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  1. nicksaviking
    The Pohlads haven't bothered to create a long-range plan for this team since they were threatening relocation trying to get a new stadium. Since then, clearly they've been winging it year to year. Maybe even month to month. Obviously that's not how you operate a business you care too much about. So, yeah, I agree the rug was pulled out from under Falvey. Pulled out from all of us; front office, fans and players. But I also agree it was time for a change. The Pohlads did briefly open up their wallets and resemble an upper-middle class team, but they wouldn't have had to sign those big contracts if the team could actually develop their own hitters. Fielding a talented homegrown offense is pretty much a requirement for every team that doesn't play in NY or LA.
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    Still 10 years later, I'm not sure who supposedly promised a pitching pipeline. Falvey came from Cleveland, they didn't develop a bunch of pitchers, it was like Danny Salazar and that was pretty much it. Just about all of their pitchers of note were traded for either when they were knocking at the door in AAA or already at the MLB level. And the Twins did some of that with Joe Ryan and now Abel, Bradley and Rojas, but then one upped Cleveland by not just trading for cheap young pitchers, but more expensive excellent starters like Lopez, Gray, Maeda and Odorizzi. Falvey got a lot wrong, there's obviously something systematically damaged with the offensive evaluation and development. But he did well on the pitching end, and with how unpredictable pitching prospects are, (TNSTASAP) yeah, this method works fine by me.
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    This always happens this time of year between the end of the season and then through the various exhibition bowls and up to the combine. Hunter was basically crowned king of the Senior Bowl and I'd guess he is a first rounder on most teams boards at this point. But since the draft pundits had him so low in their preliminary estimations, they are too tentative to move him up more than incrementally. So few of those evaluators are bold enough to go rogue on these rankings, they all tentatively peak at each others work to make sure they aren't some huge outlier.
  4. nicksaviking
    Yeah, the Twins bullpens (prior to August's bullpocolypse) had been featuring guys who could miss bats AND avoided control issues. We can criticize the Twins for a lot of bad baseball, but they had figured out what made for good bullpen pieces. It was why Jovani Moran and Jorge Alcala stood out like sore thumbs. Grabbing Kowar looks like back in the day when the Twins thought they could fix fireballers with control issues. No, no you can't. Randy Johnson's happen once a life time.
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    ***********Moderator Note************ That's enough, posts have been removed, so back on topic please.
  6. nicksaviking
    I don't want a TE in round 1. Even if McCarthy isn't starting, I don't think a TE in this system will ever be high volume enough to use a 1st round pick on. I don't mind the offensive players in round 2. It's really frustrating that this organization hasn't been able to develop a new cheap, young RB since Dalvin Cook a decade ago. I'm on the fence about Price though; I really want a guy who can be electric catching the ball, and we have absolutely no idea if Price can do that. Also, he tore his achilles his Freshman year, kudos to him for coming back and being awesome. But that scares me as those injuries are largely genetic. This is really looking like a sparse skill position draft. The smart move may be to let the other teams reach for any QB/RB/WR/TE with a pulse and grab the best non-sexy players.
  7. nicksaviking
    Does making a waiver claim just entail pressing a button? Because if that's the case, then I get it. It's quick, it's just a reflex, plus, pushing buttons is fun. If making a waiver claim entails analysis, evaluation and extra paperwork, then I don't get why the Twins spend 100x more effort doing this activity than they do all the rest of baseball activities combined.
  8. nicksaviking
    I wouldn't transform them all into relievers, and I'd personally also do most of the ones you listed last, along with Rojas. However, the team has to start picking players and ripping the band aid off. But those five are never going to be making up a five man rotation. At some point it has to happen for most of these guys. And they don't seem to thrive until decision is done and permanent. The mid-season flip-flop never works for them. I'm sure they'll switch some of these guys over come July or August, but we'll have no idea if it will take until the following season. But Bradley? I think he's pretty close to making the switch. Three seasons with no improvement and declining strikeout numbers. A former top prospect AND a trade acquisition? Yeah, that's a double band-aid pull that no one wants close the rotation door on; he really reminds me of Trevor May.
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    I might swap out Bradley for one of them, but they have to start plugging in the numerous former or soon-to-be-former starters in there soon. The Twins best bullpen pieces have never come from shopping for bargain free agents, it's been from these overlooked and given-up-on internal options that turn into the high leverage relievers. There is no free agent left out there that I'd want over the Festa, Klein, Adams, Raya, Bradley, Morris, SWR, Matthews, Prielipp, Abel, Rojas group. There's way more upside, and it seems to be a much higher success rate building your pen this way.
  10. nicksaviking
    Oh if only I could give advice to my 23-year-old self…..
