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  1. Mike Sixel
    also from today: Xolo 12:18 Do you think a Twins World Series victory would be good or bad for baseball? Dave Cameron 12:18 Was the Royals WS good or bad for baseball? They're basically the same team, same kind of market size. 12:19 It's good that the playoffs are unpredictable. Do you want the worst team in the postseason winning that often? No. Ever? Yes. https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/dave-cameron-fangraphs-chat-92717/
  2. Mike Sixel
    except that isn't the argument anyone is making. not. one. person.
  3. Mike Sixel
    Hmmmm. Not sure he has the formula correct. If Buxton runs like this, and plays D like this, and hits with a 100 wRC+.....he'd generate around 5 fWAR or so.....that's in elite territory. He has said, I think, that Buxton will be in the top 50 trade value next time, probably.
  4. Mike Sixel
    that's a very fair stance........ say you are running a pinewood derby race for kids. One car wins every race by huge margins, like 7 races. Then we come to the "finals", against cars that have run slower every single race.....and that fast car loses a wheel while leading in the final.....it was clearly the best car for 2-3 hours and every single race, until the last race. Was it the best car? Was the car that it beat twice, and was slower in every race, but that didn't lose a wheel, the "best car"? Why even have a finals, why not just judge the cars based on performance on, say, 7 races. What if the 5th fastest car races against the top 4 in a heat, and is eliminated, but 20 slower cars get to keep going? How you run a league/race/competition is actually something you have to think about. How you determine "best" matters. Is the KBO wrong for giving more weight to the regular season?
  5. Mike Sixel
    At a minimum, I'd guess he's a defensive sub in any game he doesn't start. I think it's a lock he's on the post season roster if healthy.
  6. Mike Sixel
    pretty sure I said Padres and Reds was a better answer then....
  7. Mike Sixel
    he literally is asking a question, and not taking a side.... And, other leagues do it differently, to give more credit to the regular season. Travis thinks the post season should be more about the "best" team winning.....others, as Jeff points out, think that surprises are fun. This is a topic of great debate in circles that think about stuff like this. For example, how you run a pinewood derby.......do you reward the car that wins consistently all day, or do you have a playoff and reward teh car that holds up the best and is fastest in the last race? Which is most "right"? In pinewoood derbys, that might matter to be most fair to the people that make them. In the KBO, they've decided it is most fair to their teams, in MLB, they've decided fairness is less important. It's literally an opinion on what you value more, or less, nothing more. I really don't get the angst over this, frankly.
  8. Mike Sixel
    other than literally asking a question and not taking a side, other than being clear he was using this year as an example to ask the question, other than it was nothing like a Souhan article, sure.
  9. Mike Sixel
    He doesn't even take a side....he's literally asking a question.....on an opinion.
  10. Mike Sixel
    heck of a catch by Hicks to rob a grand slam. wow.
  11. Mike Sixel
    I would bet those articles get written in the off season, when there isn't much current to write about. The playoffs, though, are current news.
  12. Mike Sixel
    not the NBA. The best teams win almost universally. The question is simple.......who should we consider the champion, the best team during the season, or the team that wins the last playoff game? What's "right" about crowning someone as the best team during the year. This is actually a complicated question......if you care about the question. If you don't care about "right" but entertainment, you might have a different answer. There is, literally, no wrong answer here. It's an opinion of what you like best.....
  13. Mike Sixel
    not at all. You literally think that guys that started out as fan bloggers, and now own one of the few successful sites that is 100% dedicated to baseball don't understand baseball? wow.
  14. Mike Sixel
    other than in the article he says he could use others an example, but the Twins are hte current one in the playoffs so he's using them? Nothing.....but he literally addresses that in the article. Again, it isn't about the Twins, it literally says that in the article.
  15. Mike Sixel
    probably the best time of any project....
  16. Mike Sixel
    cowardice to fire a potential MOY? I think not. I'd call that brave. Maybe not smart, I really don't know, but certainly not cowardice. And what have you seen Molitor change and grow on?
  17. Mike Sixel
    And? What does that have to do with the question asked......nothing.
  18. Mike Sixel
    that is quite true.....
  19. Mike Sixel
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Return_of_the_Archons
  20. Mike Sixel
    I'd guess a lot of stories on websites are about things that have happened before, but that author hasn't written about before. Heck, there are no new stories...
  21. Mike Sixel
    I don't understand why it is played, frankly. Thankfully it isn't before movies, or concerts, or most anything else. Of course, we all know that sports exist primarily as a means of the powerful to distract the masses (actually, historically, partly true......)
  22. Mike Sixel
    really? I had no idea!
  23. Mike Sixel
    It's pretty much a distinction w/o a difference to the employee. I would embrace it as the same things if I was him.
  24. Mike Sixel
    Thread. Winner. You should probably celebrate...
  25. Mike Sixel
    There's always a high likelihood of making an out and not advancing the runner. Unless your name is Votto.
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