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  1. Vanimal46
    Nothing that has surfaced in the past week to justify the dislike for him all of a sudden. As @IndianaTwinpointed out, he’s on pace for over 120 games played this year. So I don’t buy the injury risk being much greater now than 1.5 years ago. The “depth” are prospects who won’t be ready by opening day 2022, or current players out of position. I don’t understand the desire of blowing up the offense when our pitching staff has been the problem all along.
  2. Vanimal46
    There should be no mystery why top free agents don’t want to sign here. We are turning our backs on the highest paid FA ever for no reason at all.
  3. Vanimal46
    He’s had a checkered history in his MLB career, I’m not defending that. The latest incident appears to be a non-issue after it was addressed in the parking lot. The true issue in your argument is timing. If it was a personal beef with Giolito, he said it the first opportunity playing him after the sticky stuff ban. Then backed it up, so I’m not sure why we’re mad? Team standings is getting into unwritten rules territory… When should the players become emotionless robots? ? when they’re 10 games out of the race? I don’t really understand what else JD has done to turn on him as a Twins player. It sucks he was gone for a vast majority of the 60 game pandemic season. Other than the 2 week IL stint in early April, he was playing 6 out of 7 games. Cross fingers he’s only out a couple games recovering from this flare up with his legs and he’s back at it.
  4. Vanimal46
    I find it ironic that fans request fire, passion, emotion, however you want to describe from players and managers. Then when they see it, they say “Wait, not that kind of passion!” I’m not saying Nick specifically has asked for this. Donaldson was trying to wake up the team before management takes action trading people away. He responded, and most of his teammates that pitch didn’t respond. There’s a lot of directions the Twins can go over the next 3 weeks… Finding pitching is the #1 priority starting now until opening day 2022.
  5. Vanimal46
    Kepler this year could use a reset in St. Paul for a little while. It’s too bad Refsnyder and others are injured to not take advantage of the situation. Kepler moving forward is a good 4th OF on a contending team. He’s not overpaid if it turns out that is his most efficient role. Just so I’m keeping proper score, people want both Buxton and Kepler traded? That would be a huge disservice to the pitching staff, and whoever the CF is after Buxton. Larnach, Kirilloff, and Arraez in the corners means everything including raindrops falls for a hit.
  6. Vanimal46
    Imagine asking your boss to approve the largest purchase they’ve ever done externally and asking for more money to get out of that deal 20 ish months later. You think you’re in good standing with your boss?
  7. Vanimal46
    Sure, but it’s easy to say when my livelihood isn’t on the line.
  8. Vanimal46
    Father Time won again against Happ. It’s painful we are seeing the end of his MLB career without any nostalgia connected with his career. Everyone that was relied upon to replace Happ/Shoemaker at some point is injured or ineffective. It’s debatable now whether relying on Dobnak, Smeltzer, Thorpe, Balazovic, or Duran was smart heading into the season. The unfortunate reality is all of them have been hurt for durations if not all of the season. Now we’re talking about rushing Winder to the show after 1 AAA start… It’s sad that he’s the lone wolf remaining as upside pitchers available in the farm.
  9. Vanimal46
    That certainly wouldn’t bode well for the current regime if 1.5 years ago you’re proposing $92 million to sign him and you’re asking for another $20+ million today to get out of it.
  10. Vanimal46
    I’m not confident the recouped money from offloading Donaldson’s contract will be used to find players better than him. There’s room on this team for him next year if it turns out we need to eat too much of the remaining contract to get a decent prospect. Cruz will be gone, Sano most likely gone too. Plenty of DH and 3B PAs available next year.
  11. Vanimal46
    Yep, that’s the thing. I can’t imagine a team willing to pay more than the veteran minimum for him right now. It’s unfortunate he’s not in AAA trying to tweak his swing and find a 2 week hot streak. Being a LH platoon 1B isn’t working for either him or the Twins. People in the know will recognize that trend and wait to see if Falvey and Levine hit their breaking point releasing him.
  12. Vanimal46
    Hopefully it’s just a one game blip, but Berrios only had 5 swings and misses on his 89 pitches from LEN III’s report. The day after Maeda had his worst start of the season.
