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  1. old nurse
    The 2006 Royals had a young John Buck and an injury year for Greinke. That is how long a rebuild can take.
  2. 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
  3. old nurse
    One would think that there would be enough scouting done by teams in the minor leagues to know what Dean throws so that coming to the majors it is no shock as to how and what he throws. There really isn't a comparison in Dean to Albers as Albers never really struck out anyone at the major league level. He had 2 games in before teams were prepared. Dean has not faced any teams so far out of the race they do not care (Atlanta, Cincinnati come to mind) so every game has mattered a little bit to the opposing teams.
  4. 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
  5. 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.
  6. old nurse
    Excuse me, a dome south of the border. with a trip to the dl for Canada.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. old nurse
    Maybe Mauer needs to play in a dome capable field. Career .849 OPS in Seattle, 942 in Milwaukee, 1.182 in Miami .939 at Chase. All better than his career OPS of .844
  11. 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
  12. 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.
  13. old nurse
    Draft strategy by Johnson appears to target the higher ceiling HS players first round. Jay was the exception. He appears to be someone they could fast track to the majors. If there is a player at 15 that will be able to fast track they will take that player. otherwise they will take the highest ceiling high school player
  14. old nurse
    Johnson has been drafting for a few years now. Dozier, Darnell, Hermann, Duffey, Rosario, Dean, Hicks, Gibson, Berios and Buxton have seen the major leagues.. Lots of potential in the minors with Jay, Gordon, and Kohl. Then there is what is outside of the first rounders, Chargois, Turner, Gonsalves, Cabbage and Burdi get some rankings as prospects. A few other prospects get some love from other sources, but the draft record is not so good.
  15. old nurse
    A major league roster with Mastro, Boshers, Kinzler, would indicate there will be a few spots open. Abad was a one year contract. By the end of the year the future of the Twins career of Plouffe, Santana, Arcia, Tonkin, Jepsen, Pressly, Centeno, and Dean will be clearer. That is 12 players. There are 15 on the minor league roster that 2019 is far far away in terms of development. Right now I would be hardly sure of many players that would for sure be on the 40 man There are no players that can be free agents by 2019 or 2020 that should be locked up to longer contract. There may be a lot of room on the 40 man for even multiple rule V picks.
  16. old nurse
    Your point was simple enough. On other teams even regularly making the playoffs was not good enough
  17. old nurse
    And only 7 different teams have made the World Series, leading 21 teams to complain how their GM does not get the job done. Hunnington and Hoyer would get a free pass.
  18. old nurse
    Baker had a 5 year run of about 3 WAR/yr. That is hardly a failure. Hendricks was a 170K bonus baby. Not hardly a star in the making, but what you might expect for that money? The pitching equivalent to Sano? . Slowey had 3 fair years, not a failure nor a great success. Merely average. Blackburn was a 29th round draft pick (856 plus a few international free agents were thought to be better players) and they got 2 years of back of rotation service from him, The Twins had 7 first round pitchers selected between Garza and Berrios. Gibson is the only one to make it from that group. That would be the problem of the Twins frontline starters. Is it drafting or development issues? However, since slotting of player bonus took effect the pitching looks more promising.
  19. old nurse
    In that time period there was the unmoveable high contracts of Morneau and Mauer When large chunks of your payroll are going out to players who are injured or career changing injuries, results will be skewed downwards.
  20. old nurse
    Atlanta is the key to Minnesota's roster problem. How many players can they offload for the competitive balance pick? Add a couple of marginal prospects to get a player you want,back
  21. old nurse
    Yup, Pretty much first round picks before the Twins picked on your list. Hello
  22. old nurse
    Other than pitching to AAA batters, if Milone is not doing anything different than he did in the majors the results will be the same as before.
  23. old nurse
    Collectively the 81 Twins had an OPS+ of 78 as opposed to the 84 as last updated. They had an ERA+ of 101 in 81. The wonderful first year players of '81 were brought up late in the year. I guess one should wait for a more accurate comparison. Remember also it suits him, Ruesse is using career stats versus what they produced in 1981.
  24. old nurse
    Maybe they can trade him for a comp pick.
  25. old nurse
    Outside of Boston, nobody has done well so far with the draft of 2011. One out of three of the top 20 have developed, very few others after that.
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