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  1. old nurse
    Pitcher Matt Cain, Tim Lincecum, Dontrelle Willis hitters Josh Hamilton, Travis Hefner BriaN Dozier. Generally it is a late bloomer for the hitters. Except for Sano
  2. old nurse
    The reminder that success in baseball can be fleeting
  3. old nurse
    Because of attendance.. the long history of baseball has shown if opening day is moved back one day to weather the crowd will come. If it is just made up as another day and the second game of the season is opening day the crowds are not as large
  4. old nurse
    What Brooks Lee will be is so up for debate. A less than stellar AAA part season is to blame. Some ranking systems have dropped him in ranking. Others have not. In 2016 a player got his fall cup of coffee, likely a September call up. Did not bat his jr high weight, Dropped in rank. 6 years later is signing a 300+ contract. Matt Olson was not even in some of the rankings and has had multiple All Star/VP consideration seasons They are the outliers. Generally with hitter when they start dropping in ranking they end up a complementary player MLB.Com has not dropped Lee’s ranking. They are generally the ranking quoted when discussing prospect ranking. Lee walks a fair amount, does not have a high strikeout rate, and could be a close to .300 hitter. He could be like that 1B they had a few years ago, or the one a few years before that. That would be a Joe and a Gene
  5. old nurse
    Yup, the player player chose to be injured. So putting you faith and family first is a bad thing. Got it.
  6. old nurse
    Yup, the player chooses to be injured
  7. old nurse
    Rodon did not play for them. Rendon barely has played for them
  8. old nurse
    The what if game would be better with George Kirby
  9. old nurse
    Most of those HR will come early in the season. He will be the Rockies All Star. Then there will be the people here complaining the Twins let him go for nothing. Alas he will wear down as he actually has to play
  10. old nurse
    Clevinger had a 12 million option he declined. He likely wants more than that. Nobody is willing to pay that. the other perfectly good reason is given the Twins’ luck with past injured pitchers, is it worth the risk?
  11. old nurse
    2 pitchers coming back from surgery, one getting it is the modern version of a health staff.
  12. old nurse
    You did not read one of your boss’s infrequent posts? You did not really see my point, either. Please feel free to find a recent study of pitcher rankings and success
  13. old nurse
    Whether or not a pitcher is on a prospect list doesn’t mean unchanged anymore. Pablo Lopez and Bailey Ober were not any lists. Neither was Jax. Duran made 96 and Ryan was about that. Dylan Bundy was a top 20. Prospect. A lot of pitchers have been slower developers. That doesn’t mean SWR will develop or for that matter won’t develop.
  14. old nurse
    In a game that is continually short of pitching there are reasons why Lorenzen is unsigned The first guess would be contract demands. The second guess would be the 5 something ERA in Phili. A career half year should be the red flag.
  15. old nurse
    A trade for pitcher almost has to feel like they just became the drier for Spinal Tap when they come to the Twins.
  16. old nurse
    It is down to criticizing practice. I suppose it is a change from payroll complaining, but not any better
  17. old nurse
    The number of pitchers who have consistently done it over the last 3 years is about 9. This is the reason it is so hard to find pitching in the trade market. They do not exist. A team needs to identify a pitcher on another team that with a little boost can be that pitcher and have something the other team needs or wants. They got lucky last year, unlucky the year before with acquisitions.
  18. old nurse
    I would say that the baseball players union would fight tooth and nail against any NBA styled salary cap. The disparity between the top 8 revenue teams and the bottom 22 are so significantly different that it prevents any change. There was not that difference in football
  19. old nurse
    The Scherzer trade busted. Lucky for Texas they got two starters. They gave up decent prospects, but not great ones. The secret formula is not all that hard to figure out but is difficult to accomplish. Identifying talent in the late first round is key. High ceiling prospects in the later rounds that flourish in the low minors in the later rounds for trade bait. That means you have to have good low minors development teams That is what Texas traded for Montgomery. Get lucky in the Internationals. This FO has not been good with the late first round picks. If you need to build through trades you need to look at who your trade partners are and see what they covet. Personal opinion is you need the high ceiling player more than the high floor players for the playoffs. Jung was hot for the first two rounds. There are a lot of playoff MVPs were meh players who got hot at the right time. I also think the mid market teams need the 6/7 starter in AAA to be coming up to spell the starters. In planning workloads for the season the teams need to incorporate the games of the post season. The Twins might have gotten more out of Ryan and Ober in the playoffs that way
  20. old nurse
    The reason they are signing the middle of the road free agents to one year contracts is that they viewed their internal options were not adequate. The Twins at one point had 4 players with high upside when the contracts were signed. Sano, Polanco, Kepler and Buxton. What could possibly go wrong has been demonstrated. changing revenue sharing. Low hanging fruit argument that again ignores reality of the vote that would be needed to change it.
  21. old nurse
    But you still have no solution that fits the parameters of what the Twins are. Therefore you come across as a complainer
  22. old nurse
    Pitch count per pitcher may well be what the Twins use to determine how long a pitcher pitches. Total batters faced would show that they get through part of a lineup a third time. Lopez averaged 24, Grey 23, Ober and Ryan 22.. you can put the myth that they will only go twice through a lineup where it belongs
  23. old nurse
    Brent Rooker and Luke Raley each had a career year last year. Time will tell if they are solid hitters or not. They were not the couple years before last year after the Twins traded them. The Twins under this regime has had 8 second round draft picks. Only Jeffers has worked so far. Deron Johnson did not have any better luck before. That Beeter may be in the Yankee starting rotation really doesn’t mean a whole lot. He is still a prospect. Win or lose a trade. The trade looks bad as the Twins only git the short season and a little bit last year out of Maeda. Graterol would have helped the bullpen. Then there is the curse of being a Twins pitcher and Graterol’s shoulder would have went out sooner than later and the Twins would have still had the same production.
  24. old nurse
    Luis Arraez wasn’t expected to turn into Luis Arraez.
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