Mike Sixel
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Entertaining! I'd want some assurance from Betts I can extend him first....
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I'd drop them to about twentieth.
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I should have known better than to care
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Pj going on the field is probably the difference in this game....ugh. We'll see, but ugh.
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Front Page: Offseason Blueprint: Hooking a Big Fish
Mike Sixel replied to Ted Schwerzler 's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
Next year's free agent class is much worse. My point is clear.... It is not likely a team can acquire four good starting pitchers in one off season. They can't afford to make the same mistake they did last year again, having one pitcher on the roster signed past this year. The Twins can afford plenty of pitching, but that doesn't mean they can convince four good pitchers to come here.... It's not about money. It's about mutual desire. Free agency and trades are about two parties agreeing. It's hard to do that for four times in one year. -
Front Page: Offseason Blueprint: Hooking a Big Fish
Mike Sixel replied to Ted Schwerzler 's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
I've never once said they can get 4 good pitchers in 1 season. That's my entire point....you can't. Hence, you can fill your roster with 4 guys on one year deals (or in this case, deals that all expire the same year). That is literally my point. No one, not one person, has asked the TWins to spend as much as the Yankees or Red Sox. But, they have 40-55 million in budget room right now. They can afford 1 great pitcher on a multi year deal. Heck, they agree with me. They bid the 2nd most for Darvish two years ago..... -
You don't know about his leadership either. But where was his leadership in 2018, when they were bad? I mean, if it was part of the 2019 success, it must be part of the 2018 lack of success, right? Or maybe 2019 was better because of the on field talent? No one, not in one of the posts on Eddie Rosario, has used the word hate, other than the people saying he is under rated. Not one person has claimed to hate him. Not one person has said he's a BAD baseball player.
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Given that the most advanced analytics teams are the most successful, and everyone is copying them, was that an actual question about them being better?
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People are simultaneously typing the twins are a mid market team, and that they should extend a corner OF, when two of their best prospects are corner outfielders. He's the exact kind of player you go year to year with, especially with Kepler signed long term. Not one person has posted he's a bad hitter, that's a straw man.
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I know you played, and I trust your takes, but far superior talent will win the most. It's not like Ohio State it's mistake free year after year.... Closer talent, mistakes matter a ton. But far superior talent?
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The Twins had not signed enough free agent pitchers to fill the roster. You said they could fill the roster, and then sign another free agent pitcher. That seems unrealistic. Unless, as I said, they don't sign enough free agents to fill the rotation, and hope to sign a player later. Lynn was signed because they had not filled the roster already...
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Twins have 50-70MM in payroll room this year. Next year Cruz, Cron, and probably Rosario are off the books. They have plenty of money to keep the window open. I do agree that leaving the fifth spot open makes sense, but not the 4th. Not on a team that thinks it is a WS contender. At some point, you play for now.....at least somewhat.
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Once they've signed a full roster, they aren't going to sign more free agents. Unless you think they'll cut a veteran FA pitcher. Or, you mean they only bring back Odo and 1 other FA pitcher, and then wait......and maybe end up with two rookies in the rotation.
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That second to last sentence is silliness. Are they more likely to win if they add as much talent at the beginning of the year, or less likely to win if they add less talent at the beginning of the year? Cruz is off the payroll in 21, probably Rosario. Definitely Cron. they'll have plenty of space in 21 almost no matter what they do this off season. Odorizzi will make less money in 21, or be off the roster.
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So, next year, when there are LESS good pitchers, sign more than this year to long term deals? That seems unlikely to me. A team can't, imo, sign multiple good starting pitchers year after year. If they could, the Yankees and Dodgers and Astros would be doing it. Odo is now under a 1 year deal. That's now one spot not locked up for 2021, most likely.
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thirty million under their easily reachable budget, and that's for arb increases and in season moves? They'd have to acquire almost 60 million of salaries at the deadline for that math to work out.
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I'm not so sure of that. He gets nearly 18MM, and is a FA next year, in a bad class, and he won't have a QO next year. This might be a "bet on yourself" play.
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Good news. And, imo, good decision. Next year's pitching FA class is pretty meh, and he won't have a QO, and he'll be 18MM dollars wealthier, give or take.....
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I'm saying we can only look at what they've done, as an indication of what is likely in the future. Of course I'm not speaking in absolutes, that would be ridiculous.
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and you have to hope the player you need is available, and for a price you want to pay....
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They didn't make that kind of trade this year......even after cutting payroll from the previous year, and knowing they would need that kind of pitcher going forward. Why would you think next year will be different? His second plan guts the payroll to 106MM....they could make 3 Greinke like trades at the deadline with a payroll that low.....
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What is financial flexibility, besides double speak to not spend money? It means.....don't spend money today, so you can have money to spend in the future....but in the future, that will be today, so you won't spend there either, because you need the flexibility in the future, etc. If now is not the time to spend money, when they have $50-70MM in space in payroll, and Cruz coming off the books next year (and probably Rosario and Cron), when is the time? Cruz coming off more than covers every arbitration raise next year, and probably an extension or two.......
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This. Cole won't sign until after Strasburg, most likely. And unless Stras re-ups early with Washington, it will be January .....
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Front Page: Offseason Blueprint: Hooking a Big Fish
Mike Sixel replied to Ted Schwerzler 's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
This does create an interesting dilemna for the FO. If they can't get him to negotiate a longer deal, do they sign another guy to a one year deal? If so, that sets up next off season to be potentially (likely) needing to add 1-2 new SPs again (and that's assuming that 1-2 of their minor league guys step up). I hope that "forces" them to be more active for the first or second tier types.... -
No, but again, that was not the post I was responding to.
