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  1. Richie the Rally Goat
    Phil Mackey holds a special place in many of our memories. In the early days of TD he initially supported, then attacked many of the founders of the website. In the 15 years since, the lines have blurred and time has forgotten, but the emotions are still a little raw
  2. Richie the Rally Goat
    You have a lot of gall posting this here
  3. Richie the Rally Goat
    The Twins led the league in Strikeouts last year 1,650 a record. Last year the MLB struck out 41,826 times, had 40,832 hits. The average team struck out 1394 times, In 1902 the cumulative league struck out 1,290 times. in 2023 the strikeout leaders also scored the 10th most runs league wide. Half of the top 10 run scoring teams were above average in number of strike outs. https://www.baseball-almanac.com/hitting/histrk4.shtml https://www.baseball-almanac.com/hitting/hihits3.shtml
  4. Richie the Rally Goat
    Grown ups too
  5. Richie the Rally Goat
    To calibrate a bit in 2023 the Twins were 4th in mlb in starting pitcher innings pitched at 895 innings. There were 5 pitchers who broke the 200 inning threshold in ‘23, none of which were Twins. Pablo came in 9th in the league with 194 innings, Sonny came in 22nd at 184. Ryan 44th at 162 innings, Ober 64th at 144, Maeda 117th at 101 innings. The quest to 1400ish innings requires starting rotation depth through 7-10 at a reasonably high quality, plus a significant reliever work load.
  6. Richie the Rally Goat
    I agree! Put me in coach!
  7. Richie the Rally Goat
    But wait! There’s more! There’s a part 2 to that interview! I couldn’t even get myself to click that link. i lasted about 3 minutes on the first one
  8. Richie the Rally Goat
    here’s probably the closest you’ll find. Dougie Baseball isn’t my cup of tea… I’d be in the tune out crowd
  9. Richie the Rally Goat
    My two school age kids came with me.
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  11. Richie the Rally Goat
    To concur with this post and back it up Arraez Polanco Julien Arraez’ best year fielding 2B was ‘22 at 1 run above average, but the body of evidence, especially last year is a terrible 2B. Polanco was a -5 at 2B last year. Julien over the course of the season was a 0. average is a low bar, but better than -10
  12. Richie the Rally Goat
    Concur! My in-laws just sold their house in Fort Myers. I was there 10 of the last 15 spring trainings…. It’s the best! Especially the minor league games and the backfield practices
  13. Richie the Rally Goat
    The Op has Santana as the starter, as do several posters, and Santana has been mediocre to bad for 4 years… I fail to see the difference other than the dollars.
  14. Richie the Rally Goat
    That worked so well with Gallo
  15. Richie the Rally Goat
    This is why I understand and accept the Santana signing. I don’t love it, but I get it. i still gotta bet on AK because he’s the strong side of the platoon and younger, he’s the most likely, and has the most upside.
  16. Richie the Rally Goat
    Sign him up! oh wait…. We root for the Twins
  17. Richie the Rally Goat
    True, but the inverse is also has a ton of value, considering there are way more Right handed pitchers than left… At 250 plate appearances maybe not “Elite” but I’ll take an .858 OPS on the strong side of a platoon. those are some damn good hitters just ahead of him!
  18. Richie the Rally Goat
    Honestly, Santana is not where I’d place my bet. If Kirilloff and Miranda are so lost/injured that they are entirely ineffective, my bet would Ed Julien moves to 1 and Lee comes up to play second. id put my money on Kirilloff too
  19. Richie the Rally Goat
    Hi Nick why is the small side of the platoon labeled the starter? I’d think Kirilloff (or Miranda) holds the keys to success here.
  20. Richie the Rally Goat
    Uhhh it’s 100 per season
  21. Richie the Rally Goat
    The evidence says otherwise… he was really good last year. Front of a mediocre rotation good, at very minimum.
  22. Richie the Rally Goat
    This article could have been written without the payroll talk and would have been nice to get a “if your sick of payroll quit reading now”…. The first half was very informative!
  23. Richie the Rally Goat
    I agree on the ridiculous nature and the impact on the fans, but my opinion is this is more of an unprepared MLB, than the Twins going back on their word. in reading between the lines, if the MLB did indeed put pressure on the Twins to take a 1 year deal, it’s because they (MLB) weren’t ready to launch their own streaming package, this current outcome was the best of a bad situation for the Twins. who is going to invest in all the capital expense, cameras and computers, hire all the crew, setup all the infrastructure to broadcast a 162 game season for 1 year? Only Bally because they already had the cash spent on the capital and they didn’t have to set it up from scratch. It was already depreciated out. any competitive bid had to be a multi year deal because ESPN or local Tv station would have had to pay off the capital expense, or… “hey we’ll do a 1 year deal, but you have to pay the out year costs”. my opinion was the MLB was the Twins stop-gap as a stand-alone, but because they would be the only team involved, it might have been really low dollars because of the associated costs the mlb would incur.
  24. Richie the Rally Goat
    @John Bonnes great spot on Fox 9. Excellent last point on the payroll!
  25. Richie the Rally Goat
    Also, if you’re in-range 830 WCCO is streaming the game.
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