All Things 2025 Minnesota Twins In-Season Thread

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Kansas City DH Harmon Killebrew hit his final career home run off the Twins' Eddie Bane in the second inning of a 4-3 Royals win at Met Stadium on this date in 1975.

Rod Carew homered in the game for Minnesota.

Killebrew's 573 home runs were fifth-most in MLB history at the time of his retirement, and trailed only Babe Ruth in American League history. He was eventually elected to the Hall of Fame on his fourth ballot.

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Clayton Kershaw has announced this will be his final year.

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All-time legend Kershaw will retire after this season

LOS ANGELES -- Back in Spring Training, when he signed a contract to return to the big leagues for his 18th season, Clayton Kershaw reiterated his desire to retire as a Dodger. Retirement had crossed the veteran left-hander's mind leading into this year, but after losing much of the prior
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Not surprising, but given his resurgence I also would have thought maybe he had 1 more season in him.
 

Admittedly, I've mostly checked out since the organization loudly threw in the towel at the end of July. Was more than a little surprised to glance at the standings and see that the Central is still very much in doubt. If Cleveland takes 3 of 4 here and Detroit doesn't sweep Atlanta, those two teams go next week with the division at stake.
 

Breakin' The Plane said:
Admittedly, I've mostly checked out since the organization loudly threw in the towel at the end of July. Was more than a little surprised to glance at the standings and see that the Central is still very much in doubt. If Cleveland takes 3 of 4 here and Detroit doesn't sweep Atlanta, those two teams go next week with the division at stake.
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Guards have been on fire.
 



Pablo Lopez left the game with "forearm tightness" in the 4th inning in his right arm, not from throwing but diving for a ball.
 

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story...r-tells-mlb-boss-get-clubhouse

There is far more disparity in MLB payrolls than NBA payrolls.

For instance, Dodgers and Mets have the highest payrolls at $340 and $333 million whereas the lowest payroll teams are the White Sox, A's and Marlins at $78, $77 and $68 million respectively. So there's almost a 5 to 1 ratio between the highest payroll team and the lowest payroll team.

https://www.spotrac.com/mlb/payroll

In the NBA, the highest payrolls for the 2025-26 season are the Cavs at $224.6 and Celtics at $205.9 million and the lowest payrolls are the Wizards, Jazz and Nets at $135.4, $133.25 and $114.3 million for active players. That means Cavs have less than a 2-1 ratio over the Nets.

https://www.spotrac.com/nba/cap

The MLBPA accuses the owners of pushing for a salary cap to boost team valuations. It's not clear that a salary cap, if it led to more parity, would make the sport more popular, possibly leading to more lucrative TV contracts and more revenues.

ESPN is willing to walk away from MLB TV rights unless they can negotiate for much lower fees, so while the biggest stars like Ohtani and Judge are on two of the highest-spending teams in the sport, it's not clear that they make the sport overall more popular. No doubt the Dodgers and the NY teams are probably getting great local TV ratings and attendance.

But most of the other teams can't spend over $300 million to try to compete for WS rings.

Also not clear if a salary cap would make the sport more popular either. When superstars of the sport sign 10 or 15 year contracts worth well over $500 billion, does it make the sport more or less popular?

Do fans of teams who can't sign the biggest free agents every year like the Dodgers and the NY teams still remain interested in the sport?
 






Did not watch any of the Twins anymore. Can next week be the last week of Rocco as our manager.

Today doubleheader and we got shutout in both games.
 

TRF Guy said:
Kansas City DH Harmon Killebrew hit his final career home run off the Twins' Eddie Bane in the second inning of a 4-3 Royals win at Met Stadium on this date in 1975.

Rod Carew homered in the game for Minnesota.

Killebrew's 573 home runs were fifth-most in MLB history at the time of his retirement, and trailed only Babe Ruth in American League history. He was eventually elected to the Hall of Fame on his fourth ballot.

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That picture is unnatural and should be banished from the internet
 

gophersfan said:
Did not watch any of the Twins anymore. Can next week be the last week of Rocco as our manager.

Today doubleheader and we got shutout in both games.
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This organization has lots of problems. I think that Falvey fancies himself some sort of managerial genius, so he sticks his nose in decisions that the manager should be making and since Baldelli lacks the spine to say no, he gets to stick around.
 



Breakin' The Plane said:
This organization has lots of problems. I think that Falvey fancies himself some sort of managerial genius, so he sticks his nose in decisions that the manager should be making and since Baldelli lacks the spine to say no, he gets to stick around.
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I don't think Falvey will be given a choice. They can't possibly run it back in 2026 with no changes.
 


howeda7 said:
I don't think Falvey will be given a choice. They can't possibly run it back in 2026 with no changes.
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I think you are underestimating the Pohlads.

While they probably make a move, I can also see them not being gung ho on paying 2 managers salaries amongst all these budget cuts, uncertain TV dough and strong likelihood of a Lock Out/Strike.
 

Ope3 said:
I think you are underestimating the Pohlads.

While they probably make a move, I can also see them not being gung ho on paying 2 managers salaries amongst all these budget cuts, uncertain TV dough and strong likelihood of a Lock Out/Strike.
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Rocco's "extension" was for next year. How many managers get fired without at least one year left? I know they're cheap but..
 

howeda7 said:
Rocco's "extension" was for next year. How many managers get fired without at least one year left? I know they're cheap but..
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I'm just saying if they don't expect to compete anyway in 2026, with 2027 uncertain of even happening I could see the cost saving move of standing pat.

I can also see him getting axed, which for Rocco would be as much of a mercy killing as anything.
 



Harmon Killebrew hit four home runs at Fenway Park on this date in 1963.

He hit three in the first game of a doubleheader and another in Game 2.

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If the owners refuse to even try to field a competitive team, does it even matter who the manager is?

If the Pohlads are as money-grubbing as they appear to be, then surely Rocco really hasn't been the main problem.
 

RememberMurray said:
If the owners refuse to even try to field a competitive team, does it even matter who the manager is?

If the Pohlads are as money-grubbing as they appear to be, then surely Rocco really hasn't been the main problem.
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Agree. Both points.
 






Robot umps confirmed for 2026. Might give a reason to watch if they are as dreadful as expected.
 

howeda7 said:
I'd say trading for Chris Paddock is more to blame.
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I had kind of forgot about Paddack. In his 11 appearances with the Tigers, he has only been the pitcher of record in 4 games, going 2-2. It was the Twins who hung both Ls on his resume.

He's been coming out of the Bullpen since the start of September, registering 1 save.

www.baseball-reference.com

Chris Paddack 2025 Pitching Game Logs | Baseball-Reference.com

Chris Paddack Every game played with complete stats, links to box scores and automated row summing for 2025
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