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  1. KirbyDome89
    They just can't help themselves, it's hilarious.
  2. KirbyDome89
    Sad day for Twins fans. Hahn has done a lot for this organization over the years...
  3. KirbyDome89
    .166/.290/.379 with a 45% K rate since May. Nothing about him has been even close to league average for almost 4 months now. He has provided zero defensive value this year also.
  4. KirbyDome89
    Buxton didn't crack 60 starts in CF in either '21 or '22. Taylor wasn't signed to simply be a 4th OFer, and we all knew that. Uh huh, and I never inferred that either. I asked why an article that claims to make no declarations is also uses Trout as a comp and labels some pretty paltry offensive numbers as productive. He hasn't been an "upside surprise," Taylor is emblematic of the offensive issues that have plagued this team all year, hence the nitpicking.
  5. KirbyDome89
    You lumped him in with Mike Trout. That's a neutral take not intended to shine a favorable light on Taylor? Why call a starting CFer with a .220/.270/.423 slash alongside a 34% K rate and 5.6% BB rate productive by any measure? C'mon....
  6. KirbyDome89
    Jim Souhan stirring a pot of hollow talking points.......no way. "The largest division lead (4.5 games over Cleveland who sits 4 games under .500) in the AL...." "The '87 Twins (who started their postseason run in the ALCS)...." "Taylor has saved the Twins in CF....." "Jordan Luplow...." "Remarkably talented Brock Stewart..." "Ignore the previous 3 years of Kepler, look at these last 6 weeks..." "Emilio Pagan is being relied upon in the top half of the pen after inactivity at the deadline...." "Look at some of these position player prospects who are years away from seeing any MLB action..." "I can't believe you ***holes aren't more enamored with a .500ish team that, midway through August, has played one of the easiest schedules in baseball yet failed to provide itself any sort of runway in one of the worst divisions of all time...." This is just tone def garbage that's trying to zig while everyone else is zagging. Calling it "full of truth," is embarrassing....
  7. KirbyDome89
    It's a clean inning so that's a mark in Pagan's favor, but it's also the highest leverage moment(s) of the game, so I don't want him anywhere near the mound if that's the case. I'd be able to "forgive," Rocco if Jax imploded in the above hypothetical. I might punch a hole in a wall if I had to watch Pagan blow a late inning postseason lead.
  8. KirbyDome89
    You're right, it is tiresome that certain fans feel a burning desire to defend a guy who has slashed .171/.292/.397 with a 45% K rate since May. The OPS, which has been spiraling downward since the first few weeks of the season, is entirely HR driven, and those HRs occur way too infrequently, i.e. it's an incredibly poor metric to use if you're going to argue relative value. Gallo was supposed to bounce back, that was the expectation, but he's been the same unplayable guy he was last year. This has already been explained to you, but I guess I'll repeat it, the Twins can (will) walk away from Gallo after this year, and they have/had corner OF prospects, guys who have an actual shot of carving out a future in MN, playing well at AAA. This isn't hard. Gallo is a failed signing, with zero future here, and the team has internal options that can offer the same paltry floor with some actual upside. Correa and Buxton (who have also received plenty of criticism) are under contract for the next 5+ years. Is it possible for the Twins to cut bait and move on like they can with Gallo? No? Mystery solved I guess....
  9. KirbyDome89
    Gallo has been starting games since opening day, we're 75% of the way through the season, and he's amassed 0.6 WAR? Are you actually trying to claim that's some kind of positive? The guy is the definition of replaceable. His overall numbers are atrocious and he has provided no defensive value this season. What we need to stop doing is defending poor play.
  10. KirbyDome89
    I don't disagree that this FO, for whatever reason, seems to think they're mining value with Gallo, but reality says otherwise. I wasn't kidding when posted in another thread that anybody with a pulse would be an upgrade. I'd run with Julien, piss poor glove/hands and all. I'm fine with Wallner. Give one of the utility IF'ers a 1B mitt too. For sure IL Solano unless they think he's back this weekend too.
  11. KirbyDome89
    It isn't Gallo or bust at 1B. They could choose to put a better lineup on the field, but for some reason they're content not to.
  12. KirbyDome89
    Ok, but more or less the same = atrocious at this point. If Julien and Wallner's handedness, and not their performance, disqualifies them, it makes zero sense to trot out lefty Joey Gallo.
  13. KirbyDome89
    Julien and Wallner sitting. The Twins know Gallo bats from the left side right? Right?
  14. KirbyDome89
    They miss Wheeler and Lorenzen.
  15. KirbyDome89
    .157/.281/.361 with a 46% K rate since May, and that's mostly in "favorable," matchups. There's no law that says you must have a LH hitting 1B. How is swapping in anybody else with a pulse at 1B not considered an upgrade? You don't think Farmer (using your example) could at least post a similarly putrid slash line against RH pitchers and kinda hit LH pitching plus be decent defender? That at least raises your floor, so if you do call up that inexperience AAA bat, and they flop, you're no worse off. There's no rational defense for Gallo's continued presence in the lineup. All we can say is that the FO refuses to move on from him....
  16. KirbyDome89
    Gallo has set the bar so low that it's almost impossible for Williams to be any worse at 1B. Also, there's some potential upside with Williams, i.e. he might be an actual major league caliber player. Ditto for Stevenson and Larnach, although the clock is running out on him. We know what Dobnak is, a AAAA, or maybe even just a AAA pitcher at this point. I don't want to see a guy like that anywhere near the starting rotation, or even the bullpen when there are younger options.
  17. KirbyDome89
    Beat me.
  18. KirbyDome89
    Wallner *needs* to be lifted the moment a lefty takes the mound but Joey Gallo stays in the game to flail away....
  19. KirbyDome89
    11 left after today A 2 game Detroit series, a couple 3 game sets with Cleveland, and one 3 game series remaining with Chicago.
  20. KirbyDome89
    Starting pitching and some of the young position players are the reason this team hasn't cratered. Castro has been a solid utility guy. That isn't saving a season. Taylor is hitting .216 with an atrocious .265 OBP, a 34% K rate, and a career low 5.3% BB rate. He has an 86 OPS+ (not 90) and he has posted 1.2 WAR 116 games into the season as the everyday CF'er. C'mon...
  21. KirbyDome89
    Yeah I don't get it. At this point these are "their guys," so the obsession with washed vets while younger guys nearing 40 man status bottleneck makes zero sense.
  22. KirbyDome89
    .155/.279/.348 with a 46% K rate since May.... It's comical to think there aren't internal options capable of raising, or at minimum replicating that floor.
  23. KirbyDome89
    I get that Detroit sucks, but continuing to hit Cabrera in the 4 hole or Badddoo leading off? What are we doing here?
  24. KirbyDome89
    He was one of their few decent bats prior to the latest IL stint. Idk if I'd call him washed just yet...
  25. KirbyDome89
    HRs will have that affect. Ask Joey Gallo.
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