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  1. Mike Sixel
    This team wasn't winning doodoo last year, trading off guys made sense. I don't know how anyone can disagree with that. That said, I don't have any confidence any of the guys they got will ever help. So far, I've not been impressed with any moves by this FO, other than Castro and the first round draft picks (which, they could have chosen any one of five players first overall and I'd be impressed, so that accomplishment isn't all that).
  2. Mike Sixel
    This is the exact kind of player you want on your bench. Good at multiple positions defensively, and adequate on offense. The bad part is when your regulars play like this.
  3. Mike Sixel
    Odd stance. I'd rather they win, and be trading for more help at the deadline, so, like, the literal opposite of what you posted.
  4. Mike Sixel
    I've never disagreed that revenue matters or not. Never. Not one time. I've never asked them to spend as much as Boston or NYY or whatever. Never. But TB doesn't win anything because they never trade for MLB talent, or sign FAs. Which is what I'm asking the Twins to do. The Twins spent 125MM or whatever last year. They have less than 50MM committed after 2019. They have plenty of money to bring in long term assets. Only signing players to 1 year deals means you have to fill those holes again and again and again. Signing great players to longer deals means that if Sano and Buxton are good, you have something when Kiriloff joins them, or Lewis. Or, you can never add great players, even when you have tens of millions of dollars of self imposed cap space, until the stars perfectly align and the team is already championships caliber (by never trading prospects or spending big), and they only need 1 more piece. That, of course, rarely happens for any team.
  5. Mike Sixel
    If it is a series of 1 year deals again, I can't wait for Portland to get a team.
  6. Mike Sixel
    Couldn't blame him for going
  7. Mike Sixel
    Nope. It says at least try to add some great players. No place does it say sell the whole future. As opposed to posters who want all the stars to assign before adding expensive players from outside.
  8. Mike Sixel
    No one is saying sell the whole farm, or go all in. No one. But there are aggressive moves that can be made. Rather than wait another year or three.
  9. Mike Sixel
    I agree with vanimal, almost entirely.
  10. Mike Sixel
    And Tampa has no championships to show, and no fans. They barely make the playoffs. Given their competition, why not run the team the way they do and win 82-90 games and miss the playoffs, but make more money? Maybe if they, I don't know, traded for or signed big time players, they'd make the playoffs and win some post season games. It is their right to want to make more money, it is the fan's right to want them to try to win more. You know, the customers.
  11. Mike Sixel
    Wouldn't that require them to develop one first? It's a convenient way to not spend money..... but, they spent a lot last year. They just spent it very wrongly, imo.
  12. Mike Sixel
    Moves made to add long term MLB talent this year help for next year, and the year after, if not longer. Never adding MLB talent on long term deals is why the team isn't in a better position this year than last off season, because they added almost no one at all that would be here in 2019....unless you love the cheap but efficient Odo, Reed, and Pineda deals (they'll all be gone after this year, opening 3 more holes). Never adding long term MLB deals in trade or FA is a self fulfilling prophecy for not having any talent on the roster. And then, hey, ,they aren't close, so they shouldn't add talent!
  13. Mike Sixel
    We've decided after one injury year that Darvish was a bad signing? Buxton was bad last year, is it bad to keep him around? Anibal Sanchez was not going to carry this team anywhere.
  14. Mike Sixel
    Then I'd do it. Can someone convince why not?
  15. Mike Sixel
    And, here we are again, with no holes filled for all those moves. Because they are all short term, meh, signings.
  16. Mike Sixel
    That's certainly possible, that it was all PR. I accused them of as much last year, and was told that wasn't fair.....
  17. Mike Sixel
    That wasn't the question, but again, fair answer.......how would you suggest they get better, if you won't commit money for FAs, because that's what the good ones cost? I am assuming you aren't trading off Lewis or Kiriloff either.....
  18. Mike Sixel
    That's a fair stance, but Buxton has 4 years left, and Segura 3. Which one is more likely to be good during that time?
  19. Mike Sixel
    Buxton for Segura. Move Lewis to CF......problem solved.
  20. Mike Sixel
    so, yes, have a bad team and more profit....while Buxton and Sano just, what, use all their service time in a lost cause? I like Gordon, but he's not ready. I doubt they think Rooker is close, or they wouldn't bring in Cron. I'm not sure how acquiring players on 2-3 year deals hinders payroll, if you don't think they'll be good fro 2-3 years. Help me understand.
  21. Mike Sixel
    And near MLB ready players. Twins have plenty of both.
  22. Mike Sixel
    Yes. Once he's healthy again, he's a three or four win player. Then trade Sano and Kepler and random pitcher for Thor and a low A prospect. Then sign mccutchen. But no idea who the Mariners would want.
  23. Mike Sixel
    Those are the players that only cost money, and not prospects, to get better. What is the alternative? A bad team, and more money in the owner's pocket?
  24. Mike Sixel
    Unless they get three OBP players that are really good, they need more power. One OBP guy doesn't help. There was a study a few years so that showed adding one OBP player to a bad team didn't help as adding another low OBP with power. And yes, I don't get the Cron desk either.
  25. Mike Sixel
    The Twins clearly disagree, as they were the 2nd bidder on Darvish, so they wanted him (just for 1 year less).......
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