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  1. Mike Sixel
    Great interview on Fangraphs.....
  2. Mike Sixel
    jay, they've already spent the $3MM.....would you rather have Morneau leave, and get nothing, or get a lottery ticket minor leaguer? Is it worth $3MM to keep Morneau, and not have a possible Twins' prospect play the rest of the year? Sunk cost.
  3. Mike Sixel
    That's now what he said at all, he said he talked to Goins, but scouts I trust said he's better than his numbers. There are not stats guys, there is 1, and an intern.
  4. Mike Sixel
    As a hitter, Mauer would be the 4th best offensive 1B in all of baseball......I'd take that right now. If someone came to the Twins, and said, here, take the 4th best hitting 1B in all of baseball, the Twins would say yes. Does he lose some value in a position change? Probably, but I don't think it is as big a drop as people are arguing. Unless, of course, people really think it is LIKELY Mauer will stay healthy and productive as a catcher, few (some) have. 1. I think he'd hit better not catching 2. Even if he hits the same, he's still one of the best 1B on the planet 3. The drop off from Mauer to the next catcher in MN is probably a big deal, I agree with this. 4. Mauer is useless if hurt, or needing a lot of rest. He is signed for quite some time. I'd prefer 1B, the position where he is less likely to get hurt. For me, I'd have Mauer catch 60 or so games, at most at this point.
  5. Mike Sixel
    Terry Ryan on why they signed Correia "he's better than his numbers, scouts I trust told me that".....that's the one piece of evidence I can site with any certainty on this topic. The distaste many have for using math and sciene to understand probabilities and to improve performance is amazing. Especially for a group of people that spend so much time on internet connected computers, probably drive a care with advanced computing (who needs a computer ot help an engine, it's just internal combustion, right?), probably fly in planes.....MATH AND SCIENCE MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE. I don't get the aversion to making yourself/your team, smarter.
  6. Mike Sixel
    Gardy seems great off the field (other than the rip the young, or college educated, guys part), but on the field he drives me bonkers. He's stuck in the pre-data world. And, to the point above, he doesn't seem to have any strategy for next year in terms of how he plays guys.
  7. Mike Sixel
    I had no issue letting Dickey and Lohse go.....if they were afraid of the knuckleball, then they had to let him go. but I'm still waiting for evidence that starting pitchers get better with more coaching from this staff. Heck, given their sloppy baserunning and fielding, I'm waiting for evidence anyone is benefiting from any of the MLB coaching right now.
  8. Mike Sixel
    Cut Doumit.....he is not good. He should be up now, getting a taste while mauer is out.
  9. Mike Sixel
    Cool article. Thx
  10. Mike Sixel
    So basically, no one can tell me who gets better with Anderson, and when people give examples of people that get better when they leave, we should dismiss those.......what data should we use (other than "only data that agrees with me")?
  11. Mike Sixel
    The Twins don't know for sure either.....no one knows the future with certainty. What is the argument you two are making, that we shouldn't argue if he's ready or not because we don't know? Or something else?
  12. Mike Sixel
    could not disagree more, elite players are elite because they are athletes, and because they work hard, not because they "don't see the need to work hard". And, lack of articles about someone does not imply that it isn't happening. More importantly, we've never read that Hicks is not a hard worker. This team is HYPING Buxton, so you are reading every positive thing you can about him. They have such little else to sell to us right now.....
  13. Mike Sixel
    Very unfair to question Hicks' work ethic, imo.
  14. Mike Sixel
    As I've suggested, sign Ellsbury, put random players in RF like they have now, and put Willingham in left until Hicks/Buxton is ready. This is not a 1 year plan..... By 2015 at the latest, Buxtion is in CF, Ellsbury is in LF, and someone (hicks) is in RF, with Arcia at 1B. You have now solved for the OF and 1b, with 1 FA signing (maybe not 2014, but 2014 is an abyss of losses anyway). Gotta think beyond 1 year.
  15. Mike Sixel
    There are a lot of said stats.....it's just that over time, they even out to the "same" number as when guys aren't on base (for the HUGE majority of players).
  16. Mike Sixel
    Coachability is a trait, no doubt.....does every starting pitcher since Garza/Baker lack it?
  17. Mike Sixel
    Aren't there good major leaguers with stuff to work on? I struggle with the belief that a player has to be perfectly polished at a level before moving on......that said, I'm confident Sano and Rosario will be up in MN no later than 2015, probably in the 2nd half of 2014.
  18. Mike Sixel
    I also would not AFL him.....give him some time off....send him to AA next year....keep him going.
  19. Mike Sixel
    ARCIA is the best option....his OF defense is bad, have him and Mauer play some combo of 1B, with random young guy also playing RF/1B/DH. We KNOW Morneau is one of the worst 1B in baseball for the last two years.....why would they re-sign him? It is mindboggling to me.
  20. Mike Sixel
    It is the coach's jobs to make players better.....clearly this staff is awful, and that part is not the coaches' fault. But, I find it hard to name players that come up and get better.....if a coach does not make players better, no matter how bad they are when they come up, what is his role exactly?
  21. Mike Sixel
    That's what I'm saying, I'm agreeing wth BW from months ago when he said it was easier to get elite players earlier in the draft.....it is easier. Doesn't excuse not succeeding later, but it is easier.
  22. Mike Sixel
    Don't forget 10 and 5.....if they sign him, it will be virtually impossible to trade him.
  23. Mike Sixel
    I can only give examples that are real, I can't just make up names. So, I named some names. Go ahead, name the MLB pitcher that got better the longer he worked with Anderson.
  24. Mike Sixel
    Did Hendriks get better? Gibson? Albers? Deduno? Worley? Pelfrey? Correia? Which pitchers got better the more they worked with Anderson in the last 5 years?
  25. Mike Sixel
    Garza was drafted in 2005, it is too early to judge picks since then?
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