Richie the Rally Goat
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“We're going to make it happen," - Paparesta in regards to Buxton playing CF for the Twins this season https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/38394558/twins-planning-byron-buxton-playing-again-season i have mixed feelings about this
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Solano and Farmer: Twins' secret clutch weapons
Richie the Rally Goat replied to Muppet's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
By WPA Vazquez is a rally killer, almost as bad as Correa
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They’re tracking to 84 to 85 wins, correct, when half of their games are played against teams with a combined 236 and 345, 40.6% win or 66 wins 96 losses for a single team-season
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538 was the prediction for 2022! Puckett’s Pond, quite the source
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Jack Goin is a poster here who worked in the Twins front office. I guarantee there are others past and present, who lurk and probably chuckle at our WAGs. The OP was a very wordy “I told you so”. It was Hawkeye’s opinion, that they were correct in proclaiming the decision to stand-pat was the correct one. that, IMO opens it up to countering the correctness of the OP. I also disagree with the decision to stand pat. It would have been cheaper and more comprehensive to address the deficiency of the bullpen and right handed bench outfielder in the offseason, but the FO chose not to. They then chose not to at the trade deadline, and are now and still feeling that pain. The deficiency of the Bullpen especially will be felt in the post season. If Sonny Gray loses his feel for the strike zone, like he did on Monday, Rocco can’t afford to ride-out 4 exhausting innings on sliders in the dirt and passed balls then go to Headrick and Floro to mop up and just give a game away. the bullpen is very shallow and depending on starters to become relievers is a hell of a gamble
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Tee hee
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If the Twins DFA him, I believe he would get an MLB 1 year minimum make-good deal by Oakland, KC or CWS. His ‘22 was good enough for one of the cellar dwellers to take a flier on him.
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Leper, pariah, villain, sinner, saint, savior, how can one human be all of those things in one baseball season me, eating crow
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https://www.mlb.com/twins/video/gavin-williams-called-strike-to-ryan-jeffers-aniif6?t=stolen-bases He’s had a surprisingly good season. This probably says more about the Twins than it does about Castro, but it’s fun
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What Does Kody Funderburk Look Like?
Richie the Rally Goat replied to RandBalls Stu's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
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Can Byron Buxton Actually Get Healthy?
Richie the Rally Goat replied to Ted Schwerzler 's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
You’re getting at part of the story that was missing. define “healthy” will he play 140 games in a season again? 120 games? 100? he averages 84 games per season and played in 85. Is that “healthy”? the other posters bringing up Rod Carew comp is interesting. Maybe like Rodney, Buck needs to strap on a first baseman’s mitt? -
Not sure stature has anything to do with it, but my guess is Varland is relieving in order to manage his innings. agreed on the observed innings increases for Varland being big jumps and worthwhile to track.
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Agreed, different era. Also to add, comparing the 6th starter of this team to a Hall of Fame starting pitcher isn’t fair or helpful. I mean Bert’s in the Hall of Fame because he’s one of the best pitchers to ever play. We may never see another like him and those of us who got to watch him pitch should feel lucky we got the opportunity, not ask why the 6th starter can’t throw as many innings.
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Agreed, but realistically it would have been Gray, Lopez, Ryan, Ober, Varland, Kuechel. It would have been giving regular season innings to Varland (and not rostering both Sands and Winder) reducing regular season innings to Gray/Lopez/Ryan in order for Gray/Lopez/Ryan to have more gas in the tank for the post season. Considering the Twins aren’t just walking away with the division right now, and it’s still a slight possibility that Cleveland catches up, not diluting the rotation and not putting more stress on the bullpen was the right call. I agree with your point, but the discussion is a bit more nuanced
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If it’s Mark DeRosa, you’ll rue the day…
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https://www.baseball-almanac.com/teams/baseball_uniform_numbers.php?t=MIN I’m so disappointed
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Scott Erickson had an EPIC mullet
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Would Trades for Pen Pitchers have Helped?
Richie the Rally Goat replied to Trov's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
Agreed, the straw-man here is really difficult because it’s not a one:one comp. The question isn’t “what if player A’s results were replaced by player B’s results?” The straw-man is “what if instead of carrying both Winder and Sands on the roster, they shuttled between the two and carried another leverage arm?” “What if those 13 games 22 innings were thrown by one roster spot?” Really hard to determine, but declining to use either pitcher in even modestly leveraged situations is a decision too. -
Would Trades for Pen Pitchers have Helped?
Richie the Rally Goat replied to Trov's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
Good discussion point. I think we need to add that Sands and Winder have been bad and underutilized, putting more innings on Jax, Pagan, Thielbar, and Duran Any of Lopez, Hicks, Stratton, Moll would have been an improvement over either Winder or Sands and would have spread the burden out on Jax, Pagan, Thielbar and Duran. At least Jax and Duran are looking a little tired right now. Agreed, no better than the current top end relievers in the Twins Bullpen, but comparable to Jax and Pagan and adding depth.
