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  1. Richie the Rally Goat
    huzah!
  2. Richie the Rally Goat
    did you remember your pint glass?
  3. Richie the Rally Goat
    Good post Thrylos. Always more fun this time of year to attempt predictive stats than descriptive
  4. Richie the Rally Goat
    disagree, more running, less trotting would certainly speed up the game.
  5. Richie the Rally Goat
    are umpires not employed by the league? Seems like the easiest way to speed the game up is to direct the umpires to not allow time outs by batters so often.
  6. Richie the Rally Goat
    since when do rule 5 players not have to be on the active roster to stay with the team?
  7. Richie the Rally Goat
    ERA and Wins are not individual stats, they are team stats. The 2016 Minnesota Twins Won 59 games. That team was historically inept but there was talented individuals on it. As Kab pointed out, May flirts with 12 strikeouts per 9 innings. It’s absolutely worth trying to see if he can do that for extended periods. Pitchers that do that are elite
  8. Richie the Rally Goat
    the metric top speed, not average speed. Average would be weighed down heavily by the can of corn hit right at you
  9. Richie the Rally Goat
    Agreed, it is a really good article. It seems like some of defensive metrics need additional data points, or context. It’s absolutely right to ask the question. Is Rosario losing a step? Coming to a conclusion is tricky, and prescribing a solution, harder yet. I don’t argue the data or questions posed by them, just looking for context.
  10. Richie the Rally Goat
    https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/MIN/2017-roster.shtml It's your perception 2016 appeared to be the year he floated alot 2017 2016 2015 Left 138 57 86 Center 10 37 4 Right 16 1 34
  11. Richie the Rally Goat
    He’s also got Byron Buxton for 137 games next to him in 2017, vs 92 and 44. No Oswaldo Arica or Danny Santana either, which has to help. If he doesn’t “have” to get to everything, he might not push it quite so hard, so he can stay healthier throughout the season. Man those outfields were bad!
  12. Richie the Rally Goat
    If May begins the season healthy, I would hope he's 5th starter and Mejia starting in Rochester 2 TOS surgeries for Hughes, I doubt he starts the season active, most likely 60 day DL. there's no log jam
  13. Richie the Rally Goat
    I doubt they eat Hughes' salary but agree with the overall sentiment. Depth is good and Kinley is only depth, but if he wins a spot, great stash him. If he doesn't, oh well. There's good pitchers with options who will be up to pitch in the Bigs for significant portions of the season. there will be injuries - there will be performance issues (here's looking at you Rodney, to have one of those two at some point) there's more than enough willingness to utilize the 10 day DL along wit the Rochester Shuttle to get all of these guys good innings. If the FO acquires a starter, there's still two guys in the bullpen who are likely to blow up regularly. If the FO doesn't acquire another starter, there's 3 questionable starters; short starts would be an issue
  14. Richie the Rally Goat
    I gotta think if Hughes isn't healthy, he goes on the 60 day DL - no insurance for his 13M contract if he's released. He did have additional surgery in the offseason, there's on guarantees.
  15. Richie the Rally Goat
    the new spend this offseason for the 2018 baseball season, so far has to be the lowest in several years. The MLB opening day payroll will most likely grow the least in quite some time, and most of that I would imagine are escalators and options in existing contracts and arbitration. 2018 off-season for the 2019 baseball season is predicted to be astronomical, but then in 2016, the 2017 off season was projected to be high as well. The scarcity in starting pitching was supposed to drive the price up. So far the market has not really reacted as such.
  16. Richie the Rally Goat
    The OP touched on the recent reduction in parity recently, but I feel like this is an important direct contributor to the situation that should be fleshed out a bit more. With the greater importance placed on taking advantage of the cyclical nature of compete and rebuild, it seems there are an inordinate number of rebuilding teams and a very select few win now teams. 2018 might actually be the year that breaks the growing payroll cycle. 2019 appears poised to put the MLB right back on track, but who knows. Tom could be on to something, maybe just a couple years early.
  17. Richie the Rally Goat
    not if he’s injured
  18. Richie the Rally Goat
    i like Rooker a lot, but he’s 23 with one professional season under his belt. Let’s see if he slows down when/if he gets to Nooga.
  19. Richie the Rally Goat
    I wonder about Alex Kirilloff. Will he recover well/quickly from injury and pickup right where he left off? With the extra uncertainty there, I'd bump him to 8, Graterol to 7 slide the rest of the list up accordingly and slot Gordon in at 6.... It does make me happy to see so much talent brought in to the pipeline in the last 1-2 years.
  20. Richie the Rally Goat
    Tillman seems to be like the pitcher acquired to round out the rotation after signing Darvish because your tapped out and don’t trust both Mejia and Gibson.
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  22. Richie the Rally Goat
    with the rod in his leg, is he an asset at 3rd? Tough to say until spring training.
  23. Richie the Rally Goat
    if i could get the right price (cheap relatively) I’d extend Escobar up to 3 years. He was basically league average 3rd base last year, plays an acceptable second, and can fake it in a pinch at SS. There isn’t a clear succession plan at 3rd and lots of uncertainty with Dozier, Mauer and Sano. There value with league average durability if the price is right.
  24. Richie the Rally Goat
    Nope, 2018 is his last arbitration season http://www.spotrac.com/mlb/minnesota-twins/eduardo-escobar-8500/
  25. Richie the Rally Goat
    I wouldn’t call it “wide” but Doogie has reported it. https://mobile.twitter.com/MatthewColler/status/945711474260967426
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