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  1. old nurse
    Bill Smith was a capable person of many things. Unfortunately being a baseball GM was not one of them. His talent though did lead the Twins to be able to draft Buxton.
  2. old nurse
    Soto is promising. Wait a couple more levels before hyping. In 2011 there was a hs pitcher taken 4th overall. A top 10 prospect in 2012. By 2022 he was the scourge of many fans here. He wasn’t the first nor the last hyped hs pitcher that was hyped and fizzled
  3. old nurse
    Look at the trajectory of Ober. They higher out a way to increase the workload while still developing the pitcher at the major league level. The pitchers are no longer finished products when they hit the major leagues. Look at the paths of. Ryan, Oer and Skubal
  4. old nurse
    There were 29 relief pitchers that pitched at least 5 innings that had a fWAR over 1.3. There were 34 pitchers that had a FIP under 3.0, 75 who were under 3.51. There’s more decent relief pitchers than the projection states there are
  5. old nurse
    Grichuck was a 2 war player last year as a part time platoon player, rh pinch hitter. If he could have maintained that while getting Margot’s playing time he would have come out as the Twin’s best player. How would have that been counter productive?
  6. old nurse
    That is because you are not looking at the players who have not produced with the large contracts
  7. old nurse
    The local revenue is what drives the valuations of these teams. Drastic, even if it gradual, will decrease the value of those franchises. Somebody would have to pay for that. The current rule of 150% of shared revenue must go to payer contracts might to go down slightly. It needs to e in place as the Asro’s made 96 million one year in their tank to rebuild years. NBA style 4 year graduated increase type contracts, and super max with the current team being able offer more would clean up a few things The George Steinbrenner idea of limiting free agent contracts to one year would be even better, but that is even more unlikely than a 4 year limit
  8. old nurse
    Sorry I don’t keep a bibliography and detailed notes of where I read things at.. try looking up the old owners of the Mets as to why MLB would not want the owners hanging on to differed money
  9. old nurse
    BABIP goes higher with higher strikeout % Keirsey was around 20&. His speed is rated much better than Stevenson so that does not make him a comparable player. Speed allows you to beat out more infield hits. Defense can take that away but his doubles and triples totals would suggest that he is not just beating out infield hits like Celestino was when he came up. Keirsey had BABIP around .370 for both years in AAA. It gets less flukey with larger sample sizes. A spray chart might give an indication of actual talent. Whether or not he can come close to a .300 BA in the majors depends more on where the hole in his swing is. The SO% would suggest one. Probably what has held him back last year from a real shot is he is not a home run hitter. What he will be in the majors is like many prospect is a question mark. He could e like Larnach and become better with experience, or he could just be another not quite good enough player.
  10. old nurse
    The supposition that the Dodgers are controlling the funds of an escrow account are made without the least bit of proof.
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  12. old nurse
    San Diego is still in debt ratio limbo. It would have took valuable prospect capital to get them to take Vasquez as well as a lot more capital to match a salary for the player coming back.
  13. old nurse
    All very nice except for one small detail. MLB handles the escrow accounts. The CBA would state where any of the profits off an escrow account goes. Teams are also required to escrow the year’s payroll .
  14. old nurse
    Those 6 runs were by home runs. Your complaint was Arraez not scoring when on base Castro is no better than Arraez at scoring when on base
  15. old nurse
    The average for a batter who did not hit a HR but got on base was 32%. The average for Arraez 37%. He was above average in that regards. You could point to the stat that the percent chance of scoring from 1b with no outs is 38%. That would make Arraez as the leadoff hitter below average. The flaw is that out of his 4-5 AB, he leads off an inning for sure only once a game. Their 9th alters were the catchers who had sub .300 OBP. The likelihood would e high that there was at least one out when Arraez came to bat. The likelihood of scoring goes down to below 20%. As I said earlier Castro last year had similar OBP to Arraez and similar numbers to Arraez in runs scored. If Arraez is a player not worth having for his batting and below average defense then why would they e keeping Castro to answer the question why does it seam like Arraez is LOB more often than others would be because he is on base more
  16. old nurse
    Should the Twins e getting rid of Castro? Similar numbers to Arraez last year.
  17. old nurse
    When you tout the difference in runs scored you have to be pretty blind not to consider runs scored. Castro and Arraez had the about the same OPB and AB as Castro. Compare and contrast those two and see that there is not that much of a difference in runs scored
  18. old nurse
    As a leadoff hitter he had the weakest hitters in front of him in the later innings Did he have the same opportunities as someone in the 3-4 spot did?
  19. old nurse
    When a team trades prospects it is generally the ones that the trading team thinks wont make a difference if they make the major leagues. Look at how little the White Sox got out of the trades of Eaton, Sale and Quintana. 2 great years out of Giolito, and 2 great and one K out of Cease with the return of 2 maye prospects. Miami traded for a lot of players with their stars through the years. Alcantara is about all they have to show for it
  20. old nurse
    Arraez was top of the order so he would have less opportunity to drive in runs whereas Buxton was in the heart of the order. If Arraez did not score as many runs that in part was on the players behind him. Keep in ind that 18 of those runs Buxton scored was by him driving in himself versus 4 for Arraez
  21. old nurse
    Considering is home away splits one could see why he was a 3-4 war player and only a 1.1 while in San Diego.
  22. old nurse
    You missed that they added Ahmed Rosario as a veteran having 1.5 war before and after the trade. Also as a winter deal, they traded for a first base a man who later played for the Twins. They gave up Yandy Diaz as a prospect
  23. old nurse
    Adding a pitcher capable of being a top of the rotation pitcher makes sense if you think the troubled seasons of your core position players are behind them and Miranda,, Lee, Wallner, and Larnach are going to develop further. That is a lot to expect. On the other hand it is far easier to win a game when the SP gives up 2 runs rather than 3 or 4. If the club is indeed going to be sold this spring adding players that are a proven quality is not going to harm the sale in the least bit
  24. old nurse
    Giménez had already been in the majors when acquired. I think he beat the 1.5 war season by a little bit as did Classe, another off season acquisition with MLB experience. Yes they were long term assets, but they were already in the majors
  25. old nurse
    I am sorry, the person I responded to was talking about MLB. I didn’t feel the need to have to write minute detail for people. My bad
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