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  1. old nurse
    King Hoyer was successful in signing pitchers to deals and getting something in return, or trading pitchers with one year left on their contract and they were pitching well. Note that it probably helped to have a good to great defense behind them. The great trades all involved shipping someone out at midseason to a contender.
  2. old nurse
    The Rays reportedly want Gallo for Odorizzi If true, the chance of a minor deals can be made goes up because the price of front line is too high.
  3. old nurse
    By WOBA Plouffe has a slightly above average bat by league standards the 2 seasons previous to this. one. By slugging percentage a slightly higher than average bat. Unfortunately that made him way above average for the Twins. The uncertainty of development, regression, or inability to bat in the 1B/OF/DH /C slots made it hard for roster construction. Going into the season with Dozier as your certain bat and Escobar as your only other steady player was a little to risky for Ryan.
  4. old nurse
    I thought he also had a groin injury. Rather than a bang up year, Plouffe is having a banged up year.
  5. old nurse
    No one is calling him a savior, as no one should be calling a ss playing CF having a career year a long term savior, either.
  6. old nurse
    Not necessarily. Not finding a multi year contract once and losing a large chunk of cash, you can't be certain he would not take an QO. The draft pick would also be at the end of the first round,. The difference in prospect and pool money is quite different
  7. old nurse
    At the price of a first round draft pick Desmond was not a buy low candidate. Atlanta has paid 4 million for a late second round pick, If it was at the expense of 10th round pick you could be correct it was a buy low case. I notice the article was not that the Twins should have signed Austin Jackson. Why? 20/20 hindsight
  8. old nurse
    Time will also tell if one year of Desmond would have been worth the career of Kirilloff. There was a reason he was available and cheap.
  9. old nurse
    The alternatives were what? With that defense they have have had the last few years you would need to have a pitcher with a double digit k/9 to be effective. Maybe you all would rather just have a staff of Walters, Albers, Hendrik and Vasquez. At least there was a chance with a better starting point. Yes there is a risk of injury and decline. Actual decline varies from player to player and types of injury.
  10. old nurse
    The message has been pretty much the same. We have to figure out what we are doing wrong. We. Not they. We. That should pretty much lay clear the plan. We means management is not going anywhere. Is it their view on how baseball should be played? Is it too narrow of a view? Simplistic? Is it the players they draft are not what he scouts said they could be? Is it the development. Fielding errors and the lack of range, which prevents more errors. Something has gone dramatically wrong from the slicker fielding teams of a decade ago. DRS sits at -47. Over 70 runs worse than the better teams. Royals Rangers and Astros are the best defensive teams. Middle of the pack or worse for starting pitching. Defense matters. Just ask Case Fien. Ryan built the first run on solid defense. Where did it go wrong.
  11. old nurse
    A .445 woba in AAA, what is he going to improve there? Like Bradley in Boston, it might take awhile, but AAA isn't the answer.
  12. old nurse
    I think Hu became a better prospect in the eyes of many of these people because Ryan traded him. Stats versus stuff. The inabilities of a Meyer to break on through can be contrasted by the last 2 seasons of Milone who might have a AAA ERA the last 2 seasons under 1 and you are probably well aware of MLB outings.
  13. old nurse
    He has an .815 ops. and a 7.7 bb% this year. Either the 5-10 is way generous or the 155 is low. He does't look 30 pounds lighter than Escobar (b ref lists him at 185) Esobar, though as a 150# prospect hicagonow.com/future-sox/files/2012/01/Escobar.jpg
  14. old nurse
    You are making the assumption that the scouts are following the directive. The scout through player development cycle isn't something those outside the organization have the information to really judge what part of the system is broken. Maybe it is the organizational philosophy. But if they are not finding or developing the players, you don't know if it is that. There is the mantra of best player available. The term best player available still has more a a definition than that. Pitcher with control or power. Both types can be dominating. The guess of the two would be part in the scout's assessment, part in how the development staff works. It is hard to say which part is the failure with the information available.
