Why Minnesota Twins are reluctant to be buyers at MLB trade deadline

32 comments

1. It's the Mid-esota Twins😭

2. Honest question, are we surprised? I feel like I have fully lost hope in the Twins leadership making any meaningful moves. I just don't understand.

3. Screw the Twins, the need was little, but This was a I guess we should make a move, too look like we are doing something.

4. Boycott the Twins and stop wearing the hats.

5. too many strike ouit in thier 2-0 loss to the mets

6. The ambivalence of the lack of trades this year is that we don’t have to worry about another Mahle type deal! We didn’t have to give up any of our top prospects! Look at Spencer Steer! Would be nice to have him back!

7. Terry Ryan also said that he never had a budget restriction. Obviously he was “telling the truth” too.

8. Correa and this team should try and just miss the playoffs to show this cheap ownership that if they dont care about their players, the players dont care either

9. It's not ownership, all the other teams tried to take advantage of us. Whaaaaaaa

10. What financial restrictions? There literally isn’t a salary cap in MLB. The ownership group can, theoretically, pump unlimited amounts of resources into the organization. Prospect asking price is one thing. Financial restriction is simply not true. The in-division asking prices in terms of prospects were simply those teams telling you to kick rocks.

11. Then the question is, why didn't the Twins management trade assets we're losing at the end of the season to better the team for next year, this is poor leadership yet again!

12. The starting payroll this off season is 127.8 million, the Pohlad's have made it clear they would like to further cut payroll. The reality is the Pohlad's would have never given permission for any trade that added to payroll, ownership is imploding the organization.

13. Falvey is probably the worst GM in baseball. He is the weakest link and entirely overmatched, even in years when finances were not a ‘problem.’

14. Owners suck simple as thar

15. same old pohlads

16. And yet Falvey gave Valazquez 30 million dollars, Margot 10 million dollars, Farmer 5 million dollars and Kepler (who walks at season’s end) 10 million dollars. Falvey had the money to make those moves. Don’t drink the Falvey Kool-Aid.

17. I don’t think there were any move that were that impactful.

18. The Lorenzen deal was what should have been done. Not a bad deal for the Royals at all and something I feel the Twins could have completed (sans money issues, of course).

19. I'm done going to the ballpark until they get new owners or things change.

    After their best year in years, first playoff series win. All the excitement only to be met with $30 million in paycuts. Plus you can't even watch games on TV. And now they really did nothing before trade deadline. I'm done. They aren't serious about winning a championship.

20. Declan you’re forgetting that the Orioles not only got a top reliever in Cano in the Jorge Lopez trade but they got Povich, the left handed rookie pitcher who has been in the Orioles starting pitching rotation this year.

21. The issue with the budget restrictions is it shouldn’t have fully stopped you from making any moves whatsoever.

    I thought that a perfect piece for this team would be Amed Rosario; he’s on a 1yr/$1.5m deal and only $500k needs to still be paid out. He would’ve been a great addition to second base with Lee/Farmer/Julien, but he went to the dodgers.

    Jack Flaherty didn’t have too much left on his contract, and the tigers only got a #5 and #22 prospect which the Twins could’ve easily topped.

    Instead we got a negative war bullpen piece in a bullpen that doesn’t need additions. What a joke.

22. The twins were not afraid to buy, the fucking owners are cheap and suck. They need to sell to someone else. Twins fans are now rebelling and not buying tickets to game or supporting the team until they do. It's a shame the owners are this money greedy and cornballs. Ohh and we are no longer going to be play off contenders. Anyone that can't see that the team is giving up is blind

23. Topa could be a great addition possibly next week we could see him but a possible starter not traded for kinda overrides a disappointing trade deadline

24. Boycott Boycott Boycott
    The Pohlads bought the Twins for 44 million
    Its now worth 1.5 billion
    I dont know what the boycott looks like but
    We are getting ripped off and im tired of pretending that were not

25. we need to just accept that this year is not going to be our year. Carlos Correa will be demanding a trade soon because of the PohlASS

26. I wouldn’t sell the farm to try and improve this team. They aren’t 1 or 2 pieces away from making a legit playoff run. If they were leading the AL Central, and were one or two players from a legit World Series contender then I’d be more interested in seeing them trade prospects away. As is, let them play out the season and prove they are a playoff caliber team.

27. Not surprised at all. But love the shirt phil

28. As long as the Polads own to the team they will never spend the money to win a world series

29. 27:04 AND NOW IT JUST BECOMES A MATH GAME, DUDE.

    Put it on a shirt

30. Worst owners in all of sports and the MN nice bs attitude allow them to get away with it

31. Carl Pohlad probably wakes up in a cold sweat in the middle of the night at the thought of his team playing in a World Series. Imagine all the money he’d lose having to pay employees at Target Field to work in late October.

32. This team is nearly impossible to support. It’s like they’re scared of success. If it wasn’t for the coverage here on Skor North, I wouldn’t even have the first clue of how this team is doing this year.