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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. old nurse
    It is down to criticizing practice. I suppose it is a change from payroll complaining, but not any better
  5. 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.
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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.
  9. old nurse
    But you still have no solution that fits the parameters of what the Twins are. Therefore you come across as a complainer
  10. 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
  11. 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.
  12. old nurse
    Luis Arraez wasn’t expected to turn into Luis Arraez.
  13. old nurse
    Oops
  14. old nurse
    To calibrate a bit you need to include the playoff pitching in your plans You also should be including that in your season totals
  15. old nurse
    The season is long. Too any pitches who probably can’t pitch 200 innings. So, if you do not want gassed pitchers in the playoffs, they need the 5th starter to open the season. There is always the bullpen game if you have more quality bullpen arms
  16. old nurse
    So you want the Pohlads to have more money. It is be an _________________ about money for athletes week because somebodies good fortune wasn’t yours
  17. old nurse
    My, have you lived a charmed life. You are so lucky
  18. old nurse
    By results so far what they have drafted for college arms in the high rounds would indicate they have to try something different.
  19. old nurse
    Last year Brooks played in 125 games. The year before it was 88. Maybe he learned he had to get in better shape as his performance tailed off at the end of the year.
  20. old nurse
    Some people have a notion that age impacts talent. That is why they make such a big deal of comparative age to level of play.
  21. old nurse
    If Bref had service tie for all players it would have been used. They only list it for active mlb players
  22. old nurse
    Maybe they approached him after the first season here and he said no. Can’t make them sign
  23. old nurse
    You have never dealt with something like pain for 2 years have you?
  24. old nurse
    Other than Berrios what pitcher would have been worth signing ? It is not the least bit weird
  25. old nurse
    What is charmed about rupturing a tendon and basically losing your career at this point?
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