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  1. Mike Sixel
    Which is why the real best team is the team with the best regular season record. the playoffs don't indicate the best team very well at all, frankly. No playoffs do.
  2. Mike Sixel
    I have never claimed there is no correlation. I have stated that if your strategy is to ignore free agency, that you are required to be better than other teams at drafting and developing, otherwise your strategy will not work. So, if Ryan chooses that strategy, he needs to be held to a higher standard at buuilding the minors, whether that is international signings, drafts, or trades. I also have stated many times here that the scouting director makes the picks, but I have also stated that the GM hires the scouting director, and is ultimately responsible for the quality of the system. If that system consistently fails to produce players, something has to change. I have also said repeatedly that the quality of the system dropped off significantly the last few years under Ryan, and that is why there were insufficient young, good players on the roster the last few years. Btw, I never asked for all stars.....I'd like a MIFer that contributes at a median level for more than 1 year. I'd like a semblance of a pitching staff. And, if it is so much easier to draft well at the top of the draft, why give credit to the scouts or GM at all for doing so? The trick is being good at something others are not good at, that's how you win.
  3. Mike Sixel
    I gotta say, picking those quotes apart is unrealistic. There is nothing there about accepting mediocrity. As for Mauer's leadership ability, we really have no idea at all.....
  4. Mike Sixel
    How is 41 in the entire minors low?
  5. Mike Sixel
    Great news.
  6. Mike Sixel
    i would not fire either right now.
  7. Mike Sixel
    Gardy should 100% have say in how the bench is made up, and Ryan should be responsible for getting him that bench. Of course, the Vikings said they'd use Allen in a rotation more to keep him fresh this last season......so like John, I'm in a wait and see mode.
  8. Mike Sixel
    Yes....the SS is more likely to succeed, because he has shown it at a higher level. Also, MIF are much harder to find.
  9. Mike Sixel
    No, the perfect time would have been when Strasburg and Harper were available.....I think there is no good time to have 2 or mire years with 90 loss seasons. That first part was tongue in cheek.....
  10. Mike Sixel
    Even number four starters would be an improvement in what has come up since Garza. Guys that had more than 1 or 2 good years, not great years, good years.
  11. Mike Sixel
    Ryan deserves credit for the trades....but how much credit does he really deserve for buxton? Had he taken Zimmer or Gausmann, the system would rank the same. That part of the system improvement is on the team sucking at the MLB level. If you will not sign free agents, you need to be better than the other teams at drafting and developing players. You can find good MLB players in the 20s.....if you cannot, then you are not better than the other teams, you are the same or worse. So, if Ryan's strategy is to only build through the draft and trades, his choice, then they need to be better than they have been. Or, you can accept that team's have to be this bad, and live with it.....but if that is the strategy, why are Willingham and Morneau still on the roster? I do not buy the argument that teams cannot draft good players and develop them later in round 1. Not great, but good players.
  12. Mike Sixel
    As for the payroll, the owner and GM have said repeatedly that Ryan can spend what he wants to spend. I can only take them at their word on that.
  13. Mike Sixel
    To be clear, i don't think replacing Gardy is the one, sole, answer to the problems of this team. To be clear, I think Ryan has some great strengths. I would never argue they were not key contributors and largetly the architects of the sucess of the first decade of this century. I am arguing that every organization eventualyl replaces even its great leaders, and the best organizations don't wait too long to do so. I think the time is right on Gardy because I think this team will be largely rebuilt from the ground up over the next few years. That is a good time to bring in a new leader, to grow with the new team.
  14. Mike Sixel
    Agreed 100%. These situations were created by Ryan's refusal to either sign or trade them, and their belief that he would always play for the future that never came. Their words about why they wanted to leave....
  15. Mike Sixel
    What was my strawman? Because if I made one, sorry. Ryan has gutted the payroll, yes, no? The young talent on the roster takes 4-6 years to make the majors, so that is on Ryan, not Smith. The team would likely be better if they spent $20MM more on pitching. Correia was signed due to scouting, not numbers.
  16. Mike Sixel
    If managers have so little impact, Seth, why do you care who the manager is? Why are they paid as much money as they are?
  17. Mike Sixel
    I don't love Smith, he was bad at his job imo, my point is, the lack of young players on the roster the last three years is on Ryan, because it takes 4-6 years to get to the majors. Blaming the lack of AAA talent and young MLB talent the last few years on Smith is bogus. That is all on Ryan's tenure....not on Smith's tenure. Yet people keep typing "they minors fell off under Smith" and such stuff. Saying AA and AAA were bad under Smith is an indictment of Ryan, not Smith.
  18. Mike Sixel
    For several years Seth wrote the team no longer does the little things well. Now that people are suggesting Gardenhire accountable for that, it is somehow not the coaches responsibility? Who on the roster the last few years has really grown as a player under this staff? When have they over achieved lately? Gardy clearly is a big part of the success. But if he gets credit when they do well, he needs to get blame when they do not.
  19. Mike Sixel
    Seth, my brother, the farm system dropped off because of Ryan.....smith acquired some talent as GM. He made two awful trades, but the lack of young players on this team the last few years is all on Ryan. I am grateful that Smith was GM when sano was available, and not Ryan. Ryan has gutted the payroll, such that adjusted for baseball inflation, it is no higher now than the dome days. He clearly will not sign players, even after promises to ticket holders and tax payers. He willfully ignores numbers, see Correia, for scouting. How many 90 loss seasons and lining the owners pockets should the taxpayers and fans put up with? I love the strawman of 200 million in another post. If Ryan had spent to 100 million this year, the team would likely be much, much better. How many years of not using money on payroll, and being awful, should be tolerated before asking for new leadership?
  20. Mike Sixel
    Are they short of pitchers in AAA? These signings just look desperate to me.
  21. Mike Sixel
    Nice. The minors are improved.
  22. Mike Sixel
    Thank you snepp....that's what I tried to type....
  23. Mike Sixel
    A team should play its best players...an increase in backup catcher is small, but that does not mean you should accept bad play just because the impact is small. I mean, what I'd he never reached base, would you sign a guy that hits like he does now, just for some increment? I read here a lot they should not make this change or that change because the increase in outcomes is so small....by that logic you would only endorse adding superstars....but that us not how the world works. Every small improvement helps. Add enough small improvements up, and you have a big improvement.
  24. Mike Sixel
    We are off topic. My original post was that the beat writers in this town report what the twins say as truth, regardless of its truth, so why should I read them. YMMV....read them if you wan. I really have no interest in debating that topic.
  25. Mike Sixel
    Bummer....
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