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  1. 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?
  2. old nurse
    Bad cheap relievers grow on trees. Good relievers, no
  3. 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 .
  4. 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
  5. 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.
  6. 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
  7. 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.
  8. 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
  9. old nurse
    Did you understand that when you subscribe to a service that your money is paying for what you are watching.
  10. 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.
  11. old nurse
    The players are the ones who slashed what the minor league players made to profit themselves in the last negotiations,
  12. 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
  13. old nurse
    In 2 years Cleveland has not been able to replace Bieber. After Strasberg went down, Washington tanked. The Dodgers can overcome because they have the resources
  14. old nurse
    The Twins do not have the resources the Dodgers do. The Guardians are not going to make the playoffs unless a team collapses. Milwaukee is making it by hitting, which is also how the Dodgers are doing it. The Twins developing pitchers did well in AAA, called up to the majors, Festa and Mathew’s have struggled. That is also part of baseball.
  15. old nurse
    One of the biggest disappointments and underperformers of the 2025 season has been Carlos Correa. Yet there is this huge lament he was traded. It didn’t work. OMG they din’t spend. Yet with a whole season’s worth of stats at their fingertips they can’t figure out that Bader was actually one of the best signings of a position player, Coulumbe was one of the best signings of a reliever. Alonso did not want to leave the Mets. What other available first baseman that was available has a WAR value that would have made this team 15 games better? Complaining for solutions that do not exist when Lopez went down and Ober was injured and tried to pitch through it, this now ragtag collection of players had la record that was one of the best at the time. On these pages Ober was touted as a Cy Young candidate to start the year. How many teams can lose 2 pitchers of that caliber and compete?
  16. old nurse
    When Nelson Cruz was traded I don’t think anyone thought Joe Ryan would become what he is now. The talk seemed to be he was a 2 pitch pitcher, which was not viewed favorably. The realities of the moment may not the future The hitting part of the Twins is a frustration. It seems like they can pummel most teams 4-5 starter except if they are left handed. It gives the FO hope but the record shoud have dashed it Trading even great relievers for hitting prospects is counting on the other team making a mistake on a prospect.. How many teams have traded a player that later regularly puts up 3 WAR as a near major league read prospect ? Reality has not set in
  17. old nurse
    Last 5 games he has been ice cold. OPS .476.
  18. old nurse
    The are a couple of possible answers The Twins scouting staff believe that Rojas will be a decent starter. Rolen was the return for France. The second part could be Varland is having a career year and next year there will be a drop off, so sell high.
  19. old nurse
    Other articles made it quite clear that Falvey approached Correa about being traded because a rebuild wasn’t what Correa signed up for. They then approached Houston as they knew that Crane liked him. Pohlad’s bit in the negotiations was to negotiate the money. So what is reality? Whatever the author of the story wants their readers to believe, Before anything could proceed, Correa had to agree with it. Nightenale would be correct that Houston used their leverage to give them nothing for the money. On the other hand, Corrrea’s season with the Twins and the contract ammounts, the Twins came close to getting what he was worth.
  20. old nurse
    Those player who couldn’t muster a 60 win season and got the GM fired as a total system failure. Who is attempting to not be honest?
  21. old nurse
    The 2 people were you and I. Joe said he knew they were trading players. I wonder how he knew that? Any guesses? When it came to how many in the end, he was not. They are not micromanaging the team He was involved in the Correa trade when it came down to negotiating money. That has been pretty much known that the Pohlads become involved when there are large sums of money involved. That is likely true for any team. When the team signed Donaldson and Correa it was brought up that the Pohlads had to sign off on it.
  22. old nurse
    A couple of division championships, a couple of wild card appearances and a winning record would say you are not paying attention. Now if your complaint was that they haven’t drafted more than a couple of competent positions players and have to rely on continually rebuilding with a short term position players, you would be correct. That is not your argument
  23. old nurse
    Yup, corporate speak and platitudes. You want something different. Yup. You won’t get fooled again. Just remember Townsend’s last line of the song
  24. old nurse
    Interesting how 2 people can read the same article and have different ideas what was meant. I read that Joe was surprised by the Correa moved when called in on it and joe stated he did’t think they were going to trade that many player. Maybe I read a different article that the same author. Maybe people just see what they want
  25. old nurse
    Since the beginning of sports team, winning cures chemistry, individual satisfaction, ….and any other complaints. Losing can bring out the dark side, regardless of leadership
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