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  1. Mike Sixel
    It would seem odd, though, IMO, to trade a near ready pitcher for one. That said, Berrios is proven....and has 1.5 years left.....so maybe? I've scoured the prospect lists, finding a good trading partner with AA / AAA starting pitching is HARD.
  2. Mike Sixel
    Was really hoping one of the top starting pitching prospects would force his way to MN this year, so he'd be ready to be contributing in the majors this year. Not looking so promising right now..... That said, some of the hitters are 100% forcing the issue! Which is great.
  3. Mike Sixel
    Because it isn't a normal business. Amazon would make more money if they drove everyone else out of business. If there are no other baseball teams, or they are like the globetrotters, no one will watch. I'm not sure why that is hard to understand. They need competitors. I mean, if only the Yankees show up at the stadium, who do they play? As for players sharing money....that's apples and screw drivers (i.e., more absurd than apples and oranges). Again, it would be great if we could disagree respectfully.
  4. Mike Sixel
    I'm hoping they give the players freedom earlier, and to help lower revenue teams do at least two things: increase revenue sharing. TV and non-attendance items are more important for revenue.....and that requires more good teams. Give some kind of advantage to lower revenue / bad teams in acquiring amateur talent. Like, an extra pick in round 1, or something. The faster a team can acquire talent, the less losing a player costs them.
  5. Mike Sixel
    They traded a backup outfielder, which they have plenty of..... To try to get pitching. I don't see the problem with the process. Once again, though, they were wrong about the pitcher. That's concerning. The anti "computer guy" stuff is old and tedious. Every team but Arizona and Colorado is run this way. Like every other huge business on the planet. I don't understand why that's so hard to realize.
  6. Mike Sixel
    You said pay him what he wants. I'm asking if that is really true.... I think it is pretty clear he wants more than the Twins want to pay, or he'd be signed.
  7. Mike Sixel
    If no one on the farm is ready next year, they aren't winning anything next year. If he won't sign for a number the twins want, why not trade him?
  8. Mike Sixel
    Agreed. No doubt in my mind.
  9. Mike Sixel
    What if it is 25 per year, six years?
  10. Mike Sixel
    I hope they told him ahead of time he was coming out after 4......set expectations with your employees. Always. I have no idea if that was good or bad, but I doubt it has any long term effect either way.
  11. Mike Sixel
    agreed on that last part for sure.........and sure, we learn more from their acquisitions than older players....but we learn a lot about their ability to develop the players that were already there, imo.
  12. Mike Sixel
    I agree that we don't know yet, but they do have a responsibility to develop the players already there.....because better development is part of what they need.
  13. Mike Sixel
    Pretty much what I suggested a few years ago.....if you can't develop 5 starters, why try? Why not have 4 guys that throw harder because they throw less pitches, on the same schedule as a starter, that piggy back games?
  14. Mike Sixel
    But we didn't....so the question is, what now? The comment was "no self respecting team would trade him". IMO, at least one would.
  15. Mike Sixel
    That wasn't a criticism...an observation. We were all wrong. Btw..I also did strategic planning for a living...... I'm also on the trade them team. I don't think they'll sign them.... So I'd trade them.
  16. Mike Sixel
    Tampa would trade him. 100%.
  17. Mike Sixel
    shoemaker put up less than replacement level fWAR all but one of the last 5 years. He was seen as bad. Happ was seen as ok to bad, not bad, I guess. But, a contending team can't give up one start position, and have another filled by a number 4, and expect to be great, imo. I'm ok if you disagree. Really, Shoemaker had not been productive but once in the last 5 years.
  18. Mike Sixel
    Every team but Colorado..... There is a way to trade those two, and for 2023+ to be great. It requires them to be very right about who they get back, and very good at developing them. It also requires them to spend the savings the right way and to be willing to fill in the gaps with good players. And to have a farm system ready to plug holes (hitting, pitching, and defense). Boston did trade Betts, but they still have a massive payroll........
  19. Mike Sixel
    Who is taking Donaldson at all, let alone his full salary? They need at least 2 good starters on top of Berrios next year. Then they need 1 that is ok. Right now, who is that that is signed?
  20. Mike Sixel
    If he's good for a month, I'd not even wait until August. He's no spring chicken. But yes, very good to see that promotion.
  21. Mike Sixel
    I don't agree that signing two bad starters to fill out a pitching staff on a likely contending team is a solid thought process.
  22. Mike Sixel
    If he's not in MN this year, it is likely he won't start in MN next year either. That means they'll need to find another bad pitcher to fill that slot. Three of their starters will be FAs this year (1-2 hopefully DFAd soon). I doubt anyone thinks Dobnak is the answer. Ober? Probably a back end starter at best. If he's not up in MN this year, I think you can kiss 2022 goodbye. Unless people think the Twins will sign / trade for 2-3 good to very good starters next year.....
  23. Mike Sixel
    Signing two number 5 or worse pitchers as starters in a year you were supposed to contend......not a good look. I have my doubts this FO is really going to do things sufficiently differently than any other than the McPhail led one. Always worried about the window and the long term.
  24. Mike Sixel
    How does a stat drive one away from the game? Like, I literally cannot understand this. Don't like a stat, don't pay attention to it. How does any stat make the game unwatchable?
  25. Mike Sixel
    Man, MLR was sure on the 2022 looks great path coming into the year......
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