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  1. Mike Sixel
    Berrios is 100% worth 5/100, and if he'd sign for that, I'd bet he'd be signed this summer.......I'm thinking he's looking for 6/140+. Buxton, of course, is much trickier. He's just not been on the field in any season for close to the full season. Not once. On the other side of the coin, he's a great player at this point. Some wealthy team can take the chance he's hurt again....I'm not sure the Twins can. Also, it is much easier to find CFers than SPs......Frankly, I have no idea what I'd do with him at this point. I don't think he even considers 5/100 at this point. He's looking for at least $25MM per year, I'd guess. IF they can get 2 prospects they really believe in for him, I'd consider dealing him (SP, SS, CF types only....no more bat first corner players, please).
  2. Mike Sixel
    If he's not in Minnesota for six starts, he won't start here next year most likely.... So, yes, he should be moved up now. Unless he gets few starts in St. Paul....
  3. Mike Sixel
    3/20? No chance. Zero. Why would he do that? He's looking at 7.5MM next year. That means the two years after that he gets around 6MM a year. That isn't what he's aiming for. No way. 3/26-30 or so? Yes, that would do it. It really is all about if they think they can compete next year or not.....which right now? They have 1-2 starting pitchers and maybe 2-3 relief pitchers. That's not good enough.....
  4. Mike Sixel
    Robert Smith says hello.....at some point, Buxton will stop having bad luck (I hope) and then we'll all get the joy of watching him play some full seasons (hopefully as a Twin).
  5. Mike Sixel
    If Jax, Dobnak and Ober are 3/5 of next year's rotation, this team is in trouble. Jax is a great story, but he's probably not an average MLB starter. He's probably not even a number 5. I doubt we'll agree on this, and I'm ok with that. This team 100% needs at least one GOOD starter from this year's minor league teams to be in next year's rotation (or, to spend way more money on FAs or trades than they've shown they are willing to do). That won't happen if that pitcher isn't in MN for 7+ starts this year, imo.
  6. Mike Sixel
    The slower to AAA, the slower to the majors. If they aren't there this year, this team is just a bit short on pitchers next year. Just a bit.....
  7. Mike Sixel
    Jeffers, Lanarch, and Kiriloff look like they might be legit. Now go find some dang pitching. You put a ton of draft capital into hitting....and it might be paying off. How do you plan to get pitching? that's what I'd ask if I was a reporter....which is one reason I am not.
  8. Mike Sixel
    I mean, sure, why not roll a die? Just cut one of the current bullpen options, and put him there.....
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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?
  16. Mike Sixel
    Agreed. No doubt in my mind.
  17. Mike Sixel
    What if it is 25 per year, six years?
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. 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?
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. Mike Sixel
    Tampa would trade him. 100%.
  25. 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.
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