Jump to content
Twins Daily
  • Create Account

Mike Sixel

Old-Timey Member
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    46,958

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    330

 Content Type 

Profiles

News

Minnesota Twins Videos

2026 Minnesota Twins Top Prospects Ranking

2022 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks

Minnesota Twins Free Agent & Trade Rumors, Notes, & Tidbits

Guides & Resources

2023 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks

The Minnesota Twins Players Project

2024 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks

2025 Minnesota Twins Draft Pick Tracker

2026 Minnesota Twins Draft Pick Tracker

Forums

Blogs

Events

Store

Downloads

Gallery

Everything posted by Mike Sixel

  1. Mike Sixel
    I'm ok with this move, assuming they, you know, add more players.......he put up 2 WAR last year. That's probably a good number to expect again, and this team isn't swimming in players. Is it sexy and needle moving? Meh. Are they probably better? ya, a bit.
  2. Mike Sixel
    I'd make him a RP
  3. Mike Sixel
    This is so obvious it's hard to understand why this is controversial.
  4. Mike Sixel
    The risk is keeping good players off the 25 man roster for a year. Contending teams probably shouldn't hamstring their manager that way.
  5. Mike Sixel
    how about both? I don't think anyone, here or anywhere, has said don't improve drafting and developing players. No one. Not one person. I don't even know why we are having this conversation, of course they can't afford Tyler Jay and Kohl Stewart type outcomes any more. That's pretty much assumed, and has nothing to do with signing FAs or trading for players (either direction, acquiring minor or major league talent). If we want, we can start a thread about improving drafting.....and developing....and coaching.
  6. Mike Sixel
    I was talking about MN.......of course you need to develop players, but you also need to sign FAs and make trades for long term assets, not just rentals, and not just 1 year deals.
  7. Mike Sixel
    I would if I was years from contending. Why not? At one point, he was a "lock" to be "at least a late inning RP". This is exactly the kind of risk a rebuilding team should take, imo.
  8. Mike Sixel
    it is certainly possible they are bad bets.....but how has relying on the farm system worked out? Worse results, I'd argue. It's kind of like when you read how RPs are a bad FA investment, w/o anyone ever contemplating how bad those results would be with the next AAA pitcher coming up and taking innings.....If we care more about efficiency than effectiveness, it's hard to see them ever going in on a legit FA signing that changes the team in any meaningful way, without major luck.
  9. Mike Sixel
    They have plenty of money to spend. Teams sell for record amounts every time they sell. The national TV contract just went up. Mauer is off the books, as is another 20-30MM minimum. It hurts my brain how much people defend billionaire owners, who get huge tax subsidies, in not spending on the people that actually produce the product. But then, I'm kind of on the labor side of that discussion.... And, no, that's not how rate of return works.....
  10. Mike Sixel
    One thing is for sure, if they don't add talent, people can come here (and will) and say the team wasn't good enough to add to....it's really a self-fulfilling prophecy.
  11. Mike Sixel
    Not worthy of being taken isn't exactly high praise.......when other players drafted those years are starring in the majors.....
  12. Mike Sixel
    gotta concur here. This team is where it is because they have utterly failed at picking high with those two picks. Not just a small fail, but complete so far. Maybe Stewart bounce back....but Jay will be claimed and they will have bupkiss to show for the 6th overall pick just a few years ago.
  13. Mike Sixel
    It hurts that when I sold off to buy a house I didn't sell all the NVIDIA. A lot.....oh well. As long as I don't need the money, it will bounce back most likely, over a long time....
  14. Mike Sixel
    He doesn't even really talk about winning at all.....let alone try to win big. Maybe Portland will get a team, and I can care about baseball again. I'm only here for the conversation at this point.
  15. Mike Sixel
    Well, no surprise there. They have done nothing to make the MLB team better on long term acquisitions in the first two years, and Sano and Buxton's play last year can't make them thrilled to bother trying this year either. I hope no one buys a single ticket, frankly.
  16. Mike Sixel
    my expectation is that they continue to not add anything to the MLB roster that is beyond a year or two deal, and once again the team does not much that makes any meaningful difference.
  17. Mike Sixel
    Agree with chief....they aren't hiding behind retreads, at manager or pitching coach......
  18. Mike Sixel
    Wouldn't Wade or the dude they claimed this off season be cheaper than Grossman? OBP is not valuable if the rest of your roster is not good at OBP, btw......which is why teams are going all in on power right now.
  19. Mike Sixel
    Of course, you have no idea what my plan is, but you've already judged it!
  20. Mike Sixel
    I know this was meant to be funny, but I'd 100% back a plan where all 30 teams made a new type of post season......
  21. Mike Sixel
    I found the protagonists really stupid in season 1. We stopped after about episode 2 or 3 of season 2, and just went back. So far, I'm more interested than I was before.
  22. Mike Sixel
    Went back to Man in the High Castle, season 2 seems better than 1, so I'm sure we'll finish that and then onto season 3......
  23. Mike Sixel
    https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/retiring-mauer-and-utley-both-worthy-of-cooperstown/
  24. Mike Sixel
    I'd think being in AAA would be worse for Astudillo
  25. Mike Sixel
    Damn concussions.... Good luck to him and his family! I hope he has a long, happy, retirement.
×
×
  • Create New...