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  1. Mike Sixel
    Good luck to him in his return. For his own good, I hope he doesn't permanently hurt himself....
  2. Mike Sixel
    they had 2 open spots, I don't think they need to remove anyone yet.....
  3. Mike Sixel
    There is a real skill in inducing weak contact. Perhaps that is his skill. We'll find out more in teh next year or two.
  4. Mike Sixel
    Tim: Do you still hold Byron buxton in as highly of regard as when he was a prospect? Keith Law: Yes. I think he’s already an average regular and will develop into much more. http://meadowparty.com/blog/
  5. Mike Sixel
    Fangraphs has a new top 100 list...... Lewis at 31 (just behind McKay and Gore) Gordon at 50 Gonsalves at 56 (gotta be his highest ranking anywhere, I'd guess) Kiriloff in the "others considered" list
  6. Mike Sixel
    Setting the bar at one of the perennial MVP candidate's levels seems like an awfully high bar to have to clear..... I agree, though, we don't know much about Rooker yet. I'm ok with that, given that he's been a professional baseball player for 10 weeks or so......
  7. Mike Sixel
    Congratulations to him! Exciting.
  8. Mike Sixel
    There were no statues until the 1920s, when uppity women and blacks started demanding and getting more equal rights. They are not there to remember history, they are there out of fear of loss of white male power. There was no one that flew the confederate flag until the 1950s and 60s, and we all know why they reappeared during that time frame. This isn't about history. As for the ridiculous argument that you can't venerate Washington or Jefferson because they owned slaves......those men formed the Union, they didn't try to destroy it. One of the great changes of the last few decades though, now, is that we actually do have conflicted feelings about them....and, IMO, it reminds us that no one is perfect, and no one should be idolized.
  9. Mike Sixel
    Twice today I've been warned that spyware/virus software was blocked! Also, the messaging part isn't working right now for me.....
  10. Mike Sixel
    how is that a moot point?
  11. Mike Sixel
    duh, not sure how I missed that easy one! agreed.
  12. Mike Sixel
    No way Gordon comes up this fall, imo. Garver and Gonsalves and Turley and not sure who else.
  13. Mike Sixel
    that's not even close to true, actually. There are plenty of studies on this on the internet. 1 run games are fairly random, not totally, but closer than your statement implies.
  14. Mike Sixel
    You can't see how that is different in a small, family owned business, vs a very public company like a baseball team? And yes, we have very different experiences. In all 4 places I've worked over the last 30 years, people questioned moves of management. Over and over. Nearly every week in some companies. But then, I work with dozens and dozens of management types and their people.
  15. Mike Sixel
    I think the "stat guys" were saying that it was hard to predict which RPs would be good, and that they were expensive because of that, relative to expected outcomes, not that RPs were not worth signing if you could figure out which ones would be good.
  16. Mike Sixel
    huh. well, bias happens every day in work, conscious or not. friends, people you don't like, people that you don't know.......and conflicts happen. And imagine all the second guessing from others on every move about Joe (including, most importantly, the rest of the team). It isn't just how they act, but how everyone else thinks they are acting. This is super, super, common in business, to have issues with how teams perceive a manager treats another team member, imagine how it would be with a relative. I mean, this is management 101 stuff that you have to think about every day with a team.
  17. Mike Sixel
    understatement! I really like the books, they just aren't for everyone.
  18. Mike Sixel
    I'm not sure anyone said that..... but, if you can't see how it would put them both in an uncomfortable, very public, place, I'm not sure what to say.
  19. Mike Sixel
    Jay is no surprise to me. Nor is Rortverdt. Given their injuries. Stewart isn't due to his outcomes/peripherals. Plus, they did add Lewis and Garver has put up great numbers, no matter what the naysayers say.
  20. Mike Sixel
    I had an employee show a picture of a beer on a webex once. He didn't last long.
  21. Mike Sixel
    Eric is chatting right now, I asked bout the Lewis position. If he answers, I'll post it here.
  22. Mike Sixel
    Benjamin 12:39 In one of your daily prospect notes you talked about Akil Baddoo and if he shows more power he is a potential top 100. Eric A Longenhagen 12:41 Well, yeah. He's a 70 runner who plays CF. If that guy starts hitting and hitting for power in games then he's a very good prospect. Baddoo is just 18 and is doing that, in a small sample. http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/eric-longenhagen-prospects-chat-815-2/
  23. Mike Sixel
    If the FO and scouts can't figure out any better than fans what to do, they should be replaced. How can they figure out which minor league players to use, if they can't figure out which MLB players to try? I'm with the others, sign at least 1 legit RP .... don't rely on the minors only. That has not worked at all for several years. Maybe more than several years now. No one is say "go crazy" or "sign every RP" or "replace the entire bullpen" or any such thing. People are asking for 1-2 RPs to be signed that they team thinks are "certain" to be good. Not flyers. Not minor league deals that aren't really minor league deals.
  24. Mike Sixel
    It's not "incorrect" it's the position they think he'll end up playing. And, these writeups are very, very, short for every team. It's a list update, with a few notes. But, you can certainly choose not to take the list seriously if you want based on that. I think it is good news that Lewis is number 1 on the list for Eric. It shows confidence in that pick.
  25. Mike Sixel
    welcome to the site!
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