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  1. Mike Sixel
    Good luck to Mr. Duffey. It's an exciting moment for him. Frankly, I wanted him up here as a RP more than a month ago, so I'm glad he's in MN now.
  2. Mike Sixel
    It's funny, but there are actually studies about this on the internet. the projections are usually good, not great, like, much better than random stuff a GM says in the paper, or posters here post...... Hope is not a strategy. Positive outlooks on bad situations is not a strategy. Plenty of research on this as well, also available for free on the internet. Businesses don't succeed by hoping and ignoring their weaknesses. They succeed by acknowledging them and eliminating them.
  3. Mike Sixel
    When does it happen for this team? When does THIS GM trade prospects for players? Why are there this many holes in the first place, obvious holes that everyone saw at the beginning of the year?
  4. Mike Sixel
    I think the answer is: sort of. Dozier and Plouffe will hit again. Mauer and Hunter? they are old and bad. Suzuki is just bad. So, no, I don't think they'll hit again in a way that helps a team relative to their peers. That's 1/3 of your lineup you are giving away. Then there is SS, a position that is at best suspect......44% of your lineup given away......and Hicks with his splits, and Rosario with his "patience"......ya, good luck. And, it isn't hard, as pointed out above, to cut Boyer and Duensing at this point. But, we see it clearly last year and this year, this team doesn't understand, imo, that if you are rebuilding, you play the young guys sooner rather than later.
  5. Mike Sixel
    Twins must not agree....Sano did not play in the field when Mauer sat......Why is that?
  6. Mike Sixel
    Was waiting for that to happen.....oh well.
  7. Mike Sixel
    You all actually listen to these guys? Hmmmm. My condolences.
  8. Mike Sixel
    Here you go: Bryant is an excellent base runner, one of the best in the league. Estimates say he has been one of the best at taking extra bases, and that he is good at stealing. Bryant's defense so far has been quite good. Estimates say that he has been better than the average player at his position. Good, not elite. He has been one of the best hitters in all of baseball, creating a very large number of runs, at a rate much higher than all but a few players. He's been a great hitter. He has accumulated all of his counting stats in 95 games, vs around 105 for most of his peers.....meaning on a per game basis, he's more valuable than his counting stats would lead you to believe. Or, he has a really high WAR......either way, he's been great, and people who keep typing he hasn't, I'm confused by those people.
  9. Mike Sixel
    Nope, no one here has claimed that. And there was a post explaining the delta.
  10. Mike Sixel
    I'd guess he did what he thought was right this deadline, and his owner wanted someone new because he didn't get them over the hump. He built FL, he built the Tigers, if he wants, he'll build again.....
  11. Mike Sixel
    Boston is already denying interest.....
  12. Mike Sixel
    KLAW said Hu was a great get for a guy like Jepsen...... but really, the issue is......... they traded for a mediocre to good RP, when they had holes all over the place, as if this would help the team make the playoffs in any meaningful way. After ignoring fixing SS and C all year, and not doing enough to fix the bullpen.
  13. Mike Sixel
    Truly wishing I had not typed that Bryant is awesome, and we had not got onto the whole Cubs vs Twins thing...... Sano and Buxton and Berrios are great talents. I look forward to them in MN for a long time.
  14. Mike Sixel
    He won't be unemployed long, imo.
  15. Mike Sixel
    Dozier is awesome. So is Tulo. That's what is great......except for the part where one is not a Twin......
  16. Mike Sixel
    I understood. ...it changed. So it is better to pay him, and play a worse player, than pay him and play a better player?
  17. Mike Sixel
    You know, if Mauer and Hunter were peak Mauer and Hunter, that would look quite fair....... Hoping for a win!
  18. Mike Sixel
    Last year also, while Terry was out, he said it after the first game or so......
  19. Mike Sixel
    btw, I'm not asking Terry Ryan when they should go all in.....I'm asking the people here who said not this year....when?
  20. Mike Sixel
    Perhaps it was St. peter that said it in previous years.....and I found one from him for sure that said it in 2014 (St. Peter that is). I'll just concede this is the first year Terry said they should contend late in the season.
  21. Mike Sixel
    Twenty 1B qualify from the beginning of 2014 to now. Mauer has the 2nd lowest wRC+ of them all...... this year, he's even worse (though, so are some others). It's not just his ranking, it's how far his WAR is from median that is a killer, let alone from good / elite.
  22. Mike Sixel
    17 years of evidence is pretty good evidence that this isn't just an issue of there NEVER being a good trade available to add talent, isn't it? And yes, process is important, but so are results. I'm sure Butera followed a great process, or Shane Robinson does, that doesn't mean they should keep their job just because they have that job. Results matter.
  23. Mike Sixel
    I want to know when we should expect them to be good. When can we say "this isn't luck, they should now be good".
  24. Mike Sixel
    does every thread have to turn into a WAR debate?
  25. Mike Sixel
    Sano has been great, agreed...... Bryant is 20th in WAR in all of the majors....what would he have to do to "dominate"?
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