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If only this were last season, we’d already be 1/3 done with the year.

It was so baffling I assumed Arraez was injured. It’s Linsanity I tell ya

I only said that because that should be the goal of a team who’s qualified for the postseason 3 of the last 4 seasons. If we’re as far away from that as we appear, then perhaps there needs to be a total revamping of things. Still have a lot of young guys but cruz and Donaldson aren’t, and some main pieces look like it will be a struggle to pan out (sano namely), but also a really solid player like buxton simply can’t stay on the field. These were to be franchise cornerstones. Not in a good place right now.

Not too early to start discussing trade pieces. Twins blew two great chances in two years to go deep in to the postseason. Wrong guy at the helm and a bullpen that could never be trusted even if we somehow qualified for the postseason. This amalgamation of players will not win a World Series this year.

no, but the fact is that the team was constructed (or morphed into) a power lineup based off of what happened when the ball was livelier. I don't know if the current roster could transform itself into a lineup that hits for average and moves people over, etc. when was the last time we saw the lineup single someone to death? or slap the ball around? arraez and buxton seem to be the only guys capable of doing that consistently. guys like polanco and kepler might be able to do that. I don't know, it just seems like what happened a few years ago instilled a mentality of power hitting and now that guys are struggling and the ball isn't flying like it was, they seem to be incapable of reverting back to a team that can hit for average, but that's probably the only way this team will win

Well said. I knew when MLB announced it was changing the ball it had the potential to really hurt the twins in the long run. What happened a couple years ago with the HR record was historically special. 3-4-5 sometimes 7 home run games....I’m not sure that was going to ever be repeated. Heck, we’d take half of what they produced in 2019 at this point. I can’t even believe the garvers and polanco’s of the team are the same players today. The twins were set up pretty well in the postseason both years. Who knows,if they could have just avoided the Yankees maybe they would have had a shot to at least win a postseason series in 2019. And last year’s shot was just an embarrassment. If the window is open now, it might not be for much longer.

Something is incredibly rotten with this team. Lifeless performances. Have to wonder how much longer the window is open.

was james rowson the greatest hitting coach of all time or what?

Alcala might have been a better option for the 10th. Could he have honestly been worse than walking the 8/9 hitters??

Just giving context to the “two division titles” stuff. Again, last year was a sham and certainly far from great. It would be like crowning a divisional champ at the end of May. We literally played like 9 teams last year and most of them stunk to the high heavens. Perhaps if Rocco’s teams weren’t 0-5 in the postseason I’d give a little more leeway to the two great years thing.

let's be real: 2019 was a year where the club hit the most home runs in the history of the sport. multiple guys had what may end up being career years. they simply bullied teams with 3, 4 and sometimes SEVEN home run games. 101 wins and cruised to the playoffs where they promptly got outclassed and outmanaged by the yankees and lost their 14-16 straight postseason games. 2020 was a year that almost shouldn't even count. not just for the shortened schedule, but for the fact that the twins played half their games against the tigers, royals, pirates and brewers. teams that went a combined 97-141 (.407). yes the schedule was not their fault, but they played some of the worst teams in baseball for half their entire season, and still needed a late surge to overcome the white sox. then, they were essentially gift wrapped a golden opportunity to finally break their postseason drought by drawing the universally-hated astros (who barely qualified for the expanded playoffs after a sub .500 season) AT HOME no less. and they laid a giant egg and were promptly eliminated without a single victory. and now here we are in 2021 and the baffling managerial decisions and the over protection of players are already old, 2 weeks in. rowson is long gone and the offense is terrible. the team has an overall soft look to it. if this year spirals down the tubes and the club ends up with 90+ losses, how much of the good vibes from those "two division titles" will still be around?

I’m gonna punch the air so hard if colome is the closer going forward. Don’t compound a bad signing by continuing to put him in high leverage situations

A culture of softness is what it sounds like to me. If a guy isn’t healthy enough to run around the bases then maybe he shouldn’t be on the active roster. I’d be fuming if I were Donaldson

100% accurate.

Dan gladden sounded like he witnessed a murder on the radio when Arraez air mailed that throw

My short list of worst regular season losses 2009 @ Oakland, blew 12-2 lead 2002 @ Yankees, walkoff grand slam by giambi down by 3 1984 @ Indians, blew ten run lead with playoffs on the line honorable mention, the 2019 loss to the Yankees where Aaron hicks made that wild catch

It’s a manager’s job to put players in the best position to win. Period.

Rocco ain’t the manager we need colome ain’t the closer we need the team is mentally soft lets start there.

a lot of these guys have been around for 6 of the 18 straight losses. far from blameless

to be fair, we can deduce how he is in the clubhouse by his comments and how he hands out off days like candy.

this group of twins has played a part in losing 18 straight playoff games. any analogy to the guys who won two rings is quite silly

Can someone find out how many times in history a team has been shut down in a DH. I’m going to guess <50 times since they stopped regularly playing DHs

not really outcome dependent. the pitch count was fine. the bullpen isn't great. again, not asking him to let him finish the game, but 2 hits in 7 innings warrants a shot at starting the 8th. but the mysterious arbitrary line was apparently crossed and pineda was out. and i disagree that that ball was over his head. it defies 100 years of baseball strategy to not guard the lines in that situation

most competently managed teams would have let pineda start and have a guy ready going in to the inning in case something goes wrong. shoemaker was left in for what, 4 batters? a 3 run lead, one guy gets on and you yank him. he was cruising. he earned a shot instead of losing his win. then defensive placement. check where our third baseman was positioned on the game tying double. bases loaded, 3 run lead, 2 outs. WHY was he playing halfway to second base and not guarding the line? because analytics said so? a LH pitcher with a slider, and the LH batter goes the other way with the pitch. had he been playing where he should have, thats a liner caught for the third out. then the already mentioned 8th inning batting debacle. I don't trust rocco's in game decision making.

Literally every move imaginable in baseball history has worked before, but I’d rather go with some form of Rogers, Duffy, alcala or Robles over a third inning of dobnak. Tomorrow’s DH has two 7 inning games. And both starters routinely pitch into the 6th