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  1. Richie the Rally Goat
    ”Trevor Hildenberger made an appearance for the third straight game, tell me about his performance” Garver: “Gusty.... he was blowing them away”
  2. Richie the Rally Goat
    The baseballs are made to the same spec by the same company in two different plants. There isn’t enough capacity to make all balls for every league in one plant. The difference between two balls made using the same spec and same process in two plants is materials. Those materials are also made to the same spec using the same process, but in different plants (possibly different suppliers, I don’t know). So if there isn’t enough capacity to make enough balls for every league using one plant, why not have the change from AAA to MLB? If there is enough capacity, why not between AA and AAA?
  3. Richie the Rally Goat
    So there were hot takes like this one https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/twins-reportedly-offered-lance-lynn-two-years-and-20-million-which-is-a-lowball/ He signed for even less... and the Twins have thus far gotten 7.34 ERA and tons of short starts. His xFip has stayed similar to 2017 at 4.62 compared to 4.75 in 17. HR/9 20.7 is way up, as has is k/9 9.3 which are both higher than his career norms. .381 BABIP plus 20hr/9 is hurting his success badly. I’m optimistic the fielding will improve behind him to reduce the BABIP and the HR/9 will normalize a bit. At least he’d be a solid number 5 rather than a weak number 5...
  4. Richie the Rally Goat
    Thanks to Tom for the chart. Hughes last start was April 27. He hasn’t yet made a bullpen appearance yet. It’s been 8 days. I wonder when he’ll get one. It’s not for lack of opportunity.
  5. Richie the Rally Goat
    Agreed that many of the Twins prospects could use more polish when they get to the bigs. Not sure AAA is necessarily the answer for every player. It seems to me Falvine do not believe every prospect must go to AAA in order to prepare for the bigs. Maybe Gordon has learned all he can from Chattanooga, if so, sure send him to AAA. If not, no need to push. There’s no one behind him.
  6. Richie the Rally Goat
    there is no one listed as SS in FT Myers right now, so unless Lewis is ready to jump straight to double A in his second pro season (holy crap wouldn’t that be awesome) there’s no reason to promote Gordon into a less pitching intensive league. Seems like AAA is synonymous with AAAA and AA is where the prospects stay.
  7. Richie the Rally Goat
    the one issue I have on this roster/bullpen is 3 LOOGYs and a rule 5 guy with a thin bench and short one fireman. They really need another arm that can warm up quick and get your starter out of a jam. Lots of inherited runners scored, not much trust by Molly for too many members of the bullpen.
  8. Richie the Rally Goat
    not resign manager of the year and St Paul native Paul Molitor? Is that realistic?
  9. Richie the Rally Goat
    i guess in “the buck stops here” sort of way, but not in the “roles and responsibilities” way. FO can coach and provide all the data and suggestions but if they start dictating to Molitor how to perform his role, it makes it pretty difficult to recruit the next manager. Using a LOOGY as a LOOGY is on the manager.
  10. Richie the Rally Goat
    i agree with you generally, however...The FO improved the team by acquiring these players. Duke is being misused. He should still be good against lefties Lynn is way better than Hughes. It’s still early, he can rebound, or one of the many reinforcements that aren’t quite ready yet can take over. It’s a one year deal. You could be right on Rodney, but this seems to be his MO. He’s been effective over his career with this odd approach. Im not sure how much more of this I can take. I’m torn...
  11. Richie the Rally Goat
    true, but the bar is higher for first basemen. Joe playing catcher is historic. Joe playing first base is excellent, but not HOF. At what point does the scale tip?
  12. Richie the Rally Goat
    agreed, too many catcher miles on his legs to reach 3k hits. Does 2600 or so get him into the Hall? 3 more years would put him less than 50% catcher for his career, which seems to be the threshold for catcher credentials
  13. Richie the Rally Goat
    Great choice of words to describe a Joe Mauer Milestone. “Neat”!
  14. Richie the Rally Goat
    hi Tom, is my phone being goofy, or is the bullpen chart missing from your article?
  15. Richie the Rally Goat
    he’ll need to improve the Bb side of the k/Bb ratio in order to sustain, but he was immensely better than this time last year.Great to see
  16. Richie the Rally Goat
    It looks like Gibby worked in the 4 seamer pretty heavy last night. Did anyone find a screen cap of his position relative to the rubber?
  17. Richie the Rally Goat
    Lamarre hands down the Sire of Fort Myers. What a stud!
  18. Richie the Rally Goat
    Adrianza, Garver, and Morrison are all emergency outfielders. Grossman is almost emergency at this point. If Granite is hurt, you gotta have somebody... Agreed on middle infield, they are thin there too, but at least Adrianza is a pretty good SS. Two bat only guys on the bench could bite them.
  19. Richie the Rally Goat
    its “battle your tail off” - gotta invoke the Gardyisms when writing about a scrappy 4th/5th outfielder ala Lew Ford or utility infielder ala Nick Punto All joking aside, it’s a fun story and I’d like to see Lamarre succeed. What if the change is real and he’s a late bloomer? Granite could use a little seasoning, and depth is great for the trade deadline.
  20. Richie the Rally Goat
    Lynn must have needed some extra work and needed a few extra days... else Lynn and Gibson would be switched
  21. Richie the Rally Goat
    and how many games can a bad last man in the pen let the opposing team back in a game? That causes additional wear on the first arms in the pen that should t have been in the game at all...
  22. Richie the Rally Goat
    Did I miss a transaction/60 day dL of Phil Hughes?
  23. Richie the Rally Goat
    according to the mlb document the league notifies the GM and the MLBPA 72 hours before notifying the player. I was way off on my timing, but Falvey must have known. Now maybe the results of the test were announced 4 days ago but Polanco knew he’d failed it before the ink was dry on the cup label...
  24. Richie the Rally Goat
    he wasn’t that bad...Ok, maybe he was
  25. Richie the Rally Goat
    http://www.mlb.com/pa/pdf/jda.pdf According to the policy, the team, the players association, and the league knows 72 hours before the player does. My guess is this has been a week or less. My employees were non-union, but i suspended my reports as soon as I found out or at the beginning of their next shift if they were off. I’d literally find them in the plant or at the beginning of the shift wait at the time clock. Everyone knew someone got popped if I greeted everyone at the door, which was once or twice a month.
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