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  1. old nurse
    811 people a night for 34 nights. Some impact, but if your business was dependent on that little bit of business it was not on good ground to begin with.
  2. old nurse
    The call was viewed as iconic, and the clip shows that the reasoning for number 1 ranking was not true.
  3. old nurse
    The St Louis Cardinals were the best drafting team by WAR for players signed. Tommy Pham at 16 and to relief pitchers that had short careers. There were a couple more 1 and negative players That is the best team by WAR. The outcome of looking by year would be after the 20th round or so there will be a good to great players, a couple of players that have a couple of good years, and crummy relief pitchers 600 players drafted in the last half of the draft. More than half sign. That is long odds of finding a good player. As far as the international players go. 1. there is no talk of discontinuing or abating the dosl. 2. The players can play there until they are 22. That is the weed out time, and could continue to do so
  4. old nurse
    Way back to 94 for Koskie. There is Nicki Blackburn, JC Romero ano Hildenberger. A few cups of coffee for Zach Granite and Vasequez. . Currently Sean Poppen has a chance. There you go, 25 years of drafting, Over 600 players and you have 2 great players, 2 serviceable players and a very few bit players. It is evident long before AA who the players might be. They are the high draft picks
  5. old nurse
    Here is your memory game challenge. Actually anyone can play. Name the last hitter, starting pitcher and relief pitcher other than Taylor Rodgers drafted and signed by the Twins after the 15th round of the draft that played a significant role for the Twin Spoiler alert, answer in the nest post
  6. old nurse
    You are actually providing the reason why not to have a short season A ball team when there is a long season A and duplicate rookie leagues. There are too few good players to go around.
  7. old nurse
    The French study was a farce from a scientific standpoint. The Chinese study said that a larger study was needed. There is no proof, only an inkling it may be helpful. It is worth noting that patients in the French study did die while taking hydoxychloroquine. It is not what you think it is. As to whether or not it can be eliminated through science just remember how long science has been working on the common cold.
  8. old nurse
    First remember that the Minimum bat weight in MLB is 32 oz, Harper uses the heaviest bat at 35oz. 2 oz of bat weight doesn't make a huge difference. Copied and pasted from something To see the effects of bat weight and bat speed, here is a summary of an experiment that I found summarized in a 1980 high-school textbook, Physics of Sports developed by Florida State University.[6] For this experiment, the ball mass, pitch speed, and bat swing speed were all kept constant. Only the bat mass was changed. The data shows that a heavier bat produces a faster batted ball speed. This makes intuitive sense since a heavier bat brings more momentum into the collision. Doubling the mass of the bat results in an increase of almost 12mph. So, using a heavier bat should result in faster hit balls, which means the hit ball will travel farther. If a player can maintain the same bat swing speed with a heavier bat, the heavier bat will produce higher batted ball velocity and an increase in distance. But, any player who has experimented swinging bats with widely different weights knows that it is easier to swing a light bat than a heavier bat. Put another way, it takes more effort to swing a heavy bat with the same speed as it does a lighter bat, and most players cannot swing a heavy bat as quickly as they can a bat which is half the weight. So, we need to see how the batted ball speed depends on bat swing speed. Bat Weight Batted Ball Velocity 20oz (0.57kg) 68.5mph (30.6m/s) 25oz (0.71kg) 73.0mph (32.6m/s) 30oz (0.85kg) 76.2mph (34.0m/s) 35oz (0.99kg) 78.6mph (35.1m/s) 40oz (1.14kg) 80.4mph (35.9m/s)
  9. old nurse
    If there were 25% with some form of active immunity that would mean there were about 80 million people infected. Given the number of deaths so far that would make the virus only 1/4 as deadly as an influenza. That is not the case.
  10. old nurse
    An early May peak. If you consider it took months to get there, it will take months to subside. Good luck having a baseball season
  11. old nurse
    You can have your opinion on Bonser. At the same age as Teng he was the 29th ranked prospect whereas Teng is nowhere to be found. Liriano was coming off an injury season. Prior to that he was a top 100 prospect. To compare Teng to Bonser would then say that Berroa is comparable to Liriano. Your stated opinion seems to be that Teng and Berroa were comparable to 2 players who were ranked as top 100 prospects in all of baseball at some point before their trade.
  12. old nurse
    That does not matter in terms of prospect rankings.
  13. old nurse
    Thanks for once again providing a reason for why prospect ratings are so useless.
  14. old nurse
    Any trade of multiple minor league players for a player can result in a bad trade. Davis certainly could help the Giants. To help the Twins would mean something happened to one of Buxton, Rosario or Kepler and two of Gonzales, Cave and adrianza, and as the year went on Rooker,, and the AA outfielders from last year are not developing. Everyone should be happy for Davis he is in a position to get a shot. You say the 20 year old arms are mid to back of the rotation That would be a lower ceiling than Boof's at that age and lower than what Liriano became. All in all the trades are a very bad comp
  15. old nurse
    The trades that you did not make http://www.startribune.com/mets-star-noah-syndergaard-to-have-tommy-john-surgery/569067112/
  16. old nurse
    I don't ever recall someone complaining about someone not being promoted from the A+ level or higher ever panning out.
  17. old nurse
    Stroman is a decent pitcher. Simeon Woods Richardson might be a better one. 2 years younger than Balazovic and at the same level of pitching. Toronto did not do all that poorly for a year and a half of Stroman. Dobnac has 30 innings in the major leagues. What he is or can be is really yet to be determined
  18. old nurse
    The Marlins have the highest average velocity fastball, the Twins one of the lowest. They have nearly the same swinging strike percentage. They do have a very different team ERA Must be a little more something something than velocity to pitching.
  19. old nurse
    Yet the Anderson mantra of do not walk batters lives on as Twins relievers had the lowest BB%
  20. old nurse
    To maintain a wining team the draft needs to provide 3-4 players. It looks good so far. I wouldn't call it loaded as your draft should be providing 7-i players who look good in the first 2 years. Anything else is a bad draft
  21. old nurse
    The difference between a .315 and a .360 woba is the differnce between a burger at a cafeteria that has sat in a steamer for hours versus thr burger that was at Victory 44. Arraez can improve his fielding, Revere went backwards in the batting. There really is not a similarity
  22. old nurse
    Alvarez did clear waivers. Rule v eligible if he is not added to the 40 man after this season. Yet another failing top prospect
  23. old nurse
    Only Robbie Ray
  24. old nurse
    High wiff rate.K% 23.5, not what he was but not horrible, either. Only 2 hits, could be an outlier, not a trend, Past numbers would say bad year. It make take more than one season's daa to normalize https://www.fangraphs.com/players/josh-donaldson/5038/heat-maps?position=3B&ss=2015-04-06&se=2018-09-30&type=5&hand=all&count=all&blur=1&grid=10&view=bat&pitch=&season=all&data=
  25. old nurse
    UZR 150 had him as the best LF in the AL qualified for the award. Stories at the time talked of how he has worked on the game. Recognition for hard work is never a bad thing. Gordon won it.
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