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Richie the Rally Goat

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  1. Just wait til we’re waffling on whether or not to take the bulging cans.
  2. From a service time perspective, a month (or whatever that threshold is) can be an extra year on the backside. if he really is that guy, and this really is the Pohlad Pocket Protectors… you get that extra year
  3. I’m a henchman for this Doctor Evil. It’s a union gig, good benefits, pension. Sure it requires moral flexibility, but the pay is steady.
  4. Important lesson for all of us.
  5. It has to be approved by the owners still, right? I wonder what pitfalls might still be ahead
  6. Depth? Or quality depth? they certainly have volume of players who can theoretically play the outfield in AAA and the majors.
  7. Most seasons he plays 80-90 games, so I’m taking the under at 3. Sports books wouldn’t see the line at 3, they’d set it at 1.9 or 2.2, something like that. No ties…
  8. Robert Frost? Or Robert Johnson? Is it bad that I hope for Johnson?
  9. Hang on to those babies! Imagine how rare they’ll become in a hundred years, just like baseball card collections. They could sitting on several 1943 Lincoln Wheats!
  10. Yup! If there was a holdover to keep, it’s Maki
  11. So Rocco gets blamed when the players are bad but doesn’t get credit when the players are good? The ball wasn’t only juiced for Rocco, it was juiced for the other team’s manager too. Will Shelton get at least a somewhat objective chance?
  12. After way too much pondering on this subject, I think the bench coach does matter relative to the manager, as much as the manager. I think Tingler was a bad fit for Baldelli because neither were in-game tacticians. If neither your bench coach or your manager are tacticians, then you will get regularly outmaneuvered by the opposing team who will have a tactician on the bench. by my little bit of research into Shelty, it was Molitor who was the tactician and Shelty the big picture guy (though his rep as far as I can tell is more tactically capable than Baldelli). That might make a Tingler type bench coach a bad fit for Shelton. Hopefully the next bench coach is a better complement to Shelton such as a coordinator/chess player type to make sure Shelton doesn’t paint himself into the platoon corner as Rocco did night after night.
  13. how could you forget!?!?! SCOTT ULLGER (coach, Minnesota Twins):first time he slid headfirst into the bag, I thought about saying something. But, really, is it a coach’s place to say something about that? I don’t know.
  14. That bullpen is likely bottom 5 if not worst bullpen in baseball. A decent 7th inning guy and a 7 prayers does not a plan make.
  15. Falvey’s thought bubble as he reads TD: “improve the team by getting more athletic talent….”
  16. I 100% agree on the desire to watch better more exciting and fundamentally sound baseball, I’m skeptical because so much of that is determined by the skills of the players and the development before they got to the bigs. i see it as a Falvey problem before (not instead of) a Manager problem
  17. Since I feel like Rocco was a bit of a scapegoat and thought while he deserved to be fired for his inability to hire tactical bench coaches, no manager could have succeeded with the team Rocco was handed by Falvey. The pitching staffs were Legitimately very good, I can’t give too much credit to Maki. That being said, this is as good of a rationale for keeping him as any.
  18. If I’m Jeffers, I’m thinking “this is probably my only crack at Free Agency, make it count” the only way I sign an extension is for a monstrous over-pay which would likely be way too long of a term
  19. Isn’t that the definition of efficient market? Supply down, demand up, price up? Buffalos with wings are not a dime a dozen
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