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  1. old nurse
    The 2 cents ain’t even worth a plugged nickel
  2. old nurse
    Which fans? The ones who say the Illiches are cheap? The ones who say the Illiches are cheap while wearing a knockoff t-shirt bought at the gas stain for $10? The ones who say this group ain’t as good as when they had Miggy and Verlander.? The ones who say the prospects aren’t any good? You know the answer to your question
  3. old nurse
    The players that are minor league contracts with an invite happen now and December. The lower level free agents likely sign late hoping for a better contract unless it is a team they want to play for. Joe made the right size comment in Feb, i doubt that it was an impulse decision. They likely know by November what the budget will be
  4. old nurse
    It is a way to put. Pressure on the owners, so the insider might have leaked something with Buxton’s. Knowledge of it.
  5. old nurse
    They likely are not in a contention widow unless the add itching. The lack of pitching behind Skubal doomed them. Their batters had career years even after fading down. The stretch
  6. old nurse
    Not is not true according to the rumored asking price
  7. old nurse
    In the early days of TD there was a kerfuffle over BABIP and pitchers. The pitcher I think was Maddux. That long ago. The comments on regression. I found a Tom Tango piece that said that for pitchers BABIP normalizes at about 1000 innings. That would be somewhere around 4000 batters. So for the batter it should normalize in 4000 PA. By then the aging curve has set in
  8. old nurse
    Falvey has not traded a front line starting pitcher. You can’t hold him accountable for what came before him
  9. old nurse
    My bad for not adequately defining star. My mind set it to elite, you to very good
  10. old nurse
    League average BA .231, League average BABIP .279. Keaschall’s difference falls in line with league average. Above average ball to bat skills allows for more hits. Above average speed allows for more hits. So if a .340 some BABIP is is luck, Joe Mauer having that for the 14 seasons he played makes him a modern day luckiest player ever.
  11. old nurse
    If BABIP at .340 is abnormally high then baseball isn’t supposed to have .300 hitters. Any good hitter then does not strike out .040 point difference between BA and BABIP I think was about where sustainability is achieved. Can’t remember the exact why of how that worked. It was Danny Santana’s miracle year. Keaschall does have a lot of infield hits as speed helps. He also had a lot of short outfield hits. The defense can’t play up, they can’t play deep
  12. old nurse
    Yup, bottom half of baseball with those numbers. Try again
  13. old nurse
    How many star players have been traded in the last 20 years that have resulted in the team getting back a star caliber player equivalent to what they traded? You found one.
  14. old nurse
    If I was a star baseball player the money doesn’t matter when it comes to staying in a city I do not want to be in. I have caught more flack for being the one to remind people that little things like the lack of attendance when the Twins have a winning team drives the payroll than you can imagine judging by your retort
  15. old nurse
    The notion that a player is the team’s until they die went out with the Curt Flood ruling which was so long ago people should understand what it means. When trades are made because of money and impending free agency you can’t hold the post free agency date against the team that traded the player. It should be a pretty basic thing but far too many b people here do not seem to realize that money matters
  16. old nurse
    The Berrios trade. The players Twins received have produced more bWAR for the Twins than Berrios produced in his controllable years in Toronto. Don’t like that way of looking at it? SWR had more WAR than Berrios. Still don’t like that way? SWR has never been a losing pitcher in a playoff game, unlike Berrios. Not a fair comparison, but it could be a parameter used.
  17. old nurse
    People forget that when Falvey took over it was 3 outcome baseballl. The changes made to the baseball shifted the paradigms. Defense became more important when HR became more difficult to obtain. After a few more years the analytics changed for when to steal. Sabato was the last of the lumbering lumber players it does take ime to develop a player. There is the sage shaman’s observation “We want the the world and we want d we want it now”
  18. old nurse
    You talked of a 1 40 million payroll https://www.mlb.com/twins/team/front-office Fire ever vice president. Andy McPhail never needed them. How assistant coaches and other coaches did TK have? He did alright. Fire the game day experience person, except if she doubles as the Sober Cab, lots and lots of people. Might as well fire the marketing people, too. All that should surely get the player salary up to Maylor money
  19. old nurse
    Negative OAA, DRS and UZR as CF
  20. old nurse
    every team is built on hope. Baseball is a game of uncertainty. All you ever have is hope it works out
  21. old nurse
    The Dodgers won the deal if you talk about the season. Hard to say what would happen if they retain Byrnes. Now winning the trade is a different story Ortiz can’t hit, DL Hall is Diabled List Hall. Maybe that is fair compensation for 1 year,
  22. old nurse
    Every team always want to improve their talent. Did not say it was a plan to hope for regression. If you looked at the through game stats over the season, most of the Detroit hitters fell off as the years went on. There is a reality to regression. It really did happen with the Tigers. That is not hoping, Sorry that me mentioning it causes you such anguish,
  23. old nurse
    No doubt he would sign here no
  24. old nurse
    Your comment attacked the notion that Detroit will regress and Cleveland with their pitchers. That is a really different way to say the Twins need better talent. Really, really different way. The Twins don’t have a Skubal. Lopez and Ryan though more than make up for it because as the season played out last season, they really don’t have a proven 2 starter. There lineup consists of non star players. Torres is a free agent. The rest had career years. You want to have an opinion that is better, so be it. There is data out there. You want to ignore it, so be it You want to be negative on the talent of the Twins, so be it. Why bother to follow a team when all you want to do is be negative?
  25. old nurse
    They could trade one or two of Larnach, Roden, Outman and Martin and the return might be a AAA reliever. If a team is contending they will want better than these. If they are not contending they would have to have a belief that they can become regular outfielders to build around. None of them have shown that.
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