nicksaviking
-
Posts
25,138 -
Joined
-
Last visited
-
Days Won
126
Content Type
Profiles
News
Minnesota Twins Videos
2026 Minnesota Twins Top Prospects Ranking
2022 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks
Minnesota Twins Free Agent & Trade Rumors, Notes, & Tidbits
Guides & Resources
2023 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks
The Minnesota Twins Players Project
2024 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks
2025 Minnesota Twins Draft Pick Tracker
2026 Minnesota Twins Draft Pick Tracker
Forums
Blogs
Events
Store
Downloads
Gallery
Everything posted by nicksaviking
-
Not Joe, they gave him the team to run because he didn't like banking. He likes running media companies into the ground instead.- 55 replies
-
- 6
-
-
-
- carlos correa
- pablo lopez
- (and 1 more)
-
Right, they go from 'We're trying to make a run, go ahead and sign Correa, Buxton and Lopez' to 'My unqualified nephew wants to run things now and he's going to cut payroll, what we told you to do last year isn't going to impact the club will it?'
- 55 replies
-
- 3
-
-
-
- carlos correa
- pablo lopez
- (and 1 more)
-
Those 1990's teams weren't good, but the Royals and Tigers don't look very good either. We see not-good teams pop and overachieve all the time. But in either case, yeah, regardless whether one views him as a failure or it's just a natural time to move on, it works out to the same. Time for a change.
-
That is frightening. Both radio deals and the comments from Jim Pohlad that his door is always open to lend Joe a hand, but Joe has not once come to his uncle for advice. Well, if Joe runs into the ground all of the families businesses that they recklessly hand over to him, maybe they will be forced to sell the team in short order after all. Not that that means we'd get a GOOD owner, odds are that a new owner would also be terrible.
-
And I don't have any particular animosity towards Baldelli, but we've seen what happens when things get stale. It took Tom Kelly NINE years to pull the team out a tailspin in 2021 and he was given the grace to retire. As much as everyone loved TK, that was wildly irresponsible. Gardenhire got four years before making a change. I don't want four years. I don't want two years. If you can identify when things are dragging on the bottom, pull the plug and try again even if it's just to shake things up.
-
You as a fan are not allowed to approximate to fit your narrative. Joe Pohald on the other hand is free to do so with every word he speaks. https://www.minnesotasportsfan.com/minnesota-twins/minnesota-twins-news/aaron-gleeman-grills-joe-pohlad-interview-2024/ https://www.skornorth.com/episode/minnesota-twins-are-tone-deaf-addressing-their-2024-season-collapse/
- 55 replies
-
- 3
-
-
- carlos correa
- pablo lopez
- (and 1 more)
-
It's just too tough to gauge in this sport. It's not like football where you can say, wow, that guy really knows how to run an offense or defense or college team, he'd make a good NFL head coach. Unless you think the team can call out of retirement and dust the cobwebs off of some former WS champ like Francona, Maddon or Baker, you're probably just going back to taking another stab at someone untested and/or unknown. Which, I'm completely willing to do, but it's not like any of us would have more than a hunch, best we can ask for is to give it a shot with Hypothetical Manager X.
-
For sure, if he's the one dragging his feet about those changes. keeping them is on him. We'll see about Levine, I suspect he's gone, whether he's a scapegoat or deserved (probably both). Paying a second manager is likely a Joe Pohald thing, because in these situations the manager is almost always the scapegoat. Not that we'll ever know.
-
Things are looking pretty dang good, but the one thing that is bothering me is that this team doesn't seem capable of running a full allotment of short yardage plays specifically running up the middle. There's probably some stats that I don't know how to find, but based on the game logs, it appears in the first two games of the season I count three times the Vikings were either 3rd or 4th and less than two yards where they ran it up the middle and succeeded. However, in the last two games, they've found themselves in 3rd or 4th and short nine times and they've dropped back to pass six of those times and tried to run off tackle or stretch it out three times. Questions about the run blocking skills of the interior O-Line is nothing new. Is it completely out of the question to stick someone like Quesenberry or whomever is a better run blocking reserve lineman in at center in these situations? I know you'd have to practice the snap, but if running behind Bradbury for a must-get yard isn't possible, you know that that is exactly what's going to happen when the season is on the line in the playoffs.
-
Chip Scoggins article about ownership
nicksaviking replied to jaimedude's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
I'm not above public shaming. Maybe I should be, but for billionaires? No, I'm good with it. Especially if it casts a negative aura on their numerous other investments that they care more about. -
Three hits for the Mets in game two. Did they pop and then drink the champagne between games?
