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  1. Richmond Dude
    Bleacher Report is referring to him as a 3B. I don't know, in good faith. I guess he could play either, based on how things play out with Correa or another FA. Could also free up 3B for Lewis in two years.
  2. Richmond Dude
    Regarding the crime issue and the impact on attendance. I don't live in Minnesota anymore and I miss having the ability to go to the games, but as a result, I have no idea whether crime is actually up in the city and even what kind of crime may be occurring. But I have a lot of experience with understanding crime and how people respond to it and can tell you that there are actually two different things here. There is crime and then there is the media coverage of crime. The second plays a much greater role in how people view an area and it lasts years. For instance, when the LRT discussion came up, I imagine that people remember how there were a bunch of Strib stories about robberies and assaults on the trains, usually during the overnight. But those stories were pre-Covid, if I remember. But they stick. It is irrelevant to attendance whether people are safe, what counts is whether they feel safe. Regardless, Go Twins! Wish I could be there with you in person.
  3. Richmond Dude
    The Twins once fielded a squad with five Hall of Famers on it. The fielders were Killebrew, Oliva, and Carew, who were three very different types of hitters. Carew scored 50% more runs than he batted in, It's because he was constantly on base when people like Killebrew and Oliva drove him in. Takes all types to put together a good team.
  4. Richmond Dude
    In the words of the Daily Norseman website, this Twins team is a Buy. Great write-up, solid reasoning. I do think KC deserved a mention, they're improved from last season and did take a series from us as the winning streak began.
  5. Richmond Dude
    Neshek always struck me as one of those situations where Gardy just didn't like certain players who didn't fit his view of the game and he got run out, never really getting the chance to work all the way back from the injury. The Twins during this period had a solid history of screwing with their pitchers and either losing them or having them find success elsewhere after the Twins gave up. Regarding Neshek's popularity, the sidearm delivery was cool, but Neshek was from Wisconsin and really bonded with our fanbase. Beyond that, he was simply fun. It was a shame how that played out, he was pretty clear that his hope was to stay with the Twins for the long term.
  6. Richmond Dude
    MLB has been reducing the time between innings as part of the pace of play issue, so maybe there? Great point about the nature of soccer stoppages.
  7. Richmond Dude
    Interesting point about tradition and the nature of the buttons on the front of the shirt. If you look back on the 70s and early 80s, the uniforms absolutely lost a lot of tradition. Most teams wore pullovers, looked awful. The White Sox tried out shorts at one point. There was a real snapback to tradition in the mid-to-late 80s. So if you don't care for the patches, there is hope.
  8. Richmond Dude
    There's a whole episode of Ted Lasso devoted to this.
  9. Richmond Dude
    I agree with you on all points. I felt that putting Rodriguez out for the fourth inning was pushing it and maybe even setting him up (or somehow sparing the relievers who you expected to keep around the rest of the season. But there is no game today, weird. And, just as recently as last year, we were reminded of how little connection there is between the first week of the season and how a team actually plays the year out.
  10. Richmond Dude
    Unless, possibly, the Padres viewed Rogers as the single missing piece that would get them over the hump that they seem to have been stuck on in a division with two juggernauts. They underperformed the past two years and the GM was retained while the manager was fired. Teams in that position overpay. Not disagreeing, btw. You're right under regular circumstances. Just giving a different perspective.
  11. Richmond Dude
    Trading Sanchez away is probably the most certain way to ensure that he regains his form and even makes the All-Star game.
  12. Richmond Dude
    Several of these rosters have 16 pitchers and the MLB only allows there to be 15 unless one is a two-way player like Ohtani. And if it is 15, both the players sent down in May have to be pitchers because the max is 13 at that point. In other words, there has to be 13 position players. Oddly, there are currently 13 rostered position players still in camp (+3 NRI). If Godoy gets sent down, somebody has to be removed from the 40-man. My own preference with the way things appear to be shaking out would be for Arraez to be the regular DH, but it looks more like it will be Sanchez. And maybe, if all Sanchez has to worry about is hitting rather than catching, he'll do better at it this year. But that's the kind of hope baseball fans always have in April of each year.
  13. Richmond Dude
    I'm okay with it, but the Twins have a long history of letting these second-chance guys hold on too long. I don't want to watch Happ or Shoemaker again like we did last year. They let those guys go way too late and it hurt the team.
