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  1. old nurse
    So nice that you know the Diamondback’s management so well. Short term investments you cry for were made in 22 and likely 23. Where did it get the team? Where did it get the Padres and Mets?
  2. old nurse
    Interesting how not losing money is claiming poverty.
  3. old nurse
    Cohen spent on the Mets and dialed it back to 255m with 20% of it being dead money this year. After this year they have 8 free agents. Last year the Padres received permission to borrow against the team. Their payroll is also down this year.. I should add, No, I don’t think anyone can show that an owner will pay out of pocket for a team. There are owners who also own part of the RSNs as a way to shield profits.
  4. old nurse
    What Arizona has that the Twins do not is a WS appearance. They might not get back to a 3 million attendance, but a bump up to 2.5 million will cover quite a bit of the expense. Grichuck and Pedeson should bring the same level of excitement to Arizona that retaining Farmer and signing Santana does to Minnesota.
  5. old nurse
    DeScalfini has had 3 different years of sub 4 ERA. He could be that or he could be a Shoemaker like piece of toast. Festa will need stats at the mlb level to continue his development just like Varland will need.
  6. old nurse
    People forget, not Major League Ready, that the Twins got an influx of cash last year from BAM. One time money and they spent it. People have forgotten that Nick wrote a story on them losing money in 2022. In 2019 they drew over 2.3 million fans. They spent money to get them back. A division winning team dew under 2 million. The fans have spoken .
  7. old nurse
    Pretty much lost in your salad was the article was about the current payroll Not a person has shown how the front office has been disingenuous about the numbers. Facts are few and far between. Fact in a Nick Nelson article, they lost money in 2022. Payroll went up in 2023 but they also had extra revenue from BAM money. Attendance went up only slightly for 2023 Those are the facts at people’s disposal.
  8. old nurse
    Correa, Donaldson and Vasquez are the only free agents they signed hat were not stopgap signings. They also signed Castro as a free agent. Did you think the other players were signed as stars?
  9. old nurse
    Blindly critiquing the FO is OK without knowledge of the facts is OK. No Koolaid accusations there.
  10. old nurse
    Again, disrespect. Which people are blind as no one really knows wha the profits/losses ae
  11. old nurse
    Your words were “once the KoolAid wears off”. What is to wea off it is not mind altering?
  12. old nurse
    Nick Nelson wrote a piece on the Twins losing money in 2022. Payroll went up. Perhaps the true lie is the fans with the Twins being cheap. They spent to build a winner but the lie of if you build they will come did not hold true
  13. old nurse
    When someone uses the term KoolAid, I think of one word. Disrespect for others. The Twins are entertainment. People can have opinions different than yours without being accused of mind altering subfatances
  14. old nurse
    Well, there is that hope for an upgrade in the starting rotation. spring training injuries on another team. Desperation to compete. They wee both top 100 prospects. Somebody could take that seriously.
  15. old nurse
    The comment I was responding to was making light of the comparison to Koufax. That comparison was more like why Johan wasn’t comparable to Koufax and I added the statistic for lack of playoff success versus Koufax’s excellence
  16. old nurse
    If the fans were loyal they would be coming out to games regardless of other factors. The casual fan comes out with winning, disappears when they don’t. Baseball may have seen the implosion of RSNs but did not expect it this soon. Big market teams had golden contracts, there was no real need for changes anytime soon las I saw the Twins wee on of the leas expensive teams by average ticket price. Price discounts are not the answer for long term stability.
  17. old nurse
    Koufax 0.98 ERA playoffs. Series MVP. Santana nowhere near that.
  18. old nurse
    Citing an unsigned player from last year who was granted free agency rather than arbitration as a similarity to Taylor’s situation sites a new mark for baffling. Oakland did not want to pay another almost 3 mil for a player who’s OPS+ was closer to a president’s age than league average shouldn’t come as a shocker
  19. old nurse
    I think the green M&Ms taste better than the red ones. I also remember people saying Berrios was too small to be a great pitcher. It really doesn’t matter which on is ranked over the other. They are both in development and Festa got a head start ________ missed 20– due to a ligament tear that required Tommy John surgery, and then he struggled to miss bats in 20– and 20– while throwing a nearly elite level of strikes. His stuff is up. His fastball sat in the 92-96 range with life last year and touched 97. _______ does it easy and commands his fastball, average breaking ball, and changeup. He’s gone from projecting as an up-and-down arm to a potential No. 4/5 starter in the last year. Fill in the name blanks. What Festa or Raya can or can not be is far from determined or determinable
  20. old nurse
    The Twins will always need to accumulate high quality prospects. Getting another first round draft pick for nothing would be a Twins thing to do Lee might make the opening day roster for that purpose. If he shines, great. If he doesn’t, AAA and the year clock gets put back on hold. If the FO didn’t think he was going to be a quality major league player they would have traded him like they did Steer. Risk/reward. You do have to admit the front office has taken risks in trades. Could he win ROY. It is not out of the question. He would probably have to hit about .290 with 40 doubles and a few HR (basically the second coming of Joe Mauer). Wether the computer data of his hit metrics indicates he could do that are not requires a geek to come up with that answer. This might be the first idea by Ted I praised.
  21. old nurse
    The stuff is so nasty he catcher leads the league in passed balls, he has to strike out that many
  22. old nurse
    By his 30th birthday Beltré had already amassed close to 40 WAR. He was not a late bloomer, but he did have an 8 year stretch of consistency Perhaps if there was an oft injured player that became a consistently healthy player you could ask if Buxton could e that guy.
  23. old nurse
    Some clubs have done well with the disgruntled types. Even the Yankees had to move on from Donaldson.
  24. old nurse
    If Ober, Ryan and Paddack are not playoff pitchers adding one is of little use. How quickly people forget the Houston series
  25. old nurse
    Are the Twins collecting these pitchers for batting practice? This way maybe their hitters will learn what a pitch out of the strike zone looks like and will learn what to do
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