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  1. Mike Sixel
    It's not the bickering, its my personal reaction to the current and future state of the team. It really isn't about other posters at all.....but yes, there are some things the community could work on.....
  2. Mike Sixel
    What does the money matter? How different are the Twins if they sign him for $13MM, or $7MM? And, you can't sign him for that unless he is a FA......why sign here for what you can get elsewhere at this point?* *family, I guess
  3. Mike Sixel
    But if you will not sign FAs, you have to be better than the other teams, a lot better. If your strategy is nearly 100% dependent of drafting well, you need to be better than everyone else. That's part of the issue. counting the starting pitchers there.......2. No wonder they can't pitch at all.
  4. Mike Sixel
    Trust me, John and Mike are not married......
  5. Mike Sixel
    It is all on the scouting director ryan had working for him then......but its not like he traded well, or kept certain players around he could have......so it is partly on Ryan, partly on Smith, partly on a lot of people really, but it is NOT all on Smith, that's clear.
  6. Mike Sixel
    Bill Smith era....um, this MLB team has no good young players (takes 4-6 years to come up) from before Smith was here. Sano and other great players came in under Smith. This is not about Smith.....
  7. Mike Sixel
    68 is terrible, anyway you shake it......especially if the team has almost no young players playing well.....
  8. Mike Sixel
    Need some young guys to be good.....that's what they need.
  9. Mike Sixel
    The one thing I don't like about how they use AAA......they don't shuttle RP up and down enough in an attempt to limit the innings by the bad starters.....other than that, not sure it matters to me.
  10. Mike Sixel
    Which is why I may decrease how much I come here......if coming here is just going to annoy me, I'm going to come less.
  11. Mike Sixel
    I say put your 2B there, that's what 2B are for, or maybe your SS......as for Hicks, I'd give up on LH hitting, but they are one stubborn team....so that isn't happening. Send him down, he's not ready for MLB right now, he's just not.
  12. Mike Sixel
    I love these first hand updates, really, thank you.
  13. Mike Sixel
    Given my rants last week, I love the irony that I am the voice of reason.....actually, I did not like how I felt after last week, so I'm either going to post differently, or avoid certain threads, or maybe the whole site. It's not making me happy to chat here lately.....
  14. Mike Sixel
    stringer, I'm pretty indifferent, if Parmalee can show he can be good.....but he has not shown that at all so far. As for salary, does not really matter. That money won't be used anyway, so who cares (other than the Pohlad's and the "payroll!" people).....if they do want Parm as an option next year, he NeeDS to play now.
  15. Mike Sixel
    I do agree, he's better off moving on. He really, really, seems to need some kind of mental practice like yoga or buddhism or something that helps him remember that not every failure is crippling. I hope he finds it. I don't think they treated him unfairly at all. I do think I'd rather they DFAd Hermsen or someone else, but again, I think worrying about men 30-40, on this roster, is a lot of teeth gnashing over probably not much loss....
  16. Mike Sixel
    1. Drafted Gausman, which everyone last week called idiotic, but I still think is right. Actually, I'd have drafted Appel.....either would be the Twins' best starter now. 2. Promote Gibson. That would give them Appel/Gausman at 1, Gibson and Diamond at 2/3. 3. Sign Grienke, I know, idiotic according to many, but if you have Grienke, Appel, Gibson, Diamond, other, that's a top 10 rotation, imo. 4. Draft the best pitcher in this year's draft....so Shipley, Stanek, or Stewart. All three are 1-3 years away (so they can replace Diamond if three years, or be the number 5 if sooner). that wasn't so hard......people look at moves in isolation, as if just 1 move would not "fix" the issue. But, more than 1 move is availalble. Heck, just drafting Appel/Gausman and taking the best pitcher they can this year, that could be enough if they all work out to be number 2/3 types or better. Now, maybe Greinke won't sign here.....if not, then go for Dempster or Sanchez. Move down the list, not up from the bottom. I think they have plenty of money to sign one of the top three guys. Would they have signed here, I can't answer that. For trades, I'd have explored if Revere or Arcia or Hicks would return more, and deal that one. I would not have dealt both Span and Revere in 1 year, but given that they passed on every other opportunity to add pitching, I understand why they did it. But as you say, they are now looking at 2015 before they have good pitching, IF everything works out. How many GMs get 5 years of being one of the worst teams in their sport?
  17. Mike Sixel
    Well, they have no alternative even close to ready, and they won't sign big money FAs, may as well just make a qualifying offer to him at the end of the year. He's better than Parmalee, or anyone in AA or AAA, I guess. So sad.....he was such a great player, and a great person (it appears from the outside, anyway).
  18. Mike Sixel
    yup, they've both surprised.....I'll just leave the rest of my comments off....
  19. Mike Sixel
    The argument that Arcia and Hicks need to spend time in AAA, by you and others, belies the argument that it is ok to keep guys in AA, they can always be promoted from there, doesn't it? And if the other guys aren't prospects, demote them, and move up the guys that are legit.
  20. Mike Sixel
    I think people are talking across each other...... sometimes, signing FA players works. Usually, signing awful players does not work. The argument has been made that if the Twins take a chance, and sign a HUGE contract, that it will cripple them. People are offering SF as a rebuttal to that argument. They are NOT arguing those signings worked, they are rebutting your point that if any team ever signs a bad contract, it will never be able to compete in the future. I think that rebuttal is pretty good, actually. The Twins have 1 pitcher in teh minors that looks like he'll be ready to pitch next year for sure. So even if Gibson is good, they'll still only have 1-3 decent pitchers next year.....what should Ryan do? Not sign any good FAs? Not trade prospects for good pitchers? Wait for Meyer and May to figure it out, and for Berrios to spend 3 more years in the minors? If it is not trade good prospects for a proven player, and it is not sign good players to big money, what is your strategy for fixing the problem?
  21. Mike Sixel
    One pitcher in the entire system that looks ready for next year.....one. What is Ryan going to do to fix this?
  22. Mike Sixel
    Awful idea, just awful. What happens if they take this guy, and there is no good underslot guy available in round 2? You've passed on much, much higher upside players, and ended up with a HS catcher.....ugh. Just. Don't. Do. It.
  23. Mike Sixel
    1. Blue Moon is not craft beer..... 2. Any Bud-only spot has to fall lower (as in worse) on the scale, at least for me, rice beer and I do not get along..... 3. Thanks, this is awesome. Really, I agree, baseball w/o beer is not right, so this is super helpful.
  24. Mike Sixel
    My post was about trading two starting outfielders, and getting Worley, May, and Meyer in return. Right, that does not look good. I was all for the trade in principle, but states that Ryan needs to be judged on how it turns out. This year, given Worleys performance, and the fact both minor league guys will probably not be up this year, the trade looks bad. I hope next year that reverses. Bit given their track record lately, I am not holding my breath.
  25. Mike Sixel
    Seth, is anything an issue to you?
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