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  1. 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.
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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.
  6. 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?
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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?
  16. 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.
  17. Richie the Rally Goat
    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
  18. Richie the Rally Goat
    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
  19. Richie the Rally Goat
    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.
  20. Richie the Rally Goat
    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.
  21. Richie the Rally Goat
    can’t I just have a little hyperbole?
  22. Richie the Rally Goat
    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.
  23. Richie the Rally Goat
    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
  24. Richie the Rally Goat
    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.
  25. Richie the Rally Goat
    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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