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  1. Richie the Rally Goat
    I would hope Eduardo Escobar at age 30(?) would still be in the SS plans as gold glove incumbent, a guy can dream right?
  2. Richie the Rally Goat
    sane09 Today, 08:10 AM We have all heard the timeless adage that "you can't have too much pitching". That may be true, but I think the Twins are proving that you CAN have too many pitchers at Spring Training. Twenty-two pitchers on the roster, plus eight non-roster invitees = thirty pitchers in camp looking for bullpen time. If any of you are traveling to watch Twins ST at Fort Myers this spring, you should pack your catcher's mitt. They NEED you! My phone is misbehaving "LIKE"
  3. Richie the Rally Goat
    I think of value to the team. Even a 5th starter who can't go 6 innings and gets his start skipped a couple times gets 50% more innings than the most durable reliever.
  4. Richie the Rally Goat
    I get that there's necessity to having May in the pen, but it's self inflicted, and hurts the team in 2016 to give fewer innings to May, rather than more. What aggravates me the most about this is we saw so much Casey Fien and Blaine Boyer in 2015 and so little Michael Tonkin and Ryan Pressly. If those two had more MLB innings in 2015, at least we'd know what was there. Now they can't be relied upon because they're still unknown quantities when there has been plenty of opportunity for that seasons that had no expectation for success.
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    edited below
  6. Richie the Rally Goat
    and DH the other half
  7. Richie the Rally Goat
    Darin Mastroianni, OF solved, now just gotta trade Eddie Rosario for a loogy, and TR can call it an offseason
  8. Richie the Rally Goat
    agreed on 2016, not so sure on 2017-2018, those three pitchers should be vastly improving at the same time age will be creeping in on Shields. One thing stand in the way of trading Gibson/Milone ETC... Terry Ryan. He always hangs on too long to the guys who become "his guys". See Brian Duensing, Mike Pelfrey, etc
  9. Richie the Rally Goat
    mikelink45 Today, 03:09 PM "More logs for my fire - this is great - keep it coming. For me it is not the fact we have so many logjams, but rather TR. Can someone put together his track record? Which months does he trade? Which months does he sign free agents? Lets analyze the key guy, not the players. My old time memory says TR moves fast and then sits. At the end he adds players that others pass on so he can get savvy vets to fill the voids." The old what should he do vs the what will he do conundrum... Judd is right except that holding on to Plouffe gives license to being content with the rest of of your position players too. Rosario, Arcia, Sano with Santana as your 4th outfielder is rather scary. With a 12 or 13 man pitching staff, you don't have room to carry Nunez, Santana, Arcia, and a Shane Robinson type. I think TR traded Plouffe part from necessity. Lots of question marks in the lineup and pitching, but TR has kind of painted himself into a corner too. I think he has to pull off some kind of trade that includes a seasoned position player, and one that involves a pitcher
  10. Richie the Rally Goat
    I get that logic with one player, but 10% of your 40 man roster including Pat Dean? I gotta think a couple of those guys should be ready to pitch mop up duty. Give the mop up duty to kid who needs the experience, not some washed up old has been.
  11. Richie the Rally Goat
    I agree with spycake 100%. All of these guys should be ahead of Fien on the depth chart. Tonkin Pressly Darnell O'Rourke Meyer Graham Rogers Dean Chargois Melotakis If you can't trust any of Rogers, Dean, Chargois, Melotakis to be on the active roster day one, why did you protect them all from the rule 5 draft? If you have all of these guys, why clutter up the situation with filler? Make a move to improve or roll with the guys on the list above.
