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  1. Richie the Rally Goat
    Indeed! If you could sign story to a Simmons/Galvis 2 years 10 mil per I’d be all about Story as a good glove/poor hit SS. The problem is you pay for Coors field as much as you pay for the road part of the splits. I’ve been on the sign Galvis and throw money at pitching bandwagon, but that wasn’t an option in the OP
  2. Richie the Rally Goat
    Story and the Home/Road splits scares me off. Aging off of SS, as long as the FO thinks it will be a couple years in the future would be my preferred course of action. Getting a monster hitter who fields a decent SS for a couple years will be a 4-5 year contract, hopefully Lewis takes over at SS in year 2 or 3 and said monster hitter can slide to 2nd, 3rd, LF or DH.
  3. Richie the Rally Goat
    I can’t wait for the World Series so I can get started on my Twins off-season blueprint
  4. Richie the Rally Goat
    If Maeda and/or Enlow pitches next year, it’ll be very late in the season. After a season that saw 9 players on the 60 day IL, are you really keeping 3 players on the 40 that are not going to pitch in 2022 while not protecting additional rule 5 eligible minor leaguers?
  5. Richie the Rally Goat
    In terms of trading away high velo pitchers, doesn’t it take two to tango? You need to give value to get value. With the number of pitchers the FO needs to acquire this off-season, I hope we see significant evidence to the contrary that the FO is velo-averse.
  6. Richie the Rally Goat
    Go Brewers (post season only)!
  7. Richie the Rally Goat
    To further your point, Rocco instituted mandatory pregame drills mid-season. He saw the issues we all saw, and took action with the coaching staff to improve fielding challenges. this is the same manager who preaches rest as a part of the regimen. I give Baldelli a lot of credit for this team not giving up as the season got out of hand. I do agree, this season sucked. That has to fall on the players, the FO and the manager/coaching staff. The players and FO are 80% of the failure. Players need to play the game, the FO acquires the players. Baldelli and the coaching staff earned 20% of the failure too.
  8. Richie the Rally Goat
    I'm arguing this like I love Rooker. I don't, and if he were DFA'd or traded, life would move on... but it seems like there's a contingent forgetting that Rooker hasn't hit arbitration yet and still has 2 options. He's cheap and can go to AAA. As a comparison to how expensive he is: Rooker Sano 2022 Salary 570k 9.25M 2023 Salary Arb 1 14M MiLB Options 2 (after 2021) 0 2021 fwar -0.1 0.3 2021 OPS 0.691 0.773 k% 32.50% 34.40% BB% 7.60% 11.20% wRC+ 91 109 Sano is better than Rooker, no doubt, but Rooker could be as good, or better than Sano in 2022 and 2023, for $8.5 million to 13 million less. Floating him on waivers to see if he passes to free up a 40 man spot, when there are 10 other players on the 40 man coming off already guarantees that in 2023 the team is spending $10-14m on DH rather than pitching.
  9. Richie the Rally Goat
    I don’t think Wade is a good comp. In AA/AAA Wade never hit like Rooker. Wade has been a 100-ish wRC+ sporting mixed results as a fielder and maybe miscast as a CF. Rooker on the other hand has been 140s to 160s wRC+ and is a decidedly negative UZR150. there wasn’t much shown with the bat for Wade to have predicted a 125 wRC+ in the bigs in 2021, but he’s a good enough fielder to stick (like Cave). Rooker on the other hand has a big league bat if his eye at the plate continues to improve. The question is no longer how many no hit mediocre fielding 4th outfielders can a team carry? The question is: how many DHs can a team carry, and which one sticks?
