Richie the Rally Goat
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Very true, but I would hope Prielipp would become more of a closer/setup man than a situational lefty. -
Did the OP put 70 wins as the baseline for ALC competition? uh, 80 might not be competitive, 70 would put you solidly 4th, only because Sox are pathetic
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It could be that Mat backed out, and Justin can’t pony up the full 1.5 to 2 bil alone, so pivoted to incremental hostile takeover.
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Considering the Bader signing, what alternatives do the Twins have to Buxton? what would his return be in trade?
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The Op had posted this in the Paddack thread, it fits here: Off Post but not sure where to say this on TD? The sooner Byron Buxton is no longer a Minnesota Twin in CF, the sooner the whole Twins Roster can flourish? Watched a Dan Hayes "X" post of BB passing on 4 Paddock pitches, 3 of the 4 close, if not, in the Strike Zone? All worth a Spring Training swing? We're talking "Training" folks? Even in the dirt, try a swing??? Love Byron...but we need to move on?“
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You could make a case for Festa to be ahead of Paddack too. More WAR with 33% fewer innings pitched.
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I agree with you, also if you are right that Bader plays the most outfield innings the offense will be really bad.
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The risk/reward of selling high. When it works, you can do what Cleveland is doing. When it doesn’t you get Pittsburgh.
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At least according to baseball savant, France makes Miranda look like a gold glove at first. France has a cumulative -17 outs above average over 5 seasons, or -3.4 per season compared to Miranda’s -4 over two seasons.
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Disagreed, this team has a long history of hanging on to washed vets far too long. agreed, better to wait for results before declaring failure. I hope France is a 3 fWAR player, but I am skeptical and fear a repeat of Margot and Gallo
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Santana fielded well, and was the 13th best 1B in MLB last year. He was fine, didn’t deserve getting DFA’d. We’ll see if he can repeat, but he had down seasons leading up. Donnie barrels was a fine bat first utility guy. He didn’t deserve DFA. Nelson Cruz had a last gasp, he didn’t deserve getting DFA’d, the Twins got lucky sticking with good players is a good thing. The problem is sticking with bad players. Bad players make your team worse. Not only did the two players I mentioned make the team worse, they did so while getting starters innings. No risk, no reward, but you have to cut bait if you make a mistake. I don’t have a problem with the mistake, it’s failure to course correct.
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The English language changes constantly. For instance, Ace
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Should the definition of “ACE” be static, or relevant to the era that the pitcher pitched in?
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Manuel Margot and Joey Gallo say hi
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Blue is bad
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If you’ve stopped watching baseball in 1993, what are we even doing here? How can we have a meaningful discussion about 2025 Joe Ryan when the benchmark is 35 years ago?
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Welcome back Joey Gallo
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It’s Carlos Correa now
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WIlli Castro traded? )-:
Richie the Rally Goat replied to C-Gangster's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
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Pagan put up -.1 fWAR in 2022, ranking 76 out of 83 relief pitchers to throw 60 innings that season. He was mainly the 7th and 8th inning setup man and was 5th in blown saves. He pitched the third most innings in relief for the Twins. Gotta aim higher than “not the worst”. Jax led the team in relief innings at 72. There’s a slew of relievers, but Sands started to stand out more as the season wore on. Simmons, your starting short stop who accumulated .9 fWAR via a 58 wRC but good fielding, over 129 games at SS ranked 29th SS in MLB. He wasn’t Gleybor Torres ranked 32 in baseball for the Yankees bad, because of course to be 32nd you need a team to have two SS accumulate more WAR. Which team performed that feat? MN Twins! The husk of Polanco ranked 27th in fWAR accumulating 1.0 fWAR in 100 fewer games than Simmons. Need to aim higher than “not the worst”. Joey Gallo played 111 games between 1B and Outfield in 2023 accumulating .8 fWAR ranking 203 out of 283 position players to play 300 innings that year. He sported a 103 wRC+ and a butcher in the field. Larnach, Wallner, Miranda all got the back seat. Bottom third is the best of these three data points, but still need to aim higher than “not the worst”.
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When was the last time this team benched or released a veteran? we just watched Manny Margot play the most games he’s played in a season since 2019 to his worst hitting and fielding performance of his absolute disaster of a career. He hit a 79 wRC+ while sporting -5 OAA. the worst part about these horrible signings is that these guys are going to play a lot.
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It was consequential when you brought it up, but when the same data sliced differently disputes your narrative it doesn’t? You’re not wrong, it’s 350 plate appearances, or, if the averages hold up, the Twins avoided about 75 sub optimal matchups, but subbed into just as many. the easy cherry to pick here is Manny Margot, he led the team with 30 pinch hit appearances but had 75 plate appearances (also team lead) as a substitute for a .349 OPS. unfortunately the split doesn’t have WPA, it would be helpful to know how much the futility mattered when Manny came to bat as a substitute.
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