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  1. Mike Sixel
    Also, I think Kiriloff is legit, if his wrist can stay healthy, and he looks great at 1B.
  2. Mike Sixel
    The catching situation is as good as it has been in some time. Jeffers is legit. Garver can hit as well as any catcher, and IMO catcher D is over rated. And then Rortverdt is a legit backup catcher, who might be a legit starting catcher. DH is covered between Garver and whomever they feel works better between Donaldson, Sano, Arraez (my choice, as his D is not great), and Rooker. Polanco is back, and should be starting at 2B until they decide Martin or someone else should. They have enough minor league pitching in AA and AAA to build most of a legit bullpen, if they move some guys there sooner rather than later, and bring some up this year to get their feet wet. They have plenty of money to fix either one SP or SS or possibly both this off season. There are A LOT of SP and SS in this FA class.
  3. Mike Sixel
    He's not asking for help. It's how the game is run today. Lineups, situational decisions, everything is discussed between the field staff and front office.
  4. Mike Sixel
    100 percent guarantee the FO and manager have planned the lineup together. 100 percent.
  5. Mike Sixel
    Well, Ryan is at the Olympics.... But I bet we are him when that are over....
  6. Mike Sixel
    While I agree this makes sense, and they have nothing to lose.... The fact Burrows is still on the roster, and not someone from their system, makes me nervous that they just can't move on like they should sometimes.... And this guy might take a forty man place next year, even is he shouldn't.
  7. Mike Sixel
    I hate to wish ill on anyone.....
  8. Mike Sixel
    Fair....but I"m not sure those guys are what you think they are in terms of who they can get for 2 years. I also worry about how hard it is to replace guys every year or two, which we are seeing this year. They didn't replace the kind of years Hill / Odo had when they were here and good...... But, I get your point, we just don't agree. No biggie to me.
  9. Mike Sixel
    I'm not ready to punt 2023. And, you can sign a guy a year earlier than you are serious contenders. It is nearly impossible to fill all the holes in one off season. Signing guys to 2 year deals, imo, is almost a self-fulfilling prophecy of problems. The best players won't do that, so you are left with the leftovers..... I think putting 4 rookies and Maeda out there is a huge mistake, in terms of managing the young guys' careers for mentor/observation/help/whatever words you want to use. I'm only 90% willing to punt next year, frankly. The O is good enough to make the playoffs. The D and pitching are not. Get a real SS, one real SP, and one real RP......and get lucky with the minors....I mean, I'd deal from their depth of hitters that can't field for a guy under team control, but I don't see them doing that.....
  10. Mike Sixel
    I can't see a reason for Burrows to be on the MLB roster, not with several guys in AAA to get a look at.
  11. Mike Sixel
    If you think the team will be garbage in three years, it doesn't matter if they sign guys or not. I'm not really understanding your argument, frankly.....We all agree, they need at least 2 of their minor league pitchers to be good to great. No one is arguing that. the question is....should they sign 1-2 FA starters? I vote yes, on at least one. The young guys need mentors. They need someone to even just watch how they do their job, how they prepare, everything. Also, if 2 work out, and you've already signed a guy, bonus! If none work out, it doesn't matte if you sign a guy or not. There is little downside to signing one good FA pitcher. They have the money, they need 8 pitchers and have 1 or 2 right now....I don't see the downside at all. If the young guys are good by 2023, you have a guy locked in. If the young guys are bad, you can trade him (or not, if he's not working out). If somehow too many young guys are good, you deal someone for some f'n defense (which this team utterly lacks).
  12. Mike Sixel
    Right....I was told over and over that they could draft a bunch of great hitters then deal them for pitchers..... I mean, I really like the Berrios trade, but that guy might not have a position either.....
  13. Mike Sixel
    Ya, no. Trading the only three good defensive players on the entire roster is a terrible idea. I assume your plan is to 100% punt next year, and probably 2023 also, then. Because they will have no defense at all. None.
  14. Mike Sixel
    They traded for two prospects, that you'll know in a year or two. And, they'll be around A LOT longer than Berrios would be. Every one of these guys was a prospect at one point. Fans show up for winners. IF they win, and no one has heard of the players, people won't care. (note, I'm not saying they will win, but that is what fans care about. The data on that is quite clear, attendance goes way up for winning teams).
  15. Mike Sixel
    I guess I'm also more willing to give them credit for 2019 and 2020 and how much better the team was in those years than the previous ones (though that was about trades and FA.....). But, that makes me more confident than I would otherwise be. The thing that REALLY gets me is they have zero RPs to show in five years. That's almost impossible. BTW, if you look at hitter WAR, the O is fine, the baserunning not ideal but whatever, but the D? Yikes, the D is really bad. Like, really, really bad. This FO has utterly ignored fielding in the draft, other than Lewis....with a lot of hit first guys that don't really have a position. And no, they get no credit for Buxton.....
  16. Mike Sixel
    I have no idea. Last year really messed up our ability to judge them at developing players. Possibly a lame answer, I know, but still..... That said, I'm not SUPER confident. They have zero, nada, nil, nyet, zippo, RPs, let alone SPs to show for their time here that they developed that we have a lot of confidence in at this point. So, I guess I do have an idea, I'm not super confident, but I'm also willing to admit we don't have enough data yet.
  17. Mike Sixel
    Maybe, I don't know, start trying them NOW so you have more data on them (not this guy, necessarily, but they have A LOT or potential RPs in AAA / AA).
  18. Mike Sixel
    Missing the point imo, that the FO isn't inept at finding pitchers.......which is what many on this site are claiming. They blew it this year, and haven't developed a minor league pitcher yet, but to say they know nothing about pitching and haven't found any in their time here (going from like 29th to top ten in ERA) seems to be just a bit of an exaggeration to me.
  19. Mike Sixel
    I almost bought Atlassian two weeks ago.....sigh.
  20. Mike Sixel
    They probably aren't....but I'm a fan of adding players the year before you are competitive, to increase the likelihood you are. Adding 1-2 legit starting pitchers, which they can afford, makes them better for 2023 also. I'd like a SS and a SP more than 2 SP.....
  21. Mike Sixel
    Because: 1. Berrios said he wanted to test FA. 2. Now they can sign a player of Berrios quality, have him here for more than just 1 year, and have two great prospects. Every team should do stuff like this. Every. Single. Team.
  22. Mike Sixel
    Berrios made it clear he wants to test FA. We have no idea if they'll sign a relatively expensive pitcher or not next year. I'm out of the game of getting mad at the team for not doing something they can't possibly do yet....
  23. Mike Sixel
    Fangraphs roster resource page is your go to spot for status of players and 40 man and other information.....
  24. Mike Sixel
    They have the lowest vaccination rate in the NFL. Losers gonna lose.
  25. Mike Sixel
    No. there is a zero percent chance he's left off the 40 man in the next two years. Zero. Is there a number less than zero? If so, that's the odds Lewis is not on the 40 man in 22 or 23.
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