Comments on Nick's Twins Blog: A Po$itive Trend

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2010-05-14T03:07:53.286-05:00

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I guess that we give up. No one is supposed to not...

2009-10-29T08:02:17.477-05:00

I guess that we give up. No one is supposed to not like Gardy, right? I mean, all those who look at the Twins just say "hey, they're small ball, no one expects them to do well." Who wouldn't want to be manager with that scenario over your head? You'd have nothing to LOSE. And, if he had any balls at all, he'd come up to the Pohlad family and say, "you're a FORUTNE 500 so START spending the money!!" Doesn't it take money to make money? If I were Gardy, I'd take my chances with Punto having naked pics of me, and get him OFF the team. I can't find a worse hitting player, god knows how long, that starts more than sits. I wouldn't have him on my MINOR league team. Here's the homer Twin's fan "oh, he's got such a great glove!" You know, don't even go there, I've seen him make enough base running blunders, and his awful at bats, don't quite make up for his supposed GOLD GLOVE, lmao! I don't recall baseball being a "one dimensional" game, do you? I's ship Crain and Keppel out FIRST chance I had. They've been given MORE than enough time to make a more positive impact on the team. And Nathan? O M G, I'd rather have a "lesser reliever" who actually shows up in the postseason than this guy, the new Mr. UN-October. I'd have shitcanned him the day that series ended. He looked like a toddler out there.

@ Dwade: So Buscher puts up one subpar season of ....

2009-10-16T17:00:36.203-05:00

@ Dwade: So Buscher puts up one subpar season of .234/.360/.316 after hitting .294/.340/.390 (I admit the SLG is too low in both...but he IMPROVED his OBP in a season where his BA was greatly lower!) and he immediately becomes replacement level? I also understand that RBI is a poor statistic to use, but he did accumulate 47 last year when he only had 218 AB and while batting in the lower half of the lineup. Can't we argue the same with Perkins, where he just came off a poor season following a pretty solid one (albeit aided by run support)?

I think most of the fans should have realized that even with Target Field, the payroll wasn't going to increase significantly. The Pohlads never spent much on the Twins, and it really shouldn't change until the Twins start finding new ways to bring in revenue. Creating Victory Sports One wasn't a bad idea in my opinion, it's just that the Twins couldn't reach a contract with any large cable providers, angering fans and what eventually made the network a disaster. I do agree Nick, that I believe the Twins did say that the payroll would increase, both in the years before Target Field and after the Twins moved in.

Well I think the additional revenues could have be...

2009-10-16T12:38:52.824-05:00

Well I think the additional revenues could have been expected due to improved attendance/concesions as people jockey for seating in the new stadium as well as increased partnerships from corporate sponsers jockeying for a piece of that action... that's the increased revenues but my guess is that money in part is off setting the additional expenses that they plunked down to make the stadium a bit more plush....

All in all, I'm not concerned about how much they're spending but their willingness to strategically spend the dollars to make the team better.

I've never understood where the assumption that th...

2009-10-16T11:03:35.202-05:00

I've never understood where the assumption that the Twins were going to "ramp up spending in the years leading up to the opening of Target Field" came from.

I'm pretty sure the Twins' brass specifically said something to that effect at one point.

I've never understood where the assumption that th...

2009-10-16T09:52:39.393-05:00

I've never understood where the assumption that the Twins were going to "ramp up spending in the years leading up to the opening of Target Field" came from. It's always been my feeling that once the ballpark opened up, and new revenues were coming in, that then payrolls would go up.

Simply put, the Twins will need to do something th...

2009-10-16T00:28:57.057-05:00

Simply put, the Twins will need to do something they seldom do: non-tender players.

Honestly, does Glen Perkins have a future with this team? Does Brian Buscher? (You can argue the former, but the latter...replacement level) Cut them, let someone like Tolleson try his (much cheaper) hand, and spend the money on players who will actually make the team better.