  11. nicksaviking
    About a decade late suggesting the Twins should try Miguel Sano as a pitcher. Did I get your equation right?
  12. nicksaviking
    If Trevor Plouffe can single-handedly bestow career changing advice to improve a MLB player, then the MLB needs to start realizing that coaches should be paid more than podcasters.
  13. nicksaviking
    As far as I'm concerned, they never found a believable scapegoat. Sure, people they hired have failed, but 90% of the fan base still pointed our fingers directly at ownership.
  14. nicksaviking
    Yeah, it's a real struggle. And one of the defensive guys hired this year has been DC for only two seasons. And I have no clue what anyone sees in Hafley. Must be because he looks the love child of Nick Sirianni and Matt LaFleur? Look out for Ashton Grant though. He's the Patriots QB coach and if he wasn't only 29 he would be a hot name. I went down a rabbit hole last week watching his interviews. He sounds like a high school science teacher in that he gives off the vibe that he just really loves his job, he doesn't lose his patience and he gives really good detailed answers to even the most bland questions. Plus, he's coaching the hottest young QB on the planet. He should stay under Vrabel a bit longer to learn more about head coaching, but I think he's going to push through the black offensive coach barrier.
  15. nicksaviking
    You just can't build a bullpen through free agency though. The only free agent relievers that could ever even approach being considered reliable, are the free agent relievers who frequently change teams and consistently perform well no matter where they land. That tends to describe only a couple of relievers any off season. Because if you're signing a guy, simply because they pitched well last year, good luck. That sample size is too small and means jack squat. There are too many variables and not enough data to predict if they were good last year, or if they were just in the right situation. They're just as likely to be a liability as they are a benefit.
  16. nicksaviking
    So in shocking news (to me), it sounds like John Harbaugh is zeroing in on Brian Callahan or Kliff Kingsbury for Giants OC. The talents of both might be overrated, but they are absolutely not if the Todd Monkin/Greg Roman/Arther Smith mold. I can maybe retract my old dog old tricks gripe.
  17. nicksaviking
    Not all front office people have to be front forward, out going and up to date on what every other employee is doing. But the GM does. It’s too bad, because KAM and his dedication to analytics sounds like a good person to have in your system. Just not THE person. Other teams should be fighting over him. If you’re just one cog in the machine, nobody is going to care if spend your day secluded working with your numbers.
  18. nicksaviking
    I’d really like to see a gameplan where the RB can get 60+productive receptions a season like the Dolphins. I don’t trust the OL coach with this and the Vikings need to completely start over with a different breed of RB.
  19. nicksaviking
    So former Dolphins OC Frank Smith is hired to be the Vikings assistant head coach. Have to believe there may be a play for Tua Tagovailoa on the table. Obviously no trade with that contract, but if/when he's cut perhaps. I think he's better than just about all the free agent options though so I tend to think he'd take a for sure starting gig on a dumpster fire team before coming here to compete with McCarthy. TBD though, who knows. If he could get the ball to Tyreek Hill, he can get the ball to Justin Jefferson. Also, Keith Carter is the new OL coach. He was promoted from assistant OL coach. This is going to sound like hyperbole, but I think this is the worst thing the Vikings have or will do all off season. They really needed to find a top end OL coach, and I really doubt they're finding one who's been studying under the previous guy who was way out of his depth. This absolutely needed to be an outside hire. Beyond disappointed with this. Other defensive coaches too. Whatever. I stopped caring after reading this nonsense.
  20. nicksaviking
    I'd rather see one or two internal guys from the current group of starters-should-be-relievers get a spot over Bowman, BUT this is better than signing a sketchy free agent reliever to a MLB deal. This works.
  21. nicksaviking
    Disagree. A smart business person wouldn’t have wasted company time with TWO firings, he or she would have canned Falvey and Baldelli over the same Zoom call.
  22. nicksaviking
    We're all just sitting around scratching their heads today. Which is weird considering both moves were basically what 90% of all posters had been asking for? Us humans are weird.
  23. nicksaviking
    Wow. This gettin' deep.
  24. nicksaviking
    I also wonder if the ambiguity of Flores' return had anything to do with KAM. Could have been some personnel disagreement on that side of the ball too. Or it could have been the other way I suppose too. Flores knew KAM and KOC were battling for control, but Flores liked that KAM kept getting him his preferred free agents, and Flores needed to be re-assured that KOC would let him have control of that side of the ball. Probably every word of this post is nonsense though. Except for the sentence directly preceding this one..
  25. nicksaviking
    My take was that KOC was campaigning for control of player personnel, and the Wilfs thought it couldn't hurt, but they wanted to see how it played out this year before committing to handing over all the keys. I think that would explain the weird timing. If the new final decision maker was already in house, there was no rush to go out in the rat race and look for a replacement.
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