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  1. KirbyDome89
    Yeah, I could do without the headline, but the content is relevant and it has nothing to do with pushing some sort of negative agenda.
  2. KirbyDome89
    The best player (by a long shot) on the team is reportedly considering waiving his no trade clause and that's not news worthy?
  3. KirbyDome89
    "If even Buxton is starting to look elsewhere for hope, then maybe the organization needs to take a hard look at what it has become and who it is pushing away in the process." We're way beyond the point that this org should begin to self reflect. Things don't get this bad via pure incompetence; the apathy from the top down is palpable.
  4. KirbyDome89
    I'm not saying the Twins did him dirty, but if another team (and again, I'll state that I think the odds of this happening are remote) finds a way to turn him into even a semi solid regular, I think that's another black eye for a Twins organization that has obviously struggled to develop players. Rooker is an example in name only and not a particularly strong case for development issues. I'd drop him too. Like I said, I agree that he needs to be elsewhere if he wants to find MLB success.
  5. KirbyDome89
    Yes, and you were fine with that metric as long as it pertained to Seattle. Like I said, as soon as Cleveland, Milwaukee, and TB entered the convo the bar dropped.
  6. KirbyDome89
    Trying to hoard service time is how you end up with players in their mid to late 20s becoming 40 man casualties without actually getting a shot. Are RP prospects a real thing? That's only half rhetorical. Prielipp probably didn't need to be pitching in AAA during the 2nd half. They had Lopez, Ryan, Ober, SWR, Matthews, Abel, and Bradley for all of September.
  7. KirbyDome89
    Concur on the bolded. I very much doubt he becomes anything of value elsewhere, the bat is just too streaky to compensate for the lack of defensive skill, but if he beats the odds and figures it out a la Rooker, I'd say fans should probably freak out a little.
  8. KirbyDome89
    Nothing convenient about it, I quoted and replied to exactly what you said... You chose to use playoff series wins as your metric for postseason success, and you said Seattle was a terrible example of both spending and winning. Playoff success is too nuanced? Now we're sliding further to regular season records...smh pass. Zero tears about an inability to spend for these clubs with revenues exceeding $300M and payrolls barely (if even) cracking $100M. Nobody is disputing the importance of drafting or developing. This entire line of conversation started with a post that claimed payroll doesn't matter. It very much does; spending also correlates with winning.
  9. KirbyDome89
    It is warranted, that's the entire point. You need a foundation from which to work, but if you're not willing to spend the necessary $$ on materials the quality of the home is going to suffer. Jenkins becoming a solidly above average big league player would be a huge step towards relevancy, but if you're going to surround him with stopgap vets on bounce back deals, or a starting rotation full of back end guys, or whatever, that's a failure.
  10. KirbyDome89
    You were just dogging on Seattle for their lack of postseason series wins, now that Cleveland, TB, and Milwaukee enter the chat we're sliding the goalposts to simply making the playoffs? Naw.... Since 2000: Cleveland: 5 series won Milwaukee: 3 series won Tampa Bay: 4 series won, 2 of which were single game WCs. I'm not counting anything from 2020 (sorry Dodgers fans) but we don't use individual stats from that abbreviated season (for good reason) and the same applies to a watered down postseason. For all the flowers Milwaukee is getting, they have exactly one more series win than the Twins (a team synonymous with postseason ineptitude) this century. Spending next to nothing in FA is going to net you next to nothing in FA. It's not a "value," play; by definition you're paying for past performance. Ty France was "good value," if we want to use the meaningless WAR to $$ metric. The idea that you can simply spend your way to competitiveness is asinine. You need to draft and develop well. Denying that payroll doesn't also factor in heavily is just as dumb.
  11. KirbyDome89
    This franchise had a generational talent at C, a future MVP at 1B, and a perennial CYA candidate heading the rotation in the mid 2000s. They were starting Phil Nevin, Jason Tyner, Nick Punto, and Rondell White in postseason games. Payroll didn't budge. It stayed stagnant again after they finally clawed out of all the losing in 2019. When have the Pohlads ever doubled down?
  12. KirbyDome89
    What teams aren't spending money and consistently winning playoff series?
  13. KirbyDome89
    Sounds eerily familiar. Lewis, drafted in 2017, is going to begin the 2026 season with barely over 4 career bWAR. We're talking about Larnach as a non-tender/trade candidate. Cavaco, Sabato, and Petty are gone or washed. Brooks Lee is one more middling (at best) offensive season away from a bench role being his ceiling. We hope Wallner can stick at DH? Even Keaschall, one of the lone bright spots last season, was quietly unimpressive with a 6 something OPS and poor 2B defense for nearly half of his short season. They can hang their hat on Jeffers and that's pretty much it right now for position players. The pitching side, despite the vaunted "pipeline," isn't much better. Brutal.
