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  1. Mike Sixel
    YKnotDisco?! 12:24 If Buxton has peak years similar to B.J Upton, would people still view that as a disappointment? Were the expectations higher than that? B.J was pretty damn good early in his career. Dave Cameron 12:24 The early-career Trout comparisons set insane expectations. If he can become an average hitter with elite D, that's a good player.
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    How many years was JBJ in the majors, and posted these kinds of numbers?
  3. Mike Sixel
    Erik 12:18 The Twins are doing well even with Buxton looking terrible. They were also an 83-win team just two years ago. Is it possible the projections were underrating them a bit, and they belong near the back of the very large AL wild card pack, rather than down near the White Sox? Dave Cameron 12:19 Anything is possible, but there's no real reason to think the projections were underrating them based on going 5-2 in seven games. They have a 102 wRC+, so it's not like their offense has gone bananas in week one. The pitching is still bad.
  4. Mike Sixel
    I admit, the 1b threw me off, but that's a good joke....
  5. Mike Sixel
    Not me, as I use my last name....but possibly of interest. Mike 12:13 How do the advanced defensive stats work for first basemen? Are they mainly evaluating range, etc, as they would at other positions...or does skill at handling throws in the dirt and preventing errors by other infielders play a substantial role? How substantial? Dave Cameron 12:13 Scoops are measured, yes. http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/first-basemen-scoops/ 12:14 But the difference in scooping skill between big league first baseman is pretty small, so the impact it has on UZR/DRS is not that large. It's mostly range.
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    Eric 12:10 Is there anything in the CBA that would prevent a team from signing Shohei Otani to the restricted IFA bonus pool, and tear up the contract 6 months later with a new $150+ MM deal? Dave Cameron 12:10 Yes. The CBA explicitly says you can't enter into an agreement to circumvent the international signing bonus rules. 12:11 But no one really knows how long is long enough to make it clear that it wasn't a pre-existing agreement. I wrote about that here. http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/mlbs-other-shohei-otani-problem/
  7. Mike Sixel
    ha, beat my to it, while I tried to figure out a polite way to ask about DanSan....which I am unable to do, so I'm not asking DC why, oh why...
  8. Mike Sixel
    "don't worry, DanSan will never play" we were told....3 starts in 8 games.....that's nearly 40% of the games, people.
  9. Mike Sixel
    KLAW's updated top 50 in the minors is up. Nick Gordon is 44th, and he thinks he might be up in 2018.
  10. Mike Sixel
    that's kind of my point. they are "fighting" a battle rigged against them. Oh, and they suck at it too.
  11. Mike Sixel
    thrylos is right.....filling your bullpen with old players w/o options is handcuffing a team like this. If only that had been predictable before 1 week into the season, and there were a whole lot of RPs in AAA and AA that threw the ball hard...
  12. Mike Sixel
    9:21 Q-Ball: After 3 more Ks today, what do you do with Byron Buxton? AAA assignment to build confidence? What? 9:21 Paul Swydan: In the meantime, I’ll tackle this one. The answer is you do nothing. 9:21 Paul Swydan: Maybe some extra BP or something, but a demotion solves nothing. 9:25 Zonk: Early division leaders include: BAL, LAA, MIN, ARI. Which of those do you believe in? Which is a mirage? 9:25 Paul Swydan: I don’t believe in any of them. 9:25 Jeff Zimmerman: Baltimore, that’s it.
  13. Mike Sixel
    Kind of like the left, trying to paint Trump as such? the left is completely inept right now, outside it's bastions.
  14. Mike Sixel
    Cameron has never thought Buxton was worthy of his elite status. Here is an almost hopeful article. http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/byron-buxtons-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-week/
  15. Mike Sixel
    disagree. There is no grand conspiracy to hurt Molitor. As for DanSan.....Molitor wants him on the roster. Saying that he was hamstrung because that was one of his options to play, well, that's on Molitor. Let's not give Paul a pass on this. Please. As for the RP, the manager refuses to use Tonkin other than in a mop up capacity. Just let him go already. Breslow won't be missed when he leaves. Duffy should probably get a shot to start again, just in case he can be good (though I think he's a high leverage reliever). Most of the rest of the bullpen is just ok anyway. Does it really matter if they lose Tonkin, or Breslow? Breslow is, what, 78 years old? He won't be here when they're good. This is, imo, a failure of the FO and manager. It was when they went North, and it remains so now. But, I'll say this, since they didn't add a legit 4th OFer (and given Buxton's start, it sure looks like they should have for the 4th straight year), and they failed in their quest to sign any of the aging DH types, and Park is hurt, I have no idea who should come up. Basically, this offseason, they fixed catcher and nothing else.
  16. Mike Sixel
    have the Dems won a single special election yet.....
  17. Mike Sixel
    from mlbtraderumors chat today: Ken Tremendous 4:19 Byron Buxton is the biggest disappointment in baseball so far. True or false? Steve Adams 4:21 For him to be the biggest disappointment you'd have to have been expecting him to maintain his enormous September surge last year, which never seemed likely. (He still K'ed at 33% or so even in that hot streak.) He's had a poor start, but he's 23, was rushed to the Majors way faster than he should've been, and still has fewer than 500 MLB PAs. I can't fathom why Molitor decided to start him off hitting third this season -- I get wanting to show confidence in him, but that also seems like an inordinate amount of pressure to put on him. Batting order isn't something I typically care about, but that decision seemed bizarre. 4:22 At any rate, no I wouldn't call him the "biggest disappointment" in the league. After a week of games, I don't think it's fair to call anyone disappointing. It's one week.
  18. Mike Sixel
    They've been clearly quoted as saying "no otani exceptions"... Not sure it matters, he certainly won't be coming here.
  19. Mike Sixel
    I don't know if the Onion can survive this administration, frankly. SNL open with Spicey, or United, this coming weekend? Can they re-write the first skit this fast?
  20. Mike Sixel
    Except that whole correlation between K/9 in the minors and success in the majors, which is real, sure...
  21. Mike Sixel
    This is the part I never understand. If you are not tanking, you should be spending your budget. At least from a fan's perspective. The Pohlads being even more wealthy does nothing to make me happy at all.
  22. Mike Sixel
    The commissioner has been quoted as saying he will be unhappy if that happens, or something like that.....I'm guessing they'd come down hard. Or not, it is baseball.
  23. Mike Sixel
    Like what? Not C, not 3B, not 1B, not 2B, not LF, CF, RF, not RP, apparently. I'd not sign a SS, as I think Gordon is there next year. 10.5MM doesn't buy you 2/3 of a starting pitcher.
  24. Mike Sixel
    DanSan was in teh starting lineup. The point he was making that he should never have been in the starting lineup....
  25. Mike Sixel
    Right, Mollie made the correct choices in teh 9th. this is about not having a bench at all, and 2 of the bench "hitters" being just above the Buxton line...
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