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  1. Richie the Rally Goat
    From Webster’s“a : marked by clever discerning awareness and hardheaded acumen shrewd common sense b : given to wily and artful ways or dealing a shrewd operator” Notice no mention of innovation? I’d say the FO is absolutely savvy and has done a good job of implementing clever ways to improve. Case in point: Rowson was a very good hire. The analytics dept improvement was very aware and keen to the situation at hand. Innovative? No that ship sailed a while ago. So what has the FO done that isn’t “shrewd”? Give a reason why they aren’t shrewd, or even good at their jobs?
  2. Richie the Rally Goat
    please expand
  3. Richie the Rally Goat
    This is why I keep coming back to TD Tom. Great work!
  4. Richie the Rally Goat
    Gordon was right around .750 OPS in pitching friendly double A Nooga last year with 9 jacks. year one he doesn’t make up for the loss of Dozier, but maybe year two with the improvement in fielding and some additional power in maturity. I don’t think you’d lose so much that you had to go out and spend big bucks. That being said, if Levine can work out the right deal in free agency, it’d be great to see Dozier back. I think it’s more likely he gets a 5 year 60-70 mil contract that the Twins won’t beat.
  5. Richie the Rally Goat
    the only surprise is that he’s already laid down his “go ahead and offer the QO, I won’t accept it” card. A rejected QO (with pick attached) would have to drepress his value on the open market
  6. Richie the Rally Goat
    It seems to me that the Twins haven’t rushed players, so much as weighted the developmental league playing time too heavy in the A ball levels and too short in AA and AAA.
  7. Richie the Rally Goat
    what do you do with Frazier if/when Sano is ready to man the hot corner? If he could be had so cheaply, could you trade him for anything of value? I have doubts Nunez is at least somewhat versatile.
  8. Richie the Rally Goat
    if and that’s a big if, everything works out right, that’s a middle of the pack rotation
  9. Richie the Rally Goat
    Escobar looks like your starting 3rd baseman for 60-80 games, maybe the whole season. With that in mind, I wish the ST Fodder competition for Adrianza was a bit higher quality. If Sano isn’t firing on all cylinders, Moli will probably want another super-utility instead of Vargas
  10. Richie the Rally Goat
    I fail to see how winning a gold glove is evidence of Aybar being a good fielder
  11. Richie the Rally Goat
    Good write up! Well reasoned and good comp on Chatwood. I think 14 mil AAV is about right for Lynn. I’d like to see the Twins sign him for 2-3 years if possible, but if the 4th year is what it takes to get it done, so be it. I don’t think this is the year to get an ace. Maybe with all the big money being swapped next year, a trade could be finagled. Of course the ace is preferred, at least Lynn (assuming health) significantly improved the middle of the rotation.
  12. Richie the Rally Goat
    I'd prefer a front of rotation starter, but I'd take Lance Lynn over Hughes or Sanchez or Mejia. Mejia has an option and will be necessary 6th starter... .so we can't release Hughes or Sanchez to make room for Lance Lynn? Sanchez is $465K to cut right now, Pohlad can find that in the couch cushions
  13. Richie the Rally Goat
    id like a higher likelihood of success than hope you can get by.
  14. Richie the Rally Goat
    No, I refuse to read between the lines. I don’t have the background to jump to the same conclusion. It’s just as likely to me that Molitor got his butt chewed by Levine over saying something like that to the press. I have no idea Sano broke a bone in his leg that required a rod to be inserted into the bone in order for it to heal. He was just recently cleared for baseball activities. I don’t see that as “giving him a pass”, as I see it, it’s realism. Should he show up in shape? Absolutely. Do I know what exactly that entails? No. As far as durability related to taking care of himself, I’m not sure how closely related those are. The conception with pitchers seems like big is good in regards to durability and small is bad. How is pitching unrelated? Sanos last injury was Tommy John, a pitchers surgery, and Sano is big. Being in shape wouldn’t have helped him with fouling a ball off his leg, unless being skinny provides a smaller target to hit. Maybe he should be a bean pole so he could dodge a baseball being hurled in his general direction at 90 miles per hour?
