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  1. Mike Sixel
    Law has them taking Buxton also....I like Gausman right now, I think.
  2. Mike Sixel
    Fangraphs has a nice listing of the top prospects for each team, easy to find on their website. I like to read up on players there. If I already typed that, sorry....
  3. Mike Sixel
    I never trust a pitching pefromance by older players against younger players. No idea what to do with Benson, but it makes me sad. I was hoping he would be ready this year.
  4. Mike Sixel
    I keep reading it is cycylical, but Philadelphia has no trouble drafting great players late in the rounds (which they usually trade for vets). 1. Awful drafting and developing in the minors (mostly pre-Bill Smith) has led to not one legit MLB player coming up in three years. Unreal. 2. Not signing Santana and/or Hunter when they had the chance, and your GM just quitting and handing the job to someone not ready for it. 3. Lack of any outside newcomers into the organization. They are stuck in their processes, and not improving over time. Typical big company issue. 4. Horrible trades by Smith. Just awful. Unreal how bad they were. 5. cutting the payroll in year three of a new stadium. 6. Ridiculous preferences for certain types of players (Butera types) that actually decrease the odds of winning the more they play. 7. Injuries to your best players, on a thin team, you can't afford this. (including minor leaguers) 8. Bad allocation of resources (with a limited payroll, you need to spend correctly, not on "proven closers") 9. Horrible use of the DL, leaving the bench thin over and over and over, year after year (an example of lack of external thinkers causing group think). As for spending money on Mauer showing they are willing to spend money....no. Willingham is the biggest FA contract they've ever given, ever. They cut payroll this year.
  5. Mike Sixel
    Didn't the media and twins tell us this guy pounds the strike zone? Good stuff.
  6. Mike Sixel
    Isn't that how you should use a closer? I am confused. How would you use a closer in a tie game at home?
  7. Mike Sixel
    I think it is time to go all relievers all the time. 1-3 innings each
  8. Mike Sixel
    And another prospect isn't worthy, YET....super depressing three years for the minors.
  9. Mike Sixel
    I think today the crossed the magical threshold of being outscored by more than 2 runs per game....36 games in, more than 72 runs outscored. That is really, really, really bad.
  10. Mike Sixel
    Agree with Alex, yet the FO isn't really committing to youth, or to keeping youth in AAA "to develop". They really appear indecisive to me.
  11. Mike Sixel
    Did the Indians just hit more homeruns in 1 inning, than Mauer has for the history of Target Field? Really, how embarrassing is the Twins' team lack of power? It's a joke of a team right now.
  12. Mike Sixel
    The contract is what the contract is. The question should be, what do the Twins do now, with the rest of their payroll? Cutting it probably isn't the answer I'd give. I agree with jb, I have no idea why he's deified in the first place, but that's a topic for a different thread.
  13. Mike Sixel
    Boer's struggles should remind us that getting excited about college pitchers in leagues below A is a bad idea.....Sure would be nice if just once they could draft a guy (lately) and have him just be successful and rocket through the minors. Just somebody. Michael's performance is a bummer.
  14. Mike Sixel
    Good stuff, Seth. Happy birthday to your daughter. I can't believe you watched a baseball game while in the hospital that day.....brave man.
  15. Mike Sixel
    Regardless of whether or not it is the biggest issue with the team, starting Butera 5 times in less than 5-6 weeks is an issue for this team. He's just not good at his job. Starting him 5 times in two weeks? That's not a good sign for the quality of your team.
  16. Mike Sixel
    It's mind boggling to send Pavano out there if he's not 100%. His only value, minimal as it is, to this team is as trade bait. But really, this is an organization that hasn't been able to figure out how the DL process works for 2+ years, so this isn't really a surprise to me. I continue to be underwhelmed at their understanding of basic organizational strategy.
  17. Mike Sixel
    This team is really depressing.
  18. Mike Sixel
    I think it is great that he'd take the time out to do this interview. Super nice thing to do. No idea why we'd discuss if they should take him or not, in a thread he's likely to read.....
  19. Mike Sixel
    He should not have been up here in the first place, not if your organizational strategy is to only bring guys up when they are ready. He's not ready, nor is there any indication in the minors he ever will be (compare him to other AA first basemen last year.....). Ploffe should play every day, to see if he has a chance, since he's out of options. Parmalee, otoh, should be in AAA practicing. 2nd choice would be him playing every day. 3rd choice would be doing what they are doing....
  20. Mike Sixel
    Because Valencia had all last year, and Plouffe has a handfull of at bats less than 1/4 of the way through the season.....gotta give the guy a chance before writing him off. I have no idea how you can give up on a guy this fast. Besides, they are NOT winning anything that matters this year, so give the young guys a long leash and see what happens. You guys would have cut Viola his rookie season..... Patience young jedi, patience.
  21. Mike Sixel
    Can I play James T Kirk, and not play by your rules? There is no winning under the secenario you present, so I'm going to say, "keep Plouffe there" for at least 1 month, and see what happens. What can it hurt?
  22. Mike Sixel
    Seth, that is very fair. There will be games where he does make a positive difference, no doubt. The question is, is that likely to happen game after game after game.
  23. Mike Sixel
    thrylos is correct, a HS based player with 4 years in the minors should be more advanced than a college based player with 1-2 years in the minors. Plus, do you really think (outside of Mauer) that a college based player would be that far into the system? Frankly, I'm not all that impressed with Parmalee anyway, he was ok in the minors, and is overmatched in the majors, so no, I'd not be more impressed at this point had he gone to college. For me, it's about how old they are relative to competition and their likely prime years, and has nothing to do with whether they came from HS or college.
  24. Mike Sixel
    http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=15093 if you follow the link for all catchers, you'll see that Butera has a negative influence on framing pitches. Even if you don't believe the numbers are precise, I'd say that the conclusions of the study indicate that Butera is likely not quite the help with the pitchers as you all think. He's about neutral. Now, compared to Doumit, he's a framing savant. Compared to Mauer, he's statisically about the same. There is a huge difference between correlation, and causation. I find it amazing that people believe that Butera starting makes it more likely the Twins win games. His offense was historically bad last year. No amount of catcher defense can make up for the number of runs he does not produce as a hitter.
  25. Mike Sixel
    I think you are mistaken in your understanding of cause and effect....
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