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RE: Twins 2024 Season and Game Day Thread - 10/10/2024 9:49:42 AM

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Hurricane Milton has delivered what we can only hope is the death blow to the worst stadium in baseball, Tropicana Field. The roof was ripped apart.

I was there in April. It's not too bad.

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RE: Twins 2024 Season and Game Day Thread - 10/10/2024 10:16:00 AM

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Pohlad family just announced their "intent to explore a sale of the Minnesota Twins."

Statement from Joe Pohlad: "Our family reached a decision this summer to explore selling the Twins. As we enter the next phase of this process, the time is right to make this decision public."

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RE: Twins 2024 Season and Game Day Thread - 10/10/2024 10:36:55 AM

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Pohlad Family To Explore Sale Of Twins

Twins owner Joe Pohlad, grandson of longtime owner Carl Pohlad and nephew of successor Jim Pohlad, announced that his family will begin exploring a sale of the team. The Pohlad family has owned the Twins since 1984 — the third-longest tenure of any ownership group in the sport behind only the Steinbrenner family (Yankees) and Jerry Reinsdorf (White Sox).

“For the past 40 seasons, the Minnesota Twins have been part of our family’s heart and soul,” Pohlad said in this morning’s press release. “This team is woven into the fabric of our lives, and the Twins community has become an extension of our family. The staff, the players, and most importantly, you, the fans — everyone who makes up this unbelievable organization — is part of that. We’ve never taken lightly the privilege of being stewards of this franchise. However, after months of thoughtful consideration, our family reached a decision this summer to explore selling the Twins. As we enter the next phase of this process, the time is right to make this decision public.

We truly respect and cherish what the Twins mean to Minneapolis, St. Paul, the great state of Minnesota, and this entire region. Our goal is to be as informative as possible with the team, staff, and you, the fans. You deserve that, because in so many ways, this team doesn’t belong to any one family – it belongs to all of you. It’s our objective to find an ownership group who all of us can be proud of and who will take care of the Minnesota Twins.

After four decades of commitment, passion, and countless memories, we are looking toward the future with care and intention – for our family, the Twins organization, and this community we love so much.”

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RE: Twins 2024 Season and Game Day Thread - 10/10/2024 10:41:22 AM

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Should they sell, I would only ask that it be an owner who wants to WIN. That understands that to be truly profitable in sports Ownership there needs to be a commitment to pursuing championships. No more bottom liners.

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RE: Twins 2024 Season and Game Day Thread - 10/10/2024 10:45:30 AM

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Should they sell, I would only ask that it be an owner who wants to WIN. That understands that to be truly profitable in sports Ownership there needs to be a commitment to pursuing championships. No more bottom liners.

They will sell to whomever offers the best deal for the Pohlads financially.

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RE: Twins 2024 Season and Game Day Thread - 10/10/2024 11:08:09 AM

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Should they sell, I would only ask that it be an owner who wants to WIN. That understands that to be truly profitable in sports Ownership there needs to be a commitment to pursuing championships. No more bottom liners.

They will sell to whomever offers the best deal for the Pohlads financially.

I am praying to the baseball Gods here. Not asking the Pohlads. That'd be like asking Donald Trump to tell me the truth.

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RE: Twins 2024 Season and Game Day Thread - 10/10/2024 11:11:58 AM

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Should they sell, I would only ask that it be an owner who wants to WIN. That understands that to be truly profitable in sports Ownership there needs to be a commitment to pursuing championships. No more bottom liners.

They will sell to whomever offers the best deal for the Pohlads financially.

I am praying to the baseball Gods here. Not asking the Pohlads. That'd be like asking Donald Trump to tell me the truth.

Not quite.

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RE: Twins 2024 Season and Game Day Thread - 10/10/2024 12:00:15 PM

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Dave St. Peter may want to get that severance package negotiated NOW.

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RE: Twins 2024 Season and Game Day Thread - 10/10/2024 12:12:10 PM

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Hurricane Milton has delivered what we can only hope is the death blow to the worst stadium in baseball, Tropicana Field. The roof was ripped apart.

I was there in April. It's not too bad.

For an airplane hangar.

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RE: Twins 2024 Season and Game Day Thread - 10/10/2024 2:37:02 PM

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The Orioles (who never had a payroll) went for 1.7 billion to a group led by Bloomberg/Ripken.....odds are that is what garnered the Pohlad family interest.

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RE: Twins 2024 Season and Game Day Thread - 10/10/2024 3:26:02 PM

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The Orioles (who never had a payroll) went for 1.7 billion to a group led by Bloomberg/Ripken.....odds are that is what garnered the Pohlad family interest.

