All Things 2025 Minnesota Twins In-Season Thread

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howeda7 said:
Sure but the trade occurred before 7/31.

I'm aware but I don't think that was the case with this one.
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Dave Hollins was traded from the Twins to Seattle on August 29, 1996 (he had to pass through waivers, then the Twins traded him to Seattle). The deal was simply for a PTBNL. What usually happens is the two teams agree on a list of players and the team receiving the PTBNL has until an agreed upon date to say who they want. That's what happened with Ortiz, going from Seattle to Minnesota.
 


Hahah Ken Rosenthal being an ahole . What is it with sports reporters being the worst humans? Sid, Rosie, Mike Max included in being self important knobs. The athletes they report on are more gracious and humble than these wanna bees. Note. Geo. Darkstarr was also a kid shovin me first loserZ
 
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Ope3 said:
Perhaps had they known Ortiz was about to change his physical regimen they would have hung on to what became a HoF Career.
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Then again maybe he just wanted out of Minnesota
 

From the Parkinglot said:
I think he’s gone this winter. I also have no faith the current front office will get something back in return who can play. That’s what makes the bullpen trades this season so bad. They traded away everything and who’s knows if anyone they got can play. The pitchers are far from rookies and have been bad. I will always have that Joe Ryan signed ball though.
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I once read it usually takes a good year or two to know if the trades are successful or not.

Bradley has made four starts -

First was brutal
Second was one ER in 5 innings
Third was mediocre
Fourth was a quality start.

In his last two starts he’s gotten 25%+ of his strikes have been swinging- anything over-13/14% is elite. Can all that talent be consistently harnessed 🤷‍♂️

Rojas started the year Double A threw 18 innings before being bumped to AAA; he was in A ball last year. Will he develop into a starting lefty 🤷‍♂️

The position players on Low minors 🤷‍♂️

SWR has exceeded my expectations and I’m likely not the only one, to become a valuable and regularly available member of the staff😀

Most things sux about getting older, but bring more patient in my experience, isn’t one of them - I was a Type AAA

Musings of a middle aged man
 
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Gopher_In_NYC said:
SWR has exceeded my expectations and I’m likely not the only one, to become a valuable and regularly available member of the staff😀
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11Ks in 7 innings; 16 first pitch strikes for the 22 batters he faced - Wow, one of the best starting efforts this year on the staff.

Cheeks in the mail and thanks for helping me get one right😀

Gopher_In_NYC said:
Most things sux about getting older, but bring more patient in my experience, isn’t one of them - I was a Type AAA

Musings of a middle aged man
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Both playing for their hometown Minnesota Twins, St. Paul natives and University of Minnesota all-time greats Dave Winfield and Paul Molitor collected their 3,000th hits on this date in 1993 and '96, respectively.

Molitor was the first person to triple for their 3,000th hit.

Winfield's 3,000th was especially epic.

It came off Hall of Fame closer Dennis Eckersley with Kirby Puckett on third down 2-0 in the bottom of the ninth. Scott Stahoviak drove in Winny to tie the game. Dave Henderson put Oakland up 4-2 in the 13th inning, but the Twins rallied for three runs in the bottom of the inning, with Chip Hale driving in
Denny Hocking for the walk-off win.

Jim Kaat was the color commentator on the telecast.

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TRF Guy said:
Then again maybe he just wanted out of Minnesota
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I think the biggest thing is he wanted to play everyday. That didn't happen right away at Boston either and he was openly mad about it. If the Red Sox had not traded Shea Hillenbrand in late May his first year in Boston (2003), who knows what would have happened.

Ortiz was a guy that just had to consistently play everyday. At the end of June in 2003 he had just 4 home runs. He finally got to play everyday the rest of the way and hit 27 in July, August and September.

There's a misconception that the Twins were really stupid to let him go at the time and that Boston really loved him right away but that wasn't the truth. There wasn't great interest in him after the Twins let him go and Boston was still initially giving Jeremy Giambi at-bats over Ortiz at times.
 

Knew damn well the Yankees were going to come out swinging tonight after getting the goose egg last night. 2-0 after a half inning
 










More cost cutting measures. I fully expect next year the few people that go will have to bring their own cups for over priced drinks and their own toilet paper. Honestly tear down target field and expand the garbage burner at this point.
 

BleedGopher said:

Win Twins!!
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Slim Tubby said:
Disgraceful.
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While that was my initial reaction after seeing the tweet as well, after the reading the article I am not so sure anymore.

Most of what the scouts were doing does not need to be done in person anymore and the Twins are hardly alone with this type of cost saving measure. The Cubs were mentioned as one of the several other teams going the same route.
 

Ope3 said:
While that was my initial reaction after seeing the tweet as well, after the reading the article I am not so sure anymore.

Most of what the scouts were doing does not need to be done in person anymore and the Twins are hardly alone with this type of cost saving measure. The Cubs were mentioned as one of the several other teams going the same route.
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Right. But they've dug themselves such a deep hole from a PR/public perception standpoint that anything they do that even partially appears to be a cost-cutting move is going to get a side-eye from the media and public.
 

Breakin' The Plane said:
Right. But they've dug themselves such a deep hole from a PR/public perception standpoint that anything they do that even partially appears to be a cost-cutting move is going to get a side-eye from the media and public.
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No denying that fact.
 

Ope3 said:
While that was my initial reaction after seeing the tweet as well, after the reading the article I am not so sure anymore.

Most of what the scouts were doing does not need to be done in person anymore and the Twins are hardly alone with this type of cost saving measure. The Cubs were mentioned as one of the several other teams going the same route.
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I hope it's the beginning of canning Derek and his entire gang of spreadsheet nerds. They may be cheap on player payroll sometimes but they basically tripled the # of people in the front office and this is the result.
 


howeda7 said:
I hope it's the beginning of canning Derek and his entire gang of spreadsheet nerds. They may be cheap on player payroll sometimes but they basically tripled the # of people in the front office and this is the result.
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Except from reading the article, I don't think these 4 Scouts that were axed were part of the "gang of spreadsheet nerds." These were the guys that actually traveled to other MLB and Minor League ball parks to evaluate talent and/or advance scout for the big league team.
 

Ope3 said:
Except from reading the article, I don't think these 4 Scouts that were axed were part of the "gang of spreadsheet nerds." These were the guys that actually traveled to other MLB and Minor League ball parks to evaluate talent and/or advance scout for the big league team.
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Revenge of the Nerds....they don't need real scouts. They've got spreadsheets and videos.

In any event, I think folks leaping to the assumption that this means they're trading Pablo and Joe Ryan are being a tad hasty. I doubt it's really primarily about $$.
 



Ope3 said:
Except from reading the article, I don't think these 4 Scouts that were axed were part of the "gang of spreadsheet nerds." These were the guys that actually traveled to other MLB and Minor League ball parks to evaluate talent and/or advance scout for the big league team.
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You remind me of the Clint Eastwood movie, "Trouble with the Curve" where the team wants to get rid of the old veteran scout and go with metrics. The newbies pick the wrong kid and the old vet is proved right.
 

FinnGopher said:
You remind me of the Clint Eastwood movie, "Trouble with the Curve" where the team wants to get rid of the old veteran scout and go with metrics. The newbies pick the wrong kid and the old vet is proved right.
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From what I'm reading, there will be no change to the amateur scouting department.

Like has been written before, most teams are getting rid of most of their pro scouting. Teams are doing more video studying than looking at written reports.
 

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