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  1. KirbyDome89
    Nobody has pitchers with proven MLB track records on retainer in AAA. I do agree with the bolded though. People have been crowing about "depth," for a while now, and many of those guys ended up being fringe at best.
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    As a pretty damn healthy rotation/pen too. Depth is way overblown around here.
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    I'll start by saying I don't view the swap as an all time bad move, but I didn't like it, and I still don't. I'll also say Polanco wasn't expensive, the guy made $10M in 2024. This allegedly cash strapped organization just found $14M to throw at Victor Caratini and Josh Bell. Idk why the savings in the Polanco deal are being attributed only to the Santana signing. A few weeks after agreeing with Santana the Twins also made a swap for Margot and paid him nearly the same amount. Teams absolutely do sign guys for past performance. That's what FA is. You are by definition paying for previous performance with the hope it continues/improves. Polanco certainly missed a big chunk of 2023 and a decent amount of 2022 due to injury but he was absolutely effective. His average OPS between '21 and '23 was nearly .800. That's pretty damn productive for a 2B. The Twins (for better or worse) were banking on DeSclafani as their 5th starter. Losing him immediately meant Varland stayed in the rotation. Topa was a complete non-factor in '24 and despite an ok '25 he's cannon fodder so far this year. Probably a push as far as any value goes. Yeah, they're still holding onto Gonzalez I guess so we'll see.
  4. KirbyDome89
    That pipeline though...
  5. KirbyDome89
    Buckle up it's only May 6th
  6. KirbyDome89
    This is embarrassingly bad even for this pen.... Start the waiver wire carousel at this point.
  7. KirbyDome89
    Matt Wallner feasts on scrap heap RHPs
  8. KirbyDome89
    Washington is 4-13 at home. Wild.
  9. KirbyDome89
    Maybe not, but you're not obligated to call up anyone from that trio either.
  10. KirbyDome89
    I wouldn't send him down today, but if the team decided he needs a reset I certainly wouldn't see it as some egregious lack of faith or investment. Lewis hasn't even been a decent hitter since the 1st half of 2024, and even that was only 4ish weeks of good play. We're nearly two years removed from Royce Lewis hitting well, yet when healthy he's been a lineup fixture. That seems like pretty heavy investment/support to me.
  11. KirbyDome89
    I don't think I'd give up on that opinion quite yet.
  12. KirbyDome89
    May 6th is too early to pull the plug, but his current output is unplayable.
  13. KirbyDome89
    .225/.280/.375 from the beginning of last year through today. I don't think it's only the last two weeks that has people concerned.
  14. KirbyDome89
    I didn't say HRs don't matter. I said he clustered some homers and people started prognosticating. You left out the part that after his little mini power surge last year he went right back to being the unplayable version we he was prior and/or to start this season. Yeah, again, we're talking about Brooks Lee in the midst of a heater. It's much easier to pump up numbers in late April or early May as opposed to late July or early August. .208/.269/.347 was his triple slash 10 days ago. His OPS has gone up nearly 100 points. I mean.... I didn't say they were the same hitter. I said how he produces matters. Some people were adamant that Gallo was an average offensive performer because he'd occasionally show up and pop a homer. If you watched him play even semi regularly you know that wasn't the case. He was an albatross far more often than he contributed. He hasn't turned in even an ok offensive season in two tries, and he's closing in on 1,000 PAs. It's pretty close to sink or swim for Lee right now. Idk if that's all that encouraging.
  15. KirbyDome89
    If he's earning the demotions I don't understand the whining about short leashes, or in other threads the mental anguish said leashes create.
  16. KirbyDome89
    Wallner got his cup of coffee in April of 2023 and was a permanent fixture by the end of May. Not what I'd call a short leash. He was terrible to start 2024, and it took him nearly 2 months in AAA to turn it around. That Twins squad was trying to win games. How long should they have let him scuffle along at the MLB level? He was the everyday RF (despite being a negative defender) and the bat didn't do enough to carry him. We know what the first month of the season has looked like. How much longer should the leash be?
