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A new year.....

Another title won by cash...errrr... Dodgers

Add to Ichiro's many gifts, a sense of humor. . .

Use to love watching Ichiro show off his power stroke in BP prior to home games at The Safe. Had he been willing to shave a few points off of his average he could have been good for 20+ dingers a season. But that wasn't his game. Great player and great teammate. I'll always remember his time in Seattle fondly.

ToastPatterson wrote: Sun Jul 27, 2025 6:46 pm Use to love watching Ichiro show off his power stroke in BP prior to home games at The Safe. Had he been willing to shave a few points off of his average he could have been good for 20+ dingers a season. But that wasn't his game. Great player and great teammate. I'll always remember his time in Seattle fondly.

He still regularly goes to batting practice before each game to shag balls. Opposing teams can't believe their eyes when they see him in the outfield. Always gracious, always kind.

Yikes. Hope he's okay.

Twins season circling the drain.....

Just in time for football.

I was saddened to see of Ryne Sandbergs passing. He was my favorite player growing up. I grew up about 90 minutes from Ryno's hometown and he was the reason I became a Cubs fan. I still remember watching the "Sandberg Game" in 1984.

Phillies just picked up one great closer Jhoan Duran, and they are not done dealing. Could be the answer to taking out the Dodgers.

Hate to see the selloff.....

Surreal....

In a bizarre sequence, relief pitcher Seranthony Domínguez was traded from the Orioles to the Blue Jays in the middle of a doubleheader between both teams. Watch him walk across the field to meet his new teammates.

Not 2 or 4 or 8.....

11 Twins traded!!

SELL...SELLL ..SELL...OH PLEASE

Twins Moving Toward Selling Team After Deadline Teardown

The Minnesota Twins executed one of the most aggressive deadline teardowns in recent memory, trading eight players on deadline day and 11 total in the last week.

Behind the scenes, there continues to be “momentum” toward a sale of the franchise, according to a source familiar with the matter.

Among the 11 players dealt were star closer Jhoan Duran to the Phillies and shortstop Carlos Correa to the Astros. The Correa deal was largely a salary dump, with Houston agreeing to pay about two-thirds of the roughly $100 million owed to the shortstop. The nominal return for Correa was Matt Mikulski, a 26-year-old Single-A reliever. The trades of Duran, Harrison Bader, and Willi Castro brought back prospects.

The deadline frenzy comes as the team’s longtime owners, the Pohlad family, try to sell the franchise, which was put on the block in October with a reported $1.7 billion asking price. Allen & Company is advising on the process. The series of trades certainly shed millions of dollars in salary—which will financially benefit the Pohalds this year by lessening their salary obligations—but it is not expected to impact the sale process, a source tells Front Office Sports.

In fact, there could be news on that front in “within a matter of weeks,” the source said.

That mirrors what MLB commissioner Rob Manfred recently said during the All-Star break in Atlanta. “I know some things that you don’t know,” Manfred said. “I can tell you with a lot of confidence that there will be a transaction there, and it will be consistent with the kind of pricing that has taken place. There will be a transaction. We just need to be patient while they rework.”

The trades come as the Twins sit at 51–57, second to last in the American League Central and six games out of the wild card.

Derek Falvey, president of baseball operations for the Twins, acknowledged the difficulty in seeing roughly 40% of the roster change, especially for fans, in an interview with ABC’s local Minnesota affiliate KSTP.

“It’s a totally fair question and I have a tremendous amount of empathy for it,” Falvey said.

The Pohlads bought the Twins for $44 million in 1984. The patriarch, Carl Pohlad, died in 2009, at which point his son Jim took over the team. In 2022, Jim’s nephew, Joe Pohlad, assumed primary administrative duties while Jim remained the controlling owner.

Currently, the team reportedly has more than $425 million in debt, which has led to speculation about money troubles. MLB has debt service rules on its books meant to ensure teams maintain fiscal stability, but the league has not stepped in to offer emergency financial assistance to the Twins.

It is true that the sale process hit a speed bump earlier in the year after Mat and Justin Ishbia dropped their pursuit and instead increased their stake in the White Sox, a source previously told FOS. But in the spring, several other prospective suitors traveled to Minnesota, toured Target Field, and met with the Pohlads, the source confirmed to FOS in late May.

Others who have been linked to the Twins include prominent Twins supporter Marty Davis, CEO of Minnesota-based quartz countertop company Cambria; Glen Taylor, the former Timberwolves owner; Jim Hays, founder of Minneapolis-based insurance brokerage Hays Companies; and a group that includes former Twins players Joe Mauer, Justin Morneau, and Torii Hunter.

https://frontofficesports.com/minnesota ... team-sale/

Ranking the 25 top prospects traded ahead of the Deadline


https://www.mlb.com/milb/news/ranking-t ... 4021273942

2. Eduardo Tait, C, Twins (No. 4/MLB No. 56)
\Acquired from the Phillies in the Jhoan Duran trade
Like Preller, Phillies president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski isn’t afraid to move prospects in search of pennants, and Tait is the big name this time around. Still only 18 for another month, the catcher hits absolute rockets from the left of the side of the plate and has the promise of perhaps even more power to come as he ages. It’s that pop that Minnesotans should be dreaming on. Tait remains a work in progress behind the plate -- what 18-year-old catcher isn’t? -- but his receiving has improved on the pro side plenty already. He’s the best catching prospect in the Twins pipeline by miles, even if it’ll take a few years for him to see the Twin Cities.

3. Mick Abel, RHP, Twins (No. 6/MLB No. 91)

Acquired from the Phillies in the Jhoan Duran trade
The 15th overall pick in the 2020 Draft, Abel’s stock has ridden a roller coaster in the past five years, but it ticked up plenty in 2025 as he brought his average fastball velocity back up to 96 mph and continued to hone his overall command. His low-80s curveball and mid-80s slider both have times when they look like at least above-average pitches in terms of generating whiffs. Abel made six Major League starts for the Phillies before the trade, including one on May 18 in which he outdueled Paul Skenes with six scoreless innings, and finding consistency in The Show will be his final step toward becoming a potential midrotation arm.

ESPN just keeps feasting....

ESPN to acquire in-market broadcast rights to 5 MLB teams

According to Andrew Marchand of The Athletic, baseball commissioner Rob Manfred and ESPN chairman Jimmy Pitaro have reached agreement on a deal that would give the network the rights to sell all out-of-market regular season games digitally — the current MLB.tv business model — as well as in-market games for the Minnesota Twins, Arizona Diamondbacks, San Diego Padres, Colorado Rockies, and Cleveland Guardians.

My Yankees are pissing me off. Boone needs to go.

Yanks been running hot and cold all season....As long as they start a streak when the playoffs start...Reminds me of the Bronx Bombers....

They could use some arms...

Yesterday's game, a disappointing loss in the tenth with bases loaded on the last out. Ouch.

Today... 48



And 49