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Richie the Rally Goat

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  1. hmmm seems like the Braves are trying to squeeze more out of the Twins
  2. agreed, we don't yet know the prospect that's getting traded away, do we? As has been stated by others, Atlanta isn't just going to give away Garcia
  3. there is opportunity cost. While I'm in favor of this move, depending on who gets sent, trading away prospects on low wattage moves means you can't package them on a higher wattage move.
  4. I think hat's changed is that Cleveland was supposed to dominate the division, and hasn't yet. Agreed with those above, can't really go "all-in" but need to improve the rotation and bullpen for this year and 2-3 years to come.
  5. ever? Think that little of the FO already? The point was, there's other options than Vargas and Park.
  6. Mauer is signed thru 2018. It's very possible Brent Rooker takes over 2019. If he or another in house option isn't available/ready, a Mike Napoli type is usually available. I'm not worried about Vargas/Park. Time to get Granite a taste of the bigs. Can never have too much ML talent
  7. I think Berrios' failure in 2016 led to his success of 2017. Berrios hadn't really failed previously. He's shown the fortitude to overcome that failure. I think that fortitude is an important soft skill required to make that early jump viable. As a person by person trait, some people have it, and others don't. It seems the FO saw that fortitude in Jorge, and in Romero, to where they thought, if they stretch those guys further than they are ready, they will respond positively and make the adjustments and put in the work to realize the goal. I do like the idea of stretching many of these double A pitchers to get the youth movement started. It will also provide a mechanism to pull the whole "supply chain" of minor league pitching forward. The Twins need to develop depth behind Jorge, Romero and Gonsalves in a hurry.
  8. minor league deal https://mobile.twitter.com/MikeBerardino/status/877335149477863424 So, you know, he'll be catching a flight from Rochester to Minneapolis in about 8 days
  9. Shouldn't the 4th though have been Italian hospitals? Italians sure are smart. Augie Ojeda (or Brett Fabre) is a fantastic way to give someone intravenous fluids. Go Twins
  10. thanks! He's my second. I also have a 3 year old daughter, when I was home for parental leave with her, I finally after 2 years went from Lurker to Poster. Seems like parenthood and TD go well together for me and my children.
  11. my son was born yesterday. I'm reading to him from TD
  12. Good stuff, thanks to Seth and Keith. I wish I weren't traveling for work right now.
  13. i don't know how much influence Hughes has, as much as I can guess that over the course of a season hard hit balls are caught less frequently than soft hit balls. His ERA must correlate at some point, right? I realize that I'm trying to do some loosey-goosey predictive assumptions but it seems to make sense in my head. Otherwise, if ERA is entirely in the pitchers control, what is the point of FIP?
  14. His hard hit rate is highest of his career as well, which adds some support to your gut http://www.fangraphs.com/statss.aspx?playerid=7450&position=P Only so many of those hard hit balls will be catchable by Buxton
  15. The DFA'd DanSan who clearly was claimed. Getting anything not on the 40 man is better than nothing
  16. Louie Opatz has some good analysis of the situation w/ Joe http://www.twinkietown.com/2017/5/5/15540728/what-exactly-is-joe-mauer-up-to-contact-babip-strikeouts-walks-minnesota-twins-mlb
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