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  1. old nurse
    Mark Jr was signed by the Cubs. 30 something with a career MLB K% near 20. Perhaps the FO is more concerned with MLB than filling out the back end of the minor league team
  2. old nurse
    The problem this front office has is that it is still Ryan’s team. Kepler, Buxton, Kiriloff, Poloco, Arraez, Sano, and Garver are all Ryan additions. Miranda and Gordon are also Ryan’s.. In 4 years they have added Donaldson, Jeffer, Celestino, Rooker, and Lanarch with Martin as the next one up. The pitching addition to starting was Maeda and Odorizzi who is now long gone. They have added a lot of potential in Ober and Ryan but nothing else but potential. When you look at what Cleveland has done, their guys are up in a couple of years,not so with the Twins draftees. Years 5 and 6 are going to be pivotable for their careers as front office leaders. The Pohlad model might be tight with the money, but that really isn’t the problem here. A better outfielder really isn’t a concern.
  3. old nurse
    A club depends on a steady stream of new talent coming up. Despite a rocky 2021 that talent is Kiriloff, Larnach, Rooker and Celeatino. You could even add Contrera, Martin and late in the season Lewis to that mix. Utility players like Gordon and Arraez can be the 4th, Outfielders or 1B is well covered. A steady starter, an interim SS, shutdown relievers ate more pressing needs short term. The trade of am OF for a starter shifts the paradigm, but that is no certainty of happening.
  4. old nurse
    A trade would involve getting someone back of value. That would be a very good pitching prospect from a team needing a SS that gas pitching
  5. old nurse
    Article behind a paywall
  6. old nurse
    C Garver/Jeffers 1B Sano 2B Polanco 3B Donaldsom OF Kepler Buxtton/Kiriloff UT Arraez SS black hole, but if the other 9 are playing up to their potential that is a lineup that would average over 120+ WRC+. If the FO doesn’t think they can hit their potential they should have cleaned house. So far they have not. If they thought they could they should have addressed the weaknesses. Given the health and wellness problems of pitching (see any season injury report) I can understand the reluctance for avoiding the long term contract. They still have to try something
  7. old nurse
    It is called giving a player a chance., something like a rule v pick up that did not cost even 50K
  8. old nurse
    So a pitcher is an Ace a number three or less. Got it. A pitcher’s third and fourth pitch are as effective as their most used pitches.
  9. old nurse
    When a pitch is used rarely in a game that pitcher doesn’t have a four pitch mix. Whatever you want to believe. Have at it. A poor pitch is not a benefit
  10. old nurse
    When you state by JAWS he ranks currently 71 with maybe only Grandal among the current catchers likely to pass him the answer is there might be 10 other players up for election voters will choose before him. His chance is very slim. He needs about 20 votes
  11. old nurse
    Gioloto, Montas, Morton, Ray to name a few. Know what’s pitchers do
  12. old nurse
    So much for the FO not liking flame throwers
  13. old nurse
    Santana and Mack are ancient history Some players that get returned go downhill. Mostly what seems to get selected and stick are relievers. Whitlock is an exception. Baddoo was an exception. Baddoo made as good of first impression as one could make. As the season wore on the statistics sort of caved in. Players with a ceiling get chances. Rule V lets a few get an earlier chance. Most fail and are never heard from again. Maybe being selected and failing derailed them. Maybe not The excess of AAA catchers can be trade bait for yet another Shaun Anderson
  14. old nurse
    When the other position is CF I would think there is something athletically there.
  15. old nurse
    Martin is close enough to Lewis to diminish that value. Pitching at the major league level is always lacking.
  16. old nurse
    Good rum was a minor league free agent, not a rule v Baddoo and Wells would have gotten their chances with the Twins last year with how far they reached for OF and relievers. I can’t recall any other rule v players drafted from the Twins.
  17. old nurse
    There are plenty of pitchers considered better than a number 3 pitcher with only 3 pitches. There is nothing typical about a number 3 pitcher other than over the course of a season he doesn’t have as good of results as some pitchers but is a lot better than most. I guess you and the OP must not have looked at the starting pitching to the the large sinkhole;. Austim Martin going into last season was rated higher than Lewis. Same position, same athleticism. Having starting pitching develop is far far more important than Lewis, and Martin
  18. old nurse
    No news is no news, Texas was able to sign 3 free agents of note. So much for bad teams not being able to sign free agents. They still might not be a good team I wish I would have saved the Falvey quote about big changes going to be made. It takes 2 entities in baseball to make changes. The free agents are not being very interested in Minnesota. Nobody is making trades. It will be either a wild post lockout or a long season.
  19. old nurse
    What is your definition of flame thrower? What minor league signing did they miss that met that description
  20. old nurse
    Yet in the 2020 season his best games were against Oakland and Houston, the best teams of the made up division
  21. old nurse
    I don’t think the person thought much of the contracts of Ray and Gausman. The only reason not to like the contracts is that you do not think they will live up to them and drag the team down. A signing of Ray or Gausman would be to return the Twins to the glory of the years prior to a down year. The Jordan Zimmerman comparison is not a bad one
  22. old nurse
    Not 5 million more than Bundy got. I bet you did not laugh. You might have soften Stroman for a better offer than the Cubs, you might not have. Stroman on a 3 year deal is a great team deal. I don’t know what is left on the Cubs to make it an attractive place to play
  23. old nurse
    Every player is an asset. What they bring back is how much another team sees in them. The bad trades are the players the Twins did not see what the other team does. The good ones are the opposite
  24. old nurse
    Some whew have failed to realize what a joke they have been all along
  25. old nurse
    A Jordan Zimmerman type signing would be better?
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