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  1. Richie the Rally Goat
    Balvenie Portwood, mmmm And the games matter to the players trying to remain relevant, and the front office evaluating those players, just like spring training, only better competition.
  2. Richie the Rally Goat
    Pinto caught a stomach virus. He apparently went to yack while in the warmup circle
  3. Richie the Rally Goat
    Thanks Lindsey, great read, great cause
  4. Richie the Rally Goat
    Great stuff! Thank you!
  5. Richie the Rally Goat
    theres a first time for everything
  6. Richie the Rally Goat
    This might be the first time I have ever agreed with you Huhguy. My counter to the argument is one I have been using all September. The season was lost months ago. Now is not the time to play your best players, now is the time to find out what you have in the rookies for next year. While Escobar and Suzuki might be the best SS and C on the roster, you need to find out what you have in Santana, Pinto, and Hicks so you can continue to build for the future.
  7. Richie the Rally Goat
    "I can certainly agree with those critiques, but at the same time, I think the negativity I see directed toward Pelf is over-the-top. His struggles early on in the 2013 season were completely predictable following his insanely rapid return from Tommy John, but in the final three months of the season he was solid: 4.39 ERA, 2-to-1 K/BB, just six homers allowed in 15 starts." I'm gonna go ahead and disagree with you here... Mean ERA in 2013 was 3.75, and 2.65 to 1 k/bb, that's significantly worse than average, which isn't solid I don't blame Pelf for taking the money, or sucking, but I don't like that he's a Twin either
  8. Richie the Rally Goat
    Well said. Does the expletive rhyme with bucket?
  9. Richie the Rally Goat
    I mostly agree with RB but for one minor tweak. 2. Pitching should be 1. I wasn't one ace type front line starter, if he's not that guy that the other teams says "not that guy" about I'm not interested. They already have a bunch of ok pitchers, they don't need another Nolasco type. 3. Defense should be 1b. Hughes went 7 innings with 11 strikeouts on Saturday, still gave up 5 runs(only 3 earned) against a team that went 7 for 31 on the game. 5. Fundamentals should be 2(or 3 depending on his you count 1/1b) and is very much in line with defense. I agree with his take on Mauer 100%. I would go so far as to say the Twins organization and Mauer's career are on different trajectories. When he's healthy he will be a good hitter, but the health part will continue to be a question. Mauer is not and has not ever been in his career a player coach, but that's the direction this team is headed with the requirements of its veterans. On the other hand it appears Kurt Suzuki does kind of fit that mold. He's supposedly the vocal coachy leadery type.
  10. Richie the Rally Goat
    I would add a surgeon to the staff. This team needs someone to remove players' heads from inside their backside, and place it in their shoulders again. Obviously it's tough to run bases or field a baseball with your head up your backside, I think this might help.
  11. Richie the Rally Goat
    1) interesting on Pinto, but that's as far as it goes... 2) Santana still looks very out of place in CF, he's just fast enough to make catches, maybe with enough reps he could change that, but I doubt that day will ever come 3) I'm unsure of the logjam, let the prospects earn their place
  12. Richie the Rally Goat
    1) the twins have the third worst record in the MLB 2) the Twins have scored the 6th most runs in MLB What did we just learn from 2 simple rank stats? That the Twins are behind the rest of the MLB in both pitching and fielding. It requires comprehensive quality in pitching, fielding, and hitting to win championships. I think all aspects of the game can be improved to a point, with practice. But all require an amount of talent to excel. Arcia can be lived with (if he practices and improves) given his fielding talent limitations, if and only if, left field and center field are played by quality fielding players. Buxton may be a step up from current in the fielding department, but he is only a prospect. Let us not forget that he was injured by a fielding mistake to end his season. That's not just snake-bitten dumb luck. That was a lack of execution that caused his injury, totally avoidable, and at least part Buxton's fault.
  13. Richie the Rally Goat
    but the "Twins" are the Twin Cities
  14. Richie the Rally Goat
    Linus, Dougie Baseball has been Dougie Baseball since the 90s. It's what makes him a good fit in my mind. His zeal for the game and attention to detail has been well regaled of his playing time during a very low point in Twins history. I know very little of his managerial experience, but I like what I do know, I like very much
  15. Richie the Rally Goat
    according to mil central.com $210,000 per year
  16. Richie the Rally Goat
    This pitching issue does go into the minors. How can a team go so long without developing a single excellent pitcher?
  17. Richie the Rally Goat
    this an indictment of Terry Ryan, who also should be on the block but that is a different thread Granted, talent is the bigger part of the equation, but if coaching isn't important, why are the coaches there, why are they being paid? Who gets held accountable? This team has been fundamentally sound under this regime in the past, but that was 5 years ago. Coaching will not make this rotation gold, but maybe bronze instead of [edit] Having great talent is important! but so is execution. A great team excels at both.
  18. Richie the Rally Goat
    Scotty Ulger and Joe Vavra need to go as well as Anderson and Gardenhire. This a very sloppy fielding and poor pitching team. Much of it is talent, but emphasis and coaching plays a major part. At the end of the day, the most important part is accountability. We hear that word from the team and yet Gardy, Anderson, Vavra and Ulger still coach one of the worst fundamentally sound teams in baseball.
  19. Richie the Rally Goat
    Reed and Burdi are both relievers, the Twins need at least one front-line type starter.
  20. Richie the Rally Goat
    You lost me at platoon
  21. Richie the Rally Goat
    if the Twins do anything, I'd like to see them spend really big on one elite pitcher. If they do two things it would be to sign a good hitting and fielding LF. It appears that the supplementary pieces are there. At least as good as you can gamble on in free agency. This team isn't mature enough to start trading prospects.
  22. Richie the Rally Goat
    It was a great time! Thanks to all of you who made it a fantastic event.
  23. Richie the Rally Goat
    I would be pleased to trade any of those players for young prospects, however I don't think any of them have value to other teams either, which is why I want them to go.
  24. Richie the Rally Goat
    Gibson could throw 32 8 inning shutouts in a season, and still lose all 32 games. Should 0-32 be held against him? Does that make him a terrible pitcher? Regardless, it's good to see the incremental improvement, and I look forward to watching him pitch for the Twins in 2015
  25. Richie the Rally Goat
    RIP Chris, you and your rocking chair were done before you ever started
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