Richie the Rally Goat

I hated the deadline trades, hated more last August, September through the offseason where the FO actively made the team worse. now? If they’re going to suck badly relative to a league where 5 out of 15 teams are above .500 and the 6th playoff team half way through the season is below .500… blow it up, scorched earth rebuild. It’s beyond salvaging during Buxton’s contract.

And here I was wondering what ZZ Top had to do with REM…

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To your very valid point, The mechanics of throwing a pitch versus throwing a pick off for a pitcher are very different. pitchers tend to struggle with the live game transitions between the two. the “how” in the mechanics and the “what” in the muscle groups in the throwing motion are different and would need to be practiced and developed differently, but Miguel Sano recovered from Tommy John surgery and regained his throwing mechanics and strength to throw very well across the diamond. His waist line never recovered, but his a did

If you believe Clemens current state continues into the future. He’s 30 and a minor league journeyman, not sure I believe it or that I would prefer said 30 year old journeyman get time on this roster over a 23 year old who had a 123 wRC+ last year

Building muscle and improving throwing mechanics can help. Pitchers do this all the time.

They’re better than “holding his own” but not really “excelling”. wRC+ is league and park adjusted but not position adjusted, 100 is league average hitter all encompassing.

Correct, the question Brock posed was “Should they?” Not “Do you want them to?”. Buxton and Ryan are the only reasons to watch right now. I want to keep watching them in Twins uniforms. They should trade them while they can. With the looming labor strife and lost season, this team won’t be competitive while Buxton is under contract.

As opposed to the wealth of all-star MLB talent on the Twins Roster?

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To me the injuries are a sign that the Twins should speed up, not slow down. Don’t let perfection be the enemy of the good: if there are only so many bullets in the clip, better to use them in combat than the gun range. If he can’t hit the target, don’t send him like a lamb to slaughter.

This team wishes it were mediocre…

yup, he cooked

He was 2 for 3 with a bb. It looked for a while in June like he turned back into a pumpkin, but a good weekend he hasn’t had an extra base hit in 38 PAs and his fielding has somehow gotten worse from last year. He has no lateral range and my 9 year old who plays soccer throws harder than Keaschall does. Agreed, I don’t think he “needs a reset” anymore. I did… but he also isn’t a good player. He could be, so I wouldn’t want to give up on him, but also with top prospects getting their first callups, the bench needs to be more of a traditional bench instead of play every day in different places guys. If Keaschall has a future with the team, he needs to play every day but not take PAs from Culpepper, Lee or Gonzalez and he can’t throw hard enough to play outfield, can’t hit well enough for DH 1B, what do you do with him?

I’m not caught up yet