Richie the Rally Goat
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Twins @ Reds 9/18/2023 5:40pm CT. Magic #5
Richie the Rally Goat replied to Mortimerkenny21's topic in Archived Game Threads
My narrative on the season needs to catch up. I see Correa batting 5th and think “Oh No! Correa’s terrible! Why won’t Rocco bat him 9th?”. looking at season stats Correa is 16th in wOBA But since Sept 1, he’s 7th
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Twins CF In 2024...Is It Too Early To Talk About?
Richie the Rally Goat replied to DocBauer's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
Was not aware of speed differences. Was thinking more of “I’d rather minor leaguers learn new positions in the minor leagues than Major leaguers in the majors or minors”. with new and improved information, I’d leave Royce and Correa, have Martin and Celestino duke it out w/MAT in the spring over CF. -
Twins CF In 2024...Is It Too Early To Talk About?
Richie the Rally Goat replied to DocBauer's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
Correa is on a downward trend at SS too. Time to flip him and Lewis? I’m not in a big hurry to move Lewis to CF. He hit so well in the infield this year. I’d have Martin and Lee both work on CF in the offseason, but probably plan on bringing back MAT and Castro as Buxton insurance -
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https://www.twinkietown.com/2013/1/4/3833034/an-oral-history-of-nick-punto-sliding-headfirst-into-first-base GET MONEY!
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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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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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The rule is “down 8 runs you can pitch with a position player at any time, up 10 you can pitch with a position player in the 9th”.
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