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  1. old nurse
    Not quite 3 years past the draft it would be foolish to call the picks punts. Maybe Epstien took a page out of the draft players by cost book that Hoyer picked up in San Diego, but they still would be looking for potential. The draft resembles a crap shoot so anything after getting a superstar player is icing on the cake. Plus it offers a chance to brag about being smarter.
  2. old nurse
    Hmmm, If Buxton is kept down too long the wolves say the team is retarding his development. If he is down too short of time, the team is rushing and ruining him. The wolves have stinky breath because there really is no way to know beforehand.
  3. old nurse
    Ending college eligibility for entering the draft would effectively end most bargaining power the players have entering the system. Owners would love that. International draft could save the owners money. The only way the players allow those kind of changes is if they are getting something in return. The big loser would be the players drafted, work hard, but never make it to the major leagues. Alex Wimmers may never make the majors. He at least was paid 1.3 million for his efforts. The qualifying offer bit will change. What the players give up to get that change remains to be seen. A team getting a pick for not signing a top ranked prospect is a between club thing that I doubt will change. Too many clubs have benefited by it. Hard values for draft positions would clean up a lot of things. Agents will fight that tooth and nail. It would be then unlikely that a player would need an agent until they are arb eligible. Owners would go for that in a heartbeat.
  4. old nurse
    Jay started in high , A and has been in the organization for less than a year. That is fast track for the Twins. Sorry the jab was too subtle. The fast track will become the jogging track if he doesn't move up to AA at midseason. As long as this season has felt, it is not mid season yet.
  5. old nurse
    Any change to the draft would be to the extent on how the rules take money from the players, specifically free agent compensation. Picks for not signing picks do not cost the players money. Trading of draft picks might come into play if the union figures that it will increase teams taking risks on signing free agents. Increasing competitive balance picks might be something pushed as it gives something to the bad teams at the expense of the wealthy teams. The wealthier teams then spend more money (well maybe). . In the end for the union it is first and foremost money to them first. They learned it from the owners
  6. old nurse
    I would also add with draft pools it would not be unreasonable to draft the hard to sign player. If he does not sign they get a pick next year, thus increasing their pool and flexibility.
  7. old nurse
    Draft strategy by Johnson appears to target the higher ceiling HS players first round. Jay was the exception. He appears to be someone they could fast track to the majors. If there is a player at 15 that will be able to fast track they will take that player. otherwise they will take the highest ceiling high school player
  8. old nurse
    Johnson has been drafting for a few years now. Dozier, Darnell, Hermann, Duffey, Rosario, Dean, Hicks, Gibson, Berios and Buxton have seen the major leagues.. Lots of potential in the minors with Jay, Gordon, and Kohl. Then there is what is outside of the first rounders, Chargois, Turner, Gonsalves, Cabbage and Burdi get some rankings as prospects. A few other prospects get some love from other sources, but the draft record is not so good.
  9. old nurse
    A major league roster with Mastro, Boshers, Kinzler, would indicate there will be a few spots open. Abad was a one year contract. By the end of the year the future of the Twins career of Plouffe, Santana, Arcia, Tonkin, Jepsen, Pressly, Centeno, and Dean will be clearer. That is 12 players. There are 15 on the minor league roster that 2019 is far far away in terms of development. Right now I would be hardly sure of many players that would for sure be on the 40 man There are no players that can be free agents by 2019 or 2020 that should be locked up to longer contract. There may be a lot of room on the 40 man for even multiple rule V picks.
  10. old nurse
    Your point was simple enough. On other teams even regularly making the playoffs was not good enough
  11. old nurse
    And only 7 different teams have made the World Series, leading 21 teams to complain how their GM does not get the job done. Hunnington and Hoyer would get a free pass.
  12. old nurse
    In that time period there was the unmoveable high contracts of Morneau and Mauer When large chunks of your payroll are going out to players who are injured or career changing injuries, results will be skewed downwards.
  13. old nurse
    Yup, Pretty much first round picks before the Twins picked on your list. Hello
  14. old nurse
    Other than pitching to AAA batters, if Milone is not doing anything different than he did in the majors the results will be the same as before.
  15. old nurse
    Outside of Boston, nobody has done well so far with the draft of 2011. One out of three of the top 20 have developed, very few others after that.
  16. old nurse
    I want a GM who can do similar things to turning RA Dickey into D'Anaud and Symdergaard. I want a GM who knows when to move a player on while there is still value. I want a GM who is lucky. People from successful organizations moving on Friedman ran the Rays and did a good job. The Dodgers not so much. Luhnow's team had a good year last year, this year so far, not so much. Dombrowski has reinvented multiple team. LaRussa was considered a great baseball mind Dombrowski has been good wherever Hiring away from another organization is not foolproof.
  17. old nurse
    Arroyo was owed a good chunk of money while injured. The Dbacks got an OK bench type player back but essentially it was her is Toussant and to get him for little of nothing you have to take on Bronson Arroyos remaining contract, about 10 million. Think like trading Nolasco and Stewart for a reserve player. The Braves have made trades to the competitive balance picks and really paid by taking on the contract for Olivera to get Miami's competitive balance pick from the Dodgers.
  18. old nurse
    The anti-gestalt would be this team. Why is probably the unanswered question.
  19. old nurse
    The only indictment of the Twins handling of Meyer is that he was not given a chance to fail sooner. If he had the chance to fail in 2014 and did, then there are the rushed him to soon comments. Easy criticism as there is no way to defend a move, no real way to say it was wrong as a move other than opinion.
  20. old nurse
    As unfair as a calling everyone is thinking the same way
  21. old nurse
    This should clear up why all around this is a bad ideas for investing, and being invested in http://www.thestreet.com/story/12076758/1/salmon-bad-investment-of-the-day-fantex-edition.html
  22. old nurse
    Seattle DFA'd him, the Twins did the same. After 4 years of people complaining od Drew Butera could you explain why people are upset the Twins let someone go who would make a team miss Drew Butera
  23. old nurse
    The oft repeated mantra is Gardenhire did not like young players. Throughout his tenure when the team was winning it was with young players. Players were traded before they became free agents when they could get a return. A veteran MI a few times was crucial addition. Otherwise the veteran added were usually jettisoned later. When the team quit winning, the veterans stunk, err stuck around.
  24. old nurse
    The last few years they have been playing as the Philadelphia 76ers
  25. old nurse
    Leg injuries are as likely to happen on the basepaths as they are in the field. The Twins batters have found a way to minimize their chances of injury,
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