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Everything posted by Mike Sixel

  1. Mike Sixel
    You don't think he's teaching? Really?
  2. Mike Sixel
    So they should not have traded for a starter last year? It isn't a disaster if he's gone. It just isn't.
  3. Mike Sixel
    Great trade. Doesn't mean it will work out, but great trade. This team needed another good pitcher at the break. It was him, Castillo (who would have cost Lewis and Lee and two more good to very good guys) or Montas. That was it. Only those three were dealt.
  4. Mike Sixel
    It's better for him to the in a MLB bullpen, than in AAA starting. As with Jax......teams and players insisting that a person try to stay a starter, and not make real money is a bummer. Do the right thing! Make him a great RP. Also, dang, that's a lot of other guys ahead of him in the pecking / healthy order right now.
  5. Mike Sixel
    Agreed
  6. Mike Sixel
    Love that the OP is responding maturely and with gratitude that others commented. Thank you.
  7. Mike Sixel
    I don't think more than a hundred or so fans care if they'd change their talking about Polanco, frankly.
  8. Mike Sixel
    You know this how? I'd guess they aren't talking about Polanco more because it is hard to predict with any accuracy.
  9. Mike Sixel
    Every player not on the active roster isn't playing What more do you want to know? That's the question....no one is complaining about guys listed as out.....
  10. Mike Sixel
    Love the pitchers....but only a few hitters I see as future starters in the majors.
  11. Mike Sixel
    Which is very different than giving a date on Polanco weeks out.....we get lineups hours before the game. If a guy is on the injured list, he's not playing....what specifically are you asking for that you don't get now?
  12. Mike Sixel
    Strong disagree. Other sports don't change their rules for the post season, and neither should baseball. I have no more interest in watching 3.5 hour games (with 30 minutes of actual action) in October than I do now.
  13. Mike Sixel
    That Polanco stuff proves my point....people here feel misled, when it is likely things aren't going as expected. Communicating expectations creates expectations. If a player isn't playing that day, of course that's communicated, but that's not what people are complaining about. They are complaining that Polanco isn't scheduled to play the exact day originally stated (last year and this year).
  14. Mike Sixel
    I mean, Fangraphs already lists him as a LF....... I like the idea of dealing a starter but not Ober...I'd rather deal Maeda for a low level guy at this point (I don't trust his arm and I do trust the three in AAA).
  15. Mike Sixel
    Random fans won't ever check the injury list before going. Serious fans? Maybe, but they'll likely go anyway. I could be wrong, of course. I don't think it is about caring about consumers at all. Injuries are hard. Setting expectations at all creates, as we've seen, expectations. Then fans get mad when the doctors/trainers/players were wrong! Of course, if a SP isn't going to make their normal appearance, that seems reasonable to communicate, but that's not what people are complaining about at all. They want to know how many days Polanco will miss, to the minute.
  16. Mike Sixel
    Agreed. This is much ado about nothing. They owe fans zero about injuries, zero. If I was them, given how meanspirited so many fans are, I'd stop talking about injuries at all and answer questions about them with a "that's an in house discussion only."
  17. Mike Sixel
    That's not how decisions work.....you make them based on process and likelihood, not second guesses.
  18. Mike Sixel
    Better to be ahead than behind. I liked the PH a lot. They have an off day. Using the bullpen made a ton of sense to me.
  19. Mike Sixel
    Sigh. One game in, and the complaining is on. I just don't get how that makes one happy. Big fan of the Lopez trade . It wasn't bitter for many of us.
  20. Mike Sixel
    Agreed.
  21. Mike Sixel
    We already have HS players saying they don't choose baseball for this reason.....they can make so much more in football or basketball (not that it is realistic for the vast majority of them), and make it day one without 5 years riding buses and losing money (though your plan fixes the money losing issue). Really, they can afford more than they are now paying....no issue. They choose not to, which is their right, of course. Economics is the thing we'll never agree on when it comes to baseball.....I'm ok with that.
  22. Mike Sixel
    This is the worst idea ever for so many reasons. What top athlete will ever choose baseball again, if they have an option? The best players should be paid like the best players? This would 100% drive down baseball participation and pay overall. Awful idea.
  23. Mike Sixel
    Paddock is a unicorn for me, if he starts more than 10 games, I'll be surprised. Big believer in Ober, SWR and Varland to number number 3 types, maybe one of them is better. You know, bring in those three and keep Lopez and sign Nola....or something...
  24. Mike Sixel
    Riddled? They have two guys hurt (check out some of the pitching staffs across the league), and they added depth at every position. I have no idea how they are riddled at all. Patchwork? Larnach is a legit starter when healthy. Buxton and Kepler are also (and Taylor / Gordon / Gallo are all legit backups, potential starters). Then you have Miranda who looks more than legit, Correa, an injured Polanco (backed up by Gordon, Farmer, and others) and an injured AK (backed up Gallo). They have one or two starting catchers healthy....... I'd guess in this environment, every team needs to average (or very close to) 5 runs a game to be over .500.....
  25. Mike Sixel
    I'd guess it is older than average...I'll look....
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