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  1. Richie the Rally Goat
    Are Camargo and Jeffers durable enough to combine for 162 games behind the dish? Because I do not want to see Cartaya get extended time in the MLB in 2025
  2. Richie the Rally Goat
    Agreed, if Julien can continue to hit like he did in 2023 and every step in the minors up to that point, the Twins will find a way to get him in the lineup.
  3. Richie the Rally Goat
    DeDoit and BoBon are pretty funny too
  4. Richie the Rally Goat
    They could have negotiated a market rate free agent contract with him
  5. Richie the Rally Goat
    He’s a lefty on the big side of the platoon and doesn’t hit. His only shot is both Buxton and Bader get hurt, which is a pretty high likelihood of occurring, so look for him around the all-star break
  6. Richie the Rally Goat
    While I agree with Crain, I’m guessing Boof Bonser, just to be different.
  7. Richie the Rally Goat
    That’s fair, I think the Twins caught lightning in a bottle with Blewett, his previous stints in the bigs were very small sample but 2 WHIP, and even in the Chinese league and in the minors he averages less than a strikeout per inning. I think he passed through waivers unclaimed and is still in the Twins system. We’ll likely see Blewett pitch for the Twins at some point.
  8. Richie the Rally Goat
    My guess is hoarding depth, bullpen in general is highly volatile and Topa and Stewart are both likely to be injured but too good to walk away from (especially Stewart). Tonkin will likely be miles better than Jay Jackson and Scott Blewett
  9. Richie the Rally Goat
    Sands? Last year he was at least their third or fourth best reliever.
  10. Richie the Rally Goat
    What a shame! I feel bad for the guy
  11. Richie the Rally Goat
    After having read the desktop formatted rules on my phone several times, I have a few mechanical questions. Is there a specific template for the draft post? can multiple teams pick the same player? are all three sites playing the same game together?
  12. Richie the Rally Goat
    https://library.fangraphs.com/offense/batted-ball/ “A line drive produces 1.26 runs per out, while fly balls produce 0.13 runs per out and ground balls produce 0.05 runs per out. In other words, batters want to hit lots of line drives and fly balls, while pitchers generally want to cause batters to hit ground balls.” going with my previous post, soft and medium hits have a negative correlation to k rate and ground balls have an extreme reduction in runs per out. Succinctly, the traditional two strike approach, while vastly superior to a fan (especially this one) is bad for scoring more runs over the course of a season
  13. Richie the Rally Goat
    You aren’t wrong about Ks being bad. I agree they are bad, I just see them as a biproduct of something good. https://community.fangraphs.com/the-importance-of-hard-hit-percentage/ if your hard hit rate increases so does batting average, OBP, OPS and with those metrics increase, so does runs scored, and Ks. Over the course of 6,000 plate appearances, Ks increase at a slower rate than ISO or wRC+. scoring more runs is better than scoring fewer runs.
  14. Richie the Rally Goat
    Are you sure? My wife reminds me of my stupidity very regularly. The result of a hit is affected by the batter, is hard hit, barrel, launch angle and such, no? what can a hitter do, to increase the hard hit, barrel, launch angle? Are there drawbacks to these types of swings? we’re missing some nuance here….
  15. Richie the Rally Goat
    Is a triple play better for hitters?
  16. Richie the Rally Goat
    Michael Cuddyer
  17. Richie the Rally Goat
    Agreed, fantastic article and agree with the thrust, in terms of a team evaluating players with the intent to score more runs to win more games, strikeouts are just outs, and when they come with a higher hard hit rate, ks can be acceptable. agreed with @thelanges5, from a fan’s perspective more balls in play is more fun to watch.
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    You’re right! Target Field has the limestone between the dugouts to the backstop, and the green fence is higher down to the foul poles. Jorge at Spring Training
  20. Richie the Rally Goat
    I’m now changing my answer because of Van. I think it’s Polanco too
  21. Richie the Rally Goat
    He’s wearing home whites did they wear the big league unis during ST games in the aughts?
  22. Richie the Rally Goat
    Agreed!
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    days away
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    I didn’t look I swear!
  25. Richie the Rally Goat
    I voted LF because Rocco always surprises
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