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  1. Mike Sixel
    I must not have been clear....the Twins had minor leaguers, that teams wanted, that they could have traded for players at the MLB level. Sure, those players might take time to develop, but they had minor league talent, and they held onto it for the most part. Most of those guys....not so good in retrospect.
  2. Mike Sixel
    You sure? I mean, they give away their patents. They need cash. I think once it is up and running, if they can supply anyone, they will.....
  3. Mike Sixel
    I say when you have cash, invest it. Now, if you pay transaction fees, you might want to save up some before doing so..... Buffet is operating on a different stage than we are. I do strongly agree with "invest in something you know something about", generally.
  4. Mike Sixel
    You mean besides Altuve and Cano also having a shot?
  5. Mike Sixel
    BTW, I can understand the argument to keep him, he's awesome...I just like the other side of the coin as more likely to work out.
  6. Mike Sixel
    To be good, Berrios would need to shave what, 2+ runs off each start, and go for 1 more inning. Is that LIKELY to happen next year? May and Duffey and ???? are hope, not a plan, imo. Hughes? I'd not count on 1 inning from him. Dozier is their best bet to get a guy that can help them when Gonsalves and Berrios and Buxton and Sano are also good, imo. Rosario and a lower level SP prospect or two might also work, but then you are short an OF, and you've reduced your number of darts to throw at the SP board.....
  7. Mike Sixel
    Right, there isn't any real evidence the splitter is worse for your arm than any other pitch. If I was a AAAA pitcher, I'd add the splitter for sure. At that point, you are all in already.
  8. Mike Sixel
    Berrios has been terrible so far. Santana is a nice 3/sometimes 2. Gibson is 29 and not good, no idea why, he should be. May hasn't started a game in 18 months. He hasn't been healthy all year. That does not look like a rotation I would expect to be even league average.
  9. Mike Sixel
    In general, I agree, I'd like Buxton at the top. But, man, I just wonder about his psyche.....and wonder if 9th is best right now. We are probably talking 10 ABs difference, aren't we?
  10. Mike Sixel
    On Dozier's year: http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/how-brian-dozier-put-together-a-season-for-the-ages/ Good stuff, really.
  11. Mike Sixel
    An article on him: http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/how-brian-dozier-put-together-a-season-for-the-ages/
  12. Mike Sixel
    I am not good at finishing books right now...... I am about half way thru Guy Gavriel Kay's latest book, if you like alternative history fantasy books (with almost no magic), he's the best writer out there right now. This book takes place in alternate Italy.....Children of Earth and Sky. I am about 90% thru The Long Mars, which I had from a MN library, and didn't finish before we moved.....sigh. I just finished the Color of Magic, the first of many books in the series. I was entertained. I re-started The Martian Chronicles...since it is really just a series of short stories, I am picking it up and putting it down... I recently finished The Magicians trilogy. Grown up Harry Potter. Very good stuff. Currently a series on Syfy (I think Syfy), which I did not watch. I also recently read The Dispossesed. This is early Ursula K Le Guin, and is old school Science Fiction....political story disguised as sci fi. This doesn't count the cookbooks and D&D books....
  13. Mike Sixel
    If they don't get great player(s) back, they better keep him....agreed.
  14. Mike Sixel
    Brian Dozier is a great MLB player, and seems like a decent guy. I just wish there was pitching on this roster, or READY in the minors, so they could keep him. Alas, I don't think there is, and I think he's so good that they can get a haul for him. If it isn't a haul, I keep him.
  15. Mike Sixel
    Got it, makes sense. As said below.....for some, it seems like HOPE is the strategy. I'm not comfy with hope as a strategy....
  16. Mike Sixel
    Isn't the topic.....should they trade Dozier for a (or more) SP? Isn't a discussion of the reality of them signing a FA SP part of the reason you would trade him? It is for me...
  17. Mike Sixel
    Thanks, we don't agree, but thanks.
  18. Mike Sixel
    Great, Sano at DH, Polanco at 3B, and Vargas at 1B...... this isn't just about Sano, we were literally discussing Vargas......
  19. Mike Sixel
    I agree with this, unless there is any chance he makes the team out of spring training, which I doubt right now...
  20. Mike Sixel
    I too wanted them to trade for him. Alas, it was not to be. I may have signed him this off season, but I'm not sure I would have. I know that hte last 2 years of any FA SP contract is likely to be bad, very bad. I do think, however, that by then they would have money to burn. But, again, it was not to be. Now? Now there are no FA SP at all. And, they are about to give up 900 runs......their starters have a 5.6 ERA. 5.6.........
  21. Mike Sixel
    I could get behind this, if there was any chance the SP was good next year......but it is hard to see that from here. How do they go from the worst SP they've ever had, to even decent? Realistically, not thru hope, but thru realism?
  22. Mike Sixel
    i think we agree on this.....if they want pitching, they'll need to hope an pray, or trade Dozier.* *or, as some have suggested, and I really disagree with, trade prospects...that, imo, needs to wait until they are contenders.
  23. Mike Sixel
    A team that thinks it is 1 player from being a SB contender trades two draft picks to keep their window open? Isn't this what we all wanted the Twins to do (with minor leaguers) in the 2000s?
  24. Mike Sixel
    That seems to be the line every year.....they should never spend big money on a FA. If so, then trading Dozier is about the only way to get a great pitching prospect or two, other than the draft.
  25. Mike Sixel
    I just find it odd that he was so "injured" he couldn't throw at all in MN, and now just a few weeks later he's in the majors? That's one heck of an odd coincidence.
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