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  1. old nurse
    No. The grass isn’t greener. The bar of free agency is closing, he isn’t ant prettier
  2. old nurse
    I think Garlick has a career OPS+ of 130. Why would you replace him with less?
  3. old nurse
    Last year Soler had an OPS+ of 95. He is not that bad of hitter. The contract is 15 mil plus player option for 9 the following year. Taking Soler would be like instead of giving up a lottery ticket relief pitcher. I am sure the crack hitting gurus on the Twins could get him 10 or more on an OPS+. Unfortunately I think the Twins would have to give up Miranda, not Arraez
  4. old nurse
    You don’t what the coaches may or may not have tried during the season to adjust. Sometimes it could be in the the parting instructions what to work on. There was a pitcher that pitched for the Twins, got traded and was pitching better. A sportswriter asked him what was different in what they told him there than Minnesota. He said there was no difference. His pitch mix changed. Sometimes player just do not want to do
  5. old nurse
    Shane McLanahan and Logan Gilbert are two emerging pitchers who were long gone before the Twins drafted. Same holds true for Lodolo , Manoah, Detmers and Crochet. Drew Rasmussen is doing well also. He is already on his 2nd TJ. There were concerns he would only be able to be a reliever. Twins luck with past injured pitchers snark comments are acceptable. Spencer Strider is doing well. By who is performing well in the majors now and drafted since 2017 there really hasn’t been that much in the way of starting pitching with huge success. Hard to beat up the FO on developing pitching when not much else has popped up in the majors since they took over. That they could have drafted I did not look all that closely on relievers, but there were a few doing ok.
  6. old nurse
    I quit the article when he said Tampa and Cleveland turn out a four war pitcher every year. Since 2017 Tampa has had 2 seasons of 4 War pitching. 1 from Blake Snell, 1 from Charlie Morton as an aged veteran. For Cleveland, more pitchers. In 2014,. Kluber got to 4 war at age 28 after being in the majors for some time. Clevinger was 27 and a couple years in when he hit 4 war. Bieber had a partial season then came on. Then there was McKenzie. Bauer came with MLB experience It took him several years and age 27 McKenzie came on this year after 2 part seasons. Drafted in 2015 Compare apples to apples. When The Twins lost payers in the end of Ryan’s tenure and the start of the Smith era teams got draft picks. Free agents were not lost for nothing
  7. old nurse
    Kirilloff had a lost season in 20, 21 and 22. Although it only takes one believer in a GM, the last 3 years may have dropped his stock Lopez had a career half year. He may bounce back and it wasn’t a fluke. He might not. The last 1/4 of the season would take the shine off the first. To digress, the real benefit to the trade was they could no longer call up Cano. Options rather than these 2 for your list? Can’t say because there are others might be higher on the list, might not.
  8. old nurse
    If he is looking to stock the farm it would be more likely a package of high risk high reward a+ or lower players would be what is traded
  9. old nurse
    Lauereno is not the player Montas nor Murphy is. Oakland does like quantity of low level prospects along with a roster filler for the year. It is as likely for a trade 3 of the prospect you would go who? The fourth one would be someone like Celestino, a player with an unmet ceiling that does something well
  10. old nurse
    Kneibel, Chafin, Fulmer, Wacha if he would work out of the pen. See what they can shake out in a trade from an over the cap team looking to get under
  11. old nurse
    The decision to sign Eovaldi or not should rest solely on how he helps the team. The money is not spend it on Eovaldi or not at all. One could argue that the average of Eovoldi’s career, trading for a high paid reliever is a better outcome Starting Ober is a better option
  12. old nurse
    Cohen also gets to depreciate the players on the roster when he bought them. I do not know if that includes extensions. I don’t know if it includedes the differed monies owed
  13. old nurse
    What was being discussed was the signing of Eovaldi. The question asked of me was then who would I spend money on, which really has no bearing on wether or not I think signing Eovaldi was a good thing to do
  14. old nurse
    Sometimes you have to spend money to make money. Cohen should know that. 2.5 million attendance when they have had 3.5 in the past Per Statistica average Yankee ticket is $51. Average Mets $27. There is money to be made there The Mets own 65% of their cable station, there is money to be made there. All the Mets have to do is win a few Series while the Yankees only make the playoffs There is a romantic notion that Cohen is doing this for a hobby. BS. High stakes gambling
  15. old nurse
    Eovaldi had one good year 2 years ago. Earlier in the thread it was about him being best pitcher. Now it is beat out number 5. Is Eovaldi better than developing one of Winder, SWR, Varland or any other prospect? Based on last year, what did he do to be even worth 16 million? Regression to his mean says a better 2022 but fewer games. Why would a pitcher come here? Last established pitcher to come here and get better was ?
  16. old nurse
    It is not an either or situation.
  17. old nurse
    Eovaldi, 12 seasons, 2 healthy. 10 not. Now he is well over 30. What am I missing that would indicate he is a solid starter. The Rangers are paying for a half season if Eovaldi is the pitcher some say he is. How many thousand comments were there about starters being injured in 2022. Be happy they did not add one more to the mix for the IL Last year was a mess with coming and going
  18. old nurse
    The word preview was in the title
  19. old nurse
    Sometimes I think working on fundamentals left with Tom Kelly. Some people here are too young to remember him
  20. old nurse
    If I remember the stat correctly there has to be an 80% success rate to come out ahead in terms of costing runs. I don’t think Ryan left them much for base stealing threats. The FO was looking first for power. That has not yet materialized. I don’t think they really have base running coaches in the system. They fired the guy who understood baserunning likely due to his connection to Ryan.
  21. old nurse
    The people that need to step up their game is the pitching coaches. Even including Wes Johnson’s time who has really elevated their game here? Odo had regressed by the time he left. Bullpen failures galore. Ryan Presley is the only one.Even then he wouldn’t do as suggested until he left town. All the relievers in the pen that really need to be better, do they need to do it on their own? Kepler and Gallo have to prove the elimination of the shift will provide better BABIP for these two. The FO seems semi rational about money matter. The only way signing Gallo to something of contract makes any sense is if the numbers show he was hitting the ball at the extra outfielder The Twins need the normal development of their young players, this includes Jeffers. Jeffers has under 600 PA Same for Miranda, Larnach, Krilloff, and the bevy of starting pitching that got their feet wet last year
  22. old nurse
    If you want to know what could possibly go wrong just ask the insurance underwriter. When you present a 300+ million liability they are going to give you the worst possible scenario for the highest bill. You can thank Albert Bell for that
  23. old nurse
    Are you issuing a challenge to see where the next blogger can take the Correa subject
  24. old nurse
    2013
  25. old nurse
    Free agency is a game of chicken. There are only so many impact players available. Rogers had a bad season, but not a bad career thus far. It seems like the Giants have a pretty good track record turning around pitchers. If they get Rogers back on track they have a bargain compared to the other contracts. The Twins on the other hand have not turned around anyone. Parts of good seasons from Odo and Pineda but not anything that makes you go wow. It does not help that Reed’s career died in Minnesota, as did Joe Smith’s. It may be tough for them to pick up a reliever
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