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  1. Richie the Rally Goat
    http://twinsdaily.com/topic/35697-spring-training-travel/?fromsearch=1
  2. Richie the Rally Goat
    http://twinsdaily.com/topic/35961-first-spring-training-visit/?fromsearch=1
  3. Richie the Rally Goat
    mod note: Not only to the quoted poster, but the several other posters fighting the same tired old argument. Keep to OP. This thread is not about “why not the Twins” or “How much is too much” It’s about what to do next. Please discuss plans on what to do next.
  4. Richie the Rally Goat
    None of the free agent infielders are very appealing. Moreland or Thames seem to be the best bets, but .830 OPS.... not a huge upgrade over what you might get out of Rooker, just more reliable. From here on out, I’d look to swing a trade for a 3B and SP and plan on internal options as fallback options. Edit to add: could get creative and look at Rosario at 1b as well.
  5. Richie the Rally Goat
    I wonder if the Twins are the high offer and are telling JD that they aren’t going to bid against themselves?
  6. Richie the Rally Goat
    Berrios and Odorizzi are the only part of the current core that I would look to extend, but the odds are low at that. Sano appears destined for first. First baseman are more fungible, and I’m banking on Kirilloff being ready in two years. Buxton has never been healthy, extending a guy who plays 80 game changing games a year seems like a stretch, plus if you were going to extend him, why play the service time game the way they did? Polanco and Kepler are already locked up. As things sit, I’m year to year with DH and that is my fallback for when JD can’t play third anymore. One player at 27 mil and everyone else in the 600k or arb isn’t going to deter an extension with Odo and Berrios, it’s the FOs view on volatility of pitching.
  7. Richie the Rally Goat
    they aren’t going to invest 27 mil in pitching anyways. If Donaldson doesn’t get it, no one else will. If the Twins want to swing a trade for pitching, it’ll be for Boyd or part of Price’s contract. Something where if they needed to, they could offload Rosario and recover 2/3 of the cost.
  8. Richie the Rally Goat
    this! I imagine the bigger impediment at this point is the game of chicken. Falvine may think they are high bid and don’t want to bid against themselves.
  9. Richie the Rally Goat
    it can’t be that simple, can it?
  10. Richie the Rally Goat
    I thought Disney was keeping grown up (R/MA) programming on Hulu (hence the bundling).
  11. Richie the Rally Goat
    Inconceivable!
  12. Richie the Rally Goat
    Great article Nick! My feelings exactly!
  13. Richie the Rally Goat
    I'm paying for it on a monthly basis. I personally get more value from it (quality vs quantity) than Netflix. My kids are young which is a huge plus to hold onto it for a while. I too am looking for a significant expansion of content... It's not enough to hold onto it for extended periods.
  14. Richie the Rally Goat
    I’m a grown up 11 year old, so I like most everything there. I’m currently watching Star Wars chronologically. When I’m done, I’m looking at the National Geographic documentaries. There are several, but first on my list will be the Apollo one. And there’s always the Simpsons
  15. Richie the Rally Goat
    I think the last couple soft markets were telling us something, we (and maybe Falvine too) were just wrong in interpretation. Market corrections come in many different forms. It may be that several organizations had too much non-working inventory. Teams are looking to turn their inventory faster, or reprioritize different types of inventory
  16. Richie the Rally Goat
    We as fans don’t have the tools to expand the definition of assets beyond free agent spending. A number of posters quote trade analyzer websites and many posters disregard those sites as hogwash. I agree with your concept that this FO values liquidity very highly and for good reason. What’s not clear to me is the liquidity risk model being used. We talk about players as assets, but maybe better to be thought of as inventory. Turns as speed to commercialize inventory might be a metric/framework.
  17. Richie the Rally Goat
    Donaldson wants to go back to Atlanta right? Seems like he’s been waiting for Atlanta to match this (and/or Nat’s offer)
  18. Richie the Rally Goat
    This is a really good, well laid out post. Have you blogged this to flesh it out more? At face value I feel like there’s a feasibility argument to be made, but maybe there’s some research to fill in some blanks
  19. Richie the Rally Goat
    Individually these signings are “fine”. Add up everything and it’s all “fine”. I was just expecting more. There’s still time, but it really does look like it this is what we can expect.
  20. Richie the Rally Goat
    There’s this: https://tomahawktake.com/2019/12/30/atlanta-braves-reportedly-now-offering-four-years-for-josh-donaldson/ It’s a blog and unsubstantiated, but they quote a radio interview without a link.
  21. Richie the Rally Goat
    I liked season two then three best. 4 I had to power through....
  22. Richie the Rally Goat
    agreed and to add, it shows the value of starting pitching and a more accurate depiction of market based pay compared to capped and arbitrated salaries the way the system is designed today. Good for Kohl!
  23. Richie the Rally Goat
    I’m so sorry for your loss. It was a great tribute. I can picture Gardy slapping your aunt 5 on her way home. Great urn in the 90s m. Classic
  24. Richie the Rally Goat
    @JeromeTyleski Part of the reason the Twins TV deal is so low, is due to their trade off in the deal. The Twins got a poor deal (even at the time) and in exchange Pohlad companies received a stake in FSN. The Twins moved to Go 96.3 and got a lower radio deal than they would have gotten if they went to (then) ESPN 1500. The Pohlads launched Victory Sports and couldn’t get the cable distribution to make that work. With streaming the infrastructure isn’t nearly as difficult to obtain with MLB advance media already in place. This is exactly the type of move Twins ownership would make ahead of say the Yankees whose cable TV viewership is much higher. Good OP
  25. Richie the Rally Goat
    Make sure to spend some time in the backfields with the minor leaguers and the practice sessions.
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