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  1. Mike Sixel
    matthew, that is my fear....that signing even 1 good FA (of which I am not sure there is one this year) will be viewed as blocking these valuable guys in the minors we might lose.....which baffles the mind. Do other teams care this much about losing replacement level players, when they are flush with them?
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    no right or wrong.....this isn't either morals or ethics...
  3. Mike Sixel
    My bad, I didn't read the context part, just what he wrote....
  4. Mike Sixel
    Signing 1 FA is not about making the team a contendor, necessarily.....it would be nice to sign guys that were not 40% of the worst staff in baseball, wouldn't it? Why does 1 signing have to about getting themover the hump, why can't it be about being better? My name: Anibal Sanchez....that's the guy they should have signed last year. Replace the back of this rotation with him, and you get 6-8 more wins. That puts them at around 80-82 wins right there. Add a decent pitcher this year, add Sano, Ellsbury, boom, you are over 85 wins and in the hunt. Not. That. Hard. If you will spend money.
  5. Mike Sixel
    so his entire career is less important than the last month or so? 4 years with an ERA over 4.7 2 years under 3.66 I'm not going to mine every stat here.....
  6. Mike Sixel
    This
  7. Mike Sixel
    Here is how I do it.....I root for them to lose, in general, but during a specific game, I find myself rooting for them to win if they have a chance. It hurts my poor little, old, brain, frankly....
  8. Mike Sixel
    You need to put those numbers in context.....Morris was one of the 5 highest paid players in baseball when he signed that deal. And the point remains the same, writing off a season before it starts makes no sense, try to get better.
  9. Mike Sixel
    About right....on average, they have a GREAT farm system, and one of the three worst MLB teams....so 15 sounds about right. I don't agree, Dave, that they are all that young.....cheap, yes, but not young. Doumit, Mauer, new CF guy whose name I can't spell, most of hte relief pitchers....
  10. Mike Sixel
    I'm about 99% sure this is my stance also.
  11. Mike Sixel
    In 91 the Twins were coming off a terrible year, and signed two high priced FAs and won the world series......you should always be trying to make your team better. Gibson is over 25, he should not be getting a "taste" next year. Pelfrey, before the injury, was not a very good pitcher, as pointed out above. You can add a good player next year, w/o blocking a legit prospect.
  12. Mike Sixel
    Me personally? No, I am not totally bought into Dozier yet. But as everyone has pointed out, Dozier can at least field his position, and Dozier was better in the minors. One month means nothing, other than people swing around a control chart, and that Plouffe is at his high point right now.
  13. Mike Sixel
    This whole thread just shows that people are in camps that will not change, but at least it was more civil than some here.....
  14. Mike Sixel
    Great 4th post!
  15. Mike Sixel
    Right, if you are going crappy, go with the cheap AAA pitchers, don't sign bad veterans that have proven they are bad. I'd rather Swarzak get another shot than watch KC, Pelfry, Marquis v2.
  16. Mike Sixel
    Why? You really didn't add to the discussion at all....but why is there wrong way to be a fan?
  17. Mike Sixel
    He is a great hitter even as a 1B......we've posted those numbers in this thread a lot....
  18. Mike Sixel
    91 Twins signed an Ace pitcher to one of the largest contracts in the majors (while in the horrible dome revenue situation) even though they were one of the worst teams in the majors the year before. Not sure why you'd ever sign a FA unless you were only 1 player away, but they did it anyway.
  19. Mike Sixel
    Anyone can do well in small samples, what are his SEASON numbers? He was never great in teh minors, and overall, he's not been great in the majors. If he doesn't try hard all the time ("feeling some urgency"), I don't want him here. Sano is your 3B of the future. I would not cut Plouffe, since the are awful in so many places, but I don't think he's the future.
  20. Mike Sixel
    Why is poison gas evil, but bombs and guns are not? War is war, either you are playing to win, or not. Now, radiation lasts for hundreds of years.....that's different.
  21. Mike Sixel
    Every decision is hard, and has a lot of variables.....I'm not sure that is a good arguement for not making a decision one way or the other. I am all over the 25-30% more at bats argument, frankly.
  22. Mike Sixel
    Fangraphs predicts 71-91 right now....
  23. Mike Sixel
    I think it is actually possible, frankly. But, it hinges on adding real MLB players, not just on using their prospects. 1. Sano comes up and adds 2-4 wins over Plouffe, easy I think. 2. Arcia is up all year, and is Kubel like as a hitter, 2-3 wins over what they got this year. 3. Gibson is not as bad as this year, adding 1-2 wins (another easy 1 I think) 4. Sign one legit (or trade for one) SP, replacing Albers/Pelfrey/Diamond/....from this year, adding 2-4 wins. 5. Buxton is up in 2015, and is 3-6 wins better than Hicks was this year. 6. Meyer/May is/are up, and are 1-3 wins better than each guy they replace. That's not that unrealistic, frankly. You can really jumpstart that by signing Ellsbury (worth 3-5 wins more than Hicks gave this year), putting Arcia at DH (1-4 wins better than Doumit), and waiting on Buxton and Hicks or someone else to play Cf/RF in 14/15. Had they signed Greinke or Sanchez this last offseaon, they would already be 3-6 wins ahead, and would have less to add (which is why you don't wait for FAs forever). realistic? not sure. Possible? Absolutely.
  24. Mike Sixel
    I'd rather the Twins hitters (Arcia, Pinto) they call up hit well, and the SPs that are NOT part of hte future to be awful, and the Twins lose the rest of the way, than have them win a lot the rest of the way. Best of both worlds, imo.
  25. Mike Sixel
    Mornaeu was injured sliding into 2nd, not playing 1B.
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