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  1. Mike Sixel
    Santana, because I think he'll play more games at catcher, and hit a lot more HRs, but I could see Mauer being AWESOME again...
  2. Mike Sixel
    revere's best position is 4th OFer right now.
  3. Mike Sixel
    Except Ryan was the GM when the guys drafted that should have come up the last two years and this year were drafted....Had those drafts gone better, they'd not be in this position.
  4. Mike Sixel
    If they are the best, then they come North, but that wasn't what John's post was about. It was about fear of losing them.
  5. Mike Sixel
    I agree with Thrylos (which seems to be happening more and more lately). John, why worry about losing Maloney and Gray? These aren't young guys with super, duper upsides. The best relievers should come North.
  6. Mike Sixel
    Lots of straw man arguments here made against those of us saying that the talent isn't there (and wasn't last year or hte year before, either....that's the problem). No one in this thread is insisting that the Twins have ROY of the year candidates just waiting to be called up. No on is saying a lot of what defenders of they system is claimin we are saying. I am saying that if you won't sign or trade for FAs or other players making a lot of money, then you need to be better at drafting and developing players than other teams. The Twins have not had a real, legit starting player come up in three years. Valencia might or might not be one, but that's it. In three years. Not asking for ROY, not asking for allstars. Asking for legit starting MLB players more often than maybe 1 every three years is not unreasonable, imo.
  7. Mike Sixel
    Agreed, I'd go Swarzak.
  8. Mike Sixel
    As I posted on the STrib....why not have the AAA catchers in AAA, and if there is an injury, use an airplane to get them to wherever the Twins are? Why waste a roster spot, game after game, on the chance there is an injury? Aren't they better off with more contributing players?
  9. Mike Sixel
    But, if they put the commercials in, there would be no difference. But because advertisers and tv stations are stuck in 1970.....
  10. Mike Sixel
    Gardy has never shown the propensity to platoon. Maybe he's changed, but we certainly have not seen that in the past. LaVelle also said on the radio that he thinks it is possible that Revere is the 4th outfielder, and not a starter, so this isn't just Souhan being Souhan. I think this is one of those rare times when spring training will really make the difference between these two guys. Until Revere learns how to take a walk, he's just not very valuable relative to other corner OFers. His OBP has to be very high for him to have any value. I always thought they should have traded him out of the low minors when he looked awesome, but they didn't. Let's hope he learns how to get on base at a super high rate.
  11. Mike Sixel
    The blackout rules are ridiculous. If MLB.tv (or any internet service) carries the feed from the local broacast, then the station and advertisers get what they want anyway. I'd pay for the right to watch the NFL and MLB on my various devices, but I'm not going to pay $60-100 a month for cable, I just don't watch that much tv.
  12. Mike Sixel
    I think it odd people put credence in spring training, but not years of performance in the minors and majors....They blew it by not taking advantage of the oversupply of RH RPs when they had the chance. Now, I'm not interested, even a little, in trading a potential MLB position player for a RP. I think this team is unlikely to be contending, so let's not sell the future for the present. That time was 3-10 years ago, and they Ryan didn't do it then to close gaps on very good to great teams. I don't think it's likely he does so on a team that looks iffy.
  13. Mike Sixel
    John's point, I think, is that Zumaya wasn't a bad gamble, but only Zumaya was....as in, you have to sign more than just a guy who is "likely" to break down. In a vacuum, not a bad decision. Stopping signing other RPs because you've signed Zumaya, that is a bad gamble. I think that's John's arguement.
  14. Mike Sixel
    It's not been in Ryan's MO in the past to cut bait quickly on mistakes. I don't know why we think this round will be any different. Nishi will be on this roster at the start of the year, imo.
  15. Mike Sixel
    The mistake wasn't sign Zumaya, the mistake was signing Capps, and not signing three other guys for the same price, plus Zumaya. Had they done that, they'd be in fine shape right now. Or, even if you sign Capps, you sign Zumaya and another RP or two. But the Twins didn't seem to understand the law of supply and demand from the beginning of this offseason when it came to RP.
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