Ryan is hurt

[Mike Sixel]

I mean, I'd have dealt him in the off season.......sigh. 

[Mike Sixel]

The team knew this, and still traded for the present year, and not the future? Sigh. 

[ashbury]

17 minutes ago, Mike Sixel said:

The team knew this, and still traded for the present year, and not the future? Sigh. 

A lot to unpack here.

1. If the team "knows", and they don't share the information to trading partners, do they want a reputation for trading damaged goods?
2. If the trading team does know, won't the players offered in trade be much reduced in value?
3. If we're talking about unknowns, and the Twins want to trade because they think the "odds" of a Ryan injury are high, won't the other team have their estimation methods too, and again reduce their offer?
4. What's the guarantee that the players received in trade don't get injured too? Maybe we get the next Tyler Mahle.

There's a great deal beneath the surface of "we shoulda traded him before now."

[The Great Hambino]

Every time Tom starts getting really proud of himself, a starting pitcher goes down

[Mike Sixel]

It is 100% possible Ryan hid this.

Ash missed my point....if they knew Ryan was hurt, they 100% should not have been buyers by trading prospects. 

[jctwins]

6 minutes ago, ashbury said:

A lot to unpack here.

1. If the team "knows", and they don't share the information to trading partners, do they want a reputation for trading damaged goods?
2. If the trading team does know, won't the players offered in trade be much reduced in value?
3. If we're talking about unknowns, and the Twins want to trade because they think the "odds" of a Ryan injury are high, won't the other team have their estimation methods too, and again reduce their offer?
4. What's the guarantee that the players received in trade don't get injured too? Maybe we get the next Tyler Mahle.

There's a great deal beneath the surface of "we shoulda traded him before now."

This is why guys have to pass physicals after a trade. It would have been unwound, which would have been an embarrassment. To the original comment, this does make a decision to add for this season more questionable, especially when they know Buxton is going to be a question mark the rest of this season, too. 

I also think it explains why the trading was pretty light either way.

[USAFChief]

Color me skeptical the team knew of an actual injury and still sent him out to the mound last night. 

[thelanges5]

23 minutes ago, Mike Sixel said:

It is 100% possible Ryan hid this.

Ash missed my point....if they knew Ryan was hurt, they 100% should not have been buyers by trading prospects. 

He did hide the groin injury, a couple years ago. Thought he learned his lesson?

[ashbury]

24 minutes ago, Mike Sixel said:

It is 100% possible Ryan hid this.

Ash missed my point....if they knew Ryan was hurt, they 100% should not have been buyers by trading prospects. 

Yeah, I hit submit and then had second thoughts about maybe the question was whether to acquire talent at the deadline. The first of the two posts, rehashing past trading decisions, probably threw me.

Buxton and Ryan both being question marks are not good news.  Still, a game or so out of the wildcard, I'm not too worked up over the prospect capital expended.  Prospect capital dies on the vine every year, and is replaced by new draft picks and so on.  Of course it's important that the talent evaluators not completely whiff, when another team starts to show interest in one of our young'uns.