old nurse

Alex Jackson rather than Caratini

Just as long as they don’t look like the emperor’s new clothes

Ty France had a career year, nice you can’t see the others

A good bullpen is almost worthless when the starting pitching goes 4-5 innings and gives up 3-4 runs

He said it, but it wasn’t true

Yup, selling to private equity surely will make the Twins a winning franchise.

There is nothing complicated about good enough or not,. Good year, bad year seems to be a pattern in his development. I suppose you can say being a top rated prospect a few years ago meant something. The complication is that perception

I really doubt that prospect rankings matter to a baseball front office other than to hype what a team received in trade for a player.

If there was a team out there that had a need for a LF platoon and as a stopgap player and ignores the previous years of hitting he is viable. There is also a needle in a haystack somewhere

Even the Rays couldn’t get a 40 prospect for Larnach. They would find a pitcher they could teak and then trade that player after a successful year

I would guess that would be what the team has to put out in money for the players. Pay, insurance, pension. The same components as competitive balance tax. If they really wanted to inflate the number they could add payroll taxes paid

Houston established his value as a relief pitcher on an expiring contract having a down year.

Farmer was coming off a season of about 1.5 WAR Royce was less than that and unable to plat shortstop. There is a big difference. Farmer did the old age regression over the off season. When that hits is unpredictable. There is nothing comparable there.

Martin RH bat. Larnach, LH bat. 2 different roles.

They have him playing first base. What they thought of Sabato was shown in his call up. Caratini did a Vasquez lite infatuation. I doubt anyone thought that was possible, but Surprise, he did. That leaves free agency, There is always a chance they can get another fountain of youth season out of an aged veteran player. It happens. So does Caratini. Bauers and Bohn have each had one good year in their career. An analytical organization would shy away from big money for them. Career years regress quickly, see Lopez, Felix. They did not think much of Bell’s glove at first. Barring a trade, or a position switch for an outfielder, Lewis at an inexpensive for baseball contract might be as good as they can get for the value. I doubt he is going anywhere