-
Max Kepler was brutal against lefties through 2017. The last couple years he was the only lefty who got to face same handed pitching because he got to work it out in those early years. Even if everyone is ready to give up on Julien, Kiersey and Kirilloff, not giving Wallner and Larnach the chance to learn that skill, particularly in a lost season, could come back to haunt them.
-
I'm definitely not covering for him and I'm not claiming he's improved anything. I'm not even saying they should keep him. Just that he seems interested in changing what didn't work in prior seasons. Like in 2023 when the team swung for the fences but led the league in strikeouts. This year they did neither. Not really an upgrade, but a clear attempt to change things. Which is better than doing the same thing that fails over and over again. From what I can tell, Levine still loves the zero ceiling player acquisitions and Baldelli has managed the team the same way he has since he got here.
-
And the non-hip drop tackle that should have resulted in 15 yards instead of setting up the next play for Darnold to get crushed and fumble.
-
It's insane, it's so far inland, but I guess flood waters can move a long way. It's been at the top of my places to visit for a long time. Wishing them all well.
-
If Falvey is the one saying lefties always have to be pinch hit for in every situation, than he's wrong and should go. I wouldn't guess that's the case, as that's merely surface level research and I don't know why you'd even have a president of baseball operations to say what is basically an old adage. To me it seems more like that the manager only has surface level insight into the situation and goes with it by rote because he either doesn't have immediate access to or understanding of a deeper analysis. In any case, I'm not advocating for keeping Derek Falvey, merely advocating for his removal the least of the guilty parties. And as I've said before, that's mostly because in these situations, leadership often does a 180 and I absolutely don't want to go back to the Terry Ryan kind of system.
-
Sorry, but teams need to be analytically capable these days. If you can use numbers to your advantage you need to do it or you will put yourself at a huge disadvantage. But here is a point that absolutely NOBODY is talking about. Rocco Baldelli is not a slave to analytics, he is a slave to his 'gut' despite what the common refrain is. I dare someone to provide a stat that says Manny Margot should ever pinch hit after he's gone it 0-fer-whatever. Baldelli refuses to use young left handed hitters against left handed pitchers even if the alternative is a poor option and it's certain it will only be one at bat. Baldelli pinch runs for minimally slower but better hitters at all points in the game. He uses Jhoan Duran in non-save situations when Duran has a 5.63 ERA in non-save situations. These moves are his prerogative, not analytics because an analytical evaluation would tell him NOT to make these moves, or at minimum, don't ALWAYS make these moves. He is extremely predictable which all but proves he is managing with his 'gut' and not numbers because when factoring in all of the variables like pitcher, opponent, ballpark, inning, number of outs plus all all of the actual counting stats, there is no way that the same decision should be made Every Single Time when the factors are never the same. An analytically inclined manager would surprise you with his decisions due to obfuscated data, yet we are never surprised.
-
What exactly about Falvey don't you like? He's the engineer, the one saying things like, 'We need to strike out less and get on base more.' Or 'We need to improve our pitchers strikeout rates.' And 'Math is free, let's use it instead of just guessing.' Seems pretty much every year this team at minimum attempts to change the things that didn't work the year prior. St. Peter, Levine and Baldelli seem to want to do the same thing year after year after year and I'd hold them way more accountable than Falvey. I don't find him faultless, but those faults tend to stem from him not firing those below him. And if ownership won't pay for two managers next year, which is believed but will never be confirmed, there's not much he can do about that. I'm OK replacing him, but he has done way more modernizing this organization after the Terry Ryan era and I have zero desire to go back to being the team that only follows trends five years after every other team does.
-
Love made a couple of nice throws, but more than a couple of the deep passes seemed be blown coverage, at least twice by Murphy. Seemed more like brain farts than a hole in the system, but I'm no expert.
-
Studies continually show that jet lag impacts the elderly more than young people. Rodgers might want to stay home. https://www.namcp.org/sleepdisorders/html/disorders/jetlag/epidemiology.html#:~:text=Prevalence Related to Age,than it does young adults.
-
This team is just missing a mauler center. You have to be able to run it up the middle in these short yardage situations.
-
He used to throw that flag out of spite from a non-call five minutes earlier.
-
Still throwing, I like it. I mean assuming they keep making completions.
-
The D is fantastic, but I ain't going to dog the offense just because of the 3Q today.
-
What the heck, it's like the Vikings defense was just laughing at us fans for doubting the team for all of ten minutes.
