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  1. 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
  2. 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!
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. Richie the Rally Goat
    not if he’s injured
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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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  13. Richie the Rally Goat
    with the rod in his leg, is he an asset at 3rd? Tough to say until spring training.
  14. 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.
  15. Richie the Rally Goat
    Nope, 2018 is his last arbitration season http://www.spotrac.com/mlb/minnesota-twins/eduardo-escobar-8500/
  16. Richie the Rally Goat
    I wouldn’t call it “wide” but Doogie has reported it. https://mobile.twitter.com/MatthewColler/status/945711474260967426
  17. Richie the Rally Goat
    Good post! The absolute quiet about this is kind of surprising. Makes me wonder if Joe is contemplating retirement. As with others, I'd look to re-sign Joe on the Super-Cheap.
  18. Richie the Rally Goat
    this... needs to get his change up improved enough to rely on it for lefties like he does his curve for righties.
  19. Richie the Rally Goat
    this team doesn’t currently have enough pitching to win a 5 game series. Not even close. Pitchers and catchers report in what, 5 weeks? Time is tight to make 2-3 pitching acquisitions. If you’re waiting for the trade deadline it’ll cost a lot more than the Twins can afford.
  20. Richie the Rally Goat
    i think we are in the midst of a societal change and I hope the Twins and MLB come out right away on the progressive side of the issue. Historically that has not been the case with the MLB, but if I voice my opinion and my spend and others do to, we can help persuade the powers that be to look at things that I believe to be universal. All people should be treated with respect. All people should have agency over their bodies, minds, and beliefs. All people should stand up and protect these rights for themselves and for others.
  21. Richie the Rally Goat
    “Carl is dead, they work for his son Bill.“ jeepers! I got the wrong brother in my comment.... getting older sucks... I went back over the OP and the comments, and I think the idea of an adversarial relationship should be addressed. Working in a consumer business arm of a very large organization, we always viewed it as codependent. We need our consumers and our job was to make products that enhanced the consumers’ lives. I can’t imagine Jim Pohlad feels it’s adversarial. I’m sure every review is, what is the baseball operation doing to make the product more appealing?
  22. Richie the Rally Goat
    Well said!
  23. Richie the Rally Goat
    theres still 5 weeks until pitchers and catchers report. It’s a tall order, but not impossible
  24. Richie the Rally Goat
    i don’t think Archer, or Cobb, or Lynn or Darvish are individually a Panacea. One of them will help but not solve. Personally I’d like a trade for James Paxton (maybe Gordon and Enns plus) and sign Cobb. That would take this rotation and as a biproduct the bullpen, miles ahead. With his injury history, Paxton might be had relatively inexpensively. I’m of a firm belief that this team needs two starters and they can’t be acquired using the same means. Can’t both be free agents. Can’t both be trades.
  25. Richie the Rally Goat
    A good framework for valuing prospects. http://www.thepointofpittsburgh.com/mlb-prospect-surplus-values-2016-updated-edition/ Here’s what fangraphs did with it https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/lets-dream-up-a-michael-fulmer-trade/ Here’s what a Brewers blog 216 stitches did with it. I like the Brewers comp to the Twins. https://216stitches.org/2017/12/15/chris-archer-milwaukee-brewers-trade/ How does this shape possible trade scenarios? I think Gordon, Romero and Granite plus, might get it done.
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