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  1. old nurse
    The team probably has a plethora of fill in players. There is always budget issues. I could see them moving on from Farmer Trading him is an option. The best you could hope for is a low minor league player that the Twins like and the other team doesn’t covet. The return would be something like a relief pitcher that throws in the low 90s and a secondary pitch that needs work. There is no point to trading him for that. Do Farmer a favor and let him be a free agent.
  2. old nurse
    There is a Japanese pitcher about that age entering the market. Good luck signing him
  3. old nurse
    The second sentence pretty much stated what the average pitcher should be capable of. For Paddack, he was pretty much a 5 inning pitcher before. Last season it seemed like they went more by pitch count than innings. So if Paddack pitches efficiently but not batting practice he would get more innings in.
  4. old nurse
    Well, the Astros limited Verlander to 175 innings after his. The studies show no need for a pitch limit
  5. old nurse
    Having worked with lots o different teams of people i can offer an observation. There are groups of people that have everyone else’s back, work together, and actually put out the effort to work. There are groups that do not. There is management that are supportive, there are managers that are not. The first kind of group becomes your brothers and sisters. From my far away view I could guess that the Twins are the former.
  6. old nurse
    If a 106 OPS+ is considered your most valuable position player perhaps the real MVPs are on the pitching staff. MVP arguments are probably another thread The players brought in as waiver claims will likely not get offered arbitration but will get minor league deals. The preliminary discussions on contracts will determine if they keep Farmer, Thielbar, Alcal,, Castro and Gordon. Thielbar should get a slight raise, 3 years of effective pitching, one injury year. The playoff meltdown dampens his value. On the other hand, there is no in house replacement. Alcala is likely back. He still has a future, he still is cheap.. Castro, Gordon are kind of in the same boat. Can a minor league player do what they have done.? Career year players like Castro get tricky. Did they finally figure it out? Will there be regression. If Castro’s agent aims too high, he will likely be gone. That leaves Farmer. More expensive than Castro but consistent. Replaced by what player at what cost?
  7. old nurse
    The Braves have a $212 million payroll, with the revenue to go higher (424 million revenue. In 2022) what the Braves can do and the Twins can do for payroll are not even close. In 2 years 3 players will get 73 million. That really doesn’t leave a lot of room for others. Team friendly contracts are easier to negotiate when tou have a string of playoff success. None of the 3 long term contracts that the Twins have are team friendly.
  8. old nurse
    There are probably more Twins fans than not pulling for Texas to win because that would be fan friendly to them so they would be off work to see the game
  9. old nurse
    Yup passionate fans need a place to rant. Too bad that it came at the expense of something else. Interesting how ranting must draw more clicks than information
  10. old nurse
    Hyperbole on a fan site, and people being negative there, too. Who woulda thunk that?
  11. old nurse
    They have many bloggers now versus the few that were here at the start. There was a difference in how they looked at things. The site appears to be devolving from a baseball site to a ranting fan site. One ranger tries to outdo the other.
  12. old nurse
    When you claim one replaced the other you have to be aware of difference between year to year. There are similar rate numbers, but a very different plate appearance number. Also a very different number for WAR
  13. old nurse
    The myth of the quick nook will continue as long as pitcher nibble. It has seemed that unless totally ineffective Baldelli lets the pitcher go for 100 pitches. If it is unlikely to Baldelli the pitcher isn’t going to complete the inning in under 100 pitches total for the game, they don’t get to start the inning. Yes, you should be able to find exceptions to that as very few can be that consistent
  14. old nurse
    Ops+ 110 vs 128, for what is described as nearly the same number, OPS+ would suggest that it is easier to hit this year.
  15. old nurse
    The player that you did not expect who added the most to winning when the leverage was there .is not Castro. Ober, Julian, Pagan, Jeffers and Wallner all added more. At the start of the season who was ever thinking that Lopez or Gray would be mentioned in a discussion on Cy Young voting? Castro had a career year. Given his career in Detroit and inconsistent minor league number, there really isn’t any way to count on getting the same performance next year
  16. old nurse
    It is about time Lopez and Lewis made up for the other 18 games that were lost
  17. old nurse
    The Twins calling up James Beresford a few years ago in September was not about winning games.. Every year you will find players rewarded with a call up and play based on the merits if service to the organization. Drew Magglie was another. As noted earlier, the game was moot from the start. If it is as you say moot now,, it was moot them
  18. old nurse
    If If If. How about complaining about something that actually happened.? Sorry, you are coming across as a complainer/ whiner to me. Invent a reason then complain Late season baseball, September call ups get chances to play on non contenders. That really isn’t playing to win. Do people complain about them playing? Nope
  19. old nurse
    It made no difference win or lose for the draft. Colorado was going to be the 3d worst team in baseball, the Twins were going to be the third worst team by record in the playoffs. Some people just have to go overboard on the negativity
  20. old nurse
    You forgot to add Luplow’s pitch count in your box of relief pitcher usage. Let us all hope that he is not needed in the playoffs Celestino might get picked up by somebody if they think he can play CF.
  21. old nurse
    No player is left in baseball from the 2004 to 2010 teams. On the current Twins it is only Kepler, Buxton, and Polanco that were on the last full season playoff team. The game is played by the current players, not the organization. I would really hope that the players will focus on the game on not anything they were not a part of.. Of course, people will not let that happen
  22. old nurse
    Selective history could be the problem here. Use was you need, ignore the rest The other possibility the writer was just plain ignorant of anything before they were born or does not think it is valid because it was sooooo long ago.
  23. old nurse
    They can get a similar player in the rule v draft and not give up an asset
  24. old nurse
    Is Castro going to remain the 2 war player he has shown this year for 400 PA or is he going to regress back to the replacement level player he was? A significant arbitration increase from 1.8 million is likely. If Prato is deemed capable, Castro is replaceable, especially with regression. The question would be how good of prospect or relief pitcher can you get.
  25. old nurse
    I recall reading a few years ago that the old notion of make any contact with 2 strikes was actually less productive than normal swings. BAPIP has remained static while K% has gone up. If an increase in strikeouts was due to not “choking up” there should be a corresponding increase in BABIP because there are less of the weak grounders in the infield.
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