  10. Richie the Rally Goat
    might I suggest urban dictionary? Your Mileage May Vary every car commercial had that phrase when quoting fuel efficiency because consumers would complain that they never got the states mileage. It has now become “everyone has their own opinions”
  11. Richie the Rally Goat
    Agreed with these lines of thought. Rooker has an option. I would not extend Sano, and we just watched this team hobble through a season where only Polanco stayed healthy the whole season. I would like to keep some depth for 2022, and look to 2023 as well. there’s room on the 40 for Rooker, but the FO would have some challenging rule 5 decisions to make, in order to do so. There is only so much room for defensively challenged players, so I get parting ways with Rooker. The same case could be made for Astudillo
  12. Richie the Rally Goat
    With Ober, Ryan pretty much chiseled in stone for the opening rotation and a likely Gant as well, Depth in AAA as well as at least one swing man is going to be critical. I’d release Thorpe but the rest should be kept in the organization
  13. Richie the Rally Goat
    How about Elon Musk? We'd get tweets about it for months. About how strong of an arm he has, how good he'll be at it, without any details of when, or what game, and then we'd just stop hearing about it, possibly finding out after that fact that he backed out the day of, for unexplained reasons.
  14. Richie the Rally Goat
    Why would you make your team worse only because you don’t think you’ll have many saves to earn? or do you mean trade him at the next trade deadline? The OP was to start the season?
  15. Richie the Rally Goat
    While mowing the lawn… thoughts… in my youth, I was much more aggressive, and I could still afford to be. I have another 20+ years of work in front of me. I wonder if the healthcare debt, where no one could tell us what anything cost, and my wife was actively dying with a low chance for survival prognosis (she did indeed survive a very aggressive chemo cocktail, but at the time…) where we had no control, and massive debt at the end… I wonder if that period influenced my risk tolerance going forward.
  16. Richie the Rally Goat
    my wife got cancer in ‘09, and since IVF twice, and student loans. Debt got to be out of control. I’ve done a combo. I paid off credit card and student debt first, then increased 401k, then paid off cars, then refinanced my house, now putting all the old loan payments into investments. right now I just have a 15 year note on my house (13 to go!) and have maxed out my 401ks and am buying some stocks and index funds some debt is good, but too much compounds when you don’t have cash to cover smaller ticket unexpected bills.
  17. Richie the Rally Goat
    While that is a very good prediction with a high probability/accuracy… it would make me very sad
  18. Richie the Rally Goat
    Agreed or possibly Rogers Duffey Thielbar Alcala Gant Free Agent Free Agent Free Agent They are going to have to make some changes and keep Moran/Garza/Farrell in AAA for depth. Also doubtful that they spend big money on any reliever.
  19. Richie the Rally Goat
    FTFY, but not sure why they'd trade away $8mil of roster to free up cash. I could see them trading Rogers because they got blown away on return, but usually that's more of a trade deadline type of scenario.
  20. Richie the Rally Goat
    If Sano can remain a healthy DH and continue to hit alot of home runs, he shouldn't have any trouble catching up to Jackson. It took Jackson 21 years, Sano could do it in 16 or 17. If the NL adopts the DH, it all but guarantees that Sano breaks the record
  21. Richie the Rally Goat
    Great article! The unsung hard work by grounds crews isn't often spoken of. Surprising on the short nights of sleep!
  22. Richie the Rally Goat
    Personally I'd rather see Jax stay stretched out at AAA than in the big league pen. While 2021 hasn't been a good year for Jax, it's a difficult transition into the bigs, and he can still provide strong depth for the rotation will most assuredly use 9-10 starters throughout the season.
  23. Richie the Rally Goat
    Victory is more important. Twins are currently selecting 7th in the rule 4 draft. They might pick 8th/9th or they might pick 6th… that won’t change the slot value of the pick, or quality of available prospect much, if at all. The odds are very low to get into the top 5, or get out of the top 10. Winning, on the other hand provides those players opportunities to learn and succeed at the highest levels while providing me a fun experience.
  24. Richie the Rally Goat
    If Colome turns it around in 2022, I hope it’s for a different team. Even when he’s “good” it’s warning track fly balls that if the wrong butterfly flaps it’s wings, would go over the fence. Not sure if rookie struggles count as coming back, but I’d pick Larnach to bounce back next year. I think he’ll adjust to the bigs and improve his k/bb rate.
  25. Richie the Rally Goat
    Agreed with the OP premise. The FO needs to acquire 3 starters this offseason. A trade for an up-and-coming project starter is a great ancillary pitcher idea. Much like Pineda, if Toussant (or the other 2) is the best pitcher the Twins get, I’ll be upset. If he’s the third best pitcher the FO acquires along with a front of the rotation type and a strong number 2. I’ll be tickled pink.
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