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  1. old nurse
    In terms of fielding and baserunning, the players should have figured that out long before they reach the majors. Hitting is adjusting and learning the pitching. The Twins developed Castro, they didn’t Rooker. Anybody else make it after they left the Twins with say a couple of over a 5 war over a couple year stretch? Wade had 2 very bad years before 2 OK years before faltering.
  2. old nurse
    https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/which-orgs-are-the-best-and-worst-at-drafting-hitters/ Yet by runs created by drafted players they are not performing poorly
  3. old nurse
    Not trying to hijack or anything, but an iterating set of articles https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/what-the-pirates-twins-finances-reveal-about-mlbs-revenue-divide/ What The Pirates & Twins Finances Reveal About MLB’s Revenue Divide That is the name of the article. This is in case the link doesn’t work. In the article click on the link about what the guy for DTSports had to say on Pittsburgh. The article they liked on the Twins is on the Athletic. Sometimes when an article is linked and you haven’t read a NYTimes publication for a month they let you read an Athletic article that is behind the paywall What BaseballAmerica missed is that DT sports said that the Pittsburgh front office had somewhere around 140 employees. (The exact number escapes me, one too many numbers to remember The Twins have 329 listed on MLB.com. The non player expenditures for the Twins is likely far more than the 171 million that Pittsburgh spent, but not near the 270 million Atlanta spent. All of this may give some light as to why the payroll is going down.
  4. old nurse
    It is the same setup as with mlb tv only with ESPN added. If so few are watching now, less will watch when it costs more.
  5. old nurse
    You show no respect. Sorry I do not have footnoted timeline for you. Yes the Pohlads closed the deal. What part of when it comes to spending over the budget goes to the owner was too hard for you to understand? The same scenario owner to GM played out in Houston. That is how it works. The groundwork to make the trade was Falvey’s conversations with Houston, which started as nothing serious When Ryan was running the team he once stated that GM talk together all the time about players. Sorry, that was a long time ago for Ryan’s tenure so I don’t have which sportswriter for you. Do you think that the Griffin Jax or Varland trades happened in less than a day?
  6. old nurse
    You missed the intent of both sentences. It is not worth explaining either statement
  7. old nurse
    So it is all about you?
  8. old nurse
    Feel free to do so
  9. old nurse
    Offense pays the bills. Being of sound defense left with Tom Kelly’s retirement I would have no idea if Baldelli inspires the players, tries to inspire the player or fails to inspire the players. Apathy is on the players.
  10. old nurse
    One would think that if you are complaining about he is swinging at pitcher’s pitched and low barrel, hard contact and needs to tighten up his zone one should be offering up which pitches they hit and where the poor contact is at.
  11. old nurse
    Nor are the Twins are a bank, though some people think they use the Twins as an ATM
  12. old nurse
    Not to be mean but. They traded away a lot of the people that were higher than him on the rankings of yor statistical categories.
  13. old nurse
    A career walk rate of 11.9% is a more honest number, If the K%-BB% is 30 once the Twins fixers get done, he will be the closer
  14. old nurse
    Consistent winning teams with low payrolls are rare. They cycle up and down. The Brewers have been on a good run. Check the 30 years before that. Tampa had a good run, fell off for a few years, had a run, then fell off. Any more things you don’t really pay attention to?
  15. old nurse
    Bad cheap relievers grow on trees. Good relievers, no
  16. old nurse
    I never said I was satisfied. I only stated that your post was an obvious error. Now you come back with an erroneous twist on my position That is what it is. That is the new American culture .
  17. old nurse
    Reusse reported that the Pohlads got the trade finished. Falvey still was the initiator of that trade. There is a difference been completing a trade and initiating it. What Reusse said in no way contradicts what I have posted. Reusse: “[Astros owner] Jim Crane called and made it happen, apparently.” Judd: “So he called Jim Pohlad?” Reusse: “Jim Pohlad, he called Jim Pohlad. He did not call Joe [Pohlad]…he called Jim Pohlad and they negotiated the money.” Judd: “So, literally the adults above Falvey decided to work this deal out and told young Derek, ‘You’re gonna [sit this one out]’?” Reusse: “Yes. Jim [Crane] called [Jim Pohlad] up and they wanted [the Twins to pay] half [of Correa’s remaining money] and [Jim Pohlad] got them down to a third, basically.” Patrick Reusse – “Reusse Unchained” – SKOR North People can call it a salary dump as a negative. Time will tell if Correa is still worth 20-30 million a year. For the Twins this year it certainly feels like he quit on them
  18. old nurse
    The culture comes from the players. Way back when Gaetti was not a good 3b. He worked on it. I can’t remember if it was a player telling the story or the sportswriter was at the Metrodome late at night. They heard a racket going on and found Pucket, Hrbek and a couple others down in the batting cages. The question was asked, why are you here so late. Pucket responded, nobody works harder than we do. The culture of working everyday to get better. That is on the player. It is o the FO to find those kinds of guys.
  19. old nurse
    Of the 270 batters that have the most pate appearance, Larnach sits at 147.th best in WRC+. That would be below average for a starter. As DH, he was 29th out of the 33 used as DH with at least 300 AB The problem with the + stats are that there are people who catch and can’t hit but their AB still count in the + stats. There is a fie example of that in Vasquez. Then there are the Outman, Martin, Brides, Kierseys, Julian and Lees of the world learning but not performing well. All of their AB count, too. With Larnach , the consideration should be a comparison to starting players. He is slightly below average . As a DH, they need to find better
  20. old nurse
    Average value of a baseball team is 2.6 or so billion. Revenue sharing NFL style would dramatically increase many of the teams value. Given the many who have said they don’t want to give a Pohlad money, advocating revenue sharing does that.
  21. old nurse
    Cut down the number of teams, cut down the draft. Net gain for the teams as less player expense, less equipment, less medical
  22. old nurse
    Did you understand that when you subscribe to a service that your money is paying for what you are watching.
  23. old nurse
    The guy over at twins trivia has a chart showing revenue versus spending on payroll for each team. He did not add up the totals Sportrac will tell you that clubs will spend 5.2 b on payroll. Reported revenue 12b. Of course it isn’t really that simple. ProPublica did an article on how Ballmer makes multi millions off the Clippers a few years ago. . Want ex-Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s low tax rate? Buy a sports team Edit. Sorry bout that. Those huge honking letters are the title of the article. I am surprised they even let that go through.
  24. old nurse
    The players are the ones who slashed what the minor league players made to profit themselves in the last negotiations,
  25. old nurse
    The point was that the loss of the front line starters affects the outcomes of games. To say the Yankees are as good with Marcus Stroman having pitched games rather than Gerrit Cole would be a hard one to prove. You would sign Anthony DeScalfini for the veteran’s minimum rather than Max Fried for $218,000,000. The numbers of pitchers out, Number is not a big deal, it is who. For Detroit, Jobe and Olson out, replaced by Paddack and Morton. At the end of the season see if the replacements got them very far in the playoffs. At the Al Star break they were over a .600 winning percentage, as they had been for most of the season. The second half they are at .483. Yup, the loss of starters did not effect them
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