I'm ignoring nothing. I'm pointing out that every year this is the excuse. They've won one playoff series standing pat at the deadline. They've done so every year but once, so I'm suggesting it isn't likely that they can never get better, under three GMs and decades of time at the deadline. It can't be that every other GM is wrong every year, and MN is right. Or other GMs would change their ways.
If they need a start, they can rest him if needed. They are in a playoff chase, and imo, should be all in with the players they have available. Play to win, stop playing not to lose. I get others disagree. I'm ok with that. It's a philosophy, not a fact.