Richie the Rally Goat

The whole state?

Good perspective

And Lewis’ health. He tore his ACL in June, there’s a chance we don’t see him in the bigs until ‘24. Carrying over from the other thread, if they don’t sign one of the big four, I think tier 2, Iglesias and Andrus would be a break even or step up from Farmer. Farmer could then be the valuable Super-duper utility player they need. below tier 2, I’d sign a utility infielder who can play short. Lee and Martin aren’t ready opening day, Nick Gordon is not a SS. that plan leaves a huge hole in a very bad hitting lineup. From there I think they’d to sign an outfielder and a DH or 1B. Judge or Nimmo would be great, but more realistically Mitch Haniger and Josh Bell or Jose Abreu

Farmer 91 wRC+ and 1.4 fWAR Andrus 105 wRC+ and 3.5 fWAR Andrus produced much more value than Farmer. I’m not certain Urshela was a salary dump as much as a roster spot opener. Time will tell if that was a salary dump, and some of the things DSP said in his late season interview suggested it could be. If that were the case, would we expect a better record than 2022? I would not.

He’s insurance. I don’t mind him as an insurance policy, but I’d rather see Andrus at SS with Farmer still the insurance policy. Past 5 or 6, then go get another utility guy to platoon w/ Farmer and throw a crap-ton of money at outfield. This team needs to score more runs and black hole at SS makes that harder

Option A isn’t cheap depth. Option A is cheap starter with no depth. im a fan of cheap depth. Not a fan of cheap starter no depth.

I forgot to offload Kepler to make room! @stringer bell now that you mention it, agreed. if I were to do this again, trade Kep, Larnach Left, Wallner Right. About 5% under budget

I love your optimism

In the words of the great Steven Tyler: “Once is enough”

Great job debaters!

Ugh… do we have to talk about Pagan? I was planning on pretending this was a nightmare through the offseason….

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

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.

Could also be C4 insurance

This!

oh wait…

Me three

At work we non-marketing people usually get to see the last 4 iterations of the redesign and give feedback for the final design decision that gets made by the core team. maybe someone took screen shots when they weren’t supposed to?

They’re already Shirseys! genius!

Reminds me of the old Timberwolves Edit to add… leaked Uni is Billy Hamilton ? Really?

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.

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.

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.

Thrilled to see the Kasota gold border go away i like the cursive scripts like the Twin cities text on the pennant, not sure if I like the “Anaheim angels” bit, if they expand on that idea… the joke is fun when it’s spoofing the angels