Agreed to an extent, and many of my posts have been about caution with rushing guys like Hicks to the majors. But my (admittedly way, way off-topic by now) response was meant to address a binary post that assigned player age consideration a value of zero. And in keeping with the off-topic-ness, it was also about how the Twins contrast with the Cubs and their ability to lose at an acceptable rate without a third of the roster being essentially animated Fatheads. Put another way, if I had to wager that the eight (that's the over-30 differential) worst players on the Cubs' roster would figure more positively in their future, including both performance and trade value, compared to the Twins' eight oldest... well, it was time to clean behind the couch cushions anyway.