Richie the Rally Goat
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Productive out Mitch!
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Where Do the Twins Depth Arms Stand?
Richie the Rally Goat replied to Ted Schwerzler 's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
might I suggest urban dictionary? Your Mileage May Vary every car commercial had that phrase when quoting fuel efficiency because consumers would complain that they never got the states mileage. It has now become “everyone has their own opinions” -
End of the Line for Brent Rooker?
Richie the Rally Goat replied to Cody Pirkl's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
Agreed with these lines of thought. Rooker has an option. I would not extend Sano, and we just watched this team hobble through a season where only Polanco stayed healthy the whole season. I would like to keep some depth for 2022, and look to 2023 as well. there’s room on the 40 for Rooker, but the FO would have some challenging rule 5 decisions to make, in order to do so. There is only so much room for defensively challenged players, so I get parting ways with Rooker. The same case could be made for Astudillo -
Really encouraging to see Ober so strong this late in the season. Especially after last year was lost.
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Where Do the Twins Depth Arms Stand?
Richie the Rally Goat replied to Ted Schwerzler 's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
With Ober, Ryan pretty much chiseled in stone for the opening rotation and a likely Gant as well, Depth in AAA as well as at least one swing man is going to be critical. I’d release Thorpe but the rest should be kept in the organization- 29 replies
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How about Elon Musk? We'd get tweets about it for months. About how strong of an arm he has, how good he'll be at it, without any details of when, or what game, and then we'd just stop hearing about it, possibly finding out after that fact that he backed out the day of, for unexplained reasons.
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Clutch Gordon, Baseball Superstar
Richie the Rally Goat replied to Brock Beauchamp's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
Playing up the middle, being passable at SS and CF really helps Gordon's cause vs Astudillo who has a similar hit tools but can only play the corners, and Arraez who has a superior bat to both Turtle and Gordon but is best at 2nd and 3rd with a poor LF option. I agree w/ Dman, "Mr Clutch" should supplant Tortuga next year -
Who Survives the Twins Pen Shakeup?
Richie the Rally Goat replied to Ted Schwerzler 's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
Why would you make your team worse only because you don’t think you’ll have many saves to earn? or do you mean trade him at the next trade deadline? The OP was to start the season?- 30 replies
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RBI tells me about the opportunities afforded the batter by how the batters before them got on base. It doesn't tell me much about how the batter did. 38 positive outcomes out of an unknown denominator isn't exactly compelling in regards to sample of data to make predictions with. Below table is career numbers. Gordon of course is just 2021. Arraez goes back to 2019. Larger sample gives me more confidence. Arraez walks more than he strikes out. Gordon strikes out 4x what he walks. Arraez batting higher in the order affords more opportunities for RBI. Arraez batting average is .308, Gordon .263. Arraez gets hits more frequently. Arraez OPS .769, Gordon .712. Arraez has better on base plus slugging percentage. We've looked at how they compare to each other, how do they compare to everyone else? Arraez wRC+ is 11 % above average, Gordon 4% below average. So yes, I can absolutely assert that Arraez is a better hitter than Gordon. I was lazy in my post, but got the chance to look it up, thanks for challenging my lazy supposition OPS was closer between the two batters than my recollection. However in my post, I didn't think that Gordon would be the odd man out in the spring. I think Astudillo will be. I think Gordon will start the season in 22 on the big league roster.
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Arraez hits much better, and there should be room for both. I gotta think the odd man out is turtle
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So slooooowwwwwww
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Owwie! On the hand
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I missed it too, just got back to TV
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I knew what you meant. Just joking, because the two doubles was the second inning. First inning was 7 pitches, quite efficient, so it must have been my writing
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CBU: Tor 1, Min 0. End 2nd
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August of 2020 according to my search. I hope Circus Boy is doing well. It’s been more than a year.
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The replay favored the Twins, I’m happy for the outcome, but man I hate that replay. It was bang-bang and the runner was out by an inch, for all intents and purposes that’s a tie
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We’re 34 minutes in, 30 pitches in 1.2 innings. Criminy this is slow. Gotta fill dead air
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I’m sorry. I’m not a very good writer. Just trying my best
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CBU: 0-0 end of first
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While mowing the lawn… thoughts… in my youth, I was much more aggressive, and I could still afford to be. I have another 20+ years of work in front of me. I wonder if the healthcare debt, where no one could tell us what anything cost, and my wife was actively dying with a low chance for survival prognosis (she did indeed survive a very aggressive chemo cocktail, but at the time…) where we had no control, and massive debt at the end… I wonder if that period influenced my risk tolerance going forward.
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my wife got cancer in ‘09, and since IVF twice, and student loans. Debt got to be out of control. I’ve done a combo. I paid off credit card and student debt first, then increased 401k, then paid off cars, then refinanced my house, now putting all the old loan payments into investments. right now I just have a 15 year note on my house (13 to go!) and have maxed out my 401ks and am buying some stocks and index funds some debt is good, but too much compounds when you don’t have cash to cover smaller ticket unexpected bills.