  13. Vanimal46
    Reading Dan Hayes’ article today is a night and day difference than the article on the front page of TD. These were tactics used to rally the team, and it’s not a distraction. Until the overblown Giolito situation, there wasn’t a peep talking about Donaldson being a problem in the clubhouse.
  14. Vanimal46
    You know I’m saying this out of love and passion for the site. I will consume every word of an article if the author dove in and looked at every prospect that left the organization and break it down to less than 1 WAR, 1-3 WAR, or 3+ WAR to show if we really have a scouting issue, for example. As an outsider looking in, it appears the focus is on quantity of articles per day, not quality of articles. And that’s been really disappointing to see.
  15. Vanimal46
    I’m sorry in advance for putting a certain author here on blast. In the last week, we’ve had articles claiming because 3 players (the same names we read Star Tribune commenters make) left the organization in 5 years, the Twins have a scouting issue. Another article discussing lessons learned from the 2017 deadline, where no lessons were actually discussed. Just a quote from the FO. And the embarrassment of an article calling out Donaldson being the most unlikeable player in Twins history. I came to Twins Daily in previous years to read in-depth analysis to debunk lazy takes that you see in the Star Tribune comment section. Now I can’t tell the difference between this excellent website and the Strib. P.S. the Donaldson article is getting ratioed to death on Twitter. As it should. I doubt that’s the type of engagement and reputation y’all are looking for online.
  16. Vanimal46
    Is Twins Daily becoming a clickbait website before our very eyes? This is a bad take and it’s disappointing this was published.
  17. Vanimal46
    You can quote me it’s okay. Definitely not triggered, and I do watch a game or two. I made this handy chart comparing Wade and Cave last year. What should I be looking for so I can learn your ways of predicting future success? https://stathead.com/baseball/player-comparison.cgi?request=1&sum=0&player_id1=caveja01&p1yrfrom=2020&player_id2=wadela01&p2yrfrom=2020&type=b
  18. Vanimal46
    Maeda’s start yesterday registered the lowest spin rate of his career. So yeah, we probably shouldn’t be on pedestals thinking our team is clean.
  19. Vanimal46
    He’s always been an angry baseball player.
  20. Vanimal46
    I’m far from a Jake Cave fan, but please enlighten us how you knew last winter that Wade would be better in 2021 than him. Also, could you list the younger prospects that were cut due to keeping older AAAA relievers? I’ll wait. Fun fact: Brandon Waddell is 2 months older than Tyler Wells and Shaun Anderson is younger than him.
  21. Vanimal46
    3 examples in 5 years isn’t too bad. Now let’s do an article about the dozens and dozens of players who also left and didn’t make an impact elsewhere.
  22. Vanimal46
    I’ve never been in this position myself, but I would assume lots of different factors come into play when you’re offered 9 figure contracts. Does Buxton or Berrios have significant others from Minnesota? If not, let’s get on it! That convinced Parise to sign with the Wild ? Let’s learn from past lessons pursuing Bumgarner and buy them both a ranch and racing horses.
  23. Vanimal46
    We’ve transitioned the conversation to what he commands on the open market, yeah? Who knows what will happen in 1.5 years. If you do, can you confirm or deny Dogecoin went to the moon? If we’re still talking about paying him now, then the Twins have to take that chance and guarantee the terms of the contract. If Doogie Wolfson’s report is accurate and the last offer contained multiple team option years. Plenty of negotiating tools at our disposal. Mutual/player options instead of team, player opt outs, backloading/front loading contracts, etc. If Buxton’s agent isn’t coming back to the table, then it’s impossible to negotiate without a deal he can’t refuse.
  24. Vanimal46
    Did you quote me by accident? The narrative is very simple. He’s been offered extensions the last couple of off seasons. Buxton has declined. That’s it. Whatever the last offer on the table was, add another year or 2. Also add another $1-2 million on the AAV. The Twins will need to go above and beyond to prevent him from talking to other teams.
  25. Vanimal46
    Sure, there’s not a lot of people pushing back on flipping expiring contracts. Haven’t you and others asked what would Tampa do trading players under contract longer than a year? I kind of like the certainty while our farm system is under audit… Especially the pitching staff.
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