Cris E
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Nelson tore up Colorado Springs, so don't be too fast to overlook his career .254/.284/.376 in a couple hundred ABs with the Rockies. That said, we're looking for a glove guy who can be comfortable with a bench role, so he could still be a good fit. I'm for anyone, in the system or not, who has a solid grasp of defense at a number of positions. It would be swell if Nishi figured this out by mid-year, but I'm not confident he'll learn more than one position any time soon or be able to settle in on the bench at any point at all.
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Article: Terry Ryan's Foolish Gamble
Cris E replied to John Bonnes's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
But, if you're down to your last $10, just about out of gas, you spend the $10 the $10 on gas that can get you to work, not on 10 lotto tickets. That was the situation Ryan faced, That's not a good comp because 800K will only buy you about a thimbleful of gas. The signing of Z was total lottery ticket and didn't affect any real plans. Who were they going to get for that money that is likely to be better than Ontiveros or Bulger or whomever? Certainty costs money, and as mentioned by a lot of people above, there were structural holes in the bullpen and Ryan had to make a choice. Perkins should be solid. Capps only really sucked when he was hurt in the middle of the year. After that there's the herd from last year and the lotto tickets like Wheeler and Coffey and Zumaya and whatnot. My guess is he looked at everyone on the market, his bullpen budget, the guys on his roster, and didn't see much that projected better than what he had. Not much certainty can be bought for what he spent, so he just sat on the cash. Ryan seems to be betting that Capps isn't the mid-season guy that pitched thru pain, but could be a solid closer if given normal rest. But if the rest of the pen is no good he won't be getting that rest again and he's likely to hit the same sort of rough patch. If there was $13m for Nathan then there should probably have been something more available for the seventh inning, and that's where the second guessing should come in. The Zumaya signing was a symptom of the bad decision, not the problem. -
That list is the product of some automated process that's at the mercy of infrequent data updates. Here's a quote from the site: A disclaimer like that tells me not to waste a lot of time at that site; after all, the developers couldn't be bothered to. Either fix the formula, refresh the player info more often or shorten the lists to where they start becoming accurate. But lobbing a "yeah, it might not be real good" on there is not much different from letting weak content stand. By the way, it not just freshness that's an issue here: Alex Wimmers was "seemed a little wild at high-A Fort Myers last year".