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  1. The_Phantom
    Any “blowing up” and “going into rebuild” needs to start with getting a new general manager. Falvey and Levine have done pretty much nothing in their tenure, continue to miss on talent, and haven’t even built a competitive farm system. One good season, that still ended in a playoff sweep. No hope for the future. Also, I’m over the rebuild cycle. Why are twins fans willing to accept sucking for the next 3-5 years while they rebuild, but then say “oh I’m glad twins drew a line in the sand at 10 years, there’s no way I woulda gone 13, those last 3-5 years of that contract would be brutal” Seriously, why be willing to suck now for a rebuild that never comes, but not be willing to suck a decade down the road for a chance to actually do something NOW? Besides, you’d have 10 years to figure out how to maneuver around that contract
  2. The_Phantom
    I don’t think there’s anything “nonsense” about it. You are making a LOT of assumptions that the players A. See Rocco as a FO puppet and B. forgive Rocco for following through with their nonsense. the bigger issue last night wasn’t pulling Ryan at 107 pitches, it was leaving Moran in there to blow the no hitter when he couldn’t control his pitches. Rocco has some blame in that and I find it hard to believe the players dont blame him at least some
  3. The_Phantom
    How is it “more than evident he gets along with his players and had their respect”?? Sonny gray was asked if he thinks the twins are still a great fit like he said in spring training, he gave a painfully long pause and said he wants to pitch deeper into games. just last night the reports are “Joe Ryan is not mad at Rocco for pulling him” not mad is pretty key wording. He’s not on board. He’s not thrilled with it. He doesn’t like it. But he’s going to publicly say he’s not mad at the manager. sorry I don’t think it’s more than evident at all that he’s good at personnel management. I think it’s very evident his pitching staff is bitter at the way they’re handled
  4. The_Phantom
    Yeah maybe leave comedy to the pros
  5. The_Phantom
    Archer was not acquired from Tampa Bay he was a free agent signing
  6. The_Phantom
    BTW, the last time the Twins had a winning streak of 7 or more was June of 2011. I'd say it's time that drought is broken
  7. The_Phantom
    BABIP is one of the most misused "advanced" stats there is. Luck can be a part of it, but this whole notion that "low babip = nothing but bad luck" is just not true. Line Drive %, flyball%, etc, as well as ability to beat the shift, being a slow tank of a human, the ballpark you play in ALL affect BABIP every bit as much, or more, than luck.
  8. The_Phantom
    We also have Sanchez, who will be coming back soon and is a terrible defensive catcher. Sano and Sanchez are pretty redundant honestly. I don't really unde.226/.154 He can have hard exit velo all he wants but the entire LIST of guys with a lower slugging percentage right now are: Alcides Escobar, Adalberto Mondesi, Brendan Rodgers. That's it. That's the entire list. There's not another play in the major leagues with a lower SLUGGING% than Sano. Add in mediocre (At best) defense, and clueless baserunning like last night.. what is the incentive for keeping him around? To add to why this year is different, besides being worse - he's a potential free agent after this year. He will only be a twin next year if they pick up his $14 million option. Why not just cut the losses now
  9. The_Phantom
    Well, it was hit hard, and there was some home-town scoring. I'm not terribly surprised that it was scored a hit, but it really could have gone either way. Either way, a better fielder absolutely would have had it.
  10. The_Phantom
    This is a genuinely horrible article. There’s no reason to be happy that the twins decided to stay pat. Mediocrity leads to more mediocrity, mid round draft picks, etc. We should not be celebrating or encouraging having a .450 season and following it up with signing a couple of 4th pitchers. Just trade Buxton and go into a rebuild if that’s what you want.
  11. The_Phantom
    I definitely don't like the undertone that its acceptable that if they go for a "mid rotation guy like Michael Pineda" that is considered an acceptable approach. Pineda was on this team last year. Extending Buxton, re-signing Pineda, and bringing in a lottery pick like Bundy is not improving on what they had last year. It's not even attempting to. And the fact that us Twins fans are ok with that approach is why they continue to do it. Why spend and go after a legit championship when the fans will support the team no matter what you throw out there? I'm having a hard time finding a reason to be interested in the upcoming season.
  12. The_Phantom
    Seriously. Stop using the excuse no one wants to come here. The team just didn't pony up the money other teams did, period. You just claimed at least 4 people said "no way" to minnesota. It's just patently false.
  13. The_Phantom
    I'm not sure what has happened in the last (literally whatever number you want to use) years that has led you to believe this team will acquire any kind of impact arm at the deadline either.
  14. The_Phantom
    That fake excuse really is rampant. No players are saying it, some are flat out denying it, but everyone in "Twins Territory" believes it to be so.
