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  1. Mike Sixel
    tobi, would you ever sign or draft a SS? It seems not, not an elite one, because the elite ones go super early.
  2. Mike Sixel
    From what my doctor friends tell me, no one wants to to shoulder surgery for anything for anyone anymore, if it can be helped. Just too hard/not effective enough for the risk. As for TJ......I would never presume to opine on why there is more TJ, or how to avoid it, since teams are probably spending more time and resources and expertise to solve for this than I ever could....
  3. Mike Sixel
    Ok, I need to read this when home....too much humor to digest at work, even if this particular meeting is the worst....
  4. Mike Sixel
    Every team drafts SS and moves them. SS are usually super athletic guys that can move around to other positions, but are better athletes than their peers, so they play SS in college and HS. There is nothing unique about the Twins here at all.
  5. Mike Sixel
    Ok good idea* edit: *that would have been way more fun if caps locks was not turned off
  6. Mike Sixel
    I love how all the guys that have seen Gordon play are saying he'll stay at SS.....I would put faith in that unanimous opinion over fears he might grow.
  7. Mike Sixel
    "no downside".....sure there is. Bad feelings on not getting an extension. Lack of certainty on where he will be after his FA, meaning they need to plan more for the possibility he leaves. Possible insane inflation that skyrockets his cost. lack of predictabiliy of the budget etc. The list is actually quite endless for why you MIGHT want to do this.
  8. Mike Sixel
    Agreed. Sports is too much about the fluff, and not enough about the sports, for my taste. Especially the Olympics. Kind of like "The Voice"....half of that show is the human interest stuff. I don't care about that. I care about the singing. But, as I understand it, millions of USAians do care about that stuff......so I just turn the channel more now. The Sam publicity is ever so slightly different, though, since we are in the middle of a change in public policy and acceptance......I think that story is a bit different than other kinds of fluff. Frankly, I wish more athletes would care about politics and try to help make the world a better place, instead of trying to make millions more by selling shoes to poor kids.
  9. Mike Sixel
    Pinto can play catcher just fine. Plenty of good hitting catchers field no better than him. Sano could move to RF potentially, but we are years from worrying about that. Parmalee? I don't think we need to worry about him clogging the path to the majors. Arcia? No need to move him off of RF for a few years either. That leaves Rosario.....not worried. They'll either find a spot for him, or move him.
  10. Mike Sixel
    Let's hope that his defense doesn't hold back a MLB bat (once it is a MLB bat).
  11. Mike Sixel
    Of course you try to pay as little as you can.....but that's not what the strategy of drafting to under slot is.......whatever, I think we've crushed that topic. Best high upside arm, Gordon, or Jackson (move to OF). That's my preference. We'll see what happens.
  12. Mike Sixel
    Who cares if it is Blackburn like? They have tens of millions sitting around.......and they aren't likely to go spend it.
  13. Mike Sixel
    I might be moving to Portland....so that would make it easy! Otherwise, no chance I'd stay a Twins fan. I remain one because they and I are both here, not out of love for their FO and approach.
  14. Mike Sixel
    They have so much money.....non-issue to pay him $8MM per year or so. Willingham and KC come off the books next year. They won't be signing a FA pitcher, probably. They won't sign an OF, because apparently they are all comfy with their OF, no 3B, and any SS would come cheap. If they think this is real, they may as well pay him. NOT ONE other player on the roster is getting a raise anytime soon.
  15. Mike Sixel
    heck, they need his bat now.....but he won't be promoted to AAA until after the ASB, then he'll be in Rocherster until September. Then maybe, maybe he'll be up.
  16. Mike Sixel
    Fair enough.....but ya, if a coach's job is to coach, then I think you should judge them on if pitchers get better while they work with him. Frankly, I have no idea....but the lack of success is probably on scouts, GMs, minor league coaches, major league coaches, and players.....
  17. Mike Sixel
    Or put him in LF if he can.
  18. Mike Sixel
    I don't really care about RP.......that's not how I would judge a pitching coach. YMMV on that. How is KC this year? does that one good year offset this year (you know, the longer he works with Anderson)? None of those guys were prospects, that got better the more they were up here. Each, mostly, got worse. That might be aging, that might be coaching, it might be a bunch of things all working together. but if your strongest argument is a bunch of veteran reclamation projects.....not sure that is a ringing endorsement, frankly.
  19. Mike Sixel
    To what end do we think going under slot is a good idea, given the compensatory picks and teams ahead of the Twins? I just don't see the signficant advantage.
  20. Mike Sixel
    If a coach isn't, you know, making players better.....what is the coach's job? Outside of Hughes, who has been better when they came here or up from AAA in the last 5 years?
  21. Mike Sixel
    Worely was terrible here. He got what he deserved, a chance with another team. Wonder what other trades/assessments that scout in charge of that one has done......
  22. Mike Sixel
    Perk for Ethier? Ethier is 32, and is owed a TON of money. Fangraphs has him at NEGATIVE 2 fielding WAR, less than 30% of the way through the season. that Ethier?
  23. Mike Sixel
    "recesitate" implies it was once alive. Even his best years in the minors were only ok, and driven by walks somewhat. He can't even make contact LH, why would anyone throw him a ball?
  24. Mike Sixel
    If only someone could have predicted Hicks might be bad, and other options had been sitting there, with only MONEY being an issue....... Right now, I don't think trading for a mediocre, overpaid, guy is the right move. They are not winning it all this year, and giving up assets for Ethier makes no sense, imo. Plus, I can't see how they acquire him, and then spend even 1 penny in FA next year...... IF you could get him for minimal cost, and if the prospect cost was minor, then I'd consider it, maybe. I'd much rather they just show patience with Buxton.....and, the real black hole is LF. Name your LF......in MLB, AAA, AA......
  25. Mike Sixel
    Insider story today, on safest picks in the draft. thoughts on Gordon. Highest floor high-school bat: Nick Gordon, SS, Olympia HS (Orlando) ...... “[Gordon] can really pick it,” an NL Central scout said. “He makes the difficult look routine on a more consistent basis than any shortstop I’ve seen in this year’s class. You add in the fact that he’s got a chance to get on base and steal 20 bases, and it’s difficult see him not being a first-division shortstop for a very long time.”
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