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  1. Richie the Rally Goat
    just a guess, but LEN probably agrees with you too. I really enjoyed the article and hope the Twins are successful, it would just be great if Abad were the supplemental addition and not the centerpiece to the offseason bullpen revival. Maybe I'm reading the tea leaves wrong and the centerpiece is Burdi or maybe there's still a trade in the works.
  2. Richie the Rally Goat
    Hard to argue, thanks for your clarification/research into my wild claim. It further cements my opinion that this rotation will most likely be pretty poor unless the GM is willing to put young guys in front of established guys regardless of contract.
  3. Richie the Rally Goat
    while true, he won't be "good". He's had one good season in his career and bless him, he capitalized on it. He isn't capable of repeating. I agree with Mike, worst case scenario is also best case scenario, Nolasco is mediocre and therefore untradeable and uncuttable, and he blocks Jose Berrios and/or Duffey and/or May from the rotation all season long.
  4. Richie the Rally Goat
    it depends on Park, who I think could be Mr Ft Myers. If Park looks lost in ST, maybe they leave Sano in the outfield
  5. Richie the Rally Goat
    all true, but to gain the HOF cred, he needs to continue playing for several more years, and I think he will play for 5+ years. He'll have played as much or more as a first baseman, than as a catcher. Is Joe's current performance HOF worthy? Do you expect it to improve enough to be HOF worthy again. I have my doubts. If he had retired rather than play through the concussion and transitioned to first base, he would have been a lock.
  6. Richie the Rally Goat
    I really enjoyed the article. I'm less optimistic about the season because I think TR and PM will stick with the veteran pitchers (starters and relievers) rather than let the young guys with upside prove that they are more than upside.
  7. Richie the Rally Goat
    I can't get my phone to cooperate so... "Like" "old nurse Jan 01 2016 06:32 AM Thrylos, on 31 Dec 2015 - 6:58 PM, said: Too early to even start thinking about the Twins' lineup. And the stories they are spreading about Sano have him at LF instead of RF (with that overhang etc...) Pretty certain that the Twins will make changes by opening day... It is just baseball dreaming on a winter day. As John Phillips wrote all those years ago, "I'd be safe and warm if Nolasco were in LA.Baseball dreaming on such a winter day". Something like that."
  8. Richie the Rally Goat
    we're not talking about pitchers. Ya you're right , k/9 is a great way to measure a pitchers individual effectiveness in ways that ground outs are more of a team effort. We're talking about hitters. If your getting a 250 batting average, would you rather Plouffe and Mauer who hit into double plays 25% of the time, or Sano and ABW who K 25% of the time? I prefer the latter, esp w/ the power that accompanies.
  9. Richie the Rally Goat
    Really encouraging answers from ABW. While I would be tickled pink if he cut down his k rate, at least ks don't become double plays
  10. Richie the Rally Goat
    I have no problem with Milone, he's fine, but the rotation is chock full of "Milones". The rotation is much better with a May instead instead of "a Milone", but the other three "Milones" have much larger contracts that will be much harder to shed
  11. Richie the Rally Goat
    the Twibs aren't unique in this regard. Every team has prospects that are done right and wrong and most of the time you don't really know until it's apparent to everyone else too. Especially mid and lower market teams of a decade ago who's main strategy is draft and develop. I think Park was had for a song, for a reason. The Redsox supposedly had a good long look at him and didn't bid more than 12.9 M for a guy that hit over 50 homers a year 2 years in a row? I can only hope Bruno can work wonders helping the guy get caught up to MLB pitching.
  12. Richie the Rally Goat
    I would hope Eduardo Escobar at age 30(?) would still be in the SS plans as gold glove incumbent, a guy can dream right?
  13. Richie the Rally Goat
    sane09 Today, 08:10 AM We have all heard the timeless adage that "you can't have too much pitching". That may be true, but I think the Twins are proving that you CAN have too many pitchers at Spring Training. Twenty-two pitchers on the roster, plus eight non-roster invitees = thirty pitchers in camp looking for bullpen time. If any of you are traveling to watch Twins ST at Fort Myers this spring, you should pack your catcher's mitt. They NEED you! My phone is misbehaving "LIKE"
  14. Richie the Rally Goat
    I think of value to the team. Even a 5th starter who can't go 6 innings and gets his start skipped a couple times gets 50% more innings than the most durable reliever.