  14. KirbyDome89
    Concur, the biggest issue with the Shelton hiring is that it keeps the status quo. Another Falvey disciple does nothing to shake up the flawed organizational philosophy the current regime is insistent on shoving down the throats of fans.
  15. KirbyDome89
    I think whomever Shelton would choose would be lock step with not only himself, but also with Falvey & Co. so in that sense I unfortunately don't think it really matters.
  16. KirbyDome89
    Cherry picking individual results is pointless. Using somebody like Skenes is another level of ridiculousness. That said, Pittsburgh is a dysfunctional ****hole of an org. I have a hard time assigning success (or blame) for the W/L record, development (or lack thereof) ect.
  17. KirbyDome89
    Sticking with this transitive property nonsense, the Twins should've backed up the truck for Dave Roberts. Walker Jenkins is one manager away from being the next Ohtani....
  18. KirbyDome89
    Not that I expected any sort of true shake up, but holy **** this is literally as close to status quo as you can get when hiring somebody "new." Falvey can't be gone soon enough, I'm so tired of this milquetoast FO. If you're going to be bad, at least be interesting, or at minimum feign adjustment, but I guess that's too much to ask...
  19. KirbyDome89
    Burnes was great in Baltimore last year. He was great again to start this season before the elbow injury. I very much doubt the Brewers' FO foresaw TJ surgery years down the line.
  20. KirbyDome89
    Yeah, I think it's safe to rule out "clutch," factors. This is a level of competition thing. Wallner's career numbers are a microcosm of the Twins offense the last few seasons. Blow up bad pitching and go absolutely dormant against better arms. For all the chirping about their team OPS being top 10 in 2023, there's a reason that team only won 87 games, in a terrible division, with one of the best (and healthiest) SP groups in baseball.
  21. KirbyDome89
    Without a doubt there are plenty of points to criticize this FO and/or management group, but I wouldn't include a lack of support for Lewis on the list of indictments. Buy in isn't unilateral, and Lewis being unhappy isn't necessarily an indicator of mistreatment. Royce's performance over the last 1.5 seasons has, for the most part, been brutal, yet he was a lineup fixture. What has the Twins org done to cause offense? Ask Royce to play 2B short term while making a desperate attempt to salvage the 2024 season? The next day he whined about not wanting to play there, and the team immediately obliged without remark. Pinch hit for him during a late game situation while he was in the midst of an awful stretch of baseball? Again, Lewis complained about having to look over his shoulder while being allowed a leash no other players short of established stars could even come close to matching. Provide him with potential swing/mechanical fixes during the season? Royce cited concern about attempted changes affecting his future earnings, while being a black hole in the lineup. I mean.... I agree that there's a self preservation aspect at play, but I think it's mostly just immaturity protecting a bruised ego at this point.
  22. KirbyDome89
    The MLB return was a flop. That's undeniable. Concur, I would've much rather had one player of equal value to Polanco as opposed to parting him out. Moving Polanco in and of itself isn't the issue. Botching the return + failing to evaluate what you already had on the roster helped cut short whatever hopes this franchise had of competing the last few years.
  23. KirbyDome89
    Did I see Julien completely collapsing? No. Did I view him as the 2B of the future? Also, no. I was cautiously optimistic about a guy who had played half a season up to that point. I never thought he was even an ok defender, and a bat only guy is going to have a tough time sticking. If you're asking whether I was against moving Polanco, the answer is no. I think he was an underrated/underappreciated player during his tenure, and he was a personal favorite, but I could've lived with Julien's subpar defense at 2B if he was going to hit. I don't hold the FO accountable for the budget. I do hold them accountable for how they choose to allocate that budget. Things tightened up, the team needed to eat, and the FO bought magic beans. Sure, I don't disagree that you need to give younger guys opportunities but look at where they spent money that offseason. DeSclafani, another Falvey favorite (fringe back end SP type,) was brought in to bump Varland, which I guess might've worked out because Varland was awful but that's a role you should be able to rotate young arms through. Topa was a non-factor and then this season pitched primarily low leverage innings at the back end of the bullpen, again, a role ideal for getting younger guys innings. They spent $$ on Okert, Jay Jackson, and Josh Staumont, all of whom got some run until the wheels completely fell off. Margot was a ****ing disaster but he stuck around all year. Even the lone success, Santana, was a 38 year old 1B on a rebound deal. Julien was the only youth move, and even that came with an overly expensive platoon handcuff in Farmer. They weren't selling the .5 fWAR version of Polanco.
  24. KirbyDome89
    Ok, but this was a team that was in a contention window, coming off their first postseason Ws in 20+ years. I don't think that's a great time to damage your major league product for potential future gains but YMMV.
  25. KirbyDome89
    They parted out an asset, and it failed at the MLB level. Holding out hope that GG "saves," the swap is a defensible position, at least right now, but as you already pointed out, this was a team coming off their first playoff Ws in 2 decades, and they made themselves worse in the interim.
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