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  1. Mike Sixel
    Sure John. They can all sit in the minors for months. You really think they'll cut/trade 4-5 veterans in the middle of the year, and bring up youth? Does any team turn over that much of their roster in a month? You can't look at this in a vaccuum. Do you really want everyone really coming up next year (a few months this year makes this year not really this year), or do you want some guys up this year, and some next year, and some the year after that? It also isn't crazy that they could come up here and develop, and that they wouldn't benefit from being really tested, and getting experience playing in big stadiums.
  2. Mike Sixel
    that's totally reasonable, Jim. I don't share your optimism that they will bench the vets. They didn't last year for Gibson, until too late imo, even though he was clearly better than all but 2 of the awful players they trotted out (maybe 3). Half a year or more would be good. Less than that, like useless September callups when teams are filled with AAAA fodder, that does not interest me much. Three awful years is really testing my patience. Good luck selling tickets to see awful veterans the first half of the year......losing a year of Sano is a huge blow. They really needed him to get his feet wet this year.
  3. Mike Sixel
    Spot on Deduno, spot on.
  4. Mike Sixel
    so, 90+ losses three years in a row, and only 1 young player is added to the roster, and several that came up last year aren't on the roster? If Hicks and Arcia go down, and Gibson isn't up, that leaves Escobar as the only player to come up from the minors in the last two years. Pretty sad. They need to COMMIT to the rebuild. I really cannot understand how Kubel could be on this roster, and not Arcia. As the Gibson and Collabelo comments John reported show, these guys need to keep getting their feet wet.
  5. Mike Sixel
    so basically, players need to come up to the majors before they are needed, so they can get their feet wet, is that how I should read Gibson's comments? they should maybe come up before they are ready, just to get the human part out of the way? Or maybe I'm just reading it with my lens, my context on the world.
  6. Mike Sixel
    I too would prefer Hicks be in LF this year.
  7. Mike Sixel
    Agreed. Pretty mind boggling, actually. Maybe he's not the heir apparent? But if he wants to be, he should already have known this.
  8. Mike Sixel
    great post jmlease1.
  9. Mike Sixel
    Professional athletes tend to be who they are by the time they are 30....Diamond is what he is. a great AAAA pitcher who can get lucky and have a good year.
  10. Mike Sixel
    I stopped reading the STrib. LENIII is great, super honest and fun, on the radio, but his stories on the STrib read like PR releases from the Twins, imo.
  11. Mike Sixel
    I would be sad if a team that has lost over 90 games a year for three years can't find space for young players with upside, and goes bad veteran heavy. Hopefully someday the minor league system will kick out players.
  12. Mike Sixel
    I don't think looking for the pitchers to lead to more wins is a good way to judget their progress......giving up a lot less runs is. Wins will come if the O ever gets better.....but I agree, I'm not holding my breath this year.
  13. Mike Sixel
    But that's not reality for the next three months. Adding more guys over 30 something does nothing to help the players in AA and AAA and MLB get better. It only keeps them down a level, not being challenged. I doubt any SP on this 40 man is being dealt for at least 3 months. In the meantime, adding more bad SP only pushes guys down, farther from the majors than they should be.
  14. Mike Sixel
    I'm all for signing great players. but competition for mediocre players or average players? the only real way to know what any of this pile of players can do is to let them try to do it. this team is NOT competing this year, not with this offense. Signing an old player that won't be here in 2 years, in a position where they have 4-6 guys waiting in line already, that makes zero sense. Signing a great pitcher, that makes sense. Signing more spaghetti to throw against the wall? The next strand will just pile on top of the others, stopping you from seeing if they are good or not. (wow, bad mixing). they have 10 or so "starters". What they NEED to know at the end of this year is if any of them should be on the roster past 2015 or not.
  15. Mike Sixel
    They don't need more old players blocking possible future players at AAA and the MLB level. It is hard to understand how this is even up for debate at this point. Another year of not knowing if these guys are part of the future would be bad. At some point, you need to test these guys.
  16. Mike Sixel
    I totally read this incorrectly the first time....that you were saying my ego was too big (missing the millionaire part).
  17. Mike Sixel
    Wait, Gardy has always backed his players? Like when he constantly threw some under the bus publicly in the past, for things that don't matter? I like Gardy as a human, and I think he does something right in the clubhouse, otherwise they might not have won as much as they did. But to say he "always backed his players" is an exaggeration, imo. We all remember quotes about certain players being ripped publicly. Usually college educated or young players.
  18. Mike Sixel
    Correct, LBers and OG are the most undervalued spots in the NFL.... I would guess they'll finally spend some resources on LB this year, either in FA or the draft. Thankfully, we won't see the cover 2 much more.....
  19. Mike Sixel
    I'd much rather they concentrate on defense this year, since the O is likely to be bad again anyway. If Wilken can play better D than other 4th OF types, he should be kept over Kubel or Collabello. You can get lucky and win low scoring games, they have no chance to win many high scoring games this coming year, imo.
  20. Mike Sixel
    If they could get something of value for Willingham, they should do it. They aren't contending this year. Weakening the offense this year should not be a consideration at this point.
  21. Mike Sixel
    Silly unwritten rules, imo. Jog around. Smiling and being happy should not make the other team mad. Not sure why it does, frankly. How, exactly, is it disrespectful to flip your bat? What actual harm is done?
  22. Mike Sixel
    This kind of thing used to bother me. Then I realized being bothered by things that only bother me because I let them is unhealthy...... I do think there are several things at play.... laziness - I know I don't correct teh/the all the time....but does it really matter? lack of proper eduction - your/you're among the most common issues (lose and loose is unreal, but happens so often!) indifference - a variant of laziness, but more about "this is not some formal thing....but a conversation, so it does not matter"
  23. Mike Sixel
    Metaphor
  24. Mike Sixel
    I'll take talented players first.....much more important than fire. I hope they are looking for talented players. We just don't know anything about what the players are like as leaders/personalities on the field hardly at all.
  25. Mike Sixel
    Nice insider writeup from KLAW today. Beede was awesome apparently....and he now thinks he's in the top 3 discussion for sure.
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