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  1. old nurse
    Statcast Fielding Breakdown 2025 2024 ▾ Batter Perspective ▾ Brooks LeeResponsible Plays for 20250ft20ft40ft60ft80ft100ft120ft140ftDistance From Ball Landing12345678Hang Time (Sec.)◀▶▼▲League Wide Catch Difficulty Scale★★★★★★012345OutHitWallBack * Click Any Legend Option to Reset Chart | Save Chart well it wouldn’t take the handy dandy Savant fielding diagram that they would appears to show he makes the plays he is suposed to
  2. old nurse
    They made it known the asking price of players. They talked to Correa. They had a plan. The plan shifted once Jax asked for a trade. They did not get as good of return as Duran but they did honor the player request. When you look at the journey of Varland as a starter he never got the chance to start regardless of outcome has Festa and Mathews. I suspect that the trade offer by Toronto was in their opinion a blown out of the water deal. They did not seem to value him. If the Phillies think Painter is going to be a front of the rotation starter the Twins probably would have to give up that level of talent in pitching. Them giving up Abel would indicate they did not foresee greatness. The same could be said for when Tampa gave up Ryan and the pitcher for Jax. The staff here probably has ideas on how to make these pitchers better, hence the trade.
  3. old nurse
    I posted to merely show that even someone who appears to follow the minors and prospects gets it very wrong. I thought that it should be obvious which grade was correct. Since you so politely asked, or in spite of it, here is your answer. Dozier was coming off 3 great years and was having a down year, but the return was a D. Your reaction to me not saying which grade was accurate means that I made an incorrect statement. Duke was having an above average reliever year. The return was nothing. The only other grade you could argue you were correct n was Lance Lynn, only because it got rid of Lance Lynn. As far as the prospects go, that was a D return
  4. old nurse
    The only Twins team I can think of that wasn’t selling hope was the 87 Twins. From the first game it just seemed like their year.
  5. old nurse
    Well, there are the Rockies
  6. old nurse
    Last year both Ober and Lopez were i the top 30 starting pitchers for K%. Festa and Mathew’s are well above league average. The asking price for Ryan was likely higher than what Crochet or Cease was traded for. No team would meet that price. Larnach is not having the kind of season a pennant contender would add as help for a playff push. Bader was far more valuable as defense and CF
  7. old nurse
    In 2018 Tom Froeming wrote this: Twins give: Eduardo Escobar Twins get: OF Ernie De La Trinidad, RHP Jhoan Duran, OF Gabriel Maciel Tom’s grade: B Twins give: Ryan Pressly Twins get: RHP Jorge Alcala, OF Gilberto Celestino Tom’s grade: A Twins give: Lance Lynn Twins get: Tyler Austin, Luis Rijo Tom’s grade: A Twins give: Brian Dozier Twins get: 2B Logan Forsythe, OF/1B Luke Raley, LHP Devin Smeltzer Tom’s grade: D Twins give: Zach Duke Twins get: RHP Chase De Jong, 1B/3B Ryan Costello Tom’s grade: C One out of 5 grades was accurate. I tried to link the story, sorry.
  8. old nurse
    Louis is having a breakout year. The alternative is that he is having a career year. Last year Cole Sands had a breakout year. This year, regression. The Twins sold high to a dream that was a little desperate to keep up with the other teams. If their assessment of Rojas is correct, ,a starter for a reliever is a trade you have to make.
  9. old nurse
    Baseball rules prevent that due to the Wilpon fiasco
  10. old nurse
    Larnach for a reliever is a likely outcome for a trade. The Louis would be someone in the lower levels with a high ceiling or someone in the higher minors with a lower ceiling.
  11. old nurse
    Short answer since the long answer got erased by the page reloading. The front office has 329 people listed. None of them are coaches, managers or scouts at any level. The one that needs to be fired is the director of revenue analytics, but I digress. There is a board of directors, Dave St Peters and 4 others that share the same last name. CEO and Director could be very well paid. Average S&P CEO pay is 19 million. Don’t forget, my three sons also have kids who need a paycheck. Major League Baseball has pretty stringent rules on debt and what they can borrow for.
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. old nurse
    They are afraid the pitcher would get Eddie Bane disease.
  15. old nurse
    Political Obsessive Syndrome strikes again
  16. 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?
  17. 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
  18. 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.
  19. old nurse
    Yup the Twins have had some real stinkers in the low leverage roles. So what
  20. 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
  21. old nurse
    Fourth fewest blown saves over the last 2 seasons. Those kind of results?
  22. 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
  23. 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
  24. 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.
  25. old nurse
    In the ate 90s Kelly had very little talent to work with.
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