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  1. nicksaviking
    I actually think they feel that when veterans fail, the blame can be deflected on to the player, but when the rookie fails, it falls entirely on the front office. I don't think this is singular to the Twins front office or even baseball front offices, and I'm beyond confident they desperately want to win, they just can't get past the fear of the unknown and this is way to dodge some tough questions. However, for a team that likes to deal in analytics, I'm sure they're aware that unproven youth provides better returns than cast off vets. All they have to do is look at their rosters for the past couple of years.
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    While he's not hitting as well, he's somehow only drawn ONE walk in August. Looking at his swoon last year, he only had four walks last September. I'm not sure how to explain that other than perhaps at some point pitchers stop worrying about grooving pitches to a slap hitter with no speed?
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    Man, for one reason or another, the team has been playing so much better without most of these guys. Stewart is the only one I'd really like to have back, followed by Kirilloff but only if he's absolutely 100% healthy. I'd rather push ahead with the youth movement. And yes, there are multiple guys I'm unafraid of removing from the 40-man.
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    Ryan should be three. Number one should be whomever Baldelli is least likely to get antsy about pulling after five. Until the All Star break, I thought that would completely eliminate Gray, but he's gone six innings or more in seven straight starts, so I'd lean toward him lead to things off. Even if he doesn't like it, I'd like to see Maeda as an early-pull replacement out of the pen, like the Dodgers used him. If Baldelli gets squeamish and pulls a starter early, like he (and Molitor and Gardy) has done in the past, I trust Maeda in that role to keep the team in a game more than Ober and Ryan, and much more than most of the other bullpen options.
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    Call him up, even if it's to see if he's a CF option for 2024. I don't want another season where the team feels they have to find a Michael Taylor to fill the role because they aren't sure what they have internally.
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    I'm not casting aspersions on anyone, but this thread seems kind of funny at the moment. We're OK blaming the Twins for a lack of clutch hitting, pitching meltdowns, poor bullpen management, questionable roster moves, bad free agent signings and lopsided trades, but not for over reacting to a hit by pitch. Seems like the old anecdote where it's OK for me to beat up my little brother, but Mitch Garver better not lay a finger on him.
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    If the Rangers were willing to throw the game just to plunk Jeffers, after all the money and prospects they spent building one of the highest profile rosters in league history, the GM should have fired the manager mid-game.
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    No, Gray intentionally beaned Garver, because of MLB's stupid 'unwritten rules' bit which Jeffers all but obligated him to enforce after his showboating the prior inning.
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    There's no way they intentionally beaned Jeffers with guys on first and third while they are fighting for their playoff lives. It was a coincidence. If they were going to plunk him, why not plunk him in the first inning instead when there were two outs and 1st base was already open?
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    Yeah, I agree with Garver. Jeffers obviously wasn't intentionally hit, there were runners on the corners and Dunning had walked about a dozen batters by that time; he had zero control. Jeffers gave a bunch of attitude as if he was hit because of the game winning HR the day before. Maybe Gray hits Garver anyway, but he likely felt obliged after Jeffers public preening. Either way, whether it was on Jeffers, Gray or the Twins bench, the dust up and the ensuing warnings were 100% Twins instigated.
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    I'm just worried this organization is going to be so afraid of being bad enough to draft a good QB prospect that they'll instead go the Carr/Garoppalo route indefinitely and be mediocre for ever.
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    I think Cleveland should do what this thread title unintentionally implies and hire Tony LaRusa.
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    Obviously there's plenty of ways to build a bullpen. The Dodgers, Orioles and Rays use a mix of their homegrown players and other teams' castoffs. The Rangers, Astros and Atlanta have traded for some good arms, while developing a bit of their own talent. This front office has gone both routes and failed every time. I don't think it's the strategy, I think it's the evaluation and implantation. Terry Ryan didn't know UZR from RC+, but he had a much better knack of putting a bullpen together.
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    Robertson could have been a reasonable target, seems like that was the big miss. Sewald would have been good, but not sure about what it would have taken to get him. Hicks and Barlow have command issues which doesn't seem like it would be a fit for this bullpen.
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    Agree that they might have been told to stand pat. I'm not sure about the payroll aspect, but ownership might have said they've made their beds with some poor signings and bad trades and they don't get to waste any more prospect equity trying to fix their mistakes. Win with the players you already asked for, or someone else will get a shot. But to be fair, this was the most blasé group of deadline players I remember. There was really nobody that would have moved the needle for me. David Robertson might have been the only guy I saw moved that I thought the Twins should have been in on.
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    Along the same train of thought as brining Trey Lance in, Matt Corral would interest me as a test subject for KOC. It's unclear what's going to happen with him in Carolina, but he has no long term future there.
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    AZ traded Isaiah Simmons to the Giants for a 7th round pick. Seems like if Flores is the creative defensive mind he's portrayed as, a LB/Safety combo player might have been a good fit here.
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    Kellen Mond's tenure with the Browns last as long as his tenure with the Browns. This team used to do so much better in the draft. Just looking back through the recent years now and there hasn't been a draft since 2015 where you look at the picks and think, dang, they really hit on more than one guy this year.
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    I mentioned it in another thread, but I'd give Austin Martin the CF job and see if that builds a fire in Buxton to take it back next year. Not that I in anyway think Buxton isn't hurting and trying his best, but hopefully he can physically heal and be extra motivated come next spring. Also, speaking of Arraez, it seems as though he's going through a late season swoon as he typically did with the Twins, I wonder if his knee is acting up once again too.
  20. nicksaviking
    Yeah, certainly more fans than not feel that way. Last year was a lot of fun, still, my enthusiasm wasn't at the level it was in 2009 or the late '90's through early '00's. Plenty of decent teams since, but I guess when I know the ceiling is capped, it's hard for me to indulge myself. Though to be fair, I'm not young any longer (not OLD old, but definitely a way different person now). The stress I felt back in those days may impact me more than I think.
  21. nicksaviking
    I'm on board since I'm now a Super Bowl or bust fan. But plenty of people would be upset because they prefer watching playoff caliber teams, even if there is no reasonable chance at a title, and I'm empathetic to that.
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    For sure.
  23. nicksaviking
    Yeah, I want them to get a top end QB through the draft, but that's going to be hard next year, and possibly the year after. This could be a good and cheap test case. Though I really hope that KOC isn't tied to the same Shanahan philosophy of only using pocket-passer friendly offenses though. I want the next QB to be a guy who can move and pick up 1st downs with his legs after Cousins has left. Also, all reports seem to indicate that the 49er's really like Lance on a personal level. Usually you'd want to make this trade in the other conference, but perhaps they'd be amenable to doing Lance a solid and sending him home, considering all the misfortune he's dealt with.
  24. nicksaviking
    Insanely, he's still two years younger than Jaren Hall. Also, I'd be happy finding a reason to get rid of Nick Mullens. I never understood why you'd carry this type of QB. If your starter goes down, your season is over, Mullens types aren't going to carry a team to anything meaningful. If you're going to lose a QB and stink, might as well stink epically and with someone with developable upside.
  25. nicksaviking
    And not to be needlessly critical, but thus far I've seen little from this front office's drafts that's encouraging.
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