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  1. Mike Sixel
    Was that the question?
  2. Mike Sixel
    I'll take the bet they don't sign an elite SP this off season. I also don't see them making this kind of trade. When Ryan next trades an elite prospect, it will be his first time.
  3. Mike Sixel
    I can't speak for others, but I didn't mention Hicks because it seemed like piling on at the time.
  4. Mike Sixel
    Huh, I did not know that. Sometimes auto correct needs a correction, but I don't always read my old posts in an hour.
  5. Mike Sixel
    Agreed.
  6. Mike Sixel
    I only saw a few minutes.....I just don't like Clinton's "act". That said, it isn't her job for me to like her. She is clearly qualified, and I think pragmatic is probably a good word. I don't see anyone on the other side with an ounce of tolerance for gays, immigrants, and non-Christians. So, I have no interest in them, none.
  7. Mike Sixel
    I see almost no chance Gordon is dealt, not w/o some awesome return. Stewart? Sure, I could see that.
  8. Mike Sixel
    as for dismissing Hicks 35 good games (compared to how many awful games) and Plouffe's hot vs cold streaks, I don't know, one of them has actually been good over a whole season, and one has only been good for 35 games out of his career (give or take). I'd think it is reasonable to say one of these is not like the other yet.
  9. Mike Sixel
    When that FA is in his final 3-4 years of his contract, and mediocre or worse....they'll need to be paying the guys coming up now real money. Signing a FA pitcher to a 6-8 year deal is super risky. And, Sano will be getting so much in arbitration, your eyes will hurt. Which elite FA SP is going to settle for only 5 years, do you think?
  10. Mike Sixel
    Isn't it more likely that FG knows that nearly 40% of innings were played by other players, and their calculations take that into account, than everything you typed being true?
  11. Mike Sixel
    It wasn't the greatest study, but you seem to be dismissing it because it doesn't fit your beliefs, not because it is invalid.
  12. Mike Sixel
    For all of his issues, I agree, Walker is intriguing.
  13. Mike Sixel
    Love the straw man part about giving them up for a song and a dance, excellent rhetoric, if poor logic. If the "he won't be good part" is aimed at me, the odds are LONG that any prospect is as good as Sonny Gray has been for the last three years. Super long. So, yes, I think it is more than 60% likely Berrios is not that good the next three years. Doesn't mean he won't be, but the odds are he won't be one of the 10-20 best SP the next three years.
  14. Mike Sixel
    Did you even read the article, where it compares to how OTHER teams did? Because it clearly states they aren't good at acquiring outside talent relative to other teams.
  15. Mike Sixel
    I also can't edit posts, as that "button" does not appear.... edit: huh, sometimes it does!
  16. Mike Sixel
    By the time you know what you have, they have little value unless they all worked out. Some of the value in these guys is upside uncertainty.
  17. Mike Sixel
    Wait, don't fix anything because you can't fix everything? That's not logic. Don't fix anything because someone still wont' think the world is good enough? That's not logic. There is a rule. Leagues decide how much to enforce rules all the time. The argument you are making is the same argument made about enforcing the strike zone, frankly.
  18. Mike Sixel
    All good points. I would have blown up the team, even more than they did, so yes, I would have "wasted" most of Mauer's deal (but then, I would have Longoria'd him, and this would not be an issue).
  19. Mike Sixel
    for those that questioned "who the heck is Kiley"......and why should we read him.....he is going to work for Atlanta pretty much what he dis for us/Fangraphs for free. Huge loss to those of us that like prospect talk. http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/instagraphs/saying-farewell/#comment-5065497
  20. Mike Sixel
    The rule already exists....slide to get to the base, not out of the base path to cripple a guy (or make him afraid, or hit him hard). Slide as hard as you want when trying to get to the base.....that's not what Utley did. Oh, and lots of players said Harper is over rated, in an informal poll. Some players said it was ok to choke Harper. Uhhhhh, no.
  21. Mike Sixel
    I remain a Hicks skeptic. 34 good games does not offset all his bad games for me. I think MLR is correct, Hicks starts in CF until Buxton is more ready. It would not surprise me if Buxton is up at the beginning of the year, but I don't think he will be. I also think Hicks is a CF for some other team someday. I'd even be willing to trade him before the year, for the right piece, and have Rosario in CF, Arcia in RF, and placeholder FA in LF to start. But, I would bet it is Rosario, Hicks, FA/Arcia in RF to start next year.
  22. Mike Sixel
    Having watched the slide over an over, how can anyone say the intent was not to hit the bleep out of the INF, and to hit him hard? How can anyone argue he was trying, at all, to get to 2B? It was 100% a dirty slide. The only intent was to hit the INF hard. The ends, trying to break up a double play, do NOT justify the means. And no, I don't want someone that would do whatever it took to win, I want them to play in the rules, and this was against the existing rules.
  23. Mike Sixel
    They could have done what they have done the last 2 years, and signed legit FA pitchers? They could have not cut budget every year until this year, and tried to win. I'm not arguing that they necessarily should have, but there were lots of options other than rely on terrible prospects, and bad FAs. And, no, they are not just looking at it as a cost of the stadium. He is their starting 1B and number 3 hitter, not some ambassador.
  24. Mike Sixel
    What are the odds any, even elite, prospect is as good as Gray? Anyone remember Mark Prior and Dylan Bundy? People are willing to say "should" and not could? Like, the odds are high that he'll post an ERA under 3 over his first 500 innings? People think that is likely?
  25. Mike Sixel
    The odds are low Berrios is ever that good. I would probably say yes. I would maybe say no. That it's a tough one.
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