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  1. Mike Sixel
    Maybe they are trading Mauer.....hahahahahaha. It means nothing, other than positional flexibility, and potentially giving Joe a day or two off, w/o moving Vargas off DH, imo.
  2. Mike Sixel
    I have no idea what the Twins do inside their HQ.....but giving them credit for trading for Worley, not fixing him, then seeing him thrive elsewhere after they released him despite him having an option? I am confused by that...... I'll wait and see who is in the BP before I decide they've really change approaches.
  3. Mike Sixel
    Well, if Santana is good, you won't see much Escobar, so how will you know last year was not a mirage. If they really believe in Santana and the guys in the minors.....and if someone wants to offer value for a starting SS (not value for a utility guy), then I don't see how you don't trade him. If either of those is not true, I don't see why you do trade him. I have no idea if the second is true or not.......
  4. Mike Sixel
    I don't get the "it's better to throw limited innings in the minors, and never come up to the majors until you can throw 200 innings" argument. didn't get it last year, don't get it this year. A pitch is a pitch on the arm. He's no less likely to be hurt in MN than in AAA. At some point, you need to get over being afraid, and try stuff, like, last year, in a LOST YEAR. But, alas, they did NOT try stuff last year (at least with pitchers other than May).
  5. Mike Sixel
    If Kentucky wins, I beat my wife and kid* *by beat, I mean get more points, not what AP did.....
  6. Mike Sixel
    We aren't likely to agree on this......even for a pitcher, it is better for them as a human being to avoid surgery if they can.
  7. Mike Sixel
    Wild Xtra (which I have zero interest in) I can get to. Northern Pitch.....also blocked.
  8. Mike Sixel
    Like what? There was talk before the draft that other teams might even have him in the majors last year......
  9. Mike Sixel
    As someone that had 3 major surgeries nearly 2 years ago.....it's always better to try not to have surgery. And this is why having the number 1 farm system means nothing until the players are here.....and why betting your whole future on guys that have never made the majors is risky, imo.
  10. Mike Sixel
    because it considered Uncategorized.
  11. Mike Sixel
    Please go with some young guys, and give us some hope. Stauffer offers nothing at all.
  12. Mike Sixel
    I look forward to the miracle day when the Twins have reason to do this.
  13. Mike Sixel
    One of the worst teams in baseball.....no room for any rookies again this year. Hopefully it won't take as long for help to come this year as it has in recent years. Hopefully, the guys that came up last year produce this year. But it boggles the mind that this many years into the rebuild that they can't find room for any rookies.
  14. Mike Sixel
    Levi, I agree, statistics are better due to skepticism. All of life is better because of that. However, I don't fee the other side is actually offering a better alternative, and until you can offer a better alternative, I am not ready to dismiss the best alternative we have. I'm not offended by your words at all, as I've said here many times, this is just entertainment for me, and I don't take the comments personally.
  15. Mike Sixel
    I gave you some possible explanations. It's a game of inches, maybe he just barely missed a bunch of balls one year.......maybe there is luck on both sides,and true talent is more in the middle of those results. this seems to be the crux of the issue. Neither side buys the other side's explanations for why the math works, or doesn't work.
  16. Mike Sixel
    Uh, there will always be noise in the data. There is noise in the data produced by Billion dollar science experiments. There is noise in the data Boeing used to build airplanes. That's the nature of statistics and science.
  17. Mike Sixel
    Funny, I read "worst staff in baseball"......so, ya, I guess I agree with it all. My bad.
  18. Mike Sixel
    I've read them all, even the deleted ones........It has mostly been a good conversation. There have been slips in that on both sides of the argument, imo. Some tone, some in the choice of words.
  19. Mike Sixel
    Who isn't skeptical? Even the creators admit there are error bars and confidence levels, and that the numbers aren't precise. There is a difference, imo, between skepticism, and dismissing something because it doesn't make "common" sense. Or some of the other phrases people have used here, frankly, that seem a bit demeaning, imo, of people who are "believers".
  20. Mike Sixel
    he's 25. I don't think anyone is forgetting anything about his age. How many Elite starters haven't appeared in the majors by their 25th birthday? I have no idea, but I'm guessing not many (and, yup, some have, that's not really the point, you don't bet on the exceptions).
  21. Mike Sixel
    While I liked Ken's post.......I didn't agree with the last part.
  22. Mike Sixel
    Luck? Maybe one year he caught most everything he got close to, the next he didn't. Maybe one year his legs weren't as fresh because he was drinking more, or his wife had a kid or three, or maybe he just had a series of off days on the days he had chances that swung his score from good to bad? Deltas in outcomes are driven by A LOT of variables, that doesn't mean how you measure those outcomes is wrong. some days, big companies do everything right. Other days, a system goes down, or someone goes on PTO, or someone gets jury duty, and everything goes wrong. Now, imagine that when there are only 9 people involved in producing the outcomes........any 1 person of 9 can having a bad day can really throw things off.
  23. Mike Sixel
    Still waiting any positive return from the trades.......disappointed he couldn't throw strikes.
  24. Mike Sixel
    Man, good luck to Aiken.
  25. Mike Sixel
    Another great interview. Thanks to the Twins,Twins Daily, and the players.
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