nicksaviking
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He didn't have a shot last year? He was way too inconsistent and can't get on base enough to warrant a starting job. No problem rostering him as a bench bat/utility player, but he shouldn't be starting. -
Sucks we have to wait until December of 2026.
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Josh Naylor back to Seattle, 5 years
nicksaviking replied to Cory Engelhardt's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
Yeah, Wallner physically looks like he should be at 1B, but I agree, I don't think they ever try him there. It will be interesting to see who they do try to move though. -
With first base being the most obvious place to add in free agency, this interview seems to confirm more than Clemens being the intended starter, it all but confirms they won't do anything of note in free agency. If your first baseman can't hold an OBP over .300, you need a new first baseman. We'll have to hope an internal option (who?? no clue) takes his job ASAP. And, find a right handed compliment? This also seems to confirm that Derek Falvey still hasn't learned from the overuse of platoons. Two bad players for one position on the field is absolutely a terrible waste of limited roster spots.
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I'd say his reads are much faster than they were the first two weeks. But outside of the QBs who made their living with their legs, I'm not sure there's much history of QBs with significant accuracy issues ever improving enough to become an elite QB.
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Usually those underthrown passes end up being defensive PI. The DBs never turn around on those types of passes. So bad pass, and also bad luck on that.
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Easily MLB's worst owner. Which is saying a lot.
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The Jets just make bad decisions. I know hiring a defensive head coach shouldn't be off the table, but sorry, guys from the offensive side have much more success lately. Yet, I count nine head coaches for the Jets since 1996, and only Adam Gase came from the offensive side of the ball.
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Twins Hire Keith Beauregard as Hitting Coach
nicksaviking replied to Seth Stohs's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
Can't say I've ever thought of a hitting coach bringing the wow factor. Who's a wow factor hitting coach?- 20 replies
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- keith beauregard
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What's the problem? He has two hands.
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I'm not anti-KAM, but seriously, I don't know how there can be an honest conversation about this if everyone can't at least agree the last four drafts have been poor and unacceptable. I really dislike the all too common method of arguing where if a poster doesn't like a person, they will pile all the bad things onto the person, never acknowledge anything positive they've done, and act like he/she is a singular evil. It's dishonest and immature. But it goes the other way too when EVERYTHING a person does is spot on. KAM has orchestrated some really bad drafts. Trying to put rose-colored glasses on that aspect takes away from any argument regarding any other positive things he may have done.
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Right, I know no one likes the POBO, but blaming him for slashing payroll is pretty absurd. There's enough to criticize him for, but selling off players to drop payroll isn't one of them. It's not like he WANTS to make his own job harder.
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I'd fire Falvey too. But Buxton's vote of no confidence clearly would be coming from the team slashing the payroll by selling players, which obviously is being driven by the guy who would be doing the actual firing, not Falvey himself.
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Ha, well I enjoyed it, but it was with diminishing interest. 'New season, new emergency' shows sometimes take me out of it, as I can't stop imagining the writer's room where they're all sitting around saying, "Well now we have to write something that is a bigger threat than last season!"
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I think I got through three seasons, back when the third season came out. I'll have to get on what's come out since.
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Definitely on my list. I'll probably wait before a few more episodes drop before I jump in. Seems like a dark comedy sci-fi. Such a different turn from Breaking Bad. Very curious. Started Welcome to Derry. Starting off pretty good. Fun call backs and Easter eggs if you're a Stephen King fan.
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If only the Twins would have recognized the peak for what it was. Which has been a problem for this club. The Twins traded two fringy prospects, Steer and CES for Mahle. Miranda was a big up-and-comer and league-wide talk at that time. He probably gets the Twins Luis Castillo instead. Who the Twins would have of course traded last July.
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That's just the wealthy in general. All this legalized gambling is just funneling billions and billions of dollars from the middle class to the wealthy who will sit on it and take it out of circulation. Forget about and moral issues with gambling or concerns with addiction, this is one of the many things that is absolutely KILLING the economy. It's never going to get back on track if we don't start putting people in charge who will start turning off the faucets that are pouring free money to these people who have zero care about the rest of society.
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Presumably, but not most definitely. He's got 8 games left; there's a lot of time for the tide to turn. Anthony Richardson only got 15 starts, Trey Lance only got 4 and both the Colts and 49ers got HUGELY rewarded for making a decisive call and going in another direction. That's not going to be lost on teams in similar situations going forward.
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Sure, and there are probably some fan bases that are on board with just getting back to regularly having an above .500 record. I'm pretty sure GB is like most of the Vikings fan base though, we're average to good most years, so mediocrity and frequent uncompetitive playoff appearances aren't going to cut it. Keep looking for a QB who can put you over the top. But the Browns and the Jets are the Browns and the Jets because of their owners. Which is pretty much the case with every perpetually bad franchise.
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Nope. Easier to move on from McCarthy if he can't cut it than it will be Love.
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Well, I want to know ASAP if he can do this or not. I'll take the random brain farts that comes with juggling a ton of information if it means we're going to have a better read on the QB situation come Week 18. The arm is there, and surprisingly to me, the decisiveness is way better than we saw the first two weeks. The biggest issue is the accuracy, which I didn't think was supposed to be a huge problem. I think it needs to quickly be determined if that's who McCarthy is, or if that's plausibly fixed. Unpopular take here, but my expectations for this season are low, so I'm in the camp of giving him as much as he can handle if only to see if the accuracy and the decision making improve with more and more reps. If this team goes 4-13 because they threw it 40 times a game, but they can make a confident decision about McCarthy, I'll be happier than if they go 8-9 throwing it 20 times per game and still not having a clue.
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The number of botched plays and the insane number of false starts does make me think it has something to do with the wet-behind-the-ears QB. And I've long asked for one, so I'll suffer the trials now. As for KOC and the play calling; I don't hate it as much as most, I do want them to chuck it all over the field more than the average fan. But again, completing those passes is another story with a rookie QB. It does seem to me that most of the qualms with KOCs play calling pretty much always come down to instances where they didn't run the ball up the middle. Not just run the ball, but specifically up the middle. While it's clear KOC would prefer not to run those plays, I also suspect that they can't run those plays, at least not in the situations where everyone thinks they should run up the middle. And we're on center number four in the last two years. It's possible they're just all bad at run blocking, but I don't care, my top request in next year's off season, is to fire the current OL coach and hire someone who has orchestrated good run and pass blocking schemes in the past.
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Yeah, after about the fifth time that had to cross everyone's mind, so how was it not addressed?
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I'm not sure about the clamoring part. Any impatience about calling them up wasn't, "I can't wait to see these guys!!!", It was "Ugh, NEXT!"
