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  1. old nurse
    The glaring mistake is assuming the Twins were overconfident. Overly optimistic in the potential of the young players. Over hopeful on the return to form of last year's and earlier injured players. Overly cautious on spending money to supplement.. Overconfident, I can't see it. It is not there because you say so.
  2. old nurse
    Baseball is like the meatpacking industry. Nobody is outraged at the hiring practices of the meatpacking industry. Highest injury rate, lots of illegals busted. Not many care.
  3. old nurse
    Johan, JJ, Gomez,Crain Ramos . Will people never tire of bashing the Bill Smith era? That is right, Ryan was secretly the GM
  4. old nurse
    If all prospects were equal the age thing would matter. The movement upwards of the better prospects is important. The ceiling of the remainder is what is important. Of the latter group as individuals progress towards that ceiling is more important than age. It would be likely that as they age a team adjusts the estimate of the ceiling and acts accordingly.
  5. old nurse
    I would imagine that it is really hard to teach patience when you are having decent success from the contact you make with the ball. When it doesn't work anymore, then there is a better chance for listening. I would also imagine that the minor league pitchers with the command to intentionally be just outside the zone are fewer and far between.
  6. old nurse
    There have been plenty of bench players taken by the Twins from the release scrap heap. Probably the last player to start a 100 games for a couple of years was Dustan Mohr. It wasn't for a lack of trying on the Twins part. From giving Tom Quinlan a shot to Juan Centeno this year it seems like they are always trying to find the gem others missed on. The AAA roster always seems to have a few on it, management hoping. The released pool is how Ryan builds bullpens. Buddy Bashers may go from being a punchline to a couple year stalwart
  7. old nurse
    On past threads about AAAA pitching, deception works in the minors better than the majors. At AAA the pitcher has success with deception, the major league hitters are not fooled by it. .
  8. old nurse
    maybe some of these people want Arcia in CF
  9. old nurse
    I think the Twins should have hung on to Moylan for 12 years , waiting for him to be good. They should have had Liam Hendriks doing Pilates sooner and had his wife doing Pilates with the rest of the mediocre starters. They should have signed Manny Ramirez to mentor Ortiz. Hung on to RA Dickey,, I mean, how good would it have been to have Syndergaard and d'Arnaud?
  10. old nurse
    If in a few years time between Santana and Arcia one does little and the other does less the move and angst becomes over nothing.
  11. old nurse
    The Arcia era ended because Arcia would or could not learn how not to miss the baseball. If he could have made closer to league average contact rate or league average BB% he would be in Right field. When Sano comes back, the brain trust will figure out something. If Buxton and Kepler are showing improvement, it will be Santana Park going down.
  12. old nurse
    Vargas, Arcia, ABW< What in 2015 would convince you they were locks to be major league players? Trade what for a relief pitcher you would be proud of? Sign one? How many of the 50 FA are any good this year. Crap shoot. Thinking that someone bases anything off spring training records is a great strawman argument. A player may have a good spring, but not very many fans believe
  13. old nurse
    Ramirez to the dl. They can work on his issues then.
  14. old nurse
    Broken bone above the left knee. I guess that answers the question on what to do with Hughes this year.
  15. old nurse
    Friedman ran the Rays, how many WS wins did they have, yet he was hired away by the Dodgers, who are so far not improving
  16. old nurse
    Bill Smith has never left. I responded to a comment about Bill Smith's scouting ability. All of these players were signed when Smith was GM or involved in Latin America.
  17. old nurse
    The 2006 Royals had a young John Buck and an injury year for Greinke. That is how long a rebuild can take.
  18. old nurse
    Is there something wrong with the players we have been getting out of Venezuela and the Dominican? Sanao, Arcia, and Santana on the 25 man, Polanco, Vargas, Vielma, Javier, Diaz, Landa, Romero, Randy Rosario, Jorge and Palacios on the top prospect lists. There are a quite a few others not on lists. Smith might not know how to run a major league team but it would appear he has some success with obtaining talent in Venezuela and the Dominican
  19. old nurse
    The draft is part of the CBA. The draft and international signing pools involves close to 300 million dollars. That is not insignificant to the players. The ability to have something to negotiate to he owners is not insignificant to the players. What they give up does not effect them but it does give something of value to the owners if that total goes down
  20. old nurse
    Not quite 3 years past the draft it would be foolish to call the picks punts. Maybe Epstien took a page out of the draft players by cost book that Hoyer picked up in San Diego, but they still would be looking for potential. The draft resembles a crap shoot so anything after getting a superstar player is icing on the cake. Plus it offers a chance to brag about being smarter.
  21. old nurse
    Hmmm, If Buxton is kept down too long the wolves say the team is retarding his development. If he is down too short of time, the team is rushing and ruining him. The wolves have stinky breath because there really is no way to know beforehand.
  22. old nurse
    Ending college eligibility for entering the draft would effectively end most bargaining power the players have entering the system. Owners would love that. International draft could save the owners money. The only way the players allow those kind of changes is if they are getting something in return. The big loser would be the players drafted, work hard, but never make it to the major leagues. Alex Wimmers may never make the majors. He at least was paid 1.3 million for his efforts. The qualifying offer bit will change. What the players give up to get that change remains to be seen. A team getting a pick for not signing a top ranked prospect is a between club thing that I doubt will change. Too many clubs have benefited by it. Hard values for draft positions would clean up a lot of things. Agents will fight that tooth and nail. It would be then unlikely that a player would need an agent until they are arb eligible. Owners would go for that in a heartbeat.
  23. old nurse
    Jay started in high , A and has been in the organization for less than a year. That is fast track for the Twins. Sorry the jab was too subtle. The fast track will become the jogging track if he doesn't move up to AA at midseason. As long as this season has felt, it is not mid season yet.
  24. old nurse
    Any change to the draft would be to the extent on how the rules take money from the players, specifically free agent compensation. Picks for not signing picks do not cost the players money. Trading of draft picks might come into play if the union figures that it will increase teams taking risks on signing free agents. Increasing competitive balance picks might be something pushed as it gives something to the bad teams at the expense of the wealthy teams. The wealthier teams then spend more money (well maybe). . In the end for the union it is first and foremost money to them first. They learned it from the owners
  25. old nurse
    I would also add with draft pools it would not be unreasonable to draft the hard to sign player. If he does not sign they get a pick next year, thus increasing their pool and flexibility.
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