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  1. Mike Sixel
    Wow. Congrats to him. And, Mr. Hicks, we are still hoping you'll force your way up soon.
  2. Mike Sixel
    Correct, Markos.
  3. Mike Sixel
    I'd say getting Santana back is likely to help them not totally fade in the 2nd half.....or maybe having some options of guys to bring up from the minors that are MUCH better than the options the last two years (of course, they'd actually have to call them up, which they seem oddly averse to doing).
  4. Mike Sixel
    Again, not about options....years of cost control....are you going to burn one for a month? I wouldn't.
  5. Mike Sixel
    Not options, years of cost control.
  6. Mike Sixel
    I thought I read all last year that AAA wasn't for top prospects anymore, that teams promoted from AA. Did I read all those threads wrong? "rush" is a loaded word, a tautology even. Bryce Harper, less than 37 non-rehab games in AA. Like I said, not that hard to find examples if you look.
  7. Mike Sixel
    Ken Griffey....17 games. But, I was wrong about McCutchen, I forgot his time in AA was spread across two years..... Hrbek skipped AA and AAA.....Puckett skipped AA, and played only 21 games in AAA. There are a ton of examples, I don't think you'd have to look that hard to find them.
  8. Mike Sixel
    As KLAW points out, the team will win around 70 games or a bit more......just by regressing back toward the mean.....and the new manager will get all kinds of credit. They aren't a 45 win team.....
  9. Mike Sixel
    If you aren't calling up an Elite prospect by July.....I can't see burning a year of control to get him a sniff. IMO, he's either up before August, or it's another year.
  10. Mike Sixel
    I'd rather call up Buxton.....this is about how long some other elite OFers spent in AA......and, I'd also rather not platoon Arcia just yet in his career.
  11. Mike Sixel
    Good luck to the new manager, that team is bad, and the farm is bad. They should take the Astros path soon.
  12. Mike Sixel
    It's hard to think of many situations around the world, where a people were widely repressed, and violence was not the answer to cause change.....riots are a natural consequence of systemic violence and repression. It is inevitable, even. I'd suggest that anyone that is surprised or even opposed to this....well, imo, you are wrong. Nothing is going to change for the poor of this nation w/o a revolution. I believe one of our founding fathers even predicted we'd have to have another revolution some day.
  13. Mike Sixel
    I think this is about when Trout was promoted....... I agree this was the plan. Never thought it was the right plan, we'll know a lot more in another 6 weeks or so.
  14. Mike Sixel
    I doubt most fans on this site were hoodwinked. To the poster above.....this thread is about Hunter, why would we post here about Schafer?
  15. Mike Sixel
    Not handy......at work....and actually paying attn on this call
  16. Mike Sixel
    It's kind of sad, imo, that they can't just admit they were wrong and move on......
  17. Mike Sixel
    I very much want to be wrong......very much. It's great to see those laser shots.
  18. Mike Sixel
    I now think I should have asked this differently, and asked what the timeline was going forward, rather than rehashing the last 2 years or so again.....live and learn.
  19. Mike Sixel
    Never read 1 person say all cops are bad. Not one.
  20. Mike Sixel
    Disagree....the rich guy is worse, much worse.
  21. Mike Sixel
    cool. commenting on me, and not the thought. All the experty types on line don't think he's a long term hitter. We discussed this last year when he came up. didn't feel like retyping all of it. I'm very glass half full on things that I think deserve it. I don't have high expectations means just that, based on what I've read from experts NOT part of the Twins' organization, they have low expectations.
  22. Mike Sixel
    There are no guarantees. I don't agree that the "only way to build his value" is at the ML level. He needs to learn how to hit, he is working on that in AAA. That, to me, makes sense for where he is right now. For him, not every player, for him where he is right now. "we" know a lot about Hicks from the last two years. What we know is that he really needs to work on hitting. For him, imo, that's best done in AAA right now. If he keeps this up for another 2 weeks or so, I would promote him, and then see what he has. So, we are arguing over 2 weeks or so..... And, in no way would I have had him up at the beginning of the year. He wasn't ready. Sometimes guys need to learn in the minors, sometimes in the majors. He had 2 shots already at the MLB level, this time it was time to do it in AAA.
  23. Mike Sixel
    Great read! Thanks for writing it.
  24. Mike Sixel
    ???? hicks is learning how to hit, and become a real MLB player. Schafer is in MN to play CF until Hicks or someone else is ready. This is about tomorrow, not today.
  25. Mike Sixel
    Good move on Granite!
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