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  1. Richie the Rally Goat
    And sells it to the rest of the Twins lineup and no one else
  2. Richie the Rally Goat
    Agreed, you kind of touched on this, but there’s a few ways to look at the article. 1) individual player approach. Vlad jr changing his approach hurt his value to the team. I agree with this in scope. 2) lineup construction. The ‘23 Twins struggled in the first half in part due to homogeneity. It’s really easy to pitch against a lineup that approaches every at bat almost identically. When the lineup got younger, they also got more diverse outcomes. 3) organizational philosophy. Agreed with the philosophy that high strikeout rate is tolerable as it correlates with power. How closely the organizational philosophy gets followed with regards to 1 and 2 with player acquisition and coaching is the sticky spot (and the homogenous lineup as the example). Execution of the strategy needs to be a bit more nuanced than some of the discussion lends itself to.
  3. Richie the Rally Goat
    Half a year of ok is what you’d expect to get and not the 2+ years of bad preceding it, for a 34 year old? I wouldn’t be willing to make that bet.
  4. Richie the Rally Goat
    Agreed, and there was a fair amount of open complaining from Hicks being unclear and unhappy with his role in NY before the trade. Not sure that’s a good fit for a team philosophy that moves players around in roles a lot.
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  6. Richie the Rally Goat
    I like squares
  7. Richie the Rally Goat
    I disagreed with Ober game 1 too, but looking back at how good he was last year, top 25 starting pitcher, which makes him a border-line front of rotation starter. There can only be 30 of them, right? Lopez can’t start every game.
  8. Richie the Rally Goat
    Well above mean, but mean gets weighted low due to the very long tail of quad A fodder, no? at 100 innings pitched, 117 pitchers hit the FG leader board, by FIP, Ryan was 60, WHIP 35th, ERA 77, so consensus of the 3, would 57th ober FIP 47th, WHIP #7, ERA #22, consensus 25th out of 117. i admit, I vastly under-valued Ober. Ryan fell in right at median, where I expected both to come in. Both are very valuable, in terms of pitching really well at rookie contracts.
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  10. Richie the Rally Goat
    Welcome to TD! Great post. Does Gardy swing a bat? Throw a pitch? Sign or trade players? the issues with the team were depth due to injuries and execution in the playoffs. as much as I dislike Gardenhire, he can only do so much.
  11. Richie the Rally Goat
    Welcome to TD!
  12. Richie the Rally Goat
    Just flip the N and the M :)
  13. Richie the Rally Goat
    Baking?
  14. Richie the Rally Goat
    like the OP, I like WHIP as a stat for relievers too. At 10 inning threshold, Funderburk was the 22nd ranked reliever in WHIP. His walk rate is high, but he limited hits. More innings may even out the Walks to Hits a bit.
  15. Richie the Rally Goat
    Gird your loins for Royce Lewis to regress. 155 wRC+ last year in 58 games with 4 grand slams…. Dr Evil could regress a lot and still be an absolute beast.
  16. Richie the Rally Goat
    I bolded capriciousness :-/
  17. Richie the Rally Goat
    Welcome to TD
  18. Richie the Rally Goat
    As an SCSU alum, I have a love-hate relationship with it too
  19. Richie the Rally Goat
    According to NIH, it’s a highly successful procedure for MLB pitchers. It’s just really rare https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35494495/ edit to add: as a person (admittedly non-mlb pitcher) who has gone through PT/OT to recover from Thoracic Outdlet syndrome, surgery was on the table for me, but through non-surgical methods my physical therapist was able to spread the distance between my ribs to allow nerve sensations and blood to flow again. Super painful!
  20. Richie the Rally Goat
    And a partridge in a pear tree
  21. Richie the Rally Goat
    @Paul D really great work!
  22. Richie the Rally Goat
    In 2023 218 players logged 100 innings in the outfield. 39 of them played in 130 games or more. Max Kepler was 45th at 124 games. number 90 (30 teams times 3 outfielders) is 89 games. your threshold for “easy” might need to be re-calibrated. if Buxton played 90 games in the outfield, I’d be thrilled. He won’t, and realism might be 45 or fewer. honestly, I just hope for his sake and ours that he doesn’t limp to the plate all season
  23. Richie the Rally Goat
    Good word! I had to look it up. Quite fitting
  24. Richie the Rally Goat
    I’m not a huge fan of signing a 5th starter, but his away numbers in 2021 and 2022 slot firmly in the #2 or #3 starter range, comparable to Sonny Gray. 1.21 WHIP ranked 82, 3.67 ERA ranked 71, accumulating 6 WAR. If the Twins can get this kind of production from him, he’d be a really nice addition to the rotation. its a big IF, but a relatively cheap one
  25. Richie the Rally Goat
    This flies in the face of the old school “2 strikes approach” but it was really effective for Julien. His patience paid off with more mistake pitches too.
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