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  1. Richie the Rally Goat
    i don’t think they can put them through waivers until spring training, or maybe day one of the season.
  2. Richie the Rally Goat
    there must be a min amount of time for players added to the 40, to remain. Otherwise protect them from rule 5 and then take them off the 40.
  3. Richie the Rally Goat
    as Mr Brooks said, they need 2 rotation pieces, one immediate front of the rotation like Darvish that is clearly prioritized by the FO, and another 2-3 starter type. It’s not clear yet by the FO’s posture, but I doubt the FO has the budget available to sign Darvish (or maybe Arrieta) AND sign a second tier Cobb/Lynn and below that tier in free agency, it doesn’t clearly improve over Mejia/Gibson or compete with Santana Erv is in the twighlight of his career, last year was a career year for him. It’s not realistic to expect the same in 18. I expect him to regress a bit and get passed up by an improving Berrios in 18... so that second acquisition should hopefully push a healthy and realativly effective Erv to 4th
  4. Richie the Rally Goat
    I was going to like this until I read it 3 times. ;-) Belisle seemed to pitch better as the closer than he did as the fireman - I think you are on to something with the clean inning assumption. Timing, frequency, number of pitches thrown, how many times did the guy get up to warm in the bullpen without throwing a pitch.... all can have an impact.
  5. Richie the Rally Goat
    its not a “bad” signing, i just don’t believe Falvine will raise the bar. No evidence to suggest either way, but Falvine expected more from the prospect relievers than he got last year. What’s changed?
  6. Richie the Rally Goat
    pitchers and catchers report Feb 13. Considering the grousing is 90% pitching related and the short supply in the FA class, I see it warranted. Rodney has already been anointed closer. If that doesn’t scream “done with relievers”, I don’t know what does. I guess they could acquire a setup man, but I was hoping for a bigger step up.
  7. Richie the Rally Goat
    is it easy to cut ties when your bullpen is in shambles? If the Yankees or Indians made this move, Rodney is just another guy. As things sit with the Twins right now, Rodney isn’t just another guy. Next man up is a much bigger hole relatively speaking.
  8. Richie the Rally Goat
    it depends, if this is the only reliever signed I’ll be upset. If they get another reliever I’m ok, if not a bit underwhelmed
  9. Richie the Rally Goat
    i agree with your argument. I’m not yet ready to crown Falvine as king. They are doing well, maybe very good. Not exactly crushing it. Don’t quite agree that last trade deadline was a blunder. The players traded away probably wouldn’t have made a big enough impact to really be a blunder. It may have been the wake up call the team needed to turn the season around. The team is better now than it was before the trade.
  10. Richie the Rally Goat
    I had this thought too... but on second thought, maybe this tact is better. These trades happened in very short succession. Seems like Falvine might be pitting these two teams against each other, not giving either one too much greater advantage over the other. Promoting an arms race could leave both teams worse off in the long run, trading away multiple assets to keep ahead of the other. By not picking a winner, Falvine can let a market play out and hope they both trade away more resources in the process.
  11. Richie the Rally Goat
    agreed, need to wait on Mauer until he offseason as he should be a 10-12 mil player not an 18-19 mil per year player. If not spending on FA when our payroll is 95 mil and dropping, when?
  12. Richie the Rally Goat
    i forgot he still has an option. Hate to burn it in a recovery effort. It’d be nice to keep it in your pocket in case he’s still not 100% next year, worst case scenario, though he’s apparently throwing 100 so good sign. Good stuff Thrylos
  13. Richie the Rally Goat
    I'd think if he starts the season on the DL, he'd go to Extended Spring training first, no?
  14. Richie the Rally Goat
    I don’t think Hughes will pitch for the Twins again, so if he does, it will surprise me. Low bar... but possible. Side note, what does a second TOS procedure mean? They didn’t remove a second rib, did they?
  15. Richie the Rally Goat
    as a starter, k rate aggregates to more Ks over a season. He’s absolutely more valuable as a starter if he can get healthy and stay healthy.
  16. Richie the Rally Goat
    here's a couple good links - looks like Jaime Garcia is the poster child and Josh Becket is what to expect. https://www.beyondtheboxscore.com/2015/7/1/8859137/thoracic-outlet-syndrome-pitcher-effectiveness https://www.fangraphs.com/fantasy/pitchfx-forensics-matt-harvey-and-thoracic-outlet-syndrome/
  17. Richie the Rally Goat
    its semantics I guess, but with the aid of hindsight, they traded away a rental middle reliever (in most organizations) and a rental 4th starter. They got back two double A pitchers, an A ball pitcher, and int’l pool cap. Is that really a sell? It’s not like they traded away Dozier, Santana and Mauer
  18. Richie the Rally Goat
    to add, Garcia was a rental and was realistically going to add at most a win or two over a realistic replacement. Littel and Enns appear to have significant value to the depth of rotation for the 2018 MN Twins as the 6-7 or 7-8 guys and help avoid the Big Sexy type acquisitions. I see it more inspirational than not.
  19. Richie the Rally Goat
    If you could sign Darvish and Ohtanni, then trade Santana, I'd be OK with it. If you had to trade away Santana to open up the wallet first, my concern would be the last player standing without a chair and being forced into making a bad trade to give up too many prospects.
  20. Richie the Rally Goat
    Agreed with others thankful for TD and the mods. Thankful for the upcoming payroll flexibility and hopeful Falvine will make good use of it.
  21. Richie the Rally Goat
    LNP won a World Series with the Cardinals
  22. Richie the Rally Goat
    Do you think Thorpe gets moved to the Bull Pen to try to simplify/speed up his development plan?
  23. Richie the Rally Goat
    id do that deal too. I doubt cincy will
  24. Richie the Rally Goat
    if it’s Lackey or Bartolo, Lackey would be not cause for pitchforks and torches for the 4-5th spot in the rotation on a 1 year deal if the front of the rotation gets addressed. I’d prefer the second piece be more of the 3-4 years 10-12 mil per season type. More of a mid rotation piece, but if #1 is Darvish that isn’t happening. If it’s Cobb or Lynn or a trade maybe a mid rotation addition is feasible.
  25. Richie the Rally Goat
    Please, oh please can Levine aim higher for pitching than John Lackey? Puh-lease with sugar on top! Bench bat type? Fine, prefer better fielding than Werth so as to keep the DH spot open for Mauer and Sano, but he’d be fine in a part time role. But Pitching, especially starting pitching where there’s two solid feel good when it’s their turn in the rotation that the front of the rotation needs fortification, not the back.
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