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  1. nicksaviking
    The Twins had to make a significant philosophy shift after 2020. The team had success with the bomba squad and their drafts reflected the plan to keep it that way with big corner bats and questionable defensive positions. Then when the league deadened the ball and the 2020 results were lackluster, the organization changed both the plan for the MLB roster and the draft picks. So from 2021 onward, most of the bats were contact guys who played up the middle and a LOT of pitchers. We haven't had time to see the guys from this new philosophy much, only because they're too young. And they've traded the only two bats they drafted in the top six rounds from 2021.
  2. nicksaviking
    Yeah, I'm not sure Headrick will pan out, but I wouldn't have traded him straight up for the ghost of Ty France.
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    But Miranda has been more productive more recently than France. It should be the other way around. If France can show he can be productive, there could be a place for him. This is the struggle with this front office and manager; they look at a Miranda and think that he hasn't proven enough to earn a job, but then they go and sign a vet who also hasn't proven enough recently that he deserves a job. For some reason they seem to think the number of birthdays you've had is meaningful counting stat.
  4. nicksaviking
    Ok, but why would you give France a job before Miranda? The thesis of the article was clear, the hand wringing is due to this front office's?? managers??? extreme and irrational aversion to pulling the plug in a timely manner on poorly performing veterans.
  5. nicksaviking
    All three were still decent hitters prior to coming to the Twins, us skeptics just didn't expect all of them to continue to hit decently. France hasn't hit well in three seasons.
  6. nicksaviking
    Do not like what Falvey is doing, but the owners are the ones with the money to spend, and they're the ones keeping Falvey and Baldelli. They're still steering the ship. Or would be, if they cared any longer.
  7. nicksaviking
    Yeah, that's what I'd guess. Not a good year to be a free agent RB with the hype surrounding this draft class.
  8. nicksaviking
    A 1M non-guaranteed contract says that 29 other teams don’t buy he’s ‘fixed’. Or else 29 other teams think a ‘fixed’ France is still not worth rostering. As expected with ownership in flux, our ship is currently rudderless.
  9. nicksaviking
    No, I'd totally want Becton. Maybe they can't do three free agent IOL, but they can do two and draft one early. They still have money for the secondary and DL too. But I wouldn't spend a dime on the RB free agent class. Jones was healthier than I thought he'd be, but just barely, I'd let him walk. I too am fine looking in the draft (and snagging a cheap, but still useful vet late in the season, maybe even Jones will still be there), but I still want the speedster who can make guys miss in the open field. Gibbs and Kamara almost NEVER blow a two down situation. You don't have to be big and bruising to run that game. And perhaps I'm wrong, but I distinctly remember someone on this board promoting the ever living hell out of Alvin Kamara before the draft, begging the Vikings to draft him. I could have sworn that was you. Maybe not, either way, it was an all timer call for a 3rd round RB everyone thought was strictly a 3rd down player.
  10. nicksaviking
    Sorry, but the IOL was awful. This team isn't going to win a championship if they have zero chance at picking up two yards in 3rd and 2 or 4th and 2 situations. You don't always have to do it that way, but it absolutely HAS to be an option in the play book. Also, I know we are going to disagree on Skataboo all off season, but if this team wants to be the high flying, high volume passing offense it thinks it should be, they need a RB who is electric and can make defenders miss in space, not a Jerome Bettis type who is just going to run people over. Those are just two different styles of offense.
  11. nicksaviking
    Yeah, and two women were shot. While celebrating a championship. The fact that the city embraces the perception that they are the worst and most violent fans in the country says all you need to know about that city. Awful people. The players need to stop reveling in hooliganism and call out these people for the scumbags they truly are.
  12. nicksaviking
    Out of these guys? I guess Coulombe by default as he's the only one I want to see on the 26-man roster. If the 'newbies' were expanded to the home-grown options, there are several I'm interested in seeing.
  13. nicksaviking
    ****Moderator Note**** More personal attacks are going to result in infractions. Also, you don't get to claim this as a fact only true to your side of the argument and tell everyone else have to accept it. WE DO NOT THINK THESE BAD BASEBALL PLAYERS IMPROVE THE TEAM. Feel free to disagree that they are bad. Don't disagree that we also want to improve the team.
  14. nicksaviking
    I figured the negative tone of the paragraph that preceded that made it clear I was not on board with that train of though.
  15. nicksaviking
    WAR is such a terrible and useless stat. Michael Taylor had a !!!.543!!! OPS last year and had a .9 WAR. There is no amount of defense that could ever make that level of incompetence at the plate a net positive.
  16. nicksaviking
    Every move this franchise has made this century has been aimed at first raising the floor. Even the big scary contracts that did improve the ceiling, like Correa and Mauer, were there to keep the floor high with the side effect of raising the ceiling. There is zero apatite for risk with this organization. No perceived boom or bust moves, which is an absurd prerogative in baseball, because a century and a half into this league has continually shown us that even the guys you think are the safe bets can still spectacularly bust too. But higher floor equals higher job security, regardless of ceiling, so let's prioritize securing a .500 record over a shot at a championship.
  17. nicksaviking
    Glad I read this after dinner. Mea culpas are always better as a desert than an appetizer.
  18. nicksaviking
    Doing absolutely nothing would have made me feel better. It would have made me applaud actually, that was my off season blue print for a transitioning ownership group from the start.
  19. nicksaviking
    Sure, whatever you say Mr. R Baldelli......
  20. nicksaviking
    I was never terribly anti-Falvey. I liked that he updated the archaic system the team ran under Terry Ryan and cleared out most of the old-boys-club. I liked using math to solve problems (sorry old schoolers) and that the team changes hitting and pitching approaches every few years to adjust to what was and wasn't working. But this off season was just bad. I get that the wallet might have been closed until a week ago, but this is a really, really bad look. It seems like a desperate attempt to put low level vets on the team in an effort to pin blame of a disappointing 2025 on them to try to keep his job. His primary job as an architect of a mid-market team was to develop a sustainable core. I'm sure he thinks hiding the young guys behind these scapegoat vets will lessen the impact if they disappoint. I think he's very wrong though and this is going to be worse for him than having any of the young players fail.
  21. nicksaviking
    I don't love too many of the young guys, but when you bring in veterans to be the starting QB and they are clearly Christian Ponder level of starting QB, yeah, just put the back up in.
  22. nicksaviking
    Hey, don't you dare presume he'll be my punching bag! I still reserve the right to make Bader my punching bag.
  23. nicksaviking
    When has this front office and manager EVER had the veteran defer to the internal young option?
  24. nicksaviking
    NEWS, more like SNOOZE!
  25. nicksaviking
    So Miguel Cabrera. This game is no fun Seth when you give away the answer right there in the photo.
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