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  1. nicksaviking
    Agree, I've also thought Baldelli historically got more flack than he deserved, but not only is it time for a change, I don't think he's a fit here any longer. If a low payroll team has to pay free agents based on the 'culture' they bring to the team instead of their actual play on the field, you are not going to field a good team. Your organization needs the 'culture' to be emanating from the manager and coaches. Baldelli would probably be just fine on a team with lots of GOOD veteran players; that's not this team.
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    The A's aren't winning many games, but it's hard not to be jealous about how many of their young hitters are, you know, hitting. I'm guessing they don't fire Mark Kotsay while they're playing in Sacramento, but if they do, I'd be interested. Or at least I'd be interested in whomever is involved in getting the most out of these young guys.
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    I'm excited for Jenkins, but I'm not sure he should be the consensus top prospect in the system. He looks like a really good player, but if he doesn't' develop power, his ceiling is going to be lower than people seem to view it now. And we've seen with Brooks Lee that the minor league 'high contact' skills aren't always transferable to the MLB level. Honestly, I think Keaschall and Culpepper have higher ceilings offensively. To be clear, this post is really an endorsement of Keashall and Culpepper and not a take down of Jenkins.
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    The Pohlad's had no reason to cut the purse strings and the Twins had no reason to be in the position they are currently in; I'm thinking the lottery gods are not going to reward this organization after how willfully devious they have behaved.
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    I've always been the low guy on Brooks Lee. However, that was due to the profile of good contact but low power. I was concerned about the XBH as slap hitting infielders are fun in theory but frustrating in practice. As it stands now, it looks like he may have the potential to at least be average in the slugging department. As to Lewis, he's still an immensely talented athlete and it shows even when he's not playing well. But I don't think either reach their full potential without a more instruction-forward coaching staff. I think if you get a Terry Francona, Joe Maddon, Ron Gardenhire or Paul Molitor type in there and there's a good chance these guys click and take off. I don't think a situational manager is a good fit for a young rebuilding team.
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    Yeah, with an emergency surgery and hospitalization, hopefully sound minds prevail and he sits out the rest of this lost season.
  7. nicksaviking
    They're not running with Gasper as the only backup catcher (What? Not for real though right?!?) while also having him DH (NO, you LIE!!!!!!!). Jhonny Pereda will certainly get a spot.
  8. nicksaviking
    Agree. I've got serious complaints about his offenses, roster construction, trades, promotions and his choice in manager. Until this year, the MLB rotation has been exceptionally healthy and productive. It's easily his strongest area, so I'm not scratching the itch to complain about that part.
  9. nicksaviking
    Holy cow, maybe tone it down Rocco. The guy is just coming back and you're making him go up against the Bomba Squad?!?!?
  10. nicksaviking
    The Twins are hoping Boston will cut Jovani Moran first so they can make a plaque stating that they won the trade.
  11. nicksaviking
    You're right, I should have said he was there when they started dumping the debt on to the Twins. I should have merely said he's been there while they were dumping debt on to the Twins. However, we have a pretty good idea a vague idea of what the origin of the debt is, considering everyone has speculated it's from their real estate ventures going belly up after COVID and no one from the Pohlad clan is denying it.
  12. nicksaviking
    The debt was about 25% of the asking price, and reportedly they gave 25% of their ownership to the hedge funds new ownership groups. So it stands to reason, either they think they can ask for 25% more than the 1.7B in the next couple of years, or they aren't planning on selling. Third option, is to continue dumping real estate debt on the team, then get another investor to buy a stake and eat their debt again in a few years.
  13. nicksaviking
    Joe Pohlad has been in charge since they said they were going to 'right size' the payroll after the successful 2023 season. He was there when the organization started dumping it's other business debts on to the Twins.
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    And even if they had no influence, we're talking about 'partners' that agreed to buy their debt in exchange for a percentage of the Twins. This sounds more like Tony Soprano or Big Gus's Payday Loans kind of sketchy to me.
  15. nicksaviking
    Right. Joe Pohlad also wanted to run two different radio stations and they soon went bankrupt. As to the debt situation, the real estate market isn't in any better shape than when they started dumping their losses on the Twins. I've seen enough HELOCs to know that people who find a quick way to consolidate their debt, don't tend to change their ways, they just start accruing different debt which will later need to be dealt with.
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    Yeah, Gruden vs. The NFL; kind of sucks that I'm stuck here cheering for the lesser of the two bigots.
  17. nicksaviking
    Right. If only Vazquez had caught every game the last three years instead of Jeffers the Twins probably would be chasing their third 100 win season in a row.
  18. nicksaviking
    "We're going to move the Twins to Nashville! Surely you won't mind Mr. Reinsdorf?"
  19. nicksaviking
    The Twins have the fourth newest ballpark in the league. even excluding the vintage parks of the Dodgers, Red Sox and Cubs, that means there are 23 other clubs that would object if any Twins owner tried to steal their relocation threat cities.
  20. nicksaviking
    They are the 8 and 9 hitters and far and away the worst regulars on the team. Playing good baseball is contagious. Playing good baseball leads to winning and winning breads enthusiasm. Enthusiasm leads to more winning. It's a great cycle when you get into it like the early century Twins and the Rays from a few years ago. Everybody wants to emulate you but no one can really put a finger on what you're doing to win. Sure, when you're a smaller market, replacing your star players for younger star players will help the cycle, but that's not what the Brewers have done at this point, and it hardly ever happens because trading star players is a win for the team buying the star player just about every time. Even if you like their defense, the Brewers downgraded by removing those players, therefore it's not the reason for their winning.
  21. nicksaviking
    Sorry, but the Brewers aren't winning because they are nimble with their roster, they're winning despite being nimble with their roster: "On the other hand, the contemporary, successful iteration of Milwaukee, led by Arnold (and formerly David Stearns), has been exceptionally active in recent seasons, trading away star players nearing free agency—like Josh Hader, Corbin Burnes, and Devin Williams—for hefty packages. Indirectly, the team got William Contreras by trading Hader. Directly, they acquired the left side of their infield (Caleb Durbin and Joey Ortiz) in trades that gave up Burnes and Williams, and those deals also yielded pitching depth and an extra draft pick." They traded away Hader, Burnes and Williams and are winning because they flipped them for Durbin and Ortiz? Durbin and Ortiz were prize prospects, but they aren't good pro ball players; at least not at this time. This is not why the Brewers are winning.
  22. nicksaviking
    Well, it's like the old philosophical question, if Joe Ryan swears on a Twins broadcast and nobody is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
  23. nicksaviking
    Right, the Twins are losing money either because of the way they are cooking the books or because of ineptitude. Sorry, that shouldn't have been an OR, obviously it should be an AND. No other team is carrying 400M (I heard 450M) in debt.
  24. nicksaviking
    I don't know, I've seen way worse. To me the 'Like it or Not' part is way worse than the 'Stability' part, but only because I want to imagine 100% of the readers being in the 'Not' camp, but obviously there's never a consensus and honestly, I don't hate EVERYTHING Derek Falvey has done. I understood where he was going with the headline right away, in short, sorry all, but Falvey and Baldelli are safe (I'd be less equivocal about Baldelli personally, he got an option picked up, not an extension) so I'm guessing the lack of fire and brimstone probably made people just assume it wasn't a cathartic pitchfork op-ed. I'd like a few of those, but this was objectively fine.
  25. nicksaviking
    Are you even able to link a Red Sox site here? I have to think even the most considerate post would violate at least ten of our posting policies.
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