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  1. KirbyDome89
    No, it wasn't, they sat in nearly the same position just a few years prior. Big spending? Lol, when did having an average payroll become "big spending?" We're moving the goalposts now... If we're talking about which relief arm with a salary under $1M this team could've acquired at the deadline to patch a unit that was falling apart you're making my argument for me. Yes, Falvey made choices, and yes, he gets to share in some of the criticism, but the fact that the ownership imposed restrictions under which he is forced to make these decisions is being hand waived seems disingenuous at best.
  2. KirbyDome89
    Ownership slashed payroll to Metrodome era spending relative to the rest of the league this offseason. If you want to pretend that kneecapping this team during the offseason and the last two deadlines hasn't negatively impacted the club don't let me stop you, but that's a horrible take, and it's infinitely more tiresome than the "nonstop whining," about the budget...
  3. KirbyDome89
    Varland's issues as a starter don't play particularly well as a reliever either. He's probably better than Okert or Richards, but that's an incredibly low bar to clear. Neither of those guys belong on playoff rosters, or probably MLB rosters at this point. I don't think Varland as depth is really much of an upgrade over Boushley ect. I also don't think he'll necessarily stop the bleeding in the pen or be the plug/savior others seem to think he'll be either.
  4. KirbyDome89
    The Twins were obviously comfortable feeding him playing time if he was Buxton insurance. What left handed bat were they going to platoon with him in CF?
  5. KirbyDome89
    Not moving the goalposts for what constitutes pitching wonderfully? Today was a typical Varland start; hard contact, traffic on the bases, and home runs. He was lucky nobody was on base for either of the bombs he surrendered.
  6. KirbyDome89
    And he hasn't caught any breaks? I thought you wanted to argue the results? Nobody is blaming him for today's loss.
  7. KirbyDome89
    Did you watch the game?
  8. KirbyDome89
    10.2 IP, 16 hits, 3 HR, 1 BB, 7 Ks, 6 ER in his last two games. That's at best neutral as far as contributing to a W. If you want to argue that simply avoiding implosion provided the chance to win today, ok, but that's a pretty low bar.
  9. KirbyDome89
    Absolutely terrible AB from Garcia there. Swinging 2-0 with Witt on deck, then K'ing on ball 4 that was nowhere near the zone. **** happens, but I don't know how a Major league hitter can be that clueless. Also, Richards can be gone at any point.
  10. KirbyDome89
    Honest question, does Richards have more WPs than Ks on his vaunted changeup thus far in his Twins career?
  11. KirbyDome89
    It was a quality start in name only. Sequencing luck isn't reliable, i.e. if you're going to bleed baserunners and yield hard contact, including serving up way too many bombs, you're asking for trouble. Yes, the Twins are in this game, but they'll be out more often than in if Varland continues to pitch as he has.
  12. KirbyDome89
    Huh? They've had much more success with the bullpen compared to the rotation.
  13. KirbyDome89
    There is no "pipeline." A segment of this fan base won't let that moniker go, and every year this argument gets rehashed with new names, new profiles, new timelines, yada yada. Hopefully SWR's first handful of starts weren't a total mirage and the more recent regression means he'll settle in a back end role with some mid rotation upside.
  14. KirbyDome89
    Just going through the arb process he's going to make a decent chunk of that $80M. Vlad Jr. is making $20M in his penultimate arb season following a good but unspectacular 2023. Of course Lewis needs to be available more often, but why would he not bet on himself being able to do that, especially if buying out his arb years + FA doesn't provide anything other than catastrophic injury insurance?
  15. KirbyDome89
    Why would Lewis agree to delay hitting FA to play for a below market rate? He's essentially ****ed either way in regard to salary until 2029. The Twins can spin the arb buyout as throwing him a bone, but the buyout would have to be sizable to entice Lewis to give up a prime season and push back FA. I'd imagine Lewis is looking at the contracts Witt Jr. or Wander Franco signed and starting there. Similar to all the hypothetical trades tossed around on this site, if you're comfortable doing it, it likely isn't enough. If I'm the Twins, I'm in no hurry to throw $$ at a guy that hasn't been available for massive chunks of the last 3 years. A long term extension doesn't really make sense for either side right now.
