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  1. Richie the Rally Goat
    Lewis played 33 games at AA in 2019. 2022 he’s in AA all year, might get a sept call up, maybe 2023 he might be in the big league mix out of St, but will most likely at least start the season in the minors. Lewis can be full time SS for a while…
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    While all of the premier FA SS available would require a significant long term contract, the odds that any of them stick at short for 3-5 years are slim. Injuries and age catch up with all of us. Signing Correa does not necessitate moving Lewis off SS forever.
  3. Richie the Rally Goat
    Gordon had a few stretches batting that tantalized among long stretches of futility and didn’t field well enough. I’d think he earned enough to not get DFA’d until the spring and compete to be a super-utility player, but not enough that I’d be willing to consider him in a starting role in ‘22. He would not be a 26 man lock for me at this point.
  4. Richie the Rally Goat
    I agree with this take that student loans aren’t the rich taking from the poor. Also agreed that throwing money at it may not be the right direction. https://www.chamberofcommerce.org/student-loan-statistics/ 10% of all student borrowers (4.7 million) are in default. Half of them have less than 10k in debt, those are people who dropped out early and clearly fall into economically disadvantaged. Clearly this category needs money thrown at it from a debt relief stand point, but it’s only 5% of borrowers and <$24 bil, less than 2% of total student loan debt. as a recent grad school graduate, I fell into the category of 40% of all student debt is grad school debt. I’m not exactly excited to forgive debt for doctors who make $300k per year, and MBAers making 6 figures. A bachelor degree doesn’t get you what it used to, but it costs more. The institutions provide less value and use more unscrupulous advertising and recruitment methods. I don’t think throwing money at that solves it. The degree itself should matter on the Federal loan terms, as should where the student works on the backside. Medicare negotiates with providers on pricing and fees. HUD/FTHB requires home value and appraisal with limits on the loan. Shouldn’t FAFSA as well? X degree is worth X on the open market, the institution can only charge X for the degree/credit.
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    I wonder if this is a CBA pre-negotiation tactic too
  6. Richie the Rally Goat
    I will echo others - 'bout time! In terms of logistics, if indeed it's effective in 2022, it must be a housing allowance of some kind. It would be a monumental feat for 30 MLB teams to buy or build housing in all of their levels/teams in 6 months.
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    The 40 is still rather full, managing a crisp fielding team was a challenge in 2021, there's a bunch of players on the cusp needing rule 5 protection, and the Twins need to add like 3 starting pitchers. There will be several (5 or 6 maybe?) more players coming off the 40 man to protect Rule 5 prospects and make room for free agents of which 3-4 should be pitchers. On the DH question, would a 40 man move that included trading away/removing one of the glut of bat first players like Sano and/or Rooker be a leading indicator? What might that tell us about plans going forward?
  8. Richie the Rally Goat
    You missed an option: Rally Monkey vs Squirrel
  9. Richie the Rally Goat
    I’m finally getting bored with Fortnite. It had a good run for me (3+ years). Looking for PS4 suggestions I don’t have the patience for Fallout or other such open world games. I typically play for 20 to 30 minutes so the battle royale type is fun and I can feel like I “accomplished something” I’m with Brock, not willing to spend on next gen yet. Maybe ‘23 or ‘24
  10. Richie the Rally Goat
    I believe it was at one point Daniel Adler who was promoted to Operations but I assume for a while he kept that part of his job duties. Guessing they are splitting it up to free up Adler
  11. Richie the Rally Goat
    Indeed! If you could sign story to a Simmons/Galvis 2 years 10 mil per I’d be all about Story as a good glove/poor hit SS. The problem is you pay for Coors field as much as you pay for the road part of the splits. I’ve been on the sign Galvis and throw money at pitching bandwagon, but that wasn’t an option in the OP
  12. Richie the Rally Goat
    Story and the Home/Road splits scares me off. Aging off of SS, as long as the FO thinks it will be a couple years in the future would be my preferred course of action. Getting a monster hitter who fields a decent SS for a couple years will be a 4-5 year contract, hopefully Lewis takes over at SS in year 2 or 3 and said monster hitter can slide to 2nd, 3rd, LF or DH.
  13. Richie the Rally Goat
    The Athletic is trying to become a monopsony no? If you are a sports writer, how many other places are there to go? Is the long game to become outsourced sports department for other publications, like Reuters/AP?
  14. Richie the Rally Goat
    There has been chatter of regulation changes, including 230 CDA, consumer data/privacy protection, antitrust against FB/Google/Apple etc… The implications are broad, but the Congress and Judiciary clearly don’t have real interest or substantial changes would be in the works or done by now. But… If you think of a world where FB wasn’t 90% of consumers’ sole source of news, does the calculus change for The Athletic?
  15. Richie the Rally Goat
    I can’t wait for the World Series so I can get started on my Twins off-season blueprint
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    If Maeda and/or Enlow pitches next year, it’ll be very late in the season. After a season that saw 9 players on the 60 day IL, are you really keeping 3 players on the 40 that are not going to pitch in 2022 while not protecting additional rule 5 eligible minor leaguers?
  18. Richie the Rally Goat
    In terms of trading away high velo pitchers, doesn’t it take two to tango? You need to give value to get value. With the number of pitchers the FO needs to acquire this off-season, I hope we see significant evidence to the contrary that the FO is velo-averse.
  19. Richie the Rally Goat
    the quote from Baldelli said they were indeed looking for someone more technical as changes in techniques change rapidly, and that it helps to have balancing skill sets on the coaching staff. https://www.mlb.com/news/twins-reassign-coach-edgar-varela-coordinator-kevin-morgan
  20. Richie the Rally Goat
    We know there is a Grand Canyon to fill at the front of the rotation and late-inning bullpen. It was going to be a busy and challenging off-season got the FO. Does the initial purge indicate a busy off-season on the roster margins too? With Arraez, Gordon, Astudillo, Rooker, Refsnyder, Cave, Coloumbe, Minaya etc… additional thinning is yet to gone, but I wonder if there’s plans for some additional volume of churn. Otherwise, why now? If you don’t need to free up some time for yourself, cutting most of those guys loose now doesn’t help them latch on with another organization, does it?
  21. Richie the Rally Goat
    Go Brewers (post season only)!
  22. Richie the Rally Goat
    To further your point, Rocco instituted mandatory pregame drills mid-season. He saw the issues we all saw, and took action with the coaching staff to improve fielding challenges. this is the same manager who preaches rest as a part of the regimen. I give Baldelli a lot of credit for this team not giving up as the season got out of hand. I do agree, this season sucked. That has to fall on the players, the FO and the manager/coaching staff. The players and FO are 80% of the failure. Players need to play the game, the FO acquires the players. Baldelli and the coaching staff earned 20% of the failure too.
  23. Richie the Rally Goat
    According to AZPhil a minor leaguer must come off the 60 day at the end of their league’s year, stashing Colina on the 60 day until next spring wasn’t an option. Rule 5 roster setting needs to be completed by Nov 20, so this move was 5-6 weeks early, but some tough decisions are still yet to come. I agree with you. Let’s reserve judgement on this to see how it all shakes loose.
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    Go Gophers!
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