Jump to content
Twins Daily
  • Create Account

Riverbrian

Old-Timey Member
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    29,321

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    174

 Content Type 

Profiles

News

Minnesota Twins Videos

2026 Minnesota Twins Top Prospects Ranking

2022 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks

Minnesota Twins Free Agent & Trade Rumors, Notes, & Tidbits

Guides & Resources

2023 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks

The Minnesota Twins Players Project

2024 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks

2025 Minnesota Twins Draft Pick Tracker

2026 Minnesota Twins Draft Tracker: Picks & Bonuses

Forums

Blogs

Events

Store

Downloads

Gallery

Everything posted by Riverbrian

  1. Riverbrian
    I know there are Twins fans in Iowa who don't feel sorry for me. Welcome to the club is what most are likely saying. However... I still can't watch my Twins and this is getting beyond ridiculous because it appears that it isn't ending any time soon. Reports are that the two sides are not even looking at each other in some sort of pointless stand still while all parties are attempting to solve this through the courts which should take forever and a day. MLB to my knowledge has asked the court to hasten the bankruptcy. Diamond recently asked the court for a 41 day extension. This really sucks!!!
  2. Riverbrian
    Santana, Farmer, Vazquez and Margot are struggling against right handed pitching. I believe they can get better against right handers but I don't believe they will be better enough because there isn't any recent history that they can hit right handed hitting better enough. When we are completely healthy we can hide those 4. When we are not healthy... we can't. IMO... We have gone from decent depth to health vulnerable as a result. Unfortunately... I'm pretty sure that Miranda will be sent down if we are healthy when Lewis returns just to keep the above 4 on the roster to face those left handers who throw 25% of the time. Money was spent on them, they will not be just tossed aside. This will marginalize the uptick that the return of Lewis provides because of instead of Lewis replacing one of our worst hitters (Margot). He will replace one of our better hitters (Miranda). Replacing Margot is how it should work. Always cull from the bottom. This is where the extreme platooning and the need to roster below average hitters against right handed pitchers punches you in the face. The only solution to keeping Miranda up, culling the worst hitter on the team (Margot) and keeping this platoon system intact requires 1. Pulling Jeffers out of DH'ing and making him the two start guy to a 2 to 1 catching rotation with Vazquez regardless of what hand is throwing. 2. Returning Kepler to full Time vs both left handers and right handers 3. Making Castro a short side platoon with Larnach in LF 4. Miranda stays full time playing 1B against RH's and DH'ing against left handers. That would create: DH Kirilloff/Miranda C - Jeffers and Vazquez 2 to 1 1B- Miranda/Santana 2B - Julien/Farmer 3B - Lewis SS - Correa LF - Larnach/Castro CF - Buxton RF - Kepler Player Roles Recap: Every Day Players - Lewis, Correa, Buxton, Kepler and Miranda Platoon Players vs RH - Kirilloff, Julien and Larnach Platoon Players vs LH - Santana, Farmer and Castro Catchers - Jeffers and Vazquez I hope that Miranda stays and Margot goes. Lewis really improves the offense this way by replacing a bad hitter with a real good hitter. Lewis replacing Miranda is just trading a good hitter for a better hitter. The team would be better with Lewis and Miranda than it is with Lewis and Margot.
  3. Riverbrian
    In all honesty... I would load up on left handers for two reasons. Bring in 3 or 4 more. A. Rocco and the front office wouldn't be able to hand cuff enough right handers to sit more than 4 left handers on the roster. This would force them to let some of our young lefties establish an actual track record against lefties. Gain experience... Get better. B. And this is the biggest reason why I'd load up on left handed hitters. If you really want to play the platoon split to your advantage... forget about these Julien/Farmer handcuffs. Focus on the real disparity in the platoon split advantage. 75% of pitchers are right handed... if you want to play the advantage... load up and attack that 3 to 1 advantage. Load up on lefties for the 75% percent and take your chances against the 25%. Committing limited dollars to Margot and Farmer for 25% of the pitchers and committing limited roster space to Margot and Farmer to face 25% of the pitchers is bad allocation. Margot and Farmer don't hit right handers that well and they haven't for a fairly long career but they get roster spots end up facing more right handers than left handers just so that 25% is covered. If you want to get the most out of the platoon split. More left handers... lots of them. It's a 3 to 1 advantage.
