Guards fan here. I've always like the Twins and love spending time in the Twin Cities. Always hope you do well, when you aren't playing us of course. This video keeps omiting the Guards from the small payroll team for some reason when we are always at the bottom. Difference is we develop players and pitching very well and make smart trades. Our signing of Bell this off season was the first big FA contract (not big compared to others this off season by a mile) since the Edwin deal in 2016. If the Twins are struggling to get people, that says more about what is going on with ownership and the front office than the team itself. Something doesn't add up.

Ricky Nolasco, Tommy Milone, Phil Hughes, Hector Santiago, Jake Odorizzi, Lance Lynn, Martin Perez, Michael Pineda, Rich Hill, J.A Happ, Dylan Bundy, Chris Archer. What do all these Pitchers have in common? THEY ALL SUCKED FOR THE TWINS! This is what the Twins front office has declared good moves for this team to compete. The only free agent starter we have signed in the last decade to actually perform good, was Ervin Santana, and that was by accident.

I'm an Orioles' fan who just gave you a like and subscribed. I did so because you do so well at laying out the problem of how teams that refuse to spend to get better continue to flounder with no hope on the horizon. After the O's had their first decent season in several years and gave further reason for optimism with a farm system that's just loaded with top prospects, I, like many fans, was really encouraged to hear the club's GM Mike Elias talk about how they were ready to lift off. Unfortunately, the reality so far is more like a front office beset with paralysis--if free agents grew on fruit trees the O's have let other teams harvest almost all of the best fruit ahead of them, leaving what no one else wanted. Sadly, many of those posting on Oriole-centric channels are running interference for the front office's failure to make any substantive improvement, and even go so far as to in so many words say the fans are getting another stale bologna sandwich and be happy with it. Once again, thanks for providing a common-sense antidote to such tainted nonsense. (Btw, my apologies for jumping all over the place with my varied metaphors.🤥)

@TalkinTwins

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Thanks! Much appreciated - and welcome to the channel! I truly feel for O's fans. So much reason for hope, yet it's more of the same so far. I also thought Elias would be the ideal person to oversee the rebuild... but the owner is handcuffing the team. Unfair to loyal fans. Hope you enjoy the youth movement - it looks like an outstanding new generation of O's. A few months ago, I was positive this would be the offseason the O's broke open their wallet and did what the Padres & Giants have done - sign top stars to play with Adley, Gunnar, & Mullins. It would have been fun to see them compete again.

Tampa does a great job acquiring great talent and developing players. I’m not sure how they do it but they seem to be competitive nearly ever year on a fairly low payroll

@axelagosto5196

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how many world series have?

If Jose Miranda can start to perform again we should try to sign him long term

@aomikeyy3287

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He’s definitely a key part of the future

deGrom: "I want to play this game for a long time, and I want to win!" Injured List: "You're spot here is safe Jake!"

This guy gets it....AMEN

Nice content! You really hit the nail on the head with this video. I like a lot of the young players but I totally agree they should sign Correa and Rodon. They have a decent pitching staff but they need an ace. I love your perspective that signing great players attracts other great players. They have deep pockets and need to start spending to improve this team

@TalkinTwins

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Glad you enjoyed it! Much appreciated. No need to continue this "small market" nonsense when the owners are 6th or 8th richest in all of MLB.

@robertharrie4513

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@@TalkinTwins couldn’t agree more!!

As a fellow Twins fan, I really want the Twins get C4 and Rodon. The young talent is there but they lack the high-end superstars (I’d count Byron as a one, but he can’t stay healthy). It’s just annoying how cheap the Pohland’s have been. I also found your channel through TFTwins and you’re content really great. I’m happy to see more Twins content on KZread. Even thought Tom and Nash from Locked on Twins are great, we need more Twins content on KZread.

@TalkinTwins

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Thanks Jacob! Much appreciated. I wanted to bring something different to cover the Twins through a league-wide lens. Glad you're enjoying! Let's hope this year is a good one for Buck & the rest.

deGom left since he wanted out of NY and got way more years than the mets were willing to give him. It's true though more teams need to spend in general. Should be a floor.

This took an unusual turn 😂😂😂

I would like the twins to get dansby Swanson. He could get the team more double plays.

Informative video ... Hey what happened to your GI Joe channel ?

Listening to the commentary re the Twins, the exact same thing can be said about the Giants. Giants need a major front office overhaul. Hoping Posey can help there. The Giants are in big trouble.

The Nationals should be added to the list of teams that wont spend. The team they fielded last year was AAA at best and it looks even worst this year.

My team rivals la dodgers in attendance yet is dead center in average spending

A plan to sign big names to sign more big names isn’t gonna happen. All I want is a playoff series win, hopefully over the Yankees, and a buxton healthy enough to win the mvp

Than you for allowing Correa to walk.

