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  1. nicksaviking
    I'm sure the October and November winning percentages will help bump up the overall numbers.
  2. nicksaviking
    I think the rebuild started 2-3 months ago, they seemed pretty intent on playing stopgap vets prior to that. I like the Rangers approach to pitching, even if it does lend to injuries, though I don't know how much of that had to do with Washington, likely it was Mike Maddox and/or Nolan Ryan. I'd prefer an external option, but a younger one assuming this team can't a Terry Francona/Buck Showalter type.
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    I didn't mean to use the word loyalty as an insult, it seems like a positive trait to me, and nowhere did I refer to it as blind. I was asking an honest question, and if one single word in the post is going to obfuscate the point, substitute the hot-button word loyalty for "favorable judgment" instead. My point is that many people seem to stand behind/stand up for non-field personell more than the players. I tend to be much more loyal to the players, often long after they have proven to be replacable, and I think it's because these are the guys I watch everyday and have grown accustomed to knowing, at least through my TV. I'm simply curious what drives others to be more inclined to have these sentiments more strongly for managers and front office employees.
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    I don't know, but high profile free agents like Roger Clemens, Andy Pettite and Terry Francona generally don't agree to buy Yugos.
  5. nicksaviking
    True, but I think the lack of public praise of Anthony for stepping in for Ryan during the time of crisis speaks volumes. I think if St. Peter, the Pohlads or Ryan liked what they saw and still viewed him as successor, we would have heard some very public back patting to help reinforce his position to the fans. No one seemed to want to touch a shirt soaked in his own vomit though.
  6. nicksaviking
    Prior to his interim GMship I would have agreed that he was a front runner (and I would have been disappointed) but after watching him cause an utter trainwreck with the roster, I'm guessing those in charge are just as skeptical of his abilities as we are. The team is overly loyal, but I don't think they're giving the job to a guy who absolutely crapped all over himself in his interview. I'm overly cynical at times, but I do think they are smarter than that.
  7. nicksaviking
    With no malignant intentions, I have a question for those that are Ryan/Gardenhire supporters. I think it's fair to say that very few people would object if the Twins looked to replace Trevor Plouffe at 3B or Kyle Gibson as a #3 starter. Heck, even if this team had Andrew McCutchen in CF, we'd all be thrilled if rumors started swirling that they were going after Mike Trout. Honestly, I'm curious why does the front office and coaching staff often get much more loyalty than the players?
  8. nicksaviking
    He's done well in the past, but I don't think he's an elite GM and after an awful stretch like the team has had, I think an attempt needs to be made to find a top tier GM. It can be a crap shoot I know, but you don't get one if you don't try.
  9. nicksaviking
    You just say that because had the Twins not traded him, but instead let him walk and had gotten the compensation picks the Twins would likely have had the selections the Angels used to draft Mike Trout and Tyler Skaggs.
  10. nicksaviking
    I don't give all the blame to Ryan on the Santana deal, but I do give him most. He was after all the guy who gave Santana a no trade provision. Santana was a 25-year-old left-handed reigning Cy Young Award winner and Ryan only gave him a four year deal, which actually only bought out one free agent year AND gave him no trade provisions. That was a terrible deal for the Twins. Hindsight would have suggested a 6 year deal was in order, and while hindsight is foolish to dwell in, conventional wisdom would suggest now and at the time that a four year deal is largely inadaquate
  11. nicksaviking
    Well you were using Wins for players on other teams and transfering them to the Twins. Garza's wins with TB/CHI would not neccissarily been wins for the Twins, obviously the inverse would also be true with Pavano, or whoever we wanted to take off the team. Not a big WAR guy, but I do like it better for pitchers since the defensive apsect is negated, it surely is a better fit for your arguement.
  12. nicksaviking
    I'm not sure that I disagree, but I don't recall you ever using Wins by a starter as a valid statistical measure. It kind of seems convenient for your arguement here.
  13. nicksaviking
    I agree that while I want a fresh start, I'd rather have Ryan than Anthony. I'm not even sure he's the devil we don't know. Ryan was out of office for the first half of the year, one would have to think Anthony was behind the poor roster decisions that plagued this club from spring training through June. Hopefully that was his audition and the powers that be think that was a large enough sample to no longer consider him a GM candidate. I don't think Ryan wants to make hard personell moves like firing Gardy (well really, you'd have to be a sociopath to enjoy firing people I guess). I also don't think Ryan views his tenure as GM as a long term gig any longer. I might think that if Gardy has to be replaced against his will, Ryan may step down rather than go through the process if he only planned on being GM for one or two more seasons.