  4. Riverbrian
    I agree with you 100% Yet.. In the meantime.
  5. Riverbrian
    Near Future: I don't expect the roster to remain healthy before Royce Lewis gets back. Someone is going to the IL... Don't know who but someone always does so there is decent sized probability that a hard decision doesn't have to made on Miranda. If the team remains healthy and Royce comes back. I don't believe that a vet will be released to clear 26 man space so it comes down to those with options. Miranda, Larnach, Kirilloff, Julien. Longer Term Future: Short Side Platoon. Unless he starts hitting like an every day guy or the Twins change operational style.
  6. Riverbrian
    The 20-26 Cardinals just swept the 29-15 Orioles. The 10-31 Marlins have won 7 of their last 10. The 8-28 Rockies won 7 games in a row last week. This is how baseball seasons work. Bad Teams are not that bad and good teams are not that good. Anybody can beat anybody.
  7. Riverbrian
  8. Riverbrian
    I might have some fun if I was allowed to be ChatGPT for a day.
  9. Riverbrian
    Lasorda has been quoted with: "No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference". Why would anyone mess with the beauty of 54-54-54?
  10. Riverbrian
    "Ride a painted pony... let the spinning wheel spin".
  11. Riverbrian
    In 2023... His OPS with the A's would have ranked 5th on the Twins. Thus far in 2024. He would be ranked #1 on the Twins. His minor league stats appear to be consistently good every year. He had options remaining. No idea if the Padres insisted on Rooker or if the Twins insisted on Rooker but 26 man decisions had to be made like every year. Those 26 man spots are gold while we watched Garlick, Cave, Celestino among others occupy 26 man roster spots after Rooker was moved. When you roster Matt Belisle, you can lose a Nick Anderson as a result.
  12. Riverbrian
    I've always heard it as: Every team wins 54 games, Every team loses 54 games. It's the other 54 games that matter. Whoever came up with 60 60 42 has no idea about the usefulness of alliteration.
  13. Riverbrian
    True Must Grow your own.
  14. Riverbrian
    If Polanco was still on the roster... Chances are that Santana and Margot are not. So Therefore.
  15. Riverbrian
    The Greatest Of All Time
  16. Riverbrian
    Ups - Downs, Such is life.
  17. Riverbrian
    Because I am blacked out from watching the team. The product can't save the brand at the moment. As far as I'm concerned... The Twins are currently in a sealed box with Schrodinger's cat.
  18. Riverbrian
    And I'm betting they won't get that money because there is that bankruptcy thing.
  19. Riverbrian
    The Yankees are also responsible for the naming of Grand Island, NE and Big Lake, MN despite the absence of an island or lake larger than the average.
  20. Riverbrian
    The Twins have a better winning percentage against the sub-500 teams. CLE 14-9 NYY 18-8 BAL 13-9 LAD 23-14 The Twins not only have a better winning percentage at 15-5. They have played less games against under .500 clubs with 20 compared to CLE 24, NYY 26, BAL 22 and LAD 37. Good teams win 6 out of 10 Bad teams win 4 out of 10 Average teams win 5 out of 10 The Rockies have won 7 in a row. The Margins are thin.
  21. Riverbrian
    Wait a second. If I remember correctly... the Bad News Bears had some major accomplishments. They first reached the championship and lost to the Yankees (Of course the Yankees). Then they beat the Toro's at the Astrodome a year later for the chance to go to Japan... they did lose in Japan against the... I don't remember what they were called but Kelly was distracted and that Japanese team was the greatest team ever put together in movie history. That team was so good that in other movies they beat Godzilla to keep him from destroying Tokyo while "helpless people on subway trains scream bug-eyed as he looks in on them".
  22. Riverbrian
    Can't comment on the game since I HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO WATCH THE GAME!!! All I can say is: 119 Games to go. On to Cleveland!!! Win or Lose... I sure wish that I could WATCH IT!!!
  23. Riverbrian
  24. Riverbrian
  25. Riverbrian
    I assume each entity will probably have their own personal motivations in this mess. Including the entity of me(us) as viewers. However... I have to assume that Diamond doesn't have the power to kill Comcast. The loss of a single network won't kill Comcast. A company in bankruptcy proceedings attacking Comcast in this fashion would be like charging a castle with one guy who is ramming the gate with a tree branch while 200 soldiers are above on the ramparts shooting arrows and pouring hot oil on him. Comcast's biggest issue is probably that the King in that Castle is 110 years old and so is everybody else. Baseball appears to be targeting Diamond in their complaints in the filing... not Comcast. What Diamond is thinking right now is beyond me.
×
×
  • Create New...