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  1. Richie the Rally Goat
    Wallner ranks faster in speed and arm strength but in OAA Larnach fares better, especially RF where Larnach is cumulative plus 3 (in one extra season) and Wallner is -8. Larnach Wallner
  2. Richie the Rally Goat
    Where does Wallner’s fielding rank in the corner OF? 9ish I’d venture. Looking at how they brought in Bader last year, OF fielding is prioritized. Wagaman and his 85 wRC+ isn’t going to spend significant time at 1B, Clemens would likely be utility, with some time at 1B. Guessing he’s the new Castro. Looking at how they brought in Ty France last year, 1B fielding is not prioritized. i think Bell is the primary 1B Martin primary LF Larnach primary RF Wallner primary DH Clemens gets rotated through outfield, 2B and 1B almost every day.
  3. Richie the Rally Goat
    When told of the upcoming “biggest loser” competition among the best writers, Aaron Gleeman of The Athletic was quoted “ **** that! I’ll report from the couch” and continued eating his Chinese food.
  4. Richie the Rally Goat
    At 70 DH plate appearances there were 78 hitters on the list last year. 110 is below median (Refsnyder)
  5. Richie the Rally Goat
    In 141 career games, 555 plate appearances as a DH he he as a 98 wRC+. He had 80 games as DH last year for 93wRC+. While the splits tool doesn’t allow both as a DH against Righties, the vast majority of those PAs had to be against Righties. Larnach also a -2 OAA. agreed with others I just don’t see it. Wallner on the other hand, only 37 games as DH but 128 wRC+. He struggled badly as DH last year 58 wRC+. That small of a sample could have been against lefties. Further his OAA is -11 Wallner is a better hitter, better hitter as DH and a worse fielder per baseball savant. Looks like their every day DH to me.
  6. Richie the Rally Goat
    https://brewerfanatic.com/news-rumors/milwaukee-brewers/who-is-thad-levine-and-why-is-it-a-big-deal-that-hes-joining-the-brewers-r4075/
  7. Richie the Rally Goat
    Reason number 9,286 why this off-season has been so completely and profoundly frustrating. The Twins HAVE to do something with Ryan by the trade deadline, either extend or trade. They won’t extend and every team in MLB knows it. Waiting loses leverage in trade, because the time and competitors for the trade, as well as loss of QO, reduces the return on trade. how aggravating
  8. Richie the Rally Goat
    You posted what I was thinking faster than I could. It’s reasonable to assume SWR, Ober and Wallner put up 2WAR or higher, but there’s 14 guys on this roster who’ve never exceeded 1 WAR, or like Bell who’s washed and hasn’t put up 1 WAR in a few years and never consistently. When your starting SS put up 0.3 WAR in 139 games last year, things are bleak.
  9. Richie the Rally Goat
    Half the team is quad-a types
  10. Richie the Rally Goat
    I think he meant Mickey Gasper, who was traded for even though he was DFA fodder, then was DFA’d for Brujan and then Brujan was traded for the DFA posting fee
  11. Richie the Rally Goat
    It’s Twinsfest weekend, pitchers and catchers report in a month. Time’s not out, but it’s too late to swing a radical franchise altering trade because there isn’t time to make additional moves. It’s marginal thinking time, not rebuilding the core time. this very flawed team is likely what we’ll see on opening day.
  12. Richie the Rally Goat
    Filtered to as a reliever before 8/1. the Twins were butchers in the infield last year.
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  14. Richie the Rally Goat
    The two months not stocked are what they have now. If this bullpen exceeds expectations it will be the 29th bullpen in the MLB even after Rogers. This team was 23rd in runs scored last year. No Correa, no Bader, and the husk of Josh Bell and his .1 WAR backfills Ty France and his .7 WAR. its absolutely baffling why they didn’t go scorched earth.
  15. Richie the Rally Goat
    To add, Varland has pitched 100 innings as a reliever. It took more than 40 of those innings to become good. A reliever usually doesn’t throw much more than 60 innings in a season. they won’t hit on 4 out of 4 starter conversions, some will fail entirely. 2/3 of the season will be spent blowing leads out of the pen… hardly any of the starter conversions will have any value at all in 2026, it’s all to be traded away in 2027.
  16. Richie the Rally Goat
    Dominguez: “What are you doing to improve on the infield?” Falvey: “We really like our infield as-is” Dominguez: Click Falvey: “Hello?… I think we got disconnected”
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  18. Richie the Rally Goat
    Neither are in the hall despite being eligible for decade+?
  19. Richie the Rally Goat
    “Manic Pixie Right-Handed Hitting Corner Bat.” well done! I laughed a lot and it resonates with me!
  20. Richie the Rally Goat
    And hit the cutoff man decisively
  21. Richie the Rally Goat
    I was just trying to understand the mechanics of Nick’s proposal. This team is riddled with chaff. I don’t know what to think of Falvey. His organization has done a good job of identifying, acquiring, and developing pitchers. Hitters, not so much. This team needs an entire bullpen and 6 position players. I think Falvey can rebuild the bullpen over the next couple years. Less so the hitters. this is a multi-year process no matter what euphemism they use to call it.
  22. Richie the Rally Goat
    So… fire sale 40% of the roster? Again? Just this time keep the good ones
  23. Richie the Rally Goat
    They also didn’t start the prospect conversion to reliever last August. They finished out the year with waiver cast offs instead of at least a couple of the Prielipp/Festa/etc in the bullpen to close out the year. If this was the plan all along, a couple months head start for two of them would have made 2026 all the more feasible when there’s 5-6 of em.
  24. Richie the Rally Goat
    Agreed. They’ll never admit it, but that’s what makes sense to me too. The ask is too high based on today’s market, but post CBA and TV contract, it might make sense so Leipold has dibs or right of first refusal type of situation.
  25. Richie the Rally Goat
    Hmmm. Who is who? I think Lee is a decent utility guy. I’d love for the Twins to acquire an upgrade. Royce has had two tremendous half seasons, I think it’s worth finding out if that’s real. Wallner has a couple seasons of being a very good hitter, but his first full season in RF he looked exposed as a fielding liability and possibly his hitting suffered as a result. Maybe he rebounds as a hitter? Maybe he’s a DH? I’m skeptical he’ll ever field well but has shown enough hit to overcome that, if there’s a good fielder in the other corner. Maybe he’s a better LF in the smaller part of the park?
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