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  1. Mike Sixel
    Trade him. You could get lucky. No idea who plays short though.....
  2. Mike Sixel
    Happ..... shoemaker.... The bullpen.... This isn't just one thing.
  3. Mike Sixel
    Truly awful. I'm really doubting they know anything about pitching.
  4. Mike Sixel
    I'm really shocked at the 3B and SS play this year by the two veterans. Some of the other errors have been eye poppingly bad. Something isn't right in Twins' land....
  5. Mike Sixel
    They could have taken Enlow w/o saving money....according to rules, if not the budget. I think I said at the time I wanted pitching, because the Twins would never pay what it takes to sign an elite pitcher. I think I said Gore or McCay at the time, though Greene intrigued me he made me nervous. I also said if they are going to take corner hitters, they better be willing to deal them as prospects to get pitching. Apparently Gore can't throw strikes for the past 2 years. Greene looks like the real deal this year, but we'll see. I have no idea what to think about Lewis' hitting at this point. And, it will be at least 18 months before we do, imo.
  6. Mike Sixel
    Correct, thanks for being more clear than I.
  7. Mike Sixel
    Who did that? Who has used any stats to show they aren't playing poorly? I'm genuinely curious, because I'd love to see that. Look, the problem is the pitching. And somehow the defense.
  8. Mike Sixel
    Sure did. 5 weeks of greatness, followed by another trip to the DL, does not cancel out years of data on him and others.
  9. Mike Sixel
    Buxton is not a top five player in baseball. He's great, but no. Pineda had the most value, by far. Then the relief pitchers.
  10. Mike Sixel
    Bummer. Good luck in your recovery!
  11. Mike Sixel
    I said that players can't control hitting it to right, not at the fielder. I'll say it again, people really underestimate the role of luck in hitting the ball not at a fielder. It just isn't easy to hit the ball where you want, or more guys would do it. And we wouldn't be complaining about offense. Do people think that the same FOs that figured out to improve pitching aren't working on doing it for hitting, and would teach "hit it where it can't be caught" if they could?
  12. Mike Sixel
    These sample sizes are pretty small....I'm not sure what we really KNOW right now....other than when he's healthy, he's quite good.
  13. Mike Sixel
    Another CB signed. They certainly know what they had to fix...... I'm a fan of hole plugging like this.
  14. Mike Sixel
    Sure, but that's not what the post I responded to said, at all. He said ballplayers should all be like Carew, one of the greatest hitters of all time, at controlling the batted ball. That's just not realistic.
  15. Mike Sixel
    I'm not sure what other options were realistic, but to me, the biggest mistake was signing two number 5 pitchers to be your starters on a team that was supposed to contend. ..... with no real immediate backup plan in place. Some of that is a bit out of their control due to the lost year last year. But it is their job not (IMO) to have two bad starters locked in place for 1/6 - 1/4 of the season. So, I think you can sign EITHER Happ or Shoemaker, but not both, to be starters on a contender.
  16. Mike Sixel
    Yes, the price of college needs to be fixed somehow, I agree....but I think of loan forgiveness as the government subsidizing the cost of college at the back end, instead of up front. In addition to schools increasing costs because they can, governments also subsidize school less than they did up front...... If I ran the world, we'd forgive some level of debt, with the following rule......any school that raises tuition or other costs for the next 10 years makes their students ineligible for future student loan forgiveness (by law, so that the law would need to be changed for this to change). That's off the top of my head, I'm sure there are better ways to control costs, I just don't know what they are at this point.....without price fixing of a non-voluntary nature.
  17. Mike Sixel
    If you like D&D, Solasta is a new video game that is very true to the 5e rules. I've only played the beta so far....
  18. Mike Sixel
    Wingspan and Jaws of the Lion. Often play Odin's Ravens as our go to quick, two person, game. Best board games (not in order, that I've played): 7 Wonders Wingspan Azul Odin's Ravens (2 player only) Jaipur (2 player only) Carcassonne Ticket to Ride Check out this list: http://meadowparty.com/blog/2019/11/18/top-100-boardgames-2019-edition/
  19. Mike Sixel
    ? No, if you go to Fangraphs or other places, that is not what they would say about BA with RISP. They'd say that sample size is smaller compared to overall batting numbers, and that that those numbers are 1000000x better at predicting the future.
  20. Mike Sixel
    We all would, but the data tells us that a hard hit ball is more likely to be a hit.....If you want to know what is likely to happen in the future (say, if you ran a team), you'd want the data that tells you what is likely to happen in the future, not the luck that happened in the past.
  21. Mike Sixel
    If hitters could control where the ball went, their batting average would be ridiculously higher. I really don't think it is as easy as you think. As a matter of fact, I'll bet you anything that if we ask players, coaches, and analysts, they'll back me up. Maybe you can try to hit it to right, but to hit it to right and not at the fielder, or where the fielder can catch it? No way.
  22. Mike Sixel
    I think a lot of people assumed this FO would be good at the pitching side of things, with no evidence that they would be good or bad......but this year sure makes me worried. By the end of this year, we should have some idea if they can develop pitching, hopefully they'll show a willingness to add good starters in a year they think they'll compete (unlike this year, when they added two number 8 pitchers).
  23. Mike Sixel
    I hope to be wrong.....
  24. Mike Sixel
    Fangraphs has an excellent article on their predicament.....
  25. Mike Sixel
    Shouldn't the fans do that? Shouldn't they not give them money for a terrible product?
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