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  1. Mike Sixel
    I predict the Pirates try one more year, and if it isn't working, they deal at the deadline. I think I'd rather have Archer for a similar package..... edit: no idea if those trades are even viable.
  2. Mike Sixel
    With Esan likely gone or fading, and Gibson and his 5.07 ERA (or he's been good and is now expensive)....and who knows what Mejia really is or is not.....they need 7-12 pitchers in a year. Even if 2 of those guys work out, they still need 4+ more pitchers. IMO, thinking any team will have a home grown roster that wins it all consistently, w/o FA or trades, seems like it isn't how any team that has success operates.
  3. Mike Sixel
    I would endorse that plan. Though, as gunnar points out, that hurts fixing the bullpen. but, I like your thinking!
  4. Mike Sixel
    Of course it is better to be a mythical organization that develops all it's own talent and doesn't sign any FA or trade for anyone. But, that organization does not exist. No one should have over paid for Capps. that was a bad trade. and what does "over pay" mean, if that is the price every year? That's the market price. Paying market price is pretty much by definition not over paying, isn't it?
  5. Mike Sixel
    then what, after Vargas leaves? Find another 1 year deal that will be better than a number 3? And again. And again?
  6. Mike Sixel
    I read all the time "you can't sign a FA pitcher, he'll be too old by the end"......or "only 1/3 of FA pitchers work out, they are a bad investment"......or "you can't trade prospects, because you want the team to compete EVERY year". Lots of people are arguing hard against solutions that are not 1 year, or are cheap so you keep your financial flexibility, which you never use (as above)...... What are the odds a 1 year, make good, deal works out for that one year? Then, what do you do the next year, if you won't sign older players long term?
  7. Mike Sixel
    I hate deciding Kepler is a platoon player already....hate it.
  8. Mike Sixel
    why are advertisers willing to spend twice as much? I'm confused by that assertion. Because their product will be in front of me half the times? pitch clock no automatic strike on 3-0 counts
  9. Mike Sixel
    But then you aren't really signing a SP FA....since nearly all are 31 or older. That's my point.....not signing a FA looks pretty ugly also.
  10. Mike Sixel
    Well, the Rodgers injury should increase their odds of making the playoffs. I hate injuries.
  11. Mike Sixel
    KLAW recently posted an Insider on ESPN....a full paragraph on Tyler Jay.....he seemed impressed overall, said the Twins making him a starter has probably passed (not all national readers would know that), but that some team might still try if he were elsewhere. From how I read it, if Jay is healthy, he'll be in the bullpen next year if his stuff plays like what KLAW saw. Other than that, he said the AFL was waaaaaaaaay down in talent this year from the games he was able to see.
  12. Mike Sixel
    I keep reading that a team shouldn't sign FA pitchers, because they don't always work out. Or, that a team shouldn't trade "real" prospects for good MLB pitchers because you can't sustain a team if you trade your prospects. Here are the Twins' starters the last three years, that are not legit FA pitchers.....(that's ERA, if I knew how to post a table.....I'd show more)....so, it's not like going with AA, AAA, AAAA or cheap filler FA or trading low end guys for flyers actually works..... 2017 Jose Berrios 3.93 2017 Kyle Gibson 5.07 2017 Adalberto Mejia 4.5 2017 Bartolo Colon 5.18 2017 Jaime Garcia 4.05 2017 Hector Santiago 5.45 2017 Aaron Slegers 5.52 2017 Dillon Gee 7.11 2017 Tim Melville 13.5 2017 Adam Wilk 16.2 2017 Dietrich Enns 3.86 2017 Nick Tepesch 5.4 2017 Nik Turley 16.39 2017 Felix Jorge 10.57 2016 Kyle Gibson 5.07 2016 Tyler Duffey 6.43 2016 Tommy Milone 5.46 2016 Hector Santiago 5.58 2016 Alex Meyer 10.13 2016 Pat Dean 6.85 2016 Andrew Albers 9.45 2016 Jose Berrios 8.02 2015 Kyle Gibson 3.84 2015 Trevor May 4.43 2015 Tommy Milone 3.95 2015 Tyler Duffey 3.1 2015 J.R. Graham 2.25
  13. Mike Sixel
    Well, ESan is 34 and only signed for 1 more year? Or is there an option? Also, are you counting Gibson as "in place"? I'd say they have one guy that is probably a starter past next year on the roster, Berrios. All the others are much bigger question marks, imo, either due to ability or age or contract status. There is a lot of work to do, imo. As for the philosophy, I don't think we really know much at all about this FO and their philosophy. Their one actual move was signing two defensive catchers (and, I guess, cheap RPs). Hopefully that's not their philosophy...
  14. Mike Sixel
    There has been research on this, the speed of the pitch has very little to do with the speed of the batted ball. Not nothing, but it is a tiny variable.
  15. Mike Sixel
    So hitter of year two years ago is bad track record?
  16. Mike Sixel
    Kind of a self fulfilling prophecy.... Don't trade to get better, so you don't get better, so you don't add at the deadline.....
  17. Mike Sixel
    I'd say he's the most likely to take it, yes. But, I don't know his personality at all so I don't know if he would. edit: most likely of the hitters. I think Berrios takes a deal, but it is waaaaaaay to risky to do that with a pitcher, imo.
  18. Mike Sixel
    Why is he taking "bad" FA money to sign here?
  19. Mike Sixel
    Who is trading a controllable ace for 2 minor league players?
  20. Mike Sixel
    Wait, that wasn't obvious, that was in reply to signing a number 3/4? thanks for the help!
  21. Mike Sixel
    How many playoff series, other than KC who traded the number 4 prospect in baseball for two pitchers (think this FO will do that?)......have those teams won?
  22. Mike Sixel
    They also did not trade for a legit SP in the offseason or at the break. Every year they don't have good pitching with Sano and Buxton is a year less their window is open.
  23. Mike Sixel
    After 1 year, which is not enough data to know, they spend even less....
  24. Mike Sixel
    If Garver qualified in AAA, he'd have had the 2nd highest OPS in his league.....how much better would his hitting need to be to think he might hit in the majors? edit: I'm not arguing he should be the DH, I'm arguing that his track record is "good hitter".
  25. Mike Sixel
    What do you base the Garver statement on? Because he was more than good in AAA..... You can't carry Vargas, Grossman, and another DH on the roster. You have no bench then at all.
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