  15. Richie the Rally Goat
    I get that there's necessity to having May in the pen, but it's self inflicted, and hurts the team in 2016 to give fewer innings to May, rather than more. What aggravates me the most about this is we saw so much Casey Fien and Blaine Boyer in 2015 and so little Michael Tonkin and Ryan Pressly. If those two had more MLB innings in 2015, at least we'd know what was there. Now they can't be relied upon because they're still unknown quantities when there has been plenty of opportunity for that seasons that had no expectation for success.
  16. Richie the Rally Goat
    edited below
  17. Richie the Rally Goat
    Darin Mastroianni, OF solved, now just gotta trade Eddie Rosario for a loogy, and TR can call it an offseason
  18. Richie the Rally Goat
    agreed on 2016, not so sure on 2017-2018, those three pitchers should be vastly improving at the same time age will be creeping in on Shields. One thing stand in the way of trading Gibson/Milone ETC... Terry Ryan. He always hangs on too long to the guys who become "his guys". See Brian Duensing, Mike Pelfrey, etc
  19. Richie the Rally Goat
    mikelink45 Today, 03:09 PM "More logs for my fire - this is great - keep it coming. For me it is not the fact we have so many logjams, but rather TR. Can someone put together his track record? Which months does he trade? Which months does he sign free agents? Lets analyze the key guy, not the players. My old time memory says TR moves fast and then sits. At the end he adds players that others pass on so he can get savvy vets to fill the voids." The old what should he do vs the what will he do conundrum... Judd is right except that holding on to Plouffe gives license to being content with the rest of of your position players too. Rosario, Arcia, Sano with Santana as your 4th outfielder is rather scary. With a 12 or 13 man pitching staff, you don't have room to carry Nunez, Santana, Arcia, and a Shane Robinson type. I think TR traded Plouffe part from necessity. Lots of question marks in the lineup and pitching, but TR has kind of painted himself into a corner too. I think he has to pull off some kind of trade that includes a seasoned position player, and one that involves a pitcher
  20. Richie the Rally Goat
    I get that logic with one player, but 10% of your 40 man roster including Pat Dean? I gotta think a couple of those guys should be ready to pitch mop up duty. Give the mop up duty to kid who needs the experience, not some washed up old has been.
  21. Richie the Rally Goat
    I agree with spycake 100%. All of these guys should be ahead of Fien on the depth chart. Tonkin Pressly Darnell O'Rourke Meyer Graham Rogers Dean Chargois Melotakis If you can't trust any of Rogers, Dean, Chargois, Melotakis to be on the active roster day one, why did you protect them all from the rule 5 draft? If you have all of these guys, why clutter up the situation with filler? Make a move to improve or roll with the guys on the list above.
  22. Richie the Rally Goat
    I agree it seems like the KC model of OK to mediocre starting pitching and excellent relief pitching with very good defense is the most likely way for the twins to assemble a playoff caliber roster in 2016. While I think the long view is May is best served for the Twins as a starter. Win now means he belongs in the pen for '16. May was very good in the pen last year and could be better yet in 2016. To follow this model, Buxton, Rosario, and Kepler need to be in the outfield with all those fly ball starters, they'll need another top tier reliever from outside the org, and they'll need the young gun flame throwers like Burdi and Reed to step up and be the core of the bullpen.
  23. Richie the Rally Goat
    Never mind, do buy 50 - 75 curveballs, still don't care
  24. Richie the Rally Goat
    "Being an auditor at trade I am scratching my head at the math. Did he only face one pitch in each of his 284 PAs? 284X1= 284X.087= 25 pitches. Was the one and only pitch he faced in each of 284 PAs only ever a curveball? Unless I am missing something here Murphy has faced more than 25 curveballs, maybe somewhere in the 50-75 range. Still, it is a major red flag that he has 0 of them solidly and definitely something to watch. " The average plate appearance is 3.7 pitches, no mlb pitcher throws 50-75 percent curveballs. I don't buy your argument, but for the sake of it, we'll accept the premise. So 50 to 75 pitches is any more statistically significant? SSS alert doesn't even begin to describe my level of apathy for the argument
  25. Richie the Rally Goat
    "That is 13 times by 12 separate organizations that teams have looked at Gardy and said no.So no, I would not hire him and that opinion seems to be shared by MLB management other than Terry Ryan." TR did fire him. Just sayin... Managing anything is a combination of analysis and people persuasion. Sure Gardy is weak on the data analysis and his tactics suffered for it, but talent wins way more games than tactics. Gardy lost his ability to persuade people when the losing got him down. I think he can regain that ability that he showed very capable of in the first part of his career. Yeah he's folksy and I find that annoying, but he's not my manager, he's a baseball manager. And I think he can make a good ML manager again.
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