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  1. old nurse
    So you cannot answer the question of who they have protected,. Why is that? It does prove my point that they have done a poor job in the international market You were the one who used the tram debut. Nice that you appear not to know what it means
  2. old nurse
    Speed and energy guys are of no use if they don’t get on base. They are under more pressure to hit, not less
  3. old nurse
    A six man rotation does not change bullpen usage. The bullpen could not sustain 550 innings as a 7 man group.
  4. old nurse
    It is a vote. The vote is by the manager and 3 coaches from every team. They cannot vote for their own players. Given Guerrero’s season it probably only took a few votes to be in third place. Also as Santan probably knows a lot of coaches and managers a few more might have voted for him out of the friendship vein.
  5. old nurse
    Tony Olivia, Pedro’s older brother had a passport. Pedro did not but had to get out of Cuba quickly as the border was going to be close by Castro. That is how Pedro Oliva became Tony Oliva aTwins baseball player
  6. old nurse
    Rule v draft. Who have they had to protect from 17, 18 or 19?. Now add 2020.’s signing class. Polanco debuted in his age 20 season
  7. old nurse
    It is not like this front office has a track record of finding international players. Non story as far as current history goes
  8. old nurse
    With the seasons the MLB players had one would say the Twins lost nothing by trading a 2b. The team gained medical bills for pitchers. That should surprise anybody given the player histories. I think the trade was part of the reason they went in a different direction with Levine, but it took a while to figure out how to not make it look like a negative he was removed. Maybe in that respect then the Twins won the trade.
  9. old nurse
    Wallner has a career BABIP of .359. Last year his line drive percentage exit velocity, hard hit percentage, barrel percent and sweet spot percent were all above league average. He is league average in speed. If those numbers were not flukes there is no reason to expect a precipitous drop in BABIP
  10. old nurse
    Byron Buxton played 89 games in CF, good for 22 most in baseball. I guess to the voters actually being on the field matters.
  11. old nurse
    Looking through Sportrac’s list of free agent left hand pitchers who made less than .5 million about the only name that had a somewhat decent season was T.J. McFarland. Looks like it is minor league signing types.
  12. old nurse
    There you go, giving credit that people actually think things through the thing someone doesn’t understand is the new routine is to be prepared to face certain parts of the order
  13. old nurse
    Noah Miller may end up making Kyle Farmer look like a silver slugger.. The trade really doesn’t deserve a grade. Margot was never a pinch hitter type. His career pinch hitting was in the .110 range. Take out the pinch hitting and he had what would have been a usually Margot season. Maybe Margot had Tommy Herr disease. There was no way the Twins could have tested for that. The trade would rate as an F only because there were other options for a RH OF bat. That were cheaper and better suite for the role. In a budget crunch year that money could have been much better spent. Rortvedt couldn’t hit for the Twins nor the Yankees. Some players it takes the right coaching. A repeat of this year would give Tampa an A for their trade. However for the Twins to get rid of Donaldson they did have to give up someone with potential. The Twins gave up on a player they thought they could not develop further. If you include the Garver trade where they got the utility player to trade the trade gets 3 grades. An A for the unloading, an F for player development as Henriquez may only have a ceiling of a middle reliever and not a starter. The third grade is another F as it once again showed how willing they were to dump Ryan’s players
  14. old nurse
    Diamond had one good season It was a mirage
  15. old nurse
    80 loss season so there are about 9 excuses, most of them could just as well be involving central division foes. It was a season that looks like the would have continued their new playoff string had they made it there
  16. old nurse
    Yup. What are you going to sign for 7.5 mil. Who signed last year for less money and pitched no near league average? That is a needle in a haystack and you trust those guys to find one. I think the last GM who traded a in the offseason a quality starting pitcher who was had team control was fired. They has even got an all star in return
  17. old nurse
    Of the starting pitcher who pitched at least 50 inning, Paddack was 138th best by ERA, 115th by WAR, and 96th by FIP. No, you might find a more durable pitcher cheaper or off the wavier wire but with the state of starting pitching you are unlikely to find a better one
  18. old nurse
    The numbers of how the fan numbers drop in San Diego is easily obtainable that is how you can say there is a drop off when they do not win
  19. old nurse
    One time losses, not yearly losses on a baseball team. It would also not be as great of loss as what it would take to make the Twins a top 10 payroll team
  20. old nurse
    What is so weird about pointing out that the A’s have cycled up and down over time just as the Padres and Phillies have? The Phillies and the Padres are on up cycles right now, the A’s are on a down cycle. History will also show that when the Padres are on a down cycle they are not beloved like the Cubs once were
  21. old nurse
    If other teams had the book on Julien by the end of the year then despite what baseball trade values said, he did not have value Paddack was paid 2.5 million last the cheaper replacements of Varland and Mathehews did not pitch better, Festa was about the same. The 2.5 million replacement would come from where?
  22. old nurse
    I di not say that they were poorly run franchises. That is very poor reading on your part. The person I responded to said Oakland has won squat during the Billy Bean era. The Phillies and San Diego over the same period have not won as many division championships. The Phillies had a 10 year streak of mediocrity
  23. old nurse
    There is a math problem and a perception problem here. The perception problem is that it would only be short term the owner would be contributing their money. The Miami Marlins come to mind as a team that had very good success with short term spending but zero success in sustainability of that success or even getting fans interested. Thinking that a short term invest is going to work has not been shown. Being in the top 10 payrolls would have meant an increase in payroll of 90 million. No billionaire has ever sustained those kinds of losses. The increased fans less the revenue share portion, less the costs associated with having more fans might not even pay for the increased payroll taxes. Thank the OP for the grim reality that it is useless for the billionaire to spend only a little more on payroll
  24. old nurse
    The Phillies and Padres have spent freely and won squat
  25. old nurse
    Twins hit ,246, 11th best in all of baseball
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