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  1. Mike Sixel
    I think he meant to include MLB players under 25......of which the Twins have Berrios, Buxton, Sano, Kepler, Polanco. I don't have time to look at the rest of baseball, but if you filter on team WAR under 25 years old, the Twins were 15th last year.....and several of those players are no longer under 25.
  2. Mike Sixel
    Except your mom didn't say "if you go further, you have to pay me $1, and I'm ok if you do that".....like the rules stated. IMO, totally different. I think we just disagree on what the rules were. I read them as "if you do this, that's cool, but it will cost you that". You, I think, read them as "if you do this, the punishment is this, and I'm not cool with that".
  3. Mike Sixel
    I actually have (no idea why) high hopes for both Jay and Stewart still. But I'm not expert. And I don't see or talk to scouts that see, other teams' prospects at all. So, I just kind of have to rely on the experts, and they seem a bit down on the system. Nothing more or less than that. No one person is to blame. No one is evil. There seems to be some anger in some posts.....
  4. Mike Sixel
    I had to stop the burpee train, as number 27 on Sunday caused just a bit of an issue with the right Hamstring......may start again today. As for pancakes, I used to make peanut butter pancakes most Sunday mornings, along with bacon, back when their were children in the house. I missed them, and made some a couple weekends ago. yummy.
  5. Mike Sixel
    just to make sure: mike sixel 1:19 Which Burdi is the better Burdi? Eric A Longenhagen 1:19 Haha, Zack. Both are nasty when healthy but Nick hasn't been and I think Zack has three pitches.
  6. Mike Sixel
    And they made good trades.
  7. Mike Sixel
    I don't like the use of the word cheaters. Teams were allowed to sign players for more money, that then resulted in not being able to spend money in future years. Those were the rules. The rules did not say you couldn't spend more money. Those rules were followed, except 1 time by the BoSox, who were punished.
  8. Mike Sixel
    Given what he's typed before, I'm guessing random. He's been clear, in previous chats, that it is too early to say an order, but that there are some guys with better potential.
  9. Mike Sixel
    And the reason Jay and Stewart are so important in the Twins' ranking is their IFAs aren't rated highly, they haven't traded for great prospects, and they haven't gotten lucky in later rounds. A system is built many ways, just look at the Yankees. They are largely IFA and traded for guys......on top of their draft picks. I think we are pretty much talking past each other now.
  10. Mike Sixel
    Other teams also have guys like those guys....I'm suggesting, I think fairly, that being bad for 5-6 years should lead a team to have one of the top minor league systems. You disagree. I'm ok with that. But please stop putting words in my mouth.
  11. Mike Sixel
    You are completely putting words in my mouth I did not type. It's tiresome, frankly.
  12. Mike Sixel
    See, I don't think it is the money at all. I think they saw what Hughes can be, and they want to see if it happens again this year. I have my doubts, and believe he'd be a VG to great RP, but I can't totally blame them for trying Hughes out as a SP again. I just want them to be decisive in May if he's not GOOD.
  13. Mike Sixel
    ricky Wagner at RT, Fluker at RG, draft a C in round 2, sign a RB and DL in FA that aren't SUPER expensive. Win the off season. Oh, and sign random older OT to play LT for not huge money.
  14. Mike Sixel
    Tim 12:14 Who is the best relief prospect at the moment? Jimenez? Glover? Burdi? Other? Eric A Longenhagen 12:14 Burdi has the highest grade I've given to a reliever during the offseason. Not sure which Burdi he means....but I can guess.
  15. Mike Sixel
    Sam 12:07 Do you have a top five for the upcoming draft? How does the overall talent pool compare to last year? Eric A Longenhagen 12:09 Will have a formal board up after the lists are done but Faedo, Greene, Wright, Kendall, Lewis and DL Hall are up there for me right now. It's about the same, talent-wise, as last year but it's composed much differently.
  16. Mike Sixel
    Actually, if I was going to criticize (and I did then) picks, it would be all the RPs taken in rounds after round 1. Since there are lots of players in the majors picked after round 1, those picks have effected the system. Also, there is IFA, and trades, and other ways than just round 1 picks to acquire players. when the team didn't have a good farm system after the good years, I was told it wasn't their fault, since they were picking late and no one could expect a good team to have a good system (which I don't believe). now I'm told that even though they are terrible, it's still cool they don't have a top system because 2 drafted players graduated to the majors. If we are only going to judge the draft (and that guys have graduated so the system isn't that bad), who from the draft (since they got bad) is on the roster that's projected to be really good or better? Buxton. And, um, that's it, right? Maybe Rosario, but I think he was picked some time ago.
  17. Mike Sixel
    Which is what I was trying to say, yes, but said it wrong....
  18. Mike Sixel
    Odds are in 20 some years, yes, there was an opportunity. Do you think there was never a time?
  19. Mike Sixel
    i'm not blaming them for any one specific pick. I'm judging their system compared to other systems (whose draft picks don't always work out either, right?).....system to system comparison. They are a bottom 5 team for the last 5 years, and don't have a top 10 system according to most ranking systems. That doesn't bode well for the future. I'm not judging each pick, I'm judging the system (based on what experts tell me).
  20. Mike Sixel
    We don't know that. we know that they were aggressive one year under Smith, and spent a lot of money. We know they never spent that much money before Smith (when Ryan was GM), nor did they spend more than budget later. Are you saying there was NEVER an opportunity, in all the years Ryan was GM, to spend more money (either in his first tenure, or his second)?
  21. Mike Sixel
    They don't have to take his contract.....if the Twins take action and cut him, they eat his contract, and he's a FA. I think. I could be wrong on that.....
  22. Mike Sixel
    Here is a list of people expecting every pick to hit:
  23. Mike Sixel
    Disagree. If you don't have to pay them real money, they'd 100% be claimed. Especially Hughes. IMO, Hughes is the PERFECT RP candidate at this point. I really think he could be quite good in RP. I hope he can start, but I am very confident he could be a good to very good in the bullpen.
  24. Mike Sixel
    D'oh. I had forgotten that. Good point. Again, look at the revenue per subscriber vs subscriber prices.....unless I'm reading the data wrong, it's all about advertising.....not sure why we haven't moved on to almost free streaming with ads, or even "free" cable that isn't really "cable".
  25. Mike Sixel
    this is so tiresome. Want to bet real money on whether or not a player is more likely to be good if they are ranked higher? Anecdotes prove nothing. Nothing.
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