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  1. Richie the Rally Goat
    Granite is my guess
  2. Richie the Rally Goat
    why not both?
  3. Richie the Rally Goat
    Cron?
  4. Richie the Rally Goat
    or push Cave to AAA
  5. Richie the Rally Goat
    How can a guy with "the kiss of death to relievers" also be a lock to the bullpen? With Pineda, Perez and Odorizzi in the rotation, having multiple relievers be effective for 2 innings plus is going to be critical to the bullpen, especially if the intention is to keep it a 12 man staff. Mejia seems likely to fit that bill. Weapon and long relief don't really jive, but is that Romero? Who else? Giving up a ton of dingers doesn't bode well in the longer appearance or the shorter appearance role... Magill has to be on the outside looking in right now
  6. Richie the Rally Goat
    with Big Toe in AAA, all the utility guy needs to do is give Polanco a day off occasionally.
  7. Richie the Rally Goat
    we all agree that it’s just a projection, but what are the odds of any player striking out 28% of the time, walking 6% and slugging .350 but OPS .800? Danny Santana?
  8. Richie the Rally Goat
    Correct answer is amputate. But don’t ef it up. Wearing a prosthetic arm sucks
  9. Richie the Rally Goat
    Cave made Rosario look as patient as Mauer . He struck out 33% of the time. He could cut his strikeouts down 30% and still be a concern for me. He doesn’t slug or walk near enough to manage a 25% k rate, let alone 33%. Steamer projects both his Ks and his BBs to improve and still OPS .700... and he’s a lefty... nah. He was lightning in a bottle last year, nothing wrong with that.
  10. Richie the Rally Goat
    Marwin is also Cave/Buxton/Kepler/Granite insurance. There is a good possibility Granite never plays a big league inning gain, and Cave was a fluke in 2018, and Buxton gets injured... again...
  11. Richie the Rally Goat
    If the innings per start is down to 5.2 then relief innings per game is 3.1 - the roster size stays the same, so doesn't the average relief appearance need to increase? If pace of play such a concern, shouldn't the roster shrink? that would force longer relief appearances.
  12. Richie the Rally Goat
    I’m there March 11-19. 3 days at the ballpark and the rest with the fam chasing my 5 yo and 19 mo around Disney and beaches around Tampa/Ft Myers. I had to cave on Disney to get 3 days at the ballpark.
  13. Richie the Rally Goat
    Isnt Reed the poster child for not signing the second tier relievers? He was a 2 year deal for reasonable money. Like you said, nothing is certain, but if you fail to develop pitchers for a decade, you gotta do something, right?
  14. Richie the Rally Goat
    I know intellectually you are correct, but I can’t help but think to Ervin. Sano will get an infection, amputate just below the knee and then make a comeback with a prosthetic leg in 2022, and be the first MLB amputee to hit 40 homers in a season (2023)
  15. Richie the Rally Goat
    https://www.mlb.com/news/willians-astudillo-to-display-skill-set-in-19/c-304048078 Does Astudillo have a chance to make the team out of spring training? His contact ability creates interesting lineup options.
  16. Richie the Rally Goat
    Good response from Romero too. I want him to get that World Series ring too.
  17. Richie the Rally Goat
    Kepler is one ACL-tear away from Jason Kubel. Fine role player, but took him 10 years to earn 31 mil I hadn’t thought about the upcoming CBA on why a player would want a guarantee locked up. Good point!
  18. Richie the Rally Goat
    grew 100% over 15 years relative to the total MLB revenue stream. We know the size of one slice of the pie, but not the size of the whole pie. We can’t possibly understand the constraints without more information
  19. Richie the Rally Goat
    from the BA article quote: The high-speed video goes beyond that. Telling a pitcher what a pitch’s effective spin rate is doesn’t mean nearly as much as letting him see the seams of the ball rotate on video and watching how the ball leaves his hand. “If I’m Adam Ottavino, I trust the analytics department,” Boddy said, “but (Ottavino) doesn’t know what spin rate feels like. What Adam needs to know is, ‘When I throw it like this, you tell me it’s good, (but) what does it look like coming out of my hand?’ It bridges the gap between the data and feeling.”end quote
  20. Richie the Rally Goat
    For those of us trying to brush up further: Parker shared this BA article it does a good job of explaining the differences between Trackman (radar) Rapsodo (radar plus output) and Edgertronic (high speed camera), and how players and teams use them. https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/high-speed-cameras-spread-quickly-around-baseball/?amphtml&__twitter_impression=true
  21. Richie the Rally Goat
    then you get local poop on your veggies
  22. Richie the Rally Goat
    Jesse Sanchez of MLB.com Agreed, I think Polanco is a good candidate to extend, provided uncharacteristic money throwing around by the FO.
  23. Richie the Rally Goat
    agreed: we need to define “core”. Last I saw Buxton and Sano don’t pitch. If there was belief in Buxton, Sano, Rosario, Kepler, Polanco and Berrios, wouldn’t there be more supplement to them than Perez and Parker? There’s a big gap in narrative too. The FO has thrown Sano and Buxton under the bus already. We’re not going ‘all in’ until the core makes the next step, doesn’t exude a ton of confidence to me...
  24. Richie the Rally Goat
    it does make me wonder if Falvine are hoping for bounce back seasons from Sano and Buxton to trade the away. Is the plan all along to wait for 2021?
  25. Richie the Rally Goat
    http://twinsdaily.com/topic/32236-twins-non-roster-invites-including-lucas-duda/?fromsearch=1
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