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  1. Mike Sixel
    Bundy? Really? Ugh.
  2. Mike Sixel
    My point was, don't worry about manipulating service time or other stuff. Try to win this year. If he's ready, he's likely better than any other 3B option they have, and he should be up. If he's not ready, he shouldn't be up.
  3. Mike Sixel
    Minor league players buy their own shoes, gloves, bats and other equipment. They pay for private coaches. They give up (opportunity cost) making money in other professions. All of those are financial risks. All of them. Your analogy is not at all the same, since the players are literally the product.......If you think it's cool that billionaires that take no risk and make more money faster than the players, that's cool. But it's not factual that owners are taking risk and players are not. And, since owners cannot lose money, they are literally not taking risk. Indeed, teams rise in value than any other real investment, without fail. No failure in decades and decades. What financial risk are they taking?
  4. Mike Sixel
    fascinating. Especially since the Twins refused to use him in the OF last year, or in spring training, as many of us hoped they would.
  5. Mike Sixel
    Not even close to true. Players buy their own equipment, hire private coaches, and invest their livelihood and earning potential while in HS, college, and the minors. They are investing in their careers, and giving up lots of income in the process. Not even close to true the teams are taking "all the risk". Not even close to true. You are cool with the billionaires not taking any actual risk though, since it is literally impossible to lose money (since you can sell the asset) in owning a team? What risk, exactly, are they taking, because not one team in decades has decreased in value. I'm curious, really, what risk are they taking? And, since most players don't make it, they are taking way more risk, giving up their earning years (or college years).....
  6. Mike Sixel
    Not sure if the Nick Anderson article was posted earlier, if so, apologies.... https://blogs.fangraphs.com/nick-anderson-is-improbably-excellent/
  7. Mike Sixel
    try to win this year. Stop worrying only about the future.
  8. Mike Sixel
    Sure, the teams are taking "all the risk".....sure, there just isn't more money to spend on salaries....sure.... https://mlb.nbcsports.com/2019/04/10/every-baseball-team-is-worth-at-least-a-billion-dollars/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikeozanian/2019/04/10/baseball-team-values-2019-yankees-lead-league-at-46-billion/#39fdb5f569b2
  9. Mike Sixel
    Kyle Wright is pitching in the majors already......I'm not sure your point, exactly. But this year and next, the Twins would be better off with Wright, most likely. After that, probably Lewis, but these two years count too....
  10. Mike Sixel
    Last post.....I forgot to mention the likelihood Sano is at DH/1B in the next year or two...... I wonder if there is an OF they can try at 3B......in the minors, I mean.
  11. Mike Sixel
    I'm not sure, but this seems kind of petty, or judgmental, of people that have hobbies outside the game.....
  12. Mike Sixel
    I literally said 2 of them might hit, not sure how I'm counting chickens........I left off Baddoo and about 6 other players in the minors that can probably hit and field as well as Austin will. Of course any ONE of them is a long shot, but it isn't a long shot that they have a replacement level player that will play 1B and DH in their system.......
  13. Mike Sixel
    We're going off this year's sample size, and not last year and projecting likely outcomes? I'm not ready to do that....you might be....
  14. Mike Sixel
    I would not have signed Cron, but they did. Once they did, there wasn't really any way Austin stays on this roster if everyone is healthy. I would have used that money on pitching..... And, I'm just not worried about it. They have Rooker, Kiriloff, Wade, Weil, Lanarch, Jeffers, Garver and others that can move to 1B next year. While I think Austin can probably hit, I don't know that. I am confident 2-4 of those guys will, and that they can also play 1B and the OF better than Austin.
  15. Mike Sixel
    Actually, no. The Twins were loaded with RP with no options last year, and couldn't send guys up and down. It was one of my biggest issues with last year's bullpen, frankly.
  16. Mike Sixel
    Not if Cron is good and Austin isn't. Plus, they have about 8 guys in AAA, AA, A+ that have Austin's hit tool, but that can also play OF or 1B better than him.
  17. Mike Sixel
    Good move. Are there people that don't know the rules didn't allow many of the other relief pitchers to be brought up this early? That's why it was DeJong. And, I hope they use AAA like the Dodgers do, and bring people up and down as needed.
  18. Mike Sixel
    That's a higher hit tool than many DH types these days, and he could sub in the OF if needed. He's a classic example of the death of the middle class hitter.
  19. Mike Sixel
    Exciting watching a pitcher "hit".
  20. Mike Sixel
    Because you don't know, and there were no other good options. Why not? And maybe Rooker will be the same, but most second round picks are about that.
  21. Mike Sixel
    Right, I'm open to any idea....but I'd need to see an actual proposal first....
  22. Mike Sixel
    So fresh I haven't even read it.... https://blogs.fangraphs.com/with-wes-johnson-twins-pitching-appears-to-be-embracing-change/ It's such an obvious plan, but the dang myth of "establish your fastball" dies as hard as "establish the run to set up the pass" does in football....
  23. Mike Sixel
    Because the wealthy don't have money sitting around to pay it, if it is unrealized. I get what you are saying, but I just don't know how it works. Nor do I like it for some reason I can't put my finger on. Inheritance is a transaction, and the people getting the money never had it. So, they can pull some cash out and pay taxes. That's different than someone just sitting on lots of stock. What if you tax Bezos so much he doesn't have a controlling interest in the company he helped build? I don't like that idea.....
  24. Mike Sixel
    I was told Astudillo was too short for 1B........I like the thinking here. Try it.
  25. Mike Sixel
    stock wise? No idea. Use wise? Easy to use as a collaboration tool. I like it......but you were probably asking about the stock.....
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