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  1. Richie the Rally Goat
    Fantastic review/overview! I do like me some Hot Indian.
  2. Richie the Rally Goat
    im kinda baffled Hughes isn't starting the season on the DL. By accounts he's been shaky and low velocity
  3. Richie the Rally Goat
    remember our wager on beverages over 13 pitchers? I do.... And I love Surly
  4. Richie the Rally Goat
    of 14 options for 12 pitchers on the opening day roster about 4 of them SHOULD be plan A.
  5. Richie the Rally Goat
    agreed, but I can see a scenario where Haley and Wimmers are both in long relief based on how Falvine feels about the roatation. Maybe not opening day, but short starts and taxed bullpen with no optionable pitchers loom on the horizon.
  6. Richie the Rally Goat
    if these guys can't stand out on the worst pitching staff in baseball why bother?
  7. Richie the Rally Goat
    i would maybe look to have Buck or Park hit 3 and Sano 5. Otherwise I really like these lineups based on OBP
  8. Richie the Rally Goat
    last year he had the highest OBP on the team. Of any stat for lead off, that's it
  9. Richie the Rally Goat
    2015 was also the return from suspension mid-season. When everyone else is already at top speed it takes a while to catch up. My recollection (cuz I'm too lazy on Sunday morning to look it up) was Santana looked bad his first couple starts and the pitch forks and torches were out in the forums here. By the end of the season TR looked like a genius. I'd guess a more studious fan could chart his OOZ swing rate by start that season to see well below career at the beginning and well above at the end, average 20% because he didn't have enough starts raise the average up to 2014/2016 is levels
  10. Richie the Rally Goat
    it seems like a better arm would allow Polanco to play deeper in the hole to take better advantage of his range, which would i turn give him a little more slack. He seemed to play up so far that there was no margin for error. Tough to live on the razor's edge. Is he still playing up along the base path this spring?
  11. Richie the Rally Goat
    i recall the hype was that I was a bit of a reach
  12. Richie the Rally Goat
    "The aggregator" quoted this article. Fun to read it here first https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2017/03/twins-news-jay-veterans-stubbs-breslow.html?fv-home=true&post-id=87636
  13. Richie the Rally Goat
    Sub Dantana with Stubbs?
  14. Richie the Rally Goat
    that would make the small side of the platoon even less effective if Giminez is the battery mate for Mauer and Castro - unless Kepler or Sano were 1b against lefties. I would buy into this scenario though with the logic of considering Grossman a DH and not an outfielder. Then with Stubbs as the 4th outfielder and the depth is very secure in the OF.
  15. Richie the Rally Goat
    With the questions at pitching and SS I don't see this team carrying 5 outfielders on the active roster. Not sure Stubbs goes north opening day or how long he sticks out AAA.
  16. Richie the Rally Goat
    replacing May might mean adding a pitcher to the 40 man roster as well.
  17. Richie the Rally Goat
    thanks for sharing. I didnt really get it, but appreciate your expertise
  18. Richie the Rally Goat
    you can be great at things that might not be good for you.
  19. Richie the Rally Goat
    if you put Berrios in the bullpen, even as the long man, he will become in very short order "no longer stretched out". It takes pretty much all of spring training to stretch him out. When the long man makes a spot start, it's usually 3-4 innings and taxes the bullpen heavily. It takes 3 or so starts from there to get him back up to 6-7 innings, so your bullpen is shot for the better part of a month. I agree that he should be working with Allen as a starter. It's best for him and the long term health of the club. In the short term, there isn't enough depth behind him and May and I think Levine will protect his depth. Only one of May or Berrios will make the opening day rotation, the other I predict will go to AAA rotation. Since May has had more success than Berrios, I think he'll win. I think both Berrios and May will be in the big league rotation fairly quickly in the season due to injury or ineffectiveness.
  20. Richie the Rally Goat
    agreed, but I think the limit here is depth. However, Tom brought up the concept of fire sale around the all star break, which should help.
  21. Richie the Rally Goat
    not in April with all of the off days, however I see it as an eventuality. Chief and I have a wager on a frosty beverage of choice if the majority of games played before September roster expansions will have a 13 man staff. I have the over.
  22. Richie the Rally Goat
    because you need Berrios stretched out. Hughes is coming off surgery, May had back issues last year, Gibson lost some significant time last year as well. Santana was healthy last year, but getting advanced in his career. At best you only need one starter on the Rochester shuttle, but will at points need two. If Berrios and Duffey are in the Pen and the rotation is Santana, Gibson, Santiago, May, Hughes. All you got left on the 40 man is Mejia. Are you going to put R. Rosario and Romero on the active roster? I'm not. Meanwhile May, Gibson, Santiago and Hughes are all making short starts. Duffey and Berrios are not exactly workhorses (yet) either. Hughes circa 2014 was, but coming off injury he probably won't be logging 180 innings this year. How do you keep from destroying the bullpen? I like the idea of a long man for this Twins team. I like the idea of two long men on this team, and would rather Hughes be in the pen with Haley and both of them pitch multiple innings w/ Berrios in the rotation, but that necessitates a 13 man pitching staff to start the season.
  23. Richie the Rally Goat
    At this point, you still can't really count on Hughes. I think that's what got Santiago his Arb $. They just couldn't go into 2017 with only Mejia as the fallback, and don't see Duffey as a starter. With Hughes in the mix, the rotation is crowded with mediocrity (hes had one excellent season c'mon) and without Hughes there's more upside with May and Berrios but it's really shallow depth. My guess is if Hughes is "healthy" Berrios starts in AAA this year until injury brings him up.
  24. Richie the Rally Goat
    and an infield of Dozier, Polanco, and Sano sets Gibson up for success how? He's in for a rough year, even if Adrianza or Escobar supplant Polanco at short, but especially if they don't.
  25. Richie the Rally Goat
    thanks for sharing. It's slightly more encouraging that Kirilloff spent his offseason getting treatments beyond R&R. I wish Alex well and a speedy recovery.
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