Richie the Rally Goat
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that's the one I could remember/find - Pohlad and Ryan have said as much a few times times over the last 5-6 years or so -
Judy from Big Lake is my hero http://twinsdaily.com/topic/31775-article-rundown-judy-from-big-lake-baldelli-buxton-meeting-and-more/?fromsearch=1 https://www.twincities.com/2018/11/17/charley-walters-vikings-need-back-to-back-north-conquests/ Quote Mauer’s retirement leaves the Twins without a $23 million salary commitment for next season. But that doesn’t necessarily mean an extra $23 million for free agency, club owner Jim Pohlad said. “It’s not like ‘OK, we’ve got this money now, and we didn’t have it before, so we can do so much more,’ ” Pohlad said. “I don’t feel that way.” End Quote I’m still pissed
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Article: The Discard Pile
Richie the Rally Goat replied to Nick Nelson's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
the beauty of free agency is you don't stop drafting and developing your minor league talent. OK, so how long do you have until your fan base stops showing up? Do we need to go back to retraction? It's a business that needs to sell tickets, shirseys, concessions and TV deals with a significant portion of the fans, even the most rabid and long term, are getting very close to giving up on them. Ask the Rays who won 90 dames and still no one shows up. What do you do if Sano, Kepler, and Buxton take the strides forward that we all hope they do? The pitching is awful and was the issue last year. It's worse this year.- 182 replies
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Article: The Discard Pile
Richie the Rally Goat replied to Nick Nelson's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
the Braves blew it up in 2014 and rebounded 4 years later. The Twins never blew it up, this rebuild has already been going for 8 years. Does it need to go 13? 20? The Braves aren't a bad model, but it's too late to go that route now. The franchise would be ruined.- 182 replies
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This is not how it works. The budget is like the government. Use it or lose it. Any profit goes to buy Pohlad another yacht.
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All this Viking gibber jabber.... I cant help myself.....I’m trying...... Go Pack! Whew.... glad I got that out, I feel so much better. I’m good with the Chiefs winning the SB. Great to see a winner who hasn’t won it in my lifetime or been in a long time. Rams are my number 2, at least it’s been 18 years for them. To that end, anyone but the Pats
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I agree, you are a contrarian that’s what makes TD great. Respect and differing opinions make for excellent debate. On the starting pitcher side, I agree with you. Perez or whoever they will reasonably get is no better than Mejia and the rest. Just roll with what you got. On the bullpen side, they really needed high impact/leverage. With those potential free agents signed, try to swing a trade or convert Romero.
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I’m leaning this way as well. Competitive or not, Castro and his expiring contract will get traded away at the deadline, or August waiver period. Look for Astudillo to start consistently at C in AAA and shortly before the deadline a minor league journeyman C (like Wilson) be signed, Castro get traded for minor league pitching, and Astudillo get called up. To the point, the bullpen as is could be ok, but the pitching as a whole looks like a weakness. Seems like the “opener” will be heavily used as well as “stacker”.
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interesting, your train of thought may mirror Falvine’s. I doubt the ability to replicate success in this fashion, but it would slightly less torch and pitch fork worthy than just settling for mediocrity because it’s cheap.
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Article: Sizing Up Cody Allen
Richie the Rally Goat replied to Nick Nelson's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
25 mil under league average when you are a 100 game loser is one thing. 30 mil under league average when that 30 mil could be the difference between mediocre and actually playoff competitive is entirely different. -
there will be lots of innings for starters 6-8 in the big league rotation, but agreed. Pineda is the reclamation project and nothing is certain with him. Now is the time to improve the middle of the rotation (trade for Gray or sign Gio) or go with what you got for the back.
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you are right, Friday was the deadline to file or settle. Being that they settled, the team prolly didn’t file. https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/everything-you-need-to-know-from-mlbs-2019-salary-arbitration-filing-deadline/ http://m.mlb.com/glossary/transactions/salary-arbitration
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the settlement was an estimate. The player and team submissions appear to be published
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IKR! Team offered 1 mil, settle on 900k makes no sense, unless there are appearance incentives or rounding errors
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Someone is getting hurt, and the AAA reserves are getting significant starts in 2018. A 2-3 year or longer deal is certainly palatable and would provide continuity beyond Berrios. There's not many pitchers left that I would want to do that with. Maybe Gio. A lightning in a bottle type contract that doesn't impact the 40 man is fine, but should be independent of the opening day rotation. If they can't get a 2-3 year contract on a decent mid rotation starter, it's OK to roll with Romero or Mejia as your 5th starter and still have Bucholtz in AAA for when someone gets injured. Someone is getting injured...
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option 3, convert starters to relievers: Romero, Mejia and Gonsalves could be good relief options in 2019
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Article: Kicking the Tires on Kikuchi
Richie the Rally Goat replied to Nick Nelson's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
it seems like we have/had the market on German, Dutch, and Australian players.... too bad none of those countries have leagues competitive with Japan -
https://mobile.twitter.com/DanHayesMLB/status/1080543902174728193
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This! Gardy used to whine about rookies not having any polish before getting to the bigs. My response at the time (while being very sick of watching 90 loss seasons) was ‘you are a coach, so coach ‘em up’. Looking back, I agree with your stance. Too many of their minor league years spent in A ball, not enough in AAA. So as Gardy and Molitor had the “won’t work with rookies” moniker, it might be more appropriate to think that theres a gap in development for players without sufficient AAA time that the previous FO couldn’t adjust to fill. Let’s see how this plays out with Falvey.
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If an investor or buyer fails to spend what needs to be spent, that money manager bankrupts an otherwise healthily liquid organization. For instance, if my manufacturing company made 15 mil worth of the wrong stuff, but has backorders on a constrained machine, what is the prudent decision? Buy the equipment to eliviate the constraint. If you need the cash to buy the equipment, liquidate the excess product for whatever you can get for it. If you can’t liquidate enough, borrow or sell stock/bond to raise the capital. Grow or die
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Option Cave, have Austin be 4th OF/Bench bat. Get him ABs every game and see what you got.
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Mauer, Dozier and Morrison/Grossman. Escobar didn’t really DH, Escobar played mostly 3rd, Sano should eclipse anything Escobar did offensively.
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still 74 homers is what 68 net increase? Huge
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how is it a bad thing to improve the hitters? Agreed, pitching is needed badly and this might inhibit funds available for future signings, but money spent on players is better than money left in Pohlad’s wallet. Not signing Cruz does not mean it will be spent on pitching.
