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  1. Richie the Rally Goat
    It would be cool if the player text (in red) linked to article mentions and prospect profiles (and maybe b-ref page)
  2. Richie the Rally Goat
    651 slg? 990 ops?
  3. Richie the Rally Goat
    Duh! YES! btw, love that swagger. All that flex as he strutted the bases on the walk off… awesome. looking forward to a whole lotta swagger going forward.
  4. Richie the Rally Goat
    I’ve never run a marathon, but I typically run 2 half marathon’s per year. At least in a half marathon, the OP is correct, it’s really hard to finish the race if you stumble too hard out of the gate. When you’re stuck at the back of the pack and can’t stretch your legs, find your comfortable pace, you get bogged down in frustration. I imagine that is true of baseball as well, and some of the wisdom in the “consistency” phrase that gets thrown around. If a player is inconsistent, they are too reactive to the dictation around them. In the long distance run, it’s finding your place at the gate before the gun fires. too far forward and you’re being stepped on, shoved and trampled by runners who are way faster than you, or sprinting and running out of gas… Too far back and you can’t get through the pack. Find the right spot and you can set your stride and maintain. Adjustments come along the way as you avoid obstacles, but it’s much easier to find your pace again when the pack isn’t dictating your speed. Similarly I suppose, for a hitter. Adjustments are the name of the game, if a batter is too responsive, pitchers and catchers can manipulate and dictate how the at-bat, game, series and season goes. Consistently keeping within your game, making small adjustments, not big ones, and practicing patience can help the batter not give the pitcher too much sway.
  5. Richie the Rally Goat
    ME TOO!
  6. Richie the Rally Goat
    Very stylish!
  7. Richie the Rally Goat
    Awesome work (as always) Sherry! My daughter and I listen to Gladden and Provus during our bedtime ritual. She asks me about the players to try to stall sleep. She’s 8 and not as excited about the game as Harley, but I’ll keep working on her.
  8. Richie the Rally Goat
    I think Ryan can be built up to a 6 inning per start, 200 inning per season pitcher. He’s never come close before, minor league and college seasons are much shorter. spring training was abbreviated, so they starters are still building up the stamina. The days of complete game shut outs are mostly behind us. Just like platoons, most starting pitchers as they get tired have worse outcomes than a fresh reliever even if that reliever is a worse pitcher. i realize that every hall of famer started out as a rookie, but is it really fair to compare Joe Ryan in his first full major league season to Bert Blyleven? Really? He’s top 1% of all players in history.
  9. Richie the Rally Goat
    Verducci effect
  10. Richie the Rally Goat
    He was cleaning up post hurricane in his neighborhood in Florida when he was fired (not a good look by this FO) shortly after the 2017. Rocco was hired after the 2018 season. Your recollection might be more to do with supporting a man who was in a bad spot at the time, not an endorsement for Mientkewics to replace a sitting manager in Paul Molitor who just won manager of the year. Doug Mientkewics has nothing to do with Rocco Baldelli, and nothing to with the current situation.
  11. Richie the Rally Goat
    I don’t know which is right, but I guarantee that one of the facets in the decision is managing Ryan’s work load so he’s available in September. he only pitched 100 innings last year (plus Olympics but I’m sure that wasn’t more than 20 innings) he might get 120 to 130 innings this year. I am certain they will shut him down well before 150 innings. Outside of 2 Duffey blow ups, the bullpen has pitched well. I’d rather see Ryan pitching in September than some quad A scrap heap pickup. Let the expanded bullpen carry more of the load for now.
  12. Richie the Rally Goat
    “There's no such thing as a ‘must-win series’ in April and it's far too early for either team to be feeling a true sense of desperation. But these three games sure do feel like they carry an added level of weight, especially when you consider the stakes outside of all this chaos.” I dunno @Nick Nelson, if the Twins go the entire month of April without a series win, post season aspirations get pretty difficult. There’s only two full series left.
