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Richie the Rally Goat

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  1. Richie the Rally Goat
    75 wins is a lofty goal for this motley crew. This team was 70-92 last year, and it was a MUCH better team in the first half. I’d love to see a mediocre team in 26.
  2. Richie the Rally Goat
    Sorry to derail, but I’m going to anyways From the second article, Falvey: “I'm excited about that group in aggregate” is there any other way to be excited about a group than in the aggregate? The guy just can’t help himself but spew word salad. LOl i do hope the pitching gambles, especially Prielipp pay off. If they don’t…
  3. Richie the Rally Goat
    While TD wasn’t around, Cuddyer was ripped as a bust. Definitely a late bloomer. Cuddy still showed more then than Lee has to-date. Hopefully Lee is a late bloomer too, but looks more like a utility player. The hitting floor for SS is much higher now than it was then.
  4. Richie the Rally Goat
    It’s been a bullpen game since 2009
  5. Richie the Rally Goat
    I could see that being the case and I assumed that at the time, but articles since then (Hayes I think) said the debt was accumulated since 2020
  6. Richie the Rally Goat
    I believe the group i volunteered with received remuneration of some kind, 5-10% of the profit, something like that.
  7. Richie the Rally Goat
    I have volunteered in a concession stand at TF, and am fairly certain almost all of those jobs are volunteer. One of my old coworkers is an usher, he sounded like he was paid hourly, but I’m not certain.
  8. Richie the Rally Goat
    942 employees could very well be accurate, but my guess is 400 of them are probably game day ushers and such that work 20, 5 hour shifts per season and cost 3k per year. Those part timers would not get healthcare or office space and have to buy their Twins polo shirt.
  9. Richie the Rally Goat
    Fair enough, player salaries are 70%. Still, how can a team rack up 1.5 to 2 years of operating costs in debt in 5 years? HOW? How can the Pohlad family justify not clean house on the entirety of the franchise operations and board if they racked up that much debt that fast?
  10. Richie the Rally Goat
    the half dozen at the top might be well paid, Falvey is in the millions, the rest of the C-Suite is in the hundreds of thousands. Board positions aren’t always paid, being the number of Pohlads on the board, I’d guess they aren’t, but I don’t know. what I do know, is 90% of the jobs I’ve seen are hourly. I have an acquaintance who is the owner of his own sports medicine practice and for a while he was a trainer with the Twins, he was paid 40k and couldn’t afford to take time away from his practice any more to continue to do it. 200 people at 40k is 6.6m, plus 6-10 executives each making 500k plus the c suite making $1m each is 16m total. That’s just Buxton AAA ball players make 100k, the lower levels are in the 60k range https://recruitingbypaycor.com/career/JobIntroduction.action?clientId=8a7883d08b729b3e018b72dc67f6007f&id=8a78859f9b13764b019b3310028b2d36&source=&lang=en
  11. Richie the Rally Goat
    That’s only part of the why. Payroll is 90% of the operating costs. The entire front office costs a relief pitcher. Field operations are probably the largest non-player expense and almost all of the game day staff are volunteers, the big chunk of that is water and electricity. The debt $300m-$500m is 2-3 years of operating costs? How does this team accumulate that much debt in 5 years?
  12. Richie the Rally Goat
    Ty France had to be packaged with Louis Varland to offload 2 months of his $1m contract for Alan Roden who shouldn’t make any 26 man roster and is out of options. That was not a good deal. He over performed and still sucked. Bader had his best season in years. These are absolutely examples of outcomes that could happen. Either end of it. Knowing this team, which is more likely to repeat?
  13. Richie the Rally Goat
    That and they’re a private equity firm who buys distressed assets and finances them with their private capital and sells them for a profit.
  14. Richie the Rally Goat
    Exactly - this team has more deficiencies than a single move can fill.
  15. Richie the Rally Goat
    I think several hitters could have better 2026 than 2025, and the offense still suck badly. This team is very talent deficient at fielding/hitting and bullpen.
  16. Richie the Rally Goat
    The running water can be a problem
  17. Richie the Rally Goat
    While I agree, this is already a bottom 3 team (if not dead last) in baseball. If they aren’t going to spend their way to mediocrity, they’ll never ever get there with this current group. the damage is done. 4 players have more value in trade, than in winning 55 wins or 50.
  18. Richie the Rally Goat
    I agree with Mike that prospects are a gamble, more likely hit on 1 with two than 1 with one. i also think that contention is 2028 or later, so the details matter less. They really need to replace whole roster. Just get value in volume in the high A, double a bracket.
  19. Richie the Rally Goat
    Agreed, I think part of this discussion between Falvey and Buxton was ‘26 budget and contention window. again, nothing really new.
  20. Richie the Rally Goat
    1) Pear is a shape 2) working on defense and improving are different We’ll never know more about the allegations than what has been published. My personal feeling is I believe the woman, and Sano and the Twins both lost a ton of respect from me over what allegedly happened and how it was handled. 6) Attitude is important, but is not “everything”.
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  22. Richie the Rally Goat
    Surprise!
  23. Richie the Rally Goat
    Raya had a 6 era in triple A, Abel, Matthews and Festa have 5 eras, Bradley 4.85 era, Prielipp has pitched a total over 3 professional seasons of 112 innings. Lewis is 26 and has 4 mlb seasons, Wallner is 28 as is Jeffers Rodriguez, Culpepper and Jenkins do not a young team make
  24. Richie the Rally Goat
    Who are the kids? Who’s knocking down the door?
  25. Richie the Rally Goat
    The question is, will the needs increase by the end of the winter meetings? Or decrease? my bet is increase
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