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  1. PopRiveter
    Comment of the week! Made me laugh out loud.
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    Wow, what an offense. I have been so disinterested in the style of this year’s team, that this was just the second game I watched. It certainly didn’t make me a fan. I sure miss having a Twins team that gives you hope they will put the ball in play and string together some hits. With this group, it’s hope for a couple solo home runs. When the first run scored almost immediately, I joked “There went the game.” Turned out, that was the winning run.
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    I’m admittedly pretty out-of-touch so far this season, but every bit of coverage I see seems to match the record. It has all been positive. The twins are 11th (of 15 AL teams) in both ops and runs-per-game. I am choking on this lousy offense. My kingdom for someone who can make contact.
  4. PopRiveter
    Thanks for a fun read, Seth
  5. PopRiveter
    “Expected Injuries: Royce Lewis, Chris Paddack” I think I would have written Expected Injuries: Byron Buxton …because we all expect that right?
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    I miss Arraez so much that I’ve not watched any baseball yet this year. He’d made me love baseball again but here we are. The idea of Gallo potentially batting leadoff is astonishing to me as a baseball fan. It’s not how the game I loved was played. If that actually happens, I may just check out on the Twins entirely until a new F.O. takes over. On the current roster, Buxton makes the most sense from my vantage point. He can actually get on base and once there, he disrupts. Just. Not. Gallo.
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    I love high avg, high obp, frequent contact baseball. Action. Balls in play. Arraez was my favorite 2022 Twin by a wide margin. Gallo is the the worst of the worst when it comes to the player types I want to watch. This trade-out was so disheartening and offensive to me that I haven’t watched (or listened to) an inning of ball in 2023. Skipped all ST and don’t really know when I’ll feel the urge to catch a game. I’ve gotten a lot more projects done around the house, so his $11m is paying off for my wife.
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    I absolutely care. I’m right there with you. I hate how it is currently structured and I’ve been holding my breath so long awaiting a solution that I’ve mostly transitioned from “overly hungry for baseball” to “kinda checked out on the team.” I entered the cord cutting era as a diehard, lifelong Twins fan and I’m now a guy whose read 3 or 4 articles this spring and hasn’t even listened to a spring game on the radio or watched a postgame highlight. It will be nice to come back to mlb whenever they figure it out.
  9. PopRiveter
    I’m done. This sucks. Every offseason, they dump the player I care most about. Every single offseason. I find another. I buy back in. They do it again. being a Twins fan is not fun anymore. I give up.
  10. PopRiveter
    It was nice to read this condensed history, but a few things jump out at me. This FO pushed a load of chips in on the pursuit of Shohei Ohtani in the off-season before the 2018 season and didn’t land him. If they’d been successful, the subsequent planning would have been built around him (and his contract) as a centerpiece. They have made a number of fruitless FA pursuits and some in-house candidates failed to qualify for potential big contracts (looking at you Sano.) Eventually, you have to spend money on some star player and to get a CC quality player with this level of financial risk is a huge win from my perspective.
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    Correa is a huge asset, but my most recent TD comment was to express I wouldn’t want him at 13yr/$350m A lot happened since then. I checked out for awhile and to me the whole Mets things wasn’t worth a comment. But now this contract. I’m psyched. This won’t weigh down the franchise to its detriment. It will pay a star player to be a star player. This is a winner for a MN fan.
  12. PopRiveter
    I think the big loser is the franchise stuck with ANY player with a 13yr, $350m commitment. At 10yr, $285m I would have felt mixed emotions with at least some buyer’s remorse, but I won’t for one minute feel jealous of SF fans today. I hope the team can redirect some resources to improve their pitching situation.
  13. PopRiveter
    I was quoted as saying something similar. "When I go to Mills Fleet Farm and I go to the fishing lure clearance bin and I want something, I do some math to determine the price minus the color-coded percentage discount. But I usually decide it still costs more than I want to pay. So if you're a cheap enough guy, you can pass on just about anything. I'm the product here, and not especially good at baseball, so..."
  14. PopRiveter
    Good writeup. Feels like there was potential for a much better outcome this year, but it would have required a number of good breaks. It’s gotten pretty bleak lately.
