Richie the Rally Goat
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My “no participation trophies” comment was about the prior commenter wanting to give Maki a raise. He hasn’t earned a raise. I never actually said I wanted to fire Maki, but if they do, I can absolutely see why. The rotation has under performed expectations. Pre-season projections after Pablo injuries had them a top third rotation, they’re a bottom 5 staff. The bullpen that started the season as unserious, received 3 huge upgrades at the deadline and is still a bottom 5 bullpen. the rotation was supposed to be the strength of the team, and it was almost as weak as the bullpen. Every team uses 8-10 different starters per year, that’s the average. -
Fangraphs pre-season has them projected to 78 wins, currently on pace for 72 wins. While I predicted the under, 72 wins does not exceed the predictions, Vegas, or my low expectations. no participation trophies
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They shed $30m in payroll last trade deadline and offseason. They are having their third consecutive 2nd half collapse in a row, they’re having their second losing season. this team ranks 25th in runs allowed (not much to replace) 736, the hitters rank 9th in runs scored 681. Hitters and pitchers average age is 28 While I continue to believe that last year’s deadline trading away 10 major leaguer’s was a mistake, they did it and should have capitalized last offseason on the remaining contracts, OR invested heavily back into the team to make it actually competitive. They did neither and we watched more of the same. the same goes for this offseason. Go all-in on the youth, or invest heavily on competing. No half measures.
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Technically, they can still trade both of them this offseason and the next trade deadline, but yeah, they missed their opportunity. They either should have traded both of them last offseason and started the season with a $70m payroll or actually invest into the payroll and put together a real bullpen and sign an actual 1b, and not have rolled with Lee at SS.
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The opening day bullpen flies in the face of this assertion Relief pitchers (8): Justin Topa, Cole Sands, Eric Orze, Zak Kent, Cody Laweryson, Taylor Rogers, Anthony Banda, Kody Funderburk
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Keaschall as well, he’s a DH, maybe he can play 1b and not be a liability
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I want to see what Jackson has ahead of Caratini. back in August when they DFA’d Jackson and snuck him through waivers, he should have stayed in AAA. But now that he’s up? Caratini is clearly not the answer for 2027. good for Erod, he and Jenkins need to be on the outfield every day
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This sees the forest for the trees, or Occam’s razor… or whatever… bad wording to say, it was obvious that there’s no conspiracy, just waiting for the AAA season to wind down
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The CBA has to be for the season. In that sense it has to be immediate. They could potentially negotiate season by season cap and floor over the span of the CBA, but the more complicated the contract gets, the less likely it will be ratified.
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Can Zoll and let the new GM hire the manager they want? I don’t think Managers do that much.
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If you can trade Ober, great! I gotta think his Arb salary will be higher than what he signs for in free agency Im starting Kremer because he’s a decent back of the rotation guy and out of options. The other 5 have options remaining, and there’s not a lot in double A pushing for ML roster positions. Paredes is a huge drop off, and it’s threadbare behind him
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Yup!
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I like Bubic, I think the Twins can help him refine his sweeper so it’s not so fat in the zone rotation Ryan Lopez Bradley Bubic Kremer AAA Abel Matthews Rojas Prielipp Paredes
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They had all those starters except Kremer and still ran out of starters by the third week of April and I’m non-tendering Ober, he’s cooked. im signing a mid-rotation starter Re-signing Jeffers C Signing 1b/DH to pair with Keaschall (I’d love Jake Bauers) Extending one of Lopez or Ryan (2028+ money) guessing Lopez is the most likely
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Royce has 400 pas of magic and then 1000 pas below average. Fangraphs projected him to be 105 wRC+ and he likely won’t reach that lofty height. Time to move on. Keaschall hits, but that’s as far as his skills go, if he can’t field 1b, he should DH. I’d look to free agency for 1b/DH, plan on Keaschall being 1b, but if he can’t scoop the low throws, swap him with the FA.
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Assuming Ryan comes back strong, 6 man rotation through the end of season? or do they shut Prielipp down after his start tomorrow?
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Per my mlb push notification, Ryan takes the bump tonight, Acton sent to AAA https://www.mlb.com/news/joe-ryan-set-to-return-from-injured-list?adobe_mc=TS%3D1788790167|MCMID%3D33254733857238752764790576759158012592|MCORGID%3DA65F776A5245B01B0A490D44@AdobeOrg&affiliateId=mlbapp-ios_webview_news-index&rsid=mlbios.at.bat.new.implementation
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Fellow Twins Fans, I'm Begging You ... Make Tom Pohlad Earn It
Richie the Rally Goat commented on LastOnePicked's blog entry in Blog LastOnePicked
Hate’s a strong word, but I do agree with the OP that the Pohlad family played a switcheroo on which figurehead does what, but at the end of the day, it’s the same family owning and running their entire suite of businesses and until things actually change with how they run the Twins, we should hold that family accountable. I was a season ticket holder until 2025, and I will be a season ticket holder again, but they need to show me. Thus far, it’s lip service and trivial salary -
Twins (Bradley) v ChiSox (Kay), 9/5 @ 6:10pm CT
Richie the Rally Goat replied to Squirrel's topic in Archived Game Threads
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Twins (Bradley) v ChiSox (Kay), 9/5 @ 6:10pm CT
Richie the Rally Goat replied to Squirrel's topic in Archived Game Threads
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Fellow Twins Fans, I'm Begging You ... Make Tom Pohlad Earn It
Richie the Rally Goat commented on LastOnePicked's blog entry in Blog LastOnePicked
Tom was the chairman of Pohlad Companies in 2023 when the Pohlad family cut the legs out from under a contender. I’m pretty sure Tom was a real big reason why that happened. as for prospect capital, Jeffers is the only impending free agent with any value. I do not agree they missed out on an egregious haul. It was something, but not insurmountable. -
As tongue in cheek as this is, he’s the best or second best lefty starter they’ve had in a decade. Of course being the best of 6 isn’t saying much.
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Twins' Byron Buxton Back On Injured List
Richie the Rally Goat replied to Steve Drumwright's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
1/10 of 1%… but directionally agree with you
