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  1. Mike Sixel
    That's where I am right now. Not 100% sure I'm confident, but that's what I'd do.
  2. Mike Sixel
    This. Plus, even if they bring in a new FO, the game has changed. No one is going to run a team like it was thirty years ago.
  3. Mike Sixel
    Would you fire a manager that won the division?
  4. Mike Sixel
    Jeffers is better than Rortverdt, and it isn't close. Garver, like Jeffers, is hurt and out for the year. Sanchez was brutal in NY last year. Why would it be the manager to blame, and not the FO? Kepler isn't healthy, but that's on Rocco? You think Rocco has done what to make CC worse this year? Like, what did Rocco do/say to make CC not as good as you expected, do you think? Also, the progress from 2018 doesn't matter? Again, tough crowd.
  5. Mike Sixel
    Tough crowd. Won the division in 19 and 20. Were terrible last year, and competitive this year. I'm not sure what people expect, especially given the team they inherited.
  6. Mike Sixel
    Potential outcomes are more predictive of the future, that's how they are used by teams. I still don't understand why anyone cares if the media focuses on this or not. I still don't understand how it changes what you like about baseball. If you watch the games, why do you care what the media says at all? How does what they say (or not) change what you liked about watching a game?
  7. Mike Sixel
    So, go into this year without Gray? Yikes. You have to give up talent to get talent. It was a good trade. I guess they could have punted this year, and not made the trade. That would have been safer for their jobs, I'd guess
  8. Mike Sixel
    Really. Look at the polls here and preseason prediction sites. Almost no one had them winning the division. People seem to forget how awful they were last year.
  9. Mike Sixel
    It was months ago. They claimed the Twins would have twenty more wins with another manager, which would have given them the best record at the time.
  10. Mike Sixel
    Before the year started, this team was predicted not to contend by nearly everyone. So, I'm not sure what people mean by the talent is great and the team is underperforming? And, those predictions were made assuming Kepler and Larnach would be healthy and playing.....
  11. Mike Sixel
    I doubt he could be worse than Beckham at this point, or Cave. Why not try? Anyway, hope you are well.
  12. Mike Sixel
    Actually the magic numbers say the Twins are bad at baserunning, so I am not sure what your point is.
  13. Mike Sixel
    I never get why anyone cares what the media hypes. Can you explain why you care? I'm really curious. Nothing about how the media covers it has to do with what you see on the field when there, so I don't get that last part at all?
  14. Mike Sixel
    Before the year started, almost no one thought this team was a contender, even when healthy..... Now it's the manager that is the problem, not the talent or the injuries? At one point right before the trade deadline, someone here posted the twins would have the best record in the game with another manager. Rocco's teams have won the division twice, and are competitive this year. Last year they were bad. If I had to guess, those results are largely about talent, health, and luck, and partly about the manager.
  15. Mike Sixel
    And yet, Atlanta is doing it, rather than play obviously bad players. Twice this year.
  16. Mike Sixel
    Larnach scored very well defensively, because he throws very well, and he takes good routes. One system had him among the best OFers at holding runners. Larnach would be a massive improvement over Cave or Beckham.
  17. Mike Sixel
    That's what Atlanta has been doing.....
  18. Mike Sixel
    I wish the Twins were as aggressive as the Atlanta team, and would promote guys that might not be ready, but have futures and elite skills. The won't be "ruined" if the come up too soon and fail, but at least they'd have a chance to be good (Atlanta promoted at least two guys this year that were crushing AA, but hadn't even been there for 100 at bats.....).
  19. Mike Sixel
    Bundy has 6 bad starts where he went less than 5 innings. He has almost twice as many good starts as bad. He has zero good starts where he went less than 5......He has 7 where he went 5.1 or more innings. https://www.fangraphs.com/players/dylan-bundy/12917/game-log?position=P&season=
  20. Mike Sixel
    That's league wide, and includes the pitchers that go longer (most of which are much better pitcher than Twins' pitchers). If the Twins had a number one, he'd go longer......
  21. Mike Sixel
    This. The Twins don't have a number one, and maybe have one number 2 right now. If they had better pitchers, they'd go longer into games.
  22. Mike Sixel
    That's good news. Not sure what it means that this has happened twice this year now. Way back before the deadline, I did suggest making him a 2 inning RP, but I think that would just have him throw harder, which would be bad.
  23. Mike Sixel
    It won't be JRod.... The catcher from Baltimore will win.
  24. Mike Sixel
    The rookie of the year will be Rutshman. He's a catcher that plays great D and hits Miranda is like fifth on war.... All three are great additions to the twins. Posters here seem to forget Ryan is a rookie.
  25. Mike Sixel
    Which other pitcher was traded that was better, that they could get? Mahle wasn't some cheap, bad, pitcher.
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