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  1. Richie the Rally Goat
    im not a fan of Vavra, but if Falvine thought this, wouldn’t he have been let go at the end of the season?
  2. Richie the Rally Goat
    ability is never measured in isolation. It’s always measured in outcomes of plays. Outcomes of plays are impacted by dozens of things
  3. Richie the Rally Goat
    statistically the “bad nights” should normalize over a season. It’s why fielding metrics are preferred to be viewed as a season stat. Still, “should” and “do” are different. Sometimes the bad nights accumulate enough that they become more the norm than the exception
  4. Richie the Rally Goat
    what about variables like health, field conditions, positioning tendencies by coaching staff changing, pitching staff changes or opposing teams changing base running tactics?
  5. Richie the Rally Goat
    agreed, the Astros train has sailed. Are we expected to have a 14 year rebuild and or trade away from the young core? I struggle with either idea
  6. Richie the Rally Goat
    http://m.twins.mlb.com/news/article/258818506/baseball-americas-john-manuel-hired-by-twins/ Looks like continued emphasis in analytics
  7. Richie the Rally Goat
    this. The Twins need to add two starters, one should be aim high “Ace” type and one should be quality mid rotation type. Cobb/Darvish, Santana, Berrios, Lynn, Mejia/Gibson would a really nice rotation
  8. Richie the Rally Goat
    if Sano isn’t the full time third baseman in 2018, id like Sano to play first base regularly. Maybe have Mauer and Sano rotate. First and DH. Of course first choice would be Sano to be primary third base and have Esco rotate through second and third once or twice a week.
  9. Richie the Rally Goat
    hes a distant thought in my mind
  10. Richie the Rally Goat
    is this pro or con Maddux? Being able to make the information relevant and providing a plan of action to the pitchers is the important skill here. He doesn’t need to be an analyst, there will be a team of those in the FO. Having the starters while on the bench chart hitter/pitch tendencies seems rather new school, as far as using time on the bench productively rather than sitting there and screwing around.
  11. Richie the Rally Goat
    I’d love for him to get a shot somewhere as a roving or assistant coach in the Twins minor league system.
  12. Richie the Rally Goat
    I’m on board!
  13. Richie the Rally Goat
    seems like buy starters, churn and burn relievers
  14. Richie the Rally Goat
    Naw, I buy a shirsey, I get a shirsey, I got what I paid for. I buy a ticket to go to a game, I get entrance to the game, they play the game, I got what I paid for. You can’t buy a ticket and expect a win. That’s not how it works in sports. Movies, sure the antagonist wins. Matt Damon always wins in the movies. Ervin Santana doesn’t always win in real life. Now if you are unsatisfied with the product you can not buy a ticket, but you don’t get to dictate what a good product is. It’s not your money. Even with a publicly funded team, it’s still not your money, and you still don’t have a direct say. It’s the public’s money and the public has governance written by elected or selected representatives that dictates how the money is spent. The USA isn’t a democracy. It’s a republic. The Minnesota Twins are not a democracy, nor are they a public club. They are a privately held company. You have the choice to patronize or not, but you don’t get say in how things happen.
  15. Richie the Rally Goat
    http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/18704816/andrew-mccutchen-says-pittsburgh-pirates-give-choice-moving-right-field Yeah, he more or less did ‘balk’ at the move. Keep in mind this is McCutchen trying to smooth over the fan base
  16. Richie the Rally Goat
    lets not forget Romero, Mejia and Gonsalvez. Odds are much better for those guys to be relievers than starters, lots of upside there.
  17. Richie the Rally Goat
    agreed, bullpen is important, but disagree that the Twins need to add more to the bullpen than rotation. The Twins have a lot more upper minor league talent that is, or could be high-end bullpen talent than they have upper minor league high-end rotation talent. Starters become relievers but not vice-versa. Relief Corps does need help, but it might already be in the system, but I don’t think the starting help is already in the system.
  18. Richie the Rally Goat
    my God! The man quotes the run expectancy table and then says I don’t care what the math says, I go by gut
  19. Richie the Rally Goat
    creative! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Willis 325 wickets is dominant
  20. Richie the Rally Goat
    BBRef and Fangraphs both had him 3 to 4 WAR per season for the few seasons in Toronto preceding his stint with the Twins. Not exactly “elite” but very good
  21. Richie the Rally Goat
    I think the dilution of talent among two additional teams could be problematic. I also wonder about the mechanics and strategy of an expansion draft... In context of the international expansion of the league, I think Montreal and Mexico City make the most sense. Portland is too small, as is Seattle to support teams in both cities, just ask the NBA.
  22. Richie the Rally Goat
    it always seemed to me that the Twins won the season because the back end of the rotation was above average, but lost the post season short series because they lacked the high end front of the rotation. This confirms it. Thank you
  23. Richie the Rally Goat
    is there a link I am missing?
  24. Richie the Rally Goat
    the problem with the first deal is it didn’t buy his first year or two of free agency. Now, he’s already declining defensively. Extending him 3-4 years makes no sense. 1-2 years extension makes perfect sense, but is entirely unrealistic. Brian Dozier wants and rightfully deserves a long term payday. With the needs at pitcher and the likelihood of the contract becoming painful before the Twins truly contend, I can see why the FO would pass. Not that I want to see him leave after 2018, I want to see him leave after 2019 or 2020.
  25. Richie the Rally Goat
    Low bar, huh?
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