  15. The_Phantom
    I understand. I happened to respond to you, but wasn’t speaking only to what you’re saying, just the rampant rumors that we just can’t do any better because “no one wants to come here”. It’s just far, far, FAR more likely that people don’t come here because we don’t offer market value contracts. But that doesn’t make a convenient excuse like blaming outside factors does
  16. The_Phantom
    The idea that nobody wants to come here is, at best, a terrible reflection on the front office’s ability to woo talent. You can sell someone on anything when there’s big money involved. Much more likely, is that the “nobody wants to come here” is just the excuse that this FO is using for not signing anyone of substance. This has become a huge talking point in the last year or so, and everyone seems to be buying it. I don’t even live in Minnesota but I think minneapolis is an amazing town... theres a 0% chance that every single big name option says “no way would I ever go there”.MLBTR had a report that straight up said the Twins didn’t pursue anyone aggressively this winter. Sure, no one wants to come here at a 25% discount. But if you offer the best deals, people absolutely will come. I don’t get why everyone is suddenly buying that excuse hook, line, and sucker.
  17. The_Phantom
    Fair enough. But as I said in another reply on this thread, whether it shows up in “park factors” or not lots of guys show improved numbers in that ballpark because of the massive amount of foul territory to catch pop ups
  18. The_Phantom
    Not much point in cherry picking a couple good games. He’s had a bad stretch of several years
  19. The_Phantom
    Homer bailey’s last 5 seasons. 22-39 5.56 ERA 79 ERA+ 4.71 FIP 1.532 WHIP 10.6 H/9 1.4 HR/9 7.3 K/9 And that’s INCLUDING his decent second half of last year, which you have to take with a grain of salt because virtually everyone pitches well in Oakland with that mammoth foul territory to catch pop ups
  20. The_Phantom
    Then use the Red Sox. They went all in to acquire Chris Sale. And won a World Series in his second year. Then he was bad in his third year and now they are handcuffed possibly facing 4th place, trying to free up some payroll. Yes they have the resources to recover faster, but who cares. They got the job done and got to fly another banner
  21. The_Phantom
    I enjoyed the seasons that we were losing 100 games more than I've enjoyed feeling lied to this off season. "We will step on their throats when the window is wide open" or whatever the exact quote was. Win 101 games, still not willing to take the risk to make the signing. Yes. You absolutely sign someone like Ryu to a 5 year contract and try to actually make it past the first round of the playoffs, and maybe even win the entire thing. If you make a legit run and even win the whole thing, it's worth it when, at the end of that contract you're back to struggling a little bit. Ryu's fifth year likely won't even be any worse than whatever our current #5 option is anyway. But this is legitimately the biggest opportunity we've had to make noise in a long time. Maybe the best team since the 06 team at full health. It's beyond a little frustrating that the FO couldn't pony up and actually take a chance at giving the fans a postseason to remember.
  22. The_Phantom
    This is just being fairly dishonest, TBH. I am sure there have been some free agents with geographic preferences, but most of the time we hear that we weren't willing to offer that 5th year that the other club met, or our AAV was 5 million less. We can't expect free agents to think Minnesota is a lovely place to live and therefore take a lesser contract offer. It's as simple as the Twins aren't putting up the biggest offers so they're not getting the biggest free agents, despite the cash being there.
  23. The_Phantom
    “Rocco was vastly superior to Byron numerical at this stage in their careers.” “He then got in less than 40 games in 2007 and 2008 due to an undiagnosed medical condition.” “It was the mitochondrial channelopathy that would also abruptly end his career as a 28-year-old in 2010.” “Minnesota’s front office was cutthroat, and the player was within his rights to feel like it sucked.” Typos, grammatical errors, unnecessary thesaurus use, and awkward informality all within about 1.5 paragraphs. Man, this was a brutally bad read. Anyway, Buxton has been a fan exercise in frustration. He definitely still has the time and raw ability, but he has a long way to go. And there’s no point in denying that his beyond atrocious 2018 was one of the 3 or 4 main reasons the twins underperformed (Sano and Molitor being two of the equally obvious ones). Buxton pulled off an Amazing feat to have a negative wRC+. I really want to feel like if he doesn’t turn the corner this year, it’s time to move on. But the twins lack of major offseason activity definitely doesn’t indicate that they are in any kind of “win now” mentality so I’m sure we’ll see him continue to be given all the time he needs to adjust. Hopefully he eventually will
  24. The_Phantom
    This is a complete 180 from the type of thing I was reading yesterday. How can the information be so grossly misrepresented... everything I read yesterday was saying things like "Sano was told to stop but instead ran over a cop". Hence all the calls for cutting him from the team. Reporting standards (not referring to here, just in general) need to be better.
  25. The_Phantom
    As far as arms getting blown out by the end of the year, some of that falls on the manager and making sure guys aren’t getting overused
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