If Joe Ryan comes anywhere near Brad Radke's career, we'll all rejoice.
Why do people so constantly underrate Radke? The dude pitched to a career 38.7 fWAR and and 45.6 rWAR while retiring at age 33. He's friggin' second on the Twins all-time career WAR leaderboard.
Okay. First, are you literally using seven plate appearances to evaluate Garlick?
Second, his OPS against LHP in those seven PAs is actually 1.000.
In around 100 career PAs against LHP - still not even a sample size that I feel comfortable using - his OPS is .874.
I think this was a trade filling both considerations. The Twins needed more starters today so they acquired Paddack. They need more pitchers tomorrow so they took the PTBNL.
Which is kind of how this organization needs to operate. They shouldn't be the Rays and constantly trade for future value but they should be constantly exploring a mix of acquisitions, always trying to get $1.01+ while giving up $1.00.
That reminds me of that one time I put extra long spikes on only one foot of Joe Theismann's pair of cleats.
****ing hilarious!
I mean, you should have seen the look on his face. Classic.
Tim Laudner, owner of 3.2 career rWAR in 2268 plate appearances, talking about how players need to be able to play while slightly banged up in reference to Byron Buxton, who was worth 4.5 rWAR in 254 plate appearances last season.
Arraez is good, Urshela is fine, losing Kirilloff again really hurts.
I'm so over Sano and Kepler at this point, particularly Kepler. He has no excuse to be this bad whereas Sano just has lousy contact skills, we've all known that for years.
It really depends on the health of Buxton and Correa. If both are healthy, this offense should be quite good. Not elite but very good.
If either is injured, I don't see the offense being better than average, especially if players like Jeffers continue to not hit. The end of this lineup is quite a blackhole right now.
I casually follow the Brewers (lived in MKE just before returning to the TC) and we launched a Brewers site earlier this year.
https://brewerfanatic.com/