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  1. Richie the Rally Goat
    This was his best, or second best season since 2018. Not sure what’s left in the tank for Archer.
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  4. Richie the Rally Goat
    Welcome to a most unfortunate episode of Shopping With The Enemy. this enemy is waaay too familiar, and so our shopping trip involves the comfy, cozy and familiar…. The Hoodie first up: the traditional hoodie for boring kids next, a short-sleeved hoodie for people with warm arms and cold heads Last, a Hooded Dress for a very stylish lady with a cold head lineups TBA Go Twins!
  5. Richie the Rally Goat
    Pardon the pun huh?
  6. Richie the Rally Goat
    I have had the pail from the back of a pickup experience too. My pail was lined in either sheet rock mud or concrete and it managed to get wedged under my bumper when I slammed on the brakes, then tumble up the hood and smash off my windshield. It was like hitting a deer without all the hair and guts…
  7. Richie the Rally Goat
    Indeed! 16 players on the Il right now, 12 of which were expected to be significant contributors. Brutal
  8. Richie the Rally Goat
    No thanks
  9. Richie the Rally Goat
    You haven’t liked the manager/moves for 21 years?! your disdain can drink in most US states
  10. Richie the Rally Goat
    Trading for 2 pitchers who were already injured, trading for another who was an injury waiting to happen his whole career and signing two 5th starter reclamation projects while actively reducing the quality of the bullpen is on the FO, not Baldelli. Rocco has his warts, but the FO punted this season and then inexplicably signed Correa. I was as deep into the Kool-Aid in May as anyone, but as @Squirrel pointed out in a previous rendition of this thread, the pre-season concern was pitching and Buxton’s health. All that really changed was Carlos Correa. The FO brought in more pitching that was more of the same questionable pitching they already had. we shouldn’t be terribly surprised to be in this position.
  11. Richie the Rally Goat
    100% this! Strategy only works as well as the execution
  12. Richie the Rally Goat
    Managers use their tools and teams to make decisions.
  13. Richie the Rally Goat
    I agree with this post directionally, but it’s missing some detail. it appears the Twins are ahead of the trend to manage times through the order, and are doing so to @Squirrel’s point in an effort to manage a high injury risk starting rotation’s impact on the game, as well as I think it’s an effort to mitigate inherited runners on the bullpen. they’ve taken the trend and ran with it. It’s not inherently a bad strategy if the FO had invested in the bullpen or piggy-backed or openered or whatever to compensate for the high injury risk starting rotation. Agreed, the Twins are blazing some trails, but it’s not unfounded or entirely without precedent, the strategy appears to have merit, but execution on talent acquisition has missed the mark badly.
  14. Richie the Rally Goat
    An executive manager has P&L responsibility. A middle manager does not. is there a baseball manager in the history of baseball (outside of the owner managers in the early days) that has ever had to manage the profitability of the team? Joe Maddon has always been a middle manager and thinks really highly of himself. I think highly of Joe too, but he’s shouting at the kids on his lawn a bit with this one.
  15. Richie the Rally Goat
    As a current middle manager, agreed entirely! The matrixed teams management philosophy has entrenched itself in MLB teams (and corporations around the world) and will only become more pervasive. such is life in big business. i can’t imagine an immediate world where executives (baseball or corporate) change modus operandi away from matrixed decisions.
  16. Richie the Rally Goat
    Honestly, I wouldn’t mind if Rally Monkey were DFA’d
  17. Richie the Rally Goat
    I wanted to… but couldn’t realistically predict this
  18. Richie the Rally Goat
    I will take a post season berth, any way, shape, or how. you can’t win a World Series if you don’t get into the post season
  19. Richie the Rally Goat
    fWAR or bWAR? edit: clearly I missed the spec below the table on bWAR
  20. Richie the Rally Goat
    Awesome! Rooting for you Louie!
  21. Richie the Rally Goat
    Agreed! Absolutely they should have been more aggressive in free agency. They should not have been surprised by the hot December free agent market, but seemingly were. Also agreed on the bullpen sitch. Big whiff
  22. Richie the Rally Goat
    And Paddack, and signed Archer and Bundy that’s the point isn’t it? When you go into last off-season with Maeda on the shelf, 2 Rookies and no one else in the rotation, you put yourself in a pickle when not every move you make is a home run. They HAD to be aggressive on trades and accept more injury risk than some here on the boards may have agreed with. i thought both Paddack and Mahle were the right moves at the time, but also not shocked either failed. this season has been cursed…
  23. Richie the Rally Goat
    I’ll do Guardians 9/11
  24. Richie the Rally Goat
    I watched the Pedro Munoz walk off in the August ‘93 21 1/2 inning marathon. I was in huge trouble with my parents when I got home!
  25. Richie the Rally Goat
    Marney is also an awesome play by play announcer! Her spring training games and Lynx games are great!
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