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  1. Richie the Rally Goat
    OPS+ is league average, not primary position. If your big side of the platoon 1B is only league average while being shielded from RHP… I feel like the bar needs to be raised. i didn’t expect Clemens to raise that bar, but Zoll needs to aim higher for 1B im a FG guy, wRC+ is almost identical to OPS+. the bar to clear for me is Jake Bauers’ 127 wRC+. He’s ranked 15th of qualified 1B. if I open up the PAs to 110 to bring Clemens into the list, his 109 wRC+ ranks 24 of 39.
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    20 years later
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    Thoroughly depressing Cody. 25% of the season before the first roster move was made on a 13 man hitting staff that has only had 14 players in the season up until today.
  4. Richie the Rally Goat
    I hope he makes it easy to move Sim to the bullpen
  5. Richie the Rally Goat
    That was a great read! Thoroughly enjoyed it. im skeptical, but still furiously knocking on wood that Ober can continue
  6. Richie the Rally Goat
    I think Royce’s comments from the Athletic speak well to his maturity, in understanding that minor leaguers don’t get called up solely because of their performance. The major leaguer they replace has to be struggling too. i don’t think he’s speaking of fans, or management, but of Culpeper who is champing at the bit to take Royce’s spot.
  7. Richie the Rally Goat
    4 man outfield of Buxton, Martin, Roden, Rodriguez would be very good defensively with a pitching staff that is bottom of the league in ground ball rate and top in fly ball rate. There is no team in the league where good outfield would impact run prevention more (KC is close 2) Wallner demoted, outman DFA, Larnach DH and 5th outfielder, Bell 1b
  8. Richie the Rally Goat
    Rodriguez has a .900 OPS in AAA. There’s absolutely a chance he’s better than Wallner. Even if he’s not, if they don’t change anything on the roster, they won’t get better.
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    Why have that role on the team at all?
  11. Richie the Rally Goat
    he started it in 2002, not exactly the pinnacle of interest then either. 24 years later maybe some wisdom with age would come then again...
  12. Richie the Rally Goat
    This season and this transaction shows us exactly why relievers are not as fungible as Zoll thought they were...
  13. Richie the Rally Goat
    40 games into the season, the entire AL has 4 teams above .500
  14. Richie the Rally Goat
    3 appearances in a week all 1 inning. Is his role changing?
  15. Richie the Rally Goat
    Don’t options need to be 10 days?
  16. Richie the Rally Goat
    Absolutely agreed, much better to see what you have in Keaschall than a retread. But they should have dropped him down the lineup weeks ago
  17. Richie the Rally Goat
    Leading off gets the most plate appearances over the course of the season. Buxton leads the team in PAs and is third in OPS. That’s increasing the number of chances to score runs. My gripe is that Luke Keaschall is second in PAs with a .629 OPS, and Bell is third Wallner is fifth! And Martin is 7th who has an .889 OPS and is the second best fielder on a very fly ball heavy pitching staff.
  18. Richie the Rally Goat
    no wRC+ is a league wide stat. Today at 50 plate appearances in 2026 there are 45 primary 3b. Tristan Gray’s 96 is ranked 20 of 45 (right around average) Royce Lewis’ 64 is ranked 36. In other words there are 6 teams (including the Twins) with two primary 3b with 50 plate appearances better than Royce, and if all of the 3B players were evenly distributed he would be dead last as a starter in 2026. Since 2022 there have been 46 3B including Royce with 1000 pas. His 106 over that time ranks 13. Since 2024 there have been 28 primary 3b to get 800 pas, his 91 wRC+ ranks 19. the since 2024 one, feels like who he is, below average, not awful. If they give him enough PAs this year, he should come back up to the 85/90 wRC+ range.
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    Santiago Espinal - I would take Tristan Gray over him.
  20. Richie the Rally Goat
    Remember last August when all the dfa fodder trotted through the mlb relief corp? This is the cost of that decision. Until this team starts to invest into the bullpen by actually signing good relievers and converting some of the starters to relievers, we’ll continue to watch more dfa fodder throw more slop. now they haven’t tested enough minor league depth to feel comfortable with their starting lower depth and can’t yet afford to convert starters to relievers because there’s still 1,000 innings to pitch this season. but next year it’ll be different I’m sure!
  21. Richie the Rally Goat
    The “what if” scenarios in the potential future state are making a new concern out of an existing concern. What if your designated starter craps the bed? Today, bring in the long man. Tomorrow ask your piggy back to come in earlier. Tomorrow, what if your piggy back craps the bed? Either a bullpen game or slide the schedule forward. For the next game, make a call up from AAA if needed. If this is a deployed strategy, you’ll have depth to call on same as today. What if you have a very good starting pitching prospect who can perform a traditional starter workload? Today, great stick him in the rotation. Tomorrow, great stick him in the rotation. This reminds me of Moneyball for pitchers. They’re experimenting with building a Skubal in the aggregate.
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    This could be the year where the winner of the central is below .500… but agreed, 1981 is a good comp
  23. Richie the Rally Goat
    Cost us extra innings. Frankly it’s mercy only having to go 8.5
  24. Richie the Rally Goat
    I mean, should a team with an effective $70m payroll (excluding Pablo and Correa dead money) have any quad A players on it? They should all have an actual future on the roster past 2027, yet here we are watching Clemens and Gray…
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