Tyler Wells, Cano and others. That’s great for them and something the Twins definitely can improve.
  24. palmspringstwinsfan
    Nice job reporting. Thanks. Any discussion on Gurriel or Voit down there?
  25. palmspringstwinsfan
    Tremendous breakdown of this FO and it’s process or lack of it. Maybe the best piece I’ve read on this FO. Thanks
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