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  1. Richie the Rally Goat
    with the pitch clock, I'd like to see that the batter has to stay in the box. quit screwing around with all your accessories between every pitch.
  2. Richie the Rally Goat
    I still think the Twins are trading an outfielder. My guess is that was the plan all along, and couldn't swing a trade this offseason. My prediction Reed starts the season as the 4th outfielder, Granite and Cave will get options exercised One of Buxton or Kepler (my guess is Buxton) gets traded around the deadline for a pitcher and Reed becomes right fielder, if he shows the promise he did as a youngster, Jordany Valdespin gets the first call to 4th OF.
  3. Richie the Rally Goat
    Fun article, the OP and I are largely in agreement. When they introduced the Kasota gold, I was ok with it.... I’ve grown to hate it... Also not a fan of the wide stripes like football jersey from the 72 home/road.
  4. Richie the Rally Goat
    Great post and I think your comparison is spot on!
  5. Richie the Rally Goat
    Pineda is the 4th starter and Perez is 5th. The bullpen looks like Rogers and May and some 6th inning/mop up guys pitching is deep in mediocrity but very thin on quality.
  6. Richie the Rally Goat
    I like watching crisp glove work as much as the next guy, but the “fielding up the middle” mantra might be shifting a bit. With the change in approach with both hitting and pitching, emphasizing fly balls and strikeouts, it seams teams have been going more towards fielding/coverage in the outfield especially up the middle and thump in the infield. The Twins are no exception. Polanco (or Correa, etc) never would be a SS in the pitch to contact era. I think the adage holds true for Catcher and CF, less so for SS, absolutely not for 2b
  7. Richie the Rally Goat
    agreed, but they’re all pushed back. 6th man in the rotation should still get 10 starts, but 7th should get a couple and after that 1 for each of the 8-11.
  8. Richie the Rally Goat
    opponents OPS against that curveball is .918 for his career. https://www.fangraphs.com/pitchfx.aspx?playerid=6902&position=P&pitch=CU Historically he's relied heavily on his sinker which has been a better pitch for him, but the Twins have an infield built for fly ball pitchers. His BABIP should skyrocket on that sinker. Look at Gibson, his success came when he got away from his two seamer, and went to the four. Perez's Career OPS on his four seam is .893. Sinker bad for 2019 Twins. Perez bad for 2019 Twins.
  9. Richie the Rally Goat
    for the prospect cost of trading for 2 years of Realmuto, I’d rather get a big time young stud pitcher. Agreed entirely on the why
  10. Richie the Rally Goat
    it could be one dollar with 3.4999 m worth of incentives and I’d still be pissed. It’s not the money, it’s the rotation and roster spot. That spot could be used to improve the team or develop youngsters and probably both. With Perez it’s neither.
  11. Richie the Rally Goat
    agreed, but for how long? It's hard to tell until it's too late and you're saddled with the Phil Hughes extension. I'd still take 32-33 YO Gibson over the next Martin Perez
  12. Richie the Rally Goat
    I am on the side of sign a starter to make the top of your rotation better, but agreed, your 5th starter and/or swing man should be actively groomed for future rotation fixtures. It is why I was so POed about Perez. He is no better than the in house guys and then those guys get no experience. It's a lose/lose proposition
  13. Richie the Rally Goat
    your 3-5th starters have a combined 20 (hyperbole I didn’t look it up) innings of MLB experience and number 2 appears to be a solid 4th-5th starter. If that’s the plan, might as well blow the whole darn thing up right now and start planning for ‘25/‘26
  14. Richie the Rally Goat
    I missed this year but went to the first official 4. They were awesome and I’m sad to have missed the last two.
  15. Richie the Rally Goat
    I’m encouraged by Stewart’s results and his new found support, however I’m with you. What took so long? Sometimes it takes a new voice, just like the change of scenery effect, but gosh why didn’t the old FO (or Falvey and Levine) figure out earlier that the coaching voices weren’t effective?
  16. Richie the Rally Goat
    agreed, but would propose expanding the scope of weakness. Pitching (not just bullpen) has significant risk of costing games early in the season. I don’t trust Pineda, I am negative on Perez and worry he’ll continue to be a primary pitcher while the coaching staff tries with futility to remake him, and Odorizzi his good for 5 innings. They’re going to blow through a ton of long relief innings and need to score a bunch, before we ever get to the setup man and closer. I’m good with closer and kinda doubt they have one established closer. Between May, and Rogers we’re ok to good there and if Reed bounces back we’re set. It’s the high leverage fireman and setup man I’m concerned with. Theres a few guys that can get through a clean inning, I’m struggling to identify anyone to get you out of a jamb. Looking forward to some touch downs this summer
  17. Richie the Rally Goat
    Steamer projects 77 homeruns for the trio. The Bat projects 92. Only 8 players hit 34 dingers last year but Cruz was one of them and Cron was in striking distance with 30. Big if, but Sano has 30 homer power if he can stay healthy. 100 homers isn’t impossible
  18. Richie the Rally Goat
    baseball is a team sport with a championship predicated in transitioning from 162 game season to a 5 game season followed by a 7 game season, followed by a seven game season. Post season metrics are a very small sample size for individual players
  19. Richie the Rally Goat
    I agree with you prediction. Considering Detroit, KC (both 100 loss candidates again) and Cleveland went backwards this offseason and ChiSox have so far basically treaded water, 80-82 wins is going backwards for the Twins. Im not ok with 80-82 wins Agreed on the indecisive nature of the FO. It’s maddening
  20. Richie the Rally Goat
    87 wins isn’t enough, and D- is too generous for resource allocation. 100 mil payroll in 2013 is fine. 100 mil in 2019 with the core entering arbitration is absolutely F. If G was possible, that’s what they deserve. Aim low, get low.
  21. Richie the Rally Goat
    At least Adams titles and frames the article in a more up front way. In terms of need and resources, Twins make a ton of sense. We all know it isn't happening, but if logic mattered, the Twins would be legitimately in on Machado. I'm not paying to read the ESPN article, but the click-bait nature of the title along with the consternation leads me to believe that ESPN wasn't very genuine.
  22. Richie the Rally Goat
    agreed, all major league teams depend almost exclusively on home grown talent. The Twins have been unsuccessful at developing homegrown talent. They’ve sucked for 8 years with high draft picks and nothing to show for it. What do you do about, just accept it and wallow in self pity and wait for JP to can you? Do you acquire better players to fill gaps while your pipeline continues to develop? I don’t have a problem with Schoop/Cron/Cruz. All reasonable improvements to the hitters. The pitching side is apathetic, especially with the contracts and talent available this offseason. Parker is fine as ancillary, but he’s looking like the best pitcher acquired this offseason. Perez is a joke. If he had one good pitch you could maybe make a case. Maybe.... sad part is, if 5th starter were an open competition with in house options I would have been much happier. At least then it’s development for its own sake.
  23. Richie the Rally Goat
    with the current state of the “rotation” they can’t afford any Loogy’s. All of your relievers will have to be counted on for an inning or more.
  24. Richie the Rally Goat
    2002 they won 70 games in the second half of the season. How do you predict that at the trade deadline?
  25. Richie the Rally Goat
    My point in this is 2019 could be 2002 all over again, where a couple of well placed pitching improvements could be the difference between winning/losing a wild card game and winning the division maybe making a playoff push.
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