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  1. Richie the Rally Goat
    Isnt Reed the poster child for not signing the second tier relievers? He was a 2 year deal for reasonable money. Like you said, nothing is certain, but if you fail to develop pitchers for a decade, you gotta do something, right?
  2. Richie the Rally Goat
    https://www.mlb.com/news/willians-astudillo-to-display-skill-set-in-19/c-304048078 Does Astudillo have a chance to make the team out of spring training? His contact ability creates interesting lineup options.
  3. Richie the Rally Goat
    Kepler is one ACL-tear away from Jason Kubel. Fine role player, but took him 10 years to earn 31 mil I hadn’t thought about the upcoming CBA on why a player would want a guarantee locked up. Good point!
  4. Richie the Rally Goat
    grew 100% over 15 years relative to the total MLB revenue stream. We know the size of one slice of the pie, but not the size of the whole pie. We can’t possibly understand the constraints without more information
  5. Richie the Rally Goat
    agreed: we need to define “core”. Last I saw Buxton and Sano don’t pitch. If there was belief in Buxton, Sano, Rosario, Kepler, Polanco and Berrios, wouldn’t there be more supplement to them than Perez and Parker? There’s a big gap in narrative too. The FO has thrown Sano and Buxton under the bus already. We’re not going ‘all in’ until the core makes the next step, doesn’t exude a ton of confidence to me...
  6. Richie the Rally Goat
    it does make me wonder if Falvine are hoping for bounce back seasons from Sano and Buxton to trade the away. Is the plan all along to wait for 2021?
  7. Richie the Rally Goat
    It’s always great to get the humanity behind the machine. Good luck to Jacob on the field, behind the camera, and with his bride to be.
  8. Richie the Rally Goat
    If the Twins in 2019 come up 3 wins short of winning the division and miss the wild card, but Buxton and Sano flop are you ready to give the FO a pass? Is it OK, because the FO didn't know what they had in Buxton and Sano? It takes more than an entire 40 man roster to win. You can't wait for two or three players to click.
  9. Richie the Rally Goat
    keep posting!
  10. Richie the Rally Goat
    All kidding aside, this is very minor and great for the game. Jim Abbott could play, he was only on that list when he was injured, but was for his entire career "disabled". "Injured list" is absolutely the right way to go.
  11. Richie the Rally Goat
    Welcome Stu, I was disappointed earlier this winter, but now thrilled to continue to read your work.
  12. Richie the Rally Goat
    you’re more likely to have runners on batting 7th in the Yankees lineup than 5th in the Twins, no? Yankees had 5 players around 500 plate appearances with a .330 OBP. Twins had 1. Had to go down to 300 plate appearances for the Twins to hit 5... that’s 800 additional Yankee plate appearances with a respectable .330 OBP in 2018. I guess I’d be more careful with Austin in NY he’d be more likely to come to the plate with runners on.
  13. Richie the Rally Goat
    they have similar iso as well, but there’s one important stat that is very different. Sano’s Walk rate is significantly higher career 11.9% to Austin’s 7.4%.
  14. Richie the Rally Goat
    backup plan for injury?
  15. Richie the Rally Goat
    And now all of the ceremonial pitchers are all retired MLB pitchers since walks count as a run
  16. Richie the Rally Goat
    This - I'm not against specific rules that would encourage competition and parity throughout the MLB, but I am against vague concepts being passed off as rules for the commissioner to arbitrarily hand down edicts. Rules need to be clear, concise, and adjudicated without argument.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. Richie the Rally Goat
    Great post and I think your comparison is spot on!
  21. 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.
  22. 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
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. 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
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