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  1. bighat
    Martin looks like he'll become another Twins "top prospect" to make his MLB debut at age 25 or 26. Meanwhile Ronald Acuna has a World Series ring and 5 All-Star games before he turned 25. I know I get my wrist slapped every time I compare Twins prospects to Acuna, but the Braves aren't the only team who have 20 or 21 year-old phenoms on the MLB roster. Why is our HS draft pick from 2019 still in A ball? Cavaco will be 22 next summer and might not even have cracked the Kernel's roster! Why is our college-aged draft pick from 2020 still in AA ball? Aaron Sabato is a DH-only player who can't hit very well and will 24 next summer. Bad draft picks, plus this farm system develops guys waayyyyyy too slowly, and even with that, they can't keep 'em healthy. We may be facing 5-6 years of a cellar-dwelling teardown.
  2. bighat
    Heck yes, preach!!!! This pitching staff is bad, bad bad and I echo your comments. Since the Twins have Mahle for only 1 more year under contract, I say run 'em out there until he breaks down, at least we'll have received something from him. Don't have him on an innings count, don't put him on-and-off the IL all year, it's just clogging up the pipeline. Let him throw his heart out until he can't throw again and let some other team deal with the problem in 2024. PS - hitting is bad too. Aside from Buxton (who would bat 9th in NY, LA, or HOU) there's nobody out there that could start for a World Series contender.
  3. bighat
    Agreed, but could you imagine what this team would have been without Correa for this past month? They'd have been shut out every other day. Problem right now is, due to frontline prospect injuries (Larnach, Kirilloff, Lewis) and disappointments (Balacovic, Cavaco, Sabato) the Twins now need to add both hitting and pitching in the offseason. And with all the question marks, it looks like they need to add a LOT of both. And they won't be able to do that.
  4. bighat
    Would have been nice to see a little fight from this team towards the end, instead they lose 6 straight against Cleveland and roll over with a whimper. 32-49 on the season against .500 or above teams, and an overall record of 42-52 since May 30, when they led the Guardians by 6.5 games. Cheers buddy. This team has been bad for a long, long time and it's been a head-scratcher since the trade deadline. The articles lauding the Twins trades at that time look laughable. Many, including myself, said they needed a bat. That the Twins had too many holes to fill, and that giving up guys like Steer, Encarnacion-Strand, etc was too high of a price for a team that ultimately wouldn't make it. I guess the FO had to try, they were in a pretty tough place. Again, and incredibly depressing end to the season, getting stuffed into a locker by the White Sox, Yankees, and Guardians without even fighting back. Nothing to like about this team other than Jose Miranda and Nick Gordon. Full stop.
  5. bighat
    Agree, but there's more to it. The Twins also lost because they scored 0 runs in the final 7 innings of the game, and only managed 3 total. How many runs have they averaged against Cleveland this year? The lack of offense has been a primary reason for this collapse. This team just isn't scoring runs consistently. They lead the league in being shut out. No Buxton, no chance.
  6. bighat
    I am not. Why should I be? Have the Twins been tearing up the league with that lineup in the past? The Twins were winning in 2019 when they had Nelson Cruz, Miguel Sano, and Mitch Garver hitting cranking out 30 HRs in a juiced ball season. They won in 2020 with Josh Donaldson and Kenta Maeda pitching as the staff ace. Since the Larnach and Kirilloff were promoted to the MLB squad, they've have been on-and-off the Twins roster for the past two years, up-and-down to St. Paul with both injury and performance issues. And the Twins have been BAD. Sure, both have had a few good games and shown flashes of promise, but they've also both gone through horrendous stretches where they were maybe the easiest outs in MLB - and not for a short stretch! In what fantasy land are you living in that you want Kirilloff and Larnach occupying the 3-4 spots on the batting order for years to come? And you also threw in Kepler there. Egads, no. The Twins are going to have to go after a free agent (or two) OF like Will Myers, AJ Pollack, Adam Duvall, Jurickson Profar, Tommy Pham, Joc Pederson. All of whom are safer, proven options. Larnach and Kiriloff shouldn't be discarded, but they should have to earn their roster spots, they've already been handed starting jobs and have failed miserably. The stats don't lie.
  7. bighat
    Not sure it's "time to move on" but I agree it should be considered. Especially with the emergence of Gordon, the Twins should realize they have a viable LF and shouldn't consider Larnach a necessary core piece of the team's future.
  8. bighat
    Based on what? Because that's what we all wish would happen? I think it's better we all live in reality. Until we see a full season of Larnach hitting 28 HRs and driving in 80+ runs, he's not lived up to the hype and can't be considered reliable. Nobody gets credit for what they should've done. You have to do it for it to count.
  9. bighat
    Nice win for Gray. Unfortunately it's too little, too late. It's nice to see them making hay against the Royals - too bad they didn't do it against teams like Detroit, Texas, and LAA, when the race started heating up back in July/August. Still down by 5 games, Twins need a win today and almost certainly need to take 4-5 in Cleveland to keep the season alive.
  10. bighat
    Disagree. We didn't lose Freddie Freeman and Mookie Betts - we lost a couple of underachieving 30 year-old rookies and a guy who won 7 games and had a 5.03 ERA last year. Who else did we lose? Alcala? Would have been nice to have him I suppose but I'm not sure he'd have bumped Pagan off the roster.
