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Everything posted by Mike Sixel

  1. Mike Sixel
    QO is there to keep salaries down, no other reason for its existence at this point.
  2. Mike Sixel
    Innocent human beings are being slaughtered, raped, and imprisoned by the thousands. IF that isn't enough for you, they won't stop there, they'll keep expanding and attacking "us". Why is it ok to let Syrians die, but if a few US people are killed we try to overthrow entire nations?
  3. Mike Sixel
    Officially thrilled dombrowski is not here after this.
  4. Mike Sixel
    I was trying to give you hope.......What? Sign an ACE? That, um, that seems odd given where they are given how teams generally act. the other thing about the next FA class, it looks pretty barren......so, ya, that might make recovering harder unless they select college hitters that move fast.
  5. Mike Sixel
    Oooh, nice. I like both of those. And, I cannot believe I keep reading the Hicks threads......
  6. Mike Sixel
    If I had to guess, they got pressure from the union not to accept it early on. Now that teams use it to get a pick, and the union has realized this suppresses contract value, they probably encouraged a few guys to accept them. Also, athletes are, by nature, extremely confident in their abilities. They are usually, imo, going to bet on themselves. It is one reason most hang on too long..... So, two factors there
  7. Mike Sixel
    Ha, I added wrong! yes, more RP than I showed....
  8. Mike Sixel
    Nah, MN beat Iowa last year, my friends down there assure me no one is looking past MN. They want payback.
  9. Mike Sixel
    One of my friends suggested today should just be a regular day, so we can have a break from special ones. I posted on FB that every day is a special day with my wife.....feelin' good about tonight...
  10. Mike Sixel
    Wow, never before, now more than 1 guy this year......
  11. Mike Sixel
    The Astros and Cubs were terrible 2 years ago, and the Mets lost 88 games 2 years ago......
  12. Mike Sixel
    I think this is, and I don't mean this as an insult, "old school thinking". The data is clear, the third time through a lineup isn't good for most SP, the 4th time is a disaster. We, MLB, needs to change its thinking about bullpen/starter usage. 4 starters, 2 long men (with 1-2 in AAA waiting to come up), and 2 1-2 inning guys, plus your 3 "regular" bullpen guys will be tried by a team in the next 3-5 years. And they'll win a lot of games......if they do it as a plan, not because their pitching stinks.
  13. Mike Sixel
    i'm with you on all of that, not surprisingly.
  14. Mike Sixel
    the Twins have shown, with Hicks anyway, that service time is not the key for them. FWIW, KLAW thinks Kepler is ready now, or close enough, that bringing him up right away is not an issue (probably, maybe).
  15. Mike Sixel
    Not some of us....some of us think he'll never be good, because of the SH
  16. Mike Sixel
    If Hicks succeeds or is awesome: 1. We don't know if that would happen here 2. It doesn't matter, if Murphy is good 3. I don't get why people get all up in arms over that automatically making it bad. They key is what the Twins get, not what Hicks does now.
  17. Mike Sixel
    I fail to see how trading one player for another player is "giving up on" them......they exchanged one asset for another. Trading a player is NOT giving up on them. /rant
  18. Mike Sixel
    ESPN killed chats.....he now does them here: http://meadowparty.com/blog/ He also has his music, book, and board game reviews there. Awesome website.
  19. Mike Sixel
    Rogers could dominate lefties, correct? Meyer? He should be up and in the bullpen. That's 2 right there. Now try converting some of these number 8 starters to the bullpen, and see what they can do. Or, just keep them in AAA, and never really use them for anything......How'd Liam Hendriks look last year?
  20. Mike Sixel
    Am I wrong? Was anything I said there not factual? Did they have clock issues last year that were awful? Yes. Did they claim to work on it all spring and to have fixed it? Yes. Did they then completely blunder that end of the game, terribly? Yes. I don't hate these coaches at all, I just don't get what (on the field) stuff you all see that leads you to think they'll ever be much better or worse than they are right now.
  21. Mike Sixel
    Except they had clock issues last year, said they worked on it all spring, and showed they learned nothing....
  22. Mike Sixel
    I think Buxton can be great, but I think questioning if he's really the number 1 or 2 prospect in baseball is also legit.....
  23. Mike Sixel
    I agree with all of this, but the premise of the thread is that they can't win w/o OBP improving.....I was merely pointing out a pretty interesting study that shows that might not be true. Nothing more or less....
  24. Mike Sixel
    here's a list of the people on this thread saying it always works out:
  25. Mike Sixel
    If you are interested, KLAW has already answered questions about the OF in general, and Kepler in specific in his chat on his site.
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