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  1. Richie the Rally Goat
    I love your optimism
  2. Richie the Rally Goat
    In the words of the great Steven Tyler: “Once is enough”
  3. Richie the Rally Goat
    Ugh… do we have to talk about Pagan? I was planning on pretending this was a nightmare through the offseason….
  4. Richie the Rally Goat
    calibrating recent moves in Miss out on C4 but land Bogarts on a creative 4 year 88 plus incentives to push it over 100m with MVPs Sign Rodon to a 4 year 100m deal sign Narvaez to a 1 year 5m deal I want to do more w/ outfield. Needs more hitting, but couldn’t keep it in the realm of possibility and still get a SS and starting pitcher. As I’m typing this, it dawned on me that much of the language from DYP and the FO sounds like they’re not prioritizing SP, but that would lead to a very similar pitching situation that we saw in 22…. Yuck C: Ryan Jeffers ($0.70M) 1B: Luis Arraez ($4.50M) 2B: Jorge Polanco ($7.50M) 3B: Jose Miranda ($0.7M) SS: Xander Bogarts ($22.0M) LF: Matt Wallner ($0.7M) CF: Byron Buxton ($15.00M) RF: Max Kepler ($8.50M) DH: Alex Kirilloff ($.7M) 4th OF: Kyle Garlick ($0.70M) Utility: Nick Gordon ($0.70M) Utility: Kyle Farmer ($6.0M) Backup C: Omar Narvaez ($5.0M) SP1: Sonny Gray ($12.00M) SP2: Tyler Mahle ($8.00M) SP3: Kenta Maeda ($9.00M) SP4: Joe Ryan ($0.70M) SP5: Carlos Rodon ($25.0M) RP: Jhoan Duran ($0.70M) RP: Jorge Lopez ($3.00M) RP: Griffin Jax ($0.70M) RP: Jorge Alcala ($1.00M) RP: Caleb Thielbar ($2.00M) RP: Jovanni Moran ($0.7M) RP: Bailey Ober ($0.7M) RP: Emilio Pagan ($4.5M) Payroll is 0.50% over budget
  5. Richie the Rally Goat
    I hope you are wrong, in that in most of the scenarios, the Twins suck the season following the breakout and said player gets traded away. Instead, let’s hope the lineage ends with Duran who retires as a Twin after a long run of being the best reliever in baseball and bringing multiple World Series Champion banners to Target Field.
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  7. Richie the Rally Goat
    Could also be C4 insurance
  8. Richie the Rally Goat
    This!
  9. Richie the Rally Goat
    22.5% of the 40 man roster occupied by AAAA fringe major leaguers who took too long to progress would not bode well for a successful major league season. that would leave 5 players on the 40 but not on the 26 that weren’t a part of the rule 5 protection, meaning players you want on the 40 because they are actually prospects close to MLR.
  10. Richie the Rally Goat
    Larnach and Wallner strike out a bunch, but Gordon, Kepler and Kirilloff don’t. One of those 5 would need to go to make room for Gallo. I assume it would be Kep. they would also still need an improvement at RH 4th OF that can play CF. I could still get behind a Gallo signing.
  11. Richie the Rally Goat
    Over the last decade, the most players selected was 18, and the most frequent results were in the 12-15 players selected range. the average mlb team loses half a player to the rule 5. Not sure what the fret is about. The Twins lost 2 or 3 in a season, but if the Twins can’t find a spot for them, who can? that I can see in the last decade, the Twins lost and not returned Stuart Turner, Akil Baddoo, Luke Bard, Nick Burdi and Tyler Wells.
  12. Richie the Rally Goat
    I like this a lot, especially the outfield. Pollock declined a 13m option, is $6m realistic? If he’d sign that, awesome. lots of fun to dream on this
  13. Richie the Rally Goat
    Great work Seth! Rootin’ for you Andrew! Go get ‘em!
  14. Richie the Rally Goat
    Neither May nor Rogers are remotely close to multi-inning pitchers, especially Rogers who I recall being awful in his 4th hitter faced, and worse in back to back games.
  15. Richie the Rally Goat
    I had a post written about something, something Ron Gant and Pulled Pork, then remembered the article was about ‘87 and then realized “pulled pork” wouldn’t make any sense anyways, Ron Gant was swole… But then I rambled some more and spent too much time on this to not hit post. im sorry
  16. Richie the Rally Goat
    Where’s that groan emoji? Hrbek wasn’t just a slugger in that series. He had plenty of base knockwurst too
  17. Richie the Rally Goat
    I’m sure JP is genuine in his desire. I’m sure a good faith effort will be made to resign Correa, but I agree with this prediction. C4 won’t sign early, maybe he already has a fallback with the Twins on a deal similar to the one he signed last year. After all, he’s only 28. Another 3 year with annual opt out with very large AAV isn’t bad when you have time. I hope the Falvine can multitask this off-season better than they’ve shown ability for, in the past. Can’t single-minded focus on Correa and not address the other gaps or find a strong backfill option in case they can’t come to agreement with Correa.
  18. Richie the Rally Goat
    The Twins draft at least one catcher almost every year. Alex Isola had a good year in AA last year as a 24 year old, .856 OPS. https://www.mlb.com/draft/tracker/2019/all/position/catchers
  19. Richie the Rally Goat
    agreed, hitting for catcher is not prioritized over fielding for me either. Of all defensive metrics, what occurrence happens at the highest frequency? Catcher receiving the pitch happens 120+ times per game. Framing strikes is huge! Stolen bases happen on average once per team per game. Passed balls are a few times per game. They matter, but not like pitch framing does.
  20. Richie the Rally Goat
    one ring to rule them all
  21. Richie the Rally Goat
    The quoted post sounds more like the Terry Ryan era than the Falvine era, but Correa’s contract could be still in the Falvine threshold but beyond DSP’s and/or JP’s. We don’t exactly know what the parameters are for individual contracts of any of the head honchos at 1 Twins Way.
  22. Richie the Rally Goat
    I’m somewhere along these lines too. Polanco and Urshela are both in the last years under control/contract. Neither are likely to be retained. Arraez theoretically plays first, second and third. Miranda theoretically plays first and third. Neither plays second or third well. Buxton is all-world CF, but injured a ton. Martin plays SS, 2B and CF and has the athleticism and at least seems like a competent fielder. Scouting reports don’t like his arm, but high OBP rangy utility guy has a ton of value for this team.
  23. Richie the Rally Goat
    Indeed, income taxes were a part of it, and playing half your games in an income tax free state is a huge benefit, but the Dodgers were also $75m light on the top line
  24. Richie the Rally Goat
    Agreed, but the bar is a bit higher in certain markets, Yankees being one of them. If he doesn’t play well, the public scorn will intensify
  25. Richie the Rally Goat
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mlb/why-dodgers-couldnt-hang-on-to-corey-seager-revealed/ar-AARjySz This confirms your recollection
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