  15. Richie the Rally Goat
    everyone learns differently. Everyone coaches/teaches differently. I struggle with coming to a conclusion about Sano or his coachability. Maybe it is just that and Molitor is using the media to make his point. Maybe it’s just a description of the process that coaches go through with players. I’m not sure how Sano’s relationship with his coach plays into this. If I were Levine my concern would be durability and the rest would largely depend on the results of the MLB investigation. Coaches/managers come and go
  16. Richie the Rally Goat
    seems like you might be right. I just got the official. Trevor May to the 60 day DL. No surprise there. It would be really quick to be game shape before June 1
  17. Richie the Rally Goat
    My phone just provided the release from the Twins regarding signing Sanchez but nothing on who got removed to make room. Any word?
  18. Richie the Rally Goat
    I ignored a post that happened after my post, I am I supposed to read all of your posts in a thread and go back to edit my post? How do you know I ignored it and just haven't read it yet? Now I'm ignoring it. So if this isn't a debate about what anyone thinks they deserve, then how is sociological value relevant? If purely an economic discussion, then what I think doesn't matter and only the free market does. Collectively Bargained markets are not free markets. There are forces at play besides what an individual wants and values. The league deserves the growth n revenue it earned. Management as a part of that growth deserves their cut just like anyone else. I just think the lower paid portions of the stakeholders like trainers, coaches, minor leaguers deserve a bit bigger share than what they've historically gotten.
  19. Richie the Rally Goat
    the opening day rotation has not improved; Odorizzi is not better than Santana. Odorizzi has the opportunity to be better than Santiago and clearly the 6th through 10th starters in the rotation are much improved over Dillon Gee, et. al. It depends on how Santana and Berrios pitch, if Berrios continues to improve and Erv doesn’t regress and recovers well from surgery the rotation has improved. Getting another impact start like Lynn or Arrieta (higher risk, much higher reward) could really push the rotation up a notch
  20. Richie the Rally Goat
    Phil Miller has a really good article on this subject. http://m.startribune.com/with-his-minnesota-twins-contract-expiring-what-s-next-for-joe-mauer/474397383/
  21. Richie the Rally Goat
    just going out on a limb, but I believe AZ was saying s/he’d be ok if more homers stayed in the park, as then they would be a part of the BABIP metric.
  22. Richie the Rally Goat
    the government is a monopoly too. It is illegal to build an army additional to the sanctioned, and the government uses its monopoly power to depress wages. As evidenced by the dwindling numbers in the military, rarely does one sign up for the money. They sign up for the sense of duty. Comparing baseball and national defense is a bad comparison. Of course the MLB could impose its will and drive down labor prices but that isn’t an indication of what the market rate “should be” its an indication of a market flaw. There has been competing markets in baseball but the government allowed monopolization and the league flourished, but the players pay didn’t rise at the same rate. That’s why it’s unionized labor. If management was good and good to the players, the players wouldn’t need to unionize. So no, players are not over paid. They are underpaid with a very select minority ever making a major league minimum. The union currently fails 90% of its members because the major league players (who already make 10X and up over the next highest pay scale and 25x the majority of its players) are the decision makers. MLBPA is great for the richest players, and terrible for the minor leaguers, and not near hard enough on the owners. Our nations service members are also badly under paid. 22k is a crime, but entirely unrelated.
  23. Richie the Rally Goat
    https://www.mlb.com/news/jake-odorizzi-gets-twins-closer-to-contending/c-266677752 Richard Justice says it well. I’ll paraphrase- Good start, now go get one of the top 3 free agents still out there to really prove contention.
  24. Richie the Rally Goat
    Not a front of the rotation improvement, but the middle looks a lot better. Curious what the full package of prospects entails Still kinda frustrated about Sanchez
  25. Richie the Rally Goat
    i was disappointed with the half hearted stab at Darvish. If their best offer is 30% off projection and 11% off the winning bid, they were never serious. Now after a major league deal, even non guaranteed, with Sanchez I’m down right PISSED OFF! Minor league with Sanchez or signing Garcia, or another 3rd tier, fine, but mashing the panic button on Sanchez... ugh
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