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  1. OldManWinter
    Here is a possible consequence of orthopaedic surgery: A person I know developed a Staff Infection after a normal orthopaedic procedure at a reputable facility. It became serious enough for him to be admitted to the ER and hospital for maybe ten days. He was a very sick boy. There were people in his family that belueved he may have been on the threshold of the end of his life. With super strong meds, he has gotten back home now but was informed he will take an antibiotic the rest of his life. That is but one example of surgical risk.
  2. OldManWinter
    Surgical procedures are performed when other conservative, non-invasive alternatives fail.
  3. OldManWinter
    John, congratulations on twenty. I also "saved" my wife from the streets of Philly, soon to be 46 years.
  4. OldManWinter
    Gilmartin's simple metric may be the most compelling reason Morris belongs in HOF.
  5. OldManWinter
    I am curious if Garcia is a definite defensive improvement over Delmon Young? And, Willingham?
  6. OldManWinter
    I assume Arcia is a definite defensive upgrade over Delmon Young?
  7. OldManWinter
    I do not see any problems with a team being fiscally smart and not pouring their money on the ground.. Teams spending too much don't do themselves favors either. Maybe Yankees and LA teams can absorb out of control spending. Others, not so much.
  8. OldManWinter
    Eighty five million dollars is a whole lot of dough, any way you look at it. I do not require they spend big but I hope they spend smart.
  9. OldManWinter
    Not sure good performance of Revere can be used to evaluate this trade in this intance. I hope he does well. The Twins traded a surplus player for a bit of a gamble to fill our great need! I don't think Revere was a player that would command high value to attract many trade partners. Though I enjoyed Revere, his attitude, his speed to make a great catch and stretch a base hit, to me his weak arm and lack of bunting skill were a serious deficiencies that negated most of his positive value. Lets hope the players we received help us sometime.
  10. OldManWinter
    Levisthan: it could be some of us place more weight on what we saw and were aware of over Jack Morris' career rather than a comparison of stats. That is valid too. Consider since the beginning of MLB time the baseball people made their player decisions without any metrics. Can anyone imagine Ozzie Guillen or Jim Leyland pouring over metrics to make their player decisions? That is not to discount metrics, only to say there are different ways of coming to conclusions. After all, for most of us baseball is entertainment and these are only opinions. That JM had a high ERA is a fact and that it is higher than most in the HOF is also a fact. Whether they are serious enough to disqualify HOF membership is an opinion. I think he belongs.
  11. OldManWinter
    Most of this is subjective. Like Hrbek did not ever receive a Gold Glove, (Mattingly received those votes I assume because of his hitting ... but why? it is the best fielders recognition).
  12. OldManWinter
    A WS winner requires great plays from an entire team, all throughout the season. That Chuck Knoblach and Greg Gagne suckered Lonnie Smith bailed out the team does not in the least diminish Jack Morris' game 7 performance. It just means the entire team was hitting on all cylinders. My observation is people often make their mind up about something, then they look to find evidence to support their position.
  13. OldManWinter
    Worry, worry, worry ...
  14. OldManWinter
    I am curious. Does anyone have access to attendance figures when Morris was pitching compared to others. What wwas Morris' contract compared to the best AL pitchers of his era?
  15. OldManWinter
    Spy cake @ 10:32am. Records you want? Blyleven got Roberts record of HR's allowed. If the focus to leave both of them out on the face of HR's allowed there would be a case. Neither were the most dominant pitcher in their era either. But, they are both in.
  16. OldManWinter
    Koufax is a really high standard to surpass. Would Don Drysdale or Robin Roberts and many others be in the HOF if they needed to meet that standard?
  17. OldManWinter
    And, I agree with Thrylos, I would have put both Tony O and Kaat in the HOF. No doubt there are other snubs, more or less apparent. My reasoning is that the HOF is not merely for carbon copies of the same great players. There is room for more than one type of greatness.
  18. OldManWinter
    How many present HOF'rs needed to pass the litmus test of WAR comparisons? That is a new standard. Of course Jack Morris belongs in the HOF! His numbers may not be as high as some, but he accomplished some pretty remarkable feats in his lengthy career. Somebody presently installed in The Hall now has the highest ERA, lowest win total, most errors, slowest fastball, poorest ball to strike ratio, lowest batting average, fewest HR's, et all! None of that matters. You cannot compare greatness by digesting a set of numbers. The numbers never do justice to Jack Morris' type of accomplishments.
  19. OldManWinter
    Unless we have had extended personal contact with either Manziel or Stewart we do not know? How can anyone come across as being of sound and stable while having hundreds of cameras and mikes shoved in their faces constantly?
  20. OldManWinter
    No. The risk to their team is too high. Each individual is too hard to replace. Does a player forfeit MLB salary if they experience a career ending, or career altering, or long-term injury?
  21. OldManWinter
    So doesn't Suzuki return us to the point we might as well have kept Butera?
  22. OldManWinter
    I think the people here are too quick to complain about personnel moves when there is a big makeover happening. I think it is more important to see how all the parts fit together than if you like or dislike all of the invididual parts.
  23. OldManWinter
    Maybe in other organuzations ... but I think TR has a way longer leash than that with Pohlads.
  24. OldManWinter
    Intellectually interesting topic. Brings out the best in contributors. "Whole truth" in complex decisions takes years to develop, you cannot digest it into a sound bite. Anyway, thanks for stimulating the readers.
  25. OldManWinter
    Pretty expensive player. We Need to move cautiously when giving up prospects. It was just a minute ago when the Twins farm had no players. Now they are restocked. I am not sure we should let players go easily.
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