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  1. old nurse
    The last season the Twins had too many good pitchers was when? Not when they traded Garza or Lohse.. Maybe when the franchise had the Big Train. I was not around for that.
  2. old nurse
    The Koufax clause is not applicable to Johan as there are no sterling post seasons in Santana's resume. Koufax had an ERA of less than one in the post season. True that being in the playoffs is a team thing. Koufax started exactly one more game than Santana did in the post season. There is a night and day difference between the two. There is the 137 complete games and 42 shutouts in the regular season that Santana can't match. Koufax started 41 games in his last season. Different era or generation, but it points to the fact that they compiled the similarity in other stats in a far different situation.
  3. old nurse
    They also needed another bat
  4. old nurse
    There is contending, then there is the realistic chance of doing well in the playoffs. 2-5 against Boston, 7-12 against Cleveland, 1-5 against Houston, 2-4 against the Yankees, and horrible against the Dodgers during the regular season. The arguments for they should have done more for contending seem nitpicky. What would have the Twins have to have added to be a contender past the wild card game? A front line starter, a middle of rotation starter, a couple of set up men. The wild card game comes down to is your starter on that day or not. The divisional rounds take more than that. Without trading the mlb position players they did not have anything to trade for the front line starter.
  5. old nurse
    Santana's peak value would be at the trade deadline. Any value would be because he is having a decent season and can be jettisoned at the end of the year. In terms of salary dollars having an affect on the Twins payroll for the year, I doubt there is enough pitching out there that the Twins could reasonably, or slightly unreasonably bid on and get to make it to the max that the Twins could spend.
  6. old nurse
    Mike Scott >>>>>> Johan ? I guess the Mike Scott clause, as well as the other pitcher clauses are called t pull the names out of a hat of players who had long careers with a short window of great success. Nothing at all like Sanana's career.
  7. old nurse
    f he is as good as they say he is, he would likely be the Ace for most teams
  8. old nurse
    The hockey signings become meaningless as time, and early playoff exits goes on. It is big because the "One Of Our Own" syndrome that affects people here. As time goes on the pair becomes closer to Hughes/Nolasco
  9. old nurse
    Ohtani grew up in a less populated area of Japan. Other than the New York hubris of thinking they are they canter of the universe for everyone there is nothing that says Ohtani would be attracted to them
  10. old nurse
    I merely pointed out the fatal flaw in the whole line of thinking. The game had other players
  11. old nurse
    Houston and Cleveland had the best hands and it wasn't even close.
  12. old nurse
    The number not mentioned. 29. That number has not declined. If Vargas was consistently around 19 Vargas would be a full time player. A Maueresque 15 and Grossman is still somewhere in the minors. Vargas' limitation is his strikeout percentage. Second problem is the number 47. A home run hitter could have a ground ball percentage that high if the HR/FB was in the 30+ range. Vargas is under 20
  13. old nurse
    The award is for the year that it is given, not cumulative. Since the manager is responsible for the 103 loss season, he gets credit for the turnaround, too. What happened? Unlike some many people in this world he got smarter learning from his mistakes. He managed the mediocre pitching staff down the stretch better than the more talented teams and finished ahead of them. For that learning, that marshalling of the old, unskilled, under experienced team Antony should be GM of the year. Nolasco's season versus Santiago//Busenitz's season is likely key to this year's season. Nunez for Aldaberto the strikeout machine will look even greater when those nasty umpires quit calling all those balls on Mejia's pitches.
  14. old nurse
    Compared to the Chapman and Miller trades it was not an overpay. Maybe the Giles trade because people were slow to accept that Appel was a raisin. You are right that Raisel is no Kimbrel, or Miller or Chapman. The trade to look at is Davis for Soler. The unfortunate part for the Twins is that the Reds are likely to think that the return should be like the former, not the later. Over valuing you player is not new, see Brad Hand still being a Padre. Just Gordon would be an underpay, a couple of low ranked prospects thrown in would be the norm. Graterol has too high of ceiling but is also so far away that I doubt that he wold be considered. A third piece would be of the low minors, but not as high of a ceiling
  15. old nurse
    Adama, Sheffield and Acevado for the pool money. Maybe make them throw in Guzman.
  16. old nurse
    They gave up a defensive CF blocked by an All Star, a potentially good SS, a mediocre 2b and a lotery ticket. Maybe in a few years it will look bad, depends on how long Kimbrell plays for the Sox and if they get a ring.
  17. old nurse
    To summarize in one or two badly constructed sentences. Bautista is old and declining. Frazier has seen better days as a Red. Carlos Santana plays the same position as Joe Mauer and this team needs 1/3 of the payroll paid to what are currently middle of the pack 1B.
  18. old nurse
    Other than Bumgarner, the last two pitchers to pitch over 20 innings in a WS were? Santana could hold up with the two 4-5 inning starts and couple relief innings.
  19. old nurse
    The hall of fame is subjective also. Koufax had 7 years of being dominate. Johan Santana had a similar run. The biggest difference is WS. Subjective, but it isn't Santana's fault he never had a chance to be a WS MVP. He isn't going in like Koufax did. Early Wynn is in the HOF because he pitched until he almost had a foot in the grave and got to 300 wins.
  20. old nurse
    Subjective data such as All Star, and end of season awards should not become objective statistical data.
  21. old nurse
    Molitor won or placed high in awards as a player. A fine, storied organization like the BBWAA may have a lot of members still there from Molitor's playing days. Some here may be too young to remember, or too old to, but I seem to remember Molitor being very accessible to the press. Not that the fine people inside the velvet rope would have anything but high journalistic standards when voting.
  22. old nurse
    Your teams all have a better 1b prospect than Diaz and no DH. The thought on his ceiling is correct. In the AL he could get time as a DH
  23. old nurse
    When the pitch well, yes. If they pitch like Verlander did in 06 or Darvish in this WS, no. You need good pitchers, you also need them to pitch well when it counts.
  24. old nurse
    The current valuation of the Twins is around a billion. Valuations of the Pohlad fortune is at around 4 billion. The Twins are hardly chump change in their pocket. It can be a fun thing, but being fun doesn't change the position in the Pohlad portfolio
  25. old nurse
    Last Twin prospect of note traded that was blocked was Chris Hermann? My gosh, Kurt Suzuki was blocking Chris Herrmann. It might have been the best blocking of the plate he ever did in his career as a Twin.
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