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  1. Mike Sixel
    They could be good in 2014, if they wanted to try ..... not sure why people are already writing next year off.
  2. Mike Sixel
    Greatest. Thread Evar.
  3. Mike Sixel
    did you read teh rest of what I wrote in reply? I'm done, this is getting the board no place......it was a throw away comment,.....and by the way, "would you trade 4 years of goodness for WS championships" does not mention anything about trading players.......that was written to include FA, as I said in the previous post.
  4. Mike Sixel
    "Not all prospect trades are for rentals. And, even if they were, would you trade 4 years of decent/goodness, followed by this mess, for 1 or 2 WS championships? It's not like keeping all those great draft picks in the mid-2000s has led to a great team right now....." I'm not sure how you read that to mean "trades guarantee winning WS"......maybe I typed it poorly......heck, I didn't even mention a trade there exactly, it is the fact I did not mention FA in the rest of the reply that seems to be throwing this whole thing off.... But man, it was a throw away comment on a message board, not some tablet written in stone that all eternity should read and follow.....not sure why you are obsessing over that one comment
  5. Mike Sixel
    I doubt I'd ever bring it up, but for the fact they brought Ryan back. Hopefully he changed his approach in his time off, but this off-season indicates he has not.
  6. Mike Sixel
    you are right, I did say "what if they had traded Benson when he was a good prospect"....and I stand by that, sometimes it is a good idea to trade prospects for proven players. Sometimes it is not. Maybe even most times it is not. But that's a nit for me.....my point remains consistent, if you refuse to use FA or trades, you better be the best drafting team in baseball, ever. And they weren't. As does my other point, when you are one of the best teams in baseball for years in a row, but you refuse to add players, then you are deserving of some criticism. Others clearly disagree, and since this is just an opinion and not fact, neither side is probably wrong.....
  7. Mike Sixel
    The Cardinals seem to be still finding guys in their drafts the last few years.....but yes, it will be harder. BUT, if your strategy is to only build through the draft, you have to be BETTER than everyone else, not just as good as everyone else. That's the issue with this team, they were not good enough at acquiring talent when it was harder. It's not hard (you'd think), to draft 2nd or 4th overall.....any of us could have picked a guy that would be in the top 50.....it's picking 20th and later that a good FO earns its pay.....
  8. Mike Sixel
    To be fair, the team is bad because there are no good, young players on this roster....when would those players have been acquired?
  9. Mike Sixel
    Great, then let's see Ryan sign FAs......I don't think I made any claims in this thread, other than McPhail went for it, and Ryan did not ...... I don't care, as long as they do try acquire legit MLB players, not only cheap, not good players.
  10. Mike Sixel
    Jack Morris, Don Baylor.....
  11. Mike Sixel
    I never claimed that, I claimed, and always have, that you need to use all the channels, not just one or two of the channels, to acquire talent. Like, Cliff Lee, or Alex Rodriguez, or Melky Cabrera, or AJ Przzaldknfoneski, or Matt Holiday, or Kyle Lohse or Manny Ramirez....WS winners are peppered with guys those teams did not draft. Look at TX, with Darvish and Nathan and AJ..... I don't usually make extreme arguments, I do make one.....you are less likely to win if you ignore FA and trades.
  12. Mike Sixel
    Are you guys arguing that the Twins of the 2000s would not have benefited from getting a real DH in exchange either for money or a prospect? The Yankees of 2009, they had guys they traded for. Philly in 2008 2012 Giants had some guys they traded for.... The Red Sox had guys they traded for As a matter of fact, I find it hard to find a team that did not use FA and trades to get WS championships......
  13. Mike Sixel
    I don't know, what has Gardy done well this year? They are winning about what people thought they'd win, if I was the manager, you, or Gardy...... Are they running the bases well? Do they hit the right cutoff man? Are the starter left in/pulled at the right times? I don't know the answer, but I'm not sure what he's done especially well or poorly at this point. My biggest beef is his not playing Parmalee more often. They need more data on him, imo.
  14. Mike Sixel
    Not all prospect trades are for rentals. And, even if they were, would you trade 4 years of decent/goodness, followed by this mess, for 1 or 2 WS championships? It's not like keeping all those great draft picks in the mid-2000s has led to a great team right now..... Not all prospects turn out.....what if they had dealt, say, Joe Benson when he was a good prospect? How is TX doing, signing all those FAs and making all those trades? And, before we write off the Jays as "proof" that going for it is a bad idea, we may want to wait until the fall......
  15. Mike Sixel
    I have no idea, parker, what this org's plan is. It is clearly not "rebuild and play the young guys", it is clearly not "acquire good MLB players and compete", it is not "trade the older players while they have value (see Willingham)"....so I have no idea what might or might not come of this. but, given their lack of what appears to be any consistent strategy, I hope something good does come from this.
  16. Mike Sixel
    Great news.
  17. Mike Sixel
    What is your theory? Just curious.
  18. Mike Sixel
    Who here suggested trading prospects, now? I think the OP asked if Ryan would trade prospects when the MLB team is good, and needs to fill holes. I think he asked if they would sign free agents to fill holes when they are good, not now. Based on his history, the answer is no, he will not.
  19. Mike Sixel
    I wonder what it would be like if Ryan had done what McPhail did. Neither your fantasy or mine will come true though.
  20. Mike Sixel
    Wimmers will be hanging around, being all Gibson-like next year also.....
  21. Mike Sixel
    Why would you want Morneau around in 3 years, when he's even older? I don't get it. It is time to move on.
  22. Mike Sixel
    This is the delta between McPhail and Ryan.....Andy did go for it when the team was close.
  23. Mike Sixel
    Great line Howie.....nah, it is just entertainment, not freedom......
  24. Mike Sixel
    so we won't hear about how he needs more time to adjust to the majors next year, Seth? You really think getting MLB experience this year has no bearing on how he does next year? That's what that long quote said. I also can't believe how many people are still willing to wait 2 or 3 more years for this team to be competitive.
  25. Mike Sixel
    Ryan has said over and over he is allowed to spend whatever he wants. I can only take him at his word, or assume he's lying. I choose to take him at his word, rather than believe he is a liar. Plus, come on. They are barely over dome days in salary, and they get $25MM more in free revenue next year. There is no hand tying here.....this is a choice. A false choice, imo.....that you have to only sign a FA when it gets you a championship, or that you can only either build through the draft of sign FAs.....but I've beat those comments to the level they resemble Ohco Cinco's future career in law....
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