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  1. Mike Sixel
    I can't see them dealing for a SS, not with Polanco in AA. I'd either put Escobar at SS, or Polanco. neither is giving up on Santana, they are both young enough that they might be the future. I suggested this a month ago, and was widely ridiculed. It looks like an even better idea now.
  2. Mike Sixel
    I don't see one person here saying TR and Molitor are incompetent. You are extrapolating meaning that just isn't there. Besides, it is a message board. Do you really think they care what we type? Do you really think they feel dissed? Do you really take this all so seriously, that you can't see it is just a discussion? and yes, you are changing the subject, you seem to be the only one that doesn't realize this.
  3. Mike Sixel
    didn't the Wild buy the two most expensive FAs out there? Didn't they go out and trade for a goalie? Did the Wild have a minor league system so deep in left winger that they were likely to lose some in the next off season (see, Twins, corner OF/DH/1B types)?
  4. Mike Sixel
    Isn't it a self fulfilling prophecy to wait for the team to be great before trying to add players to make the team better? so they can get an every day SS, but not a RP for the same price? that seems to be a market inefficiency. Maybe that's why they have drafted so many RP, so they can trade them for insane returns.
  5. Mike Sixel
    100x this. It just doesn't make sense to do what it looks like they are about to do.
  6. Mike Sixel
    ugh. But hey, they have 14 pitchers.....so yay!
  7. Mike Sixel
    Except they pick way too late to try that strategy with their next pick.
  8. Mike Sixel
    Also, national writers probably start stuff more than 4 hours before posting it......and some things may or may not change in the process. I would expect local guys to be ON TOP of everything, but not national guys.
  9. Mike Sixel
    Tonkin back for today only, then gone. Then either Nolasco goes on the DL, or another RP is sent down, who has options so they can keep Stauffer? Or maybe they'll go to a 2 person bench?
  10. Mike Sixel
    so RP aren't worth anything, but you can't get one for Meyer and Arcia? Which is it? They are worth a lot in prospects, or they aren't worth anything? I am very confused by these statements.
  11. Mike Sixel
    And if they don't think Pinto is a catcher, might as well call him up and DH him, and get some value out of him.
  12. Mike Sixel
    And, Kubes can play RF I believe. Now, he's not CF like Bartlett, but still......
  13. Mike Sixel
    You don't like the word? what word would you use to describe hitting a bad hitting utility infielder at DH? Ignore the one word in the post, and discuss the actual topic, should a utility infielder be starting in LF and DH, or not? Did they or did they not do the same thing in the mid-2000s? How has Escobar forced his way onto the roster, and not Vargas, or Sano, or Hicks, or Pinto, or almost anyone else? Try discussing the actual meat of the post, and not obsessing over a word you don't like.
  14. Mike Sixel
    If they are 10 games over at the trade deadline, I disagree. They should be going all in. In 3 years, Buxton and Sano could get concussions (M&M boys, remember how they were going to carry the Twins to WS), or none of the SP prospects could have worked out, or whatever. If you are in the playoff hunt, legitimately, not barely, you have to take the chance when you have it. There is value in the more certain present. The further into the future you get, the less you know about what it going to happen. I am not saying sell off the big prospects, but one of the many OF/DH/1B types that will sit in the minors while Mauer is here? I just think you all are underestimating the value of certainty, and over valuing the very unpredictable future.
  15. Mike Sixel
    What are the odds you can identify the next great RP? I mean, ya, that's a better idea, but how do you find them? And, who is going to trade one if they know he will be great and cheap for the future?
  16. Mike Sixel
    Does Escobar's track record indicate he is anything other than a utility guy probably? He certainly isn't a DH.
  17. Mike Sixel
    Well, they have holes in the bullpen, catcher, SS, and CF (and somehow DH). They have lots of DH/1B types that will be wasted in the minors while Mauer is here. You can choose to just have them lose all their value, or you can deal them. They aren't getting a CF, because you have Buxton. They shouldn't go get a DH, because they have Hunter and Arcia and Vargas and Sano. that leaves bullpen, catcher and SS and maybe RF I guess......
  18. Mike Sixel
    So Escobar has "forced his way up"? This is the mid 2000s all over again, punting the DH. Only this time, they have actual options out there, and aren't using them.
  19. Mike Sixel
    I have no idea what this means.....how is using a guy in the 8th inning a waste?
  20. Mike Sixel
    What does "less talented" mean? Because they Twins have 5 starters now, and Santana coming, and Milone, and Berrios, and 2-4 other guys in AA/AAA that might be number 5 types. What less talented MLB starter would you give up assets to get, if you already have 6-8 starters?
  21. Mike Sixel
    the line I responded to was "find out who the good ones are, and trade the others", there was nothing there about being good and blocked. Or maybe I read it wrong?
  22. Mike Sixel
    you have never heard me sing, obviously.
  23. Mike Sixel
    Uh, once you figure that out, the others have almost no value.
  24. Mike Sixel
    Well.....hmmmmm....I don't know what to type about my thoughts about that.
  25. Mike Sixel
    given the number of MLB starters, plus Berrios, plus all the others in AAA or AA I can't see any "middling" starter having any impact on this team at all. Zero. I don't get why people keep bringing this up as a legit option for this team.
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