  14. Richmond Dude
    I think your comment is especially valid given the new CBA condition that you can only option a player five times in a year without placing him on waivers. While five seems like a lot, those heavy bullpen days followed by exchanging relievers with the AAA squad will evaporate that very quickly. On the other hand, if you slot in Jax/Thorpe as a tandem 5th starter and tell both they need to go three innings, you haven't lost that much. You could still use them in short relief on some days and one of them would have been the 5th starter anyway.
  15. Richmond Dude
    Thise of us who are Vikings fans have a phrase: Just one before I die.
  16. Richmond Dude
    And that includes trading off Berrios and Cruz and losing Maeda, all key pieces of the team. It is hard to overestimate how badly Colome affected the team early on.
  17. Richmond Dude
    Or the opposite. Baseball fans run to both extremes.
  18. Richmond Dude
    I don't know how this turns out, but here are a few thoughts: Sanchez doesn't DH for us because, while Kiner-Falefa had catching experience, I don't think we have another emergency catcher on the roster (could be wrong, someone will surely let me know if I am, lol). It's interesting to see folks who were mad when we traded for Kiner-Falefa also be mad when we traded him away. What changed in 24 hours? He didn't even report to Ft. Myers. Yankees fans are frustrated that Urshela was traded and fel this was a bad trade for them. Most of the professional baseball commentators seem to agree, grading the Twins higher on the trade than the Yankees (although some probably have factored in money and assumed a major signing). Rortvedt is a risk for the Yankees. I have watched baseball a long time (like many of you). I have a seen a *lot* of players who were great at AAA and projected to be solid major leaguers not be able to make the jump or have a single good season. The difference between the two levels is huge. I wish him well, but about half of these guys who make it don't actually do well. We'll see how it plays out. I'll wait for some actual games to put much effort into judging this one.
  19. Richmond Dude
    I agree, at least in formal statistics. I think his horrendous performance the first two months of the season, and Baldelli's insistence in keeping him in the closer, demoralized the team and resulted in lesser play for most of the season. Once Colome was removed as closer, the team performed better and had a better record.
  20. Richmond Dude
    It's important to remember that last year's Twins team was better in the second half than the first half, particularly once Colome was removed from the closer role, and that Colome alone seriously undermined this team in the first two months of the season, demoralizing them for the rest of the season. I think we're better out of the gate just by him being gone. It's addition by subtraction.
  21. Richmond Dude
    You can argue about the other three, although I think Romo is no longer a good fit for us, but I would enjoy seeing Stewart get a chance to put things together for us.
  22. Richmond Dude
    I'm not sure how this all works out, but I am patient enough to wait for the push to find out. Having said that, I wish they wouldn't do this stuff late on a Sunday night. After reading these stories, I get a headache and need a drink, but I have to work in the morning. Please be more considerate with your timing, Falvine!
  23. Richmond Dude
    That sounds reasonable. The only quibble is that if you are a team that pays into revenue sharing, you can't draft higher than 10th more than a single year in a row, so if you're 7th, you get bumped down to 10. Those that receive money from revenue sharing can't draft higher than 10th more than two years in a row. Which leaves the question of, if you were the worst team, but not eligible for the lottery, do you slot into pick number 10 before or after the lottery (e.g. if it's before, you start at 10, but if six teams behind you win the six lottery slots, you get bumped down to 16; if it's after, you're just 10 no matter who won the lottery). So there's some extra wrinkles there, which results in three issues - you may be in the lottery, you may be out of the lottery, and you may actually be required to be moved down from your position outside of the lottery system.
  24. Richmond Dude
    I'm not sure I like it, but time will tell. This appears to indicate that Lewis will not be ready this year, but Kiner-Falefa has played 3B and C, too, so could be moved around. I will really miss Garver, but we had one too many catchers and too many 1B, too, so no place for all those people to play. Best of luck, GarvSauce.
  25. Richmond Dude
    It is indeed the teams who didn't make the playoffs that are in the lottery. It appears that the worst three teams will have a 16.5% chance in the hopper, whereas the highest ten teams that didn't make the playoffs will each have a 2% chance. I don't know how the two or more rule will affect the chances (e.g. do you still have the same number of balls in the hopper and just get put in 10th if you get picked or do they remove the balls?).
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