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  1. old nurse
    The leg weakness last year I thought stemmed from batting. How did he hit without using leg muscles before? The whole leg weakness thing sounds like there is something wrong and they have not figured it out yet
  2. old nurse
    Wow, great example of how people have no honesty when looking at an issue
  3. old nurse
    They have a program to filter and sort. Any program is only as good as the effort that went into it. The number just seems off. The total AB of the teams are very different. The filter could be including all of the AB of a person who played DH. The same time period though shows how underperforming the Twin's bats have been So it seemed unlikely that they were using all of the AB of the player or the Twins were really effective in their use of the DH given the players they had. There are people out there who have access to better tools might be inspired to look rather than take fangraphs word for it. Like this response, I really didn't want to spend any more time on it.
  4. old nurse
    Unscientifically, because I am not trusting their filter, fangraphs leader board by team has the Twins with 117+ wrc for DH from 2011-2016. Good for 6th place in the AL. They would then have as a team WRC batting of 92. How they have used the DH would be, if those numbers are accurate, decent enough. Better if they had kept Ortiz, but there is no saying that Ortiz would have had the same last 7 years either.
  5. old nurse
    A starting rotation oh Hendricks, Arietta, Montgomery, Cahill and whoever else is in their system might be in the playoffs, but not for long.
  6. old nurse
    I do not think anyone has ever said they are bad due to payroll. Payroll limits what you can add. The bad is not due to the one or two players you can not add. Payroll comes into play when you are good trying to achieve excellence .
  7. old nurse
    The Twins can afford a Lester type contract. Joe Mauer currently has the club big contract They can't do two of them while having 5 other player earning over 10 million each.
  8. old nurse
    Depends on who they replace Lackey and Hammel with and how Lester and Arietta age. Underwood bombed in AA, anyone else is a ways off. Zobriest is 35. Montero is 32, Fowler is a FA and the wrong side of 30. Years and years might be 2
  9. old nurse
    Sean Manaea says hello and thanks for the coaching in KC farm system. Down the road a couple more years will be a better judge of the draft.
  10. old nurse
    Larger sample size, Atlanta
  11. old nurse
    Look at Atlanta's playoff record with the staff they had. Johan Santana is 1-3 in the playoffs. You need 2 of the best starting pitchers, it is still a crapshoot if they are going to rise up.
  12. old nurse
    Morales was their best bat last year. What can his production be replaced with? 11 million, 1.5 buyout. Unless the number crunchers figure that somebody good will fall through the cracks, he probably stays.
  13. old nurse
    Pitching for a bad team does not help determine if a relief pitcher can hold a lead. For a career on poor teams Kintler has not blown leads at a rate any worse than the better relief pitchers do in terms of blown saves to holds and saves. It is not pretty, he is not lights out, but effective. Ryan O"Rourke has pitched in 54 games in the majors. He has neither a save, hol, or a win. Low leverage pitching . I don't think he or Boshers would get claimed. If they did, there would likely be some else similar available.
  14. old nurse
    Dueling SSS. The statistics would bear out that Ploufe nor Mauer play very well nicked up The new management needs to keep that kind of player on the dl as it only hurts the team. The selling of any player requires someone to want them. At their age, for Dozier or Santana to be moved it would be likely to a team that thinks one of them will make them a contender. In a weak FA market Santana does have value. If Santana can be viewed as he can be the third starter in a playoff rotation he will net more than a team looking for innings being eaten. A trade should net you a better long term player than an accepted QO next year.
  15. old nurse
    Can't take Faedo. There is a Lenny flashback
  16. old nurse
    It is hard to believe the Molasco statement given the Twins' history of sinkerball pitchers. If Nolasco had a decent sinker , by history the Twins would have exploited it. If there was a change in pitching style for Molasco, teams will catch up and he will return to baseline.
  17. old nurse
    What is the average cost of WAR, somewhere around 6 million. To add 10 WAR is then adding 60 million to the payroll. One would hope that a team with a 150 million payroll would be competitive. The Angels say otherwise. Yankees, Tigers say you can buy mediocrity. At 140 million spent, the Royals and White Sox are not getting their monies worth. SportRac data for payroll was used.
  18. old nurse
    It pays to have high draft picks It pays to have players other teams want to overpay for when going for it If you are going to be bad, be really bad. Be in a market where they turn out when the team loses.
  19. old nurse
    So winning a World Series gives MacPhail a free pass on the fact he left the team in terrible shape by 1994 when he left? MacPhail was lucky in that he walked into a situation where there was a great core of undeveloped talent. The subsequent teams he has taken over have won how many World Series? Cubs even come close? Can't blame the cheapskate owner there. You can't say there was a winning tradition with the Cubs. You can't say they did not try. How about Baltimore? He changed them from mediocre to contending after he left.
  20. old nurse
    Owner sets the budget for the team expenses, player payroll and operation expenses. Complete control is a myth.
  21. old nurse
    I hope that Falvey is not the new Andy McFail. After Calvin's players got old look at what shape was the team in? Augment and win then run so it may take a few more years for people to realize you were lucky.
  22. old nurse
    Compared to the rest of the league this year, the Twins are average in the number of home runs. In 1964 221 HR as a team led the league by a large margin. The late great Earl Weaver loved the 3 run HR. It would be nice if once in a while if the current Twins could accomplish that.
  23. old nurse
    If every one else must go, so must Audra. T and A is available somewhere downtown for you. New ideas, not the same old thing is what you wanted.
  24. old nurse
    Hope he can pitch as well as the left hander that came out of FGCU.
  25. old nurse
    If the new Grand Poobah of the club thinks the first and second year position players are going to take a step forward this year then it would be likely that 2 of the slots in the bullpen would be FA closer, FA set up guy. The evaluation process might lead to the necessity of one more year of development/mediocre play. That should lead to a fairly young bullpen.
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