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  1. Mike Sixel
    That wasn't my question....if they don't trade him, will you be ok with that if they remain bad?
  2. Mike Sixel
    James 10:26 Welcome back, Jeff! What would you consider a reasonable baseline for Max Kepler this season? .275/.350/.425 with 20-25 HRs, 80 RBIs and 12-15 SBs seems reasonable, but is he already in position to exceed those? Jeff Sullivan 10:26 Might be overselling the BA/OBP, and underselling the SLG. These days it's awfully difficult to bat .275, but Kepler should be at least a league-average regular
  3. Mike Sixel
    PB&Js 10:14 Hey Jeff, would the Dodgers be better served in terms of $/WAR by keeping De Leon and starting Austin Barnes at 2b than trading for Dozier? Seems it could be close on overall WAR as well, assuming a little regression from Dozier and met expectations for the other two. Jeff Sullivan 10:15 The Dodgers really like Barnes as a catcher, so I don't think they want to move him off the position
  4. Mike Sixel
    Actually, I meant .... what if they never trade him, and he's here for 2 years while they win nothing?
  5. Mike Sixel
    Is making other people really happy a skill? Because if it is, I want that one more than any other skill. If not, picking stocks would be handy, as would math/physics. If I could picture things in 3D and do high level math, I'd be a physicist right now.....
  6. Mike Sixel
    Mike* 9:11 Who do you think has the bigger downside? Dozier regression to mean or DeLeon not living up to expectations and/or injury? Jeff Sullivan 9:12 Dozier has averaged 4 WAR a year over the last four seasons. He's a really good player. De Leon is a pitching prospect with health questions. It's easily De Leon, which is among the reasons why him alone hasn't been sufficient to swing an exchange *not me....
  7. Mike Sixel
    And if they don't trade him, because they never get a "fair" deal, and pass on JDL, that's cool with you I assume? Still not sure if I'd take JDL and "junk" or not, I am no scout and don't have access to dozens of scouts.....
  8. Mike Sixel
    I asked my wife the vampire question, she never answered. I'll ask again later.... As for me, no idea what I'd do. I'd probably pretend to agree with her, under the assumption it was nerves, or someone playing a joke on her (us), or something.....
  9. Mike Sixel
    We have more information now than we did 3 months ago....no one is offering "enough" or "fair" value.....so, do we take less value, or take our ball and go home?
  10. Mike Sixel
    Putting it all aside, the fact they are at an impasse (if they are) and deal might not get done.....that makes me unhappy as a Twins' fan....
  11. Mike Sixel
    I'm hopeful they don't mess with Santiago again....and let him be effectively wild.
  12. Mike Sixel
    And that's better how? How does that help 2018 or beyond?
  13. Mike Sixel
    They kept trading, and didn't quit because they made bad ones. Bad ones happen. We get it, you don't think the trades mattered, and you don't think they should get credit for making good ones, because they have money to use. We don't agree. How about the White Sox, or Braves? Do they get no points for their trades if they later sign free agents? Putting that aside.....this reminds me of the don't trade Adrian Peterson situation, only worse, because AP could carry an offense almost on his own. Imagine if they had dealt him 2 or 3 years ago for a couple early picks and a young player......that team would be better off right now.
  14. Mike Sixel
    But they started with trades....then the used FA. That's the point. The point isn't that they didn't use FA at all. It isn't that FA didn't help. It is that they used ALL avenues to build their team. So tired....
  15. Mike Sixel
    I doubt there is much, any, fire in that smoke from the Braves' talk.....unless a deal is made, we'll never know, of course. I don't know why the Braves would do that, given they have Swanson and Albies and some other MIF I can't think of right now.....not to mention they aren't good yet, and Dozier only has 2 years left on his deal.
  16. Mike Sixel
    Fair, I was mostly listing them as a team that traded veterans, got prospects, and have a loaded minor league system ,as compared to a system MLB or BA said might be bottom ten, after this much losing.
  17. Mike Sixel
    I left the Braves off my list of teams that traded for prospects and got more and got better.....so that's another one. As for the WS, they didn't figure it out until this year. They are 1 year into their trying to rebuild, aren't they?
  18. Mike Sixel
    Well, that's not the route the Astros or Cubs or Phillies are taking....or the White Sox. All of whom have managed to rebuild faster than this team has. Not, imo, a coincidence. Keeping veterans around to win 78 games and not 71 games is not good strategy, imo.
  19. Mike Sixel
    Ah, thanks,
  20. Mike Sixel
    I don't get why they aren't sharing the Rams stadium going forward....if they stay in LA.
  21. Mike Sixel
    If people are worried about 2017 wins and competitiveness, then we are at an impasse completely. This team has lost 90+ games how many times in the last 6 years? There is no realistic path to 2017 wins having any meaning at all. I haven't actively ripped the team, I've been asking questions of people. I have been pretty clear (early on) that a 1:1 deal was not a deal I liked. I have posted that my thinking is evolving on that. I do think not finding a way to trade Dozier is a failure. It will be 5 years of being bad, and not making any good trades of veterans for prospects. That's a failure of the team, imo. How did not trading Perkins or Plouffe work out? Everyone happy on not taking 50 cents on the dollar for Plouffe last year? Or keeping Perkins around because he was cheap?
  22. Mike Sixel
    Still not enough.....
  23. Mike Sixel
    who ripped them in this thread? Not me, I'm asking people questions about: 1. not trading for prospects at all (wow) 2. not trading for pitching, because 1 player can't fix every problem 3. How keeping Dozier moves the needle for the future. None of those actually rip anyone, I'm trying to understand people's arguments....nothing more or less.
  24. Mike Sixel
    How does keeping him move the needle?
  25. Mike Sixel
    Liz Habib @LizHabib 5h5 hours ago The @Chargers told me this is NOT their new logo- you won't see it on helmets or uniforms... it was for marketing purposes today.
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