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  1. 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.
  2. Richie the Rally Goat
    I bolded capriciousness :-/
  3. Richie the Rally Goat
    Welcome to TD
  4. Richie the Rally Goat
    As an SCSU alum, I have a love-hate relationship with it too
  5. 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!
  6. Richie the Rally Goat
    And a partridge in a pear tree
  7. Richie the Rally Goat
    @Paul D really great work!
  8. 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
  9. Richie the Rally Goat
    Good word! I had to look it up. Quite fitting
  10. 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
  11. 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.
  12. Richie the Rally Goat
    This would be a great subject for your blog.
  13. Richie the Rally Goat
    I’m hopeful if Buxton isn’t healthy they won’t keep limping him to the batters box and then sit down feebly. Julien led the team in walks and walk rate. I think his approach will be pretty stable.
  14. Richie the Rally Goat
    Why would we want to go back in time to when starting pitchers pitched the whole game, every game?
  15. Richie the Rally Goat
    Again, we agree! This team struggled for long stretches when the lineup was homogeneous. It was just too easy for opposing pitchers when the lineup could all be approached the same way. the lineup really clicked when Gallo and Buxton were benched in favor of Julien, while also a 3 true outcomes hitter, took a different approach to get there
  16. Richie the Rally Goat
    good line! I’ll take the over
  17. Richie the Rally Goat
    I agree with this, and wonder if his potential to already be injured at the time of the trade, was the reason why he was so cheap? did the Twins see something in Mahle’s medicals to reduce the trade cost?
  18. Richie the Rally Goat
    I agree, but this discussion is grading trades. Ortiz was released by the Twins.
  19. Richie the Rally Goat
    The Twins traded Dave Hollins to the Mariners in exchange for Big Papi. That worked out pretty well!
  20. Richie the Rally Goat
    Gogo Gomez and Philip Humber netted 0.6 fWAR for the Twins. Johan netted 5.2 fWAR in his first year with the Mets. He signed an extension though… if you count his whole tenure 13.9 fWAR
  21. Richie the Rally Goat
    Good for you!
  22. Richie the Rally Goat
    Hopefully you purchased in 1997
  23. Richie the Rally Goat
    Edit: Ninja’d! Amazon pays $1b per year for 17 NFL games per year and didn’t raise the rates for prime. It’s been at the $120 per year annual rate for several years prior to its NFL deal. Amazon uses the streaming service as a loss leader to keep the subscribers buying stuff online. the Twins last broadcast deal was $54m per year, if Amazon paid that per team for all 30 teams it would be $1.6b. Likely a deal to stream every mlb game might be more than that because the Yankees and Dodgers (and some others) would be worth more… but $2b or 3, isn’t exactly a killer when YTD operating income through q3 was in excess of $22b sports are great for advertising because it’s live, it’s also great for subscriber retention because fans are loyal
  24. Richie the Rally Goat
    You buried the lede… this is in response to a Parker Hageman Tweet “launching sloppy taters”
  25. Richie the Rally Goat
    Economically speaking, more experience would help you be more productive at you work, no? 20+ years into my supply chain management career, and I’m far more productive than the youngsters. the difficulty with comparing an administrative job to pro athletes is my job doesn’t require the reflexes, strength, and hand-eye coordination that theirs do. Those skills have a different productivity over experience curve. MLB isn’t a free market, and this discussion will likely get too deep in the weeds quick, but shouldn’t pay peak when the production does?
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