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  1. Richie the Rally Goat
    1) 100% agreed, however this isn’t 100% on Baldelli and his staff. The players get 12 to 18 years of coaching before Baldelli gets his hands on them. You can’t undo a decade in one spring training. 2) again 100% agreed, but I think you may weight this one more than I do. See 8 3) 100% agreed 4) go back to 2019 and I think you saw a 100 win team that over achieved during the season against better teams. They ran out of gas in the post season, but during they absolutely played it up. 5) Agreed 6) Im skeptical that Baldelli had free reign to hire his staff and am certain he had little to no say on the medical staff. I don’t think this gets attributed to Rocco at all. 7) if you acknowledge not knowing the clubhouse, how can you presume to know this one? 8 ) Agreed, however I can’t imagine he has much room to be “creative” either. Look at the roster he was handed… zero flexibility. His pitchers were all short inning options. All injuries waiting to happen. What kind of lineup could he reasonably construct against a lefty? Most importantly, have you worked in a matrixed decision making company before? There is nothing more micro-managed stifling than the never ending barrage of cross functional team meetings. ”what happened during the 6th inning Rocco? Why didn’t you stick to plan?” While I agree with you on most every point, I don’t come to the same conclusion. I don’t love the manager. He’s fine. I don’t know of any better options reasonably available and I don’t think there are significant things in Baldelli’s control that could make a big change in how fans view him.
  2. Richie the Rally Goat
    1) that’s not the point. 2) Baldelli doesn’t manage the roster. The GM manages the roster. Baldelli manages the lineup and the bullpen/rotation. I get that you don’t care about who does what. That’s the point. The vast majority of Twins fans don’t care about the difference, they know that they don’t like how the Twins are holistically managed and want it to change. There’s nothing Baldelli can do about that.
  3. Richie the Rally Goat
    This post typifies, what I see in anti-Rocco posts. Attributing things to Rocco, that the fan doesn’t like about the front office. Rocco doesn’t get to choose the scouting or medical staffs. He doesn’t sign free agents, or set the roster. the only thing Rocco could do to make Twins fans happy, is not be Rocco Baldelli.
  4. Richie the Rally Goat
    Seriously?
  5. Richie the Rally Goat
    Agreed Stringerbell! Great post. I think one of the challenges that will carry over from ‘22, is there’s a ton of quality players, but many have been injured (some frequently) and the efforts made to keep them on the field might not do enough. how do the Twins keep enough depth to avoid another death spiral?
  6. Richie the Rally Goat
    The facts the plan was to have Buxton play 100 games this season. Buxton appeared in 92 and according to Ash, he only played 43 complete games in CF, and something like 79 complete games total. They came up short to plan. I don’t think this is necessarily a “failure” though. 2022 was tied for second most games played in Buxton’s career. 3rd in fWAR, 2nd in wRC+, 1rst in hits, 1rst in HR, 1rst in K/BB. Buxton had a very successful season compared to his career, even if he didn’t get the desired durability from “the plan” it was still a significant incremental improvement
  7. Richie the Rally Goat
    Comparing anyone to Cal “Iron Man and MLB record holder” Ripken is not fair. Agreed, fleecing is just as nonsensical as Iron Man. Injuries are going to happen, it’s the nature of the game. I think it makes sense to experiment with different tactics to try to improve player availability. One season with Buxton does not a trend make. I hope the FO continues to try, and hopefully succeed to a greater extent next year. If they don’t, the apparent market inefficiency they think they found, will sure be their demise.
  8. Richie the Rally Goat
    That’s not really how stretch goals work. If you sandbag it, you frequently meet your goals, but never achieve excellence. If you set stretch goals, you accomplish greater achievements, but rarely meet your goals. I guess I sandbag my fandom. I volunteer here as a moderator, but keep very open-ended expectations of the team as I don’t have any control over them.
  9. Richie the Rally Goat
    I watched the first episode and struggled. Does it get in the second ep?
  10. Richie the Rally Goat
    Winning 101 games doesn’t count as winning, but winning 85 and World Series does? If the only thing you care about is winning a World Series, good luck!
  11. Richie the Rally Goat
    December 1, 2021 every team in baseball has a plan to sign as many starting pitchers as they can… every team except the Twins, who sign Dylan Bundy, apparently shocked at the hording of premium assets leading up to the lockout. it gets worse from there…
  12. Richie the Rally Goat
    Ads lately have been popping up faster than my phone/browser can handle. It glitched 7 times in the time it took me to write this post
  13. Richie the Rally Goat
    This! At least on the pitching side, FO planned on short starts and traded for already injured starters, but didn’t build a bullpen to fill out the rest of the innings. on the hitting side, I can see a case for the injuries piling up, but not pitching. That is straight up FO fail
  14. Richie the Rally Goat
    death spiral is about right.
  15. Richie the Rally Goat
    100% this! Strategy only works as well as the execution
  16. Richie the Rally Goat
    I agree with this post directionally, but it’s missing some detail. it appears the Twins are ahead of the trend to manage times through the order, and are doing so to @Squirrel’s point in an effort to manage a high injury risk starting rotation’s impact on the game, as well as I think it’s an effort to mitigate inherited runners on the bullpen. they’ve taken the trend and ran with it. It’s not inherently a bad strategy if the FO had invested in the bullpen or piggy-backed or openered or whatever to compensate for the high injury risk starting rotation. Agreed, the Twins are blazing some trails, but it’s not unfounded or entirely without precedent, the strategy appears to have merit, but execution on talent acquisition has missed the mark badly.
  17. Richie the Rally Goat
    Awesome! Rooting for you Louie!
  18. Richie the Rally Goat
    Lightning Rod Reg is getting surpassed
  19. Richie the Rally Goat
    Lopez and Duran haven’t pitched in a week. Sometimes you gotta give guys some work regardless of the scenario
  20. Richie the Rally Goat
    Ober is a pretty good home grown 4th/5th starter. Injuries happen, but he’s one, isn’t he? if the response is injury, then has any team ever developed a starter who’s never been injured? Winder is close and seems likely to be better than back end of rotation- TBD
  21. Richie the Rally Goat
    I am as big of a Ryan Jeffers fan as almost anyone on TD, except for maybe his mom, and I think the Twins need to find a better complement (larger share) to him in the Catcher time share.
  22. Richie the Rally Goat
    Awesome perspective Sherry and Ryan. Super relatable for a lot of us who never got as close to the goal as Ryan did. It takes a lot of grit and determination to play and excel at college ball, and a lot more to accept current circumstances and still achieve great milestones in spite of the challenges. Great series Sherry, I look forward to learning more!
  23. Richie the Rally Goat
    Twins and Rangers play again tomorrow. Twins can still split the series. this one was discouraging. Pagan…
  24. Richie the Rally Goat
    Great work Sherry! I’m always amazed by how deep you dig to find meaningful stories! The fans are what makes this game great, and TD has done great fans making our community awesome
  25. Richie the Rally Goat
    The reason the starters are limited to 4-5 innings, is as much to do with limiting their workload for the year, as it is limiting their exposure to the opposing lineup. Going to a 4 man rotation increases workload on pitchers who haven’t pitched 150 innings before, or haven’t in several years. The market inefficiency on injured starters tends to reduce available capacity for innings pitched
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