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  1. Richie the Rally Goat
    With Marwin on the roster, Cave is expendable. With Big Toe in AAA, Adrianza is expendable. Considering all of the uncertainties, hold on to everyone as long as you can. Injury or ineffectiveness will sort this out. I believe the first crack to show up will be 13th pitcher before Sano is ready to return. At that point option Cave before DFAing Adrianza.
  2. Richie the Rally Goat
    likewise with Mejia who hasn’t pitched in over a week.
  3. Richie the Rally Goat
    Good to see Pineda go 6. The bullpen needed that badly.
  4. Richie the Rally Goat
    average was 5.4 innings per start. Twins were 5.1 innings per start good for 26th place. The season is young, things can absolutely change, but we have yet to see the Twins 5th starter, or 6-8. Currently at 5 innings per start but average is 5.2 presumably because the Twins aren’t the only team getting short starts coming out of spring training.
  5. Richie the Rally Goat
    sure they can be effective starters, but Pineda as the second best starter on this team is coming back from TJ and is clearly on a 4 inning per start limit. Odorizzi has a 5 1/3 inning per start average and Perez is awful and going 2 innings in long relief every 5th day. Even if they can be effective in short starts, 7 out of 10 starts are bullpen games. When Gibson gets some better endurance, 5 out of 10...
  6. Richie the Rally Goat
    Odorizzi has career 881 innings pitched over 164 appearances (3 of them relief) for an average of 5 1/3 innings per appearance. Betting on Odorizzi to complete 5 innings seems high risk, low reward. Then "when" to me mattered that he was left in to load the bases. It was very clear he lost it right away.
  7. Richie the Rally Goat
    I'm with you - the rotation outside of Berrios looks pretty bad. Gibson should gain some endurance as he recovers from e.Coli, but at this point woof. There going to need 3 long relievers to get 700 inning from the bullpen.
  8. Richie the Rally Goat
    this seems to suggest opener is less effective with Odorizzi, as cutting him off at the end of the 5th inning and scheduling a long reliever for the 6-8th innings (stacker concept). Pineda also has pitched well, but hasn't pitched deep. Agreed wit the OP that soon the roster will need additional relievers and length with those relievers. the one inning or LOOGY can't really be afforded.
  9. Richie the Rally Goat
    the sign is in pictograms
  10. Richie the Rally Goat
    Austin is the “rule 5 pickup” of 2019?
  11. Richie the Rally Goat
    With Adrianza playing third and Astudillo playing first is Austin ever going to play? What is the point of rostering him?
  12. Richie the Rally Goat
    Fantastic to see Stewart settle in. I wouldn’t have been surprised if Stewart were pulled after 34 pitches in the first. That’s a lot of confidence in Stewart and it’s great to see the manager get rewarded for the risk.
  13. Richie the Rally Goat
    I have now officially reached level 5 - and had a discussion yesterday with my 5 year old about how she thinks I should reach number 6, but I'm not convinced anyone would care what I have to say.
  14. Richie the Rally Goat
    We're 4 games in, it's too early to draw conclusions. That said... so far, it's a fun team to watch. Cruz and La Tortuga could be our Morneau and Mauer combo.
  15. Richie the Rally Goat
    Props to Cody: What would you do vs what do you think the FO will do with the third catcher on the big league roster? Is there something that can happen besides injury to keep Astudillo and Garner on the big league club in the next two weeks?
  16. Richie the Rally Goat
    was it “their C squad”? Missing Lindor is a big miss. Kipnis, how much does he have left? Major league C squad, sure. Indians B plus. They are doomed to a cruddy lineup unless the FO can swing a trade.
  17. Richie the Rally Goat
    inter league play
  18. Richie the Rally Goat
    Unless Gordon has a massive and immediate turn around from last year, Big Toe would come up first.
  19. Richie the Rally Goat
    please elaborate I agree with JKCarew, Twins will most likely add the 12th and 13th pitch in short succession. When they need a 5th starter, they'll move Perez into the rotation. Perez won't be fully stretched out, so short starts are to be expected (as well with Odorizzi and Pineda) they'll need to back-fill him with two pitchers. I can't imagine Sano is gone too long, but then I thought that with Erv as well.
  20. Richie the Rally Goat
    I’m worried about the bullpen too. Hildy looks toast, I hope Harper is real, but hope is not a strategy, and Rogers is the only guy I really trust in high leverage situations.
  21. Richie the Rally Goat
    until then, why not keep him on a 4th/5th day rotation and throw 4 innings?
  22. Richie the Rally Goat
    whatever gets the job done. You gotta break eggs to make an omelette
  23. Richie the Rally Goat
    I’m sure it’ll play out soon, but with Pineda and Odorizzi being expected to be 5 inning starts, are we going to see the stacker concept with Perez and Mejia?
  24. Richie the Rally Goat
    it’s not number of appearances. It’s rate. Appearances or pitches over time. Time is the constant and as RB pointed out, the key to maximizing quality is finding the sweet spot for individual pitchers of rate of pitches over time that they can throw the most highest quality pitches over the constant. No two people are the same. Some throw 100 every 5 days, some throw 60 every 3 days. Some throw 30 every other day, some throw 45 two out of 5 days, etc. That’s where your analysis comes in. Chart the metrics on where your leading indicators (velocity, spin rate, swinging strike rate, et al) drop off. Rather than defing your pitching capacity based on something arbitrary like “role” or not defining your capacity and rely on pitchers based on necessity, define your pitching capacity based on the pitchers performance.
  25. Richie the Rally Goat
    I didn’t get a chance to ask in person, but Willie Joe Garry played like a man trying to take the next step up, he got robbed of a triple by Albee not being fleet of foot(or not hustling, it’s hard to tell, he’s huge). Does Garry have a shot at staying in with the Miracle?
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