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  1. old nurse
    The chances of getting a player that approaches the talent of the player you are trading increase as the player you are trading away accumulated WAR approaches zero.
  2. old nurse
    6 years of a player a team is convinced will be good is the bargain no team can pass on. Position players heading down off the list is usually, but not always a bad sign. Pitching prospects and these lists are closer to dues than not.
  3. old nurse
    For every statistic created there are an absurdly high number of people who will use it not as intended. There are also people who will never understand context and statistics.
  4. old nurse
    Quality players the Mets have traded for in the Moneybags Era Lindor Baez Mullins None were a pitcher. What did the Mets give up? Giiminez and Rosario have had moments, but not this year 2 suspects. Next Pete Crow-Armstrong as a 18 or 10 year old. Acting GM was Aved GM. Next, low level prospects. It is not going to be earth shattering news that somebody would trade for Ryan or Buxton. Don’t expect to like the return from the Mets
  5. old nurse
    What? 3-4 games isn’t enough? Isn’t it just 3-7 steps stepping backwards and let it fly? shuffle over to the side a little bit to avoid a tub of lard landing on you. Surely the game is that simple. Least it was that way in elementary school
  6. old nurse
    If Buxton is waiving his no trade clause it would seem reasonable to consider he would want a significant raise and added years. Sandy Anderson said that after the Verlander and Scherzer flop for money that the Mets were going to have to develop more in house talent. Their pitching has been not an asset. I doubt they would give up what they have difficulty procuring. It would take a sharp computer programmer to figure out what Mets prospects in the lower ranks are going to be good. The Twins only have one pro scout
  7. old nurse
    The point was why one would keep Larnach. Yup Roden hasn’t had much of a chance to prove himself. 4 outfielders and a DH. Larnach is the number 5 of those 5 positions By June or July. The situation could be changed, for the better or worse.
  8. old nurse
    5 minutes is an extraordinary amount of work?
  9. old nurse
    Matt Wallner has not played a full season of MLB ball, needing to be sent down Clemens spent like 87% of his playing time in the infield. Roden hasn’t shown he can hit mlb pitching Rodriguez hasn’t shown he doesn’t need a backup plan Jenkins has even proven he can hit AAA pitching Mendez hasn’t even seen AAA They had to keep Larnach at this point
  10. old nurse
    This issue I was responding to was about luck. Twins were unlucky in thay draft. Lewis claimed to not be injured the econd half of last year. You can’t use the injury excuse
  11. old nurse
    You are confusing rankings with a team’s knowledge of the player..
  12. old nurse
    Real good player are unlikely to be traded for a 2 years of control. player who does not have a history of elevating in the playoffs. Just like with the Nelson Cruz trade, teams do make mistakes when they. Need a player for a push.
  13. old nurse
    Maybe the bad luck is who they drafted
  14. old nurse
    The Royals did win the WS. They had a long run of mediocrity since. The Greinke trade shows if you have an elite talent you can get good prospects from a team. I don’t think anyone on the Twins current roster put up a 10 war season like Greinke did
  15. old nurse
    I liked when the blogger stated players were on the wrong side of 30 as one reason why a team would trade for Buxton
  16. old nurse
    There is a difference between opinion pieces and journalism. Most columnists slip into opinion pieces as there is the desire to be first to report. There is no penalty for being wrong. Did Buxton say he would accept a trade? Maybe, maybe not. Maybe there are conditions attached. That is as reasonable assumption. As saying he asked for a trade. Rebuild? That is what small market teams do every year.
  17. old nurse
    The Stewart trade was a player that was injured for most of 5 years for a player that was mostly ineffective for two. There are no winners in that type of trade, The Twins did not have to pay for Stewart’s surgery and rehab. That was the only win. Jax had said he wanted to start. Maybe Tampa will give him the chance the Twins were not going to give him. A failed starter that is now disgruntled for a failing starter is about even. Correa on the way out said that he had been asking to not play shortstop anymore. The trade was better than a salary dump. It was moving what was becoming a negative before the team had to pay more to move on from the player. That would be a win of a move, but also makes the whole Correa signing a bigger loss
  18. old nurse
    Lewis might have had the highest ceiling. The question would be who was going to be the best player. McCarthy might have had the highest ceiling of the QBs available, at the time the Vikings drafted. He also had the longest climb to get there
  19. old nurse
    The numbers made up the reporting may have come from a team wanting to trade for him. Sort of like when the Joel Sherman reports on what the Twins want to do. The possibility of for the clause being waved? 4/120. Like Passan, I picked numbers out of the air. It is not as messy as those who pull them from somewhere else
  20. old nurse
    Last time the Twins had the first pick they chose the guy who would sign for less. They used the money to sign 2 players who did not come close to panning out. There were some great cases made here for taking Gore or Greene
  21. old nurse
    The only way the Twins are signing Hoskins is if the contract is for one year and the first figure isn’t a crooked number and followed by 6 zeros
  22. old nurse
    The dive will have to be deeper than this to figure out what the Twins will do. Any of these would only be signed at a lower price in late February because no one else was signing them. Look for a Fernando Rodney type signing as well as a couple of unproven arms that they think Hawkins can fix. I don’t think they will go the oft injured pitcher route again
  23. old nurse
    Every team has that challenge. I think the hard part is knowing when to trade them for other talent.
  24. old nurse
    The average age of MLB players is somewhere over 28 years old. As the excuse for failure is below average age for level there should be a few breakout stars on the parent club. Of course if Scherzer Verlander and Hill retired thr average age of the MLB players would drop at least by one year
  25. old nurse
    A lot of angst over what is a work in progress. The assumption that the current 40 man is what will be is a stretch. The bargain bin really has not been made available for shopping.
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