  14. nicksaviking
    How was Jones' blod clots remedied? Was it through surgery or medication? Just wondering if anything invasive was done to his shoulder.
  15. nicksaviking
    Honesty as Ryan demonstrated in that quote is not uncommon as it is strategically the right thing to say. However it wasn't just honest, it was extremely frank. Usually such statements are hedged with auxillary comments like "I like the direction this club is heading" or "We have a solid foundation to build on now." Those kind of comments always tend to sound like passive excuses to me. None of those self-serving qualifiers were here though, just a flat out statement that his team is losing too much and no one deserves unconditional job security. Much respect from me Mr. Ryan.
  16. nicksaviking
    It's very possible, however by not calling him up now, it almost certainly will not be possible that he will start the season in the rotation even if he happened to be one of the top five starters. This time last year most Twins scribes assumed he would be up this past June. Now we're looking at a year delay and he did nothing to warrant one. We're talking about a guy who people worry is an injury risk and we're wasting his age 24 and a possibly a good chunk of his age 25 season in the minors. It makes no sense, and it does the game of baseball a disservice keeping a promising player like him in the minors.
  17. nicksaviking
    That's not a particularly exciting list. Unless Meyer gets called up, I don't think there's any non 40-man players that project to be around more than a year or so. If the Twins don't call up Meyer now, they are going to put themselves in the position to be tempted to not call him up until late June 2015 regardless of performance. If we're hoping he will be effective next year, he needs to be up now even if it's two months too late. Nothing is certain, but if we use Gibson and May as templates, our young pitching hopefulls need some time to get their feet wet and kill the butterflies.
  18. nicksaviking
    The core prospects are most important but we can't pretend the Twins would have still won the WS in 1991 had they not signed the top free agent pitcher in the offseason, a pitcher who happened to be 36. I'm not saying it's the right move now, but the move was essential last time they won it all.
  19. nicksaviking
    I have to think Jackson's two remaining years is much, much more attractive than Nolasco's three remaining years. I'd be interested but hesitant, mostly because I'm not sure the club would be willing to make a guy earning $14 million+ per year a 4th OF, which is clearly what Upton should be at this point. Though getting out of his younger and richer brother's shadow may very well be what he needs to get a boost.
  20. nicksaviking
    Geez, you make me blush. The absence of hyperbole was probably due to a lack of sleep is all.
  21. nicksaviking
    No one's asking for wild spending sprees. We are asking for innovation, or at least jumping on the bandwagon early of new ideas and practices. Of course the Twins need to build from within, but recognizing Cubans would be a good return on investment would have helped. Just as getting on board with advanced statistics a decade earlier, or realizing the game was shifting toward the benefit of strikeout pitchers, or understanding that defensive shifts are a great way to keep balls from leaving the infield. I don't want my team being among the last to embrace these ideas.
  22. nicksaviking
    Which is pretty much the premise that those of us asking Ryan to do better are rallying against. Conservatism according to Merriam-Webster (and I'll leave the more overt political definition out for obvious reasons) : dislike of change or new ideas in a particular area I'm not sure why that is an acceptable philosophy for any baseball fan. I do not want a conservative GM, we should expect more open-mindedness.
  23. nicksaviking
    I think you quoted the wrong post. I've re-read it several times now and can't find that reference in my original. My position, which while allegorical still seems pretty clear, is that Ryan is too often a wallflower who jumps on baseball theories long after the novelty wears off and is left at the tail end of innovation. There is little room for conservatism in the front offices of winning professional sports franchises.
  24. nicksaviking
    There is a decent chance that his early season struggles were concussion related, as mentioned and as you acknowledged, it's only speculation. However, I don't know that this "season-after-concussion-hangover" is league wide. From what I can tell, it is confinded to Mauer, Morneau, Span and Koskie. There may be other cases, but I don't recall any. Of course I do follow the Twins closer than other organizations.
  25. nicksaviking
    One of their bubbles will pop, there's no doubt about it. But that probably shows that the Twins should have been among the bubbles long ago, heck, there's no rule that said the Twins couldn't have been the team to START blowing the bubbles. Ryan has done many things well, but his biggest shortcoming is that he waits to see which party looks to be the most fun before he rings the doorbell and asks to come in. He misses out on all the good parts and is left drinking the Old Milwaukee no one else wanted while sitting on the couch eating the last crumbs in the bowl of Cheetos while everyone else is at the bar talking about Rick Hahn's epic kegstand that Ryan missed while he was indecisively lingering on the doorstep. We need bold, agressive leadership, someone not afraid to be a trailblazer or at least willing to get into the game early.
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