Maybe there was some negative PR around how they handled the team that effected other businesses that may have contributed as well.

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RE: Twins 2024 Season and Game Day Thread - 10/10/2024 4:32:27 PM

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Defund the Pohlads placard may have been the backs of Ebeneezer Pohlads.

< Message edited by MDK -- 10/11/2024 7:58:31 AM >

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RE: Twins 2024 Season and Game Day Thread - 10/10/2024 8:54:30 PM

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It’s been a while since a MLB team was sold so there’s probably a backlog of interested parties. It’s a good time to sell. The market should be good.

Many people are claiming that this last season wasn’t a factor. I have my doubts. The calls to sell the team may not have been a primary factor, but maybe it was a last straw kind of thing. After Carl, the Pohlads aren’t really baseball people. This year may have made them think, you know what? We don’t need this any more.

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RE: Twins 2024 Season and Game Day Thread - 10/11/2024 10:06:52 AM

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It’s been a while since a MLB team was sold so there’s probably a backlog of interested parties. It’s a good time to sell. The market should be good.

Many people are claiming that this last season wasn’t a factor. I have my doubts. The calls to sell the team may not have been a primary factor, but maybe it was a last straw kind of thing. After Carl, the Pohlads aren’t really baseball people. This year may have made them think, you know what? We don’t need this any more.

What will happen to the statue of Carl and Eloise?

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RE: Twins 2024 Season and Game Day Thread - 10/11/2024 10:13:58 AM

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It’s been a while since a MLB team was sold so there’s probably a backlog of interested parties. It’s a good time to sell. The market should be good.

Many people are claiming that this last season wasn’t a factor. I have my doubts. The calls to sell the team may not have been a primary factor, but maybe it was a last straw kind of thing. After Carl, the Pohlads aren’t really baseball people. This year may have made them think, you know what? We don’t need this any more.

What will happen to the statue of Carl and Eloise?

I imagine they'll stay. The only time they remove your statue is if you were an old racist bastard.

< Message edited by Karl Juhnke -- 10/11/2024 10:46:35 AM >

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RE: Twins 2024 Season and Game Day Thread - 10/11/2024 10:35:36 AM

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It’s been a while since a MLB team was sold so there’s probably a backlog of interested parties. It’s a good time to sell. The market should be good.

Many people are claiming that this last season wasn’t a factor. I have my doubts. The calls to sell the team may not have been a primary factor, but maybe it was a last straw kind of thing. After Carl, the Pohlads aren’t really baseball people. This year may have made them think, you know what? We don’t need this any more.

What will happen to the statue of Carl and Eloise?

I imagine they'll stay. The only time they remove you statue is if you were an old racist bastard.

The "north end of a south bound brontosaurus".

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RE: Twins 2024 Season and Game Day Thread - 10/11/2024 11:11:07 AM

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Saw it down the middle. Keep Eloise in place. Sell Carl for scrap metal.

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RE: Twins 2024 Season and Game Day Thread - 10/14/2024 3:41:32 PM

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It was 2021 with the
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Now the #MNTwins employ that hitting coach again.
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Among the possible outcomes for the #MNTwins hitting coach, this one could arguably be the best.
Welcome back @MBorgy7!

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The #MNTwins will be hiring Matt Borgschulte, who has been an Orioles co-hitting coach the past three seasons, as a hitting coach. He coached in the Twins system before that and is one of many examples of coaches poached from the organization recently.

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RE: Twins 2024 Season and Game Day Thread - 10/15/2024 12:09:25 PM

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Willi Castro is a Gold Glove finalist!?!??!

His defense sucks!

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RE: Twins 2024 Season and Game Day Thread - 10/15/2024 7:20:14 PM

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Willi Castro is a Gold Glove finalist!?!??!

His defense sucks!

I wouldn’t say sucks. But yeah gold glove? That’s a huge stretch.

Santana on the other hand deserves it.

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RE: Twins 2024 Season and Game Day Thread - 10/16/2024 9:00:33 AM

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Willi Castro is a Gold Glove finalist!?!??!

His defense sucks!

I wouldn’t say sucks. But yeah gold glove? That’s a huge stretch.

Santana on the other hand deserves it.

His defensive runs saved above (below) average at every position he played in 2024:

SS - negative 23
2B - negative 13
LF - negative 16
CF - negative 17
3B - zero (exactly average)
P - zero (exactly average)

His defense sucks.

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RE: Twins 2024 Season and Game Day Thread - 10/16/2024 9:04:45 AM

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ORIGINAL: twinsfan

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ORIGINAL: twinsfan

Willi Castro is a Gold Glove finalist!?!??!

