Mike Sixel
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Nuts do not belong in cookies or brownies.
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Holy bleep.......AZ is insane. Unbelievably bad trade from their side.
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Fangraphs has an article out there some of you will appreciate, and some will hate on his value..... No chance the Twins acquire him.
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I didn't toss out any stats, and I don't think he'd be "meh" as a starter. That should be obvious since I said a 2/3. I do agree, tossing out stats from bad performances, is usually a bad idea. Tossing out outliers is not. Showing progress over time is not.
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the point isn't "is he a better RP or SP".....the point is a number 2 or 3 starter is MUCH MORE valuable than a RP. Some of us think he's a legit MLB starting pitcher, and would rather have 200 innings of that, than 60 innings of RP from him.
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Preach it.
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Talk about perverse unintended consequences.
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never claimed MN was perfect....... The gap is an interesting issue.....is it bigger because everyone has a lower standard of living in those other states, therefore the gap is smaller, but a higher percent of the entire population is worse off, or because MN has an inherently unfair system, or something else/combo? I agree, though, the Republicans aren't giving me much reason to move toward them right now. Denying science, assuming the capitalism always works like some sort of god (false idol, imo), and wanting to deny rights to some groups of people? Can't tolerate that.
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All I can do is point to the states that act like MN, and how their economies are doing, and states that act like WI, KS, and MO, and how their economies are doing.....and wonder, which philosophy actually works. We KNOW that if the GOP wins, they'll start another ground war that they refuse to pay for by raising taxes to pay for it. They talk a big game about balanced budgets, they talk a good game about accountability and paying as you go, but no one on that side is willing to actually PAY FOR the costs of those wars. In other words, the exact opposite of accountability.
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I also am not at the worried point yet.....curious might be a better word.
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if I worked for a smaller, more fun company, I would have organized something fun for this, like I did next year....
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Seems reasonable to me.....base it on when signed and age of signee.......but no one should be controlled past age 28 or 29 or so if they came in thru the draft.
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He's totally useless sitting in AAA........but he could be a legit MLB RP.
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fivethirtyeight has article after article on the polls.....and what the might mean this year compared to previous years....
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Average salary? some guys make 30million a year.......average isn't all that useful a measure. I am worried* about the guys on the margin, who are kept around by teams when other teams might find a way to play them. *well, I have compassion for them....
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Isn't waiting to see if you are in contention to add good players kind of a self fulfilling prophecy? This is a play not to lose strategy. I prefer a play to win strategy. I understand others disagree, I'm ok with that, as long as they don't GM my favorite teams.
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We aren't debating public subsidies here, but when/how players should be free to pursue another contract or not. I certainly agree on the subsidy issue. The feds should count that as income.....that would change some things.
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so if his outcomes were more repeatable (stats wise only, we are only talking stats here).......would we be less worried? Of course, I don't get the question at all.
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that is obviously true, minor leaguers should be: paid more get insurance get healthy food for free from the clubhouse be free from their club after a shorter time frame, so the can maybe make the majors elsewhere
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They are free agents, just like everyone else on the planet except people with contracts. That's not going to kill baseball, but it will move the money from owners to those that actually produce the revenue, the players.
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then make it 28 or 5 years of any part of any season in the majors....... but punishing college guys from reaching FA until they are 30 or 32? Keeping guys in AAA as failed starters when they could make money as RP for other teams? The system right now is set up to keep contracts artificially down. It is completely rigged in the owners' favor. Free the players up.
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I bet if you look at the draft list now.....it is mostly HS guys already in the early rounds, outside the top 15 or so. More freedom to move, or the tiny chance that you are one of the 15 guys drafted a round earlier and getting about 100-300K more in signing bonus? One year in the majors is worth more than that. One FA year in the majors is worth 20-50 times that.
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I don't know, but usually I build systems for the 99% of the world, then create "what do you do with the exceptions". Businesses that build processes for the exceptions are failing businesses. Without much thought.....if a player had played less than 2 years in the US system, they would become a FA after 3 years in the US system. So, foreign players or players like you list would be "under control" for 3 years (or the length of any contract they sign).
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Maybe....but would you really pass on a better player to draft a less likely to succeed guy, just to save 3 years of cost control, most of which won't be used by any player? I realize there are all kinds of possible unintended consequences, but would you rather have more freedom to move if you are successful, or an extra 500K in signing bonus, maybe, for about 15-20 guys who might move spots? Really, the best answer is no long term contracts, say, nothing past 2-3 years. And, everyone w/o a contract is a FA. But that's not happening.
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There is no such thing as false hustle? Well, there's something we won't agree on.
