Jump to content
If free agency is too rich for your blood, click here for the 35 players most likely to be traded this offseason. ×
Twins Daily
  • Create Account

Mike Sixel

Old-Timey Member
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    48,925

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    340

 Content Type 

Profiles

Minnesota Twins News, Rumors & Analysis

Minnesota Twins Videos

2026 Minnesota Twins Top Prospect Rankings

2022 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks & Signing Bonuses

Minnesota Twins Trade & Free Agent Rumors

Minnesota Twins Fan Guides & Resources

2023 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks & Signing Bonuses

The Minnesota Twins Players Project

2024 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks & Signing Bonuses

2025 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks & Signing Bonuses

2026 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks & Signing Bonuses

Forums

Blogs

Events

Store

Downloads

Gallery

Everything posted by Mike Sixel

  1. Mike Sixel
    Maybe don't play your best player out of position? That might help.
  2. Mike Sixel
    You want players to get less money and have no freedom to choose their employer? Ugh. Unreal.
  3. Mike Sixel
    Thanks! I really do appreciate you coming here. I bet people would read whatever history you could give..... If we could find a way to be polite.
  4. Mike Sixel
    hahahahahahahaha. Good one. Tough questions. I am still laughing.
  5. Mike Sixel
    Good thing they traded one of the best players in baseball for him.
  6. Mike Sixel
    My pivot is to deal Kepler and Polanco and Maeda and Mahle and sign Gray to an extension. Punt this year, and give the youth the team and see who sinks or swims. Martin in LF or 2B (and backup CF). Wallner in RF or DH. Larnach in LF or RF. Lewis up as soon as he's healthy to play SS. Kiriloff to 1B. Maybe even Julien at 2B or RF or DH or first (if AK is hurt). But, please, pick a position for Julien and Martin and stick them there even if they are in AAA. Put Lee at 3B or 2B or RF. Be ready to promote him like ATL did with their top people last year. I also consider moving Duran to SP, since they've shown they won't even sign second tier FAs......
  7. Mike Sixel
    I admit I bought the line that this FO was different then the previous ones. The only difference is they trade off prospects (and sometimes vets at the deadline). Otherwise, it is the same FO as all the others....implying to me it isn't the FO that is the problem here.
  8. Mike Sixel
    Also, how many playoff games has this org won in the last 30 years? Is this approach working?
  9. Mike Sixel
    If you won't sign big time FAs (or even second tier ones like Bassit)....and you keep trading prospects, how do you plan to have long term, sustained, success without prospects because you keep trading them instead of spending money.
  10. Mike Sixel
    Uh, he signed for a lot more than that already....
  11. Mike Sixel
    They can compete for the second tier players. Unfortunately, most of those are now gone also....while they waited on CC? I'm not sure what the deal is. They also passed on the second tier of FAs last year, so maybe it isn't about CC....but signing only inexpensive players in FA, then dealing prospects every spring (they are going to run out of prospects if this is the plan).
  12. Mike Sixel
    That is the value. That is the market. It distorts nothing. Look at the deals this year.
  13. Mike Sixel
    Also, it is great Jack came here and did this. Really.
  14. Mike Sixel
    That's my point.....wouldn't you rather have CC and three rookies?
  15. Mike Sixel
    Agreed....but they didn't. They passed on nearly every guy in the second tier of FA.
  16. Mike Sixel
    So, gut the fam system more to trade for players instead of signing FAs just for money? That will leave how many good to great prospects in the system? Not enough to build a long term, sustainable, winning team. CC cost a lot.....but the alternative ways to spend that money are to sign 2 ok to good FAs or 3 bad FAs. And that's at current year prices.....that 29MM is going to get you one or maybe two ok FAs by the end of that deal. Oh, and they passed on every FA in the next tier as well.....so, now what is left? How many FAs left are really better than what is on the roster?
  17. Mike Sixel
    This. To be clear, I think there was no way he came to MN.
  18. Mike Sixel
    I have zero interest in Chapman. If they sign him, I hope he loses every game he pitches.
  19. Mike Sixel
    Move onto what? Tier 3 level FAs? Are those actually better than what is on the roster?
  20. Mike Sixel
    any year apparently, not to a long term deal. And, they passed on all the ST deals this year for great players.....
  21. Mike Sixel
    Shocker. Truly shocking the Twins aren't signing one elite FA. Onto the next level (most of whom are gone), then to level three FAs....yay! You can have CC for ten years (5-7 good ones and 3-5 ok ones and nothing in years 11-13) and no good FA in year 11=13....or you can have three ok to bad FAs. Which would you rather have? Because 35MM a year is three ok to bad FAs right now, and likely one good to great FA in 11 years.....I know what I'd rather have. Because ok FAs aren't much better than the guys in the minors....
  22. Mike Sixel
    Well, if you figure that the contract adds no value in years 11-13....you are giving up one average FA in those years....would you rather have CC for 10 years and lose out on a Gray level FA for years 11-13.....or have three mediocre to ok FAs for the next 13 years.
  23. Mike Sixel
    Good one. I'd do three years, tearing up this year. Not sure he would......he's probably a 20MM a year player in FA, if not 25.
  24. Mike Sixel
    No issues! It's a good discussion thread. I like Miranda as an option for a ridiculous deal, but I wouldn't take it if I was him. I like all of those guys as options if they are healthy this year.
  25. Mike Sixel
    Injured and no evidence of long term health. And one is a pitcher that has five years of control left.
×
×
  • Create New...