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  1. old nurse
    Rookie is on the team One of more than 40 players. It is rather unfortunate that he is so old that there should be a hole with his name on it. Dug for the inevitable that is so close. Older still is Garlick who is trying to get himself established. Good thing baseball did not jettison Nelson Cruz or Brian Dozier because they were not a star. Where would the Dodgers be without Muncy and Taylor? In terms of age Rooker still can meet your definition of 22-23 as it shifts to recently 23. Rooker even matches your definition of stars If Atlanta had their injured players instead of who they have, they would have a different team with perhaps different outcomes and the Phillies would be playing or the Brewets
  2. old nurse
    Perhaps to find the positive you have to realize it was an article on a single player not anything really about the team. FWIW the 22 and 23 year old stars are all at home not playing now.
  3. old nurse
    The tone of what you wrote and the evidence presented would leave one to believe that a 95 mph fastball was essential. If it was not essential then why spend all that time creating the bait? To call someone out is not making anything a controversy. Correlation and causation is not a controversy I did not say to make it simpler, I asked you to be more complex in your approach.
  4. old nurse
    It goes to show that it is not one thing like 4 seam fastball that makes pitching good to great. Still many people write articles looking at the one thing.
  5. old nurse
    The Cy Young claim might be bogus as there is no data to back that up. One oops The White Sox had 4 starters listed who averaged 95. They started 69 games, averaged 5 innings per start. That is a lot of dependence on a bullpen.
  6. old nurse
    Tampa Bay has found a market insufficiency in assessing relievers. 10 of them with ERA 3 or under this year. Many are found off the scrap heap of free agency or traded for with a lottery ticket
  7. old nurse
    Tampa was the only team to have success with that model. Boston was mediocre but not in the bottom 1/3. Tampa was also the only team to succeed with a low payroll. It is an outlier mode; Levi commented on the low IP as a Baldelli managing style. That was not quite true. This year he had to manage with what he had without blowing out arms in the future as so many had not pitched in games
  8. old nurse
    47 games pitched by prospects that did not pitch in a season the year before. Oakland used 5 starters for most of the season. Surprise!!!!!!! They lead the major league in starting pitcher IP.
  9. old nurse
    If Houston wanted Kiriloff and would give up Luis Garcia. It takes quality to get quality. If only the Twins still had a Brian Duensing to make the deal work
  10. old nurse
    To call Simmons even a bad signing is to ignore a lot. He wasn’t even the signing that worked out the worse this year. To forget about the likes of Nolasco, Correa, or Park is a good thing unless the topic is worse signings ever. The mistake they made was at the trade deadline when the Yankees were interested in him. The team must have wanted Gil back. Bringing Cruz back works if the clutter at the corners get moved.
  11. old nurse
    It is not easy to find a 3 fear corner outfielder 1B DH player. There were only 22 of them last year for 105 positions. Cron was 2.3 fear. There were 62 of them. That still leaves plenty of positions open. The value of any of the Twins prospects or players is what their ceiling is and can they get there.
  12. old nurse
    Other than the there are less home runs, how is Polamco’s 2019 season any less than 2021? There are no reasons to think his 2021 season is a fluke other than inmate pessimism
  13. old nurse
    Crown played in Denver last year. When checking numbers see what Cron hit for on the road. You won’t be crowing about the hitting, He only played a few games in Detroit
  14. old nurse
    Celestine is probably a better value based on what he did in AAA vs Larnach Ober at an ERA a little over 4 is better than a back end starter. The state of pitching is that bad. If he can pitch every 5th time through the rotation for a full season at that ERA or slightly better that is a very high value
  15. old nurse
    Pretty much any arb eligible or beyond player is trade bait. There are so many players that are corner outfielder/1b/DH that a couple should be traded.. This is likely as Kerrigan, Celestine or Contreras could fill in..
  16. old nurse
    When he struck out close to 33% of the batters he faced there might have a point for giving Duffey a closer role.
  17. old nurse
    Avoiding 90 losses is totally meaningless unless the team did so by winning 95+ games. A pitcher does not have to have strikeouts to be dominant.
  18. old nurse
    A half season AAA player is not a star nor is their anything that says he will be
  19. old nurse
    1992 will always be the most disappointing season as they were so close yet so far. Not winning when you have a chance is far more disappointing than a season of losing.
  20. old nurse
    They have 4 relievers Rogers, Duffey, Thielbar and Alcala. They might exercise the option on Coloma if they anticipate a bad market. Gant may have to be a starter. The veterans they have on board now would be make good contracts or veteran minimum. There are a lot of free agent relievers looking for a bounce back year. They may want to get paid like 2021 did not happen. The choice might be two of them or a good starting pitcher. They probably should go to a starter
  21. old nurse
    To paraphrase Mike Sixel, how quickly people forget
  22. old nurse
    https://www.parkspresidentsandparks.com/blog-page/2018/4/30/the-bunt Sorry I didn’t say attempted to bunt for a hit. I mistakenly thought that since the post I responded to talked about players bunting for hits I would not have to say that it was bunt attempts for hits. My bad that I keep forgetting that one has to have every last thing crystal clear or someone will not follow a conversation
  23. old nurse
    Look at spray charts for hitters, you might learn something When did Kepler ever say that he should be hitting 40 bombs a year?
  24. old nurse
    I was told on another thread that free agents were paid based on past performances., not what they are going to do. If you look ay the recent few years prior to signing the Twins got some great deals. Next year those players, except for Shomaker, are just going to show you how wrong you were about them. Teams should rush to sign these player because surly they all came down with the dreaded Lance Lynn disease. You should remember the symptoms and the course of the disease. You put on a Twins uniform for less Monet than you think you deserve and forget how to throw a baseball
  25. old nurse
    If it was that easy to hit there would be more .400 hitters
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