Mike Sixel
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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.
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I agree with vanimal, almost entirely.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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Then I'd do it. Can someone convince why not?
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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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That's certainly possible, that it was all PR. I accused them of as much last year, and was told that wasn't fair.....
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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.....
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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?
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Buxton for Segura. Move Lewis to CF......problem solved.
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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.
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And near MLB ready players. Twins have plenty of both.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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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When people say competition, what do you mean? Like, how they play in spring games?
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Apologies. Certainly not my intent. Want it deleted?
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I assume all the anti juicers want Polanco gone?
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It didn't help that Iron Fist was so bad the first year. Also, I admit, even as a fantasy / sci fi guy, that I have super hero fatigue. If you can't lose, I'm not sure where the drama is.....if it isn't about being a hero, and about other stuff, then why bother with the hero stuff?
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Or, he just played more CF and played better defense in RF last year, than the year before.....He was league median offensively for CF, probably better, since Harper, Pham, and a few others played a couple games in CF, skewing the rankings. So, I'm not sure it is a WAR flaw, so much as he was used differently and played better defense. Neither of which is predictive.....
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The Twins had zero SP in the top 25 of fangraphs' version of WAR.....Berrios was 27, Gibson 32, and ODO 43 among those pitching at least 90 innings last year.
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BTW....no one on this site or anywhere else is denying that home grown talent is the best way to go. Some of us are arguing its not the only way to go. Nor are we arguing that the whole rotation, INF, OF, RP corps, whatever strawman people want to put up, should be FAs or trades. No one is making that argument. Some of us are arguing that ignoring some all the channels other than home grown won't really work. And no, 1 year deals is not not ignoring FA, imo. And, if the FO really tried to sign Darvish, they agree.
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