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  1. Richie the Rally Goat
    There's going to be 8-10 teams looking to acquire a DH, There will not be 8-10 hitters available better than Sano, cheaper than Sano ($/prospect cost). 8-10 teams can't sign Cruz (who just got really expensive). Suddenly Sano's buyout/option year got a whole lot cheaper relatively speaking. It looks like the Twins have a glut of DHs and need to make room for Kiriloff at First, but we've seen this show before. I'd trade Sano only if they get a good return, not to offload him. I doubt they get a good return, probably just a flier, and I wouldn't advocate for that.
  2. Richie the Rally Goat
    Choo Choo! im on board for my latest countryman to be in the Twins system
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  4. Richie the Rally Goat
    Update. Cause of death released by coroner https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jeremy-giambi-cause-of-death/
  5. Richie the Rally Goat
    Im up to episode 7 of All of us are dead. Zombie outbreak spreads like wildfire through a Korean school. Chaos and fear, mixed with terrible bullying, fantastic show I can’t find the post, but whoever suggested Korean TV… THANKS!
  6. Richie the Rally Goat
    Agreed. Frequently goodwill building is the table-setter to higher stakes topics. Any agreement is better than none.
  7. Richie the Rally Goat
    What a shame. A reminder of life’s fragility
  8. Richie the Rally Goat
    Things are looking bleak right now. I get the doubts of the OP, but thus far is one bad offseason, one bad season and a rocky start to an offseason that has yet to cost them any games. I mean let’s see what happens before we run them out on a rail
  9. Richie the Rally Goat
    You pay income taxes where the work happens. Pro athletes pay income taxes in dozens of states every year including NY, CA, MN and IL. half their taxes are MN half are in 15-20 states. For those of us who work normal stationary jobs, sure 50k in MN or 50k in Texas, I’d take Texas, low taxes, but half your games are in higher taxes states. How much does tax rate “really matter”? I’m sure it does to some extent, but I would think it’s down the list.
  10. Richie the Rally Goat
    So what are the parameters a player uses to make a free agency contract decision? my guess: 1) money in total contract 2) contract length 3) competitiveness/perceived odds to go to post season 4) geographic/family priorities 5) many personal preferences too granular for us to generalize we’ve heard Levine say they do not give 5+ year contracts to pitchers. The largest external free agent contracts the Twins have ever given out $92 million. they may place a value on a player to target, but they also budget individual contracts lower than the deep end of the pool. If 1 and 2 aren’t competitive with other teams, numbers 3+ aren’t going to matter.
  11. Richie the Rally Goat
    For 80 games you are on the road anyways. If a player chose to live in a different state than MN, it would be 7 months away vs 3.5 months. If the player’s family lived where they had parents/in-laws live, they’d have support structure that they wouldn’t have living in MN where the player is gone 3.5 months and they’re alone and making new friends (that can’t pick the kids up from school or take one to soccer practice) I don’t think this is as much of a deal. I think the higher likelihood is that the Twins and the Twins ownership choose not to invest in free agents the way we think it ought to be done. Maybe it’s cheap, maybe there’s a financial/operational reason, maybe Carl got snubbed by Bobby Bonilla and vowed to never again try to woo a high priced free agent because it hurt just too dang bad. Jim just carried on his dad’s torch because he just assumed “that’s how it’s done, those jerks” I dunno, but I can’t imagine there are many players who won’t go to a competitive team that pays them the most.
  12. Richie the Rally Goat
    FTFY
  13. Richie the Rally Goat
    So the plan may not be to use scabs in MLB ballparks, but to expand the AAA season to fill part of the MLB gap? I would imagine it’s quite a bit cheaper to operate CHS field than Target Field, and no one is paying MLB ticket prices to watch scabs. I would imagine Balleys/Sinclair wouldn’t like paying full ride for scabs either. Fascinating….
  14. Richie the Rally Goat
    It’s the roster spot. He’s filling a 40 man spot though mid-season no matter what. They won’t DFA him until they absolutely have to, and even if they get Grienke and Pineda, they’ll be running the AAAA shuttle to fill out the 200-300 innings out of 1500ish innings for a 162 game season.
