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  1. Mike Sixel
    And Alex Meyer too.....Swarzak is in a role that works for him and the team. Keep him in that role. Just as DeVries should be kept in a relief role.....
  2. Mike Sixel
    Wimmers is the only guy on that list I'm really interested in..... Good list Seth, thanks for the hard work, as always. Really, really appreciated. The minor league part of this site is my favorite part by far.
  3. Mike Sixel
    "nickel him down"....my grandfather out and and out said "jew him down"....I was disgusted by that. Now I live in St. Louis Park, and my Jewish neighbor says the same thing, but I would never do it. And yes, I have now completely taken this thread off topic....
  4. Mike Sixel
    To be clear, I liked this because you caused me to ignore my work call, and look up the origins of the word, and you taught me something. I had no idea. Now I'm not sure I can keep using the word......
  5. Mike Sixel
    Just further proof Seth and i agree more than we realize......
  6. Mike Sixel
    Bill Smith, no idea what he was doing acquiring these guys* *sorry, couldn't help myself. I feel the guy gets a bad rap (largely deserved) for the state of the MLB club, and I am certain Ryan will get a ton of credit when Smith's best players come up....kind of a gip (jip?), imo.
  7. Mike Sixel
    Or move them to the bullpen, yes. but they'll never find out if Pelfrey is up here instead of them.
  8. Mike Sixel
    Well, if it was me, I'd go with Hendriks....because I see no future in Pelfrey, nor in this year when they bascially punted on adding talent, so ya, I agree with you there. Let's see what Liam has or does not have, signing another mediocre veteran does nothing to help at all.
  9. Mike Sixel
    DeVries? We know what he is...a reliever.
  10. Mike Sixel
    1. He's 30, man, that is old 2. His hair style is stuck in his HS days look, really, it's time to move on now, right? 3. he's married, so now he's all pre-occupied with non-baseball stuff. If Chris Kluwe proved anything, it's that having a life oustide sports is BAD, very BAD. 4. He's kind of boring, so it's hard to be funny about him, actually* *or maybe, just maybe, I'm not that funny today.....nothing is wrong with Joe Mauer the baseball player.
  11. Mike Sixel
    This should be a short lived thread.....that's a lot of money for not much results, and wtheck happened with Granlund? Ok, that's as much NHL as I've talked about all year.....
  12. Mike Sixel
    Why not? In the era of 12-13 pitchers on a staff, with guys that can go up and down from AAA, why can't you have a guy that is good* for 5 innings, but can't go further? *note, I am responding to the "if he can't go more than 5 innings" concept, not if Pelfrey can even be good or not.....
  13. Mike Sixel
    And yet, no one can say where else they would spend that money, if not on Greinke.....by the time you need to PAY Sano, Mauer is gone, or a lot cheaper.
  14. Mike Sixel
    Worley better not give up many fly balls/line drives.....that OF is, um, interesting. Good luck tonight gentlemen.
  15. Mike Sixel
    Trading him for Hardy was not the mistake.......they had other OF prospects, and no SS to speak of.....the issue was that for some reason they did not like Hardy enough. We will never know how that decision was made, or by whom......
  16. Mike Sixel
    I always chuckle when any religion says some sins should be against the law, because they are sins, but other sins, not so much. There has to be more to it than just sin to be agains the law, otherwise liars would be in prison.....heck, just coveting your neighbors wife inside your head without even doing anything about it would put you in jail. Those ones were supposedly written by lightning onto tablets for all to see, yet no one wants to make those against the law.....* *well, no one in the US that has any influence anyway
  17. Mike Sixel
    yup, that's what I've been saying for months now.....it's only going to get worse.
  18. Mike Sixel
    Not many options of position players at all. It amazes me how long a MLB team owns the rights to players.
  19. Mike Sixel
    I stick by my comment. They got "meh" players for a guy they were not going to keep. B-. Sounds accurate to me. A couple of good weeks by Excobar has not changed my opinion at all.
  20. Mike Sixel
    and if they don't spend that money on Greinke, where will they spend it? Next year, Blackburn and Morneau come off the payroll, and they add $25MM in new national tv revenue. The following year Willingham and Correia come off the payroll. At that point, they will have zero position players or pitchers, zero, that will require arbitration awards of more than a couple million for several years, maybe, maybe Diamond and Worley, but it's doubtful both will need more than a few milliion......They have no payroll tied up at all after this year, none. Mauer is it. If not on a front line player, where else will they spend it?
  21. Mike Sixel
    How does the eye test work, if each individual scout sees a player a handful of times? they might not get more than a dozen chances or so for that one scout......and UZR and the other defensive stats ARE eye tests, they are just eye tests where they eyeball every single play, chart it, analyze it, add it all up. Isn't UZR just an eyetest, but with a lot more observations? I've never understood how looking at 10-15 plays tells you more than looking at Every Single Play.
  22. Mike Sixel
    I won't speak for Lev, but I think it is harder to score runs if you only have one guy you even expect to hit 15 HRs.....I doubt anyone is looking for Mantle and Maris, how about Gaetti/Hrbek/Brunansky, plus random guys? That's what I think people believe they need. Three guys with legit power, plus the random guy every year with power. Can you even name teh likely DH or 1B in 2 years? I can't.
  23. Mike Sixel
    I agree with Jay, read that article. It is very good.
  24. Mike Sixel
    Power remains an issue, even when Sano comes up. They'll need Harrison to move to 1B and be legit (or draft Bryant if they don't love a pitcher and move him to 1B and fast track him). They don't really have a DH candidate either.....Unless Buxton or Arcia or Benson show sustained power, this team needs to find more power than they have now.
  25. Mike Sixel
    Also still holding out hope for Mr. Benson. Hoping he comes up if/when Josh is traded.
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