His defense sucks!

I wouldn’t say sucks. But yeah gold glove? That’s a huge stretch.

Santana on the other hand deserves it.

His defensive runs saved above (below) average at every position he played in 2024:

SS - negative 23
2B - negative 13
LF - negative 16
CF - negative 17
3B - zero (exactly average)
P - zero (exactly average)

His defense sucks.

In this popularity contest called the Gold Glove award. Willi Castro has no real chance of actually winning it.

Is he under contract for next year? Let him go.

The Gold Glove has long been a joke. When Rafael Palmeiro won playing just 40 games at 1B and the rest at DH, over Doug Mietkiewicz...it was clear they didn't really care about actual defensive play.

Castro sucks, or doesn't suck. It doesn't matter. he wont win the award and he wont be a Twin for very much longer.

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RE: Twins 2024 Season and Game Day Thread - 10/16/2024 10:42:00 AM

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ORIGINAL: Trekgeekscott

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ORIGINAL: twinsfan

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ORIGINAL: Karl Juhnke

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ORIGINAL: twinsfan

Willi Castro is a Gold Glove finalist!?!??!

His defense sucks!

I wouldn’t say sucks. But yeah gold glove? That’s a huge stretch.

Santana on the other hand deserves it.

His defensive runs saved above (below) average at every position he played in 2024:

SS - negative 23
2B - negative 13
LF - negative 16
CF - negative 17
3B - zero (exactly average)
P - zero (exactly average)

His defense sucks.

In this popularity contest called the Gold Glove award. Willi Castro has no real chance of actually winning it.

Is he under contract for next year? Let him go.

The Gold Glove has long been a joke. When Rafael Palmeiro won playing just 40 games at 1B and the rest at DH, over Doug Mietkiewicz...it was clear they didn't really care about actual defensive play.

Castro sucks, or doesn't suck. It doesn't matter. he wont win the award and he wont be a Twin for very much longer.

Palmero played 28 games that year. The only thing worse was Mark McGuire playing a full season at 1B and winning a GG.

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RE: Twins 2024 Season and Game Day Thread - 10/16/2024 11:03:15 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Trekgeekscott

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ORIGINAL: twinsfan

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ORIGINAL: Karl Juhnke

quote:

ORIGINAL: twinsfan

Willi Castro is a Gold Glove finalist!?!??!

His defense sucks!

I wouldn’t say sucks. But yeah gold glove? That’s a huge stretch.

Santana on the other hand deserves it.

His defensive runs saved above (below) average at every position he played in 2024:

SS - negative 23
2B - negative 13
LF - negative 16
CF - negative 17
3B - zero (exactly average)
P - zero (exactly average)

His defense sucks.

In this popularity contest called the Gold Glove award. Willi Castro has no real chance of actually winning it.
Is he under contract for next year? Let him go.
The Gold Glove has long been a joke. When Rafael Palmeiro won playing just 40 games at 1B and the rest at DH, over Doug Mietkiewicz...it was clear they didn't really care about actual defensive play.
Castro sucks, or doesn't suck. It doesn't matter. he wont win the award and he wont be a Twin for very much longer.

Why do you think he is gone? Seems to be liked by Rocco.

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RE: Twins 2024 Season and Game Day Thread - 10/16/2024 11:04:34 AM

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ORIGINAL: Phil Riewer

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ORIGINAL: Trekgeekscott

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ORIGINAL: twinsfan

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ORIGINAL: Karl Juhnke

quote:

ORIGINAL: twinsfan

Willi Castro is a Gold Glove finalist!?!??!

His defense sucks!

I wouldn’t say sucks. But yeah gold glove? That’s a huge stretch.

Santana on the other hand deserves it.

His defensive runs saved above (below) average at every position he played in 2024:

SS - negative 23
2B - negative 13
LF - negative 16
CF - negative 17
3B - zero (exactly average)
P - zero (exactly average)

His defense sucks.

In this popularity contest called the Gold Glove award. Willi Castro has no real chance of actually winning it.
Is he under contract for next year? Let him go.
The Gold Glove has long been a joke. When Rafael Palmeiro won playing just 40 games at 1B and the rest at DH, over Doug Mietkiewicz...it was clear they didn't really care about actual defensive play.
Castro sucks, or doesn't suck. It doesn't matter. he wont win the award and he wont be a Twin for very much longer.

Why do you think he is gone? Seems to be liked by Rocco.

This team doesn't keep guys it can replace for cheap. Willi will cost more.

So , Bye bye

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