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  1. old nurse
    Perhaps you can provide a source that specifically says that Baldelli would be the one hiring coaches when they were hired.
  2. old nurse
    The Atlanta Braves’ books are a little more open than most teams. Their luxury tax payroll in 23 was 276 million. Their total expenses were 505 million which means everything else with the club cost 230 million. The same year a Pittsburg beat writer got access and found that the club had operating expenses of 171 million. Somewhere in between would be the Twins. In 20 and 21 they did not lay anyone off despite no or decreased fans and revenue. It is entirely possible for the Twins to have run up that much debt.
  3. old nurse
    LaMonte Wade was redundant as an outfielder and not better than Rosario in hitting or fielding. He was not given a chance to unseat Sano at 1b, nor was there a reason at that time to do so. He had 2 okay years, but nothing really to build around The Mahle trade as a bad trade. No health issues as the time of the trade, could have been middle of rotation starter. Spencer Steer had one great full season then mediocrity. Would have fit perfectly into the 2025 Twins. It was neither a good nor bad trade, it is hard to say if it has really worked for either side. If you are good enough to see injuries happening within a month or so you can quit blogging and make more of a fortune as a fortune teller MeGill, it took Milwaukee a year to get him to better pitching. Give them credit for development. Basically you have one bad Lopez trade. Desperation for winning causes teams to do desperate things. Trading for a journeyman having a career year is one of those things.
  4. old nurse
    Perhaps iff Correa had a career OPS and playing time as a Twin, not only would the Twins not have to eat the money, Rocco would still have a job
  5. old nurse
    The myth that any billionaire is spending their own money on the benevolence of the community for a winning team is pretty much pie in the sky thinking. The Mets make 1/3 the money the Yankees do. If Cohen can make the Mets as relevant to New York as the Yankees and make that kind of money he will have doubled his investment. The Twins are not in the Yankees or Mets city or circumstances. San Diego spent to build a contender and it worked. The fans came out, it is the only pro game in town. When the owner died and the tv contract did, they retrenched some of the spending. The fans still came out. That is not the Twins’ situation nor fan base.
  6. old nurse
    Which one is going to be Rocco Lite? Why bother even mentioning people who are outside of the Falvey style?
  7. old nurse
    If the talent level remains the same, the type of candidate will be one that is labeled as can’t develop talent nor handle a pitching staff. If Gonzalez, Emma, and Culpepper come up and shine, it is the manager’s doing. Do you think they are going to hire someone who is not on the same thought pattern as. Falvey.?
  8. old nurse
    2 months ago a large group of players were traded, Outside of Bader, which player wasn’t developed or blossomed as a Twin? Either the angst of trading is misplaced or the Rocco doesn’t develop players is misplaced. Did Joe Ryan come here as a Cy Young candidate? Last spring on thes very same pages Bailey Ober was touted as a Cy Young candidate. Is it on the manager he wasn’t even close to being in the discussion this year. Did Pablo Lopez come here as a Cy Young candidate ? With a new manager is Edouard Julian going to become a GG candidate as well as silver slugger? The real Larnach is going to be a 30/30 guy and hit .300 with Brooks Lee not far behind? Perhaps the new manager will explain pitch counts to the TD people who wonder why pitchers are not pitching high number of innings
  9. old nurse
    Gardenhire was fired for not developing talent. Those 90 loss teams were all the fault of Gardenhire not developing talent. It was all right here on this site, Now he was great at developing talent.
  10. old nurse
    For as long as this site has been in business, anyone making over the minimum gets scrutinized.
  11. old nurse
    What do these people all have in common? Kirby Yates, Ryan Brasier, Ryan Pressly, Liam Hendriks (mutual option) Michael Kopech, Jordan Romano, Paul Sewald (mutual option), Ryne Stanek, Jonathan Loáisiga (club option), T.J. McFarland, Joe Ross, Josh Walker, Andrew Kittredge (club option), Jorge López, José Leclerc, Tim Mayza, Tommy Kahnle, John Brebbia (club option), Tyler Alexander, Kendall Graveman (mutual option), Luke Jackson, Scott Alexander, Lucas Sims, Dillon Tate. Your one clue is that 4 of these players, if available, could make you reach out for prochloroperazene. thans to the Just baseball website for providing the list
  12. old nurse
    Interesting how people forget the 70s, or is this just part of the group think,, everyone has to complain mentality?
  13. old nurse
    Aw, these people get so apoplectic about what someone says with no knowledge of what the team has for a plan.
  14. old nurse
    Pittsburg will hold yhe tiebreaker because they lost more games than the Twins in 24
  15. old nurse
    The comeback for Cleveland is that the Tigers are having an epic collapse. The collapse allowed Cleveland back into it.
  16. old nurse
    The if of a strike depends on what the players think they will gain long term versus what they lose short term in striking. As wages go up and careers for the short tenured players are growing shorter, the cost to strike may be too much of a loss for those players that are Average or less.
  17. old nurse
    The only place a high value was placed on Stewart was by people on this site.
  18. old nurse
    Somewhere in a back closet was Terry Ryan’s playbook on building fan interest in a franchise. Falvey must have recently found it. There are a lot of torn out pages., there are only a few lines now in the book. Paul Molitor is the only player fans have come out to see. Don’t spend the old man’s money, make him a profit. Lastly, when all else fails, try a youth movement. Falvey must have found it a little over a year ago. He shared it with Jim Pohlad. Falvey is now trying the last bit of advice. Jim is now enforcing the second bit of advice.
  19. old nurse
    Since his return at the trade deadline Funderburk has pitched to an ERA. Of 0.78 and a FIP of 2.38. Considering how bad his first half was, that should also be of interest
  20. old nurse
    So he ignores Funderburk. I am not sure if the author thought that any serious look at Funderburk was going to fins smoke and mirrors, there is going to be countless bullpen articles starting next week or he just goesn’t want to say anything nice to jinks him
  21. old nurse
    These are the good old days for the youth of the current time.
  22. old nurse
    Sands, Funderburk, Laweryson, Ohl will get a shot as there is really not much more for him to learn in the minors. They will probably pick up Topa’s option. That is not to say they will all do well, the question was what do I expect them to do. They will still need 3 setup guys and a closer.
  23. old nurse
    I do not think Adam’s and Cabrera will be on the major league club next year
  24. old nurse
    By your own words they came out for the newness in the 60s, and history repeated itself with Target Field . The attendance stayed high for the first 11 years if newness worked that well the attendance at Target Field would have stayed high up to the pandemic. Calvin Griffith and the Pohlads ran the same type of team model. 65 years of the same thing. Now it breaks the fan base? That is absurd.
  25. old nurse
    The players traded for Dyson amounted to replacement level players. That is hardly a shellacking, more like nothing for nothing. Lamont had a couple good years, but he was practically a bat only player.
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