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  1. Mike Sixel
    The point is to trade him for the package that most helps this team. Holding out for some mythical "perfect trade" for the "best" value means he isn't traded. It is possible that best deal is from someone that wants him to DH or play 1B, and sometimes 2B. Or all three.
  2. Mike Sixel
    Have you looked at the leader boards, to compare him to others' results? By any measure, looking at only offense, he's a top 15-20 player in baseball.
  3. Mike Sixel
    don't agree, that offense plays at more than just 2B. Sure, he has MORE value as a 2B....but that O plays at DH or 1B also. Looking only at offense, he had the 15th highest rating on Fangraphs....of all players. Would have been just behind Cabrera as a 1B, for 6th overall...3rd best DH overall. And, he was way ahead of many of the 1B behind him on offense, way ahead. For many teams, it would be a huge upgrade.
  4. Mike Sixel
    Today is a lot of days.....the two that interest me are: Author's day Clazone day I love a good calzone, but it is so much dough that I don't eat them much/at all anymore. I think I should either buy a book or write a poem, or both....
  5. Mike Sixel
    Dozier can play 2B, DH, or 1B....so I think limiting your thoughts to JUST 2B needy teams is shorting your options. He is valuable at all three of those, and just look at some of the DHs out there....or even 1B.
  6. Mike Sixel
    Did you just compare amazing athletes to Sano? They absolutely could have had him in the OF in the minors. Heck, they didn't play Polanco at SS the whole year, then called him up to play......SS. This is a misalignment between the minors and the majors and not having plans, IMO. But, feel free to say our opinions are ridiculous.
  7. Mike Sixel
    My off season plan is very complex.....but for the Twins, I like this one.
  8. Mike Sixel
    It was just two games, though, and it was because they are an AL team playing in an NL park....so, ya, it is totally different that doing it on purpose for a full year, at the beginning of the year...100% not comparable at all.
  9. Mike Sixel
    From today's prospect chat on FGs..... Eric 2:31 What kind of ceilings/player comps do you put on either AJ Puk or Tyler Jay? Eric A Longenhagen 2:31 I try to avoid comps unless I really like one, both are potential #2/3s for me as a ceiling. Eric 2:41 Obviously not a prospect any more, but is Buxton's ceiling still crazy high, like a role 70 player, if things come together? Eric A Longenhagen 2:41 Oh yes.
  10. Mike Sixel
    I would hate that Yankee trade. I do feel that for this team to compete in the next 2-3 years, they need to trade Dozier for a good pitcher or two. I think he could play second, first, our dh. Maybe even the OF. If they keep gin and Santana, I have no idea how things get fixed in less than three plus years.
  11. Mike Sixel
    Schwarber had played OF before. If the twins were considering it, why did sano never play there in the minors? That's my main issue, they did not best set him up for success, imo. As for now? I try him at third for the first two months. If it doesn't look real, I either move him to DH full time, or part time with a bit of first sprinkled in.
  12. Mike Sixel
    Plus they often come up as interns, low or unpaid, interns.....less wealthy people can't afford to that.... It isn't that being from an ivy league school is bad/wrong/evil (I think KLAW is from one, actually), it is that exclusively hiring from a tiny pool of candidates can be less effective (and unfair).
  13. Mike Sixel
    No, Rooney rule, and not only do they have a race issue, they are building a class issue. Pretty much only Ivy League school types are getting jobs right now.
  14. Mike Sixel
    My right wing friends have been saying how great Newt was there.....so, ya, I think we have issues in this country.
  15. Mike Sixel
    national american beer day......given my FB feed lately, I probably need to celebrate this one...
  16. Mike Sixel
    So much this....and no hitting coordinator in the minors?
  17. Mike Sixel
    No, because if you hit and can't field at all (Sano) in the OF, you aren't valuable either.....you can't only do 1 of those things, and do the other horribly, and be good......
  18. Mike Sixel
    Not sure you read that right......he didn't just lose power this year. And, shockingly, his WAR reflects that. When he doesn't hit, no amount of corner D makes him a good player. Have you actually looked at his WAR this year.....because that is what WAR says, he was mediocre overall..... I remain boggled people want to not take into account any defensive "score" when deciding players are good or not...
  19. Mike Sixel
    I recall very well being ripped for saying Seager would be better, faster, than Buxton....
  20. Mike Sixel
    OMG....Heyward has a bad year at the plate, proves WAR is bad/evil/wrong? Unreal.
  21. Mike Sixel
    off topic: the best way to use twitter is to only follow a tiny number of people, and not to read the replies KLAW, beergraphs, AP news, the Fangraphs writers......that's all I follow, I think
  22. Mike Sixel
    Cameron has never been as high on Buxton as others......I'm sure that is PART of why he was mentioned. But, lots of people have said outrageous things about how great Byron will be, imo.
  23. Mike Sixel
    Mike Trout 12:19 People are saying that Clint Frazier could be as good as me, do you think there is a shot he could do as much damage as I have done, or are they just saying he is a 5 tool guy? Dave Cameron 12:20 No one is as good as you. Anyone comparing Clint Frazier to you should go join a Bad Comps Anonymous group with the people who thought Byron Buxton was better than you.
  24. Mike Sixel
    Perkins should work out a buy out.....if he wants to be able to use that arm in 20 years, IMO. The Twins should assume they get nothing from him, and if does, gravy!
  25. Mike Sixel
    Payroll is an advantage. There, we all agree. Now can we all agree it is not ok to be this bad this long? That payroll should not be an excuse to be bad? That seems like a reasonable request to me. They are bad because they've not acquired enough talent, either thru the draft, trades or FA. Not because they don't have enough money to be good.
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