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  1. nicksaviking
    I don't know about any family strife, but I much preferred Jim. I preferred Jim to Carl as well, plenty of mis-steps, but at some points there was a clear vision for the club and at other points there was a clear attempt at winning. Not at enough points, but that still beats what Joe has done and what Carl did the last 15 years he ran the club. Seemed to me they decided they were going to sell but Joe wanted a chance to play with the toy before they did. On two separate occasions the family gave him radio stations to run, which he promptly bankrupt and shuttered, so what's happening now looks to be about on par for Joe.
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    Yeah, I worry about that. Also, I worry if they DO end up trading a controllable player, in their desperation to keep their jobs they will do it to fill a hole on the current roster instead of for top end long-term talent.
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    I'm a bit suspicious of all of this elite reliever trade talk. Should the Twins be selling? Obviously, this team is a hot mess. However, if the team is about to be sold after two disastrously embarrassing seasons, isn't the ONLY way Derek Falvey keeps his job and the organization avoids a clean slate, is by pulling a miraculous playoff-bound U-turn? Why does he care what kind of prospect return he gets if he's somewhere else next year? And should Cleveland be selling Clase? Sure, they've done the 'we're selling but still competing' bit before, but they've got a relatively young and controllable club and Clase is under contract for three more seasons. So are both clubs actually looking to trade their top end relievers? OR are they both acting like it hoping that it encourages the OTHER club to pull the trigger and getting deadly late game weapons out of the division for the next few years.
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    For sure. I've seen no evidence ownership has actually had a strategy for the on-field product since Joe took over. It really seems like they're winging it year-to-year.
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    It was only 25% of the payroll into one player because ownership pulled the rug out from under all of us though.
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    This is pretty easy because there's a difference between blame and failure. While just about everyone has failed, if we're playing the blame game, it's squarely on ownership. As soon as they prioritized selling the team to support their struggling real estate ventures, this organization was turned upside down strategically. This impacted the front office, not just with the payroll, but because of how they like to construct a roster. Instead of paying a reasonable amount for veteran players, they then had to both develop their own players and fill the roster with sub-par veteran players. This impacted the manager because he doesn't or can't develop young players and instead appears to want to pass off that job to 'leadership veterans' who also do no appear to be able to do that job. Which is a bit more understandable as their job is to play baseball, not to teach 22-year-olds. And to top it off, firing the manager (or front office) would be less attractive to a new buyer because a new one would require a multi year deal and a new owner is going to want to pick is own toys. So, while the front office, manager and players failed as they could have stepped up and adapted or improved at what they did, this was all a chain reaction due to ownership who wanted to make the team look more profitable in order to sell it.
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    It didn't work that way under Gardenhire and Molitor, so why are we OK with it now? If this franchise was consistently winning and competitive it would make sense, but regardless of where this team is in the playoff standings, this is a trainwreck. It's not working. Detroit had ONE good hitter last year. They took their lumps and most of those guys improved. That's how the Twins used to do business too. Now the Twins would rather tread in mediocrity instead of develop a top end team. Maybe we can save our jobs if we can just finish .500!
  8. nicksaviking
    At the end of June he had a .725 OPS and .311 OBP. Not great, but also not article worthy. Then looking at game logs, he hits a 1-12 skid at the plate and gets benched for two games and since then it's been a pattern of two games on, one game off. The only hitter who has reached his potential on this team is a 31-year-old who took 10 years in the league to do so. I just don't think this team has a manager that can or will do the things needed to develop young hitters. And if you're going to be a low payroll team, you have to have one of those.
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    But if the sale of the team is right around the corner, as we are being led to believe, are the people who are developing those pitchers going to be here next year? Obviously they are the same people who AREN'T developing enough hitters too.
  10. nicksaviking
    I'll trade any expiring contract, but honestly, the timing of this all stinks. If a sale of the team is truly right around the corner I think the Twins do absolutely nothing at the deadline. Surely, Derek Falvey knows that going on a big run to the post season is likely his only shot at retaining his job. Ownership likely won't spend to improve the team, so my guess is that standing pat and crossing their fingers is the plan.
