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  1. Mike Sixel
    My new US Senator just announced he expects my old US Senator to resign tomorrow.....MN is a governor appoints successor state. I hope Dayton has been talking to Rybak for the past week or two.....
  2. Mike Sixel
    i'm not saying it.....read the internet. People have been saying he's the number 1 free agent for a long time, years. People are saying he'd get around $150-200MM if he was truly a FA. He's the best FA, by far, not even close. He's young. He's healthy. He has multiple pitches. If he's just "OK" this year, he'll probalby put up around 3 WAR as a SP, if he's dominant in his first year, he'll put up 4-6 WAR.
  3. Mike Sixel
    where, exactly, did I say Thorpe should be there this year? I want him set up for next year (uh, to me, this year is 2018......). Ready. Not "he needs at least half a year in AA/AAA first" ready. That's hardly "sprinting" if he's the prospect they need him to be. And, he's just one example. Why did Gonsalves spend nearly all year in AA, utterly dominating, and not move to AAA sooner to face better hitters? We are just going to disagree on this. IMO, they aren't going to win anything if they won't take risks. Those risks include moving someone that might be an ok number 5 to RP sooner, rather than later, and getting a guy like Thorpe ready to pitch in the majors in 2019.
  4. Mike Sixel
    He's toast now that at least five US Senators have called for him to be gone. He should have taken the high road, and resigned. He'll be replaced by a Democrat. He could have done much more good for this country by resigning and helping the Dems establish some moral high ground. Now? He's just another disgraced harrasser who refused to resign until he was forced out. Hubris.....hubris always seems to win with the powerful.
  5. Mike Sixel
    ? Plenty of major colleges still abuse arms. Not sure what this post means. But, I can find no evidence that is true in Duke, lately, so in this case it is probably not a fear.
  6. Mike Sixel
    Every year they delay having the good pitchers in MN, is another year gone of having Sano, Buxton, et. al. all on the roster.
  7. Mike Sixel
    This. Be aggressive, try to win. This team and its fans spend a lot of time trying not to lose.....Slegers is very unlikely to be a very good starting pitcher, but he might be a very good RP. They have plenty of guys in AA and AAA with similar stuff as him, as this article points out. Start moving some of them to RP sooner rather than later.
  8. Mike Sixel
    The rush would be, I don't know, getting him to MN before he gets older. This site is filled with people saying hte TWins should slow play their pitchers, let them get more time in the low minors, what is the hurry.....how has the worked out for this team? Why are other teams calling up younger players? Why are other teams calling up younger RPs, and seeing more strikeouts than this team? Maybe it is because pitchers lose velocity as they age.....
  9. Mike Sixel
    So you think Slegers is more likely to be a good MLB pitcher than Thorpe?
  10. Mike Sixel
    Keep the actual good pitchers down so a bunch of number five at best can be up? Hate that. I don't care about she, I want the best up
  11. Mike Sixel
    There is no reason not to spend it. Every team wastes more than that on one or more veteran per year. If they don't use it, I will be both surprised and very disappointed.
  12. Mike Sixel
    Rob 3:19 Do the Twins spend big on FA's. Or do they extend Sano, Buxton, Berrios and Rosario and then spend with what they deem left? Steve Adams 3:20 It's not one or the other. Any extensions for a guy like Buxton or Sano are going to come with a meager salary in 2018 -- those guys probably won't start earning real money, even under an extension, until year three or four of the deal, since those are all would-be arb years. They can do both. And I do think they'll spend more than we're accustomed to seeing out of Minnesota. Lou 3:54 Nick Gordon and international signing bonus to the Padres for Brad Hand. Who says no? Steve Adams 3:54 Can't see the Twins giving up Gordon for two years of Brad Hand. Mark 3:54 Do the Twins add a right handed free agent bat like Jose Bautista or Mark Reynolds? Steve Adams 3:55 If the Twins aim to add a bat... they're going to aim higher than that. Curt 4:20 Who signs Darish? Steve Adams 4:20 It feels really weird to predict the Twins here, but that's what I'm doing. https://www.jotcast.com/chat/chat-with-mlbtrs-steve-adams-12-5-17-2806.html
  13. Mike Sixel
    I love how people are trying to disparage Ohtani now that he won't be a Twin. He is the number one FA, by far, this year and would have been last year.
  14. Mike Sixel
    Anyone that thinks they have any idea how Ohtani is making this decision is fooling themselves.
  15. Mike Sixel
    Agreed. Counting on him to be ready is a bad plan.
  16. Mike Sixel
    There is no evidence of this front office making strikeouts a priority or not. We literally have no idea, based on their inaction last year or this, so far. People keep posting about the front office like we have any idea what they will do. How do you know?
  17. Mike Sixel
    I would get three of them. Whatever best three they can.
  18. Mike Sixel
    No surprise, no disappointment.
  19. Mike Sixel
    100 percent right on.
  20. Mike Sixel
    Not much, no. Pro sports are almost entirely about the players. And almost none of the players were added last year.
  21. Mike Sixel
    What did last year have to do with anything the new FO did?
  22. Mike Sixel
    Shocking he's not coming to Minnesota.
  23. Mike Sixel
    Dave is not the first to say this. My generation followed a generation willing to fight in World war two. There are a lot of problems, and a lot of boomers voting to keep those problems alive. I don't think it is a generation, though. I think it is decades of underfunding education and propaganda that are the real issues
  24. Mike Sixel
    You do realize Alabama is about to elect an accused pedophile and Constitution hater to the Senate? Again, I say we divide the union.
  25. Mike Sixel
    I think I keep him for now. Let's see where the team is at the deadline before trading off assets. This is, of course, assuming they don't sign O and D and need the money for RPs....... I see a regression coming, and I see the team dealing him at the deadline. But, keeping the option open that they are good again has real value (in wins and losses, and ticket sales), and they should keep that value for now.
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