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  1. Richie the Rally Goat
    Maki?
  2. Richie the Rally Goat
    A local!
  3. Richie the Rally Goat
    The marble would be the deal maker
  4. Richie the Rally Goat
    Hang on to those babies! Imagine how rare they’ll become in a hundred years, just like baseball card collections. They could sitting on several 1943 Lincoln Wheats!
  5. Richie the Rally Goat
    Yup! If there was a holdover to keep, it’s Maki
  6. Richie the Rally Goat
    So Rocco gets blamed when the players are bad but doesn’t get credit when the players are good? The ball wasn’t only juiced for Rocco, it was juiced for the other team’s manager too. Will Shelton get at least a somewhat objective chance?
  7. Richie the Rally Goat
    After way too much pondering on this subject, I think the bench coach does matter relative to the manager, as much as the manager. I think Tingler was a bad fit for Baldelli because neither were in-game tacticians. If neither your bench coach or your manager are tacticians, then you will get regularly outmaneuvered by the opposing team who will have a tactician on the bench. by my little bit of research into Shelty, it was Molitor who was the tactician and Shelty the big picture guy (though his rep as far as I can tell is more tactically capable than Baldelli). That might make a Tingler type bench coach a bad fit for Shelton. Hopefully the next bench coach is a better complement to Shelton such as a coordinator/chess player type to make sure Shelton doesn’t paint himself into the platoon corner as Rocco did night after night.
  8. Richie the Rally Goat
    how could you forget!?!?! SCOTT ULLGER (coach, Minnesota Twins):first time he slid headfirst into the bag, I thought about saying something. But, really, is it a coach’s place to say something about that? I don’t know.
  9. Richie the Rally Goat
    That bullpen is likely bottom 5 if not worst bullpen in baseball. A decent 7th inning guy and a 7 prayers does not a plan make.
  10. Richie the Rally Goat
    Falvey’s thought bubble as he reads TD: “improve the team by getting more athletic talent….”
  11. Richie the Rally Goat
    I 100% agree on the desire to watch better more exciting and fundamentally sound baseball, I’m skeptical because so much of that is determined by the skills of the players and the development before they got to the bigs. i see it as a Falvey problem before (not instead of) a Manager problem
  12. Richie the Rally Goat
    Since I feel like Rocco was a bit of a scapegoat and thought while he deserved to be fired for his inability to hire tactical bench coaches, no manager could have succeeded with the team Rocco was handed by Falvey. The pitching staffs were Legitimately very good, I can’t give too much credit to Maki. That being said, this is as good of a rationale for keeping him as any.
  13. Richie the Rally Goat
    If I’m Jeffers, I’m thinking “this is probably my only crack at Free Agency, make it count” the only way I sign an extension is for a monstrous over-pay which would likely be way too long of a term
  14. Richie the Rally Goat
    Isn’t that the definition of efficient market? Supply down, demand up, price up? Buffalos with wings are not a dime a dozen
  15. Richie the Rally Goat
    I’ve already jumped to the conclusion that this is a money grab while they wait for the CBA and TV deal to sell
  16. Richie the Rally Goat
    Whoops!
  17. Richie the Rally Goat
    Could be, I assume Ryan would cost the farm, a high wattage starting pitcher and hitter, but looking at this most recent trade deadline, all of the trades kinda sucked. The purpose was not to improve for ‘26, no matter what bologna Falvey was spewing
  18. Richie the Rally Goat
    I assumed they traded for prospects in high A/double A to be a part of the next wave. If 26 is lost, 27 is potentially locked out, aim for ‘28 edit to add: feel free to substitute outman for whatever rookie contract you desire.
  19. Richie the Rally Goat
    If the Twins trade away Jeffers, Ryan, Lopez for prospects and the status remains quo… how many wins. would this roster get gutted further? edit to add, I did not lookup MLBTR estimates for salaries and might be missing arbitration C: Johnny Pereda ($.8M) 1B: Kody Clemens ($.8M) 2B: Luke Keaschall ($0.80M) 3B: Royce Lewis ($2.30M) SS: Brooks Lee ($.8M) LF: Austin Martin ($.8M) CF: Byron Buxton ($15.00M) RF: Matt Wallner ($0.80M) DH: James Outman ($.8M) 4th OF: Ryan Kreidler ($0.80M) Utility: Mickey Gasper ($.8M) Utility: Eduoard Julien ($0.80M) Backup C: Christian Vazquez ($1.5M) NA: Dead Money Here ($10.00M) SP1: David Festa ($0.80M) SP2: Mick Abel ($.80M) SP3: Bailey Ober ($5.3M) SP4: Taj Bradley ($.8M) SP5: Simeon Woods Richardson ($0.80M) RP: Cody Funderburk ($.8M) RP: Travis Adams ($0.80M) RP: Pierson Ohl ($.8M) RP: Cody Lawyerson ($.8M) RP: Cole Sands ($0.80M) RP: Anthony Misiewicz ($.8M) RP: Fungible Reliever 1 ($0.80M) RP: Fungible Reliever 2 ($0.80M) NA: Dead Money Here ($0.00M) Payroll is 64.34% under budget
  20. Richie the Rally Goat
    This ‘26 team, Pereda is not a significant step down and would cost a fraction of Vazquez contract. the question I have, is would they sign Vazquez to backup Pereda when they trade Jeffers?
  21. Richie the Rally Goat
    The most interesting manager in the world
  22. Richie the Rally Goat
    In regards to the bolded part, I think you are missing a detail. All great managers (any industry) are at minimum, above average leaders. Leadership is not about being liked, as you astutely point out, but it is always penultimately about respect, and excellent communication. No one can be a good leader without those two skills with the ability to give and receive…Those two skills are two way streets. Usually those two skills coincide with some level of affinity. If an individual really dislikes another, it’s almost impossible to hear what they mean. A leader delivers a message in a way that is meaningful to the receiver and listens with empathy to receive the message in the intended way. No one can do that with a certain level of personal dislike. on the underlined, that’s my fear too. The executive micromanager too overwhelmed to let things go and can’t lead anymore or execute. It’s a scary thought.
  23. Richie the Rally Goat
    All three in the top 10! Historically, what percentage of the MLBTR top 10 actually get traded in that offseason? how many of those three actually do get traded before Buck waives his no trade clause?
  24. Richie the Rally Goat
    @Alex Boxwellwhen you played Indy Ball, was there a change in coaching levels/application relative to college? I picture an incremental honing of skills and much like the business world, people who succeed pick up what their mentors share with them and carry it themselves to the next steps in their own development plan/execution. Am I on the right track? as to Shelton, I dislike the hire, not because I dislike Shelton, but because of what it represents. Status quo failed because the GM failed to acquire good players, not because the manager was bad.
  25. Richie the Rally Goat
    You are right, every player and coach who’s not good enough to play for a good team will jump at the chance to play for a bad one. There’s only 30 teams, and the money increases a lot from the minors.
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