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  1. nicksaviking
    "We're going to move the Twins to Nashville! Surely you won't mind Mr. Reinsdorf?"
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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?
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. nicksaviking
    Well two can play that game:
  11. 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?
  12. 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
  13. 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.
  14. nicksaviking
    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.
  15. 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.
  16. nicksaviking
    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.
  17. nicksaviking
    "...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?
  18. nicksaviking
    No need. This team is going to kick a dozen touchbacks a game and will never punt.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. 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.'
  25. 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.
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