Jump to content
If free agency is too rich for your blood, click here for the 35 players most likely to be traded this offseason. ×
Twins Daily
  • Create Account

Mike Sixel

Old-Timey Member
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    48,924

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    340

 Content Type 

Profiles

Minnesota Twins News, Rumors & Analysis

Minnesota Twins Videos

2026 Minnesota Twins Top Prospect Rankings

2022 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks & Signing Bonuses

Minnesota Twins Trade & Free Agent Rumors

Minnesota Twins Fan Guides & Resources

2023 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks & Signing Bonuses

The Minnesota Twins Players Project

2024 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks & Signing Bonuses

2025 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks & Signing Bonuses

2026 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks & Signing Bonuses

Forums

Blogs

Events

Store

Downloads

Gallery

Everything posted by Mike Sixel

  1. Mike Sixel
    Why would they add players next year if "pretty much every position is either occupied by a promising young talent or will be soon enough"? Why sign Pelfrey if you are not trying to contend this year? Doesn't he just block Gibson or Worley or someone else?
  2. Mike Sixel
    Not bad. Looks like it could happen.
  3. Mike Sixel
    I agree, but I'm not holding my breath.
  4. Mike Sixel
    Why did you watch? My new plan in life is to avoid stuff I know will tick me off. As for the players in the game, meh. They all got rich, this is just fluff.
  5. Mike Sixel
    Agreed on some of that. If a guy with no injury history gets hurt, that's not the team's fault. But if May is just bad, and Worley is just bad, then that is on the scouts and the GM, isn't it? If not, why does it matter who the GM and scouts are, if they aren't accountable for their decisions.
  6. Mike Sixel
    I didn't say it was, I said there is no way to say they have a positive return yet, as someone here is saying. And, it is only a good trade if it works.
  7. Mike Sixel
    Ben Revere was not viewed as a guy with no future in the OF though....they traded a starting OFer with a positive WAR (you might want to look at defense too) in the majors, and so far have a AA prospect who did not progress, and an injured MLB pitcher that posted a negative WAR. That's not a good return, yet. To say they have a positve return already is strange to me. The Twins lost year 1 of the trade. There really is no way to debate that. If May doesn't play here, and Worley doesn't....well, they will lose year two of the deal also. Even if Worley does, if Revere is healthy and plays like 2012, I doubt Worley matches him. Doesn't mean I've given up on May, but I don't know how people can even come close to claiming with any certainty the Twins are ahead in this deal.
  8. Mike Sixel
    No return for Revere until he makes the majors....which looks at least a year away, if not more at this point. Stuff does not always translate into outcomes, and so far, I am less convinced than I was at the time of the trade, since he showed little/no progress at AA last year. Not giving up on him, but not as convinced as I was at the time of the deal he's a starter.
  9. Mike Sixel
    Still waiting to see Kill succeed in a meaningful, hard, game against a great opponent. That Syracuse loss was pathetic, imo.
  10. Mike Sixel
    the thing about observation bias and MLB is this..... Did anyone that "saw" how great a player was really watch all 162 games for all the teams? If not, how do you know he was better w/o using measurment?
  11. Mike Sixel
    Lesson: next year's FA class will get smaller and smaller prices will only go up Conculsion: Stop waiting for, in Torii Hunter's words, "a future that will never come", and start winning now
  12. Mike Sixel
    Stupid math and science.....sports is filled with old school, it has always worked this way, thinking. I hope they are more open to change, and finding any advantage you can.
  13. Mike Sixel
    "they should not spend more because we aren't close to winning" "they should not spend money because in 3 years there might be a SS ready" "they should not spend money because the player is not "worth it"" even though he is better than what they have... Neither of those is about who is available, are they? They are about money, and whether or not the money is worth is, or about prospects that don't exist or are years away. Maybe I'm reading peopel wrong, but I don't care if a player is worth the money, if that contract does not keep them from signing another player or block a player that is less than a year away. Not sure why anyone else cares if the contracts are good or not, frankly.
  14. Mike Sixel
    Not one person has "spend money just to spend money". Not one. Those asking for more money to be spent are asking them to spend money, that they have, on good players. I was happy wtih the fact they did not dumpster dive for pitching. I am disappointed they have done nothing to help the OF defense or the hitting. I am also disappointed that they thumped their chest about how much money they spent, and really, the payroll is barely up while they are getting $25MM more in money. Instead of bragging about signing guys, they should really just stop talking about payroll if they aren't asked, imo.
  15. Mike Sixel
    I would love more mistake hitters......that's how bonds did it, when a pitcher made a mistake, he crushed it. Too many Twins can't do that right now.
  16. Mike Sixel
    And this is one of many reasons why you can't build your entire philosophy around waiting for your prospects to work out all at the same time.......because there usually isn't a perfect storm of "every prospect working out" and "the one FA I need is available"....
  17. Mike Sixel
    The numbers exactly state how he actually pitched, not how we remember him pitching. That's the beauty of the numbers.....they tell an unbiased truth. He allowed more runs to score than other good or great pitchers. He did not "pitch to the score", that analysis has been done over and over. He "won" a lot of games (dumbest stat in sports, probably) because his offense scored a ton of runs. The numbers are exactly how you should MEASURE if someone was good at their job.
  18. Mike Sixel
    Not even close to a Hall of Famer.
  19. Mike Sixel
    Why is FA inherently worse than drafting a player? Other than cost, but since they have more than $30MM available right now, why is that even an issue to you?
  20. Mike Sixel
    How is it wasting money to be better, and why do you care if they "waste it" or pocket it?
  21. Mike Sixel
    Willingham as DH is better, with a real OF in the field, given the pitching staff. I don't get how that isn't clearly the plan.....As for money.....the obsession with "bad" vs "good" contracts continues to baffle me.....as long as they have tens of millions sitting around, there is no bad contract other than 1 that incents them to block a good young player (like, you know, Pelfrey....).
  22. Mike Sixel
    "the pitching can't be any worse than it was last year"....said everyone on the planet before last year.....
  23. Mike Sixel
    Still waiting for someone to say which CF is available, and why they'd sign here.....or which corner OF is available, or which catcher is available for only money and a second round pick..... I'd deal for Castro from Houston, but it would cost A LOT more than a 2nd round pick, and cost a lot more money to secure him......but then, he's good. That's what happens when players are good, you need to pay them. As for "don't sign someone because they can't win anyway".....BS, imo. What else are they going to do with the money? Why do you/we care about whether or not contracts are "good" if they don't keep them from spending elsewhere? They are tens of millions below their 50% threshhold.....and Willingham and KC come off the books next year. I don't see how any 2-3 year deal constrains their ability to sign someone next year of the year after.
  24. Mike Sixel
    Which corner OF is available to get this year......which 1B or 3B is going to sign with this team......which DH is available this year?
  25. Mike Sixel
    why is it too many? Raines and Biggio and others are better than other HoF, and "deserve" to be in....why is enshrining those who deserve it bad if it is a lot? Also, I don't get why people care all that much. A lot of "ink" is spilled over who gets a plaque in a musuem not all that many people visit.....
×
×
  • Create New...