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Samuel
A few points supporting Mark’s answers…..
1. Trevor Rogers has had some success in the majors, and is still only 26 years-old. The O’s have removed the pressure and are working on him in AAA. I keep saying it: Organizations in MLB that win do it by making the players they have under contract better. While Dave Dombrowski signed 3-4 big name players, that’s not nearly enough for the Phillies to be where they are. They’ve developed Ranger Suarez and Cristopher Sanchez as legitimate quality ML starters. The bullpen lead MLB in blown saves when DD took over. Yes it took a bit over a year, but they’ve had one of the better bullpens since. I won’t go into their working with the position players.
OK, the trade didn’t bring instant results – as so many people that think MLB is Rotisserie League demand. Mr. Rodgers is a grown man that knows his career is at a crossroads. He’s going to cooperate and retool. Let’s see what happens in the next year or two.
2. The Guardians are being terribly underrated. MLB is now a bullpen game, and more so in the playoffs than the regular season. Managers will take starters out in the 3rd and 4th innings for whatever reasons come the playoffs. They’ll take a reliver out after facing 3 batters if he doesn’t have it that day. Bullpen depth is the most important thing. Cleveland has had the best bullpen in MLB all year.
3. There are really no stand out teams going into the playoffs this year. Top-heavy teams such as the Yankees and Dodgers have trouble in the playoffs because the top-tier players can only pitch and bat as much as the lower level guys, and those teams have more lower level guys on their roster because even they have budgets.
Teams such as the Dbacks, Brewers, Guardians, Padres, even Tigers have full rosters with contributors that play strong fundamental baseball – meaning the other team will have to beat them because they’re not going to beat themselves very often.
Been saying it for months: the 2024 MLB playoffs will be the best in years as at least a half-dozen teams can make it to the WS.
FletcherFan
Not reading all that
Cat Mando
In my mind the name on the screen starts with “S” but ends in “croll”
Samuel
“While I’m not saying that the Twins won’t make some changes, I’d argue that the biggest reason for Minnesota’s 2024 season is ownership mandating the payroll cut last winter.”
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That seems to be the standard line from MLBTR writers. I think it’s ingenuous.
The Twins lost a good amount of revenue from the Bally situation. The Twins were not the only team affected, nor were they the only team to cut payroll.
This is a site that primarily discusses player salaries and how team fit players into their payroll. That’s fine. But MLB is not the government, where they just print money and move on. I know of no private business where budget plans are made expecting revenue to come in from a source, and when the source declares some sort of bankruptcy and doesn’t fulfill their contract, the fault is the owners for not coming up with the revenue out of their own pockets.
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I’m not a fan of the Twins ownership group. Have felt for years that they interfere too much. I like Carlos Correa a lot. Don’t know why the Twins signed him,,,,twice. That was on two different owners. It was a risky signing and although he brought a lot to the team, that money could have been spent better elsewhere.
But business is business, and I can’t fault an ownership group for pulling back on the budget. Again, other affected franchises did.
Golly, maybe there’s something amiss with the Baseball Ops – including the manager and coaches. It’s been how many years of slightly above average or below average baseball?