All Things 2024-25 Minnesota Twins Off-Season Thread

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forever a gopher said:
And just sign reliever Tanner Scott to 4/$72. Its like they’re intentionally trying to piss off all the other owners into instituting a salary cap.
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Ope3 said:
I wonder if it's enough to even push other big spenders like the Yankees and Red Sox to being pro-salary cap.

It could get down to the Dodgers and Mets as the lone holdouts for the spend like there is no tomorrow philosophy.
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Nailed it.

www.espn.com

Steinbrenner: 'Difficult' to spend like Dodgers

Yankees owner Hal Steinbrenner said it is "difficult" for other teams to keep up with the Dodgers' offseason spending.
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coolhandgopher said:
This is an incredibly interesting graph, not just from the perspective of the Twins lack of spending, but the vast disparity between those top two franchises and everyone else--if you add up the entire NL and AL Central franchises plus the Angels plus the Marlins--all those teams combined would still slot in under the Mets for third on the list. That the Dodgers have spent more than teams 11-30 on this list is bonkers.

And as much as I am a "take it as it comes and enjoy having games every day in the summer" type of fan, that the Twins are getting lapped by the likes of the Pirates and Rays is something. As Ope says this BS should equate to $1 beers and dogs.
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The amazing thing is the Twins still have the highest payroll in the AL Central.
 


howeda7 said:
Cut the check and stay out of the GM's business please.
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That doesn't strike me as the Ishbia modus operandi, given how they have handled their HCs and Free Agents.
 


Ope3 said:
That doesn't strike me as the Ishbia modus operandi, given how they have handled their HCs and Free Agents.
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I believe the "other" brother is the one that would be the main owner of the Twins. Hopefully he's the John Harbaugh of the pair.
 












Happy 53rd birthday to former Twins outfielder Rich Becker. He had a heckuva game on July 13, 1996, going 4-for-6 with two home runs, a triple, and a double. Those four extra-base hits are tied for the most in Twins history, and the 13 total bases are tied for second-most. (Bet you know who holds the team record for total bases in a game. Heck, you can probably even name the year, city, and day of the week.)

Becker and Kenny Lofton led MLB center fielders with 11 assists in 1995, and Becker led the majors outright with 16 in 1996. He led all outfielders with five double plays turned in 1995 and nine in 1996.

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TRF Guy said:
Happy 53rd birthday to former Twins outfielder Rich Becker. He had a heckuva game on July 13, 1996, going 4-for-6 with two home runs, a triple, and a double. Those four extra-base hits are tied for the most in Twins history, and the 13 total bases are tied for second-most. (Bet you know who holds the team record for total bases in a game. Heck, you can probably even name the year, city, and day of the week.)

Becker and Kenny Lofton led MLB center fielders with 11 assists in 1995, and Becker led the majors outright with 16 in 1996. He led all outfielders with five double plays turned in 1995 and nine in 1996.

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Nine in one season from an OF? That has to be close to a record I assume?
 

TRF Guy said:
Happy 53rd birthday to former Twins outfielder Rich Becker. He had a heckuva game on July 13, 1996, going 4-for-6 with two home runs, a triple, and a double. Those four extra-base hits are tied for the most in Twins history, and the 13 total bases are tied for second-most. (Bet you know who holds the team record for total bases in a game. Heck, you can probably even name the year, city, and day of the week.)

Becker and Kenny Lofton led MLB center fielders with 11 assists in 1995, and Becker led the majors outright with 16 in 1996. He led all outfielders with five double plays turned in 1995 and nine in 1996.

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Underrated player
 


howeda7 said:
You can watch on demand as far as I know. But the problem with streaming is that it shows you how much time is left. So if the Twins are down 1 going to the top of the 9th and there's 3 minutes left in the stream, well you pretty much know they lost. It would be easy enough to fix by just defaulting how long it plays to 5 hours or something, but no one has so far.
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Just move your cursor off the screen. It goes away.

