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  1. Prince William
    Take a look, you will find they have a short career
  2. Prince William
    organizing separately would cost money, the thread is about lack of money. As an organization what power would they have? The bonus babies have money so why would they risk their future striking? The effect of 2020 on player development shows the downside on not playing, especially for starting pitchers.
  3. Prince William
    The assumption is that the player will have a 4-5 year career as a minor league player as a 75k signing bonus is nowhere near universal.
  4. Prince William
    The draft last year was 20 rounds. There really isn't a reason to have more than that now that there is no longer a rookie league and there is proposals to cap the number of minor league players to 150. A quick look through a half dozen or so team's draft last year shows that there were very few players with signing bonuses les than 75K. Of the 20 drafted usually it was 18-19 signed. Of those signed the most any team had was 5 players signing for a pittance. Usually it was 3. The players have money, it just comes up front.
  5. Prince William
    People have visions of modular pitching staffs yet is hasn't been done. Relievers haven't pitched 100 innings since iron Mike Marshall for a reason. Duran isn't the pitcher to do that
  6. Prince William
    There were plenty of 5 year pitching contracts signed last winter. The problem with chastising the team for not signing pitchers is that it is going to take a few years to find out if the signings were a good thing or a bad thing. When the signings go bad, the boo birds will have forgotten all about what they promoted
  7. Prince William
    If you are complaining of losing Littel you can't complain of losing Ynoa. It comes across as you really have no case. Ynoa had a season of an ERA+ of 109. That same level of starting pitching has been called a 3-4 starter by others on this board. One group or the other is correct Cry about losing the others when they become frontline players for a couple of years. Baddoo started hot and faded once teams had scouting on him. A little better outcome than Larnach, but the same trend. Nick Anderson had 2 great part seasons then blew out his elbow.
  8. Prince William
    Bobby Cuellar. Many thought he should have been promoted rather than Anderson
  9. Prince William
    Such was still the pitching coach when Santana came to the Twins. If I remember correctly Santana had the Johnny Podres circle change, but it was neither Such or Anderson who taught it to him.
  10. Prince William
    From the article I can know the speed of his pitches, beyond that knowledge of him becomes like Sargent Schultz. When there is a clearer picture painted an opinion can be formed. Speed alone is meaningless. Jim Hoey and Max Scherzer threw at about the same speed on the fastball. Slightly different career outcomes.
  11. Prince William
    Back to the subject. It is difficult to take rankings as meaningful A real old article once stated that beyond the top 20, if a player was ranked it was not a sign of a good player as only about a 20% made it as a player. Fangraphs once had something that 1/3 of the 3 war players were never ranked as prospects. Mr Law likes a couple of players. That is good. Many of the Twins prospect will not fare well in algorithms. Recent draftees in lower rounds have neither the pedigree nor innings put in to shine as prospects. It does not mean they are not decent prospects
  12. Prince William
    I am well aware of the era and games played by the members I listed. I expected the fan of the Twins to know that also. Sorry I tried to have a little fun with the the exchange that people seemed to need a little lightning up on. I see it is serious only here unless it is a an unfunny gif
  13. Prince William
    Cesar Tovar, Danny Santana, Denny Hocking
  14. Prince William
    Then was it because Ryan was a superior GM that he could spot the potential of Santana and the current FO can't or is it more along the lines your comment on the Twins never having an ACE utter brain fart? So Pavano and Hughes' injuries should have been foreseen? How might have the team have done that? It should be fascinating to know.
  15. Prince William
    Injuries lead to out of sight, out of mind. It is no big deal that they fall in rankings.
  16. Prince William
    So Johan Santana was never an ACE? Ervin Santana with an ERA in the low 3s is a number 4 starter. Okay dokey
  17. Prince William
    If that is all you have is rudeness, so be it
  18. Prince William
    You prove that apples are not oranges
  19. Prince William
    There is good management with the Rays, they win. It has been fairly consistent
  20. Prince William
    You can't be serious to not understand that it it the management of an organization that makes them successful not the money they have.
  21. Prince William
    Mismanagement is mismanagement. It is why baseball has teams that are performing poorly. No revenue sharing plan is going to fix that. The old formula for baseball put each team share of the revenue at 130 million. These teams are bad due to mismanagement and people want these teams to spend more. It will not change with even more money
  22. Prince William
    Detroit Lions on a par with the Cowboys who are on par with the Patriots for success. Yes there is parity in football if you wish to believe it. NFL also does not do 100 % revenue share. That is what makes some of the franchises more valuable than others.
  23. Prince William
    The ring chasers were all deemed to be good enough to play on teams that were unable to sign anything else but minimum contract players.
  24. Prince William
    No league has 100% revenue sharing, so why should baseball? The romantic notion that somehow it would even the playing field is not proveable. Look at football
  25. Prince William
    Help my memory out. Who did the Twins sign that took up the money that was spent on Nathan, Capps, Kubel and Cuddyer? When it comes to signing a free agent, a team has no control. The Twins were intent on signing Mark Buehrle. Didn't happen. A team is always going to be at a disadvantage regardless of how much short of a floor the team is. If someone is not interested, they are not interested.
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