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  1. Mike Sixel
    I don't get the sign him crowd. Check out his numbers over his career, and the trend......this team isn't going to contend next year by filling out the holes with replacement level, or slightly above, players. The don't need to save money on 2B, they have tens of millions available to spend. I'd trade him for any lottery ticket, but I don't know why a GM trades for him w/o an injury. Barring that, I play him here the rest of the year, and thank him for his time here at the end of the season, and go get a better player.
  2. Mike Sixel
    Molitor: Who's this Trevor May you keep talking about? for me.....if May is healthy and good, I'd use him as a high leverage guy in inning 7 or 8....I'd even consider making him a real 2 inning, 2x a week pitcher, and have him ready whenever Mejia or X are pitching (X being whomever else can't go 6 innings).... For closer? McGill until he shows he can't be trusted with it.
  3. Mike Sixel
    Sort of. 1. I do not recommend day trading. 2. If you love a set of companies, and they drop for no good reason (the whole market drops, random whatever noise).....why would you not buy more at that point? 3. Like I said, I do this with a tiny portion of my retirement account....I buy on drops, and sell on rises. Over and over on the same stocks that I would buy and hold anyway. So far, it's been better than buy and hold, but I'd never do it with anywhere near a big percent of my accounts.
  4. Mike Sixel
    The market is certainly a roller coaster this year....not for people that look every day and worry a lot..... OTOH, a good opportunity to buy on the downside, and sell on the up (in your retirement account, with just a little of it) as a way to entertain yourself, and remind yourself not to be a day trader......It's mostly worked for me, but not as well as I'd hoped.
  5. Mike Sixel
    Why would he take a team friendly deal? He's already a millionaire, he can bet on himself.
  6. Mike Sixel
    Another year of control, even though I am opposed to the system.....the system exists. this isn't keeping him down at the start of a year, when wins matter........so, whatever they have to do to get another year of control. Send him to FtM or someplace to hit and hit and hit....and hit some more. than hit again.
  7. Mike Sixel
    I could not care less about minor league playoffs. I want the Twins to be good, as soon as possible.
  8. Mike Sixel
    I think Rooker and Kiriloff could be promoted at this point, but I guess there isn't much season left.......Hopefully they start next year up a level from where they are (or maybe even in MN for Rooker).
  9. Mike Sixel
    I agree with this also. I don't get the angst over the comments......they make sense emotionally, if not logically. They should be upset about this, all of it......on reflection, they should also realize why this happened and not be upset over time.
  10. Mike Sixel
    Who's joyful on this site about Stewart? I don't read that anywhere..... but, given that he went unclaimed last year by every team....him showing that maybe (maybe) he will work somehow in the majors is an improvement. So, count me in the hopeful, but doubting, group.
  11. Mike Sixel
    They went in hard in the off season. It didn't work. The players were mostly bad, or hurt. I don't know what Santana wanted, logically. Emotionally? Sure. But the front office can't act on emotions. And no, there is no evidence they should bring him back. I don't know if odorrizi is the right veteran or not.....
  12. Mike Sixel
    they've already seen Romero, Gonsalves isn't available for Sunday......and Stewart needs to be on teh 40 man next year, or will likely be claimed. I fail to see the downside. Gonsalves and Thorpe will get their chances. I'm just super excited it is not a 34 yo veteran with no future with the team.
  13. Mike Sixel
    Good move.
  14. Mike Sixel
    Or scouting, or physical ability, or lots of things.....most of the online publications have guys and gals that see the people in person, and they don't just rely on stats. They also talk to scouts from every organization over and over. I'd guess that there is some bias for original thoughts, but it disappears over time. After all, a month or two of data shouldn't change your opinion on someone, if that opinion is based on several years of data, unless there is a clear process change.
  15. Mike Sixel
    If there were no other options, was it really brilliant strategy, or just what was available? I think they did a lot right last off season, it just didn't work. But I also think they did little to nothing to fix the medium term, either by signing longer term FAs or trading for player(s). But, if there are no real options for long term deals, is it really genius to not do what you can't do? That was the point of the post.......maybe they signed a bunch of ST deals because there wasn't another option, not because that's what they wanted to do. I hope they are dealing from this super deep farm system for 1 MLB player with 3+ years of control this off season. No idea who, but a C, 3B, OF, 1B or SP would be nice. If not, it looks like another year of 1 year deals and hoping someone from the farm steps up.
  16. Mike Sixel
    A QO will be worth 19MM by then.....at that point, depending on how things look, you maybe just take that 1 year deal. If he's this good next year, he'll get a deal, even as a 32 yo. Most athletes bet on themselves at this point, not all, but most. I think 4/80 gets it done. I don't think 3 years (as that's only a 2 year extension) gets is done, but it might. Kind of depends how long he wants to play.
  17. Mike Sixel
    There isn't a national publication that even has them close, is there? I mean, FG has Arraez 31st on their list. I doubt that is some kind of bias.....
  18. Mike Sixel
    I have no idea why everyone is so sure Romero is going to be really good, he's not even in the majors right now........ I see no shot Gibson signs for a low deal, this is his last shot to make big money. You either have to give him years, or big money, or both, imo, to get him to sign.
  19. Mike Sixel
    It also glosses over that they went low risk, low reward, by not signing the best FAs (though they certainly tried to sign Darvish).
  20. Mike Sixel
    Wow. Unexpected. Not sure how I feel about the return. Make McGill the closer please. Keep May for high leverage. Or maybe move Reed to closer?
  21. Mike Sixel
    I'm not sure how anyone can reach that conclusion based on the past 12 months. I'd love to hear your rationale.
  22. Mike Sixel
    No, but why not sign your 2nd or 3rd best too? And, welcome to the site!
  23. Mike Sixel
    It's kind of hard to overuse a hitter, compared to a pitcher. They are two different animals. Most hitters don't need time off, if they do, that handicaps the teams. Pitchers? totally different, they need time off.
  24. Mike Sixel
    I find it fascinating that so many would never draft a pitcher in round 1, because of injury concerns, but would commit 6-8 years on a contract to one. It seems like a disconnect. Of course, I don't agree on not drafting one early, so I'm probably more inclined to take the risk. I think it's also harder to sign Berrios than the two CLE pitchers because he already got a good bonus, not a great bonus, but a good one. Elite players are signing less and less contracts, if they are the kind that got paid at signing, because they see what happened to some of their peers. Me? I flip flop on signing Berrios to a deal, and only because of injuries. That said, I'd offer him 6-8 years, and see what happens. There is real value in certainty (or as close as baseball can come), and he's a legit very good to great pitcher. Gibson? Hmmmm......I'd offer a 4 year deal, meaning a 3 year extension. I don't think it happens, though. If I'm him, I want to be a FA in a year, unless the TWins really go big.
  25. Mike Sixel
    He probably will, but from what I've read, teh quality of the pitching there has dropped the last couple years, as teams worry about injury. But, we'll see.... I agree with everyone, he should be in AAA now.
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