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  1. Mike Sixel
    100%, this. I would hit the love button if there was one.
  2. Mike Sixel
    Correct on the pitching. With the two guys you mentioned hurt, and tate gone, I prefer a hitter this year.
  3. Mike Sixel
    Many SS, though, don't project to hit much for an OF........ I'm all over taking the best overall hitter available right now.
  4. Mike Sixel
    Money, no one else was going to pay him close that money. Not close.* *see my sig.....
  5. Mike Sixel
    That said, I'm cool letting Santana stay out there, if they don't believe in Escobar.......I just am unsure why no one believes in Escobar at this point.
  6. Mike Sixel
    No idea what you are talking about, I never said what do with Santana in that post. I was asking why Escobar, given his age and success last year, could not be the SS until Gordon or someone else is. None of that has anything to do with moving Santana around, indeed, moving him around last year was a HUGE bungle on their part, if they wanted him at SS long term. Like, mind numbingly bad. If the FO is making long term financial decisions based on fans freaking out, they are losing the game. My question on this thread was couldn't Escobar be the future. That has zero to do with what you and the other poster are talking about, imo.
  7. Mike Sixel
    I can live with that answer. But, not sure I agree on Santana's upside. If only they would have shown this patience in the field last year, and had him at short.....
  8. Mike Sixel
    Who's fault is it that he is a rookie at SS? They deserve this. How old is Escobar? Why can't he be the future for 3 or 4 years?
  9. Mike Sixel
    Arcia should be in right, imo. Moving around a young guy with fielding issues was a terrible idea. The Twins should play the young guys and see what they have. Enough with the old, bad, players already. That said, Escobar is not old. I think I might go to him. In center? Hicks has shown he can't hit or field, over two years. No interest in him coming back until he does something in AAA. Buxton should be right whet he is for now.
  10. Mike Sixel
    From Grantland......... Worst of all might be Danny Santana, who ranks last in the majors in DRS and has somehow already cost his team six runs on defense in just 12 games. Thanks to a seemingly excellent rookie season in 2014, Santana won the Opening Day shortstop job, but his shiny .319/.353/.472 effort last year can largely be chalked up to a tremendously flukish .405 batting average on balls in play. In 2014, Santana struck out five times more than he walked, and he projected as one of MLB’s most likely regression candidates heading into this season. Instead of a gentle pullback, the early returns have been brutal: a .195 batting average, just one extra-base hit, 13 strikeouts, and no walks in 42 times at bat. Throw in the rough fielding and Santana might be the worst player in the majors through these first two weeks.
  11. Mike Sixel
    Watching on gamecast.....do the Twins know to throw up in the zone with two strikes?
  12. Mike Sixel
    While in Europe in 1986, I peed in a train station in France. There was no one there, a dozen or so urinals. Dude comes in and pees in the urinal next to me. MUCH later that night, I go into a completely different bathroom. No one there. Same dude takes the urinal next to me. Smiling. I have not be back to France.
  13. Mike Sixel
    My bad, I thought it was replacement. He has .1 WAR so far this year on offense, or about 1.3 WAR or 1.5 WAR if he keeps that up. Hardly inspiring, given his inability to frame a pitch or otherwise do anything on defense other than "handle a staff". of course it is possible Pinto is worse, how will we know if he sits in AAA?
  14. Mike Sixel
    Clearly the offense is a concern, but it can't stay this bad.....
  15. Mike Sixel
    He's about league median on defense.....no issues with the defense.
  16. Mike Sixel
    Why? Is he really going to learn that much in the next two months? And, if you aren't calling him this year, why do they care if he learns, since he's in his mid-20s already. Suzuki is at replacement level hitting right now, with a wRC+ of 104. I'm not sure "hitting well" is accurate at all.
  17. Mike Sixel
    Bull. They should be patient with young guys........I've been very clear on that. The should not have signed Stauffer in the first place, and should show no mercy.
  18. Mike Sixel
    He's certainly no worse than Suzuki, defensively, im.
  19. Mike Sixel
    Pinto looks ready now. Right. Now.
  20. Mike Sixel
    Except for the stats that guys have put up for years......and are still getting playing time.
  21. Mike Sixel
    No idea why you'd bench him already.....he's young, and he needs time. All this "patience" I read about needing to have ....maybe the Twins should practice it with players. And, duh, of course he's rusty at SS, that's what you get for playing him in CF last year, for no good reason at all.
  22. Mike Sixel
    hey Matt, thanks for two things: volunteering, and for writing this! Good stuff.
  23. Mike Sixel
    I laughed, good thing I was on mute on my conference call....
  24. Mike Sixel
    Sigh....though at least we got a cool $5 bill out of it....
  25. Mike Sixel
    Good to know they have it now, that's the key point. They are making progress, to me, it's hard to believe not everyone does it. In the grand scheme of the HUGH MONEY, this seems cheap to me.
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