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  1. Richie the Rally Goat
    Dominguez: “What are you doing to improve on the infield?” Falvey: “We really like our infield as-is” Dominguez: Click Falvey: “Hello?… I think we got disconnected”
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    Neither are in the hall despite being eligible for decade+?
  4. Richie the Rally Goat
    “Manic Pixie Right-Handed Hitting Corner Bat.” well done! I laughed a lot and it resonates with me!
  5. Richie the Rally Goat
    And hit the cutoff man decisively
  6. Richie the Rally Goat
    I was just trying to understand the mechanics of Nick’s proposal. This team is riddled with chaff. I don’t know what to think of Falvey. His organization has done a good job of identifying, acquiring, and developing pitchers. Hitters, not so much. This team needs an entire bullpen and 6 position players. I think Falvey can rebuild the bullpen over the next couple years. Less so the hitters. this is a multi-year process no matter what euphemism they use to call it.
  7. Richie the Rally Goat
    So… fire sale 40% of the roster? Again? Just this time keep the good ones
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    They also didn’t start the prospect conversion to reliever last August. They finished out the year with waiver cast offs instead of at least a couple of the Prielipp/Festa/etc in the bullpen to close out the year. If this was the plan all along, a couple months head start for two of them would have made 2026 all the more feasible when there’s 5-6 of em.
  9. Richie the Rally Goat
    Agreed. They’ll never admit it, but that’s what makes sense to me too. The ask is too high based on today’s market, but post CBA and TV contract, it might make sense so Leipold has dibs or right of first refusal type of situation.
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    Hmmm. Who is who? I think Lee is a decent utility guy. I’d love for the Twins to acquire an upgrade. Royce has had two tremendous half seasons, I think it’s worth finding out if that’s real. Wallner has a couple seasons of being a very good hitter, but his first full season in RF he looked exposed as a fielding liability and possibly his hitting suffered as a result. Maybe he rebounds as a hitter? Maybe he’s a DH? I’m skeptical he’ll ever field well but has shown enough hit to overcome that, if there’s a good fielder in the other corner. Maybe he’s a better LF in the smaller part of the park?
  11. Richie the Rally Goat
    75 wins is a lofty goal for this motley crew. This team was 70-92 last year, and it was a MUCH better team in the first half. I’d love to see a mediocre team in 26.
  12. Richie the Rally Goat
    Sorry to derail, but I’m going to anyways From the second article, Falvey: “I'm excited about that group in aggregate” is there any other way to be excited about a group than in the aggregate? The guy just can’t help himself but spew word salad. LOl i do hope the pitching gambles, especially Prielipp pay off. If they don’t…
  13. Richie the Rally Goat
    While TD wasn’t around, Cuddyer was ripped as a bust. Definitely a late bloomer. Cuddy still showed more then than Lee has to-date. Hopefully Lee is a late bloomer too, but looks more like a utility player. The hitting floor for SS is much higher now than it was then.
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    It’s been a bullpen game since 2009
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    I could see that being the case and I assumed that at the time, but articles since then (Hayes I think) said the debt was accumulated since 2020
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    I believe the group i volunteered with received remuneration of some kind, 5-10% of the profit, something like that.
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    I have volunteered in a concession stand at TF, and am fairly certain almost all of those jobs are volunteer. One of my old coworkers is an usher, he sounded like he was paid hourly, but I’m not certain.
  18. Richie the Rally Goat
    942 employees could very well be accurate, but my guess is 400 of them are probably game day ushers and such that work 20, 5 hour shifts per season and cost 3k per year. Those part timers would not get healthcare or office space and have to buy their Twins polo shirt.
  19. Richie the Rally Goat
    Fair enough, player salaries are 70%. Still, how can a team rack up 1.5 to 2 years of operating costs in debt in 5 years? HOW? How can the Pohlad family justify not clean house on the entirety of the franchise operations and board if they racked up that much debt that fast?
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    the half dozen at the top might be well paid, Falvey is in the millions, the rest of the C-Suite is in the hundreds of thousands. Board positions aren’t always paid, being the number of Pohlads on the board, I’d guess they aren’t, but I don’t know. what I do know, is 90% of the jobs I’ve seen are hourly. I have an acquaintance who is the owner of his own sports medicine practice and for a while he was a trainer with the Twins, he was paid 40k and couldn’t afford to take time away from his practice any more to continue to do it. 200 people at 40k is 6.6m, plus 6-10 executives each making 500k plus the c suite making $1m each is 16m total. That’s just Buxton AAA ball players make 100k, the lower levels are in the 60k range https://recruitingbypaycor.com/career/JobIntroduction.action?clientId=8a7883d08b729b3e018b72dc67f6007f&id=8a78859f9b13764b019b3310028b2d36&source=&lang=en
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    That’s only part of the why. Payroll is 90% of the operating costs. The entire front office costs a relief pitcher. Field operations are probably the largest non-player expense and almost all of the game day staff are volunteers, the big chunk of that is water and electricity. The debt $300m-$500m is 2-3 years of operating costs? How does this team accumulate that much debt in 5 years?
  22. Richie the Rally Goat
    Ty France had to be packaged with Louis Varland to offload 2 months of his $1m contract for Alan Roden who shouldn’t make any 26 man roster and is out of options. That was not a good deal. He over performed and still sucked. Bader had his best season in years. These are absolutely examples of outcomes that could happen. Either end of it. Knowing this team, which is more likely to repeat?
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    That and they’re a private equity firm who buys distressed assets and finances them with their private capital and sells them for a profit.
  24. Richie the Rally Goat
    Exactly - this team has more deficiencies than a single move can fill.
  25. Richie the Rally Goat
    I think several hitters could have better 2026 than 2025, and the offense still suck badly. This team is very talent deficient at fielding/hitting and bullpen.
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