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  1. old nurse
    Any team that is trading for Kepler has a short term hole to fill in their outfield. It doesn’t matter if it is a part of a package or stand alone trade. What he is worth in trade is about a decent reliever and minor league hopefuls. I would think that most systems have an if outfielder in their system. That is someone like Larnach or even Kiersay. The if is if they just get a little better.
  2. old nurse
    The article pretty much laid out why a club wouldn’t take him.
  3. old nurse
    Mud. Wall. Nope, nothing sticking this time for reasons already mentioned
  4. old nurse
    No player is untouchable when the deal is heavily in the Twins favor. The possibility of it happening is also fairly small
  5. old nurse
    The core f the team is not 3 players. The anchors of the starting rotation, Lopez and what they add, and the back of the bullpen, Duran, Jax, Thielbarr and whoever they add are core to winning.. The unhealthy core of 3 should actually be 4 with Polanco added. The continued success of Julien, Jeffers, and Wallner are equally important, as is the progression of Ober and Ryan. The core has to be that deep for the playoffs.
  6. old nurse
    First mistake, Farmer is still part of the team. Second mistake is eye tests. In comparing Julian to all the other. 2b, Julian comes out on the low side of average defensively. Eyes have a built in bias in many cases,
  7. old nurse
    Buxton has 21 b war, 13th overall for number 2 picks. I guess that is not panning out compared to Verlander. He has the 4th most bwar of those picked in the first 2 rounds that year.
  8. old nurse
    Only 40 pitchers last year started 30 or more games. Less than 80 started 25 games. 118 for 20 games If Law wants to deal with realism you can start with those numbers. A team would be foolish to think their 5 man rotation is going to hold up for the whole season. Or be effective for the whole season. It is not 1-5 it is 1-9. Who are the 6-9 starters. If the starters are Lopez, Ober, Ryan, Varland and Paddack, that leaves Festa and SWR as 6-7. What you have for 8 and 9 get dicey. Bullpen games require a stronger depth than the questions Twins have on their roster. It is early December and not late March. The pool of available talent will get sorted out.. we want the the world and we want it now. (For the many who wouldn’t remember the line )
  9. old nurse
    Your argument could be made for any minor league player. The outcome would be supported by data as to what his ceiling would be. A ground ball hitter with no power. Adequate fielding but not spectacular. That is what he is and the Twins did not wreck that as far as further development, he would need to have a pretty big uptick to be viable as anything but a defensive replacement.
  10. old nurse
    Every year brings a new bench, new opportunities. Sometimes the players brought in have a career year like Castro, some show it is time to move on like Gallo I am not sure what is historical about 2 minor league players coming up and hitting well. That is what the farm system is supposed to provide for the team to be successful.
  11. old nurse
    Hard to wreck something that was never there
  12. old nurse
    Just like the team needs to have a 6/7/8 starter in St Paul, the teams needs available relievers. There will be minor league retreads signed, maybe a major league signing. Considering what Pagán got, the major league signing might not bring much enthusiasm from the crowd
  13. old nurse
    TD is also the only place that would expect a significant return for a trade of Kepler. A replacement in free agency better than Kepler would cost significantly more, Larnach hasn’t shown he can hit major league pitching. That would leave one of the infielders learning how to play outfield. That would likely lead to a weaker outfield defense on a team that tends to have more than average balls heading to the outfield. Perhaps the casual fan is smarter than expected.
  14. old nurse
    Stroman probably expects the big contract. I don’t think he will get it. I think there will be the Lance Lynn Twins effect.
  15. old nurse
    Tampa’s MO on trades seems to be pre arb players or near MLB ready prospects. It would have to be a 3 team trade with Jeffers going elsewhere It would probably also include another pitching prospect that people would go “why him” and their answer would be great reliever in the shuttle system
  16. old nurse
    Maeda has been in the big leagues 8 years one full season of good pitching, 2 half seasons. It should not be shocking they let him walk. Sonny Gray probably would have been resigned had they not signed Buxton nor Correa. To contracts that are concerning for the amount of money spent and the return.. Kepler is a good player but not a building block for a team. In a trade he is insurance that a team got something for their pitcher along with a high ceiling prospect that may never reach that ceiling. Polanco’s injury history decreases his value. Like Kepler, he would need the high ceiling prospect to make a trade. Neither player would have value to a rebuilding team but to a contender there could be value in that they temporarily plug a hole
  17. old nurse
    It is barely December., of course things haven’t happened yet. You probably don’t remember Vodka Dave. He was a regular contributor who was adamant that Dozier was going to LA for multiple prospects, DeLeon was going to be a Twin. It was a done deal. A few years and quite a few teams later DeLeon became a Twin. People claim all sorts of things. You just have to ignore their posts or just smile at them. I do wish Dave would have come back when DeLeon was called up and said “I told you so, DeLeon is gonna be a Twin”
  18. old nurse
    It wouldn’t be the internet without a dig when you disagree with something
  19. old nurse
    Every place I have worked always had a budget based on revenue. Expensive people were forced out to decrease costs.. People I know in corporate America run into the project scenario all the time. They are asked to do more for the same pay, yearly wage increase of1-2 while the CEOs get a million dollar raise
  20. old nurse
    Complain about spending now as why did the leak it, or complain all winter that they are not signing anybody. No real difference between the two, except one offers a little transparency to the process. I guess transparency is a bad thing. a lot of eyelashes were batted when Berrios was traded because they couldn’t extend him a lot of eyelashes were batted when Torii left
  21. old nurse
    Pretty much now anybody beyond 4 years of service with the Twins get roasted, or should be traded, by a lot of people.
  22. old nurse
    Tampa Bay feasts off the scrap heap. https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders/major-league?pos=all&lg=all&type=8&season=2023&month=0&season1=2023&ind=0&stats=rel&qual=20&pageitems=30&team=12
  23. old nurse
    4 year history of not performing well in high leverage situations. Great 6th inning type pitcher. Great when ou are a couple of runs up or down. That does not seem like an 8 million dollar reliever
  24. old nurse
    With how the Twins use their roster there would have to be enough relievers for a St Paul shuttle to pick a player to stash. If the player could help this year they would select them. The likelihood of that happening is small considering the teams ahead of them in the draft
  25. old nurse
    Pagan 2/16 plus incentives. Despite uncertain revenue, relievers with some success are not coming cheaply early in the process. The Twins are more likely to find 3-4 pitchers with potential on minor league deals. That would require a fairly deep dive to predict what relievers the Twins would target. Robles and Colome experiment failed. I wouldn’t look for them to spend money. In spring training if one of the rehab relievers haven’t signed and would do a minimal contract they would be a possibility. I doubt that would happen.
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