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  1. 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.
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    Go Twins!
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    Seriously?
  4. Richie the Rally Goat
    I couldn’t let the game thread be only one page
  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
    Will Falvey and Levine’s brand of Dumpster Diving, signing or trading for high quality but oft-injured players, continue in ‘23? Will contingency plans improve?
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  8. Richie the Rally Goat
    Good questions!
  9. Richie the Rally Goat
    Agreed, Bally has been a disaster and I gotta think “out of sight, out of mind” in terms of TV broadcast added to, 2021 being a terrible team, put the ticket sales in a significant deficit before the season started. WCCO has streamed the radio broadcast free this season (in radio area only) which helped my enjoyment a lot. Ultimately, ending this season at or below .500 after being 10 games above .500, wasting a strong division lead and signing Correa cements the narrative that was started in ‘21….. this is a bad team. season ticket sales are going to tank harder yet this offseason. We’ve seen DSP put his foot in his mouth like this before, looking forward to a repeat of this article next year.
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    Yes edit: ninja’d
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    Go Twins!
  12. Richie the Rally Goat
    Great job filling in!
  13. Richie the Rally Goat
    Yeah, fan blaming/shaming is not a good look.
  14. 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
  15. Richie the Rally Goat
    SS has such a steep drop off, and a long term deal for Correa likely would be significantly less than 35m per year. would 10 years 275m get it done for Correa? By the end of it he won’t be a SS anymore, but at 27 or 28, he’s got a decent chance to be a good fielding SS for maybe half the contract. Vs spreading that out over multiple players, but none would be SS. the quality delta between Correa and Freddy Galvis is HUGE for and incremental 17 to 20 m. The quality delta between Galvis and Palacios is much smaller for an incremental 10m.
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    Johnny “The Juice” Cueto
  17. Richie the Rally Goat
    But I knew it was the Montreal Expos “elb” agreed, I too HATED the m
  18. Richie the Rally Goat
    The Twins and WSox play 4 games. If the Twins win out, 1 and 4 are done ;)
  19. 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.
  20. Richie the Rally Goat
    I’m not exactly sure why, but I would feel less bad about cheering on Cleveland in the post season.
  21. Richie the Rally Goat
    My assumption is the FO won’t do any external transactions for the rotation. my prediction: Gray, Mahle, Ryan, Maeda, Paddack Ober, Winder, SWR as the primary reserves in AAA. Dark horse candidate for the rotation: Duran if this is an accurate prediction, the bullpen will continue to be critical to get right. It was vastly improved in the second half of the year, it’ll need to continue to improve.
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  23. 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.
  24. Richie the Rally Goat
    I watched the first episode and struggled. Does it get in the second ep?
  25. 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!
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