  11. nicksaviking
    It's not about his age; I don't think he's going to 'grow into' much more power if this is his MO going forward: "I think we can see where the plus hit tool prognostication came from. Gonzalez uses the whole field beautifully. In his emerging Double-A sample, his batted-ball events find the pull side, center of the field, and opposite side 39% of the time, 23.2% of the time, and 37.8% of the time, respectively. You can’t live out the ‘take what you’re given’ hitting adage more aptly than that." Lots of people still wish we were watching 1980's baseball, so there is some attraction to that, but there has to be some power; can't just be a slap hitter in today's game. While he is short, he does look more put together than Luis Arraez and Austin Martin, and unlike them, he does have a past history of putting the ball over the fence. Quite often guys who have a tremendous hit tool won't risk that and adjust to add the needed power element (resisting, resisting, do not speaketh his name......) but there is a difference between can't adjust and won't adjust. So maybe.
  12. nicksaviking
    Should be interesting to see Addisons DD suspension vs Rashee Rice’s street racing suspension. Not in any way condoning a DD, but Rice’s actions were more dangerous, howevee, the NFL also won’t want to condone DD, so I have to think they’re going to want try to make them similar.
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    I have to assume that's a term made up for California's rich celebrities. Celebrity assault is called "zealous wrestling".
  14. nicksaviking
    Oh, they'll find a way when it suits them.
  15. nicksaviking
    The Wilfs own a team in a league with salary caps and salary floors and in a league with full revenue sharing that makes all the owners a billion dollars every other year, not every other decade. What we would consider a 'good' owner, that will want to chase championships will buy a big market team, not the Twins. This isn't an apples to apples comparison.
  16. nicksaviking
    Because if you trade for guys like Joe Ryan in AAA or established guys like Lopez, Gray, Maeda, and Odrorizzi you take most of the guess work out. Even if you're talking about using your first round pick, that guy is still years away from the majors and still extremely TBD as to whether he'll turn out.
  17. nicksaviking
    I have zero faith that new owners will be any better than the Pohlads long term. But I am confident that they'll want to make changes. And this team is so stale right now, any change to front office, manager or players is desperately needed. The organization needs a wholesale shake up, even if it doesn't amount to anything better than we have now. This ain't working.
  18. nicksaviking
    Why would MLB help out the Pohlad's by facilitating this debt scam? Isn't this just going to encourage the Pirates and Marlins and Royals to ALSO pass off other business venture debts on to their MLB clubs LLCs, knowing that the other owners already gave the Pohlad's this farewell gift?
  19. nicksaviking
    I thought the prior pitching plan was probably the best thing the Twins had done with these draft picks; instead of trying to improve command, use science to improve velocity? That was a fantastic move. "We're going to take high velocity pitchers with injury and command issues, and fix the injury and command issues" has been a draft mantra since the draft began, and it fails just about every time.
  20. nicksaviking
    For as much as I'm burned out with the current leaders of this team, I can't deny that increasing Ks and velocity is absolutely in their wheelhouse.
  21. nicksaviking
    HS kids in rounds 2 and 6 for the Twins which is unusual. I'd guess that would hinder their ambition and ability to go for over slot tomorrow.
  22. nicksaviking
    Yeah, obviously this has always been how the wealthy operated; they break every rule they can because their only priority is to get as much money as possible. To me, the crazy part about the NFL and other billionaires these days is that they make such little effort to hide the fact that they break the rules. They don't hide anything, they just lie about it and everyone is supposed to take their word at face value.
  23. nicksaviking
    Agreed that they've done great turning former starters into relievers. However, they blew a year of service time on Jax and Sands trying to force them into the rotation despite it being clear their stuff wasn't going play to there, and they blew two years on Varland.
  24. nicksaviking
    I'm not writing them off, I'm just advocating that the Twins make the switch early if the evidence starts piling up that this is the most likely spot on the team. But with some command concerns and lack of innings, I'd say these two have the look of a reliever more than most of the Twins other recent draft picks.
  25. nicksaviking
    I'm guessing there's way more to it than that. The MLB Umpire Association and old school fans who can't stand anything even resembling change are going to make a scene about this.
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