Richie the Rally Goat
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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. -
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.
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Really happy with the one year plus option deal. Deleted URL as it was not an official announcement. Team has not confirmed
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the opener was tested in the minors last year before being deployed in the bigs, would we see the same with the proposed shift in position player utilization, or would it start in MLB ST?
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I think the market for Marwin Gonzalez could be a barometer to the league following suit with the Dodgers. The play every day utility guy could have more value to the market than the only Twins player (coming off a down year) not named Killebrew to have a 40 homer season. Maybe Cron, Schoop, and Austin are money ball type signings; while Ehire and Big Toe are ways to keep flexibility without breaking the bank on a play every day guy flexible guy. I’d prefer a whole team full of positionally flexible every day hitting types, but that player is en vogue. If your model is As and Rays, and not Dodgers, market inefficiencies are where you live. It probably makes the margins of the roster that much more important, just gotta get more creative finding the next MGs.
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swing man is definitionally 6th starter who does long relief until you need a 6th starter.... Agreed tho, in the pen or not on the roster for Mejia and Romero. The rest of that list are great in AAA/AA
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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
please tell me they went the same way as Bill Smith -
if they aren’t better than alternatives then are you trying to get worse? Mejia is out of options, and is a fine swing man or 5th starter or trade candidate. He should have no impact on extending either/both Gibson and Odorizzi. Romero could be out of options. It sounds like he’s moving to the pen, which I think is a good move.
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how does this advance the conversation? Where do we go from here? Is sustained excellence 75 wins with a roster comprised entirely of homegrown talent still in arbitration or earlier?
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just cuz they’re out of options doesn’t make them better than Odorizzi or Gibson
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of that list? Berrios and maybe one more will/could be in the 2020 rotation for more than half the season. Highest likelihood is Mejia, but that whole list outside of Berrios should be 6-10 in the major league rotation for ‘20. Romero has promise but there’s talk of putting him in the pen. Several on that list will end up in the pen.
