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  1. Mike Sixel
    What is financial flexibility, besides double speak to not spend money? It means.....don't spend money today, so you can have money to spend in the future....but in the future, that will be today, so you won't spend there either, because you need the flexibility in the future, etc. If now is not the time to spend money, when they have $50-70MM in space in payroll, and Cruz coming off the books next year (and probably Rosario and Cron), when is the time? Cruz coming off more than covers every arbitration raise next year, and probably an extension or two.......
  2. Mike Sixel
    This. Cole won't sign until after Strasburg, most likely. And unless Stras re-ups early with Washington, it will be January .....
  3. Mike Sixel
    This does create an interesting dilemna for the FO. If they can't get him to negotiate a longer deal, do they sign another guy to a one year deal? If so, that sets up next off season to be potentially (likely) needing to add 1-2 new SPs again (and that's assuming that 1-2 of their minor league guys step up). I hope that "forces" them to be more active for the first or second tier types....
  4. Mike Sixel
    I meant to say one day before it was announced, not before it was to happen. Ooops.
  5. Mike Sixel
    Ya, I probably should have just held that investment a couple years ago......oh well.
  6. Mike Sixel
    No, but again, that was not the post I was responding to.
  7. Mike Sixel
    I am always amused at posts that love financial flexibility, but insist actually using that flexibility to sign good players is a bad idea...... A payroll of 106MM would be awful messaging, not to mention likely not all that good a team. The window isn't open next year if they don't have any good pitchers...... Odo can get 18MM for 1 year. Unless he thinks he's going to get injured, he should be pretty confident of around 15MM a year after that, given he'll have no draft pick tied to him after 2020. Why would he take such a small deal?
  8. Mike Sixel
    The post I responded to stated one year deals are exactly what the TWins should be doing....not one, one year deal...... I have no issue with one, one year deal. I have issues with multiple one year deals. Nothing more or less.
  9. Mike Sixel
    I like this option, as long as they also acquire two starters on multi year deals. They can't afford to be in this position again next year, only having 1 year deals on 80% of their rotation....
  10. Mike Sixel
    He and his team were notified of the workout one day before it was to happen. Most workouts happen on a Tuesday, for obvious reasons. His team asked for a Tuesday. The NFL said no. He asked for a delay, so he had more than a couple days to prepare. The NFL said no. This is BS.
  11. Mike Sixel
    It's hard to argue they need payroll flexibility in the same post you argue they shouldn't sign players to long term deals.....what good is payroll flexibility if you won't use it? How do you propose they fill four-seven rotation spots this off season, without spending money (and still be a great team)?
  12. Mike Sixel
    Not committing to the future is how you need four new starting pitchers going into a new year....they don't need more of that.
  13. Mike Sixel
    You think it is LIKELY that a minor league pitcher will be better than Berrios? I don't even know how to respond to that.
  14. Mike Sixel
    Odorizzi isn't on the roster right now, which is what the post I responded to was talking about.
  15. Mike Sixel
    Nineteen qualified hitters hit over .300 last year... Expecting Arreaz to do that seems suspect. Could happen, but I'm not sure it is likely.
  16. Mike Sixel
    Five and two thirds would be more innings than the average MLB start last year. I don't think people realize how few innings starters are throwing.
  17. Mike Sixel
    Also ditto on this one.
  18. Mike Sixel
    Was going to type up a long reply, but I'll just say ditto to this one.
  19. Mike Sixel
    I hate sign stealing. It's not part of the play, but outside it. But there is virtually no way to eliminate it, alas.
  20. Mike Sixel
    People should look at the lists of free agents out there, and see where national sites have Gibson. Remember, most of those articles are written with anonymous team input.... There aren't a ton of great options, which is kind of a problem when you don't have anyone on your roster but Berrios.
  21. Mike Sixel
    Only Berrios is better at this point. I have no idea what that first sentence means. The other guys might eventually be better, but not one of them is as ready to help win baseball games as a healthy Gibson to start the season next year.
  22. Mike Sixel
    Of course they should if they are confident the disease is under control. But I'd rather have Odo, Wheeler, and someone they trade for they like more than Gibson. If they can't get those three, then Gibson makes sense if he's healthy.
  23. Mike Sixel
    I can't believe you are arguing this. There were more non humans in those forty minutes than the last two movies combined. I guess you can be pedantic, sure, the main characters are human. Whatever.
  24. Mike Sixel
    The dude that helped him on the planet was human? We don't know all the recurring characters yet. There were plenty of non humans all around the town, and in the first scene. His first bounty wasn't human. Compared to the movies, it's a real difference. Especially the two newest movies.
  25. Mike Sixel
    First episode of the mandalorian was quite good. I love it's lack of being human centric....
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