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  1. Richie the Rally Goat
    Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
  2. Richie the Rally Goat
    On pace for 24 complete games MLB wide! Unreal
  3. Richie the Rally Goat
    I was intending to compliment your work, while pointing out the challenge in answering the question of “How do I know if a GM is good?”. You limited your scope intentionally. Bean limited their scope intentionally. Scope must be limited, no one can distill the ocean.
  4. Richie the Rally Goat
    His 4.58 xFIP all of 2024 and 2025 to date ranks 75th among starters. That’s a good 5th starter
  5. Richie the Rally Goat
    A month ago I said something to the effect of “this needs to rattle off 10 wins in a row to make them relevant again, and I don’t think they have it in them” never so thrilled to be wrong
  6. Richie the Rally Goat
    I believe Falvey has been quoted something pretty similar.
  7. Richie the Rally Goat
    Agreed, but to bean’s rather curt/arbitrary point, every analysis has to be scoped in order to be relevant. There hasn’t been more comprehensive analysis than MLR’s, but even MLR’s is limited in scope and still so broad it’s really hard to come to any sort of conclusion. do a comparative to scope, evaluate, set a grade/standard, do another comparative evaluate, wash, rinse, repeat to develop a kpi dashboard and by the time you are done, Falvey was fired 5 years ago and data sets are stale.
  8. Richie the Rally Goat
    With the ad, I almost missed this gem: ”He then struck out against the pitching machine, which wasn’t even turned on yet.” So funny
  9. Richie the Rally Goat
    That is some serious sinus burn!
  10. Richie the Rally Goat
    Name This Twin, May 12
    Joe Mauer
  11. Richie the Rally Goat
    Like, Reinsdorf sprung for a new mop bucket?
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  13. Richie the Rally Goat
    Worse if you do that to another coworker
  14. Richie the Rally Goat
    Good analysis and agreed that this team needs to get a lower percentage of WAR from free agents. What about Cleveland and Tampa who regularly trade major leaguers for prospects? The Twins didn’t do a ton of development with Ryan before calling him up, but his repertoire has continued to evolve. Falvey has done a great job of modernizing the Twins front office, and took the player acquisition and development a significant step forward from TR, but has hit a wall on the continuous improvement timeline. This FO still has a journey to take
  15. Richie the Rally Goat
    139 runs allowed on the season 5th best MLB wide. Yes pitching, especially starting pitching, also this is a heavy flyball pitching team 44% ranked 3rd in MLB and has a MUCH improved outfield. I was skeptical of Bader, but happy he’s contributing well. Actually having left fielders with wheels in TF’s spacious LF is a good thing. More important than I have credit previously.
  16. Richie the Rally Goat
    It did in 2024 and 2023 (3.0 fWAR was a 4 way tie at 30, 31, 32 and 33 in 2023, in 2024 it was 37 and 38) If you want to go back to the 70s and 80s and compare that to today, you have to normalize on innings pitched to compare counting/cumulative stats. The game has changed.
  17. Richie the Rally Goat
    Exactly, top 30 out of 150ish pitchers who make a traditional start is a top quartile, statistically significant better than median starting pitcher. Maybe he’s 35, maybe he’s 25, it doesn’t really matter if it’s 31 or 32. He’s not a top 5% he’s not a bottom 2/3. Lots of value there.
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  19. Richie the Rally Goat
    2024 full seasons at 130 IP ERA 3.6 according to FG is ranked 38 FIP 3.44 ranked 25 xFIP 3.44 ranked 18 WHIP .99 ranked 7 2023 full season at 160 ip ERA 4.51 ranked 35 FiP 4.13 ranked 31 xFIP 3.76 ranked 19 WHIP 1.17 ranked 18 i never said he was a super star, or an ace, I said he was a top 30 starting pitcher, of which for two full seasons plus, he objectively has been. His first year of arbitration isn’t until 2026. I’m happy with that. There’s value with trading him. I don’t think they should, but there’s value.
  20. Richie the Rally Goat
    You were quoting ERA as gospel last week. His 2.93 ERA is ranked 25th. WAR ranked 31, WHIP ranked 4th. you should try watching baseball, it’s fun
  21. Richie the Rally Goat
    You had use the “A word”, didn’t you?! Cue the endless debate on semantics.
  22. Richie the Rally Goat
    I have two issues with the OP one is that prospects are the currency of trades. Trading major leaguers for major leaguers doesn’t happen very often, certainly not frequently for players of consequence. Trading major leaguers for prospects, then flipping those prospects for other major leaguers can happen, that’s a lot for one off-season. That’s likely a longer term rebuild that takes you outside the current window. The hitters are old, and feeble. Secondly, this team isn’t one hitter away, and with the ownership big money wasn’t coming… Aaron Judge wasn’t going to make this a good hitting team. the OP is correct, in that this team needed more done to it to succeed, but the prescription missed
  23. Richie the Rally Goat
    Is that really going to happen? DH, sure, but 1&2?
  24. Richie the Rally Goat
    Castro and Lewis active, Gasper and Julien demoted. Clemens stuck on the roster over Julien. Lewis 3rd base Lee 2nd base Castro utility?
  25. Richie the Rally Goat
    His .615 OPS ranks 11 on this team, one and two on the list are injured…. he can help for the time being, that’s plenty from him
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