  15. Richie the Rally Goat
    My prediction is 2 are going to be minor league starters in the stacker/piggy back type of role. My guess is the Twins trade for or sign another starter, put Jax in the rotation. The piggy-backs might be Dobnak, and Duran or Sands cycle through some of the other prospects to get their mlb feet wet and manage innings of Ryan, avoid over exposure for Jax or Bundy FA starter Ober Jax Ryan piggy Sands Bundy piggy Dobnak The 3rd would be a traditional long reliever AAAA fodder and the 4th slot would likely be a fireman type, another arm to come in if the starter needs to come out ahead of schedule (for instance Bundy is scheduled through 4 but can’t get through the 4th l and Dobnak isn’t warm and scheduled 5th-8th). I’d like it to be McHugh, but likely internal candidate. Stepping back away from my rambling, my guess is the Twins go to a 6 man bullpen 7 man rotation.
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    That or a potential scab
  17. Richie the Rally Goat
    since 2018 in Low A through AAA Rortvedt sported a 101-102 wRC+ with the exception of when he repeated A+ in '19 he sported a 132 wRC+ for 98 plate appearances. Maybe with a little patience he could hit slightly below average as a major leaguer. As well as Rortvedt fields the catcher position, a slightly below average bat could give him a nice long career as a major leaguer. Keep in mind that the average for catchers includes a very wide deviation. There are catchers like Garver who mash, and there are catchers like Michael Perez and Austin Hedges who don't.
  18. Richie the Rally Goat
    Mod note: Keep to subject. this is about Winder, not the rule book
  19. Richie the Rally Goat
    1 year 10-12 isn’t going to get the job done, but it is a negotiation. He’s not priced as marked, I doubt even the Rockies are jumping at 20+m. He can ask, it doesn’t mean he’ll get it.
  20. Richie the Rally Goat
    If Story were to only hit his Road half of the split for 2022 in a Twins Uni, he’s still be in the top 18-20 SS in MLB. Most players hit better at home than road (though clearly not to this extreme) and he’s still a very good fielder. Story would not be the number 5 SS with those numbers but a massive upgrade over alternatives like Iglesias, Galvis or Simmons
  21. Richie the Rally Goat
    I’m all in on Pitching. Plan A, B, C… but were the Twins to sign Story, I would be quite happy.
  22. Richie the Rally Goat
    Agreed, you can’t have a rotation in such a state. Ober needs to be stretched out further. 150 innings is a 36% YOY increase for Ober. I doubt the FO would push it that far or if he could and avoid injury. more likely 20-25% increase or 130 to 136 innings for Ober. on the other hand, Bundy is a hired gun on a 1 year deal. Run him out there till his arm falls off, or he’s too bad to stomach
  23. Richie the Rally Goat
    At this point in time, this is the 2022 rotation (in no particular order): • Joe Ryan 92 IP(incl minors in ‘21) 4.05 ERA • Bailey Ober 110.1 IP 4.19 ERA • Dylan Bundy 90.2 IP 6.06 ERA • Griffin Jax 122.2 IP 6.36 ERA • (open slot) I believe Griffin Jax to be a lock for the rotation. He’s the only guy with a shot at 150 innings right now. Agreed with the other poster that they’ll likely use piggy-backing and try to hold on to as many prospects as possible. I’d like them to sign Pineda and trade for a very good future front of the rotation type. Signing Pineda seems like a good chance. The trade does not. We’re they successful with both, Bundy should get pushed to the back of a piggyback. as it sits, this is a very bad rotation
  24. Richie the Rally Goat
    What fruit do you like on ice cream? Fresh, Frozen, preserved? if I’m feeling energetic and pull out the blender, a peanut butter banana shake or smoothie is dang good
  25. Richie the Rally Goat
    chocolate is so over rated, and over saturated. It over powers and overwhelms all of the other flavors I'm over it Over and out
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