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  1. Mike Sixel
    Those are two very, very different things. One is an action that is more dangerous that sliding foot first, and there is ample evidence head first is slower. The other is about getting the best players up in the first place. I'd expect Trout to change his behavior quickly, and we move on. But I wouldn't keep Trout in AAA because some bad player on the MLB roster might get hurt, which is the argument being made here.
  2. Mike Sixel
    Yes. Until he stopped sliding head first (after I told him not to). I want him on the field and healthy.....this isn't about false hustle or other silly stuff, this is about keeping your best player on the field.
  3. Mike Sixel
    Geebers....he smoked a joint and lost a half year or year of baseball. What a screwed up planet......it is OK to throw a baseball at a guy "to teach him a lesson", and potentially injure him, but not OK to smoke a joint. Wow. What a world. Hopefully they move him to LF, and get him here fast. Between Dozier and Polanco, they look set at 2B (and not so set in the OF, as Hicks continues his slide).
  4. Mike Sixel
    No one is arguing depth is bad......I am arguing that having great players is more important than having depth. You can't live your life in fear of injury....and keep your best player in AAA just because some bad player might get hurt in the future. Do you then not bring him up, because he might get hurt, and there is no depth behind him?
  5. Mike Sixel
    Excellent analyis markos.
  6. Mike Sixel
    no, at this point it is more important to have your best players up, giving you a better chance to win games. Doesn't matter how many options you have, if you are 15 games under .500. I don't understand how that is hard to understand. Can you help me understand why it is better to have worse players playing (increasing your odds of losing), but to have more of them?
  7. Mike Sixel
    Not holding my breath it matters, given the weather. I like that Johnson is getting a shot.
  8. Mike Sixel
    Take the BPA, don't try to save money and MAYBE use that later in the draft to MAYBE sign a guy you MAYBE otherwise might not be able to (some 30+ picks later).
  9. Mike Sixel
    Thanks for the info, and the reminder. Interesting.
  10. Mike Sixel
    No idea why this is a big deal.
  11. Mike Sixel
    What does service time have to do with this? I must be missing some knowledge.
  12. Mike Sixel
    My memory is that they waited too long on Gibson, but that the experience helped him be ready this year. That it is not true that a guy has to be ready to stay up forever to come up. And, Meyer is better than Gibson, considerably, imo.
  13. Mike Sixel
    Good point, why not call up one of the AAA starters, and see if he's legit? I mean, what if Johnson came up, and was good? His trade value, or value to the Twins, would sky rocket. In the meantime, KC sits around makes money. Win-win, imo. KC has NO value to this team in the future. He is unlikely to have value this year. Can someone explain how calling up another player is bad? If he isn't ready, he goes back down. If he is ready, great! There are 4 guys in AAA that you could give a shot to, choose one, and see what happens.
  14. Mike Sixel
    Correia was also about going under slot, and getting another top guy later, though. It was sort of a 1.5 for 1 trade, if you know what I mean. And, Correia has looked worthy of a top pick (if not the top pick). I've also read that there may be an injury issue with Appel.....which would suck. I like to see the best players play.
  15. Mike Sixel
    I'm ok with a hitter.....they do play 150 times a year, and it's not like the minors are stocked with sure fire hitters. I'd also be ok with a pitcher.....so ya, that was a useful post.
  16. Mike Sixel
    Not snowing in Edina right now.....
  17. Mike Sixel
    Meyer is 24....they own his rights until he is 30. Worrying about something more than 6 years from now? They have no idea what the world will be like then. That holds no water for me at all. The 35 year old thing is about using your minor league system, and the players it develops. There are plenty of RP in the minors that could pitch here. People want to to hold Meyer down for the future, but don't want RP to come up and be part of the future? "rush" is a loaded word, that states that bringing him up is bad. That's a tautology...frankly.
  18. Mike Sixel
    Why would they care if a 35 year old is on the roster? They have plenty of RP......if they bring up Guerrier, I might lose it. Really, they talk so much about bringing guys up from their stystem, they don't go all in on winning this year, and they are bringing up a 35 year old RP? Mind. Boggling.
  19. Mike Sixel
    perfectly reasonable stance.....I just don't have the same tolerance for this FO and their willingness to be bad for longer than others do.
  20. Mike Sixel
    Basically, Gibson benefited from coming up last year, even though he might not have been ready. Now, he's more ready this year. I'd argue that getting a taste (and either succeeding and staying up, or learning what you need to change) is a better strategy than waiting for some level of perfection. Either way, I want Pelfrey out of the rotation sooner rather than later.
  21. Mike Sixel
    So 4 good starts is a trend, but 2 is not? And, Pelfrey was bad last year. He has been bad MOST of his career. This isn't about 1 bad month, this is about a career of being not all that good. I'd be happy if they put Deduno in for Pelfrey, I'd be happier if they put Meyer in.
  22. Mike Sixel
    Amen, SD. I bet that you'll get the "gotta worry about the long term, like next year or after" response though.
  23. Mike Sixel
    Even their most harsh critic for slow promotions.....me....thinks Buxton should be in FL and the warm weather for now.
  24. Mike Sixel
    And if the changeup doesn't work, and he's still better than KC, Pelfrey, Nolasco, Hughes, and Gibson? Because everyone said he was better than them w/o the changeup, didn't they? We can disagree that they have really changed, imo. Meyer is clearly better than any SP in MN right now, and isn't up. Seth and others keep telling me AAA doesn't matter, that a player can be promoted from AA, that I shouldn't want minor leaguers promoted faster. But now I'm told Meyer doesn't have enough AAA starts to be promoted. But, I admit, you offer some good examples that maybe they have changed. I'd argue that they traded away two veteran CF and were too cheap to sign another CF to replace them, and that's why Hicks was up*. Mauer is an edge case, but I'll give you him and Arcia (though clearly they weren't certain on Arcia, since they signed Kubel and Bartlett to play the OF). Maybe I'm wrong, maybe things have changed. I hope you are right. But right now, Meyer is their best SP, and he's not up. *that, and "no CF would sign here with Buxton on the horizon"....
  25. Mike Sixel
    Going to be tough to get two games in, unless they do a double header (even then, I have my doubts). If I was a player, I'd beg the union to loosen the rules so I could play in nicer weather, and not play this week. But then, I don't have to try to have my body recover after working on the field* *actually, given my broken leg, I do have that issue, but it isn't my job....
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