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  1. Mike Sixel
    Great one!
  2. Mike Sixel
    As one writer said on Twitter: Would I deal Sixto to move from 29th best catching to best catching for two years? Yes. Now go sign Harper or Machado.......
  3. Mike Sixel
    Unfortunately, yes, average players should make more money than those people. Supply and demand and all.....It doesn't make it moral, but it is the reality of the world we live in. I don't recall anyone mentioning 300M per year. I am curious what risk they are taking. Has any team ever sold for less than an ROI that an owner could get in teh stock market? I doubt it very much, and if so, it would be very rare. There is virtually no risk in owning a MBL, NFL, or NBA team (not sure about NHL). If it weren't for the uncapitalistic laws that Congress has passed, allowing MLB to act as a monopoly, and the terrible CBA, the players would make even more....
  4. Mike Sixel
    Huh, I thought there was one FA in 87, but I could be off on that. You recall the trades? And, I'm aware Morris and Davis came off bad years, but they did sign them, and it did work.
  5. Mike Sixel
    It's moot now. The Twins did not trade for him. Philly did. Now Philly will sign Harper or Machado most likely. Neither move might work out.....but at least they are trying to win. The fact that the Twins won't sign 25/6 year old generational talents until they are the last piece, well.....
  6. Mike Sixel
    Heck, Congress keeps passing LAWS that allow them to operate in ways no other businesses can, including possibly allowing minor league players to be barely paid........And taxpayers keep handing them money for stadiums and parking and and and.
  7. Mike Sixel
    I don't agree. I think they can make money and be good. It's a matter of how much money..... That's my issue. When they are competitive, or close, will they spend? Last year they spent a lot. But they were all short term investments, which were lauded for their efficiency. I want wins when they look good. They looked legit, sort of, after 17. They went half in. Turns out, somewhat due to injuries, they were right. Until they act differently, they are the Twins. A team that has only spent big in free agency twice. Coincidentally, those are the championship years....
  8. Mike Sixel
    I agree that it is more risky to sign free agents early in the process. After 2017, it looked like Buxton was legit. That was when I wanted Realmuto. Buxton got hurt, showing that even young position players carry risk. Had Buxton and Sano been healthy, and Dozier produced, having a legit pitcher and Realmuto may have been enough. Not likely, but we won't know. If those two are healthy and great this year, they will have almost no pitching under contract in 20. While it looks like there will be plenty available, someone will get hurt. Someone will get extended. Everyone will be a risk. I hope they take that risk if the core plays to it's potential
  9. Mike Sixel
    Two years vs three (or four) is a huge delta in the context of this team (and even w/o context). I don't think I do it, unless they also deal for a legit SP. Or something. Three years seems like an investment, two more like going for it.
  10. Mike Sixel
    Like the Yankees with Ellsbury (I was totally wrong about that one! but it also shows that even position players are risky).
  11. Mike Sixel
    I've never said build thru FA or trades. I've asked them to add one player they think is great, and one player just below that. Two players. Not a build.
  12. Mike Sixel
    this is a fan board, not a place of work......I think you miss that distinction here.
  13. Mike Sixel
    What's your argument, at the end? Don't spend any money, and make money on tv and radio and revenue sharing (the disconnect between attendance and profit has never been greater, according to several studies on line)? Is there some minimum they can spend, and still make money? Never invest in better players? Is there no obligation to spend, given that the taxpayers subsidize their business? And, NO ONE is saying that the Twins shouldn't treat this like a business. No one. The delta in opinion is about how much money they make, vs how much they try to win. They aren't losing money.
  14. Mike Sixel
    No one thought he was that good.
  15. Mike Sixel
    Despite having Buxton, Rosario, Kepler, Cave, Wade, Reed, Kirilloff, Lanarch, Badoo, and more, and OF always being available in FA.... The team needs to be taking chances on pitchers. Imo. They literally have Berrios and, um, no one else proven, under control past this year. And the RP corps isn't in much better shape.
  16. Mike Sixel
    Moving and shifting in baseball is more boring than football. Plus, you can't really see it.
  17. Mike Sixel
    Reducing one way to add more talent, by trade.
  18. Mike Sixel
    Wins? Really? Wins are a team stat. I mean, would you rather add a player that gave up 5 runs a game, but played with the best offense, or a player that gave up 2 runs a game and played with the Mets..... Darvish got hurt. If Perez now gets hurt, will it be a bad signing because he doesn't get wins?
  19. Mike Sixel
    Fangraphs has a poll up, if anyone wants to vote.....
  20. Mike Sixel
    Of course, we get three angles of replays, so it seems like there is action...... But, sit at a game? Awful for pace of play......
  21. Mike Sixel
    I'd rather teams had a pool of money to spend, and they can bid using that pool. Drafts are inherently bad for player income.
  22. Mike Sixel
    I'm sure tv would keep paying the same... This just isn't realistic at all.
  23. Mike Sixel
    How did not signing FA RPs work out, using guys that produced negative WAR instead? I mean, if the argument that signing them doesn't work, how has not signing them worked out? Maybe the answer is to just be smarter and better (really, the only way a mid market team can win, since they don't have unlimited resources). As for Darvish, supposedly they bid the second most, so the FO must have wanted him. Since you like to exaggerate others' posts to make a point....are you suggesting never to sign a FA? Even though we see from successful teams that they have WAR from FAs of some kind (or trades)? No team is built solely from within, at least not winning teams.
  24. Mike Sixel
    Hard to say for sure, other than every site has them as a top 4-10 system........ Also, since they pretty much never make trades (I know, new FO.....)....it seems more likely they just don't like to make trades to acquire MLB talent all that often. It seems fairly statistically impossible that they could almost never have the opportunity....
  25. Mike Sixel
    Yikes!
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