  15. old nurse
    I didn't think I had to list every trade to prove the point. I thought it was clear. I said if Ryan is offered something he views as more than what he gives up he will make the trade. Far different than what you took it to mean for some reason. Meyer was viewed as top of the rotation potential. If that potential had been met, it would have been a great trade for the Twins. Ryan would know the risk. If Chas Utley went down with a catostrophic injury and the Dodgers called thinking Dozier was the cure to what ails them and offered DeLeon, Ryan would make the trade if he thought the team would be better off. Not the best example I can think of, but maybe you get the idea. The Twins do not have a lot right now to use for examples of medium to high level players one would trade for a prospect that has some risk attached to them. .
  16. old nurse
    Whatever the hell you want it to mean
  17. old nurse
    Bu UZR 150 and fangraphs . Since 2013 276 people have played at least 250 games in the outfield. Oswaldo ranks as the 48th worse. Inside edge ranks him 21 worse
  18. old nurse
    What one would not know if they shopped Arcia then and was getting little in return offers. At that point you still did not know what you had in any of the young outfielders. Fair game to say take a chance anyway, but anything less than a B prospect or back of the pen type pitcher (already had too many back of rotation pitchers even then) would have been met with scorn for the next 5-20 years. What they got now might not have been any different than what they might have been offered then. As the Revere trade showed, Ryan will take offers for player he thinks he needs but is getting better than what he gives.
  19. old nurse
    Chih-Wei Hu, RHP: Chih-Wei Hu was signed by the Twins as a free agent from Taiwan in 2012 for $220,000. He has pitched very well at the lower levels of the Minnesota farm system, posting a 2.29 ERA with a 48/13 K/BB in 55 innings for Low-A Cedar Rapids in 2014, followed by a 2.44 ERA and a 73/19 K/BB in 85 innings this year for High-A Fort Myers. Hu is a 21-year-old right-hander listed at 6-1, 210 pounds. Despite his impressive statistical performance his stock with scouts is not extremely high. He lacks the physical projection that teams want in a pitcher his age and is unlikely to gain much additional velocity. That said, he does throw 90-92 MPH (occasionally a bit higher) and the fastball plays up due to the contrast with his palmball. Reports on the quality of this palmball vary: some observers say it is a very good, even excellent pitch, while others rate it as fringy at best. It has worked just fine against A-ball hitters. We need to see what happens at higher levels, but Hu has good command and a chance to be a workhorse fourth starter type, or perhaps a reliever. It is not like they traded a potential top or middle of the rotation pitcher.
  20. old nurse
    The are middle of the pack when it comes to lob%. for fip Nolasco is 37 out of 97 pitchers who have pitched qualified innings, 43 out of 135 starters who have pitched 50 innings. FIP has limitations. WPA has the Rays as 12th in the league. That is a disaster
  21. old nurse
    No, the point was minor league numbers do not mean as much as some would have them be. A Hu Slowey comparison is a bit off. Less further off than a Stewart and Hu comparison. They are all different pitchers. I don't think Hu has been clocked at 97 with his fastball. Hu has the gimmick palmball. I digress, but the last pitcher I remember with a palmball was Bluegill. Bluegill Hughes had some success with it until he did not. Hu projects to be a back of the rotation pitcher at best. To give up that for a player who has had a couple years of success in the mlb is not an evil trade.
  22. old nurse
    Jepsen was never an exclusive closer until Perkins was hurt again.
  23. old nurse
    When you expect to have a staff that would be near the top of the league rather than the middle it would be a disaster. Much like when you have a staff that you expect to be in the middle of the pack and it ends up in the bottom.
  24. old nurse
    From reports with what Stewart is capable of throwing his ceiling is higher than Hu's. Kevin Slowey had similar numbers to Hu's when he was at AAA. How did that work out over time? Also those are Stewart's first 5 games. in AA Believe it or not it might be learning going on and one bad game really skews numbers.
  25. 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.
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