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the point, for me, is that Ryan is praised for that deal, and Smith is ripped for the Garza/Young deal. Young was the number 3 prospect in the minors......he hit well his first year. btw, how'd he hit when they moved him off his natural position (aka, how did Arcia do when they moved him)?
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Price (potentially) to the Jays
Mike Sixel replied to whosafraidofluigirussolo's topic in Other Baseball
If only the Twins could have signed Martin and traded for Tulo........if only. -
Still bummed no one has ripped me for ladder......
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Price (potentially) to the Jays
Mike Sixel replied to whosafraidofluigirussolo's topic in Other Baseball
Price was gone after this year. They sold high. That's bad for the Twins, isn't it? Toronto traded for a 3B of the present, and future. Toronto signed the best catcher to a long term deal. Tulo has years left on his deal. They aren't mortgaging the future at all here, they are giving up part of it, to get other parts of it. -
that's not what I said......or tried to say. People here blame the lack of success on Smith, overlooking that he inherited a BARREN farm system, and a team with talent on the decline. Then, when he couldn't fix the team from the inside, since the previous GM left him with a barren farm system, he was canned. There seems to be this meme here that Smith was universally awful, and they lost because of him (when it was the lack of anyone in their peak, other than Mauer), not because of his predecessor, a guy who can apparently do no wrong. As jimmer points out, just look how the Garza/Young trade is discussed compared to the Span/Meyer trade........
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Is the farm system as deep as we thought?
Mike Sixel replied to Boom Boom's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
I'm not convinced OF is a point of strength right now. Arcia is out of options, and they don't seem to like him. Rosario is hardly elite (though he could be good). Buxton hasn't played really yet. That leaves Hicks, who still should have question marks about him. Unless you are getting a C or SS back, who is controlled, I don't deal Kepler right now. Given how they feel about Arcia, and his lack of options left, I'll be surprised if he makes it to the end of the deadline as a Twin. -
Because all the bad things are Smith's fault, and Ryan is infallible and unquestionable?
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As pointed out above, nearly half of the best catchers were acquired by their team since Suzuki was brought here.....so, ya, there were options. As pointed out, this bullpen had failure written all over it at the beginning of the year. You know, when this GM built it. The lack of trying younger guys earlier to see if they were the answer, or moving Duffey to the bullpen, not protecting Gilmartin so they could keep guys on the 40 man they won't call up, those are all on this GM. He did a great job with Santana and Hughes. He may have done a great job getting May (hard to tell, since they won't use him at all, maybe they know something we don't, that's what I'm told all the time. If they aren't using a guy, they must not like the guy as much as we do). Other than that, I'm not sure what else has been fixed in the last 3-4 years. Losing a lot of games so you can get higher draft picks, maybe he did that too.
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I'd love to see him in the bullpen right now, like other teams do. He could possibly help the MLB team, imo.
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I am a huge Kepler guy. I agree with Brock, he's still trending up, and I'd rather they keep him, or deal him in the off season. And, no way I'd trade a legit 22 year old prospect for a RP. No way.* *unless it was one of the few elite ones, with multiple years of control left.
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ya, we sometimes forget that Garza and the on field leadership weren't seeing eye to eye......
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Re-sign, or resign? I vote the ladder.....
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I too think people are under estimating Kepler. Legit MLB OF / 1B. No doubt in my mind.
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I hated both those trades. Hated them. My impression is that Ryan left because he was tired, he wasn't sure he was the right GM for this new world (his words, btw), he didn't want to sign Mauer to the kind of contract it would take (my assumption). Yes, those other things count as GM work. I'm not sure how much credit I'd give him for the pace of the analytics growth......I'm not convinced the minor league coaches are working, given that zero of the power arms they have drafted have progressed. But yes, making those changes is probably good.
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Uh, that's because the farm had zero talent when he took over. It takes 3-5 years for talent to climb up......that is all on the previous GM, right? If the team was bad when he left, that's 100% on the previous GM, since that's when his top players should be graduating........
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What infrastructure has he rebuilt? He didn't sign Cubans, they have not gone over International slots (maybe this year, unsure), he didn't successfully sign and flip guys. He's made 2 big trades, and signed a bunch of SP. that's about it.......
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so, 17 years as GM and no WS appearances, and no big, elite trades is not evidence?
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You really think that people want them to do random stuff, even bad ideas? You really think that is fair?
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Fair, for many. but, there are some of us that have our doubts about Ryan's ability to be the guy that gets them over the hump. There are all kinds of leaders, and some are great at building, but not finishing. Or good at running things, but not building things. I'm not convinced Ryan is the GM to do it all for this team. I continue to hope to be proven wrong.
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Twins, Rockies Talk Tulowitzki
Mike Sixel replied to Jeremy Nygaard's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
I think this is a totally reasonable stance. the trades I favor(ed) are/were for guys with 2+ years of control left, not rentals. -
Waving the white flag on this roster
Mike Sixel replied to Vanimal46's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
Which raises the question, why have none of these guys worked out? None of them. -
Trading a guy for another guy is not "giving up on him", it is changing what asset you have.
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Still waiting for someone to say what the GM has done that has been so awesome in this rebuild. Hughes, May, Santana, that's it for the future, in the time he's been here. Everyone else was already here, or is part of the draft......what exactly has Ryan done to really rebuild this team?
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Or maybe not.
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What has the GM done to build this team? What players have they acquired in trades or FA that will help? I count three. In 4 years, they have added three players in FA and trades that will help.
