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  1. old nurse
    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.
  2. old nurse
    Nobody appears to be bashing him. If anything there is glorification of him.
  3. old nurse
    Well, your thinking is based on bias but that is ok.. You need to chuck eggs
  4. old nurse
    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,
  5. old nurse
    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
  6. old nurse
    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.
  7. old nurse
    The Athletic and SKOR North separately reported the opposite was true
  8. old nurse
    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?
  9. old nurse
    There were mot 29 other openings. Hyperbole to make a point sucks
  10. old nurse
    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”.
  11. old nurse
    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.
  12. old nurse
    In his rookie year their numbers were similar
  13. 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
  14. 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.
  15. 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
  16. 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?
  17. 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.
  18. 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
  19. 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
  20. old nurse
    Lack of attention to detail?
  21. 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.
  22. 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
  23. 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
  24. old nurse
    You read everyone’s comments? I would think “I’m flying in Winchester Cathedral” might be more like it
  25. 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
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