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  1. Mike Sixel
    You know, it is possible the players are bad AND the manager is bad......... He bunts early in games. He has an irrational love for Dan San. He basically benched Polanco and Kepler the first time they were here. The base running and other fundamentals are awful. It is hard to see which young players have improved under him. The bullpen has been oddly used at times. I don't think anyone is saying that the team would be GOOD with another manager, but I think it is reasonable to see what Molitor does, even with a bad roster, and question many of his decisions.
  2. Mike Sixel
    Standing still and doing nothing is also a choice....when a train is coming at you, it is a bad choice. The premise that somehow changing things is more risky is not backed by facts at all. On the literal reading side......no, no one wants them to hire people wholly unqualified for the job that have zero experience.
  3. Mike Sixel
    If that was your point, I agree, replacing a great player is very difficult.
  4. Mike Sixel
    I guess if you exclude any player ever released (even though players are released all the time), and you exclude incentives, or money that changes hands in trades (even though that happens all the time), then sure, the numbers look different.......also can't tell if those numbers include DL'd players or not. So, ya, if you use a different definition of payroll than total money spent on MLB players.....then $100MM looks different.....
  5. Mike Sixel
    Median isn't scewed, mean is. The comment was about how much 100MM would be...and it not being on the low side. The twins current payroll is $111MM, and is 23rd on the list. http://www.spotrac.com/mlb/payroll/
  6. Mike Sixel
    Or, he could turn out to be Knoblauch, or something in between......right?
  7. Mike Sixel
    I too read that intro very, very quickly. Was entertained for sure.
  8. Mike Sixel
    Chains tend to kill innovation and quality......so, probably a bad thing.
  9. Mike Sixel
    It's not what I would have done, but most responses were not (that I read.....there may have been more) were not all that different than what we read most days. As you hopefully know, I admire the work the mods do here. Really appreciate it, even when I disagree.
  10. Mike Sixel
    Congrats to him. So awesome.
  11. Mike Sixel
    Berrios has to do more than "improve" next year......he has to take a massive leap for this plan of hope to work. Not a small leap, not a big leap, a leap of moving from giving up 5 runs in 5 innings, nearly every start.....to, what? 2 runs every 7 innings or so to be the ACE type? Is that the expectation we should have next year?
  12. Mike Sixel
    Then how does the team get better in the next 2 years, while he's here?
  13. Mike Sixel
    All fair. I don't think he'd net the kind of guy are you are asking for......and Nunez netted them a #5ish type, imo.
  14. Mike Sixel
    Trying to find a business excuse for coming back that week......
  15. Mike Sixel
    Yay for him! Excited.
  16. Mike Sixel
    I have no strong opinion....other than I am opposed to deleting threads because they MIGHT bring badness to the site......I prefer the site to be open to all kinds of discussions, even ones that are unrealistically good or bad. I rather enjoyed my one german word response, too.....
  17. Mike Sixel
    I'm not missing your point at all.....he isn't all that great, and he's not returning a SP that is going to matter all that much in making this team great, imo.
  18. Mike Sixel
    I'd move Duffey to RP now. But, I can see the argument for him being a starter, and would not be opposed to him starting.
  19. Mike Sixel
    100 million would be the 27th lowest payroll this year....so, ya, that's low. The median this year is 143MM......so, ya, 100MM is low, very low.
  20. Mike Sixel
    Unless you like pumpkin pie, or cookies....sure....** **if you take this post seriously, sigh.
  21. Mike Sixel
    Fair....for how many months did they bench him for this reason?
  22. Mike Sixel
    Anyone read The Arm yet? It was recently on sale, so I added it to my big, virtual, pile of books I might read someday that were on sale.....
  23. Mike Sixel
    If they could build the cars as fast as they will the batteries....sure. But I'm not holding my breath, even though I bought more stock when it dropped last week....
  24. Mike Sixel
    Well, Rosario isn't returning even close to the same package as Dozier. There is not another OF that can replace him like Polanco can Dozier (and if you read that to say Polanco is as good as Dozier, you aren't trying). If Rosario could return anything close to a AA SP prospect like Berrios or Gonsalves, I'd do that....but he's not close, not even in the ballpark. Also, no, you can't just go get a corner OF next year.
  25. Mike Sixel
    Dozier stuff from today's chat: Big Tall T 12:44 Just read your great article on Dozier. How long do you think he can be successful with the pull% and Fly%? I mean, he's been successful with it a while now august fagerstrom 12:44 I mean he's not a true-talent .300 ISO guy all of the sudden 12:45 But if he's learned to lay off the outer-third stuff and punish the mistakes inside, he's still going to get mistakes inside Buxton stuff: Snarfle 12:59 Too early to be excited by New Buxton? Normal answer is yes, but has he ever had a stretch like this in the majors? august fagerstrom 12:59 I mean, he had 3 homers in his first 109 games, and then has had 3 homers in his last 5 games 1:00 So no, he's never had a stretch like this Add to that the four homers he hit in a row in AAA two weeks ago, and yeah, consider me excited
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