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  1. Richie the Rally Goat
    Better than Manny Margot is a very low bar.
  2. Richie the Rally Goat
    I don’t see the philosophical change here. I see bad relievers not being retained. That’s ok
  3. Richie the Rally Goat
    I don't see how the Twins can play 24 games against the Rockies in order to get to 79 wins
  4. Richie the Rally Goat
    agreed - Larnach has and should hit .730ish OPS and 100ish OPS+, similarly to Gallo, with similar defensive chops. They just get there differently, and Gallo was a $10m free agent, not a $5m arb guy. equally mediocre and baffling as to why they acquired/kept..
  5. Richie the Rally Goat
    Well said Cody
  6. Richie the Rally Goat
    Are you really concerned that they can’t find someone on the scrap heap who gets them 80% of what Kreidler or Arica gets you? Why the mental gymnastics over a glove first utility man and a washed up SS?
  7. Richie the Rally Goat
    This is a much worse team on balance than last year’s 73 win team. If I had my druthers they wouldn’t have done the fire sale and instead invested into the contention window. since they did the fire sale, I would have finished it out and stripped it down to the studs in the last offseason. since they failed to gain any value for the remaining vets, and also failed to meaningfully supplement to make this a good team, I guess a couple decent pitchers is something, but lemonade out of lemons now, is hoping some of these veteran players go ape and have good trade value at the deadline while the next wave of graduating prospects gets their feet wet. having Bradley and Abel is awesome, but I’d rather have a good team or a young team, this is neither.
  8. Richie the Rally Goat
    Of players with 210 PA or more since 2022, Kreidler is ranked 654 of 654, dead last in wRC+ at 11. A full 22 points below Mr 653. That he has a positive WAR speaks to how well he fields. He could literally fly like Superman and shoot the baseballs out of the air with his eye-lazer and he still shouldn’t be on any big league roster.
  9. Richie the Rally Goat
    mediocre /mē″dē-ō′kər/ adjective Of ordinary or undistinguished quality. synonym: average. Similar: average Of a middle quality; of but a moderate or low degree of excellence; indifferent; ordinary. Similar: indifferentordinary Ordinary: not extraordinary; not special, exceptional, or great; of medium quality; this rotation was ranked 16 in xERA no Pablo, no Paddack, Festa is iffy. There’s upside with Abel, but as constructed this rotation is literally mediocre. its also the strength of the team :(
  10. Richie the Rally Goat
    “Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical” -Yogi Bera i do not agree at all with the head case label, and really dislike it, it’s over simple and disrespectful. Ober speaks very well to the mechanical aspect of his game, and his process adds some complexity to his mechanics in order to take advantage of his height and extend his release point. i think some day he’ll make a great pitching coach or tv broadcaster, hopefully in the interim he’ll make a very good starting pitcher again
  11. Richie the Rally Goat
    100% agreed. 150 innings of 5 era Bailey Ober is still better than 100 innings of Zebby’s 5 era plus 50 innings of the 9th to 16th relievers in the pecking order. without Pablo, this rotation desperately needs to eat innings from that god-awful bullpen
  12. Richie the Rally Goat
    I hadn’t thought of it that way before, but makes perfect sense
  13. Richie the Rally Goat
    If the pitcher stats don’t matter, do the hitter stats? you don’t fine tune your mechanics with the bat on your shoulder
  14. Richie the Rally Goat
    Baseball Savant doesn’t agree with you, they look pretty comparable, and Larnach has been the one to deteriorate Wallner Larnach
  15. Richie the Rally Goat
    He could still get optioned to AAA for Outman who is out of options.
  16. Richie the Rally Goat
    Is it genuinely arguable?
  17. Richie the Rally Goat
    So the plan is to fail on purpose at the two fielding positions outside of catcher who touch the ball most for 5-6 years to find out if the strategy worked? Typically a strategy has a time horizon involved.
  18. Richie the Rally Goat
    Competitive advantage and capability to execute are the critical inputs to strategy selection. If a strategy is good on paper, but you aren’t capable of doing it and your competitors are better at it than you are, is it a good strategy? in other words, the CEO should know that the board backs their strategy and fails at their job if the board doesn’t. Tom owned up to the Pohlad family failure to go for the jugular. I think Falvey failed by putting himself and the Twins in a position where the rug got yanked out from under him. He should have had a better rapport with the ownership group than that. deeper into the strategy weeds, this team has shown capability to develop outfielders and pitchers, and terrible capability to develop SS and 1B. So why the hell do they keep acquiring outfielders, trade away their one and only good SS in 20 years, and never actually invest in 1B? It’s not just that they aren’t executing it. These are purposeful holes and surpluses on the roster that the surplus isn’t very valuable and the holes are extremely valuable relative to the league.
  19. Richie the Rally Goat
    Manny Margot
  20. Richie the Rally Goat
    I recall hearing Keaschall getting time in the OF too, but he only has one appearance in Left in the OP
  21. Richie the Rally Goat
    @Nick Nelson ”With Martin getting the largest share of starts in left field, Outman and Roden have mixed more often in center and right. A sign of things to come in the regular season? This will be interesting to keep an eye on since my assumption has been that Wallner would be out in almost every day. I have a hard time believing the Twins prefer Larnach in left to Wallner in right” Would you please clarify? The underlined really confuses me. I think Martin in Left, Buxton Center, Wallner Right, Larnach DH, either Roden or Outman on the bench and Bell at 1B is the plan. Martin is the Harrison Bader and Bell is the Ty France. Surprising that Clemens appears to be on the bubble.
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  23. Richie the Rally Goat
    https://www.si.com/mlb/how-abs-challenge-system-works Good question! According to SI, you are correct, it is a 2D rectangular box at the middle of home plate the width of the plate and height adjusted to the player. The article said that the robo-zone is slightly smaller than the average human-zone. My guess at the placement is for breaking balls. So the pitcher gets the back door slider, but can’t get the slider that breaks the front of the plate and away.
  24. Richie the Rally Goat
    You can look me in the eye with a straight face and tell me you think this team is two games better than last year that had C4 and a good bullpen until 8/1?
  25. Richie the Rally Goat
    Players who have very good bat to ball skills and gap power add loft successfully more frequently than players who hit home runs but strike out a ton add plate discipline and reduce Ks. ill give you Brian Dozier as an example. i think Gabby can do it, and am excited to see him develop into a big leaguer soon
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