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  1. Mike Sixel
    ya, don't agree at all. Standing in place, and not calling up Duffey to the bullpen, or Berrios is not good thinking, imo. Trading for a mediocre RP? Not a good decision, if that is all you do. Keeping Duensing and Boyer on the roster is a good decision? Keeping 13 pitchers, and not having Arcia up is a good decision? we won't agree on this. Straddling the fence is never a good strategy. How are they launching for next year, with one of the older rosters in baseball, exactly? May starting yesterday would have been better than Duffey......they decided not to have him ready for that.......they decided that.
  2. Mike Sixel
    Agreed, this was a great write up!
  3. Mike Sixel
    He is up, not still in the minors. Not hiding him at all, he is up. So, I hope they really think Duffey is better right now, not that they are afraid for an elite prospect.
  4. Mike Sixel
    Let's hope note.......unless not winning next year isn't the top priority, Buxton should be up.
  5. Mike Sixel
    so, you think if he does poorly in his first start, they'll move May or Berrios in? What it likely means is that Milone is still hurt, nothing more or less.
  6. Mike Sixel
    I hope it isn't the latter, that they are afraid.....the Yankees are starting their 21 YO phenom, not protecting him. Other teams have called up their phenoms, and aren't protecting them. If it really is fear, well, I'm tired of what looks like fear. So, I hope it isn't that latter....
  7. Mike Sixel
    Fair....I'd rather Duffey was in the pen, and May / Berrios were starting....but fair. It's not a horrible decision at all, just not the one I'd make.
  8. Mike Sixel
    I'm not ignoring anything. This team is neither going all in to compete, or building for the future. They are standing in place, like they always do during the season. Here is what has happened in the time Ryan has been GM, that he's accountable for.....that matters past this year: Hughes Santana Nolasco Suzuki May Meyer In 3-4 years, he's added 2-3 players that are good when they matter, and 2-4 that are bad. What exactly should make me excited about that? You can say they aren't ignoring their weaknesses, but I can only judge based on the fact that Nunez has DH'd recently, they added a mediocre bullpen arm, and finally cut Santana after 3 months of being awful. I can only judge on actions, since I can't see the process. I don't see that as really doing much of anything, either for this year, or next year. That's my opinion, not a fact.....but I doubt I'm the only one with that opinion.
  9. Mike Sixel
    And if Duffey starts 2-3 games, and not one?
  10. Mike Sixel
    Oh, I didn't for a moment believe they were going to play games in the fall that mattered the last two years, I put zero credibility into his baseball comments. Like I said, I thought it was Ryan. I guess this year we can finally judge him on his comments. They are coming close to not playing meaningful games this fall.....
  11. Mike Sixel
    Good luck to Mr. Duffey. It's an exciting moment for him. Frankly, I wanted him up here as a RP more than a month ago, so I'm glad he's in MN now.
  12. Mike Sixel
    It's funny, but there are actually studies about this on the internet. the projections are usually good, not great, like, much better than random stuff a GM says in the paper, or posters here post...... Hope is not a strategy. Positive outlooks on bad situations is not a strategy. Plenty of research on this as well, also available for free on the internet. Businesses don't succeed by hoping and ignoring their weaknesses. They succeed by acknowledging them and eliminating them.
  13. Mike Sixel
    I think the answer is: sort of. Dozier and Plouffe will hit again. Mauer and Hunter? they are old and bad. Suzuki is just bad. So, no, I don't think they'll hit again in a way that helps a team relative to their peers. That's 1/3 of your lineup you are giving away. Then there is SS, a position that is at best suspect......44% of your lineup given away......and Hicks with his splits, and Rosario with his "patience"......ya, good luck. And, it isn't hard, as pointed out above, to cut Boyer and Duensing at this point. But, we see it clearly last year and this year, this team doesn't understand, imo, that if you are rebuilding, you play the young guys sooner rather than later.
  14. Mike Sixel
    Last year also, while Terry was out, he said it after the first game or so......
  15. Mike Sixel
    btw, I'm not asking Terry Ryan when they should go all in.....I'm asking the people here who said not this year....when?
  16. Mike Sixel
    Perhaps it was St. peter that said it in previous years.....and I found one from him for sure that said it in 2014 (St. Peter that is). I'll just concede this is the first year Terry said they should contend late in the season.
  17. Mike Sixel
    17 years of evidence is pretty good evidence that this isn't just an issue of there NEVER being a good trade available to add talent, isn't it? And yes, process is important, but so are results. I'm sure Butera followed a great process, or Shane Robinson does, that doesn't mean they should keep their job just because they have that job. Results matter.
  18. Mike Sixel
    I want to know when we should expect them to be good. When can we say "this isn't luck, they should now be good".
  19. Mike Sixel
    Actually, other people said Ryan didn't really mean it, that he had to say that as GM........just like they said he didn't mean it the year before, or the year before. To which I asked, should I believe him, or not?
  20. Mike Sixel
    People are posting they should wait until they are more ready to go more all in.....I'm asking when we should expect that. When should we expect it to be expected to be good, not "luck and not something to bet on"? That's really not that hard to understand. When should we expect them to be good? When should we expect the FO to go all in?
  21. Mike Sixel
    cool...when should we expect them to try to win, then, if not this year?
  22. Mike Sixel
    Fair enough........
  23. Mike Sixel
    Out of curiosity......what has the GM done to get them back in contention? Santana, Hughes, May......other than that, it is draft picks or guys already in the system, right?
  24. Mike Sixel
    Infinitely more than they have received from Meyer.......
  25. Mike Sixel
    Not a bad list at the lower levels.......hopefully some progress right away next year.
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