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  1. Mike Sixel
    You also make longer commitments to reduce uncertainty. If you have a roster of guys who can leave, it's pretty hard to plan for the future. To answer Nick, if I thought he'd have an era under four for the next few years, of course I'd sign him. But if anyone thought that, it would take more than palacios to acquire him.
  2. Mike Sixel
    No chance. He's a number four or five starter. Why pay for that? And why are we worried about money? They have less than fifty million committed past 2020. Are we trying to win, or win the efficiency prize?
  3. Mike Sixel
    It's about secondary offerings, not durability.
  4. Mike Sixel
    I've certainly read a national writer or two that think he's a GREAT fit for high leverage reliever, and only an OK fit for starter.
  5. Mike Sixel
    I'm more worried they are eyeing JC Penney.....but that's a great analogy. Spot on.
  6. Mike Sixel
    You realize these are the predictions they made going into last year, right?
  7. Mike Sixel
    That should be next year, then, since they don't look like contenders.....
  8. Mike Sixel
    let's say he's good again next year. That would be 2.5 good years, in the majors. Who is more likely to be good, a SP with that track record, or anyone they have in the minors?
  9. Mike Sixel
    I concur on Mejia, not sure how I feel about not liking stacking. IMO, if you can't find 4 good starters, stacking makes sense, if you are trying to win or find out who might be good in a year or two....but almost no team has tried this yet. So maybe the AAA shuttle just won't work like I think it will. But, we agree on Mejia, give him a shot to start.
  10. Mike Sixel
    All good reasons. Of course, he may want to compete and play for a good/great team in the next three years. He also may get more money on the market....athletes tend to bet on themselves. If he likes MN, he should sign an extension, happiness will mean more than a few extra million. If not, he should go the FA route.
  11. Mike Sixel
    Probably, but it isn't only up to them. People say all the time FAs don't want to come here, why would Gibson stay, and not test FA?
  12. Mike Sixel
    Not a lot of good long term options left, I don't think, in free agency. Somehow they need to find three or four starters in the next two years. Seems daunting.
  13. Mike Sixel
    welcome to the site. If the Dodgers will give the Twins one of their top catching prospects for taking Kemp, I do that. They can have prospect number 30 or so in return.
  14. Mike Sixel
    Don't you have to have success, to sustain it?
  15. Mike Sixel
    I would have taken a flyer on Jay if I was a really bad team. Why not?
  16. Mike Sixel
    This. Diaz was a mistake from day one.
  17. Mike Sixel
    How many WAR have the AAA pitchers the Twins have used instead of acquiring outside help compiled? Because I guess that's what you are suggesting? And, I'm not only talking about the last three years, nor am I only talking about pitchers, as I literally praised the Castro signing in the post you are responding to. I also said one or two year deals....they were all praised as bargain signings, and they all worked out poorly. Castro was not seen as a bargain, but fair, deal, and he worked out the first year and got hurt. Sometimes players get hurt. Last year I asked for another OF to be signed, so he could sub in and DH. Some of those players worked out last year......and some of them will work out this year.
  18. Mike Sixel
    Couldn't trade Hicks either. Though he eventually turned out.
  19. Mike Sixel
    I'm also confused by your posts. While I have asked for the occasional really big contract, what I've posted most of that they not only sign over year bargains. That they could trade for a player like millwaukee did. Or sign players to three or four year deals. No place have I said those have to be the most expensive guys only. What I've said is that only signing one year deals, or the occasional two year deal, leads to having to fill the holes over and over. For example, I praised the Castro signing. Still do. Just as I would have praised a Realmuto trade last year, though am less interested this year. Your posts also don't answer my question, is not adding good players really good if you have to rely on the AAA players they've relied on the last five to ten years? Because that certainly isn't leading to winning.
  20. Mike Sixel
    Stop caring and only comment here as a way to have something to do. Certainly stop buying tickets.
  21. Mike Sixel
    I'm confused. Signing four or five players is not standing pat. Like, literally the opposite of doing nothing, which is what standing pat means.
  22. Mike Sixel
    Ha. Worst trade ever.
  23. Mike Sixel
    Who's going to trade for him if he's bad, and even if they do, what awful prospect would the Twins get back? And, what if he doesn't want to sign here, since as Torii and Johan once said, they always play for a future that never comes? What if he gets hurt?
  24. Mike Sixel
    Every player signed so far has received more than people projected. And the Rays just signed a guy for $15MM per year......so, maybe there weren't fundamental changes after all. And, how did signing all those bargains work out last year?
  25. Mike Sixel
    Well, they just spent more on a SP than than the Twins ever have (yearly average amount)....so maybe they are done?
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