  12. Richie the Rally Goat
    Never mind, do buy 50 - 75 curveballs, still don't care
  13. Richie the Rally Goat
    "Being an auditor at trade I am scratching my head at the math. Did he only face one pitch in each of his 284 PAs? 284X1= 284X.087= 25 pitches. Was the one and only pitch he faced in each of 284 PAs only ever a curveball? Unless I am missing something here Murphy has faced more than 25 curveballs, maybe somewhere in the 50-75 range. Still, it is a major red flag that he has 0 of them solidly and definitely something to watch. " The average plate appearance is 3.7 pitches, no mlb pitcher throws 50-75 percent curveballs. I don't buy your argument, but for the sake of it, we'll accept the premise. So 50 to 75 pitches is any more statistically significant? SSS alert doesn't even begin to describe my level of apathy for the argument
  14. Richie the Rally Goat
    "That is 13 times by 12 separate organizations that teams have looked at Gardy and said no.So no, I would not hire him and that opinion seems to be shared by MLB management other than Terry Ryan." TR did fire him. Just sayin... Managing anything is a combination of analysis and people persuasion. Sure Gardy is weak on the data analysis and his tactics suffered for it, but talent wins way more games than tactics. Gardy lost his ability to persuade people when the losing got him down. I think he can regain that ability that he showed very capable of in the first part of his career. Yeah he's folksy and I find that annoying, but he's not my manager, he's a baseball manager. And I think he can make a good ML manager again.
  15. Richie the Rally Goat
    sorry, let me clarify, I would boo AJ and TR
  16. Richie the Rally Goat
    yup, and Terry Ryan too
  17. Richie the Rally Goat
    Not that I am an english teacher, or even particularly adept with grammar, but a footnote might have been appropriate.
  18. Richie the Rally Goat
    With Oswaldo Arcia presumably out of options, what kind of evaluation and analysis are involved with determining his role with the organization going forward. Is the evaluation and the expectations different in this instance than it is with a prospect type status player?
  19. Richie the Rally Goat
    "as for dismissing Hicks 35 good games (compared to how many awful games) and Plouffe's hot vs cold streaks, I don't know, one of them has actually been good over a whole season, and one has only been good for 35 games out of his career (give or take). I'd think it is reasonable to say one of these is not like the other yet." - I was thinking the same thing Mike. Plouffe is streaky but for three seasons his body of work has been pretty similar, season to season. With Plouffe, you can pretty much bank on a .750 OPS for a decent to good fielding and durable 3b. Can't bank on Hicks yet, but I hope the Twins give him another shot out of ST.
  20. Richie the Rally Goat
    Median is the central number in a sequence, mode is the most recurring, and mean is the sum of the values divided by number of values. I would agree that velocity for a starter isn't the only measure, nor is it the best, but if is important. Tough to be a top line starter without that minimum 94+
  21. Richie the Rally Goat
    I don't disagree that Gardy WAS a better manager than Molly is today, but year 3 of the rebuild had him defeated. Gardy wouldn't have had this team in a position to compete. He had a bad case of the Screwits when he got canned. It's too bad, he will make a very good manager again for the Tigers or whoever hires him.
  22. Richie the Rally Goat
    " WARNE: ALLEN vs ANDERSON It’s only the perception of the writer, but it appears that Twins fans have been far more supportive of current pitching coach Neil Allen than his deposed predecessor, Rick Anderson. Whether it’s on Facebook, Twitter or even in sports bars, it seems as though fans have really bought into Allen, despite the fact that stats show a pretty interesting story. Here are the numbers for the 2014 rotation: 5.06 ERA/4.03 FIP 6.4 K/9 2.4 BB/9 1.0 HR/9 And now, 2015: 4.23 ERA/4.19 FIP 6.2 K/9 2.4 BB/9 1.1 HR/9 Even if you don’t want to buy FIP’s argument that this rotation is actually worse, it’s not as though you could pick out one or the other out of a crowd of numbers. And I’m not saying you have to believe this year is as bad as last year, but it’s pretty close. It’s just a simple exercise to see if perception mirrors reality. In this case, not really." Quality of Pitching coach? or Quality of Pitching talent?
  23. Richie the Rally Goat
    yup, and when an old team sucks, you need to get rid of the crappy old veterans. Yes I give Bill Smith credit for signing Sano where Ryan wouldn't... but can't we have a GM/organization that can Draft, Develop, Sign AND Trade for quality major and minor leaguers?
  24. Richie the Rally Goat
    especially against the White Sox
  25. Richie the Rally Goat
    yeah, realized confusion after hitting Post
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