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  1. Mike Sixel
    Suzuki, tumbling down the "leaderboard" for catchers.......now sitting 24th in WAR.....and dropping.
  2. Mike Sixel
    Wow, giving away the last spot on the bench, so many years in a row. Will they ever change?
  3. Mike Sixel
    I agree it is very unlikely......I just don't think it is zero. let's hope Rosario is so good he at least makes them think about it.....
  4. Mike Sixel
    And, if Polanco (who is, according to everyone here, AT LEAST a starting 2B), a legit top 100 SP prospect, two good catching prospects, and another player (or even 2) that would be in Milwaukee's top 10 is not enough.....then, as usual, teams aren't really thinking clearly imo. That team has MANY holes....trading him for 1 elite prospect and one decent prospect just means that they might have an elite player again in 2-4 years.....that doesn't actually help them fill their holes. And yes, I get these kinds of trades often don't work out. Trading more MLB players for more prospects? Like Dozier or Plouffe? I don't get why this team would be doing that now......the minor league system is supposedly loaded.....what they need is MLB players.
  5. Mike Sixel
    I thought they were done with the rebuild phase, and are now just waiting on the prospects to come and make them a playoff team by 2017? At some point, you actually have to play to win. Given their actions in signing SP, they seem to think that is now or next year. How does Lucroy NOT fit in that timeline?
  6. Mike Sixel
    No idea, but it wouldn't be the first time a MLB team did this, would it? You really think there is a zero percent chance they won't send Arcia down?
  7. Mike Sixel
    I guess I don't see the issue in acquiring a younger player, for guys that have never made it to the majors. Since, most of them don't work out at all.
  8. Mike Sixel
    There are also guys they could have traded for........some of whom are under 28, and if you have the deep farm system they do, they could have probably done that instead. btw, imo, just because "it isn't the biggest problem with the team" does not mean it was a mistake or not. Those are not related items....
  9. Mike Sixel
    I think that depends as much on how they feel about Arcia going back to AAA to learn, as it does on Rosario........
  10. Mike Sixel
    I think it is possible, only slightly, that if Rosario is good on O, and great on D, that they send Arcia down to AAA. It wouldn't be the first time they do that (see, Hunter, Torii).
  11. Mike Sixel
    And, when the prospects inevitably start to fail, they've lost all their value.......that's the problem with waiting on them, imo.
  12. Mike Sixel
    All good counter examples to the general rule, agreed. I stand by my assertion that they didn't really close the holes in the first decade of this century......
  13. Mike Sixel
    Big money? He's signed for less than 5.5 Million a year through 2017..... I do understand the risk aversion about catchers though. Oh well, we'll just keep waiting for prospects to come up, and then not trade any prospects to close holes.* *that's what history says, anyway, maybe this time it will be different.
  14. Mike Sixel
    I understand that, but then you'll just have to rely on the prospects working, because you aren't getting great players any other way.....And you aren't getting any younger great player ever w/o paying at least that much. How much does adding one of the top 20 or so players, to your team speed up the rebuild?
  15. Mike Sixel
    What would you give up for Lucroy from the Brewers? http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-case-for-trading-jonathan-lucroy/ I would do this: Both college catchers they just drafted One of Stewart, Hu, Gonsalves Aaron Hicks and/or Kepler Polanco Suzuki Yes, I'd deal up to 5 guys for him. MLB all star catcher, signed for good money......and that is worth more to this roster than the above guys (and by this roster, I mean over the next 5 years). thoughts? Of course, you then also deal Suzuki. You could give him to Milwaukee also, and they could then trade him maybe (hahahahaha).
  16. Mike Sixel
    Correct, I remembered it wrong.
  17. Mike Sixel
    I like that these awards are about performance, not about how good of a prospect a player is. There are other ways to discuss that. Let's just recognize and admire good performance, regardless of "prospectiness"......
  18. Mike Sixel
    Isn't it possible that this is about Rosario, and the Twins seeing what they have (getting more data), AND HAS NOTHING to do with Hicks? Why not just take the move at face value? Why try to read so much back story into the move?
  19. Mike Sixel
    He's been out of managing for less than a year.....I think you are jumping to lots of conclusions that may or may not be true.
  20. Mike Sixel
    Agreed. And I would say inevitable too. And often does not work, because it is not sufficient.
  21. Mike Sixel
    Reading that article. .....makes you wonder why Meyer was not treated that way last year. THIS is what a rebuilding team should be doing.
  22. Mike Sixel
    I find it baffling I am on the defend the FO side......I find the move very sensible.
  23. Mike Sixel
    Thanks Seth. Great read.
  24. Mike Sixel
    Or, they really want Hicks to succeed next time he comes up, and they want him to keep working on something. I rip the FO all the time, but I think we should not jump to conclusions about Hicks with this move. There may be a ton of reasons they want to try this, like, I don't know, giving Rosario a taste of the majors to see how HE responds.
  25. Mike Sixel
    These riots haven't accomplished much, YET, being the word you left out. This is history. People rebel against oppressors century after century. Even "noble" democracies eventually fall this way. Without the "elite", whomever they might be, changing how much they take and how they present themselves, it happens over and over. See the labor "movement" in the middle of US history.....filled with violence at first. Violence comes before level headedness.
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