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  1. Richie the Rally Goat
    I hadn’t thought of it that way before, but makes perfect sense
  2. Richie the Rally Goat
    If the pitcher stats don’t matter, do the hitter stats? you don’t fine tune your mechanics with the bat on your shoulder
  3. Richie the Rally Goat
    Baseball Savant doesn’t agree with you, they look pretty comparable, and Larnach has been the one to deteriorate Wallner Larnach
  4. Richie the Rally Goat
    He could still get optioned to AAA for Outman who is out of options.
  5. Richie the Rally Goat
    Is it genuinely arguable?
  6. Richie the Rally Goat
    So the plan is to fail on purpose at the two fielding positions outside of catcher who touch the ball most for 5-6 years to find out if the strategy worked? Typically a strategy has a time horizon involved.
  7. Richie the Rally Goat
    Competitive advantage and capability to execute are the critical inputs to strategy selection. If a strategy is good on paper, but you aren’t capable of doing it and your competitors are better at it than you are, is it a good strategy? in other words, the CEO should know that the board backs their strategy and fails at their job if the board doesn’t. Tom owned up to the Pohlad family failure to go for the jugular. I think Falvey failed by putting himself and the Twins in a position where the rug got yanked out from under him. He should have had a better rapport with the ownership group than that. deeper into the strategy weeds, this team has shown capability to develop outfielders and pitchers, and terrible capability to develop SS and 1B. So why the hell do they keep acquiring outfielders, trade away their one and only good SS in 20 years, and never actually invest in 1B? It’s not just that they aren’t executing it. These are purposeful holes and surpluses on the roster that the surplus isn’t very valuable and the holes are extremely valuable relative to the league.
  8. Richie the Rally Goat
    Manny Margot
  9. Richie the Rally Goat
    I recall hearing Keaschall getting time in the OF too, but he only has one appearance in Left in the OP
  10. Richie the Rally Goat
    @Nick Nelson ”With Martin getting the largest share of starts in left field, Outman and Roden have mixed more often in center and right. A sign of things to come in the regular season? This will be interesting to keep an eye on since my assumption has been that Wallner would be out in almost every day. I have a hard time believing the Twins prefer Larnach in left to Wallner in right” Would you please clarify? The underlined really confuses me. I think Martin in Left, Buxton Center, Wallner Right, Larnach DH, either Roden or Outman on the bench and Bell at 1B is the plan. Martin is the Harrison Bader and Bell is the Ty France. Surprising that Clemens appears to be on the bubble.
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    https://www.si.com/mlb/how-abs-challenge-system-works Good question! According to SI, you are correct, it is a 2D rectangular box at the middle of home plate the width of the plate and height adjusted to the player. The article said that the robo-zone is slightly smaller than the average human-zone. My guess at the placement is for breaking balls. So the pitcher gets the back door slider, but can’t get the slider that breaks the front of the plate and away.
  13. Richie the Rally Goat
    You can look me in the eye with a straight face and tell me you think this team is two games better than last year that had C4 and a good bullpen until 8/1?
  14. Richie the Rally Goat
    Players who have very good bat to ball skills and gap power add loft successfully more frequently than players who hit home runs but strike out a ton add plate discipline and reduce Ks. ill give you Brian Dozier as an example. i think Gabby can do it, and am excited to see him develop into a big leaguer soon
  15. Richie the Rally Goat
    https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/bph/elderly-parole-hearings-overview/ “Incarcerated persons are eligible for the Elderly Parole Program if their sentence is long enough, unless they are sentenced to death or life without the possibility of parole.” nope, you are factually incorrect in regards to Serafini
  16. Richie the Rally Goat
    mod note - lets keep this discussion to Pablo and the Twins. Salary cap should be a separate discussion
  17. Richie the Rally Goat
    26 and 27 are lost for the same indecisive dithering. We've all had the CBA and potential lockout on our radar for a year. That's why this off season was so important... and the powers that be, just did nothing. Is a Pablo extension actually a no brainer? As others have pointed out, he'll be 32 when his current contract is up, his peripheral stats are showing signs of decline, and he's getting his second TJ - risky for a guaranteed contract. This for a team who isn't showing any signs of investing significant playing time to the next group of core players, and is running back a team that won 70 games last year. That team started the season with Carlos Correa at SS and had a very good bullpen is gone. With a $100m payroll, 35ish won't be playing for the team in '26. Effectively this will be a $65 to $70m payroll team.
  18. Richie the Rally Goat
    I think the way a López extension could help extend the next contention window is by signing him to an additional year, then trading him. The prospect return might be decent then and they could contribute in the future. 2026 is lost and so is 2027. Falvey/Zoll and the Pohlads made sure to screw this team over for as long as they could by getting rid of enough talent with bad trades that they can’t compete, but not committing to the rebuild.
  19. Richie the Rally Goat
    Cool! Can you add a picture of it?
  20. Richie the Rally Goat
    Opposing mlb teams do not use the Lee county facilities but many amateur baseball and softball teams do when it’s not Spring Training. The Island Cow on Sanibel is my favorite place around if it’s still there. The Hurricane really did a number on the bars and restaurants. Fort Myers area is really spread out (pretty much like the rest of Florida). You spend a lot of time driving.
  21. Richie the Rally Goat
    My fear in all of this type of analysis is holding on to Outman for fear that he becomes a Rooker, Dovetailing with the Diamond Centric article on the development curve. Outman is at least a decent fielder, but with the glut of lefty corner outfielders in the bigs and the imminent arrival of outfield prospects, something has to give. This team has to offload one or more of them. If that’s Outman or Larnach, or Martin, none of those 3 should have big league time over Roden
  22. Richie the Rally Goat
    through the eyes of statcast translates to GUI
  23. Richie the Rally Goat
    Of the $100ish million payroll 35ish is in guys that are on the shelf or I wish they were.
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