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  1. nicksaviking
    Why is everyone jumping on Cody about the 'stability' aspect? I'm trying to decipher where in the article it was used as a celebration and my conclusion is that people are reading the headline but not the article. 'Stability' appeared to be used as a objective statement regarding Derek Falvey and the ownership's future status. The article seemed to understand that this 'stability' wasn't going to be popular. The word wasn't being used as a positive silver lining kind of statement, it was merely being used to describe what the Pohlad's stubbornly prefer, even in the face of poor performances.
  2. nicksaviking
    Well two can play that game:
  3. nicksaviking
    I do love how it implies the Pohlads never had a passion for the Twins, and only now, after seeing and hearing the passion from their partners, the community, and Twins fans have the Pohlads too developed a passion and are inspired to building a winning team! It's like the end of the Grinch, this is all fantastic news! Also, I wonder which hedge fund has this deep passion for Twins baseball?
  4. nicksaviking
    MLBTR isn't typically a news or opinion site as much as it is a rumor roundup, but I do appreciate Steve Adams making it clear how disappointed and screwed Twins fans are with this news. https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2025/08/pohlad-family-no-longer-pursuing-sale-of-twins.html
  5. nicksaviking
    They will remain in Minnesota because it's best for the other 29 billionaires. The Twins blackmailed their way into a new stadium only 15 years ago and now there are other teams waiting. They aren't going to let the Twins budge in line and take away Nashville, Montreal or one of the other threat cities the other billionaires are currently using as blackmail.
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    Joe Mauer, the hometown kid guy who up and made Florida his primary residence so he could avoid paying taxes? Yeah, I got a pretty good idea what he would prioritize.
  7. nicksaviking
    Maybe this isn't the end of the situation as Manfred was JUST saying a deal was right around the corner. Are the other owners aware of this new arrangement? Or did he just drop the news to everyone all at once, because based on Joe's track record, there likely was no strategy to any of this. The other owners are going to have to approve the limited partners. and the other owners aren't going to want the Twins to be a perennial revenue recipient team. This market hasn't always and doesn't need to be a revenue sharing recipient, but the other owners have to know it will be if the Pohlad's are still running things. Maybe they'll throw us a Hail Mary and not approve the limited partners.
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    This is as depressing as trade deadline day. If the Pohlad's are staying, they have to take the keys away from Joe and give them back to Jim. Joe has no clue what he's doing and is completely tone deaf, and his AI announcement letter posted above shows he still hasn't learned.
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    "...we are in the process of adding two significant limited partnership groups, each of whom will bring a wealth of experience and share our family values.” Joe says that like the Pohlad family values are something the fans enjoy about them?
  10. nicksaviking
    No need. This team is going to kick a dozen touchbacks a game and will never punt.
  11. nicksaviking
    Since I want wholesale changes to the front office and coaching staff next year, honestly, I'm in favor of pretty much any move that makes them look foolish.
  12. nicksaviking
    Yeah, it's going to take more than one poor season where Ober pitched injured to wipe out 2.5 years of very good pitching. Barring injury or trade he's a lock for the rotation.
  13. nicksaviking
    MLB let the A's wallow in poverty for two decades before they forced them to bump up their payroll, and it was all a ploy to get what the A's and MLB wanted; a move out of Oakland. If the Pohlad's still aren't able to sell, keeping payroll low will appeal to new owners, and that's what the Pohlad's and MLB wants; therefore MLB will also let the Twins wallow in poverty simply to achieve what they want.
  14. nicksaviking
    I'm thinking there's also a lot of 'Well those guys failed, but I'm better at this, so this will work out' when it comes to these kind of evaluations.
  15. nicksaviking
    Well I've never seen Gasper catch, but I've seen him hit. He's of no use to a major league club unless he unexpectedly CAN catch, so sure, go ahead and give it a try, this club has nothing to lose anyway.
  16. nicksaviking
    Yeah, it's almost beyond belief how often these prospect hauls fizzle out completely. I get that prospects are fun and shiny and new and it's easy to see how fans like us can get fooled without going back and looking at the track records, but how do analytically inclined front office personnel who are getting paid to figure this stuff out continually get fleeced? I can't imagine Derek Falvey is actively thinking, 'Sure, I'll give up 2.5 years of Duran for a 20% chance that one of the players I get back will be a useful MLB player.'
  17. nicksaviking
    I'd have just called up Andrew Morris to give him his perfunctory look at the rotation so they can start his inevitable Sands/Varland/Jax bullpen conversion next year.
  18. nicksaviking
    I don't have high hopes for either Tait or Miller, so in my book it's a wash I guess. Trades are getting asinine these days though. 80% of the time the team getting the star player wins the trade over the team getting the prospects, yet, the last several years the teams selling the prospects are tightening their grips on their "top" guys. And of course, it's usually the big market clubs buying and the teams who cry poor selling. The Twins' 'Everything must go!!!!' fire sale absolutely did not help remedy this inequality for the non-big market clubs.
  19. nicksaviking
    The ball is in Pressly's court. He might want to take some time off and wait to see what his best landing spot is closer to September. Save his arm for the playoffs and save himself the pitfall of signing with a club that looks good now, but three weeks from now looks like a doormat.
  20. nicksaviking
    Yeah, my dark side has always assumed that the players chosen are largely done so to appeal to the most people who actually buy a ticket to attend the ceremony and game. At this point, I'm sure Gen X and Millennials are the target demographic. So players from the 1987 World Series team is probably about as far back as they'd ideally like to stretch that. Still, with this being an organizational honor, I have no problem with Gladden and Smalley and Perkins getting in even if it's largely based on their broadcasting contributions. Even if some of them annoy me or if their on-field stats are underwhelming, it's still pretty endearing that these guys played and then stayed with the club for 20, 30 or 40 years. I'm not holding my Twins HOF spots so sacred guys like that can't get in.
  21. nicksaviking
    Yeah, do you need a Balkan yacht and a Baltic yacht? Can't you just have one that sails around the Iberian peninsula and meets you where you want to cruise? Asking for a fiend. I gave up my yacht odysseys when I had kids.
  22. nicksaviking
    For sure, starting tonight, I bet the wonks start projecting Cooper to the Vikings.
  23. nicksaviking
    But also means there’s no need to shed salary. If there’s no one to buy, just hold on to your wallet. Why dump Correa’s contract if there’s nothing to spend the savings on?
  24. nicksaviking
    Literally only four guys I’d want. And now with the sell off, none of those four will want to come here. in particular, Schwarber as a DH only is going to struggle getting the money he wants. With the Nelson Cruz, Jim Thome and then going back to Winfield and Molitor, this would have been a total Twin-signing, but not if this team is in tank mode.
  25. nicksaviking
    This whole time my position had been that if the team added about 20M or so in payroll to sign a Pete Alonso or Kyle Schwarber, AND got a manger and coaching staff that wants to and is able to work with young players, this team would have been a contender next year (or the last two years actually). But this sell off definitely put a damper on that. Not only because the bullpen got decimated, but because the Pete Alonso and Kyle Schwarber types would laugh and then hang up if the Twins called them. No big time free agents will want to come here now
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