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  1. Richie the Rally Goat
    Is this an overhead reduction thing?
  2. Richie the Rally Goat
    To take that a step further, he hasn’t stayed healthy for a full season since 2019. Would it be best for him and the Twins to transition to a short stint reliever?
  3. Richie the Rally Goat
    I just listen to my accountant for my s-corp
  4. Richie the Rally Goat
    Retained earnings are a publicly traded company’s mechanism to avoid taxes temporarily. Private company’s immediately pay income taxes on net profit. There’s no benefit to retain earnings.
  5. Richie the Rally Goat
    As I understand it, Audra Martin is a BSN employee. Provus, and Morneau are MN Twins employees. https://www.mlb.com/twins/team/front-office
  6. Richie the Rally Goat
    In 1991 they were second best in errors and fielding percentage, but were 4th in runs scored, best in K%, and second in wOBA. They frickin HIT!
  7. Richie the Rally Goat
    Carl voted in favor of contraction, preferring to sell his team in a closed market sale to the league rather than an open market sale to the highest bid. The league itself survives on Congress exempting it from anticompetitive law. This was never some capitalistic heroism tale.
  8. Richie the Rally Goat
    He was a decision maker in an FO that signed C4 twice and swung a trade for Pablo Lopez and extended him. never before those moments did I let myself believe that the Twins would ever wade that deep into those waters. I’m grateful for those moments.
  9. Richie the Rally Goat
    Everyone thinks of their opinions as in the majority. 2020 was the highest turnout for a presidential election in a century and 66.3% of Americans voted. Majority ruled that election, less than 34% of Americans were the “Majority”. and so we have a “public opinion survey” where the stakes a zero… Much like those 33.7% of Americans who don’t care or don’t think their vote will matter in the electoral college… I’ll abstain Join me in manager apathy, it’s easier here
  10. Richie the Rally Goat
    Quoted excerpt regarding Levine: He participated in a lot of decision making with the Rangers and that will certainly be true with the Twins. What Minnesota fans may wonder is he more of a risk-taker, or a proceed with caution executive? “I think some of that is circumstantial, so I would tell you I played different roles throughout my career,” Levine said. “I think Texas (the Rangers) by and large was an organization that embraced risk. It was very risk tolerant, and I think in that environment sometimes I had to play the role of the voice of reason. “Whereas in my early (time) in Minnesota, I may be more of the person pushing the envelope on the risk-taking side. …But I think the best decision making groups have people who represent all thoughts and all thought processes. “I think one thing that I have found effective in my career is recognizing what the occasion calls for, and making sure I represent different points of view (so)…that we have everything really evaluated before we ultimately make our final decision.” End Quote I don’t read this as “risk taker” as much as “devil’s advocate”
  11. Richie the Rally Goat
    Good question! Who’s strategy? 1) Minnesota Twins 2) AL Central Teams combined? (Is there a commissioner of ALC?) 3) MLB 4) Whatever might be left of FSN/BSN 5) Sports Broadcasting in general Who’s eyes are they trying to monetize? 1) current fans 2) sports fans generally 3) people who don’t seek out sports Cable has a foot in the grave, but isn’t dead yet. What consumers say they want and what they pay for are different things. If I were Manfred on behalf of the MLB, I would look to monetize sports fans generally and seek a multi-sport partnership with ESPN and Disney, maybe Fubo too. Make it as broad as you can to try to replicate the cable bundle without the cable, to draw as many families into a single platform
  12. Richie the Rally Goat
    I think Willi will be the primary utility player out of the chute.
  13. Richie the Rally Goat
    Who’s Amy Chances?
  14. Richie the Rally Goat
    Same sport, same rules, same constraints. if we can’t compare management, prospects and talent between teams, well then let’s just close down TD and call it, huh?
  15. Richie the Rally Goat
    342 people in all, but that includes the list of former GMs that I didn’t bother taking out
  16. Richie the Rally Goat
    there are 12 people in the baseball operations part of the org chart with “analyst” in their title. https://www.mlb.com/twins/team/front-office
  17. Richie the Rally Goat
    Carl voted in favor of contraction. Terrible owner too
  18. Richie the Rally Goat
    Really good take and I very much agree with the gist. I would add that the roster wasn’t constructed well to support a pinch-hit heavy approach. The most relied upon hitters, Buxton, Correa, Lewis were the least reliable, and so the reserves spent most of their seasons as starters and then when the pinch hit situations occur, Rocco painted himself into a corner with Margot especially, but Martin and others that spent many innings out of position or just plain playing when they shouldn’t have. What’s hard about all of this is knowing how the execution decisions are made. So Baldelli kept going back to the same darn well, over and over, with worse hitters replacing bad hitters and the swirl continued. How does the review/check happen to evaluate strategy/execution effectiveness during the season? Did no one see these decisions backfire over and over and raise their hand to question effectiveness?
  19. Richie the Rally Goat
    With Martin, the stats aren’t very good, but -8 OAA reaffirms my view that his fielding was bad, to go with an expected bad hitting Farmer overall hit as well as I expected and fairly close to historic, but his fielding fell off a cliff and only played 13 of 76 opportunities at SS. He was supposed to be backup SS and a “very good” fielder. He missed really badly on a defense first platoon hitter position. It’s Christian Vasquez, not Velasquez. Castro slumped badly, but is it fair to expect him to play in 158 games and 3.1WAR above average hitter 108 wRC+ while setting a record for most games at most positions? That’s pretty impressive on the whole in modern baseball. Not an A, he couldn’t keep up the pace across the marathon, but dang.
  20. Richie the Rally Goat
    Absolutely agreed, however… don’t throw stones when you live in a glass house.
  21. Richie the Rally Goat
    I was thinking the author was generous with these 4 :)
  22. Richie the Rally Goat
    Which “minor league manager” do you want fired?
  23. Richie the Rally Goat
    Buxton was on the 2019 Twins
  24. Richie the Rally Goat
    Glossed over in the synopsis, Dave St Peter stays. While not surprising, the TV deal and announcement of dropping payroll are horrendous business outcomes/decisions
  25. Richie the Rally Goat
    They are kinda getting what they asked for…
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