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  1. Richie the Rally Goat
    How’s Polanco at digging short hoppers at First?
  2. Richie the Rally Goat
    Concur with the editors note
  3. Richie the Rally Goat
    There’s no way he makes a post season roster, so he gets at most 10 starts. The only way he does is if there are two more injuries in the rotation, and if that happens…
  4. Richie the Rally Goat
    This is where I’m at too. Sonny and Pablo are both looking like they’re nursing some owies that might flare up into something worse, and Ober has already pitched the most innings in a season. The strength of the team in the first half is stretched right now, DK can help keep some depth. also agreed w/ @chpettit19 WHIP of 2 is unsustainable, but he can help cobble things together for a while.
  5. Richie the Rally Goat
    Don’t apologize for a long OP. Great post!
  6. Richie the Rally Goat
    Welcome to TD! I am not, and never have been a major league pitcher. Comparing my gas to Dallas Kuechel’s isnt fair. Just like it wouldn’t be fair to compare his spreadsheets to mine. I’d kick his ass in a quant competition! expectations are, and should be, higher for MLB players.
  7. Richie the Rally Goat
    Laureano 83 wRC+, Luplow 81 wRC+. Maybe not enough better to be worth the transaction cost.
  8. Richie the Rally Goat
    He has 121 Ks, if he plays all 50 of the remaining, he’ll whiff 1.39x50=69 more times which would be 190 times on the season. Not his personal record, but more than Sano’s 178 in 2016. He has played in 80% of the team’s games, if that trend continues, he might come up a few Ks short.
  9. Richie the Rally Goat
    I find it amusing that the Twins site refers to Buxton as CF also, he’s been injured the whole season. It’s not “again” it’s “still”
  10. Richie the Rally Goat
    Primarily, The FO constructed this team, failed to acquire a deeper relief corp, failed to sign better hitters, failed to offload/DFA Gallo, and failed to make trade deadline deals to fix the glaring weaknesses or improve the team for the future. secondarily, Rocco has stuck with Buxton and Correa at the top of the lineup even though those two are the worst hitters on the team, and Popkins has failed this team as a hitting coach. These are incremental adjustments that mitigate the damage that the FO unleashed upon the roster. it’s not the pitch clock’s fault if the players can’t/won’t adjust. It’s the players the “separation” policy seems more like a dearth of mid-bullpen reliability. There’s three trustworthy relievers and the rest are bad. If the bullpen had been addressed by the FO, that “separation effect” would be less noticeable.
  11. Richie the Rally Goat
    Who’s the Narrator? Morgan Freeman? Don LaFontaine? Emma Thompson?
  12. Richie the Rally Goat
    Agreed, but even for only 15 days, it’s good to hold on to depth. Ryan isn’t the only starter showing signs of wearing down/hurt/injured. Varland could be up any day now.
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  14. Richie the Rally Goat
    mmm Nootbaar
  15. Richie the Rally Goat
    https://theathletic.com/4744677/2023/08/02/white-sox-liam-hendriks-right-elbow-surgery/ amazing recovery from cancer to pitch in the MLB again, disappointing he was injured almost immediately.
  16. Richie the Rally Goat
    I dunno, honestly. I don’t understand and don’t like that the team failed to improve the team at the trade deadline. the article seemed to say that the FO may have changed their goal as a response to Cleveland unexpectedly selling. I think it’s a failure to neither buy nor sell at the deadline. It’s not an adjustment to stand still, but that’s what the article seemed to say.
  17. Richie the Rally Goat
    I think the point of the article is that standing pat, is an adjustment
  18. Richie the Rally Goat
    Welcome to TD
  19. Richie the Rally Goat
    Welcome to TD
  20. Richie the Rally Goat
    If none of the squishy stuff matters, why not root for Cleveland or Tampa? What keeps you coming back to watch the Twins? Why not just root for the best team in baseball every year. Why not be a mercenary?
  21. Richie the Rally Goat
    The White Sox are selling off The Guardians traded away Civale for a minor league bat. Do the Twins sell too? Seems like no one wants to win this pitiful division
  22. Richie the Rally Goat
    Since when does Sonny Gray swing a bat? if you’re having trouble scoring runs, isn’t it more important to suppress opponent runs? im not saying they shouldn’t trade Gray, I just don’t get this logic. Sonny Gray is a top 10 starting pitcher in MLB. I’m not sure how he could get it more together or earn more run support. If anything, the Twins should go to 6 starters for a while to give them a breather
  23. Richie the Rally Goat
    You don’t think there’s much of a drop off between Gray and Keuchel or Varland?
  24. Richie the Rally Goat
    The Twins lead all of MLB in innings pitched by the starting pitchers. I don’t agree that Rocco is pulling the starters too soon.
  25. Richie the Rally Goat
    GREAT post! welcome to TD!
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