Richie the Rally Goat
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Pitchers and catchers report in about 130 days, if there is no work stoppage. Clock is ticking -
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With Os and Juice
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In ‘87 88mph was pretty average, and they measured velocity differently. In 87 they used a radar gun about half way to home plate. now they use trackman at point of release. If they measured Sweet Music then, with track man, he’d have been in the low 90s. Ober has been pretty effective, but it feels like a lot of smoke and mirrors. My skepticism is of the other poster proclaiming Ober would gain 5-7 mph by moving to the bullpen. 1) why would you move the most durable starter they have to the bullpen? 2) Ober’s arm is toast, a couple mph is all he’s getting from a move to the pen.
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Hence the “big trouble”. Every team had better have a Ross in AA and in AAA, because injuries happen every year, every team.
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Like others, I expected 90+ losses, this team didn’t reach that, so technically exceeded my expectations. practically, the entire AL performed lower than my expectations. On this last day of the season the winner of the AL West will have a .500 record and could be below .500 if the Twins and As both win. As of now there are 6 AL teams with .500 or better records, and we could end the season that way. i didn’t expect the entire AL to play down to the Twins level. That may have padded the Twins wins in ways that most seasons wouldn’t have. 2026 started the season a worse team on paper than 2025 started. 2026 made adjustments to improve from 2025 and ended with the youth looking promising, something that 2025 did not. where 2026 exceeded my expectations 1) they improved fielding positions as the season progressed 2) hitting with RISP 3) record, but dubious where 2026 disappointed 1) really suspect roster decisions, n 2) the bullpen, the entire bullpen has changed over twice, and it still sucked badly. My expectations were very low, and somehow I was disappointed what does this mean for 2027? I expect another clunker of an offseason. Too cowardly to sell, to cheap to buy, more disappointment
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the Twins had 10 guys make 3 starts or more this year
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Can’t develop reserve SS that’s a better option than a 3 times DFA’d catcher who passed waivers all 3 times
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Regarding the shrinking of the baseball operations front office, sometimes an org can build out too much operations management and decrease speed and decision quality as a result, especially if the systems and processes weren’t built along with the overhead increases. Things get worse when there’s too many egos to feed. its not clear to me that decision quality and minor league development improved under Falvey. while I REALLY dislike Tom Pohlad’s approach and I hate a ton of the FOs decisions over the last couple years, I don’t know if the driver of the FO headcount is Pohlad’s, Zoll’s or collaborative; I can imagine a scenario where the decision to slim down the FO is best for the team.
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go Brewers! My second favorite team is the one in my state I find the AL West fascinating. Both the Astros and Rangers have 81 losses today. I’m morbidly rooting for the As and Twins to each win at least one more so we have a division winner with a losing record. I don’t care which, just want to see it. also, go Twins, play spoiler and hit your 78 win pre-season projection
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I don’t get the current Ill will towards Falvey now that he’s gone. I get and accept that some fans didn’t like him while he was here. I agree with many that it was time for a change at GM, but I also think Falvey did a ton to improve this team and modernizing the front office. i hope Falvey does well in his next role, as long as it’s not in the ALC
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@Cody SchoenmannFRED DURST?!?!?! it was George Michael… I’m so disappointed in you
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Predicated on what?
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Something that led to our demise
Richie the Rally Goat replied to Riverbrian's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
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Love that! Really encouraging for Jenkins’ and Twins’ future
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Go Twins!
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Putting Rogers in save situations isn’t doing him any favors. He needs to be put in the best position for him to succeed.
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My “no participation trophies” comment was about the prior commenter wanting to give Maki a raise. He hasn’t earned a raise. I never actually said I wanted to fire Maki, but if they do, I can absolutely see why. The rotation has under performed expectations. Pre-season projections after Pablo injuries had them a top third rotation, they’re a bottom 5 staff. The bullpen that started the season as unserious, received 3 huge upgrades at the deadline and is still a bottom 5 bullpen. the rotation was supposed to be the strength of the team, and it was almost as weak as the bullpen. Every team uses 8-10 different starters per year, that’s the average.
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Fangraphs pre-season has them projected to 78 wins, currently on pace for 72 wins. While I predicted the under, 72 wins does not exceed the predictions, Vegas, or my low expectations. no participation trophies
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They shed $30m in payroll last trade deadline and offseason. They are having their third consecutive 2nd half collapse in a row, they’re having their second losing season. this team ranks 25th in runs allowed (not much to replace) 736, the hitters rank 9th in runs scored 681. Hitters and pitchers average age is 28 While I continue to believe that last year’s deadline trading away 10 major leaguer’s was a mistake, they did it and should have capitalized last offseason on the remaining contracts, OR invested heavily back into the team to make it actually competitive. They did neither and we watched more of the same. the same goes for this offseason. Go all-in on the youth, or invest heavily on competing. No half measures.
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Technically, they can still trade both of them this offseason and the next trade deadline, but yeah, they missed their opportunity. They either should have traded both of them last offseason and started the season with a $70m payroll or actually invest into the payroll and put together a real bullpen and sign an actual 1b, and not have rolled with Lee at SS.
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The opening day bullpen flies in the face of this assertion Relief pitchers (8): Justin Topa, Cole Sands, Eric Orze, Zak Kent, Cody Laweryson, Taylor Rogers, Anthony Banda, Kody Funderburk
