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  1. Richie the Rally Goat
    Rosario (2B), Austin (OF), and Cron (3B OF) all have history of playing on other parts of the field in the minor leagues. Curious why that stopped when they got to the bigs...
  2. Richie the Rally Goat
    Wait, wait, wait.... middle infield? lol no
  3. Richie the Rally Goat
    I can get behind Rosario getting some 3B time more than I can getting Kepler some 1b time. Jake Cave's bat in left is more valuable than Adrianza's at 3rd. Kepler's bat is a downgrade against Right handed pitchers compared to Cron. Kepler's fielding is preferable over Cave, however. I disagree on Astudillo - on the big league club as the super-duper-ute he still stops the Bobby Wilson types or ensures the Bobby Wilson types stay in AAA. moreover he gives you the roster flexibility to ensure Gordon gets all the triple A TLC and at-bats he needs. You could possibly not exercise Astudillo's option and still have it for next year. If Gordon earns his way up to the big league club, you can still exercise Astudillo's option and have a space for him.
  4. Richie the Rally Goat
    if getting more flexibility from Kepler is a priority he would provide more value playing more CF than 1b. As for Astudillo, I’m all for giving the man a shot. Give him as many ABs as he earns. Pitching wise, May and Romero don’t really need labels. Be more flexible with piecing it together and those two could provide very valuable multi-inning appearances coming into the game at a number of scenarios. Romero, Littell, Gonsalves and Mejia are all players that need to take a step towards being a quality mlb pitcher in ‘19. Romero looks really promising, Mejia looks pretty sure of a back of rotation type. No clue on Gonsalves and Littell.
  5. Richie the Rally Goat
    4 year old and 18 months
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  7. Richie the Rally Goat
    help is on the way for first badse in the way of CJ Cron - http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/25385230/minnesota-twins-claim-slugger-cj-cron-waivers-tampa-rays
  8. Richie the Rally Goat
    I don’t see it as money, as much as trying to compete with a 24 man roster.
  9. Richie the Rally Goat
    I think shedding payroll is the only reason AZ is trading Greinke and Goldshmidt. I'd take them both, full contract, I would guess the prospect wouldn't be huge either. I don't think they will and are just as likely to go the other way, but a guy can dream...
  10. Richie the Rally Goat
    thanks for clarifying payroll with arb estimates. I couldn’t agree with you more. Every trade the FO has done so far has been to bring back prospects, including Pressly who was still under contract for ‘19. Just cuz they haven’t traded the blue chips away yet, doesn’t mean they won’t. They haven’t shown their hand yet for 19, but in the short while they’ve been at the helm the trades have been of the prospect hording variety. All of the improvements to the current team have been of the low wattage free agency variety. I have more confidence in this FO to build a winner, I’m less confident it’ll be in ‘19
  11. Richie the Rally Goat
    about 128 mil opening day to about 65 mil after World Series and turning over 30% of the active roster isn’t a tear down?
  12. Richie the Rally Goat
    As of today, the Twins have 60-65 mil committed for 2019 and to really compete the roster needs to change 30% with significant questions about 2/3 of the cornerstone players. If that's not a rebuild, what is?
  13. Richie the Rally Goat
    If the owner doesn't have the customer (fan) first of mind, then what is the point? just fold up shop... The thing is, the Twins org keeps renovating TF and they did make a change at GM, so clearly St Peter gets it. I'm just not sure JP does. I don't think JP knows the difference between a business and an investment. When he gets asked about his investment by sports media, the media members don't want to know about his ROI, they want to know about the business of the Twins. Successful business delight their customer. Successful investments make money for their shareholders and customer service is entirely out of the equation. So why do we continue to get business questions of the investor instead of the business man? Also, I wonder at what threshold does the approval process for outlays escalate from DSP to JP? Is it functional, or dollar value? Question 3, the deal for Target Field tied the Twins to the stadium for 30 years, negating contraction, why doesn't JP sell? The team was purchased for 44 mil, it's worth 1.1 bil - I don't care who owns the team as long as the lease holds the team to TF. https://www.forbes.com/teams/minnesota-twins/
  14. Richie the Rally Goat
    we’re in an 8 year rebuild with no end in site. True, Falvey and Levine were hired because year 6 wasn’t any better than year 1 under TR, but that shouldn’t give the FO license to shoot for the decade.
  15. Richie the Rally Goat
    Judy from Big Lake was spot on “First of all, I wanted to tell you what a horribly disappointing season this was for season-ticket holders; and I want to know how long do you think it’s going to be before you put a competitive team back on the field?” If Pohlad would rather not spend the money to buy pieces to a good team, then how long will it take to build a good team and will we the fans continue to buy tickets, concessions and shirseys? This really sounds bad in context with Mauer's retirement tribute of something to the effect of "I remember when we extended him, we were in Costa Rica on vacation" or something.
  16. Richie the Rally Goat
    Agreed on all three, they should be on the waiver wire shuffle as free agency and trades start to go through
  17. Richie the Rally Goat
    As thin as the Twins are in the infield that Arraez isn’t a given too.
  18. Richie the Rally Goat
    they did re-sign Matt Belisle
  19. Richie the Rally Goat
    in a recent Doogie pod Falvey sounded like he was very involved in the process.
  20. Richie the Rally Goat
    If your strategy to succeed is to invest heavily into analytics, then the coaching staff needs to be the conduit into the clubhouse. You can't say it's your strategy then dabble in it as a coaching staff. You must be "all in" on strategy. I like that the FO is finally implementing the strategy in earnest. I get the concern of work load changes between major leagues and minor, let alone, college - I was a vocal critic of Molitor's excessive usage of Pressly - I'm more concerned with the pitching coach and bullpen coach is if they can actually teach and provide valuable and new things to the staff. can they get through to the players? Time will tell, but at least at first blush, these two already will be evangelists of the strategy.
  21. Richie the Rally Goat
    adding two teams without reducing games means even greater gains
  22. Richie the Rally Goat
    I get the FO side of the service time thing. I agreed with the Oncler when he kept biggering and biggering, that biggering was the right thing to do. However the Onceler failed to heed the Lorax that biggering needs to be sustainable. Consuming human beings’ output without considering their needs much like the other Bill James discussion.... James is right, just like Falvey is right, but they’re going about it wrong. Sustainability with human capital requires treating them well. I hope Buxton does a LeBron James and not a LeVeon Bell, but I don’t think Falvey can afford to find out which direction he goes, and will trade him.
  23. Richie the Rally Goat
    it’s not the “if”, it’s the “how”. Harper’s service time was managed on the front side, instead of getting demoted and not brought up for September with two weeks to go.
  24. Richie the Rally Goat
    Enjoy your retirement and cherish your kids Joe!
  25. Richie the Rally Goat
    Buxton is super 2, not arb 1, I get it. The point is that extra year came at the cost of trust. Money doesn’t fix trust.
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