All Things 2025 Minnesota Twins In-Season Thread

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This gonna be a long season of Twins baseball. About to get swept by the Cardinals.

That a 5 run inning for the Cardinals.
 

Ober was almost unhittable this spring. Being lit up like a Christmas tree.
Not ideal way to start season.
 

Only 3 games. No big deal.

I recall telling myself that same thing early last August 😬.
 



I didn't catch any of the games, but looking at the box scores noticed Julien got zero at bats against three right handed starters.
I haven't heard that he is injured. Am I missing something?
 

golf said:
I didn't catch any of the games, but looking at the box scores noticed Julien got zero at bats against three right handed starters.
I haven't heard that he is injured. Am I missing something?
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Julien entered the game and is playing 2B. Not likely to get an AB unless there's a big 9th inning rally.
 

I hope they limp into the home opener 2-4 (or worse) and everyone shows up, gets whatever stupid giveaway and leaves. It’s early, but sometimes you reap what you sow.
 

Twins get swept away in St Louis. Horrible start to this long season.
 



Ope3 said:
I didn't hear most of the broadcast, but it was pretty apparent in Spring Training that Wallner is going to be the primary lead off hitting.

I assume that they like his OB% and want to get him to the plate more often, which is the default for most teams decision as to pencil in the #1 spot.
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Thanks.

I understand that logic and it holds water, IMO, if you have a legit offense and several guys in the heart of the order who can go yard on a regular basis.

Whst baffles me about this. Is the Twins don’t. He’s our most realistic/best (only??) option to hit 30+ fingers, I want him in the middle of the lineup and hopefully coming up with as many guys on base as possible.

Fire Rocco!! Is that how you do it??
 




gophersfan said:
Twins get swept away in St Louis. Horrible start to this long season.
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Once the wolves and Wild get taken out.......we will be begging for football season.

They call it the sports abyss, and this is going to be a long one.
 


Maybe they didn't rightsize the payroll enough during the offseason.
 



stocker08 said:
Couldn't have been because we signed Ty France.
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Mostly because the contract extension for Pablo Lopez kicked in and Harrison Bador was picked up for over $6M.
 


This team has issues but it's nowhere near as bad as they've been since last August and now it's just continuing. Rocco's seat should be in flames if this continues until May 1st.

And the Pohlads should take whatever the best offer is and run. Fan interest in this team is as low as it's ever been. Attendance and TV #'s are going to be awful. The value isn't getting any higher.
 

howeda7 said:
And the Pohlads should take whatever the best offer is and run. Fan interest in this team is as low as it's ever been. Attendance and TV #'s are going to be awful. The value isn't getting any higher.
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If the best offers are shorting them multiple hundreds of millions of dollars from what the Orioles received ($1.7B), they are just going to sit and wait. Probably until the next labor agreements are hashed out along with national/regional broadcast deals.

While the value may not get any higher short term, it likely will over 5-10 years. Unless their other business ventures are tanking to a point they can't handle additional Twins debt, I can easily seeing them pull the franchise from the market just as the Angels & Nationals did.
 

Ope3 said:
If the best offers are shorting them multiple hundreds of millions of dollars from what the Orioles received ($1.7B), they are just going to sit and wait. Probably until the next labor agreements are hashed out along with national/regional broadcast deals.

While the value may not get any higher short term, it likely will over 5-10 years. Unless their other business ventures are tanking to a point they can't handle additional Twins debt, I can easily seeing them pull the franchise from the market just as the Angels & Nationals did.
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I'm not sure it will, at least not enough to make it worth holding onto and racking up another $100 million in losses. MLB is in trouble. The TV ratings aren't yet at the bottom. ESPN is bailing. I doubt any new deal to sell the regional rights to Amazon will do more than get them back even with where they were 2-3 years ago with the RSN's. The labor stoppage could be long and ugly. And the Pohlads are deeply unpopular to the point that it is actively hurting attendance and TV ratings.

I'd take $1.5 billion in 2025 before hoping to get $1.7 in 2028.
 
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Can we forfit the season. Twins already down 3 to Chicago and it not even the end of the 1st inning.
 

howeda7 said:
I'm not sure it will, at least not enough to make it worth holding onto and racking up another $100 million in losses. MLB is in trouble. The TV ratings aren't yet at the bottom. ESPN is bailing. I doubt any new deal to sell the regional rights to Amazon will do more than get them back even with where they were 2-3 years ago with the RSN's. The labor stoppage could be long and ugly. And the Pohlads are deeply unpopular to the point that it is actively hurting attendance and TV ratings.

I'd take $1.5 billion in 2025 before hoping to get $1.7 in 2028.
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I don't dispute any of the challenges you have laid out, but I also think that's why it seems unlikely that any serious bidder is out there offering up the $1.5 B figure.
 

Runners on 2nd and 3rd with one out. 3-1 count on Vaughn with a nobody on deck.
Paddack figures a great time to throw one right down the middle 🙄.
3-0 Sox after one inning.
 

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