Richie the Rally Goat
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My guess is Winder, Jax, Celestino, Romero, bring up Smeltzer and a waiver claim (DFA Valimont)
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Hideous colors! Almost as bad as the Royals hat the other night
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Hopefully Aggies is right this time
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I hope very low
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Rick Aguilera
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Bert Blyleven, though he was a trade? The first time…
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He struggled getting out of the 5th, I think it’s a tossup
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Ervin Santana?
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If the Twins don’t get 3+ hits tonight, it’s going to be a miserable game
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Congrats!
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I don’t expect you to, but it’s been a running joke over the last week or so.
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I generally refrain from discussing my NFL allegiance. I accept that this is Vikings country, but I couldn’t help myself on that one
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I already have them! it’s my inspiration!
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We’re jinxed! JINXED!
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Oh good, it’s mostly to entertain me, if you all can get a bit of entertainment with me, all the better
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Another installment of shopping with the enemy. For the lady with questionable taste in sports teams: With the promo code SINGLE you can get this fine park bench for the low low price of $315, you can ensure you remain single.
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I think Ryan can be built up to a 6 inning per start, 200 inning per season pitcher. He’s never come close before, minor league and college seasons are much shorter. spring training was abbreviated, so they starters are still building up the stamina. The days of complete game shut outs are mostly behind us. Just like platoons, most starting pitchers as they get tired have worse outcomes than a fresh reliever even if that reliever is a worse pitcher. i realize that every hall of famer started out as a rookie, but is it really fair to compare Joe Ryan in his first full major league season to Bert Blyleven? Really? He’s top 1% of all players in history.
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Verducci effect
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No, that’s .714 slugging… that’s a 1.000 OPS against lefties 198 wRC+ so he’s only 98% better than average. He had that kind of success in 2019 and 2021 as well. Garlick should absolutely be in the lineup against Lefties. I’d platoon him over Larnach or stick him at DH, and give Gordon as many at bats as I can while Buxton gets back up to game speed and slide Gordon over to LF when Buxton comes back. Gordon has hit better than all of the LF options available (day in and out) but there’s room for both Gordon and Garlick in this morass of a lineup
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The question was “why Garlick over Gordon?”. The answer is if you have a hammer, use if on a nail. Maybe Garlick can be a screwdriver too… I dunno, but that wasn’t the question
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You could be right, I don’t remember the exact speeds, it’s what I looked up from an old article (baseball savant doesn’t keep those stats that far back). My recollection was he didn’t throw hard back then relative to his peers and as others have pointed out, everyone today throws harder than they did back then