There needs to be a hard cap if it's gone over then they need to be taxed and loss of draft picks

Wished the Stros could have signed Rondon...We can use another good starter.

Hope we sign jd martinez

@TalkinTwins

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Great fit, would love to see it happen

I want to see the luxury tax go into an escrow account controlled by MLB that the owners can’t touch unless it’s used for a free agent that offseason and it doesn’t roll over into next year

as an orioles fan i can understand ur pain

@TalkinTwins

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O's & Twins fans have more in common than many might realize!

Target Field isn't one of the best parks, certainly not a top 10 park. If I had to rank it, it's maybe 14 or 15.

You can't let these owners buy championships there has to be penalties to this

Hate on these terrible owners who just want to make money. They don't care about their team or baseball in general. They all have money. Don't hate the Mets,Dodgers,Yankees,Astros and Padres.

Lmfaoooooo winning a world series in Texas SIKKKEEEEE

That's like telling a rich family not to buy a nice house because everyone else is going to feel bad lol 😆. Maybe you should tell your owner to spend money.. this isn't well let me not spend because other owners are cheap

Sadly, neither 1 is going to Minnesota

Mets need a third baseman. Sorry fellas.

hopefully SF ruins this by signing Correa+Rodon lol best case scenario, nobody wants to give Rodon more than 5-6yrs or dpnt hit his desired AAV,, and he takes a 2022 Carlos Correa deal-2-3yrs/$75m-$100m w/player options after the 2nd year. Maybe 2023-$39m(30yo), 2024-$37m(31yo), player opt-out/in, 2025($29m)/2026($29m)/2027($29m)-32y0-34yo), club _and_ players options for 2028(35yo)+2029(36yo)[club-$30m each, player-$20m each, meaning if he sucks he still gets $20m and if he's good he gets $30m if SF wants him or hits the open market if he believes he can get more money. This results in what could be a 2yr/76m deal, a 5yr/$163m deal, a 6yr/$183m-$193m deal, or a 7yr/$203m-$223m deal. This basically gives Rodon and SF assurances, but bottom line is that if Rodon holds up his end and performs, he can get every penny of that 7yr/$210m he allegedly desires, but doesnt leave him out to dry if he doesnt perform, nor does is financially cripple the Giants. SF has over $80m to spend before entering the tax(that they can afford) but they have another *$65m* coming off after the 2023 season with Crawford, La Stella, Cobb, and Pederson hitting FA.

Now that Correa is gone I expect that the Twin's will sign some low cost, stop-gap shortstop. Probably some guy with a good glove and a .225 BA. We'll refuse to give Rodon what he wants, but someone else will. Falvey and Lavine will say that they tried but got out-bid by free spending big market teams. We'll head back to the Dollar Store for our free agents.

Yeah this video didn’t age well quickly

@TalkinTwins

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How so? It's a commentary, not a prediction of the future. 🤣

@CumLordGary

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@@TalkinTwins still very unfortunate for the Twins tho. Dansby wouldn’t be a bad add imo

@TalkinTwins

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@@CumLordGary Agreed. Twins can still salvage their situation, but now it's more difficult.

What Cohen is doing is absolutely great for baseball -- Like you said, most, if not all MLB owners are billionaires who can easily afford to spend big money on their teams, they just choose not to. I hate when owners cry poor and complain about how much the other guys are spending because they can’t possibly compete… it’s obviously bullshit, but if they genuinely feel like they can’t or won’t be able to keep up with all the spending, then maybe they should sell the team to someone who can and will. I know a lot of them see their franchises as nothing more than business assets that generate profit, but what they don’t seem to understand is that by investing more money into the team, they will make more money back in the long run. They should really have no issue with other teams spending into the luxury tax since the more tax they pay, the more money The other teams will receive, end it should be mandatory for that money to be spent on improving the team, Which is something that could be achieved by implementing a salary floor--not a salary cap, just a floor. All of those cheapskate “small market” owners like to justify their lack of spending by pointing to teams like Tampa Bay and Cleveland as proof that they don’t need a high payroll to be successful, and it’s just like yeah, but those teams are special cases because they’ve been doing it like that forever and they actually know what they’re doing, and just trying to mimic them without fully understanding everything about what they do and how they do it will not produce the same results. And besides, aren’t they tired of being completely irrelevant and perennial losers that no one cares about and no one wants to play for? That’s what the Padres used to be, but look at them now… don’t you want to have something like that going on? Don’t you want to be the next Slam Diego? I know I would.

😂 easy to criticize someone else for not spending their money, when it's not your money;

You just sound jealous lol 😆 and I'm a mets fan .. its not the mets Yankees dodgers Houston or Philadelphia problem.. plus maybe players just doesn't want to play in Minnesota. You ever think about that

@thegoodfight365

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You sound jealous of the Mets, but you're a yankee fan so you should 😄😆😆