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  1. old nurse
    Baseball is a game of failure. Failing to get a hit 2 out of 3 times to the plate is great hitting. A home run every 15th or 20th time to the plate shows you are a power hitter. Draft 20 players. If one is a great player or a couple are useful it was a good draft. In his 11 seasons he has been to the playoffs 4 times. That is better than if he would have been drafted in the next three picks. The Twins are a failure this year. The lack of development by the hitter is on that player, the coaches or the drafting guru for not picking someone else. The same can be said for the slow starts this year of several of the veteran players added in recent years. Injuries happen. Who is at fault that Festa and Mathews are not Lopez and Ober? Some years are like that. Just look at Atlanta who was predicted to win the NL East and a favorite of some to dethrone the Dodgers. Some seasons are like that. They did not blow up their team, but their assets were different. The point is, some teams have a collective bad year. The rules of the baseball teams are very specific on how much debt teams can carry and how they accumulate. At 400 million the Twins are not at the debt level ceiling, but they are at the point of why spend more. Whatever excuse you want to us doesn’t change that the locals did not increase their coming out to the ballpark, not all that watched on cable purchased the internet coverage
  2. old nurse
    Making the non political political is not a good thing. It reflects poorly on you.. Left, right and in between follow sports. Don’t be divisive. Also do not bother to respond to this
  3. old nurse
    They are afraid the pitcher would get Eddie Bane disease.
  4. old nurse
    Political Obsessive Syndrome strikes again
  5. old nurse
    It would appear that the fans did not want to invest in the team, either as attendance went down. If a team os long paid for, how did they get a $400,000,000 debt when MLB has rules against borrowing money for non baseball items after the Wilpon fiasco?
  6. old nurse
    You can’t know if they got full value for a long time. What becomes of a trade may take a few ears for certainty. Joe Ryan, Jhoan Duran and Jorge Alcala are the perfect examples of that. You should be careful on using your second line
  7. old nurse
    The game was the long ball The Twins drafted long ball type bats. The ball changed and diminished what the long ball utter could do. The Twins were slow to adjust. the Twins counted on two things on the financial side. Attendance to grow and the cable market to remain strong. Well, that didn’t happen, so they have to adjust. The cable companies were going to make their profit, so they were not going to give the RSN more money. The RSN was spun off with a massive debt. They don’t have money. The Pohlads have assets, but not loose change. The lane got changed.
  8. old nurse
    Yup the Twins have had some real stinkers in the low leverage roles. So what
  9. old nurse
    Like Joe Ryan before them, Bradley and Abel will get a couple of starts in AAA to help them figure out how to tune them up for MLB. It does show that they are not enamored with SWR, Zebby or Festa. They all have options remaining per fangraphs, so they still can remain here rather than sell low in the offseason. Any of them are probably better relievers than the additions made today
  10. old nurse
    Fourth fewest blown saves over the last 2 seasons. Those kind of results?
  11. old nurse
    The only 20 million dollar slugging first baseman signed by any team was Christian Walker. He has the same OPS as Ty France. Last year Carlos Santana was not the cause of the collapse. He was a slugging first baseman, but not this year. His OPS is about the same as France’s
  12. old nurse
    Mathew’s and Festa have had 18-25 starts at the MLB level. Bradley and Abel probably jump ahead of them and they go to the bullpen. They could be used as paired with SWR, Bradley and Abel. Part of the bullpen would have to be on the AAA/MLB merry go round. Any of them would get to go out and throw their 80 pitches and sit Clems and Wallner become the mop up crew
  13. old nurse
    There trading of expiring contracts makes sense. The Correa trade makes sense because Houston wanted him, Houston is his home. They did him a favor as they were not getting what they paid for. Selling as high as you can on Stewart makes sense. Despite the talent and the demand for relievers, Outman was the high bid. He did have one good season 2 years ago. He has hit in the minors. Maybe it is a fixable situation in their eyes. Maybe no one else wanted his injury risk for a playoff push. The Dodgers are a team that is used to breaking pitchers . The trading of the relievers with years of control is a head scratcher. The Twins had open bidding. The Duran trade met the criteria. Jax and Varland did not. Both were starters. Jax had wanted to return to starting, Varland I don’t know. A month of bad starting pitching results by anyone not named Joe could have led to some discontent. Hence a trade. Of course there is another plausible scenario. Indeed the Twins are going to be sold. Falvey and company met the new owners and figured out the new guys will be cheaper than the current ones. They did what they reasonably could do to try to keep their jobs.
  14. old nurse
    In the ate 90s Kelly had very little talent to work with.
  15. old nurse
    Your knowledge of what happened with the Twins television contract is so lacking that II gave you an idea where to start to learn something.
  16. old nurse
    Learn about the bankruptcy process and then try again to tell people what they should or should not have done
  17. old nurse
    Urias could be their utility player
  18. old nurse
    It is really hard for the Twins to manage someone else’s broadcast business.
  19. old nurse
    How hungry is Houston to win a championship and do they think Correa is a missing piece to accomplish that will determine if a trade gets made. The desperate for a championship team is always the best trade partner
  20. old nurse
    It will take a couple of seasons to find out what they have in Tait. The rush to judge will always be an unwise thing to do.
  21. old nurse
    True, but the 10 million option is probably about a million and a half more than what he would get and less than what it would cost to replace him with someone better
  22. old nurse
    The Buxton injury is the reminder that the Twins do need a competent backup centerfielder. The 10 million option is not that far off from what a 32 year old outfielder would get. The Twins might have a higher asking price for Bader as they do need him next year. While the Yankees and Mets have an alleged interest, he played for both teams at not a high level. I don’t think their memories are that short
  23. old nurse
    To think the Twins were going to get anything more than a lottery ticket despite multiple teams being interested is foolish. There is very little difference in somebodies low ranked prospects. That they got a complex level prospect that ends up ranked by MLB baseball, as the number 20 prospect would say that it was as good of deal as the team was going to get.
  24. old nurse
    Ohl is getting his chance. With an over 6 ERA, Raya is not close to ready. Prielipp in AA is not ready Long relievers do not exist in part due to the shortage of starters. If their stuff as a starter isn’t good enough, the same stuff won’t work as a reliever. Conversion to a short reliever then happens. If increasing speed does not work, they are not major league pitchers
  25. old nurse
    Bullpen games become a necessity when minor league starters do not develop. Adams, Morris and Lewis took a step back rather than forward hence there is a need for bullpen games.
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