  16. KirbyDome89
    Is Festa a solid/reliable MLB starter now? Varland certainly isn't. The hope is that SWR can lock in a spot in the back half of the rotation. Ober is entrenched. Is that really a "pipeline?" SWR is the closest anybody has come to sticking in the last 3 years. Ober is the only other starting arm this FO has graduated since 2017. Again, is that really a "pipeline?"
  17. KirbyDome89
    Take a breath.
  18. KirbyDome89
    Quality vs. quantity is real.
  19. KirbyDome89
    I know the broadcast box isn't 100% accurate, but the only actual "miss," according to that box went Richards' way. Also, we're up to 2 wild pitches and 5 walks already. Idk how you expect to get any sort of borderline call when you're all over the place.
  20. KirbyDome89
    Of course it can. I could buy into Detroit or Chicago asking for 80 cents on the dollar from the Twins rather than the 75 they pitched to other clubs, i.e. a throw in or something along those lines. I absolutely don't believe either of those clubs were wasting their own time on deadline day sending ridiculous offers to the Twins. The rivals narrative provides pretty convenient cover, and using a nebulous term like "premium," while floating a top prospect inquiry and doing nothing to better your own team reeks of damage control to me. Agreed, ultimately the self imposed limitations are what has continued to hamper this club.
  21. KirbyDome89
    It (MN being bullied by rival teams) isn't an impossibility, I just see it as highly unlikely given what we know about the Twins and how they handled the offseason and the last 2 deadlines. I'm unsure how/why it would be fallacious to avoid giving the benefit of the doubt to a team that has shown zero desire to spend for a calendar year now. Did Chicago and Detroit collude to ensure the Twins got nothing at this deadline? At some point, if you can't get anything done with 29 other teams + FAs, you're the problem. Occam's razor right? Is it more likely that two rivals were simultaneously acting in a wildly incompetent manor, possibly colluding, and only chose to act this way with the Twins, or was the hometown team window shopping? I said it in another post, we just watched this organization trot Falvey out to ensure the masses that financial constraints had nothing to do with the deadline inactivity. Why anybody should take this organization "leaking," post deadline damage control seriously is beyond me.
  22. KirbyDome89
    I don't understand how lowering the bar helps.
  23. KirbyDome89
    Sure, GMs (PBOs) aren't above making poor decisions. Insisting on some bull**** offer is beyond stupid or old-timey. You aren't just throwing away a potentially top offer, and alienating one of a very limited number of trade partners, you're destroying your own professional reputation, and possibly reshaping how other clubs will conduct business with you. I believe it's legitimate in the sense that at some point those teams asked about high end prospects, and eventually the Twins weren't willing to spend what it would've actually cost to acquire either SP. That isn't remotely the same as Detroit or Chicago insisting on Jenkins in a swap. Also, was the rest of baseball charging the Twins a "premium," too? I think it's far more likely the Twins are leaking damage control than both divisional trade partners were behaving in wildly incompetent ways, especially since this same Twins team did essentially nothing with the other 27 teams across MLB.
  24. KirbyDome89
    They literally just marched Falvey out to explain that financial constraints had nothing to do with the inactivity at the deadline. That seems equally insulting. Everybody gets to choose their level of investment in this team. I have no issue with fans being pissed about what's going on with this club after a very public reminder.
  25. KirbyDome89
    Do you honestly believe Detroit was insistent on Jenkins or Lee headlining a deal for 2 months of Flaherty? I don't. I believe the Tigers asked about the price (any team looking to acquire prospects would) but I don't buy for one second that they were sabotaging negotiations and turning away a potentially viable (or best) offer. It's not exactly difficult for the Twins to feed the Jenkins/Lee inquiry to a media mouthpiece and suddenly that becomes the story. I don't view that reporting any differently than the "we were in on Player X until....." reports that flow out of 1 Twins Way during the offseason or other deadlines.
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