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  1. Richie the Rally Goat
    The Brewers payroll was also $154m this year, still in the average echelon, $40+ million higher than the Twins and the Twins included 10m to Correa and 20m to Lopez. The Twins put on the field an $80m team, and it showed.
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    Buxton
  3. Richie the Rally Goat
    Alex Jackson was DFA’d and unclaimed 3 times last season and you’re telling me no team will part with someone via trade who’s better than that?!
  4. Richie the Rally Goat
    Why? Can we please aim higher?
  5. Richie the Rally Goat
    Unless something big happens, the lineup won’t hit well enough to overcome a Caratini/Rortvedt blackhole. This team was average having Jeffers’ stick. this team’s stick schtick is kinda sick
  6. Richie the Rally Goat
    If they aren’t traded by the arb tender deadline, they won’t be traded after. There’s a lockout two weeks later that best case ends shortly before opening day. Trade or non-tender
  7. Richie the Rally Goat
    Agreed with you on wishing Rocco well. I do too, and hope he catches on as an MLB manager again soon. Also agreed, he was handed a poor roster in 2025 that got worse as the season went on. while I thought Rocco was on balance a good manager for the Twins, I also feel like it was time to move on from him. I don’t have confidence that Rocco would have had the guts to rearrange his entire position player fielding 2 months in, but Shelton did exactly that and got more out of this cruddy team than Rocco would have. They still weren’t good enough, but marginally better. good for you, sticking to your guns. Courage will take you further in life than waffling.
  8. Richie the Rally Goat
    One top 50, one top 100?
  9. Richie the Rally Goat
    Would Drew Cavanaugh plus Yunior Marte be enough? Too much? I don’t think SF would want to part with two top 50 prospects, I don’t see why SF would make this trade, but this is what I think of.
  10. Richie the Rally Goat
    Or 1 almost ready starter and 1 high upside prospect. SF isn’t trading away almost ready. They aren’t 1 starter away from a long post season run.
  11. Richie the Rally Goat
    you are correct, Falvey didn’t bring Cleveland’s success with him to Minnesota, how you got there is flawed. Your examples are 1) 81 game winner and 85 game winner of divisions pre-playoff format would have made the post season. 2) the Twins in 87 and Angels in 06 were before the current wildcard format. I don’t think the wildcard format matters to the outcomes, just the additional tv revenue. Since Falvey left Cleveland has been first in the division 70% of the time. Wildcard format never changed that goalpost. Be better than the rest of the Division gives you a chip and a chair every post season. That should be Zoll’s Goals.
  12. Richie the Rally Goat
    If a team were to have this approach, they would never develop rookies into established veterans.
  13. Richie the Rally Goat
    Saying Zoll had “months” is accurate but also a bit unfair. The top spot was removed from above him January 30, two weeks before pitchers and catchers report. Not a lot of quality left in free agency past the middle of January. the guy had meddling and indecisive leadership for 95% of the active offseason. He did make some trades to improve during the season, but also had several roster spots that he punted on 3rd down and two from mid field. very much a below average to bad first season.
  14. Richie the Rally Goat
    Falvey drafted catchers every year of his tenure except 2023. He drafted 20 some of them, many of which late round, but not all. https://www.baseball-almanac.com/draft/team-draft.php?t=MIN Khadim Diaw was drafted in ‘24, is 22 in AA and is getting some attention.
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    I had them in the 60s for wins. My rationale was why would a team that got actively worse win more games than 2025. little did I know that the entire AL got much worse, to the point where I wonder if we have a modern black sox. hopefully we get to watch better baseball next year.
  16. Richie the Rally Goat
    Caratini had a slightly below career average year as 33 year old catcher, that is to be expected. His FG projection was 90 wRC+, he hit 79. He’s hit 74 and mid 80s several seasons. Kriedler had a career year, by a wide margin. He’s a terrible hitter. Career 52 wRC+ projected to 80, and he hit 85. What is to be expected from these two?
  17. Richie the Rally Goat
    With the team dressed like Paul Bunyon It had better be a cold summer!
  18. Richie the Rally Goat
    The Milwaukee Brewers already have the brewery angle pretty well covered. The NFL can do cold, the boys of summer need to refrain from the White Out uniforms. There’s already a Prince team in town, and a Loon team in town. i like the Minnie and Paul handshake, and feel like that’s unique to The Twins and The Twin Cities that could be better emphasized. elements of the stone arch bridge, the walker art center, cathedral hill, Minneapolis is the Mill City, more bread than beer.
  19. Richie the Rally Goat
    Can both The Pale Hose and The Statues lose?
  20. Richie the Rally Goat
    I understand and share the skepticism of PE ownership of the team, but George Hicks is “one of us”. He’s from and lives in Minneapolis, came out of the Cargill financial restructuring in the 90s. how much worse could Varde be than the Pohlad’s?
  21. Richie the Rally Goat
    Royce had an 85 wRC+ for the season, at 60 plate appearances that ranked him 48th. 17 teams (over half) had two first baseman who hit better than he did. Ryan Kreidler hit 85 wRC+ and he’s a backup SS who actually fields the position well and he’s a marginal major leaguer. its a bigger risk to include Royce in their plans at all.
  22. Richie the Rally Goat
    Keaschall hit 123 wRC+ in 2026. Were he a first baseman that would rank him in the 10-15 range of qualified 1b. He hits well enough to be a 1b. My question is if he can field the position adequately. I’m curious, and he’s too young to DH. this move would free up DH/corner OF for Larnach, and Buxton to rotate through. i can see a path to 2 step Larnach because he hits well enough in a platoon, and isn’t a terrible fielder, that he could be an asset for this team even with all the outfield depth. If the trade doesn’t workout, he’s still a good player. Lewis, gotta non-tender. No one will trade anything for a player with a $5m roster spot they can sign to a minor league deal after the lockout ends.
  23. Richie the Rally Goat
    Is Royce MLB talent?
  24. Richie the Rally Goat
    Loved that with Lewis too!
  25. Richie the Rally Goat
    Love watching Rodriguez’ enthusiasm and aggression. I hope next year to see him in the CF mix and a bit more selectivity at the plate
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