  11. bighat
    This team won't finish .500, probably 5-8 games below. And we should consider ourselves lucky to have had them even contending for as long as they did. Hot take: Even without the injuries, the record wouldn't be much different. Larnach & Kirilloff were on pace for a combined 14 HRs and Paddack would what, have a 6-8 record when it was all said and done? It was never about the injuries, folks, it's just a below average team playing in a terrible division. First half was all just smoke and mirrors, and when it came time to regress to the mean, they regressed like all bad baseball teams do.
  12. bighat
    Anyone here who thinks the Twins aren't going to roll over and lose 10-2 in Game 4? 1-7 stretch against CHW and NYY, pretty on-brand for the 2022 Twins.
  13. bighat
    My prediction: Tommy John and done for all of next year as well, he becomes a free agent with the 1-1, 4.41 stats as his career totals as a Twin. Steer looks like he's going to have the career that we all hoped Kirilloff and/or Larnach would have.
  14. bighat
    I honestly don't see how this team wins even 1 game in NYY. I think you have to expect a sweep and be happy if they can eek out a game....but even thinking positively and creatively, I can't see how they even win one.
  15. bighat
    Here are Lopez's career stats before this year: In 2019 his ERA was 6.33 In 2020 his ERA was 6.34 In 2021 his ERA was 6.07 I guess I'm confused, did people think we traded for Peak 2002 Eric Gagne or something? Did fans think Lopez was going to be the slam-the-door-closer we've been searching for since Joe Nathan left? If so, then yeah he's a disappointment. But guys - we should have never expected him to be good in the first place. The Twins trade deadline moves weren't fixes, they were band aids. These were middle-of-the-road guys and the results are luke warm as expected.
  16. bighat
    In unrelated news, Spencer Steer went 2-for-2 with a homer, reached base all 4 times and scored the winning run for the Reds in his MLB debut. https://www.mlb.com/news/spencer-steer-makes-mlb-debut-with-reds
  17. bighat
    It's not this particular loss that's frustrating, but it does remind you that the Twins are in this "must win" position due to consistently losing winnable games all year long. Some guy on Twitter compiled a list of a bunch of games where the Twins had a very high win expectancy going into the late innings, but somehow ended up losing. Don't let the San Fran and Boston series fool you, folks. This is who the Twins are.
  18. bighat
    I totally agree - we got guys like Kirilloff and Larnach who will be 25 and 26 years old before they see action again. These aren't "young players"! They are supposed to be entering the prime years of their entire careers right now. Do we have to wait until they're 32 years old for either of them to hit 20 homers and get 75 RBI??? They should have been putting up those numbers LAST year, but they have combined to do jack squat. And injuries don't count as an excuse. It is what it is. "What might have happened" doesn't count. Yet here in MN we have people lining up to make excuses for these "young players". Embarrasing. Meanwhile half the other teams have 20, 21 and 22 year-old guys who are doing just fine, and a handful of them are tearing up the league.
  19. bighat
    Oh for sure - he's widely known as the biggest Twins draft bust in recent memory. So bad that people want to forget about him and have written him off already. Seems like a good kid, just had nowhere near the talent that anyone thought he did.
  20. bighat
    Duffey to the Yanks - wow. Can you imagine if the guy gets called up and pitches lights out in the playoffs? C'mon....we all know it's gonna happen. Sigh. Wish he'd have signed with SF or AZ or some team out west we'd never have to hear about. Oh well - good for him, we all knew he'd find a job and he'll definitely be pitching in MLB again, no question.
  21. bighat
    I got bad news for ya: if he hasn't done it by now, it ain't happening. Bad loss. Twins are now in the unfortunate position of now needing to come out of the next 7 games with a 4-3 record. A sweep in Chicago is almost a must. If they play like they have been playing against decent competition, Twins could go 1-6 over the next week and that'll be the end of the season.
  22. bighat
    Agree 100%. When you have a guy on the brink of doubting his abilities, let him play where he's comfortable.
  23. bighat
    How about Keoni Cavaco, the Twins 2019 #1 pick who is currently in his 2nd year at Fort Myers single-A ball. Hit .221 last year and is hitting .222 this year. Has never put together anything close to an encouraging season.
  24. bighat
    Great write up. This is yet another reminder - especially for us fans - not to overvalue prospects. There are only a handful of blue-chip, sure things out there. And even those guys often don't deliver on expectations. Too early to give up on the above mentioned players, obviously, but the clock is ticking. Martin is going to be a 24 or 25 year-old rookie even if he makes the show, and Balazovich is on the brink of demotion next spring.
  25. bighat
    Correct. All he's done is win 2 division titles and will likely have the team finishing over .500 in 3-out-of-4 years at the helm. Whether the seat should be hot is an argument, but it's definitely not. If the Twins have a bad year next year, let's talk. FWIW I think that players love the guy, and that goes a long way. Some memorable managing moments this year include the way he handled the Gary Sanchez blocked plate call (do we need to see more of that Rocco?) as well as the team's 6-game losing streak in August, where he showed that he was unable motivate the team to be competitive even in the season's most important moments.
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