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  1. old nurse
    A Pat Murphy type hire is a short term hire. It is also a concession to if you did hire someone good, somebody will offer them more money. The Twins have always been a budget restrained team. The monetary gap between the budget teams spending and those that don’t has grown.. When the team expanded the budget and were in first place in the division, there was a few more fans but not like other cities. It is unlikely the team would try that again. They will have to assemble teams like Ryan did for winning teams. Players that work hard at their craft in all phases of the game and are ball rats is what he built and left for Smith. The hardest thing to find for a manager is one that likes to build over and over again. Maybe that is a good reason to hire a college coach like another team did
  2. old nurse
    It can’t be done in a simple sentence and you did not follow multiple sentences
  3. old nurse
    You sure there was not consequences. Jonas Bride managed to play in 33 games
  4. old nurse
    History would say you are correct. Hiring a manager almost always ends up looking like a mistake. That is why so many of them get fired. An optimistic guess would be about a 5% chance of hiring a manager that won’t be fired
  5. old nurse
    You just laid out why I was correct in my statement with your comment on their needs for pitching now and in the future. The same scenario holds true for their position players. The Mets have been trying to win for a few years. They have not traded a prospect that wasn’t a suspect. They haven’t made a trade for a big time player since Lindor. 5 years ago.
  6. old nurse
    You can question a comment. Now try knowing understanding developing people’s talent. It is neither linear nor does it have to be age related.. a lot of good players develop late
  7. old nurse
    Thanks for the reminder that with Air Force vets everything had to be in fine detail so they didn’t miss the point
  8. old nurse
    So you are saying you son’s know what a major league starter hits,
  9. old nurse
    Post pandemic the Padres increased their fan total by a million they were traditionally a middle of the league attendance team. I didn’t say the Twins used logic They took a gamble and lost If you would like to compare it to poker, they drew 3 cards to a low pair hoping for a full house p
  10. old nurse
    So you are saying a player that has an OPS in the major league this year that is above average is a depth piece. You are saying that a player with a WRC+ of 113 this year is a depth piece. Roden has a whopping 153 plate appearance in the major leagues and you want to pass that off as a large enough sample size to judge someone who has a .917 OPS in the minor leagues as a bad player That is your prerogative but it does lead me to question if you bother to look anything up
  11. old nurse
    Why would either be a depth piece? Neither really has enough AB to say success or failure
  12. old nurse
    It is quite possible they thought a winning team would bring in fans. When the fans didn’t come out, they had to do something different
  13. old nurse
    When money is not the issue why would the Mets give up good prospects for talent? They will gladly trade the suspects
  14. old nurse
    In 2 years in Seattle Polanco has played at 2b 150 times. Only 119 were complete games there. There was a possibility of 324 games. Playing that way for the Twins they still would have needed a 2b
  15. old nurse
    Equating the Polanco trade with the Twins and Correa is a real stretch. Not the most preposterous thing posted, but close
  16. old nurse
    The tone here over the years has shifted. Hate on everything is in. You are just going to have to change your ways, Sorry your adopted town is now a hellhole of a burning inferno.
  17. old nurse
    So what does that make Seattle who declined Polanco’s option, then resigned him when no other team outbid their paltry offer?
  18. old nurse
    So is it a trade win when Seattle declined the option on his contract. No other team outbid Seattles ow offer of 7 million so Seattle resigned him.
  19. old nurse
    You are either cutting them or keeping them.. you are unlikely to do both. Laweryson did well enough last year to get picked up by a team in need of bullpen help. Topa if a team is not squeezing every last dime would get picked up to see if he can do what he did in Seattle.
  20. old nurse
    If you cut Topa and Laweryson they will not be in your bullpen
  21. old nurse
    Looking at a one year window and also calling mediocrity a cornerstone to winning is not an accurate way to assess for ongoing success. Sorry the rise and falling of the Twins has not shown you that There are only 2 ways to have new talent into the organization to build it. One is to sign a free agent who is either a useful player or a discarded one. One costs a lot of money, one doesn’t. Waiver claims, DFAs Rule V would fit in the discard pile. Then there is amateur talent acquisition. Without having any acumen for that, the team would have nothing to shuffle for trades. Your method of evaluating talent acquisition ignores the cost of acquisition.
  22. old nurse
    Your research does nothing to identify the process. Miami is built the same way as Milwaukee. There is a difference in results
  23. old nurse
    Parker’s assessment sounded real good until he mentioned Boone. All the talent, all the early exits in the playoffs.
  24. old nurse
    Probably the only people who think it was a bad trade were those who make anything this FO does into a negative action.
  25. old nurse
    Could you all get Stuart Smalley to write these? The Randball Stu wannabes seem to have lost their humor
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