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  1. Mike Sixel
    I'm hopeful they don't mess with Santiago again....and let him be effectively wild.
  2. Mike Sixel
    And that's better how? How does that help 2018 or beyond?
  3. Mike Sixel
    They kept trading, and didn't quit because they made bad ones. Bad ones happen. We get it, you don't think the trades mattered, and you don't think they should get credit for making good ones, because they have money to use. We don't agree. How about the White Sox, or Braves? Do they get no points for their trades if they later sign free agents? Putting that aside.....this reminds me of the don't trade Adrian Peterson situation, only worse, because AP could carry an offense almost on his own. Imagine if they had dealt him 2 or 3 years ago for a couple early picks and a young player......that team would be better off right now.
  4. Mike Sixel
    But they started with trades....then the used FA. That's the point. The point isn't that they didn't use FA at all. It isn't that FA didn't help. It is that they used ALL avenues to build their team. So tired....
  5. Mike Sixel
    I doubt there is much, any, fire in that smoke from the Braves' talk.....unless a deal is made, we'll never know, of course. I don't know why the Braves would do that, given they have Swanson and Albies and some other MIF I can't think of right now.....not to mention they aren't good yet, and Dozier only has 2 years left on his deal.
  6. Mike Sixel
    Fair, I was mostly listing them as a team that traded veterans, got prospects, and have a loaded minor league system ,as compared to a system MLB or BA said might be bottom ten, after this much losing.
  7. Mike Sixel
    I left the Braves off my list of teams that traded for prospects and got more and got better.....so that's another one. As for the WS, they didn't figure it out until this year. They are 1 year into their trying to rebuild, aren't they?
  8. Mike Sixel
    Well, that's not the route the Astros or Cubs or Phillies are taking....or the White Sox. All of whom have managed to rebuild faster than this team has. Not, imo, a coincidence. Keeping veterans around to win 78 games and not 71 games is not good strategy, imo.
  9. Mike Sixel
    If people are worried about 2017 wins and competitiveness, then we are at an impasse completely. This team has lost 90+ games how many times in the last 6 years? There is no realistic path to 2017 wins having any meaning at all. I haven't actively ripped the team, I've been asking questions of people. I have been pretty clear (early on) that a 1:1 deal was not a deal I liked. I have posted that my thinking is evolving on that. I do think not finding a way to trade Dozier is a failure. It will be 5 years of being bad, and not making any good trades of veterans for prospects. That's a failure of the team, imo. How did not trading Perkins or Plouffe work out? Everyone happy on not taking 50 cents on the dollar for Plouffe last year? Or keeping Perkins around because he was cheap?
  10. Mike Sixel
    Still not enough.....
  11. Mike Sixel
    who ripped them in this thread? Not me, I'm asking people questions about: 1. not trading for prospects at all (wow) 2. not trading for pitching, because 1 player can't fix every problem 3. How keeping Dozier moves the needle for the future. None of those actually rip anyone, I'm trying to understand people's arguments....nothing more or less.
  12. Mike Sixel
    How does keeping him move the needle?
  13. Mike Sixel
    your contention is that someone is going to offer more than a top 10 pitching prospect in the future?
  14. Mike Sixel
    So, don't add more prospects, because adding 1-2 good ones from trading Dozier won't fix everything? So, basically, do no moves, because no one move will fix everything? Is that your argument? If not, help me understand that last sentence, please. I guess we'll find out if the young guys play. Plenty of people expect Berrios in AAA to start the year, to work on whatever Neil Allen thinks he's missing. If they do that, and he stays down in AAA for long, I can't imagine my interest in this team will increase. For a rebuilding team, not much rebuilding is going on.....
  15. Mike Sixel
    Is every team's list that uninspiring?
  16. Mike Sixel
    How does English pass Granite or Wade to be a backup in this system? Hopefully he gets healthy.
  17. Mike Sixel
    Once again, the longer, earlier thread is shut down. I don't get it.
  18. Mike Sixel
    the world in general. There seems to be an effect that if a player is positvely viewed, the board takes the word on the street as real (those parts of the board that BELIEVE in leadership being important, not those arguing leadership is less important, that's not the same as saying he's not a good leader), when guys have negative reps, but are good, people say still sign him. Just like bad dudes that play in the NFL but are great have lots of fans....
  19. Mike Sixel
    so, when someone is a "great leader", we take the peoples' word for it, but when he's not, we don't? Or am I misunderstanding all the talk about signing great veteran leaders?
  20. Mike Sixel
    I think Seth means he autographed them....
  21. Mike Sixel
    so glad you didn't disappoint me. but really, what kind of cocktail?
  22. Mike Sixel
    Gin, or tequila?
  23. Mike Sixel
    take your ball, go home, lose 85+ games with perhaps the worst pitching staff in the majors? I like the way you think, sir.* *note, I am somewhat inclined to agree with you, but we don't know the offer. It isn't a switch, it's a dial. If it is close to "fair", and it gives them 2 pitchers they think are real, I probably do it if I have to swallow some pride.
  24. Mike Sixel
    really? wow. How is that good for development of pitchers?
  25. Mike Sixel
    Unreal. A multi-billion dollar industry, and they don't use the same ball in AAA as in the majors (probably other parts of the minors also). Talk about setting up players for failure....
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