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  1. old nurse
    Your examples of managers replaced were managers who proved they could not win. Gardenhire has won when he has had the players, lost when he hasn't
  2. old nurse
    Symbolic gestures are meaningless and empty. Fire somebody for what? Symbolism? Hard to argue that one.
  3. old nurse
    Answer how do you find even middle of the road pitchers? How do you predict injuries? How do you predict development curves for your minor league players? How does changing a manager win more games with the same group of players?
  4. old nurse
    Changing managers without changing the core group of players in any sport rarely makes the team any better. The transition from Kelly to Gardenhire is one of the few examples I can remember where the only major change in the team was the manager and the pitching coach
  5. old nurse
    Yet there would be a few thousand extra fans come because it is cheap beer night.
  6. old nurse
    Very true, so why the angst over Bernier not Polanco. Advanced baseball skills are not a skill that is learned by watching.. Sanatana should be getting the reps a ss, Hicks in the OF. Seth called it troling, I call it making a mountain out of nothing.
  7. old nurse
    Polanco would more than likely be on a reserve list for a Dominican team thus not eligible for AFL. I fail to see how sitting on the bench behind Santana would help him. Let him have a month off. He will get time to play in the winter league. The Twins would hope at SS rather than 2b.
  8. old nurse
    43 days on the roster for pension, 1 day for lifetime healthcare. The minimum pension is 34k/yr. 10 yrs/100k for pension. For everything else it is pro rated. For some of the fringe players cycled through the Twins, the last few years, their time here was very valuable. Albers, Komatsu Kris Johnson and a few others should be thankful for the Twins. Pension does not kick in until age 62. They still have to find some work.
  9. old nurse
    Every team gets an All Star, even if the person is not deserving. Fans select players, even if they are not deserving. Host team bias comes in. Ii is a unique way to look at things.
  10. old nurse
    I think that Mauer has been unlucky with where foul tips have caught him. I don't think you could ever call him the toughest player but he resisted moving out from catcher for awhile. It is not like he wanted to take an easier path to paycheck. If not for the concussions I think he would still want to be catching. I therefore do not think you could call him soft. Perhaps using Kirk Gibson as a standard of toughness is appropriate. In Gibson's career he never played every game in a season. 3 times in 16 years he played more than 135. 8 times more than 100. For the one person who might not know, he was an outfielder, not a catcher.
  11. old nurse
    I think the brass expected this type of result from May. It would be why explain whu they waited so long to bring him up.
  12. old nurse
    Nitpic I did not know that opinions from old stories had to be referenced here. it is called google There are several stories that say it was likely due to virus as well as. ones that say Dr. Mauer didn't believe it was viral. But as the headline says, everyone is a doctor. Except for me, of course. http://minnesota.twins.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20110415&content_id=17811516&vkey=news_min&c_id=min
  13. old nurse
    The cancer was treated. There are follow up visits, but there should be no health concerns. Recccurent cancer of his type is about 5%
  14. old nurse
    They did not learn after Joe Mays not to give a pitcher that relies on pinpoint control al large contract. Generally are not the same after injury. Periipheral numbers also were not kind to Joe
  15. old nurse
    My point really was there wasn't that much money spent in free agency that lumping it all togetherr was going to get you some really good player. . Your point appeared to be they should have spent it all on one player. If it is the process of how they add players,, ok. When you have to add players there are a few different ways. Free agency is one. Were the contract signed indicative of recent play by the players? Cirillo was around a 1.5 war player the previous 2 years. Rondel White the same. The pricetag was to what they performed as. The expectation was that was the kind of player you were signing. That is not unreasonable. Ramon Ortiz has tantalized GMs for 10 years. Ryan is but one of many. At least he got a prospect. I thought Ponson was a minor league invite. Regardless, he did not stay long. And yes, they could have had a better evaluation process. How else should have they added talent that year. Hindsight to say you should have signed Hunter at 5/75. Easy to say if they were not going to sign him they should have traded him. Leading up to the 2007 season they had 12 prospects that graded B or higher. That would have been so smart to trade the right 10. I could be so smart and say they should have been trading Mauer and Morneau at their peak value that year . Would have brought in a ton of talent. How many years of contact between the 2 ended up or will end up as "dead wood" for what they were or will be paid. Looking back it is easy to say the process was wrong.
  16. old nurse
    Colon should have been behind Rivera in the voting for second place
  17. old nurse
    after the 2004 season they signed 2 players Juan Casro for 2 years, 1 million a year. I don't think anyone would say the Redman was a bad signing or a waste of money 2005 Rondel White for 2 years 2.5 million. 2006 Ortiz and Cirillo. Spent 4.6 mil Got Matt Marci in return. 3 year period. 11 million. Whata could have Ryan gotten with better budgeting over the three years for about 3.5 million per year?
  18. old nurse
    So the front office is capable of doing math.
  19. old nurse
    At this point in their careers with the Twins to demote either Deduno and Swarzak at any point this season would have been pointless. Swarzak is the long guy. He does the role adequately. If he was a better pitcher, he wouldn't be the long guy. His value is that I don't think just anybody is suited to that role, yet you need somebody in the pen who can do that role. Deduno came in the last game and made a bad situation worse. In terms of the bullpen only Perkins and Fien would be locks to come back next year. Pressly is making a good case to stay. Duensing and Swarzak are arb eligible. Duensing at 2 mil and Swarzak at 1 mil may be high for what they have done and the Twins will go another direction . If they do, that leaves 1-4 spots depending on the starters. After the AAA season ends Ibarra, Tonkin and Pryor will be up for their auditions. I would suspect Achter, who is not on the 40 man, would be up only if someone in the pen gets dfad.
  20. old nurse
    A K% of 26.6 % at the major league level. Didn't tabulate the AA level.
  21. old nurse
    Gardenhire tends to use all of his players regularly. The option to have someone at the end of the bench just sitting there fades quickly. How many games did Bartlet get as the 25th man? (Yes I am too lazy to look that up)
  22. old nurse
    Quantify the benefits of Schaffer.. That is the issue. Fuld is what he is. For 2014 he played up to his abilities. Other years he did not. Schaffer is no Fuld. Shaffer would look to be more like Hicks at the major league level
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  24. old nurse
    Ryan said last winter he had to give Gardenhire a better team to work with. He admited he had to do a better job of bringing in players. Is a direct quote on what Ryan thinks of Correia now newcessary to satisy some of hte people here? What does that accomplish. When they signed Correia there was a quote I rewcall reading thta they thought they saw some things they could improve on with Correia. What they thought did not improve him. What good does it do for the team to bring that up? When they tried to get Garza after signing Nolasco and Hughes that should have yold you what they thought of the number 5 pitcher.
  25. old nurse
    http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2014/07/twins-to-extend-kurt-suzuki.html
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