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  1. old nurse
    Sonny can't pitch in New York. That makes him a perfect Twin and why he shoul not be traded for
  2. old nurse
    Have any of these types of opinion pieces on where players are going articles ever been remotely correct. If nothing else they give you an idea who the team is not going to sign
  3. old nurse
    https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/18/sports/baseball/minor-league-changes.html https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/mlb-floats-proposal-that-would-eliminate-42-minor-league-teams/ It would appear that MLB must be thinking they are going to lose the lawsuit by the minor league players. I would also think it may force a more rapid advancement of players thus cutting down on the costs of career minor league players. Cutting the draft to 20-25 rounds to save a little more money. Not all late round players are signed. Not all get all that much money. They are correct that it is very rare for a player drafted that late to make it to the big leagues. College coaches would get a player for another year.
  4. old nurse
    He might be a good mid summer, post draft add for a half season if a half dozen players get injured
  5. old nurse
    Hicks, gone Dozier declined and gone Buxton injured again Gibson E Coli hell You all might want to rethink most improved player award.
  6. old nurse
    If that was true there would be no investment in technology. They would not have hired the people they have. They would not have signed Cruz or Gonzales. You could say that the owners care about not losing money. The Twins are a billion dollar asset. They care about it.
  7. old nurse
    Cliburn will be 63 soon. It might be tough for him to find a new job in the analytical age. Skinner is not that far behind. I would guess they are looking to make the staffs of the minor leagues an extension of the major league staff. The pitching did not develop when you look at Romero, DeJong, Thorpe, Stewart, Reed, and Vasquez. The hitters appeared to do fine down there in development. Defensively, don't know.
  8. old nurse
    Verlander had a no trade clause. Were other team inquiring? We will not know. There is no point in anyone saying anything. Leading up to the trade Verlander could say no when approached, end of conversation. The holdup on the trade was Verlander saying yes. Obviously he eventually said yes. His contract was for 28 million a year. Detroit kicked in 8
  9. old nurse
    Rodney pitched to career average for the Twins. Not a bad signing at all. They got a decent prospect for him. Duke pitched decently for what he was. Costello hit better than what one would have expected for a back of the bullpen arm. Reed was injured. Can't really blame the FO for that, although you seem to do so.
  10. old nurse
    It could mean more walks. It could mean there was a change from the all or nothing swing and thus more contact and less FB. . The approach that would net the most return is finding out what to change so he is not missing 1/3 of the season.
  11. old nurse
    Betting on yourself is something people say the contract offered did not meet expectations. Sano last played a full year how long ago? I would think the Twin's offer would reflect that. Sano would not think that way. Not many players would consider that they might have an injury problem.
  12. old nurse
    HR/FB is a little meaningless when you lead the league in K%
  13. old nurse
    Jose and Jake And pray you rake.
  14. old nurse
    Dr Google is the bane of the world. If you are wondering why the doctors would not have considered it, consider the diagnosis of the patient and then try to understand that the disease is fiirst.
  15. old nurse
    Rosario missed 20 days on the dl plus the hamstring. Kepler has missed time with knee, elbow and what was labeled as illness. Buxton was out. Sano was out until May with the heel. Arraez did not come up for good and beat out Schoop for the job until June, Cron s been on the dl with the thumb twice and it is still bothering him. That leaves Polonco Outside of catchers, 5 of the 7position palyers have had injuries, the seventh got beat out. It is really hard to say that Baldelli is resting his players excessively when they almost all have been injured.
  16. old nurse
    If they would not acknowledge it before yesterday, why would they change now? There will be some qualifier
  17. old nurse
    As to the relative genius status of the front office. Is the team better than it was 4 years ago? Are there more good prospects in the pipeline added over the last 3 years? Ok, debatable. Really won't know for sure for 5-10 years if it is a trend or not.
  18. old nurse
    On rental players. I guess people use the term rental because that seems nicer than calling them one night stands. No long tern commitment . Most rental rental seem to follow the pattern of one night stands. r a reference.Return on trades. Where did anyone from the front office say there would be an immediate return on prospects? Your expectation is that. Many others do, too. Deadline trades for pitchers to me seem to require a condition. One is a team definitely out of it. The second is a team with a pitcher to trade valuing prospects more than the team wanting starting pitching does. The Mets do not trade the prospects they do for a couple years of Siemens if they think they will be middle of the rotation starters or better. The other side why would the Jays make the trade if they didn't think one of the players could be that. For the Twins hard to trade for a front of rotation pitcher when so very few teams with one to trade and the front office probably liking the ceiling of their pitchers. Dyson and a prospect for a prospect. I don't think anyone care about Dyson. If he worked, great. If it did not work out the cost was minimal
  19. old nurse
    Gloom and doom at Twins Daily . I guess it is how some view the world. The overly optimistic usually don't last too long. There isn't reinforcement for the viewpoint
  20. old nurse
    2005 was an aberration in White Sox history. They will find a way to implode
  21. old nurse
    Why. There is nothing in their last two months that say they are more likely than not to beat you. Giolito is the only pitcher you have to worry about. He is arounf as many innings pitched for a year
  22. old nurse
    Last championship team McPhail presided over was a long time ago. Something must have fallen out of his briefcase after 1991. I think it was his blueprint. Zach Littell has done more than Ynoa has to this point. So far they came out ahead. That was hardly a fiasco. Pressly took the coaching in Houston that he did not here. You can't assume he would have had the same success here if he had not been traded. They got a starting pitching prospect for Kintzler that is still in the system and still only 22 plus international bonus money that you will not know if it was well spent for a decade. That was for a rental player as Kintzler was going to be a free agent. Kintzler was a closer by default. He has had 2 saves since being traded from the Twins. What the Twins got in return make this not a bad return for what he is
  23. old nurse
    You are the one making the claim what he is doing is bad. Show your work other than having a Gardy Gut feeling.
  24. old nurse
    Only Porcello's contract. One year of that he was a Cy Young winner, another he was more than decent.
  25. old nurse
    JD Davis may be having a career year with a bat but his iron glove at every position they have tried him at marks him for DH material that the Mets don't need.
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