Richie the Rally Goat
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Paredes and Rojas piggy back today? If so, I would hope Rojas got the traditional start and Paredes finished it out, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ -
Why wait? What does Culpepper have to do to prove he’s ready?
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Awesome to wake up to a W on Fathers Day
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Go Twins!
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That’s a Twins development and player acquisition gap causing the losing record not a positional flexibility causing a losing record. Better players play better baseball, flexible teams score more runs because they keep better players on the field more. This team sucks because it has been overly reliant on bad players who are washed up or never was. its an old article, but I would be shocked if it didn’t still hold true. https://www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article/19800/bp-unfiltered-why-multi-position-players-matter/
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The roster limits put in place, combined with the heavy reliance on a huge bullpen makes the bench shorter than it used to be
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I agree with your critique of the OP, when introducing a stat that isn’t in the baseball savant glossary, definition is required. i can tell you that Barrel Rate is not a contact stat, its a rate of exit velocity and launch angle falling in an idealized range. it’s weird they call it barrels when it’s not about where the bat impacts the ball
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I hated the deadline trades, hated more last August, September through the offseason where the FO actively made the team worse. now? If they’re going to suck badly relative to a league where 5 out of 15 teams are above .500 and the 6th playoff team half way through the season is below .500… blow it up, scorched earth rebuild. It’s beyond salvaging during Buxton’s contract.
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And here I was wondering what ZZ Top had to do with REM…
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To your very valid point, The mechanics of throwing a pitch versus throwing a pick off for a pitcher are very different. pitchers tend to struggle with the live game transitions between the two. the “how” in the mechanics and the “what” in the muscle groups in the throwing motion are different and would need to be practiced and developed differently, but Miguel Sano recovered from Tommy John surgery and regained his throwing mechanics and strength to throw very well across the diamond. His waist line never recovered, but his a did
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If you believe Clemens current state continues into the future. He’s 30 and a minor league journeyman, not sure I believe it or that I would prefer said 30 year old journeyman get time on this roster over a 23 year old who had a 123 wRC+ last year
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Building muscle and improving throwing mechanics can help. Pitchers do this all the time.
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They’re better than “holding his own” but not really “excelling”. wRC+ is league and park adjusted but not position adjusted, 100 is league average hitter all encompassing.
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Correct, the question Brock posed was “Should they?” Not “Do you want them to?”. Buxton and Ryan are the only reasons to watch right now. I want to keep watching them in Twins uniforms. They should trade them while they can. With the looming labor strife and lost season, this team won’t be competitive while Buxton is under contract.
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As opposed to the wealth of all-star MLB talent on the Twins Roster?
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Get ready Culpepper in route?
Richie the Rally Goat replied to mrtwinsfan's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
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To me the injuries are a sign that the Twins should speed up, not slow down. Don’t let perfection be the enemy of the good: if there are only so many bullets in the clip, better to use them in combat than the gun range. If he can’t hit the target, don’t send him like a lamb to slaughter.
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yup, he cooked
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He was 2 for 3 with a bb. It looked for a while in June like he turned back into a pumpkin, but a good weekend he hasn’t had an extra base hit in 38 PAs and his fielding has somehow gotten worse from last year. He has no lateral range and my 9 year old who plays soccer throws harder than Keaschall does. Agreed, I don’t think he “needs a reset” anymore. I did… but he also isn’t a good player. He could be, so I wouldn’t want to give up on him, but also with top prospects getting their first callups, the bench needs to be more of a traditional bench instead of play every day in different places guys. If Keaschall has a future with the team, he needs to play every day but not take PAs from Culpepper, Lee or Gonzalez and he can’t throw hard enough to play outfield, can’t hit well enough for DH 1B, what do you do with him?
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I’m not caught up yet
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The ushers check behind home plate and the club level, but after the first inning, down either base line is usually fair game
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I’m with you, to a point. In 2026 Jenkins, Gonzalez, Culpepper and Rodriguez all should have significant playing time. That eliminates Arcia, Gray, Kreidler and one of Clemens or Bell from the active roster. OF Jenkins, Buxton, Rodriguez IF Gonzalez 1B Lewis 2B Culpepper SS Lee 3B DH Larnach C Jackson/Jeffers Bench Caratini, Clemens, Keaschall, Martin the really big hole left in this is Caratini Lee would have to backup SS, Sub Gray for Clemens and the versatility on the bench is lost, as well as a downgrade hitting. could they be ok? Yeah, but return would have to be worth it. Bell, Kreidler, Arcia, not worried about what the return is. Gray, I might demote Keaschall first before DFA/Trade.
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I tagged you in my unquoted comment because you thumbs down voted and I am genuinely curious about your point of view. the OP suggested that the return for trading Clemens could be similar to that of Willi Castro. My response that you downvoted was if that type of return came for Clemens, they should do it, Castro was 27 at the time, and had 2+ years of quality history, compared to 30 and 8 weeks of quality history. Castro then should be more valuable than Clemens now based on track record and age. I then asked why…. i will now add to my previous post. If the trade is similar to Castro return, do it. If not, don’t. Clemens has value, which is why he might return value in trade. He should not be traded for the sake of making a trade.
