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  1. Richie the Rally Goat
    seems like you might be right. I just got the official. Trevor May to the 60 day DL. No surprise there. It would be really quick to be game shape before June 1
  2. Richie the Rally Goat
    My phone just provided the release from the Twins regarding signing Sanchez but nothing on who got removed to make room. Any word?
  3. Richie the Rally Goat
    the opening day rotation has not improved; Odorizzi is not better than Santana. Odorizzi has the opportunity to be better than Santiago and clearly the 6th through 10th starters in the rotation are much improved over Dillon Gee, et. al. It depends on how Santana and Berrios pitch, if Berrios continues to improve and Erv doesn’t regress and recovers well from surgery the rotation has improved. Getting another impact start like Lynn or Arrieta (higher risk, much higher reward) could really push the rotation up a notch
  4. Richie the Rally Goat
    Phil Miller has a really good article on this subject. http://m.startribune.com/with-his-minnesota-twins-contract-expiring-what-s-next-for-joe-mauer/474397383/
  5. Richie the Rally Goat
    just going out on a limb, but I believe AZ was saying s/he’d be ok if more homers stayed in the park, as then they would be a part of the BABIP metric.
  6. Richie the Rally Goat
    https://www.mlb.com/news/jake-odorizzi-gets-twins-closer-to-contending/c-266677752 Richard Justice says it well. I’ll paraphrase- Good start, now go get one of the top 3 free agents still out there to really prove contention.
  7. Richie the Rally Goat
    Not a front of the rotation improvement, but the middle looks a lot better. Curious what the full package of prospects entails Still kinda frustrated about Sanchez
  8. Richie the Rally Goat
    i was disappointed with the half hearted stab at Darvish. If their best offer is 30% off projection and 11% off the winning bid, they were never serious. Now after a major league deal, even non guaranteed, with Sanchez I’m down right PISSED OFF! Minor league with Sanchez or signing Garcia, or another 3rd tier, fine, but mashing the panic button on Sanchez... ugh
  9. Richie the Rally Goat
    come now, semantics about how to poetically describe one of the best hitting and fielding catchers to have ever played? Why is a little hyperbole regarding our guy such a bad thing? He was unequivocally GREAT as a catcher. Brain injuries robbed him of some continued great years, but he’s rebounded. It’s not his fault is owner and GM haven’t done anything to get that team over the hump of playoff contender to WS contender. He was GREAT and is now good and agree it’ll be very interesting to see how this unfolds.
  10. Richie the Rally Goat
    But you can trust what’s not reported by “the media” If Darvish had turned down a larger offer to go play for the Cubs, we’d have heard about it. The MLBPA would have had a holy conniption fit, and the commissioners office would have waived that flag in mighty triumph. The Twins got outbid by a very team friendly deal compared to projections... projections that lead Mr Levine to proclaim Darvish was a priority, and therefore in reach. I hold the FO absolutely accountable for that. If they have the resources, the window is open. They need to take advantage while they can. The opt out excuse is bogus, it’s the best part of the deal, 2 great years of Darvish and he moves on. Great, the odds of 3-6 great years are slim, you sign him to the deal because that’s the cost of doing business.
  11. Richie the Rally Goat
    Just a guess...the Kyle Gibson effect. nibble at the edges with very hittable stuff and when you get in trouble with walks, throw it down the middle? Over his career his hard hit rate has gone from 25(ish) percent to 37. His hr/fb has gone from 10(ish) percent to 20 percent. Homers are up across the league so it’s hard to give the homer trend too much weight, but it doesn’t look like there’s much upside here. He’s cooked
  12. Richie the Rally Goat
    or he consistently throws batting practice
  13. Richie the Rally Goat
    being a less bad alternative to a guy with 25 innings of AAA ball can still be a train wreck.
  14. Richie the Rally Goat
    the downside is he pitches just well enough that he isn’t cut and we’re stuck watching a train wreck every 5th start all season long
  15. Richie the Rally Goat
    im having a hard time finding the quote, but my recollection is Falvey has said things to a similar effect. I recall him saying that prospects would get goals and feed back throughout and the desired result would be maybe a little less time in rookie ball and low, and more time in double and triple A, where it made sense. Seems like Lewis and Rooker are going through the lower levels a bit faster than how I remember the TR era of management would have them progress.
  16. Richie the Rally Goat
    big assumption that Sano can play 3rd for 90 games. He has just begun conditioning and has the potential for a suspension this season. If the option is bench bat or additional utility player, Nunez would be my preference because his bat is decent. Essentially he extends the bench by providing both.
  17. Richie the Rally Goat
    what about bonuses, capital gains, and property taxes? None of those are in a game check. Also, in reading my Wisconsin income tax guide. I earn income in MN and have my tax withheld at the MN rate, but I get a very slight credit that appears to be a result of some kind of marry up with reconciling the two states. Not sure tho
  18. Richie the Rally Goat
    i didn’t think of that! Do you think income tax is withheld on the game check?
  19. Richie the Rally Goat
    being at home 6 days on 7 days off for 6.5 to 7 months... great!
  20. Richie the Rally Goat
    indeed, I guess the point was when you make millions per year and travel heavily you can choose where you live, and being close to the home office is not very important. People have many reasons to choose where to live, when cost and commute aren’t concerns it opens up a wide variety of options. If he wants to save on state income tax, FL is a reasonable choice with the 0 income tax and proximity to spring training facilities.
  21. Richie the Rally Goat
    Mauer lives in FL most of the year, why wouldn't the whole team?
  22. Richie the Rally Goat
    I have no idea what Darvish does or does not value in a future team, but it seems like many of the top end free agents are waiting for a bidding war that isn't happening. I absolutely agree with your assumption of posturing. I believe that he's trying to get MIN or MIL to compete with each other or with a team that isn't really in it to drive the price up. I gotta think Money and World Series Contention are the 1 and 2 criterion and then there's the whole litany of other stuff like fit, culture, community that we can't really put a metric to.
  23. Richie the Rally Goat
    Confused by the title, but good article!
  24. Richie the Rally Goat
    This is way off subject, but i’ll try to circle back around to the topic... theres indirect monetary gain. People like sports and choose to live where there’s pro sports. The gains are real, just not directly related to the building. Direct public monetary gain is minimal. Sports franchises pay very little taxes compared to the gain they get from the publicly funded stadiums. Sports complexes create very few high paying jobs for non athletes, sports complexes create very few new small businesses. New bars and restaurants don’t open around ballparks, existing ones relocate, if at all. All of this to say the public expects a return on investment. The team gets a huge direct windfall from the public, and in return the public gets very little in directly returned tax revenue. The public expects a more competitive team to make the area more desirable to make the indirect return more impactful. Hence the social contract. It’s all implied. My implication is, so far the Twins have not lived up to their side of the bargain. It’s time to change that. Go get Darvish!
  25. Richie the Rally Goat
    ”could” doesn’t guarantee anything.
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