old nurse
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Everything posted by old nurse
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You did not learn what Winston Churchill said about removing all doubt?
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They generally use pitch counts, not innings. It is why there are so few CG in the majors. Since the stat boys follow such stuff, they just might have a clue about limitations.
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Left you speechless ?
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They fired Ryan for total system failure. Pretty much the same team gets into the WC round. The core of Bomba was Ryan’s system failure guys. Sometimes it wasn’t the GM. There always will be fall guys. The club under Bill Smith is an example of when it was right.
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Cleveland did as they have always done. Now if they had won a WS, you would have a point
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Base stealing has gone down for years. I guesss a few 100 managers aren’t as smart as the fans who complain about the lack of base stealing.
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Kyle DeBarge's Glove Proves Golden
old nurse replied to Seth Stohs's topic in Twins Minor League Talk
When you realize 2 of the top offensive were in the WS you will know why they look at batting first. -
Kyle DeBarge's Glove Proves Golden
old nurse replied to Seth Stohs's topic in Twins Minor League Talk
I don’t think anyone in recent history has drawn enough walks and HBP to offset at poor BA -
That has absolutely nothing to do with the Twins other than to say that they need better players.
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The odds of what will happen with the talent you have. Determine what the manager does. He basically was left with small ball talent so he had to play small ball.
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Any owner is not going to spend more than the revenue. A new owner will have a short term tax break if their outside income is high enough to use it.
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You could say that about any of the other candidates, the twins hired many of the other candidates that were hired by other teams or interviewed for other teams.
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Depending on what is out there to sign. Any reliever out there looking for a bounceback year to get a closer contract is going to come here. Same for a catcher, same for 1b. The team may be rebuilding but those holes really don’t have anybody to fill them So the tab well could get up to the 110-120 range.
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Does Anyone Want to Come Here?
old nurse replied to Nick Nelson's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
The in demand free agents never came here. They used the Twins as leverage to get a better contract. Top tiers free agents cost money. Jim Pohlad will probably not sign off on another one after the poor return on investment Correa was. I don’t think there is a single Minnesotan in the major leagues that would put fans in the seats so that signing or trade isn’t going to happen. -
Nobody appears to be bashing him. If anything there is glorification of him.
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Well, your thinking is based on bias but that is ok.. You need to chuck eggs
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Perhaps you ought to look up how the offense has done all year with the non world beaters before running yer keyboard. While it is an accomplishment to score the most runs, it is helpful for that total to have played the second most games ever,
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What Could the Boston Red Sox Offer for Joe Ryan?
old nurse replied to Matthew Lenz's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
The reports at the trade deadline was the Twins wanted one of their mlb outfielders as well as 2 prospects. Boston’s counteroffer was players the Twins did not know. Well, I believe the part about what the Twins wanted. I don’t believe the later statement. Twins wanted too much, Sox counter with a lowball offer. Twins say there is not enough time to research to save face for Boston and keep the door open. Falvey has to win a trade. Boston can’t make another trade mistake. I doubt a deal gets done- 34 replies
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Very good, you came so close to figuring it out but failed so miserably. The manager is as only as good as the talent they have to work with. Joe Maddon was considered a genius with Tampa and the Cubs. With Ohtani and Trout, the Angles couldn’t break .500 with him as manager.
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The Athletic and SKOR North separately reported the opposite was true
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Tom Kelly had a 6 year stretch with a ..424 winning percentage. Does that make him a bad manager, or didn’t have talent to work with? Ron Gardenhire had a stretch of averaging losing 96 games a year. Does that make him a poor manager?
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There were mot 29 other openings. Hyperbole to make a point sucks
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Had a boss one time who was a dynamic, inspirational guy. In orientation he said “If you need me to inspire you to do your job I don’t want you on my team”.
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On a couple of cold winter days I went through the top 100 list and looked at outcomes. The outcomes were different for pitchers and hitters. The bust rate for pitchers was much higher and pretty much did not matter where they were ranked, Hitters was different. Where they finished in the rankings made a difference Top 10 was a high percentage of success. 10-20 a little less successful. 20-30 another drop. Past that the results were similar. Dropping in the rankings was even less successful. Dropping out was almost all busts. However, the once’s that did not bust in the last two categories were pretty exceptional. Memory says three of those were Judge, Matt Olson and Matt Chapman. The specifics are a forgotten memory.
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In his rookie year their numbers were similar
