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  1. Mike Sixel
    hard to understand how someone can have those tools, be in professional baseball for 6 years, and still not be able to field better.
  2. Mike Sixel
    I am not mad about this particular signing, I'm disappointed they never seem to sign any elite free agent players (since McPhail left). until this year, they didn't even spend money on good ones. Frankly, their track record in signing FAs stinks the last few years.......so maybe I should just not want them to sign anyone, and hope that every single prospect magically works out on the same timeline...../s
  3. Mike Sixel
    Um, no, that is unfair. Plenty of people admit they were wrong on these boards. My personal stance is that if you are afraid a FA will bust, so you never take the chance,..... that that leads to years of being terrible. It is better to try and fail, than to sit around paralyzed by fear. Others live their life taking little action, and that is fine. It is not how I live, and not how I want the Twins to live.
  4. Mike Sixel
    Have a hard time quoting on my phone for some reason......I should always remember that when I am responding to something......good advice.
  5. Mike Sixel
    That was in a post right before I posted it....that they should not sign a guy because he would not help them win enough games to be in the playoffs next year. How is that a stawman, if someone just typed it?
  6. Mike Sixel
    Or, they could do what the Cards do, and start starters in the pen sometimes (or what the Twins did with Santana). Either way, he should have been up here already.......imo.
  7. Mike Sixel
    Probably true, but as others remind me, they had never signed deals like Nolasco before.....so there is hope.
  8. Mike Sixel
    "they can't win the playoffs next year, so why bother signing players that make them better".....I am tired of that one. Had they bothered to sign good players each of the last four years, they would have won more games, and would be closer to being competitive, then everyone would be saying they should sign that last piece to go with Sano and Buxton. Instead, they went self-fulfilling prophecy, and did not sign elite players (or even good ones before this last off season).
  9. Mike Sixel
    I admit to liking the watcher of bird's posts the last couple of days...... I have no idea if Vargas can field. I am pretty sure Mauer could play LF as well as any LFer they are likely to have on the roster next year (that can actually hit). Unless Hicks can learn to hit, and they play him in LF (which is what I would do if they don't sign a good player).
  10. Mike Sixel
    We have previously heard they do not carry money over year to year........so, yes, there are reasons (if you care about winning, and not just money) to front load contracts. Does anyone think they are banking all this money right now, and will go out and sign 4 super high priced FAs in the future?
  11. Mike Sixel
    Do we know Vargas can't play first? Who would be a better overall player in LF than Mauer for the next two years or so (combination hitting and fielding)?
  12. Mike Sixel
    From a practical perspective, I'd bet the Twins have a self-imposed budget, so front loading could make sense from that perspective.
  13. Mike Sixel
    In an ideal world, you add a player who can add both offense and defense. In the real world, you add the player that adds to most combination of offense and defense, regardless of which side of the equation is better than the other. The team is on pace to lose around 90 games for the fourth straight year. Given that, any talk of "not having many holes to fill" seems a bit odd to me. Go get some players that are good.
  14. Mike Sixel
    Have him catch 60-70 or so games, at least. If they don't think he can catch, they should deal him to someone that does (and regret it).
  15. Mike Sixel
    Or, they could have Arcia and one or two Cubans, right now, it should not be either or.
  16. Mike Sixel
    We know they won't sign any of the big three good pitchers, who does that leave? And, they are not getting rid of Nolasco. Btw, there is room and money to work on both.....
  17. Mike Sixel
    That's how markets work, undervalued at the beginning, then way over valued, then "normal". Ryan missed the undervalued part while signing 5 FA pitching contracts, while still producing an awful starting staff.
  18. Mike Sixel
    Ryan has signed five free agent pitching contracts, traded for May, Worley, Meyer, Milone and Gilmartin, and they are still awful.......oh, and they graduated their top pitching prospect from the last drafts more than two years ago.....and they are still awful. Maybe we are looking at the wrong source of the problem......
  19. Mike Sixel
    Which better player? By that logic, you never sign a FA over 28 or so.......I guess that might be ok for some people. For me, I want a good team.
  20. Mike Sixel
    left field, they need a left foelder.
  21. Mike Sixel
    Sigh, just when I got my hopes up, May dashed them.
  22. Mike Sixel
    Now we are supposed to read and remember your posts? The rules here are getting pretty strict.......
  23. Mike Sixel
    Over the last three years.....I would argue they have made 10 wins worth of mistakes. And that means they are more years away from "buying the last piece"
  24. Mike Sixel
    So next year they will be competitive. I want to make sure I understand the timeline 6 out laid out before responding. And, I am not "all for the now", but I am also not "all for the wait until every prospect graduates to try to win bandwagon" either. I doubt anyone is really on that, but it reads like that at times. The thread asked what I would do as GM for LF. I would sign Melky.
  25. Mike Sixel
    If you have money to spare, flopping does not matter. If it only took 10 million a year to sign Melky, it would be a bargain. We disagree greatly on the requirement for fans to wait 6 or more years for a team to be competitive. I think there is no such requirement to being a good fan. The Hicks trade was years ago, before this last contract for Lee. Not sure what this contract has to do with my point at all.
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