Parting Ways with Colome Leaves Some Troubled

So Colome was simply terrible and with him blowing leads seemingly every night for the first month we are soft because we got rid of him? Sorry Stephen and Stu that is not soft that is smart. Let's not mix up the two. 

Having grown up in the 70's and 80's I understand being loyal but we had some TERRIBLE teams. This team and system is full of talent and expectations are that this team compete for the division title at minimum. Keeping weak links is not the answer to that. 

As a fellow Twins fan who lived through the Ron Davis years, this is accurate. You never really recover from the RD experience. I remember a middle school Spanish class where the authorized topic of conversation for the entire hour was how awful RD was.

Hey Specialsteve do you understand sarcasm?

That is some good stuff.  I think Colome will bounce back next year.  He won't be elite or anything but he won't be as bad as last year either.  Still glad the Twins let him go.  It just wasn't going to be a good fit.

Ah, don't worry, Mr. Gilchrest. The '22 Twins will find a way to teach young people that nothing gets better, Colome or no Colome.

Funny stuff, by the way.

I am pretty sure this is meant as sarcasm/humor, but it hits way too close to home. My biggest fear for 2022 is the Twins would bring Colome. He really was the second coming of RD and I still have PTSD from those games in the mid-80s. 

This was a good sarcastic story.  I wonder however what the 2022 Twins would do with a starting pitcher after two years of going 11 - 25 with a 5.38 ERA in 56 games started.  Figure out those stats. From a former Twin and imagine if Bailey Ober or Joe Ryan had those same exact stats over a two year period if anyone would still want them around??

Don't get me wrong, I think beyond WAR and computer numbers and I feel that Colome was just not a good fit with the Twins and their clubhouse.  So in no way shape or form would I want Colome back.  I would have been more along the lines of they should have tried to keep Trevor May.  He was a clubhouse fit and has good stuff.  But nonetheless.  How many people get rid of that starter I brought up??

2 hours ago, sampleSizeOfOne said:

Wasn't it some sort of mutual option? 

 

Maybe Colome chose to leave...

 

Then all would be right with the Twins, wouldn't it?

I doubt that Colome chose to leave as making money in professional baseball is no guarantee.  So I'd bet if he was the only one who had the choice to leave or stay he would have stayed.

You keep hoping the ccloser who isn't working will be a closer that works.

Ron Davis was a godsend for beer sales at the Metrodome. I remember selling beer in his tenure and people just wanted to drown their reality.