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  1. Mike Sixel
    Ah, you think it is for Plouffe. Sorry, I thought we were discussing a prospect going back. So, you'd give up multiple years of a cost controlled average fielder, for 60 innings of a RP?
  2. Mike Sixel
    Uh, no other team on the planet gives up what AZ gave up for Miller, if that is what you are discussing.
  3. Mike Sixel
    You'd have to like him A LOT more. You are giving up an asset worth millions, to get a guy you have to pay nearly $9MM, for 1 year of control.
  4. Mike Sixel
    If Ryan thinks they are one LH RP away from being awesome......well, we will likely disagree on that I think.
  5. Mike Sixel
    Fangraphs ran a fun exercise trying to show how many WAR he could "realistically" get each year to pass Ruth. It's a good read. If you take it as something fun, and not science.
  6. Mike Sixel
    By "everyone", you mean 1 person on this thread, right?
  7. Mike Sixel
    Except there is not a scarcity of resources for you. There are only so many good RP on the planet. Every one of them that moves to a new team this off season, is one less the Twins have to choose from. As for the last sentence.......name the failed starter other than Perkins the Twins have converted in the last decade to really good RP. This team was a .500 team last year, that had more good luck than bad luck in producing outcomes. Not adding talent to that team (and if you are Torii believer, losing talent) is unlikely to make this a WS contender.
  8. Mike Sixel
    If people really think Torii made a HUGE difference, I don't see that gap closed at all yet.
  9. Mike Sixel
    As pointed out above.....they still have the #18 overall prospect from that trade. If he's a legit starting SS for years, it isn't even close to the top 25 worst deals ever.
  10. Mike Sixel
    Decades ago examples....the baseball world has completely changed since those first two happened, and the third had some major issues, right? Of course it can matter.......but there is an article on FG that talks about the odds of it mattering, and the value these guys generally bring. I would have not protected Dean, and kept Jones, but I'm not liking the odds of it mattering all that much. It does, imo, show that the FO and I have a very different idea of what type of RP to protect, and how to convert SP into RP. Given their lack of success for the last very long time.......I might actually be correct.
  11. Mike Sixel
    Not as long as Dave Stewart is a GM......but ya, it's not looking ideal.
  12. Mike Sixel
    Name the last starter that was a bad starter, that they successfully turned into a RP, please. Certainly not Rogers, even though they needed RP last September.....nor Hendriks, nor, um, anyone since Perkins, right? May was a good starter......
  13. Mike Sixel
    Not sure you got my point at all......I was commenting that saying that SD won the offseason last year "PROVES" that winning the offseason is bad.....is terrible logic. I also pointed out that most people said SD made bad moves. No place did I comment on whether or not the Twins were doing the right thing or not. I said it might work, or it might not work. And, the Twins didn't win anything last year either. I doubt I said they lost the off season, I can't even imagine that's a phrase I would use. I do agree, the KEY to the season next year is the young (or new, as in Park) players. That doesn't mean that adding more good players is a bad idea, or that failing to add more good players is a good idea.
  14. Mike Sixel
    i was pretty clear, keep talking about it if you want.......I just don't think losing him is going to matter.
  15. Mike Sixel
    Three pages on losing a guy that will probably never have 2 WAR total in his life......not that I am saying don't talk about it. But that seems like an awful lot of spilled electrons over nothing.
  16. Mike Sixel
    such a terrible meme.....no one here is saying the Twins have "win the offseason", are they? And, I can go back and find teams that made moves in the offseason that worked out for them. How did it work out for teams that "lost" the offseason last year? Also, I'm not sure everyone would agree that SD won the offseason last year. Lots of people hated their moves, I'd bet most people hated their moves. the point is, this team is not a WS team as constructed right now, and every day that passes eliminates options. At some point, they'll do something. At that point, they will have acted when less options are on the table. Now, it might work out. But, it also might not.
  17. Mike Sixel
    I don't disagree with any of this, I just don't think it matters all that much to the ultimate outcomes for this team.
  18. Mike Sixel
    I disagree. I think you could have received 1-2 legit prospects, and a filler guy. I'd be surprised if Perkins is on a Twins' roster that wins a playoff series at this point. The issue, as DaveW points out, is that the Twins seemed to choose the middle ground, which is not usually the best strategy.
  19. Mike Sixel
    Meh. He might turn out to be something, but they are stacked with RP. They just need some of them to actually work out.
  20. Mike Sixel
    I think rest makes sense.
  21. Mike Sixel
    that would be funny, and we could move all these non-serious posts too!
  22. Mike Sixel
    Yes, given the model, it's what I would PROBABLY do.....I think it would be very contextual around the rest of the team, how good we might be, and if I was really convinced that player would be elite.
  23. Mike Sixel
    My neighbors are Muslim. They posted about this on FB. I said they might want to think before condemning the crowd. This might have happened in like 45 seconds. How fast would you react? Would you definitely do something? Would you even know what was happening all that fast? Let's just say I'm taking grief on FB for not standing up to hate speech. I was asking for people to really think about how fast it happened, and how fast they'd decide what to do.....
  24. Mike Sixel
    Won't most FAs and guys available for trade already be gone by then? I mean, if your plan is to only pick among internal options, sure.....but if you want to go outside, how would waiting for nearly everyone to be moved that was going to be moved?
  25. Mike Sixel
    They don't care about the money, is the years to FA that matter. The teams aren't doing this to save money, but to CONTROL the player for another year.
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