Richie the Rally Goat
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mod note - lets keep it to Wallner -
I could not disagree with the OP more. Wallner sports a career 122 wRC+, has 500 PAs of well above average hitting, 400 PAs of average-ish, and 60 PAs of bad hitting. Yes his fielding sucks, but they're paying 7mil to Bell who has a career wRC+ of 112. Trade off Bell and promote Wallner to DH. His power will outweigh the Ks if they give him enough leash.
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It’s pretty clear that Falvey and Zoll narrowed their approach in the post 2023 era to more closely mimic Tampa (and Cleveland). The roster/role adjustments made under Zoll and Shelton this season have made that VERY clear. Correct, talent evaluation is a critical input to success, but if every team evaluates success the same way, trades would never happen. It’s all contextual to whether or not your team thinks it has the ability to develop the player in a different and better way than the organization they came from. not just player talent evaluation but coaching talent evaluation. if outsiders can’t compare two teams with growing similarities of competitive strategy, then we’ll never get to the full three dimensional perspective. We can’t know the Twins the way Zoll does, it’s just not possible. i think the Tampa comparison is apt, but still stick to my guns that the Twins shouldn’t carbon copy Tampa specifically because Pittsburgh has been awful for years because they couldn’t do Tampa better than Tampa. The Twins need to find their own way. They haven’t yet
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At 23 years old and a serviceable mlb hitter, I think it’s good to give him reps in the outfield.
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This team is soooo old
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Starting?
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Yes hit the envelope button
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I’ve never had the MLB app apologize to me for such a ****** game before. Working hard at winning fans over
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Thank you!
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Come for the Twins Talk, stay for the 80s sitcom puns. i tried to work in a Richard Moll pun but couldn’t figure out how to not have to moderate my own post
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I’d DFA Bell promote Wallner for reasons laid out earlier, demote Fedko, he’s not trusted to play, promote Roden for RF. Move Clemens to 2B (cap tip to @ashbury) and Keaschall would be on the bench with Martin.
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Agreed, Bell and Wallner are superfluous to each other Bell’s career 111 wRC+ vs Wallner’s 122 career wRC+? If Wallner’s stint in AAA cured what ailed him, I’d go with the 28 year old Wallner who’s down year last year was Bell’s career.
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You seem awfully sure without providing any support for your assertions. why should Zoll follow your advice over the team of scouts and analysts at his disposal?
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Fun with number 2026 edition.
Richie the Rally Goat replied to C-Gangster's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
Apparently the Twins pitching whisperers were counterproductive -
to the OP, Kreidler’s hitting will likely suffer from where he has been, but can’t be any worse than Gray’s and is a much better fielder. Agreed, Kreidler should be the primary SS until Culpepper is healthy.
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Fun with number 2026 edition.
Richie the Rally Goat replied to C-Gangster's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
Last night? For the Twins only? Because this season FG does not agree with you? he’s terrible Season to date, but not that bad/good 11.89 k9, 2.57 hr9, 1.89 whip -
Paredes and Rojas piggy back today? If so, I would hope Rojas got the traditional start and Paredes finished it out, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Why wait? What does Culpepper have to do to prove he’s ready?
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Awesome to wake up to a W on Fathers Day
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Go Twins!
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That’s a Twins development and player acquisition gap causing the losing record not a positional flexibility causing a losing record. Better players play better baseball, flexible teams score more runs because they keep better players on the field more. This team sucks because it has been overly reliant on bad players who are washed up or never was. its an old article, but I would be shocked if it didn’t still hold true. https://www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article/19800/bp-unfiltered-why-multi-position-players-matter/
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The roster limits put in place, combined with the heavy reliance on a huge bullpen makes the bench shorter than it used to be
