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  1. Mike Sixel
    Seems to me a lot of people skipped over markos' post where he actually analyzed the job in drafting compared to expected outcomes looking at long periods of data..... Either way, it's not where most of us want it. And, here's hoping the new FO does a better job of using all manner of ways to add talent. So far, they've demonstrated a desire to add castoffs that were never all that good from other teams (see pitchers added this year) and identifying a gaping hole (catcher) and trying to fill it in FA. But, this team lives and breathes, imo, by how it drafts, signs IFAs, and develops those two.
  2. Mike Sixel
    Let freedom ring! Oh, the irony. The great, great irony.
  3. Mike Sixel
    that was an exaggeration about the RPs still in the minors, but yes, we both tried humor/snark, and we both threw more foul ball pitches than swing and miss pitches, but I did laugh at your snark. so it worked on me.
  4. Mike Sixel
    1. You might be good. 2. You might be able to trade them for good prospects, if you aren't good. 3. Well, they signed some bad ones, the only real delta at this point is money. I'd rather they had signed good ones, and not just saved money.
  5. Mike Sixel
    Agreed.
  6. Mike Sixel
    Hrbek was promoted in 2 years, and stuck. Gaetti, in 2 years. How quickly did the more recent players come up. Because no place did I talk about age at all. No. Place. But, it was great snark.
  7. Mike Sixel
    shouldn't it be? If they fail at pitching, they have a good shot at playing the field, apparently. That seems like it would be more valuable. Or am I reading this wrongly?
  8. Mike Sixel
    Bummer.
  9. Mike Sixel
    PM me, of course...
  10. Mike Sixel
    Basically it came down to wanting to see him healthy and produce. For that timeframe, the risk was still too high for them to rank him highly. an excerpt: On the other hand, this is a 21-year-old who essentially missed two full seasons due to injury, and he hasn’t had much chance to develop that change. Independent of the concerns about the health and delivery, I think Romero has a mid-rotation starter’s repertoire. The concerns about the body, athleticism and delivery add to the pool of risk. If he can get another healthy season under his belt, Romero could be near the top of this list next year. edit: "this list" being the Twins' list, not the top 100 list!
  11. Mike Sixel
    Just checked Fangraphs beginning of the year top 100 (not "just missed), and 6 teams don't have a pitcher in the top 100 (note, if there is a team(s) with no top 100 player at all, that would increase the numbers). The Twins are 1 of those. Indeed, the Twins have 1 player in his top 100, Nick Gordon. btw, the Cubs are one of those w/o a top 100 pitcher....
  12. Mike Sixel
    Not nervous yet, but this could be what some of us feared.....not betting on it, but watching it this week.
  13. Mike Sixel
    that actually makes sense, imo. No need to get anyone excited or promoted if not needed.
  14. Mike Sixel
    Can you imagine the Twins promoting people like they did Gaetti and Hrbek? We can't even get RPs up here before they are 28...
  15. Mike Sixel
    Not if he takes innings from Burdi or Bard or Melo or anyone else in AA that is a prospect at this point. Again, whether 1 decision makes sense, imo, isn't really the issue. It's all the decisions in context to each other that don't appear to make sense.
  16. Mike Sixel
    Welcome to the site! I think that was referring to the minor league system, not the major league system, lacking power.
  17. Mike Sixel
    Actually, nearly everyone thinks that way. Do you think that Mike Pelfrey was an ace, because he was the Twins' best pitcher one year? A team's number 1 starter is not necessarily even a good pitcher, let alone an ace.
  18. Mike Sixel
    Attendance lags performance by a year, so good luck on that this off season.
  19. Mike Sixel
    How long do you expect ESAn to: a: be here b: be really good That's a risk for sure.
  20. Mike Sixel
    The other thing people seem to be forgetting....ESan isn't exactly a spring chicken, and isn't signed forever.....so this problem gets compounded soon.
  21. Mike Sixel
    hard to thrive when the FO decides a 28 yo should be in AA......We still don't have much data to work with, but so far? So far I am not impressed with how they are handling RPs and the minors at all.
  22. Mike Sixel
    Sacrifice bunts in inning 2 suck. Suck. Really suck. Was he really sacrificing?
  23. Mike Sixel
    Well, he does have a book coming out, so him talking about, you know, what's in the book and his experiences are what he's doing........ And, since he was actually there and some of you weren't born, I'm guessing he has more insight into what went on than we do. No idea if he's exaggerating or not, but I'm guessing his statements are at least rooted in truth.
  24. Mike Sixel
    538 . com has an article on scandals thru the years. Party has always trumped (hahaha) the good of the nation. This is nothing new.
  25. Mike Sixel
    Longenhorn (sp?) did on Fangraphs, I think I put it in the FG thread, let me check... http://twinsdaily.com/topic/22213-fangraphs-and-other-national-publications-on-the-twins/page-84
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