  17. KirbyDome89
    Lee did this last year too; he clustered a few homers and people starting gushing about the power and prognosticating. 10 days ago he was basically unplayable, now he's suddenly an example of development? Eh. The same point made in the Wallner article the other day applies to Lee as well; the peaks have always been bookended by valleys. A 106 OPS+ is good for Lee, but if he's a black hole 80% of the time at the plate a few homers doesn't make him a league average hitter, i.e. how he gets there matters. That's the Joey Gallo argument all over again. I'm more optimistic about Martin. Idk if his early season results are the result of facing more LH pitching and/or BABIP fueled, but he at least looked like a usable player to end last season. It's May 1st...
  18. KirbyDome89
    Falvey was here for a decade. The Twins missed the postseason 4 of the last 5 years, even with one of, if not the highest, payrolls in the division. That doesn't happen just because ownership is terrible. I mean, who gave Correa that contract and then traded him? A couple weeks of poor playing isn't that upsetting, but awful roster construction is. The FO had a limited budget, no doubt, and yet they (Falvey) chose to spend a significant portion to retain a player who is essentially a left handed DH, then another chunk on a backup C, and finally another DH who can't hang at 1B all while having a roster that already included a RF that was essentially a DH and an oft injured CF & 3B that will need time at DH. Oh, and the defense at 2B, SS, and even C don't come close to league average. The 2026 payroll is ridiculous, but Josh Bell and Victor Caratini have a combined 0 WAR right now.
  19. KirbyDome89
    I'm not arguing that MN is going to spend with NY or LA. Manuel Margot was a 4th OFer in name only. In reality he received a starter's workload. Same thing for Bader the following season. They're doing it right now with Caratini. In NY or LA, he's actually a backup C making $7M. In MN he's getting starts at 1B and DH on top of catching duties.
  20. KirbyDome89
    I don't necessarily disagree that it's make or break, and those guys aren't young. This is around the time Varland made the transition as far as career IPs go, but the Twins need some sort of backup plan for the rotation. Prielipp throwing 100 innings would be an achievement. He's their 5th starter right now, and again, we don't know what's going on with Mick Abel's elbow. I mean, I guess if you're trading Joe Ryan at the deadline anyways you could just go nuclear, move all the aforementioned guys to the pen full time, and start waiver wire fodder 2-3x per week for the 2nd half of the season. There's a developmental argument to be made there for sure.
  21. KirbyDome89
    Not really, the Twins provide the promise of more playing time and likely a longer leash.
  22. KirbyDome89
    Yep, I'm not exactly locked into the day to day happenings in the minors, but just a quick glance tells me there isn't much of anything as far as MLB ready RPs. That offseason argument about bullpens being easy to construct and/or being built on the fly is falling pretty flat right now, and I'll say it again, depth ≠ names to throw against a wall.
  23. KirbyDome89
    Sure, they could very well end up in the pen if/when they flame out as starters. In the meantime the Twins can't really afford to cut bait with SPs in the minors, and Idk if there's a single RP at either AA or AAA that's MLB ready. The notion of depth is massively overblown amongst this fanbase.
  24. KirbyDome89
    Who in AA/AAA is realistically making this bullpen better right now? I keep seeing posts calling for the "reinforcements," and before we start converting any starter with a pulse and assuming the role switch will "unlock," success we don't know what's going on with Abel and it's still April....
  25. KirbyDome89
    It's wild, I went back through an old thread from September of 2024 and it was pretty close to split on Royce's stance. Granted, this was before the "cheap guys," comment following the collapse, or his angst over his playing time/stats & team emphasized adjustments last year affecting his future earnings. Idk, these guys all have to look out for themselves to a certain extent, but I'm not sure how anybody viewed his refusal to play 2B as anything other than a bad look.
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