4 Things We Know After the Stunning Twins-Yankees Trade

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On 3/16/2022 at 12:47 AM, SwainZag said:

First off, I am not going to comment on the accusations of the Twins manipulating anyone's service time.  Before this past season Miranda had done very little to show he would have such success.  He hit very well last season in 125 games in AA-AAA, but they had zero reason to rush him to the majors.  

I am a big Josh Donaldson fan.  You fail to mention he missed 50 games in 2017 and 1 10 in 2018.  He had a great 2019 season which led to the Twin to offer him the contract that he got.  He played half the games in 2020 and missed a very important playoff game the Twins could have really used him for.  He did play in 135 games last season and he was clearly not 100% for most if not all the season.  How many times did we see barely limp into 2nd base on a double that should have been easy?  He isn't getting any younger and his calf has been an issue.  Our own Nick Nelson goes very in depth about Dondaldson's calf issues here.  Where was the bad luck factoring in here?  If Buxton had better luck he might have won MVP last year.  

You're feel to read the write up I posed on Donaldson.

or another writeup with a more sensational headline by a different member here.
 

In 2017, Donaldson missed qualifying for the Championship awards by just 8 plate appearances. Sano has qualified for Championship awards just once in his entire career. Buxton has qualifed once. Ever. I think the fact Donaldson was reliable (by modern baseball standards) in the past 2 full seasons in a row gives him wiggle room and makes the "very injury prone" statement weak.