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  1. Mike Sixel
    Agreed....but what did they do last year, after Buxton and Sano were good? 1-2 year deals, meh trade. We'll see, but what do you think will happen? And, I'm only reacting to this deal, another 1 year deal that does nothing for the future at all. Nothing.
  2. Mike Sixel
    Pesky alternative minimum tax stopped me from selling more when we bought the house. Now I kind of wish I had just done it. Oh well.
  3. Mike Sixel
    Sano and Buxton were really good in 2016. The FO went out and spent a lot of money, but none of it on big time FAs, no big trades were made, and most of the contracts were 1-2 year deal. So, if they see Buxton and Sano be great this year, what can we expect? Also, another year will be lost.
  4. Mike Sixel
    This. All the moves look good in a vacuum, but we don't live in a vacuum. In context of the other moves, you end up with 5-10 holes every year, because you refuse to acquire long term help.
  5. Mike Sixel
    Oh boy! a 1 year deal.....they really know how to build for the long term!
  6. Mike Sixel
    Agreed
  7. Mike Sixel
    ESan missing the year was 100% predictable. Were they in on Darvish, because I keep reading how stupid that deal was.....that signing him was a bad idea. They could have called up Astudillo earlier to catch, they didn't. Then when they did, he didn't catch. This isn't just about bad luck. Oh, and lots of people said they should acquire another OF, in case Buxton or Kepler or Rosario wasn't good. They weren't close on Ohtani. They signed a bunch of 1 year deals, and a guy that they knew wouldn't play last year. They did nothing to fix this year, last year (well, maybe Austin, but they just signed his doppleganger).
  8. Mike Sixel
    I'm not a Cron guy......my objection is much more about opportunity cost in acquiring pitching. And, ya, I got the defense wrong!
  9. Mike Sixel
    I'd still rather have SP and RP and a SS or 2B, even a flex 3B/SS/1B (not sure there is one other than Machado)
  10. Mike Sixel
    I'd 200% much rather that money be spent on RP and SP and MI than a DH only player at this point of the rebuild. Not sure what happened there that I pressed the 2, but it works.
  11. 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).
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. Mike Sixel
    If it is a series of 1 year deals again, I can't wait for Portland to get a team.
  16. Mike Sixel
    Couldn't blame him for going
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. Mike Sixel
    I agree with vanimal, almost entirely.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. 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!
  23. 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.
  24. Mike Sixel
    Then I'd do it. Can someone convince why not?
  25. Mike Sixel
    And, here we are again, with no holes filled for all those moves. Because they are all short term, meh, signings.
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