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  1. Richie the Rally Goat
    mod note - lets keep this discussion to Pablo and the Twins. Salary cap should be a separate discussion
  2. Richie the Rally Goat
    26 and 27 are lost for the same indecisive dithering. We've all had the CBA and potential lockout on our radar for a year. That's why this off season was so important... and the powers that be, just did nothing. Is a Pablo extension actually a no brainer? As others have pointed out, he'll be 32 when his current contract is up, his peripheral stats are showing signs of decline, and he's getting his second TJ - risky for a guaranteed contract. This for a team who isn't showing any signs of investing significant playing time to the next group of core players, and is running back a team that won 70 games last year. That team started the season with Carlos Correa at SS and had a very good bullpen is gone. With a $100m payroll, 35ish won't be playing for the team in '26. Effectively this will be a $65 to $70m payroll team.
  3. Richie the Rally Goat
    I think the way a López extension could help extend the next contention window is by signing him to an additional year, then trading him. The prospect return might be decent then and they could contribute in the future. 2026 is lost and so is 2027. Falvey/Zoll and the Pohlads made sure to screw this team over for as long as they could by getting rid of enough talent with bad trades that they can’t compete, but not committing to the rebuild.
  4. Richie the Rally Goat
    Cool! Can you add a picture of it?
  5. Richie the Rally Goat
    Opposing mlb teams do not use the Lee county facilities but many amateur baseball and softball teams do when it’s not Spring Training. The Island Cow on Sanibel is my favorite place around if it’s still there. The Hurricane really did a number on the bars and restaurants. Fort Myers area is really spread out (pretty much like the rest of Florida). You spend a lot of time driving.
  6. Richie the Rally Goat
    My fear in all of this type of analysis is holding on to Outman for fear that he becomes a Rooker, Dovetailing with the Diamond Centric article on the development curve. Outman is at least a decent fielder, but with the glut of lefty corner outfielders in the bigs and the imminent arrival of outfield prospects, something has to give. This team has to offload one or more of them. If that’s Outman or Larnach, or Martin, none of those 3 should have big league time over Roden
  7. Richie the Rally Goat
    through the eyes of statcast translates to GUI
  8. Richie the Rally Goat
    Of the $100ish million payroll 35ish is in guys that are on the shelf or I wish they were.
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  11. Richie the Rally Goat
    Prielipp’s ERA in AAA last year was 5.1. It never gets immediately better jumping to the bigs. it probably wouldn’t be 60 innings from a single scrap heap reliever. The “good relievers”, Sands, Rogers, they’re getting 60 innings each. Every inning that the rotation doesn’t pitch that it is currently planned for is being pitched by waiver fodder. Think Genesis Cabrera. The current bullpen has 3 minor league signings who are pretty much locks. Every inning the rotation pitches is an inning that the 14th to 16th reliever in the pecking order doesn’t.
  12. Richie the Rally Goat
    Vs 90 innings of Prielipp’s 5.5 ERA and 60 innings of scrap heap reliever’s 12 era? If Ober is healthy enough, he’s the second or third starter on this team. If hes not, things are pretty bleak. It would be reasonable to expect 160-180 innings of 3.5 ERA if he’s healthy, but last year he wasn’t and they still got 146 innings of 5.1 era. I think somewhere between those two is pretty reasonable. Prielipp’s most innings in a season are a good reliever’s workload, 80-100 innings fewer than what you can expect from a reasonably healthy Ober. Agreed with the injury concerns for Ober, but I also agree with the injury concerns for Prielipp. Managing his work isn’t because he’s 100% all systems go.
  13. Richie the Rally Goat
    What bet?
  14. Richie the Rally Goat
    They signed 3 minor league free agents who almost locks to make the opening day roster. This team is a worse team than the one that won 70 games last year and ended 4th in the central.
  15. Richie the Rally Goat
    Agreed! And with a looming contentious labor dispute, next offseason could see trades and free agency very soft. time is not on Zoll’s side
  16. Richie the Rally Goat
    Prielipp has pitched a total of 128 professional innings all as a starter since 2023, 83 of them were in 2025. Ober pitched 146 in 2025 injured.
  17. Richie the Rally Goat
    That guarantees Ryan’s shoulder will explode opening day. Thanks for Jynxing it
  18. Richie the Rally Goat
    Correa was great! Bader was also very good! I’d kill for 5 more Harrison Bader signings as this team does not have a SS or a bullpen. Talk about bias clouding judgement, have you looked in the mirror? 2022-2025
  19. Richie the Rally Goat
    Correa was the second best position player on the team and exactly why you buy Wagyu. He was awesome and absolutely worked out
  20. Richie the Rally Goat
    So, don’t try because you might fail? they did not buy fresh Wagyu beef they did not buy a Wagyu cow they didn’t even buy a Wagyu calf they bought the gristly ground leftover bits from a past its prime bull
  21. Richie the Rally Goat
    That is exactly the point. Ground beef, bun, sauce is not detailed enough to make a comparison. Using that comparison, one would never know that Meisters is better than McDonalds. Fresh Wagyu beef, bakery bun, chef recipe aioli compared to frozen grade B ground beef, wonder bread bun, generic catsup. It’s the quality of the ingredients. You can’t make a silk purse from a sow’s ear.
  22. Richie the Rally Goat
    Ambiance is fine and dandy, but is the food good? if the food isn’t good, I don’t really care about the color of the napkins
  23. Richie the Rally Goat
    absolutely agreed His 133 wRC+ 2023-2025 is highest on the team. His 114 last year was 3rd on the team and Bader was number 2.
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  25. Richie the Rally Goat
    There’s 650 innings, add Mathews as 6th starter for injuries at 75(?). That leaves roughly 700 innings from the bullpen.
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