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  1. KirbyDome89
    Sure, small samples, more noise, yada yada. Over an entire season though, this Sox team is easily going to lose 100 games and they may legitimately challenge that 2003 Detroit club for the title of worst team of the modern era. They're that bad. When you dig a hole like the Twins did, you need those weak sisters to fall over, hence my aversion to putting any sort of stock into beating up on a borderline AAAA team. Playing in the ALC is a gift. MN has made a living beating up on the weak sisters for the last 2 decades. The 2024 Sox are an added bonus. They're a life preserver for a club that can't tread water.
  2. KirbyDome89
    Thank you for your service...
  3. KirbyDome89
    Weren't** Yeah, there's zero chance this FO begrudgingly ate $4M for somebody they had no interest in. IMO the Polanco deal wasn't about shedding salary, it was about turning him into spare parts. It looked bad at the time, it looks even worse now. The narrative that DeSclafani was a throw in, or the Twins had to take on his salary just to move Polanco, ect is just cope.
  4. KirbyDome89
    I'm not even locked in on the Twins minor league affiliates, zero chance I can rattle off other prospects, or care enough to start digging. I sincerely doubt that the Twins current situation is the norm amongst contenders, but I reserve the right to be wrong...
  5. KirbyDome89
    So Polanco had value and the Twins were forced to eat DeSclafani's salary in the deal.
  6. KirbyDome89
    Whether Falvey asked or was offered it doesn't really matter, he accepted. We'll just disagree that 28 other teams had such little interest in a 2B with a solidly above average bat on a 1/$10M deal to the point where the Twins where eating nearly half his salary to give him away.
  7. KirbyDome89
    Huh? I guess define your expectations here... If Oakland or the White Sox are the measuring stick then sure, the Twins pitching situation isn't so bad. If you're trying to make it through the regular season and win some postseason games, praying your 1-4 stay 100% healthy, Paddack's struggles are just rust, and Varland or SWR can hold down the 5 spot because the alternative is a Keuchel clone seems like a lot to ask. Are other would be contenders doing that with a fully healthy rotation?
  8. KirbyDome89
    The situation is a failure. The lack of options, i.e. being one SP injury away from deciding between rushing Festa or going with a retread and/or washed vet FA certainly contributes.
  9. KirbyDome89
    I don't disagree that KC and Detroit probably aren't going to stay above .500 and Cleveland likely isn't as good as their record suggests either, but 6 of the Twins' 8 wins have come against KC, Detroit, and Chicago. Not exactly a ringing endorsement.
  10. KirbyDome89
    The notion that DeSclafani was foisted onto the Twins is nonsense. It's no secret Falvey asked about other Seattle starters and obviously wasn't willing to meet whatever asking price the Mariners set. The Twins needed a SP, they settled for DeSclafani. If moving Polanco was only about shedding $$ they undoubtedly could've found a swap that brought back greater financial relief.
  11. KirbyDome89
    FWIW this Tigers team is equally as inept offensively as the Twins. Detroit had to essentially give away the 2nd game of this series for the Twins to avoid a sweep. Ugly.
  12. KirbyDome89
    This team loves to score runs when they don't matter....
  13. KirbyDome89
    We wish...
  14. KirbyDome89
    Jackson has now given up 6 runs in his last 6 appearances. No clean innings in that stretch either.
  15. KirbyDome89
    Detroit is a bottom third offense. They're 26th in team OPS, two spots ahead of our beloved Twins. They suck as much as we do right now. If Varland can't bounce back here and go at least 5+ innings of good ball Idk what to say...
  16. KirbyDome89
    Actually though. So many seem convinced he'll be a stud in the bullpen because he can throw hard. Control issues and HR problems don't play in the bullpen either.
  17. KirbyDome89
    Literally throw a ball in the opposite batters box and Baez will swing at it. How anybody gives up a hit to that guy is beyond me...
  18. KirbyDome89
    "Total System Failure." I just feel like that's an awfully low bar to clear if we're talking about staying employed. I think the development is questionable, particularly when it comes to arms. They've had some pretty bad whiffs at the top of the draft. They've certainly had their share of players on the active roster who hit FA (or worse get DFA'd) and draw little to no interest. Value is relative, but there are certainly players on the current 26 man who wouldn't yield a return worth talking about. None of the above are blips over an 8 year period either. Sure, the expectation isn't 90 wins year over year. That's unrealistic. I'm asking whether this team is actually correcting (are they capable of doing so) or if they're content to stay their own path that's leading them off the road. You could've convinced me that 2021 was a crazy hop, but 2022 happened, then they played middling baseball through most of 2023 until a division where every other team threw in the towel and the softest schedule in baseball saved their a****, now it's deja vu to start this season.
  19. KirbyDome89
    Does it need to reach TSF levels though? If you feel yourself drifting off the road, why not correct in the moment rather than wait for impact? Some of the reason's you wanted TR out certainly apply to the current FO.
  20. KirbyDome89
    Channeling that 2022 DSP energy.
  21. KirbyDome89
    Stewart hasn't show he can handle a relief workload. Let sleeping dogs lie. Duran? Eh, Idk. I wouldn't revolt, but they should be able to find a starter capable of giving them what Duran could if he were to be converted. Why potentially eliminate one debt just to incur another?
  22. KirbyDome89
    They get the White Sox 2x before the end of the month. Anaheim and Detroit aren't juggernauts either. I don't think beating up on a team that looks primed to challenge the 2003 Tigers for worst modern team of all time, or taking 2-3 games from Detroit at home really means much of anything, but that's life in the ALC. Those Ws aren't guaranteed, and we watched this team piss away winnable games during the first 3-4 months of the season last year, but it'd be surprising, even at their current level ineptitude, if they couldn't make up some ground with that schedule to finish April.
  23. KirbyDome89
    Is it just me, or do Julien's wiffs look more violent this year? It seems like when he's missing he's swinging out of his cleats.
  24. KirbyDome89
    Or the Twins are playing their 5th game in 4 days.
  25. KirbyDome89
    A lack of a consistently good secondary pitch. A significant performance gap between starts made in division vs. out of division over his career. Yeah, I've always viewed Ryan as somebody I want starting game 4 or sliding to the pen for a postseason series. Idk, is there a big gap between a 3 or 4?
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