{"id":672871,"date":"2026-04-11T01:00:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T01:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/672871\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T01:00:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T01:00:57","slug":"friday-forum-hope-o-meter-drops-but-reasons-to-believe-remain-twins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/672871\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Forum: Hope-O-Meter Drops, But Reasons to Believe Remain &#8211; Twins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tPersonally, I don&#8217;t have much hope for contention this year. One survey seems to indicate I&#8217;m not alone among my fellow Twins freaks. Some interesting takes here:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/twinsdaily.com\/forums\/topic\/73646-twins-fall-to-bottom-of-the-athletics-hope-o-meter\/page\/3\/#comment-1618834\" ipsnoembed=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/twinsdaily.com\/forums\/topic\/73646-twins-fall-to-bottom-of-the-athletics-hope-o-meter\/page\/3\/#comment-1618834<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tEverybody has an opinion on last year&#8217;s trade deadline. Good? Bad? To be determined? At least one asset acquired last summer is making a name for himself, at least in a tiny sample size to date. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/bradlta01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=twinsdaily.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-04-10_br\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Taj Bradley<\/a> &#8230;what say ye?\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/twinsdaily.com\/forums\/topic\/73731-with-the-taj-bradley-deal-twins-might-have-fleeced-the-rays-again\/page\/3\/#comment-1618717\" ipsnoembed=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/twinsdaily.com\/forums\/topic\/73731-with-the-taj-bradley-deal-twins-might-have-fleeced-the-rays-again\/page\/3\/#comment-1618717<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn my estimation, founding owner Nick Nelson is this site&#8217;s best writer. Here&#8217;s his review of last week&#8217;s games, along with some pithy observations from our members. Nick usually stops by and responds to questions and\/or comments, too, making the conversation even better.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 Personally, I don&#8217;t have much hope for contention this year. One survey seems to indicate I&#8217;m not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2388],"tags":[5,977,978,822,60,3190,4,169,975,976,148],"class_list":{"0":"post-672871","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-twins","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-blog","10":"tag-forum","11":"tag-minnesota","12":"tag-minnesota-twins","13":"tag-minnesotatwins","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-rumors","17":"tag-schedule","18":"tag-twins"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116383375940997450","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}