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  1. Mike Sixel
    Not even a little, it's why teams are signing guys so much earlier now.
  2. Mike Sixel
    This, 100% this. This is driven by their either inability or unwillingness to sign him earlier, when they could have. Then, they were unable to put enough other good players around him for several years. The question is, what to do now. Clearly you give him a couple months to prove he is good again. But if he's not, and Kepler is raking and Buxton, Hicks, Arcia, Rosario are in the OF, well, you need to consider doing something differently.
  3. Mike Sixel
    More than 20 guys play 1B during the year, limiting your analysis to only the 20 that qualified will tend to skew your results. So, no, you do NOT have the whole pool of 1B when you only look at qualified hitters.
  4. Mike Sixel
    I agree the Twins don't generally worry about service time, it's one of the things I really like about them. As for Correa vs Buxton......they are eternally linked. They both had major injuries last year. One was awesome, one was not, this year. Everyone should prepare for them to be compared for a long, long time. But, to say that Houston had no setbacks that they overcame, and the Twins had NO SHOT because Sano and Buxton were hurt, as some seem to do here, well, I think that ignores what happened last year to Correa.
  5. Mike Sixel
    In one of the thru the fences posts in the minor league area, Bob quotes scouts from other teams commenting on the Twins costing their minor league pitchers velocity.
  6. Mike Sixel
    Parker's chart seems to indicate a correlation between velocity and effectiveness....... As for the Twins, we can only judge their philosophy based on their actions. Those seem to have changed some time in the last few years. We'll see if it works or not. One interesting study on FG a couple years ago tried to draw a correlation between "best tools lists" of prospects and MLB success. For pitchers, the most important tool was curve ball, not FB. I agree with the above, it is about strikeouts more than FB speed, but Parker's graph says you can't ignore speed.
  7. Mike Sixel
    Let me, you know, buy it. I'm willing to watch a stream of a national broadcast. If MLB has to send some of the money to cable owners, that's part of their deal. As for not complaining.....our tax dollars literally fund hundreds of millions of dollars for each team, every 20 years or so, so ya, I think it should be available other than 1 way. YMMV, I'm ok with that.
  8. Mike Sixel
    I agree, I want them to give Arcia a chance. The reason I said DH was that I am assuming that Rosario, Hicks, Placeholder start the OF next year, with Buxton up in May or June, with Arcia playing some DH and some RF (not LF, why do they keep doing this?). If he's the RF to start, I'm ok with that too. My point was, I'd be willing to roll the dice on Sano at 3B and other options at DH. Vargas, Mauer (ugh), Arcia, whatever.
  9. Mike Sixel
    Carlos Corriea lost all of last year also......or have people forgotten that?
  10. Mike Sixel
    I'm happy they won. Nebraska might be the most heart breaking team ever this year, let's hope the Gophers can continue that (I was born in Nebraska, my whole family is Nebraska fans, but not this year, if I have to choose, I want MN).
  11. Mike Sixel
    I'd probably roll the dice on Arcia at DH, with Sano at 3B. There is risk there, but there are times to take risks, I think this is one of those times. Plouffe, for many, is easy to love. He struggled, worked hard, made himself a valuable player. People eat that up.
  12. Mike Sixel
    I agree, this won't happen. They won't be trading him.
  13. Mike Sixel
    EVERY year a player or more gets hurt, not every four or five years. And, as for beauty, that is in the eye of the beholder, right? I don't find take out slides beautiful at all. You do. Some want the rules enforced, that if you aren't trying to get to the base, you are interfering. Others don't. It's not some soapboxy, liberal conspiracy, to wussify the world.....it just isn't.
  14. Mike Sixel
    Morneau is one of my favorite people, that I only know from a distance. Very community involved. Open to the public.
  15. Mike Sixel
    so many condescending answers, seems rude to me. I would do what I could to free up myself from the Mauer deal. If I had to pay nearly 100% of his deal to deal him, I'd consider it. There is a chance he could return to being effective relative to other 1B, but it seems unlikely at this point......and with Kepler in the wings, I'd take my chances. That said, I would do this deal. Not to get Morneau, but to free up 1B.
  16. Mike Sixel
    I thought we read that we changed it because he thought it would help him improve. I found it odd that he'd do that, given his success the previous year. But, I may be remembering that incorrectly. And yes, multiple things were in play. I just want him to be between the two years in terms of effectiveness (well, I want him to be like Kershaw, but I'm trying to be realistic here).
  17. Mike Sixel
    Thanks for posting, Seth. I usually stop reading BA at the end of the minor league season, so I would be missing this w/o your posts. And, no surprise.
  18. Mike Sixel
    I prefer Greinke or Price, and agree with those above. IF they sign another SP, it should be a true ace/stud type. Otherwise, I'd not be interested in another SP at this point.
  19. Mike Sixel
    Was it tinkering with his FB type mix? Two vs four seamer, for example?
  20. Mike Sixel
    If they win every game, I'll eat crow and call him the greatest GM ever. I've never moved the posts, many have not. I expect them to win games, not lose 90+ games 4 years in a row, not to win 1 playoff series in a nearly 20 year career for the leader of the team, and not to not use all their available assets when they have a chance to make the playoffs*. Also, instead of answering the question, you asked me one. It's a great rhetorical device, but doesn't work as well in this medium. *note, I did NOT say trade assets to acquire other ones.
  21. Mike Sixel
    Yup, it's like they don't want us to watch. btw, thrylos, around 50% of the Twin cities has cable.....lots of cord cutting, lots of people that don't have it for money reasons. If we are going to subsidize billionaires and millionaires, they should return the favor and let us actually watch the games.
  22. Mike Sixel
    If your argument is that he did a good job, and you can tell from the record......what will be your stance if they win 78 or less games next year? We've been told to be patient, that this takes time. Well, his entire career as GM has been filled with decent journeys (regular seasons), but no payoffs in the playoffs. I'm not arguing with you at all, I'm just asking you a question, if they are bad again next year, how many more years does TR get if you are the owner?
  23. Mike Sixel
    This part: “If there is a catcher available that can help this club,” says Ryan, “we’ll look at it.” This is an interesting sentence. Research shows that people that say will try, or think about, something, are less likely to succeed at that thing. Ryan talks that way a lot. Now, maybe that's just how he talks in public, and in private he's much more of a take control guy, but I don't know. This isn't just fluff, the research is clear. There is a reason the scene with Yoda and Luke is so iconic.....it's true.
  24. Mike Sixel
    There was an interesting study on FG this year.....when the Mariners added another low OBP, high HR, guy, many said "we need more OBP". Turns out, if you have a low OBP team, adding OBP is less valuable than adding power. Since the other guys aren't likely to drive a guy in with a single (since they don't hit enough of them), low OBP teams actually get more run production added from another low OBP/high* power guy. It was not what anyone expected the study to show. *I got parens, ellipses, and / in there, not bad, not bad at all** **and commas, lots of commas.
  25. Mike Sixel
    I use a lot of those.....
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