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  1. Richie the Rally Goat
    So it’s Rocco’s fault when they’re bad, but it’s they players when they are good?
  2. Richie the Rally Goat
    congrats to the FO for signing a mediocre player and achieving mediocrity!
  3. Richie the Rally Goat
    To the OP, I agree that Rocco is a good modern leader, and he’s pulling every lever he can to squeeze more out of a terrible lineup. he also rolled with Popkins instead of hiring a better/more experienced hitting coach. He’s running out of levers to pull on squeezing more out. While the issue is the roster, it still might be time at the end of the season to move on from Rocco
  4. Richie the Rally Goat
    We aren’t in the clubhouse. We don’t know what he says or how he approaches players in private.
  5. Richie the Rally Goat
    Agreed, compared to the Twins being the second most pinched team in baseball and all the different lineups…. All the whining about Rocco seems to me, to be misplaced. He’s pulling every lever he can to squeeze a little bit more out of a terrible hitting team. unreal how good Atlanta is by comparison.
  6. Richie the Rally Goat
    Baltimore is a very good team, but even 3 runs would have been pretty sleepy.
  7. Richie the Rally Goat
    Best of luck to Royce, hopefully he recovers in the minimum and Miranda makes the most out of his opportunity
  8. Richie the Rally Goat
    Correa lauded Popkins last year on the diagnosis and data/info sharing. this year the report out of the Strib. was that the players are overwhelmed by data. I don’t think there’s a misunderstanding of what the issue is I think the issue is in synthesis (not diagnosis). “What should the players do about it” and effective communication of the PDCA. From the Rocco Rant the other day, I don’t think he knows either. I have been in the “why bother with coaching changes , they’re just going to be cloned” camp. I’m now in the “Popkins needs to go, probably Baldelli and the other hitting coaches too.”
  9. Richie the Rally Goat
    Agreed, but better than Kepler is a very low bar.
  10. Richie the Rally Goat
    send Gallo packing too
  11. Richie the Rally Goat
    @Rod Carews Birthdaygreat post! Very thoughtful. The Buzzwords that get thrown around carry very different meaning for different fans. as a pro-data fan, I am an analyst by trade too. I wonder if some of the debate is based on comfort with statistical/quantitative process? im not a huge fan of Modern baseball theory. 3 true outcomes hitters are boring as heck to watch. It seems like Manfred has identified some of the flaws in the modern game and has instituted rules changes. I wonder if we’ll see more (like lowering of the mound) to drive more change?
  12. Richie the Rally Goat
    Jose Miranda:
  13. Richie the Rally Goat
    His defense isn’t as advertised, it’s decent, but not good, let alone the gold glove caliber reputation being thrown around in the offseason. He had a couple 3 and 4 OAA seasons, but this year negative 2. the reclamation project wasn’t a failure. He’s hitting his career average after having a catastrophic season last year. He has been reclaimed. that doesn’t make Gallo a good player, or a good offseason signing. He’s an $11M replacement level player. Solano is $2M replacement level player, who is by the way, outhitting Gallo, and is not another left handed hitting outfielder.
  14. Richie the Rally Goat
    I do have one argument with the OP. If the Gallo reclamation project is viewed as a failure, was the author’s expectations set too high? Why would Gallo’s career average be seen as a failure?
  15. Richie the Rally Goat
    Joey Gallo’s (much like Max Kepler) calling card was also a plus fielding corner outfielder. Both Gallo and Kepler have been very average at best in the outfield. Gallo has -1 OAA in both RF and LF, with a hot start, he’s hitting his career average on the season. See if they can trade him and Kepler for anything leading up to the deadline, and then DFA them both. it might get worse with Larnach and Wallner in the outfield, but not much, and at least then they’re developing future players instead of giving innings to past their prime vets.
  16. Richie the Rally Goat
    I thought it was going to be Headrick after he defecated all over the pitcher’s mound on Tuesday night.
  17. Richie the Rally Goat
    Deletes draft Tweet “Buck-up Byron Buttercup” sigh…
  18. Richie the Rally Goat
    How long is the list of pitchers who were good enough to be in the bigs, but aren’t workhorses?
  19. Richie the Rally Goat
    Sonny Gray also isn’t a workhorse anymore and Louie Varland pitched the most innings he’s ever pitched last year at 130. i’d rather have a 6 man rotation for a 6 weeks or so to give the rotation breather than artificial short starts
  20. Richie the Rally Goat
    Close, but I have to go with this one https://www.twinkietown.com/2013/1/4/3833034/an-oral-history-of-nick-punto-sliding-headfirst-into-first-base
  21. Richie the Rally Goat
    But would you rather watch Luis Arraez hit and watch Devin Smeltzer, and Randy Dobnak pitch? Plus the parade of relievers? Have we forgotten about 2022 already?
  22. Richie the Rally Goat
    What kind of Reliver is Kepler worth? We already have Emilio Pagan? I don’t want two Pagans!
  23. Richie the Rally Goat
    Sub Wallner for Kepler (IL, DFA, whatever) and IL Buck for Julien and these could have been much different games
  24. Richie the Rally Goat
    Great article!
  25. Richie the Rally Goat
    That’s the hindsight 20/20 thing that I come back to. In what we now know was a lost season, why didn’t they get his knee repaired right away and end his season early last year? Maybe coulda, woulda, shoulda…. He’s 100% and an all star. I know, we can’t know or speculate, but I can’t help myself, playing on the bum knee last year might have contributed to the extended recover this year.
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