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  1. howeda7
    They entered the off-season with the #2 starter locked down. They needed to add 3, a #1, a #3 and a #4.. Retaining Odo and Pineda filled the 3rd and 4th spots. But the biggest and most important was not addressed. There's no way to spin it as a positive. Put another way, their job is to allocate their available payroll as effectively as possible to improve the team. Instead they are sitting on $30 million in unspent cash, because they couldn't get a "deal." That benefits no one except the Pohlads. But perhaps their's a GM award for "most wins per payroll $" or "team that had the least bad contracts" that we don't know about. Even then, the Rays will win.
  2. howeda7
    It's ~$101 now. They throw $7-8 million at one of the remaining pitchers in the bargain bin and go into the season with a $109 million payroll. A cut of about $16 million from 2019.
  3. howeda7
    To be clear, I'm not one of the idiots ripping on Mauer for being hurt. He clearly was hurt in 2011. The issue the front office's inexplicable bungling of how it was communicated, which made them look like idiots and made Mauer (unfairly) look soft.
  4. howeda7
    "Impact Pitching" is going to be this front office's "bilateral leg weakness."
  5. howeda7
    Betances signs with the Mets. I bet we were in on him though. The top Twins article on MLB trade rumors is about Cron going to the Tigers. I guess that says it all.
  6. howeda7
    High being subjective, obviously the Royals could not keep their team together if it meant having a $200 million payroll. That said, they also didn't have to collapse as much as they did. They made some poor choices in the aftermath of the World Series win. The Twins don't have to follow a Royals/Marlins model to win a WS. They can follow a Cardinals model.
  7. howeda7
    Deal. Although the chances of that being the starting 5 is small. They will surely sign/trade for some veteran who will end up in the opening day rotation. I just don't have high hopes for who it will be.
  8. howeda7
    Because Dobnak, Smeltzer and Thorpe aren't exactly hot prospects?
  9. howeda7
    Obviously they don't want to fail. The question is what do they see as their job? Their talk indicated it was to go big and make a run at a world series. Their actions indicated it's to be the "smartest" GM in the room and avoid a "bad" contract at all costs, even if it means they have no realistic chance at their stated goal.
  10. howeda7
    Sure, we heard that from the team. I think most fans knew in their gut what was coming. I certainly did. If you think it's all "mindset" don't you think the "mindset" of the team and the line-up would have been better in game 2 if we'd had MadBaum on the mound instead of an Uber Driver with 5 career starts?
  11. howeda7
    First, it takes 8 starters to get through a season, on average. Dobnak/Smeltzer/Thorpe should be options 5/6/7 not 3/4/5. It's very likely at least one of them will be a complete bust, and it's unlikely any of the 3 will be a legit #3 starter in 2020. As currently constructed I would certainly take the Field to win the AL Central over the Twins. Forget worrying about play-offs.
  12. howeda7
    On a sunny day, you might not pay $50 for an umbrella. When it's pouring rain, you will. The Twins rotation has black clouds hanging over it. And Falvey is sitting with a roll of $50's looking for a "deal" and the umbrella store just sold out.
  13. howeda7
    We all knew the 1st round sweep was likely coming. Still frustrating, but we were braced for it. But many believed the front office when they said they would "go for it" even though they never have before. Because there was a new sheriff. Learning he's just like old sheriff is incredibly frustrating and depressing as a fan. It's also not fun feeling like you were lied to.
  14. howeda7
    It's pretty obvious they didn't. Did they make "big $ offers" yes. Were they the highest bidder on anyone? I doubt it. But "no one wants to come here."
  15. howeda7
    Any idiot could just go sign players to plug the massive holes on their roster. Where's the challenge in that? Smart guys like Falvey know better.
  16. howeda7
    It probably wouldn't have. But you still had a lead in the division and the best offense in team history. If you don't go for it then, you never will. They didn't know in July 2006 that Liriano's arm was about to fall off either. It doesn't justify clinging to Kevin Slowy and Scott Baker instead of adding Soriano and letting Jason Tyner DH.
  17. howeda7
    The three biggest FO flops of the last 30 years are: -Not acquiring a starter at the deadline last year -Not acquiring a bat at the deadline in 2006. -Not addressing the 2020 rotation. Congrats, Falvey, you've outdone Terry Ryan in only 3 years.
  18. howeda7
    If I spend any $ going to Twins games this year, they will be road games.
  19. howeda7
    It's a false choice, MSP is not KC. But even if this was the choice, give me the WS every time.
  20. howeda7
    At this point, I'd trade play-off appearances for the next 3 years for a new owner and new front office.
  21. howeda7
    It feels like it, because we are. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. But with stats.
  22. howeda7
    I hope he signs somewhere today so we can learn how we were thisclose to getting him.
  23. howeda7
    Before everyone gets excited, everyone knows that Donaldson spent his childhood summers at a church camp outside Gainesville, VA and has no interest in coming to our frozen tundra.
  24. howeda7
    If they have to rely on these guys with no veteran help, Falvey and Levine have failed massively at their jobs.
  25. howeda7
    None of the FA contracts or trades are going to "make sense" you're either going to overpay and upgrade your rotation and your punting on 2020.
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