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  1. Mike Sixel
    Ridiculous. Utterly ridiculous. One of the worst baseball players ever. My mind is constantly boggled by anyone thinking he should be on a MLB roster. No amount of mythical catcher defense can make up for his offense.
  2. Mike Sixel
    The Qbs job is to help the team score. IF the "offensive coordinator deluxe" just hands the ball to Peterson on 3rd and 2 and 4th and 2....they would have scored 17 points, on the road, in a game where AP fumbled twice, and the WRs dropped 6-8 balls, against a team that gives up less than 17 points a game on average. That game was on the WRs and AP and the OC more than on Ponder. Oh, and the OGs are terrible, there is not room for him to step up and throw often.....
  3. Mike Sixel
    I don't think it is Revere hate, it is more "Revere hasn't proven he's good yet, but so many people are already crowning him that we are shovelling all kinds of realism on him....". Some people are stating that Revere is better than Span....that seems....not to be true just yet. So, many others are basically pointing out his weaknesses to offset those arguments. But ya, I think he's a very good to great defender that has not YET figured out how to get on base enough to offset his lack of power.
  4. Mike Sixel
    Why would they change their approach to him. hitting wise, the pitchers are winning the battle against him.
  5. Mike Sixel
    I am arguing that a process that watches every game is more likely to be accurate than a scout that watches a handful of games. Precise? No, I am not arguing about precision.
  6. Mike Sixel
    Arcia, Hicks, whomever else.....
  7. Mike Sixel
    Not for me. I have my doubts about his ability to walk enough.
  8. Mike Sixel
    Only if those scouts watch hundreds of games, which btw, is what the people wo calculate Uzr do...they watch every play ans score how the defender did. Managers who see 7 games against Valencia have no real idea if he is good or not. so your argument that Valencia scores better on fielding for 2 weeks proves it is a useless stat? I think you missed the whole part about sample size..
  9. Mike Sixel
    It is not a question of if it measures"anything". It is a question of how well it measures things. The formulas do not yet know how to factor in defensive shifts, or the effect of other players.
  10. Mike Sixel
    My wife asked last night why teams always traded stars for prospects.....I pointed out that if she lived in other cities, sometimes you would see stars come here, like on the other side of the Twins trades....that is how the casual fan sees the Twins, always trading good players away.
  11. Mike Sixel
    They don't NEED to free up money, they just did......this trade is about getting a guy with big upside. If Law and Sickels like the deal, I'll take that for now. He'll start in A ball, imo, and move to AA during the year if he's successful at all. AA and AAA in 2014, maybe even MLB. Now that I've read around on him, I think this is the kind of trade I wanted them to make with Span (assuming they could not trade him and another player for Shields or something).
  12. Mike Sixel
    4? Meyers will be up in 3 or less, imo. They also freed up money, that they can now use to sign two legit pitchers, instead of one. Let's see what they do with the money before totally giving up on this year....
  13. Mike Sixel
    My assumption is Gibson is up this year, who do you think will be effective in 2 or 3 years? 4 was a mistake, I typed that on my phone and meant to hit three....but who else besides Gibson do you think is coming up in less than 3 years (this was obviously typed before today's trade)? Who do you feel is in high A or AA or AAA that looks like anything better than a 5th starter? Wimmers? He just had surgery. Hermsen? He cannot strike out AA hitters. No one in AAA, I assume. So, who is in the minors coming up in less than 3 years (before today's trade)?
  14. Mike Sixel
    Hicks is my first choice, but I am not holding my breath. It should be Mauer, other than speed, he is the ideal number 2 hitter.
  15. Mike Sixel
    As I said early in the off-season, they should deal Span for a young guy with a high ceiling. I will miss him, as I like to watch him play. Let's hope the scouts are right....and that they use the money saved to sign two legit pitchers.
  16. Mike Sixel
    KLAW had him number 3 in Washington going into the year, at work so cannot look more for more recent. Today in his chat he said he thought Span was worth a "mid rotation starter".
  17. Mike Sixel
    Hard to say, but a low A guy not a big name prospect seems like a low return for an everyday starting center fielder. I will have to do some research before forming an opinion. This does lower the payroll...maybe they will spend some money on a pitcher now.....I would like to see Hicks up, and not have to watch Parmalee field.
  18. Mike Sixel
    Given their frugality, and that they just added 15million to their payroll, do you all really think they will add Span?
  19. Mike Sixel
    Awesome, and congratulations.
  20. Mike Sixel
    Dave, agreed, but only the Rays have the kind of pitching "excess" the Twins really need of those team, I think. I expect the Phillies to sign a free agent. The Atlanta team has a ton of pitching in their minors, and to lose them, probably, as a trade partner is a disappointment.
  21. Mike Sixel
    If you refuse to trade big time prospects, and your largest free agent signing is 7 million per year, and you have no pitchers in the minors coming up 2-4 years from now, how do you get better if you do not trade veterans?
  22. Mike Sixel
    Three Liriano threads now....
  23. Mike Sixel
    Nope, many of us did not support Duensing as a starter last year. It was a bad decision. It gave away effective innings in games they could win, while not really increasing the likelihood of winning games he started instead of a bad pitcher. Frankly, they should sign 1 very good starter, add him to Diamond, and use relievers for the other 60 percent of the starts, each pitching 2 or 3 innings. Since they are unlikely to acquire 3 legit starters. But they are not innovative enough to do that.
  24. Mike Sixel
    Non-story. As above, are they going to spend money or not. This is the same team that stated publicly that "they were not a farm team and would not be dealing Willingham". Frankly, I think they have some kind of inferiority complex going on.
  25. Mike Sixel
    If Pavano pitched to a league average ERA, I would be shocked. His ERA will be in the 5 range. I would rather Hendricks pitch, all year, and see if he can grow.
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