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  1. Mike Sixel
    The future that never comes......nice trades of Span and Revere so far.....three years in, and nothing to show other than negative contributions.
  2. Mike Sixel
    Tired of old guys in a rebuild. Very, very tired of it. Let's hope they win it all, and this isn't a rebuild year......
  3. Mike Sixel
    If coaches are worth 1-3 wins, they are vastly underpaid compared to players.
  4. Mike Sixel
    I don't know how my sports interests will change when I move, it will be one of the interesting things. I know some MN become bigger MN fans, to stay in touch. I know others that pretty much abandoned MN sports.....
  5. Mike Sixel
    I look forward to praising them loudly someday* *though, assuming I do move out West this summer, my days here may be numbered. I'm sure the ad rates will drop, but you'll all survive.....
  6. Mike Sixel
    Oh ya, right. Can't believe I forgot that.
  7. Mike Sixel
    there are lots of moments of joy, but for some reason I'm not enjoying the journey like I did when they rebuilt the last two times. I think it is that then, they called up guys and let them struggle (and sometimes sent them back down).....this time doesn't feel that fun. That might be that I'm 51 (almost, next week), and watch less sports and enjoy them less in general.
  8. Mike Sixel
    Alas, no one can argue that last point. Hopefully it won't be another lost season by week 4.....
  9. Mike Sixel
    OH well......they traded for him, or he was a waiver claim, can't recall?
  10. Mike Sixel
    I'm as excited as most to see Buxton, Sano, Rosario, Meyer, May, Stewart, Berrios et. al. I'm just not counting on them all working out. But, I don't find it particularly satisfying to root for a team that loses 90+ games this long (get back to me when the A's do it two years in a row under Beane)......I don't find any great satisfaction in having a highly ranked minor league system. Others do, that's cool. I'm happy for them. But I'm more into how the MLB team is doing.
  11. Mike Sixel
    Ah, the post above mine said that, I only skimmed the article. I'm still waiting for the farm system to produce.....if Arcia goes down, and Santana regresses, and Meyer and May are in the minors, and no RP could crack this awesome bullpen (a bullpen so good they are scouring the waiver wire, apparently).....well, I'm still waiting. Once they produce, then we can say they did a good job rebuilding. Until then, they haven't.
  12. Mike Sixel
    Uh, the article said they had partially rebuilt their system right now through trades.....who have they traded for what, IN THIS REBUILD, to get better? I was responding to the article's statement that they are partially rebuilding through trades. I wasn't talking about who they had available, or anything else. Just responding to that part of the article. Was that not clear somehow? I've always conceded it is easier to draft early. I've consistently said that if your strategy is to build through the draft, you have to be BETTER AT IT than everyone else, or your strategy is flawed. Given that the Twins are now actively spending money on veterans, maybe they now agree with me, that you can't ONLY build through the draft.........But, if your strategy is to build through the draft, and signing guys within the league mandated international budgets, you have to be better than everyone else, or it won't work. Heck, you said that in your post. Nothing in that argument has changed at all from my side. They did not draft well enough when they were drafting later in round 1 to be good. I don't even know how that can be argued.
  13. Mike Sixel
    Sigh.
  14. Mike Sixel
    Attitude matters, the stats outside of baseball show that, no idea what they say inside baseball..... Talent matters a lot more in MLB than in attitude though. I also agree that it is generally a post hoc explanation, that really doesn't hold up to scrutiny well. When a team gets hot, and they say it is chemistry.....which came first, the more luck, or the new attitude? Attitude matters, 100% agree. How it is developed, how it contributes, lots of other questions.....we just don't have a firm understanding. And, picture and laughing while losing and all kinds of other stuff fans get worked up over, not a believer at all.
  15. Mike Sixel
    If you worked for a huge company, your opinion of what an efficient company/government looks like may change, I've worked in both...... but yes, at some point, we all need to agree to fix our budget and other issues, or we'll just be Rome without the buildings that actually last more than 20 years......
  16. Mike Sixel
    I was responding to your post, not the whole article. The whole article largely ignores the budget changes, imo, as birdwatcher pointed out.
  17. Mike Sixel
    I agree with birdwatcher, it is clear the budget is waaaaaay different than it used to be. It is also clear they have somewhat tried to buy their way out of being awful (at least in the short term). I don't agree that signing international guys withing the MLB approved budget proves anything about signing guys for big money, but then my friend knew I'd reply that way. So far, they've received nothing for those investments, while those that bought the correct Cubans (like, with good scouting and stuff), have received value. That has actual value to a team, unlike guys that have not made it past A ball.....
  18. Mike Sixel
    Not sure how we can conclude the trades have worked. Span has been valuable, they have nothing to show for him now three ST in. Revere was traded for two guys that have contributed negative WAR, one of whom was cut, and the other is in a battle to even make the roster this year. Both are already 25.....Who else have they traded for that has helped the team? As for the draft, I'm told repeatedly that they are drafting well now because they have been so bad at the MLB level, not because they are better at drafting. I think it is both, but that's not what I'm told here over and over when I complain about their drafts last decade.......
  19. Mike Sixel
    So, if all their draft picks work, they'll be good? Heavy analysis there.
  20. Mike Sixel
    Mauer was 179th? Wow.* *look, we know it is SSS......we aren't debating how to build a plane or solve cancer
  21. Mike Sixel
    he will go in the top 10, maybe top 5 in this draft. And, this time he will sign for slightly below slot.
  22. Mike Sixel
    I hope this thread is about looking at the 5 teams in the division, not about Terry Ryan and the FO.......we have a LOT of those.
  23. Mike Sixel
    I agree, he does talk patience.....it was the under 75 wins part I don't think some here will like. It was, afterall, an article about this year, not about 5 years down the line.
  24. Mike Sixel
    I think everything on Frangraphs and on this site is for entertainment purposes, yes.
  25. Mike Sixel
    well, not every article serves the same purpose, not every article is hard hitting journalism and 100% correct.....sometimes they are just entertainment, even on Fangraphs.
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