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  1. old nurse
    Cardenas and Winkel would come to mind as the young catchers. My guess is the person was thinking of Garver and Jeffers. Garver may be viewed as young if you are old enough. You may not understand that 31 is a distant memory for a centurion
  2. old nurse
    In the article Cody stated that Rortvedt is a fine backup catcher but would not be a primary catcher because he can’t hit enough. Somebody took an interesting exception to that , I responded to that. Rortvedt will not hit well enough to be a primary catcher. Your numbers show that. He hit what an average minor league player would hit. He may well have a long career as a backup. A league average minor league hitter is not a league average major league hitter. There is too much chaff at the bottom..
  3. old nurse
    To get to major league average would be a huge step. The original post that you assailed stated he Ben would not be an everyday catcher with his hit tool. Constant progress is one thing, the amount of progress needed to be a major league average hitter is a very limiting factor. He would still need to hit better against the highest level of pitching. Like I said very very rare
  4. old nurse
    His minor league stats would be an indication of his hit tool. A career OPS of somewhere around .650 would make it very very very rare he could ever get to league average for a catcher
  5. old nurse
    Career ERA and innings were not on par between Koufax and Santana. You may hate the post season argument but there is a huge difference between what they did post season.. Koufax was brilliant, Santana was not
  6. old nurse
    If Houston had a sense of humor it would be a straight up trade for Placios
  7. old nurse
    Neither are a snub, Santana was not nearly as good as Koufax. Koufax had post season success
  8. old nurse
    Alcala is at this point of his career about the same pitcher Pressly was at the 85 innings of mlb experience. Celestino was the 6,7 or 8 player put out in CF. Really fair to judge a trade as a lose situation. Nobody can even prove there would have been a different outcome to the season he was traded or the next one. The team has a bullpen piece and outfield potential versus nothing. The tie that Pressly had was the non choice to play for the Twins, renewed contracts and not really great contracts
  9. old nurse
    An article on Zach Granite’s career that really says nothing except John Bonnes is a Gerk
  10. old nurse
    Then it is more than fair to say that an organization that had extended several players already talked to Pressley about an extending and was rebuffed, No one knows but yet they are perfectly willing to skewer the front office for not getting him signed.
  11. old nurse
    Baseless assumption that he would ever sign here. He did sign a contract with Houston. Given a chance to play with his home state team in a city his wife is from it should not be a shock he would sign there. People make the assumption it is all about money. Wheeler signed with an east coast team because that is where he wanted to play. You cannot assume just because he played here he wanted to
  12. old nurse
    I have never said the team had no intention of bringing him back. I laid out the case earlier of what could have get down. The retort was that I had no proof of that. My assumption, short version, they tried to extend him and couldn’t so they traded him. Yup, Pressly went on to be better. Changed his pitch mix. There was a quote from Pressly that is telling. He said that there was no difference in what they were telling him to do in Minnesota than Houston. The pitch mix changed. He did what Houston asked. Believe what you want. In the end the evaluation is first question would Pressly the next year did what the Twins asked to be better in a walk year? Probably. Second question Would have the return been any different if they had waited? 2 high ceiling players in the low minors is still the likely return. There is a better return when the FO of a front office really doesn’t know what they have. See Ynoa and Gil Third question. Is Celestino and or Alcala better than nothing, which is what you get when your free agent walks Celestino did not hit, Alcala was better than a lot of what was brought in You bring Santana into this. I never said a word about Santana. Brandon was the one who posted about returns for a rule V pick A different front office, really a different position than a reliever. If you were using my logic, you failed miserably because I look at the cases individually. I could care less that Pressly was a rule v pick. He was a decent relief pitcher. There is a reason Smith did not last as a GM. This front office had Berrios. Time will tell if they botched it as bad as Smith did. If I recall correctly, outside of Pelfry, who the Mets would not include in the deal, the players were the top ranked players in the Mets system. So far this FO has the good sense not to trade with a team with a bad farm system
  13. old nurse
    In hindsight people ignore the fact that the team had one year of control left with Pressly. Anything beyond that year is pure unprovable speculation as to what would have happened, In hindsight it ended up that it did not matter once the playoffs hit because the offense went belly up in the series who was in the back of the bullpen. Who one the trade? 2 players who have not yet shown they are busts versus one year of a reliever that would not made a difference in a playoff series. That is the choice in hindsight. In hindsight a very meaningless argument that gets played over and over again
  14. old nurse
    Just as you can say without a shred of evidence he would have signed here with an extension and altered his pitch mix here and pitched as effectively here as he has in Houston. Your logic, your way of being dismissive
  15. old nurse
    He was mot going to resign here. So they traded him. Sorry I did not write a book of short simple sentances
  16. old nurse
    Pancreatic Cancer in the 1990s
  17. old nurse
    You should be confused as you posted Pressley was like Pulhols. Perhaps had you read the complete exchange you wouldn’t be confused. Try some Donepezil. That should help you with your confusion.
  18. old nurse
    Pulhos is no Pressley, His pitches could nowhere near match what Pressley’s could do, The comp is strange
  19. old nurse
    I really don’t know how to explain it to you any better than that. There is demonstrable evidence that they signed players to extensions. They signed relievers to very generous contracts that really were not as good as Presley. That should be enough to give some insight, but
  20. old nurse
    The Twins signed several players to extensions. It is a safer assumption that Presley did not want to sign than he would want to. Considering the contracts they handed out to the likes of Colome and Reed among other relievers, the FO doesn’t appear to have a problem with paying wages. Whatever for the states of developing players. Shortsightedness is what it is.
  21. old nurse
    The way the season played out last year they might have called up Baddoo over Celestino
  22. old nurse
    That assumes that you could have signed Presley which is an assumption that is totally strawman. They would have had one more year of Presley. Alcala is more than capable of being what was Presley was with the Twins. What Celestino is going to be is not yet determined. Where is it ever been documented that baseball performance is a bell curve?
  23. old nurse
    I don’t think it is unreasonable to think a guy with a big tattoo of Texas on his back, grew up in Texas and married someone from there would have went there once free agency was an option. The Twins did more than good to get the talent that they did get from Houston versus losing him for nothing
  24. old nurse
    What could have been if only.
  25. old nurse
    https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/player-scroll?player_id=572193#pitchTypes They say he does.
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