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  1. Mike Sixel
    Darn good question.....anyone have a good idea why they'd do it this way? Because, James raises a good point (though maybe they don't want to protect anyone else....maybe there are two guys they want to claim now, and are making space?) ( I know, that's not a sentence).
  2. Mike Sixel
    Isn't the first preview tomorrow?
  3. Mike Sixel
    Meh. No one knows if he is any good at this or not.....but it is certainly legit ammo to those that don't think much is changing on a team that loses and loses. One data point is not a trend....but this isn't one data point.
  4. Mike Sixel
    Makes sense to me....both him being gone, and Pelfrey being in the bullpen.
  5. Mike Sixel
    Then you need to be willing to pay more than $100 MM in FA, or just hope your prospects work out.....or get unbelievably lucky in signing someone that does work out for less....what's the track record on the last two?
  6. Mike Sixel
    And trading Vargas, we are sure, is a bad idea? Agreed, it does. So does signing a FA, so does keeping a prospect.....
  7. Mike Sixel
    Every team pays for decline phase, or doesn't every have a player over 32 or so on their roster. It is the market all MLB plays in. Or, they'll just eat the money, or they revenue will keep climbing, or they'll trade them off, or, the decline won't be awful. Fans tend to over estimate how "crippling" contracts are (and I am not alone in that opinion, the fangaphs guys post that all the time).
  8. Mike Sixel
    I do agree, they are sitting on money, and I'd rather they just sign a player or two......but I don't agree that precludes trades of prospects.
  9. Mike Sixel
    Well, it's a good thing they didn't deal Hicks the last two years......I just don't agree that prospects work out enough to never deal them....
  10. Mike Sixel
    I find it odd people trust the eyeball test....but not defensive metrics, which are just the adding up of eyeball tests.....but there is a thread for that over in "more baseball"......but since people are saying it here, I'll just wonder why...... He's 39. People get old, and less athletic. I am boggled that some people can't just accept that Hunter could be bad now in the field. Heck, the eyeball test on Fangraphs where they have fans rate players.....that test hates Hunter as much or more than the "stats".
  11. Mike Sixel
    They'll find a way to deal Napoli and Cespedes, and maybe another player. I'd guess the payroll is barely up right now. And, if they have the money, what else should they do with it? I do think they overpaid for both, and I don't love either signing.....but the alternative is to pocket the money. Rather than wait for all their youth to pan out, they are going to sign guys they think are MLB players with the giant piles of money they have at their disposal.
  12. Mike Sixel
    That's not what you said, though, Brock.......if you want to argue they should not deal for pitching because they have 2 guys close, that's a very different argument than they shouldn't be trading prospects for proven MLB players. I'm not holding my breath on them adding a guy even as good as Gibson right now.
  13. Mike Sixel
    Which prospect for which pitcher? If you have "one of the best farm systems EVAR!", that is your surplus to deal from. Would you trade Kepler for a real MLB pitcher (not that I think that gets it done)? let's not forget, most prospects don't have good, long term, MLB careers. You are trading a possible MLB player for an actual MLB player.
  14. Mike Sixel
    And, Cameron's article on this...... http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/mariners-extend-kyle-seager/
  15. Mike Sixel
    True, I did mean the baseball world, which is not like much of our worlds.....
  16. Mike Sixel
    FA contracts are around $7MM per WAR......that's the reality of the world today. Money is going up and up every year.
  17. Mike Sixel
    It simply isn't "overpaying" if that is what the market is. If that's the price to play, that's the price to play. You can choose to sit out the market, and be a bad team until your farm delivers talent.....that's a choice. Not a choice I'd make, but others here (and I'd argue TR) are willing to make that choice.
  18. Mike Sixel
    They need a SS........Escobar, and the Dodgers eat 1/3 to 1/2 the salary. How's that? Assuming they want him gone, if they don't want him gone, he's not going for any reasonable price. I'd keep him, and move him to LF, and put Pederson in CF.
  19. Mike Sixel
    Doesn't really matter anymore, that's the past. Let's see who the new coach is, and what they team does.....then judge the process. In this case, past is probably not prologue, since there is a new coach.
  20. Mike Sixel
    Ah, I rea the earlier comments wrong then. Thanks for the update.
  21. Mike Sixel
    How many games a year did they play in the Mason era? 11 or 12?
  22. Mike Sixel
    Interesting hire, if true. Completely not their normal mo. I have no idea if he can coach or not. I do find out odd they have no on that has run a staff before. I would have expected them to hire a bullpen coach that had that to fill in the gaps. Maybe Glynn it's going to help with that.
  23. Mike Sixel
    We will disagree, I guess. Mason's teams beat the bad teams, couldn't beat the great teams. We never expected them to, and we don't expect this team to. Until we get to a point where we expect them to compete with and occasionally beat the great teams, they are about even, imo. And yes, those collapses by those teams were awful.
  24. Mike Sixel
    I like signing of younger players, to reasonable contracts. If he is a starter, great. If he is a reliever, good. If he is bad and they send him to the minors or back to Korea, fine, at least they tried. As long as it isn't the only signing of a player not over 31 or so, fine with me.
  25. Mike Sixel
    What m the downside? They give him a MLB spot They don't sign a younger guy for the minors, because he is there They spend any of their limited budget on him, and not a younger player, or a better player He takes a AAA spot from a guy, and pushes him to AA It signals to fans they are stuck in some odd place, not rebuilding, not going for it It continues a trend of awful decisions.from last year. There are dozens of possible bad outcomes here.
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