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  1. old nurse
    So if Jhoan Duran was on another team and was made available in the middle of his first big league season you wouldn’t have traded for him .
  2. old nurse
    Farmer has an CBA of .200. It is not like that is much of a difference than .163
  3. old nurse
    Oakland has been notoriously cheap. Trading 1st year players does not save money unless you expect them to break. The return. People here do not remember that Oakland makes head scratching deals. It would not cost someone with service time. More likely it would cost a couple arms and a couple legs. 2 pitchers and 2 hitters. Most likely a player from each level below AAA. That is why you should deal with Oakland the player does not have a long history of mediocrity at the major league level as Lopez did. That is a bad comp. The question should be is he a pitcher that other teams will figure out once there is enough data? Dunno.. will his arm blow out? Only if he is a Twin
  4. old nurse
    2019 was Kepler’s outlier year. His batting suffered for years trying to recreate it. He is now doing what a lot of people thought he should be doing batting wise. Once again Morrison was right, you want the world and you want it now
  5. old nurse
    Since your post Rosario has an OPS of .475.
  6. old nurse
    Perhaps consider that the people who don’t care about that kind of stuff are the ones that cause other people to appreciate the great personalities
  7. old nurse
    I would hazard a guess that the management still does not have confidence in Sands’ ability.. That is the only explanation I can think of why they are sticking with Johnson and Oekert
  8. old nurse
    Did I say they were worn out and shot? Please tell me where I said that. What is BS is making up a position that another person took. Please do not respond if to anything I say if that is the **** you are going to pull
  9. old nurse
    Load management is the OP claim why these players are not playing every day, not mine. Your claim is that the successful teams don’t do load management. The lack of continued post season success by the three teams who, according to you, do not do load management was not refuted by you. Now if getting a division championship is your goal, you position would seem valid. Successful teams win division championships
  10. old nurse
    Many players do play every day. There is still nothing out there that says it has to be done that way. When your team has very little in the way of backups, your team has to have these players play everyday. When your team has players with holes in the game, you have to cover a bit.
  11. old nurse
    The Orioles and Yankees fizzle out in the playoffs. The Dodgers have only won a WD is a short series and currently have 12 pitchers on the DL. Atlanta won their WS with 2 players who did not play every game that year as ther series MVPs. With potentially 22 more games in the playoffs maybe there is something to the load management
  12. old nurse
    There is a supposition on your part the changed their approach
  13. old nurse
    Runs scored would indicate that rally’s are being killed at the same rate. Try again. There is nothing so far that shows outcomes have been any different with less strikeouts.
  14. old nurse
    A couple percentage points less this year. Hits+BB+HPB-HR/Games says the Twins have less base runners per game by 0.01 per game
  15. old nurse
    On base percentage has not improved from last year so there are not more runners on base this year
  16. old nurse
    Popkin’s quoted philosophy somewhere on these pages was to have a philosophy for each player. There is a correlation with bat speed and launch angles to outcomes. Tweaking a swing to get the better outcome is on the coaches. As you point out, hitting has improved as the season has progressed for many of the players so maybe it is the coaching. Baseball is a game of adjustments
  17. old nurse
    The fans interest as measured by people paying to see the game is more tied to winning than K% The desired outcome is winning baseball. Managers and front offices are fired for a lack of winning. Just ask Paul Molitor
  18. old nurse
    Strikeouts are down. This year Also down this year are BB%, OBP, BABIP, and OPS. Rus scored per game 4.785 per game this year,4.8 last year . It would be hard to say there is an improvement in outcomes with less strikeouts.
  19. old nurse
    There are three ways to look at thumbs down One is to think of a thumbs down with no comment as a person who’s belief system just got destroyed but they have no logical reason for believing what they do. The second way to think about it is what you wrote is so bad and off base history has shown it is pointless to discuss something further, this reason, your satire or sarcasm went over the person’s head. So for you, given your posts over the years, and my supposition what a thumbs down would mean a thumbs down then is a compliment
  20. old nurse
    Liver and onions are a disgusting meal kids nowadays don’t want to work, they just want to play video games
  21. old nurse
    If as a society we shift or priorities to what was important there would have to be some agreement on what was important. If it is a shift towards a concern for others, good luck with that
  22. old nurse
    It should be easy to figure out with the minor league players what they do not do well at that time. Seth doesn’t mention it. The players are there to learn and get better. Just because they are not doing something well at some point doesn’t mean they can’t improve. It is pretty easy to figure out who is not improving. They do not get promoted in season or somebody mentions that a player was released.
  23. old nurse
    It is rather unfortunate that people do not understand being constructive
  24. old nurse
    I am so glad through these trade discussions that here are so many people on the inside that absolutely know what the Twins were thinking. Perhaps one of you could come back with the analysis of how he fits the wins model of pitching acquisitions
  25. old nurse
    Aging curves and fall off in talent with players is a mystifying and individual thing. Nelson Cruz defied age until he over to Tampa in his 40s. That is the lucky end. Chuck Knobllauch dropped off at age 30. Each player is different. Power lasts longer than speed. Middle infielders seem to go soon shortly after 30. Maybe Father Time got another victim . When the Twins signed Correa I looked at a moderate size of players to notice that. Derek Jeter was the high end at 35 before he started falling off. One does have to remember 2 things for this. One is that the higher the skill level there is still a useful player, as Jeter was still above aver for a couple of years. The other? Don’t look at the outliers .
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