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  1. old nurse
    Taylor Rogers, All Star reliever has limited upside and not an asset. Perhaps his flaw is that he is a pending free agent and over 30
  2. old nurse
    Greinke is not a journeyman pitcher. Any less a master of the craft of pitching Greinke would have been put to pasture. Respect the knowledge or understand the terms
  3. old nurse
    Why is he wrong about Chicago? Look up last year’s playoff results. The article is an opinion piece by a writer who needs ratings and clicks to get paid. If it is as you say and he has Polanco as a SS that should tell you how much he has paid attention. Why is he wrong? I doubt that he is trying to be right. The Twins lost a lot of time to injuries, on a stat sheet they are going to look bad. To a stat sheet scout
  4. old nurse
    Try reading up on NFL draft success. Outside of QB which shows a slim success rate for starters after the first round, more is better. The thing is is that these players are nor prospects. They are what they are, which is a little less than league average pitcher This is an analytic driven FO. The numbers will tell you of likely outcomes. That is what there is the actions or inaction that you see from this front office
  5. old nurse
    Very poor analogy with the football draft, After a certain point you are drafting lottery tickets. The more you have, the better the odds. This is trading for league average or worse starters. Two very completely different things. You would not go with quantity. They are who they are for players. They are not going to morph into an front line starter
  6. old nurse
    Albers isn’t available; anymore? Any of these pitchers wouldn’t cost more than a Placios kind of player so why not. Only Houston has an excess of pitching and the Twins moved on from Odorizzi for a reason. The other 2 teams would need good reasons to trade. A low level prospect isn’t going to work even if the teams were trying to tank.
  7. old nurse
    Trading for lottery ticket pitchers. Gil and Ynoa out as lottery tickets, what has come back?
  8. old nurse
    The average value of a baseball team is somewhere short of 2 billion. 1.5 b for an expansion franchise wouldn’t be out of line with how the NHL set the price for the Kracken. That would work out to 100 million for each team. I am surprised that expansion hasn’t come up at that price
  9. old nurse
    Population being a determinant, it would make most sense for Montreal with 4 million in their statistical area. San Antonio, Portland, Orlando, and Charlotte are just below that at 2.5 million with Vegas at 2.25 million plus tourists at any given time. That is a relatively small areas to draw 2 million fans from. The money from cable would be important. How big of population that is close enough to care becomes the issue. Tennessee might come into play.
  10. old nurse
    A rotation for the present and future with the caveat of if healthy
  11. old nurse
    10 out of the 20 of the list were pitchers. 8 of them made it to the majors..
  12. old nurse
    A salary floor incentives trading for bad players with bloated contracts for cash and prospects. See the NBA
  13. old nurse
    Hope springs eternal on a prospect list. 6-10 have a chance to be good.
  14. old nurse
    What you responded to is part of the charm of the comments section.
  15. old nurse
    https://www.minorleagueball.com/2015/11/5/9677606/minnesota-twins-top-20-prospects-for-2016 IDK, either you ignored a few or Buxton, Polanco and Kepler were not on somebodies list. Gordon was there,too. In the honorable mention there is Garver
  16. old nurse
    Cynically, if teams were not making money there would be no professional baseball
  17. old nurse
    There will be fans regardless. Trading Arraez will give the complainers 2 more things to complain about. One they traded him, two that player’s deficiencies.
  18. old nurse
    That could best be described as a strange exchange
  19. old nurse
    The sad thing was that the Twins paid he more money for the year than he had ever earned before, or since. They gave him a fair one year contract.
  20. old nurse
    Bello, Borrego, and Gardenhire might be the only holdovers from the Ryan era. Tommy Watkins at the major league level.
  21. old nurse
    It is the Lance Lynn effect. The team is gun shy after the mediocrity and black cloud that Lynn was when he was here.
  22. old nurse
    They cancelled the rule v for this year, next year is a long way away from worrying about ir
  23. old nurse
    Almora has not had a decent season in the last 4. It is more optimistic that he could bounce back to a level near adequate much less the player that was in the top 20 prospect status than the optimism of Buxton playing so much you don’t need an insurance policy.
  24. old nurse
    It would be a long lockout before the owners would ever agree to a set percentage. Guarding the books is going to be their thing.. The large revenue teams will always find a way from a down year., The other teams it is a longer process. Tanking makes money. Revenue sharing from figures that I saw from television contracts shows about 46 million for each team. Houston the first year they tank allegedly made 90 million. That made them the most profitable team in sports, allegedly that is. Mediocrity with a floor payroll does not.make them money. Going from lousy to mediocre doesn’t draw. Extended horrible to winning is a better alternative. Teams would fight to get mediocre if it were profitable. Is it better for baseball to have that kind of cycling versus more of a parity of mediocrity? I don’t think so. The large market teams will always have an advantage that the others will never be able to change. There are enough teams that will effectively block any change that takes away their advantage, There is futility in thinking that will ever change
  25. old nurse
    The Post article cites that he was off the air for 3 months because of the comments. The story also notes the talent the network has,
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