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  1. old nurse
    Within a 6 year window there may be a couple of constants on the team. A team is always rebuilding. The teams with bigger budgets maybe more. The notion of a rebuild should have been planted in people’s minds 3 months ago. Short term memory loss has 2 causes that might be applicable here
  2. old nurse
    Maybe what you have just proven is that being a top 100 prospect ism’t all that it is made to be by the fans.
  3. old nurse
    2 things the red box on the front page no longer shows ancient history hubris is king in Twins Territory, of course that guy thinks he can do better, just like Falve was happy with the roster at the start of every season
  4. old nurse
    Hajair, CES and Steer for Mahle with Hajair getting traded for Benson. Cue up Gonna be a heartache tonight. Benson showed promise and then couldn’t hit. Hajair and Mahle got derailed by injuries. CES showed some hitting ability his 2023 season and hasn’t made contact since. Steer put up almost 3 war his first season and has been near replacement level since. His arbitration projection is 4.5 million. Consider the stink made here about Larnach at the same arb number and Wallner after a down year, what pitchforks would be out for Steer here?
  5. old nurse
    SWR had a better ERA this year than Misiorowski or Sasaki this year so shining might not be what you think it is. Lewis came up and shined upon arrival, but an injury and forgetfulness happen.
  6. old nurse
    Sano was the high ceiling 1b when they got here.. they didn’t plan on an implosion. They drafted Sabato in 2020 for heir apparent. After the Sano implosion, Kirriloff was plan A while Sabato developed. Kaboom. No plan C
  7. old nurse
    If you look at failure rates of the ranked top 100 players, outside of the top 20, the failure to develop into a major league player was way over 50%. So out of the top 20 list that you present, the Twins would be successful to have 3 years out from the list making to have produced 2 All Star pitchers, an all star in the making with Varland, a developing solid starter in SWR, a middle reliever, a 3 year major league role player in Steer, and 3 to be determined outfielders. The Mirandas and Julians are not the outlier examples
  8. old nurse
    Lack of attention to detail?
  9. old nurse
    Just my opinion but from early on good hitters play more so the focus is on learning to hit, working on hitting. Defense comes second. Once a professional, hitting continues to get you playing time, defense is second. Once you get to mlb, hitting gets you paid. Just ask Royce Lewis. Now when this outfit took over, the focus was 3 outcome baseball. That type of hitter, being athletic was secondary. Fielding is more athletic. The high draft picks were not athletic, the later round draft picks who were athletic did not get hits. To turn that around cannot be done as easily as retooling the Ford plant. It is more like moving a barge with a john boat with a 9 horse motor rather than a tugboat. It will get done, but it will take time.
  10. old nurse
    The manager has the limitation of the players they have. The players they have are determined by the front office so any manager kind of has to be a yes man for the front office. The manager is the one who has to make the view work. So a manager can end up looking like a yes man for the FO. It is pointless to to try to make the players something they are not
  11. old nurse
    For whatever reason the command part of Ober’s game was missing. Whether something was off physically all year with him would be the first question. Was he in a predictable pattern with his pitches? Sometimes a pitcher being schizoid would be a goos thing
  12. old nurse
    You read everyone’s comments? I would think “I’m flying in Winchester Cathedral” might be more like it
  13. old nurse
    So then they should be firing the whole minor league crew. Managers, coaches and development staff because that is where the failure is at. They should be firing all of the players because ultimately that is where the problem is at
  14. old nurse
    Arizona had a much larger local television contract. Amazing what an extra 30-40 million cash do for a team.
  15. old nurse
    The Dodgers have been to 5 of the last 9 World Series with a payroll that is 100 to 200 million more than the Twins. Thinking that a different owner is going to come in and spending that kind of money is pure fantasy. Also note they haven’t won them all It is hard to say when the team will have the harmonic convergence of talent needed to get to the World Series. With the extended playoffs it really takes having 4 quality starters come through. 2023 was their shot. Unfortunately by playoff time, Ober and Ryan were worn down. The team did not have a couple of the average players come up big
  16. old nurse
    When Larnach was drafted 3 outcome batters were analytically preferred. Much to Larnach’s luck they changed the ball making him have warning track power. He and the coaches never found the adjustment. Now the paradigm also includes running after the ball. Unfortunately Larnach will not get much faster even if he tries to .
  17. old nurse
    They may look to grab but they do not keep.
  18. old nurse
    666. Has many meanings. Make it 6.66 and you say, not yet a major league pitcher
  19. old nurse
    What the Athletics said or did that unlocked his potential i don’t think anyone has a hitting coach for each side of the plate, though it may be lefthanders have a whole different thought process
  20. old nurse
    Larnach needs to talk to Rooker.
  21. old nurse
    No you didn’t say build. There is also really no point in adding a player that is not adding to your team. Like Larnach and Clemens, he can cheaply fill a spot until the team can find someone better
  22. old nurse
    You can have an opinion. You can accuse someone of cherry picking stats when you have no idea what they mean. Neither player has shown that they are a player to build around. One is no better than the other, one is no worse. The Reds number 1 prospect is a 1b/3b they traded for Hayes and his long term contract this year knowing Sal Stewart would be a major league player in 2026. That tells you what the Reds think of Steer.
  23. old nurse
    I am sure that a geek with the ability to sort out files from fangraphs can come up with accurate data. The data to me really doesn’t say much about who is good at drafting. To me the order of who is good at drafting would be determined by dividing fwar by number of players as sort of a first way to look at it. The second way would be to look at players who produced multiple years of fwar at a solid level. That is who is good at drafting
  24. old nurse
    You did not offer one shred of evidence that Steer is a better player than Wallner. Now for an unfounded claim on trades, you obviously haven’t looked at the Eds outfield problems. They did try to play Steer there but it was worse defense than he had in the infield.
  25. old nurse
    From a facebook post that was difficult to copy into thisThe above site also had this Total WAR by each teams draft picks for the past 10 years Top 3... You read that right... 83 Wins Over Replacement! (fWAR - Fangraphs) 41 draft picks have made the MLB! #LetsGoGuards H/T BrooksGate on X Also somewhere else it was noted that Houston produced hitters, Cleveland pitchers. The Twins need to poach somebody from Houston to balance their drafts
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