  13. Richie the Rally Goat
    In a 1 run game they NEEDED to win, I can rationalize using your best relievers, but yeah, they need to piggyback Archer and Paddack with Winder and Smeltzer on a schedule. Those two look nowhere near stretched out, and have one of Pagan, Smith, and Duran available for leverage most nights, avoiding the three of them on the same game.
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    I like Dick more now that Bert is retired too, but it was such a breath of fresh air when Marney called play by play in the spring games. She really needs to take over. It's not that I don't appreciate Dick Bremer, he's a very good play by play guy, it's just time.
  16. Richie the Rally Goat
    Agreed, mostly. I’d keep Lewis strictly at Short, Correa could be hurt (why else would he be sooooo off) and have Lewis be ready as if Correa picks back up again, he’ll be traded or opt out at end of season. Miranda to play LF and 3rd makes sense to me. He’s cooled off a bit, but he’s clearly not a SS where Lewis could still be. If Miranda gets hot again, he’s my pick for promotion to Twins LF
  17. Richie the Rally Goat
    runs allowed doesn't matter?
  18. Richie the Rally Goat
    Terry Ryan went with Paul Molitor over Doug Mientkiewicz in 2014.
  19. Richie the Rally Goat
    The article (and my comment of the article) wasn’t recommending baseball should become soccer, because no one likes baseball, as such my comment of listening to your parishioner’s doesn’t mean change the theology. Far from it. As Squirrel and IndianaTwin point out, relevance doesn’t mean truth is subjective. It means there’s more than one way to learn. Batters don’t have to swing for the fences every pitch.
  20. Richie the Rally Goat
    Individuals have organized for the benefits provided by the organization since the very first village huddling around a camp fire. People have never been more mobile to choose the organization they belong to. Since Henry Ford made the car affordable, people have had greater ability to choose their organization, but individuals have always been more agile than groups, and groups have always needed to provide the needs of the individuals, in order to grow new members. Case in point, baseball teams follow the data on winning games instead of the data to attract new fans. While I am a stat head, I don’t like the current brand of baseball either. Homers and strike outs might win games, but It’s boring and too long. listen to your customers and they become loyal ignore your customers and they leave. that is as old school as it comes
  21. Richie the Rally Goat
    Mod note: faith and baseball is a part of our lives. Just like any topic here at TD, be thoughtful, respectful and empathetic, and we can discuss it. Break those rules and the topic will get shut down.
  22. Richie the Rally Goat
    That was the thrust of the article. Both organizations are stuck in the mode of “we used to attract fans/parishioners this way, it will continue to work this way, just try harder”. The kids don’t like Rock’n Roll anymore, quit trying to lure them in using rock ‘n roll. Accept it and adapt. From my own experience, the article may have missed an opportunity to identify the flaw in the comparison. The article did point out that young people want some of their life devoted to philanthropy and volunteerism, but failed to identify that in the old days church and baseball both filled a social experience need that is now filled by other things. Town ball still fills that social experience void. It’s a smaller community at an affordable price, just like Twinsdaily. MLB is neither small nor affordable, it is purely entertainment and needs to be more compelling. Church is not a social experience anymore for the youth, and isn’t entertainment. It could be an outlet for service and philanthropy, but the organizers haven’t quite figured out what that looks like. Where I agree with the article is if they both don’t figure out how to change, they are very much at risk.
  23. Richie the Rally Goat
    I believe it to be 2 reasons. 1) he could start again, if he’s already stretched out to 2, he could stretch out faster to 3/4/5 again pretty quickly 2) workload management for the rotation. It’s also why there’s a 6 man rotation. They do not have the horses for a full season.
  24. Richie the Rally Goat
    Sano needs to heat up well before the all-star break to be tradeable at the deadline. Provided that happens (and I think it will), I agree, it’s almost a certainty that Sano gets traded to a contender who needs a DH. That is the MO of Falvey and Levine, if they aren’t extending or picking up his option, they trade them away.
  25. Richie the Rally Goat
    The Twins have never had a 30/30 player, seems attainable for Buxton if he remains healthy
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