  15. PopRiveter
    I can’t let this go. I will try hard to be respectful, but I just can’t see this the way you do. Buxton, Polanco, Kepler, Sano, Kiriloff, and Jeffers all made the opening day roster and all were out hurt. It was painfully obvious that a Plan B lineup was on the field. First line of defense this year included opening day roster bench players who are now regulars-Arraez (thank God), Gordon & Celestino (both having risen to perform above expectations). These were supposed to be supplemental talent, not the core group. Then comes the frontline contigency minor league group which was led by Garlick, Miranda, Lewis (out), Larnach (out). It’s been a lot of blows to the depth of the lineup. Most everyone has lost some time and all the lifelines have been used extensively. At this point, the attrition has overwhelmed the team. Again, this isn’t even touching on the pitching. Is it an excuse? You can decide that for yourself. Is it an inescapable truth? Yup. 100%
  16. PopRiveter
    This article twice characterized Wnder looking good today. I disagree. He was getting hit hard and managed to take advantage of some nice breaks. Glad he got through it, but I don’t think many of us there today felt confident with the frequent hard contact he was allowing.
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    Apparently you weren’t at the game today like I was, watching an outfield of Cave/Celestino/Garlick. The Twins had to field that group because injuries have sidelined Buxton, Kepler, Kiriloff, Larnach, and Contreras. All higher options on the depth chart than the players that were actually playing. The infield is missing Polanco, Sano, Lewis and Jeffers. That’s without even mentioning the many pitching injuries that have gutted the starting and relief corps. The team is broken. They are cooked. They are severely injured. I feel it’s disingenuous to claim otherwise.
  18. PopRiveter
    Maeda can hardly be categorized the same as Paddack and Dyson. He was a season and a half post-trade before he lost time to injury. I see him as an example of the times it pays off- pitchers who become available for a reasonable price because of lingering injury concern, but who then contribute beyond their price tag. I'd put Maeda's name alongside Pineda on that list. I'm holding out hope Archer will prove he belongs in that grouping as well, but that would require he reverses some current trends. There certainly aren't many examples of that being a successful strategy.
  19. PopRiveter
    Excellent article. I didn’t want him, but Bundy has been a pleasant surprise. However, IMO Pagan is the absolute worst kind of pitcher you can have around. Someone whose “stuff” looks so good that he keeps getting innings despite the fact that he fails at a pitcher’s actual job-getting outs. Sad truth is, he was less effective at getting outs than Duffey or Smith, but those guys were cut for ineffectiveness. The even-worse pitcher stays around to keep sinking the team because he looks better failing. “Stuff” can be deceiving.
  20. PopRiveter
    This might be the best argument for him to not opt out. The only reason to not exercise the opt-out is if CC believes playing in MN at $35 mil (with a short-term contract) is better than whatever else he will be offered. If he truly loves playing here and his goal is to stay, he has to weigh his current contract against what he thinks the Twins will offer him this winter as a free agent. In that case, he might realistically expect the Twins would offer him something like 4 yr/$100m. If I were him in that scenario, I'd probably stick with the 2yr/$70 I already have. But only if I was convinced that I exclusively wish to stay a Twin. If he's fine with leaving MN, he instead has to weight his current contract against what the field will offer and someone will be willing to go higher in salary and years. This is still the most likely reality for any player who chooses Boras as an agent. I expect his is where he's truly headed until he proves otherwise.
  21. PopRiveter
    I’m going to the game tonight for the first time since the Pre-Covid days of yore. I’ll have a talk with the boys and try to get ‘em on track. It’s gotten a bit ugly out there.
  22. PopRiveter
    Geez. I hate this situation, but Ted’s writeup is about perfect. He really fairly represented every facet of this issue. I feel like I’ll always hear the Tiffany song “Could’ve Been” in the back of my mind whenever I think of Sano.
  23. PopRiveter
    Crazy to think that this was a valid TD feature article on May 29: … and I’m 0% picking on Ted. It was a valid concern and a fine article. Today, Gordon has instead anchored his place on the team and proves his value on repeat. The 2022 Twins are getting a lot of contribution from this particular “bubble guy.” As I write this, Aaron Hicks is batting for the Yankees. .226/.347/.319 @ $6m I’ll take Nick 100 times out of 100. That’ll make me sleep a little better.
  24. PopRiveter
    This is probably what I needed to read this morning. I have been feeling like they should just stand pat and let the cards fall where they may. Send the team the message that “You are the cavalry. Step up.” But truly, bullpens can often be patched without paying a huge penalty and this team could be so much stronger with a couple bullpen reinforcements. If they fall apart, at least don’t give up much.
  25. PopRiveter
    Ugh. I feel terrible for him right now.
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