At least, on my laptop. You can start the delay feom the beginning and not look at that last portion, ypu shouldn’t have an issue.

Only time it did, was when T Wolves weee new tp Ballys. Took me a awhile to figure out how to get rid of all their garbage. Especialy their i game stats
 

Ope3 said:
Do you know what ballpark that is? I can't make out the opponent, but I think it's Baltimore Memorial Stadium. Maybe that's Brooks Robinson standing at 3B.
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Na, Brooks would have caught it. 😉
 

atsgopher said:
Just move your cursor off the screen. It goes away.

At least, on my laptop. You can start the delay feom the beginning and not look at that last portion, ypu shouldn’t have an issue.

Only time it did, was when T Wolves weee new tp Ballys. Took me a awhile to figure out how to get rid of all their garbage. Especialy their i game stats
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The whole point of watching on delay is to fast forward between innings and at bats.
 

howeda7 said:
The whole point of watching on delay is to fast forward between innings and at bats.
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Ok, makes sense, for me its usually the wolves or Wild. It would what I do for other sports with a fix ending.


Never occurred to me with Baseball, I still play adult ball. So I usually only watch on the TV, if it is on somewhere (i.e. someone else turns it on). I can’t turn it on like that, I end up outside or in the garage doing some kind of batting activity. I usually cant watch without a bat by myslef, even for a little. Strangely, I can’t turn listen on the radio better. I think it is because the need to picture it in my head takes that physical portion over.
 

howeda7 said:
The whole point of watching on delay is to fast forward between innings and at bats.
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I know it's strange but unless it's the RedZone or breaking news, I haven't watched any live TV in well over 10 years.
 

Slim Tubby said:
I know it's strange but unless it's the RedZone or breaking news, I haven't watched any live TV in well over 10 years.
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Me neither.

I didn't expect my 80 year mother to spoil the Bills/Chiefs ending (with a text) when I was about 5 minutes behind watching it live.

My bad.
 

Ope3 said:
Me neither.

I didn't expect my 80 year mother to spoil the Bills/Chiefs ending (with a text) when I was about 5 minutes behind watching it live.

My bad.
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The potential unexpected sources for spoilers are unlimited for those of us that put the world on delay.
 


Ope3 said:
Yeah, normally I am in high alert during a Viking or Gopher game.

I let my guard down, and it cost me.
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I learned the hard way how much quicker twitter is than youtube tv. I knew Blair Walsh missed the short FG against Seattle in the playoffs :30 before I saw it on my TV.

Also, I could not watch the 2005 football game against Wisconsin live. A friend of mine that is not a fan of the Gophers texted me "Did you see that crazy ending?". I told him no, I have it recorded but knew something wild happened at the end. So I knew it was something bad when the Gophers lined up to punt.

Sorry, a bit off topic now.
 

GophersInIowa said:
I learned the hard way how much quicker twitter is than youtube tv. I knew Blair Walsh missed the short FG against Seattle in the playoffs :30 before I saw it on my TV.

Also, I could not watch the 2005 football game against Wisconsin live. A friend of mine that is not a fan of the Gophers texted me "Did you see that crazy ending?". I told him no, I have it recorded but knew something wild happened at the end. So I knew it was something bad when the Gophers lined up to punt.

Sorry, a bit off topic now.
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I went to grad school out of state from 2006-2008. I had my parents record the Vikings and Gopher football games on VHS and mail them to me every Monday morning. I would usually get them on Wednesday, when I would walk to the post office (my wife had our one car to go to work) to pick them up and then come back and watch Wednesday evening. I managed to avoid all news until then so I wouldn't spoil it. Everybody that would text me knew my process, so they left me alone. Kids today have it too easy.
 

Ope3 said:
"Dumb money"
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Perhaps. You may make the claim about the last few years too though. Overspending on middling players vs more on a few better might be a nice present.

Have your heart broken in October instead of August; leave the nice warm summer months for false hope. That way You can lap the ache with more hope (vikes, wolves wild Gophs).
 



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