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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. old nurse
    Owner sets the budget for the team expenses, player payroll and operation expenses. Complete control is a myth.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. old nurse
    Hope he can pitch as well as the left hander that came out of FGCU.
  9. 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.
  10. old nurse
    Palka and Walker say that you are wrong
  11. old nurse
    Likely the least of the issues. Other teams have far greater potential and resources than the Twins. As other teams get lucrative TV contracts, tje Twins will drop. Anything a new GM wants to do will cost money.
  12. old nurse
    Yet you are the one comparing Twins to Vikings. . I guess one conference final under this ownership group in 10 years is a winning tradition and an elite formula. Elite formula for baseball would probably be defined as consistently putting yourself to be in position to be lucky in the post season. How do you get the right player at the right moment for the right price and move on? How do you get the career year out of someone than move on? It is not an easy answer because in the AL no teams have been consistently there near the top with a rotating team.
  13. old nurse
    Wilf will make money regardless if the team wins or loses. That does not change. Player procurement, development and costs of mistakes are far different than in baseball. Is is like comparing fruits to vegetables. Illitich wants to win in the worst way. His team has not won and are not getting any closer but it would seem further. Getting better in baseball is not an easy task. Just look at the White Sox.
  14. old nurse
    Considering that at the MLB level the Yankees have Tanaka and a lot of questions I would doubt they would deal major league ready pitching. Now you go blockbuster mode and trade Ervin, Dozier and a prospect for a pitcher and a catcher then it could get tempting for the Yankees.
  15. old nurse
    Not trying to derail the thread but being that Ryan is no longer here I wonder how many of the coaches will be returning. I can't help but think that Vavra and Glynn were Ryan's guys as possibly were Allen and Guardado. They brought up Allen to be assistant hitting coach, so how many will be staying if Molitor stays is a fair question and probably worthy of discussion as any pitcher in return is going to be a prospect. I would hope that they do not take an pitcher coming off injury.
  16. old nurse
    It is not s much the BABIP as it is BA to BABIP. A 40 point difference would seem to be the new normal. 68 points for Rosario would probably be unsustainable. Votto sticks around 50, It can be done, but rare. It would require resources I do not have to figure out why it has gone up. Aggressive swingers may make that difference. Higher LD% low IFFB % might play a factor for high BABIP. Aggressive swings on 2 strike pitches rather than just trying to make contact seems logical, but I would prefer to see data.
  17. old nurse
    If one believes O'leary, if the arm is up before the hips rotate and the front foot lands, all is good.
  18. old nurse
    You must have missed the earlier comment I made in the exchanges about multi position players with Levi when I said a pad fielder is a bad fielder wherever you put them. Doumit and Hermrann were brought up when Levi mentioned flexing Suzuki to the outfield as a way to illustrate my earlier comment a bad fielder is a bad fielder wherever you put them. Levi in the same post mentioned the article on Maddon. The article made out Maddon to be some cutting edge genius. How you are thought of when things work (Maddon) and things don't (Twins) a good one to point out.
  19. old nurse
    When I said Suzuki in the outfield has already been done, it was called Chris Herrman and Ryan Doumit I really did not put any words that resembled great idea so I do not know why you would think that I would be suggesting that.
  20. old nurse
    Suzuki did play in the outfield. Except he went by Chris Herman or Ryan Doumit Maddon's actual quote "In the Minor Leagues, everyone was always afraid of moving guys around, for it would hinder their development. I have no idea why not, but that's always been the conventional wisdom," said Maddon. "I think its becoming more obvious now that if you get a guy who is positionally flexible, you can get him to the big leagues more quickly if his bat is ready." Isn't it a bugger to be on the cutting edge, not know it, while trying to figure out how to do it. Terry Ryan on the cutting edge without knowing it.
  21. old nurse
    Levi, just for you reading pleasure http://m.mlb.com/news/article/189242190/more-infielders-converting-to-outfield-in-bigs/ "All athletes," said Mets manager Terry Collins, who is considering trying Jose Reyes and Wilmer Flores, both natural infielders, in the outfield. "One of the things we're finding today is player development continues in the big leagues. It doesn't stop anymore." But it also speaks to the ideologies shared by progressive baseball thinkers like Maddon and Cubs president of baseball operations Theo Epstein.
  22. old nurse
    A poor fielder is a poor fielder. If you don't try something different you will never know if you have a player who is suited to that new position better than the old . Other than Sano, you list all people who were utility players. Did I mention Zobreist and Bonfacio? Throwing more innings as in getting over 70 innings of relief work. Many relievers don't seem to like more than 70-80 innings. Little distracted. Betance last year threw more than one inning 26 times. Don't think it had an effect.
  23. old nurse
    Why weren't you using an advanced metric rather than a team metric like ERA to prove your point?
  24. old nurse
    In regards to Cuddyer, I picked a name you might have recognized. Since you are the one with the issue of infielders playing outfield , prove it can't be done. You can't do it. Opinion once again stated as fact by a poster. Tonkin's average velocity on his fastball is unchanged somewhere just below 93. Top end was 97. Unchanged even though he is throwing more innings. The two problems with throwing more innings are a decreased velocity or too many innings. Neither has happened. The poor statistics are likely due to all the poor coaching and bad catchers who can not pitch frame rather than anything Tonkin does. I am sure if Searge were his coach and Molina his catcher he would be mentioned in the same breath as Miller, Davis and Robertson.
  25. old nurse
    On Tonkin. In some of his stints of longer than an inning he has faced fewer batters than he did when he pitched 1/3 of an inning. Is there a drop in his average velocity of his fastball, which is what you would expect if pitching to more than 3 batters an outing. Data. None from the calling foul party. Molehill being made into a mountain. Infielders made into outfielders. Sorry I didn't list every single player who has played multiple positions in the infield, outfield catcher and pitcher for you. Does it really take that kind of effort? I really also love the too big to be an outfielder argument so when he is the largest 3b ever not making plays it is suddenly rose colored glasses time with what is happening..
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