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  1. Mike Sixel
    All reasonable decisions. Good luck to all of them.
  2. Mike Sixel
    People really underestimate Jeffers when compared to other catchers..... especially offensively. Ober is the clear winner. Then Ryan, Jeffers, and the rest. I'm happy for Gordon, and see him as a good utility player, who will hit better next year.
  3. Mike Sixel
    Best of two, for the wild card. Then re-seed. Of course, I really think every team should be in the playoffs..... And have two proposals to do it that way, but no one agrees with me. I'd make a huge deal of the regular season winner, then have a second, short season, or playoffs.
  4. Mike Sixel
    I just bought Gloomhaven on sale. And Onitama. The latter is a two person game that has been recommended to me multiple times.
  5. Mike Sixel
    Is he even going to pitch next year? A lot of angst over an injured minor league relief pitcher. The fear on this site that the Twins might lose a good player is amazing. Not just this move, but nearly every player people are worried about. Many of those posters also hate trading Berrios for prospects..... Which is ironic.
  6. Mike Sixel
    Larnach, Jeffers, Rortvedt, Lewis, Martin, Miranda, kiriloff...... How many top hitting prospects or rookies do people think teams have? That ignores any breakout.
  7. Mike Sixel
    Agreed. Too much talent for too little revenue.
  8. Mike Sixel
    One of those years was cancelled, right? Also, you missed guys they traded for or signed.
  9. Mike Sixel
    They signed Jack Morris and Kirby Puckett to two of the largest deals in MLB at the time...so, no.
  10. Mike Sixel
    BTW....Kevin Goldstein said on the Fangraphs' chat last night (he was in a FO for a bit) that teams don't look at who "won" a trade. They are trying to make their team better (or whatever their goal is) and don't worry about beating the other team in a trade.
  11. Mike Sixel
    I'm not sure I really care who wins, as long as it isn't the Yankees (yay!) or Red Sox or Atlanta. I think I prefer the Giants and Dodgers and Brewers among all the teams.
  12. Mike Sixel
    Ya, nothing about that is good. Especially against a terrible Lions team. The team is pretty poorly run if they use him in that game, imo. Also, signing him to that deal was not a good idea. I'd have traded him. 100%.
  13. Mike Sixel
    Ha, I misunderstood your post 100% completely! My bad.
  14. Mike Sixel
    It was a lost year by May. His job was to get young players experience in lots of situations. Also, name calling?
  15. Mike Sixel
    Ya, not like there are any big names there at all, really.
  16. Mike Sixel
    He can only play the schedule he's handed. They won 93 games and the division. I don't know how that can be considered anything other than really good.
  17. Mike Sixel
    It's amazing how much inside knowledge so many in this thread have! We literally have NO IDEA how he is outside the public eye. None. I agree with someone above, A LOT of the complaints here are more about the players he was given, than what he did with them. If you think manager more than a few games, why aren't they paid more? Players get 6-8 million per WAR.....if a manager is worth 10 wins, what should they be paid? The manager's job is hardly at all about in game moments, I'd guess. Much more about managing a group of employees with massive egos (no one is a pro athlete w/o ego).
  18. Mike Sixel
    Agreed. Teams do trade good players sometimes. Lamenting giving up talent to get talent seems odd, given what I read here all the time....
  19. Mike Sixel
    That's about the only other team they match up with, imo. I'd want to deal Abrams for pitching at that point....or Lewis. Certainly Arraez is gone.
  20. Mike Sixel
    Certainly seems possible. They are flush in SS prospects, including one that got to AAA this year. IF they deal Buxton, I'd move Lewis to CF, Martin to LF, and Peraza (from NYY) to SS at AAA to start the year. I'd also want one of their top pitching prospects and 2 fliers. I don't want them to deal Buxton, no, I don't. But if they do, NYY are one of the more likely teams involved.
  21. Mike Sixel
    You have to trade talent to get it. The Gil trade is bad not for trading Gil, but what they got. Also, Gil was not good his last few starts. Maeda got hurt, but was awesome before that. The Badoo thing is silliness, imo. He was awful, lower in the minors, no one, no one, could have predicted this. They've made a lot of mistakes, but I guess I could list all the great and good moves. Do we really think other teams don't get nothing for marginal or good players in trades all the time? Or even let bullpen arms go that are good for a year or two? They took a terrible team, and won two divisions. Let's see what happens the next two years. I get it. You think the team wins in spite of them. We don't even come close to agreeing.
  22. Mike Sixel
    What an awful decision, and whomever suggested bringing him should be fired.
  23. Mike Sixel
    I'm not sure why you didn't use the board, and not minor league leader board, when looking at the hitters? I mean, Lewis and Martin are number 1 and 3 on the list of team prospects......and there are three others in the top 12. That's five of the top 12 prospects as hitters, and Miranda isn't even in that part of the list (yet). Agreed on the pitching depth, this isn't the old Twins at all.
  24. Mike Sixel
    Or....they thought they didn't need him as much as a possible starter, likely RP, and a possible starting OF. Sure, they could be wrong about that.....but if you can get a good RP and good OF for 1.5 years of a good RP, why not? Why not do that? Sure, Houston unlocked things the Twins did not. Not every team is good at every thing, especially given they'd just begun changing the systems and processes in 2018. Is this part of a pattern? Possibly. But to call this one a bad trade at this point seems off to me. YMMV, of course.
  25. Mike Sixel
    Preach!
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