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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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.
  8. 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
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. 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..
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. old nurse
    A half season AAA player is not a star nor is their anything that says he will be
  18. old nurse
    The pace of the game it is not the game itself but the bullpen sessions, long toss, and warmups that cause the muscle fatigue that leads to injuries, In terms of monitoring mechanics, that’s Rapsodo’s functions. You could do a point of cart lactic acid but the glove hand is going to be pretty sore by the end of the season
  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
    Muscle fatigue really isn’t the issue. It is preventing an overuse injury.
  21. old nurse
    Gomez played in the Dominican Summer League. Major League Baseball retired him after the 2019 season.
  22. old nurse
    150 innings pitched has become a full season for middle rotation starters.
  23. old nurse
    Keeping on topic. The Twins a few years ago traded a backup Cather for a prospect that was later traded for a decent utility player. Drew Butera is in his 12th year with a career ,542 OPS per baseball reference. Per baseball reference, career earnings over 8 million. It is a great gig if you can get it.
  24. 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
  25. old nurse
    To paraphrase Mike Sixel, how quickly people forget
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