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  1. old nurse
    None that I saw, I did see you posting a lot of opinions
  2. old nurse
    Yet you offer no objective analysis that he was bad at the job, just opinion
  3. old nurse
    Shumaher worked for the Rangers. As manager in waiting. He was also interviewed for managerial jobs and not hired. Before taking the Texas job. To be another Schumaker is why the Twins job should be more appealing for the up and coming manager,
  4. old nurse
    McPhail became McFail after leaving the Twins. Rantz;s farm system quit producing talent long before he left, Kelly has been advisor to the Twins since retiring from managing
  5. old nurse
    Texas has an aging core. Sustaining even their .500 status is not certain. They are not an ideal long term job
  6. old nurse
    Easier to write negative articles than it is to explain why somebody may be good. Easier to write conjecture than dig for the facts. Looking for the nuance takes thinking and time. There isn’t the money in fan sites to take that sort of time
  7. old nurse
    If I person wants to manage, has faith in their abilities to get the most out of position players it is not a bad job. The ceilings on man of the players is in the 3-4 WAR range. Lewis, Walner and even Julian have flashed that potential. Lee was a top 20 prospect.then there is Keaschall and the other ranked prospects. It is not an easy job, but moderate success will get that person jobs. It is just a matter of believing the rankings and your abilities. There are only 30 jobs. Craig Council in Milwaukee is an example of that.
  8. old nurse
    Talking to people who think they know all is a very difficult thing to do. Very few people master it
  9. old nurse
    Joe Pohlad and Jim Pohlad are two different people. Sometimes it seems like people can’t figure that out. Any friction they have on how the team is run they are going to keep it fairly quiet. That he says sometimes you have to try something different reflects that. In the media where people take that comment and turn it is why they play it pretty close to the vest. The problem Joe has is that he doesn’t have that much control. Jim still controls the money. Falvey is Jim’s boy. The managerial hire will show if Joe can change the direction. The team is always going to be dependent on development of players. If there are new ideas put in place on players drafted as position players it will take time, hence the pain. I would think that anyone who has followed baseball would understand that. Nick has proved me wrong.
  10. old nurse
    History does repeat itself.
  11. old nurse
    Collaboration has been a Falvey buzzword. There is collaboration of sorts. It starting to seem to me that Jim Pohlad still controls the money supply and Falvey was his hire. Changing that is not happening Little Joe has worked his way up the ladder doing things in the organization to now having some day to day control. Something that he said when they announced 2 investors was that they would bring in new ideas to the organization. That struck me as Gen3 has different ideas than Gen2 Pohlad. Of course a bunch of 70 year olds are old school . It may well be just as Falvey couldn’t fire Molitor without reason, Joe can’t fire Falvey without Jim’s approval. Joe is setting up Falvey to fail much like Falvey set up Molitor to fail in year 2. Stretch him thin, hit the organization where Jim will do something about it. Just a thought
  12. old nurse
    Attendance has pretty much followed wining. The 2 exceptions were Paul Molitor playing and the opening of Target Field. There is no comeback for Molitor, there is no native son that will be able to be added as a star from another team anytime soon.
  13. old nurse
    20 vice presidents of something. 22 Senior directors. It is really poor writing to say that someone is in over their head in an organization that you really don’t have any idea who does what, who has some autonomy, how much better or worse departments are working on the business side. Joe Pohlad supposedly oversees the day to day operations. Jim Pohlad makes the money decisions. The former was announced in stories here, the later should be obvious from the Correa trade.
  14. old nurse
    It is a no lose situation. If a new manager improves the multitude of players that are performing worse than their perceived talent the manager becomes a genius and valuable. The bar is low, better than 90 losses.
  15. old nurse
    Over 2700 PA by position players with a worse fwar and having at least 50 PA. Another way to look at numbers, there were 196 players with a worse WRC+ and 50 AB. No idea how many of either groups were catchers as so many can’t hit
  16. old nurse
    Through a regular season yes on 4-5 outfielders. For a month and a half or less with the uncertainty of both of them as starters, they need to be everyday starters to see with a bit of a grind.
  17. old nurse
    It means if someone wants to blow them away with a trade offer they will listen. My suspicion from the comment that Boston came in too late with an offer meant that there was a good potential for the trade but the scouting department did not have adequate information for them to make a trade So yes they could be traded, but only if the price is right
  18. old nurse
    Bader has a 10 million mutual option for next. A bad 3 year stretch before this year and being 32 might be a deterrent to the large contract. If he likes the Phillies and they like him I could understand him agreeing to stay for 10 million. The Mendez angle to the story is just the usual clickbait. As far as 40 man spot goes, there are at least a dozen that could be let go off the 40 man Given that they need to add a half dozen bullpen arms they can’t keep everyone that is rule 5 eligible. There is sure to be plenty of those types of articles soon enough
  19. old nurse
    On Larnach, counting stats from playing the more than others are not the correct way to look at him. He has a serviceable OPS against RH pitching. Leverage index numbers may suggest a better production out of Larnach would be a possible improvement. I don’t know if many of the bloggers here would dive that deep or know what is good or bad for those numbers. People here think they will keep Outman because he was traded for. When the dust settled and they had a better idea of what they traded for, they fired most of the scouts. Don’t bet on Outman or Roden being in a Twins uniform next season Pereda was sent back down when Vasquez got healthy. Others remained that could have been sent down. Don’t bet on Pereda being in a Twins uniform next year except in case of injury
  20. old nurse
    Rocco gave Martin consistent AB and he appears to have made the adjustments. Outman got the AB and appears to not adjusted. There are only two OF spots at a time to work on development as long as Buxton is healthy. The could have just stuck Julian at 1b every game to make his future clearer. They really had nothing to lose. In last year’s collapse Festa and Mathew’s were never yanked for bad performances, They and SWR always got their 80 pitches in to learn. It is debatable if they have learned. It seems like there are glimmers there. Looking at the makeshift bullpen, everybody got their turn in to see what was there. The initial waiver claim people were eventually scrapped. Funderburk, Topa and Sands got their chances at high leverage situations. The surprise was Funderburk was the one that thrived, The team does work on developing the pitchers.
  21. old nurse
    So you hold other people to a standard that you don’t keep for yourself. Since they hired Baldelli you can find on these pages that they use the term collaboration a lot. You can say what your preference is. That is fine, but it has not been how the team has operated the last 7 years
  22. old nurse
    Era reflects the team behind him. FIP the last 4 years 4.59. 3.99, 4.72, 4.65. That is average. It is the benefit of playing on a good team. Reserve clause went out years ago. The trade was not a massive loss for the Twins.
  23. old nurse
    Without research because I am not geeky enough to use all the fancy stuff on Savant, I have the following opinion on why these guys don’t get much of a chance. They can’t hit the outside edge breaking ball. Minor league pitchers can’t throw it consistently. Make mistakes and it gets whacked. Fastball isn’t good enough either. If they have a breaking ball and a fastball that are good enough the pitcher will be on their way to the majors. The gizmos can help the team figure out the holes in the swing. That is why they don’t get as much of a shot. They get it wrong upon occasion, Hellman, Rooker are 2 examples, but it probably holds fairly true.
  24. old nurse
    Collaboration. If the manager doesn’t like the coach, they don’t get hired. If the front office doesn’t like them, they don’t get hired. Not that hard to figure out, nothing wrong with that process. No need to have an ineffective pitching coach for a decade because they are buddies with the manager
  25. old nurse
    You did not pay attention to pitch counts. Good outing, bad outing, older pitchers got into the 90s with pitch, younger ones 80. It has been pretty consistent that way the last few years with the pitchers.
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