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  1. Richie the Rally Goat
    No player has ever had a sophomore slump in the history of baseball except for Wallner and Julien because Popkins coached them. there’s a name for it because it does happen. The league continuously adjusts. i have to imagine, if there wasn’t a budget constraint, the FO would not have targeted Santana or Margot.
  2. Richie the Rally Goat
    3! 3 Starts! Mwa ah ah
  3. Richie the Rally Goat
    Behind SWR is Festa and Dobnak… SWR looked great, I kinda want to see Festa, after that there’s nobody I want to see in Minneapolis at any point this season. considering the average team uses 10 starters in a season, and this one has 7…. there is a lot to lose by making that swap. if Louie isn’t a starter in Minneapolis, he needs to start in St Paul
  4. Richie the Rally Goat
    To add the modern twist to the discussion… an equally polarizing stat. Is WAR (Wins Above Replacement) the new “Wins” stat? fancier, certainly more complicated… is it more or less subjective than Wins?
  5. Richie the Rally Goat
    While I disagree with you on the value of the stat, I very much like how you phrased your argument! Well said!
  6. Richie the Rally Goat
    If Bowman is DFA’d today, doesn’t Alcala have to stay at AAA for a week or 10 days?
  7. Richie the Rally Goat
    Uh, there is way too much season left to not keep Louie stretched out. SWR will be back up, but Louie needs to be a starting pitcher (either in St Paul or Minneapolis)
  8. Richie the Rally Goat
    After a few flashes last year, but mostly frustrating… it’s pretty awesome he put it together this year (so far)
  9. Richie the Rally Goat
    He was dollars to even out a trade, not a target. The injury risk was the reason why the trade worked the way it did.
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  11. Richie the Rally Goat
    When Pitchers and Catchers report, some hitters show up, but they don’t really do drills or backfield games. The first full week with hitters, usually end of Feb into beginning of March, is my favorite. Just a couple days after they begin drills, but the moods are still good because they are all catching up with old friends and family. the closer to opening day, the more minor leaguers get reassigned and things get serious. It’s still a lot of fun! But that first full week… and you can also run into “us” at ST too. Many of us go every year, meet us at winter meltdown, see us again at ST. i usually run into Seth Stohs for some reason. He’s always super nice!
  12. Richie the Rally Goat
    Terry Francona, a guy who doesn’t swing a bat or throw a ball, worth the same as Gerrit Cole, Sonny Gray, or Luis Robert?
  13. Richie the Rally Goat
    This website’s revenue is driven by caretakers and advertising. When you post a link outside of Twinsdaily to drive clicks to your own content, you’re taking advertising revenue away from the small business owners of this site. they let you do it. That’s a privilege
  14. Richie the Rally Goat
    That’s easy for you to say in hind site, without the decades that many of us have put in to making this site what it is if Phil Mackey had gotten his way (he wasn’t the only one)… you and I wouldn’t be having this conversation now. There wouldn’t be a forum for us to have a coherent discussion at all. That the owners of this site stuck to their guns and pushed through is why we have what we do. They let you post content created elsewhere here. Do you understand how privileged you are? Try putting up a Jeff Bezos or Sam Walton poster up in your local boutique and see how they like it.
  15. 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
  16. Richie the Rally Goat
    You have a lot of gall posting this here
  17. 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
  18. Richie the Rally Goat
    Grown ups too
  19. 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.
  20. Richie the Rally Goat
    I agree! Put me in coach!
  21. 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
  22. 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
  23. Richie the Rally Goat
    My two school age kids came with me.
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  25. 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
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