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  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. Richie the Rally Goat
    Never mind, do buy 50 - 75 curveballs, still don't care
  7. 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
  8. 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.
  9. Richie the Rally Goat
    "as for dismissing Hicks 35 good games (compared to how many awful games) and Plouffe's hot vs cold streaks, I don't know, one of them has actually been good over a whole season, and one has only been good for 35 games out of his career (give or take). I'd think it is reasonable to say one of these is not like the other yet." - I was thinking the same thing Mike. Plouffe is streaky but for three seasons his body of work has been pretty similar, season to season. With Plouffe, you can pretty much bank on a .750 OPS for a decent to good fielding and durable 3b. Can't bank on Hicks yet, but I hope the Twins give him another shot out of ST.
  10. Richie the Rally Goat
    Median is the central number in a sequence, mode is the most recurring, and mean is the sum of the values divided by number of values. I would agree that velocity for a starter isn't the only measure, nor is it the best, but if is important. Tough to be a top line starter without that minimum 94+
  11. Richie the Rally Goat
    " WARNE: ALLEN vs ANDERSON It’s only the perception of the writer, but it appears that Twins fans have been far more supportive of current pitching coach Neil Allen than his deposed predecessor, Rick Anderson. Whether it’s on Facebook, Twitter or even in sports bars, it seems as though fans have really bought into Allen, despite the fact that stats show a pretty interesting story. Here are the numbers for the 2014 rotation: 5.06 ERA/4.03 FIP 6.4 K/9 2.4 BB/9 1.0 HR/9 And now, 2015: 4.23 ERA/4.19 FIP 6.2 K/9 2.4 BB/9 1.1 HR/9 Even if you don’t want to buy FIP’s argument that this rotation is actually worse, it’s not as though you could pick out one or the other out of a crowd of numbers. And I’m not saying you have to believe this year is as bad as last year, but it’s pretty close. It’s just a simple exercise to see if perception mirrors reality. In this case, not really." Quality of Pitching coach? or Quality of Pitching talent?
  12. Richie the Rally Goat
    like Austin Powers?
  13. Richie the Rally Goat
    I live in 'Merica where not wearing pants is typically frowned upon for everyone outside of their homes.
  14. Richie the Rally Goat
    you should try Zubaz, soft, comfy, and airy, almost like not wearing pants, but way more socially acceptable than tighty whiteys
  15. Richie the Rally Goat
    every day
  16. Richie the Rally Goat
    Who Dat?
  17. Richie the Rally Goat
    Last year was awesome, wish I could go this year
  18. Richie the Rally Goat
    Who's Brad Boyer? I have no problem stashing JR Graham in the bullpen if the bullpen is much, much better. But it's not...
  19. Richie the Rally Goat
    If the team was in third place in the division all season, made a big late push in August and September fueled by the youngsters, but came up a bit short. Yes it would be a successful season. On the other hand, being firmly in second place and the third best team in the AL for half the season, then fading quicklb while missing the post season, would not be. There's still time to make a big push in August and September, but looks unlikely given the state of pitching.
  20. Richie the Rally Goat
    What? You can't pinch hit for a catcher in the 9th! What if the backup gets injured?
  21. Richie the Rally Goat
    Doc Holiday was from Georgia, Wyatt Earp from Illinois. Clyde Barrow was a heck of a criminal and gunslinger, but he fired a lot more than 6 bullets in a magazine
  22. Richie the Rally Goat
    I would've liked a little more swagger from Sano, but getting your booty handed to you in such convincing fashion will do that. after all, it is a game
  23. Richie the Rally Goat
    If you want to pimp your homer, go ahead and do so... I applaud you for it. but do so at your own risk. I'd love to see a pitcher plunk a bluejay in the back and then run around the infield with his "wings stretched"
  24. Richie the Rally Goat
    May isn't stretched out
  25. Richie the Rally Goat
    To continue: Shields would be the second best starter on this team, but for how long? Lots of Hughes Santana, Nolasco could all be dead weight in 2017 or 2018, adding a similar situation with Shields
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