One of these pitcher's team is 6-8 in games he starts and the other is 11-5. I'll take the guy whose team is 11-5 in games he starts and let you figure out which is which.
He's a veteran pitcher who has shown in the past and most likely will show again in the future what he's made of. We need pitching and he's a pitcher who can be very good. Makes plenty of sense to complain about not having him.
I actually don't think it had anything to do with Johnson's departure. Staff ERA since Johnson's departure is 2.19. I don't think that has anything to do with Johnson's departure either.
C'mon. We're not really blaming whether Gray was sharp or not sharp today on who the pitching coach was. Are we? We're smarter than that. He's a grown man.
Better than what? Eleven months in and neither has advanced beyond the milb level they were at when the deal went down. Convince me when actual empirical evidence exists.
Yeah, no more than two of the four guys you mentioned and a couple lower level prospects. STARTING the conversation at those four guys isn't a GOD father offer it's a GRAND father offer, as in YOU KIDS GET OFF MY GRASS!!!
Same way the Twins could choose to fire him (or any other staff member) before the end of the regular season. Might be different if he were leaving for another big league club, unless a promotion were involved.
In spite of every bitch and gripe above, he's still the most entertaining Twin with a bat his hand since Killebrew. At the end of the day, only one team is gonna win the World Series each year. The other 29 had better be entertaining.