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  1. Richie the Rally Goat
    Thank you for your service!
  2. Richie the Rally Goat
    Willow River is my favorite year round, and a short drive for the folks in MSP.
  3. Richie the Rally Goat
    Plenty of winter left!
  4. Richie the Rally Goat
    Besides work being chaos… exercise. Taking my family hiking/snow shoeing in the state parks, going to the gym. in the evening hours, I’ve been reading Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. So far I’ve enjoyed it as much as his other two books
  5. Richie the Rally Goat
    for all of us who put bartender’s kids through college in the late 90s/early aughts thanks to you all, for your insights, experiences, thoughts, opinions, research, analysis, goofiness and humor
  6. Richie the Rally Goat
    Good times!
  7. Richie the Rally Goat
    If a catcher doesn’t have to worry about “how” they receive it, or if their posture is ultra low so they get more calls at the bottom of the zone, and they just make sure it doesn’t go to the backstop…. Doesn’t that improve the quality? I would think that would make Jeffers and his cannon more valuable even if he isn’t a great framer
  8. Richie the Rally Goat
    I’ve been in an automated bus in MN in the winter during a snowstorm. It drove very safely, steadily at speed and identified a pedestrian, and adjusted for ice. It’s not technology holding cars back, it’s cost, for a while. Strike zone should be done by now
  9. Richie the Rally Goat
    This was awesome! Loved it!
  10. Richie the Rally Goat
    My observation is Oakland pioneered, Tampa took it to the next level. Cleveland, Pittsburg, and Baltimore seem to be trying to emulate, possibly to the ruin of the franchises.
  11. Richie the Rally Goat
    How many teams have been able to replicate?
  12. Richie the Rally Goat
    $16 mil is pretty much the same for every team. It might fluctuate a little, but 10% up or down is a relief pitcher that gets DFA’d and we don’t think twice about it. Outside of player payroll the cost of operation is so similar why compare it? if a team has 100 interns making $10 per hour, who cares? That’s less than one major league minimum salary hence the point of the OP. scale
  13. Richie the Rally Goat
    Miranda has played 25 innings at LF and 1B vs 1400 innings at 2B and 1800 at 3B. I wouldn’t consider Miranda a part of the 1B/LF/DH mix.
  14. Richie the Rally Goat
    I think we’ll see some flashes of brilliance and set the stage for respectability in ‘23 or ‘24, but also it’s a long season and only Jax Ober and Ryan were anywhere near 100 innings in ‘21. They’ll run out of gas as the season wears on.
  15. Richie the Rally Goat
    I believe the word you’re looking for is “necessity”
  16. Richie the Rally Goat
    Agreed, and to further this line of thought, all the GMs may have been so keen on free agent negotiation, they may have mostly ignored trades for lack of bandwidth. If the lockout stretches into Spring Training or the season, we may not see many transactions. To put some clarity on my opinion of where some of the delineation comes from. The rationale seems to be "well they didn't trade away everybody, so it was a retool". I just don't really buy-in to a real tangible difference at this point. If they don't offload salary for the sake of offloading salary, but they do trade away veteran players that return good prospects and plan to be bad next year, is that a retool or a rebuild? Why does the name matter?
  17. Richie the Rally Goat
    How do we know if this is a one year investment, or two, or five? If I look at the pitching staff as it is, Griffin Jax pitched 120 inning last year, Ober pitched 108, and nobody else broke 100 innings. This current group of 21 pitchers totaled 1300-ish innings last year and assuming a 14 man pitching staff at most would provide 1000 innings at last year's numbers, assuming 20% growth in innings for the starters and long relievers. A baseball season is 1500 innings so the plan as of today is for 1/3 of the 2022 innings to come from outside the organization, and a typical Michael Pineda type pitches 150 innings per year. That would make 20% of the innings to come from Quad A types in 2022. Sano has a buy out after '22, Donaldson has 2 years left on his deal. This looks like a 2+ year "re-tool" to me, but who knows? I'm not in that board room with Falvey, St Peter and Pohlad.
  18. Richie the Rally Goat
    I don't think Thad Levine is a "Liar", I think he believes in a narrative that they aren't "rebuilding" they are "re-tooling". As others have posted, it's a delineation that I don't see a difference in. You are right, I'm premature in my assumption that the Twins are planning to roll into the season with the pitching staff as-it, and I'm premature in assuming they'll trade-off Polanco and Garver. I don't think they'll trade Sano or Donaldson just because it won't bring back value.
  19. Richie the Rally Goat
    I don't remember Falvey or Levine saying this. That was their reputation (esp Falvey) coming in. Do you have a source?
  20. Richie the Rally Goat
    I'm not sure you noticed, but there's a lockout that forbids any transactions involving MLB players. Let's see what happens post lockout and at the trade deadline
  21. Richie the Rally Goat
    computers can recognize features and landmarks additional to a ball traveling through space. a dynamic strike zone is certainly feasible, but would open up arguing balls and strikes again. Fixed strike zone would lead to a faster game, I'm in firm support of the OP
  22. Richie the Rally Goat
    Levine might "bristle" at the idea of a rebuild, but that is exactly what he is doing.
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  24. Richie the Rally Goat
    I can’t wait for the next installment! Great work!
  25. Richie the Rally Goat
    I hope so! Truthfully, I've already won, either I'm right and can gloat, or I'm wrong and the Twins are better than I expect
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