Like the Offense, the Twins Whiffed When It Mattered

Great article ( video) about the trade deadline and this FO.  I totally agree with your thoughts about them selling hope only.  They sell hope but produce mediocrity.  That's why I get so frustrated about the Twins.  I've been a Twins fan since the mid 60s and these past three seasons have been about the worst I've seen.  I have very little hope of this team as long as Falvey/lavine are in control.  Loved your video though!

On 8/3/2023 at 8:46 AM, Whitey333 said:

Great article ( video) about the trade deadline and this FO.  I totally agree with your thoughts about them selling hope only.  They sell hope but produce mediocrity.  That's why I get so frustrated about the Twins.  I've been a Twins fan since the mid 60s and these past three seasons have been about the worst I've seen.  I have very little hope of this team as long as Falvey/lavine are in control.  Loved your video though!

If you have been a fan since the 60's you must be forgetting several poor droughts from the Twins with much less hope or even mediocre results.  I still go back to the 90's being a fan and just happy when the Twins got a win as a kid.   Fans are much more what have you done for me lately and fickle than what they use to be in the past.  Especially over a move or non move when we don't have all the information about what players were available and what the cost would be.  The exact same claims can be made about the Yankees so this just wasn't a Twins management issue. 

As to the pitchers claim in the video's the Twins made a lot of the pitching depth signings in the past of injured pitchers trying to fill a pitching staff, because the pitching pipeline at the MLB level and in the minors just wasn't there.  The depth throughout the organization is much much better now.  The Twins won't have to dig as deep in the barrel but still will likely lean into their philosophy of trying to acquire injured players (pitchers) thinking the value is there.    The argument is the front office thinks the Twins are just happy with mediocrity.  I don't think its that at all,  I think management tries to put the best product on the field at the MLB level while trying to build up the minor and find those elite prospects to build the team around.   Personally I am happy with the direction and have hope the season will turn out better and think it well.  The run production seems to be better than where we were earlier in the season, also the team willing to now take some small ball approaches.   Maybe they can catch lightning in a bottle, more realistically I am hoping to get some wins in the playoffs.