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  1. Mike Sixel
    Monsignor Martinez 2:16 Is it just me, or do the Indians look like they're going to be really bad this year? Craig Edwards 2:18 Cleveland has a stars and scrubs team and they need their stars to play like it. They are currently down one of their stars. They need Lindor back, but assuming no major injuries and the pitching goes as planned, the team should still be good enough to win the division. https://blogs.fangraphs.com/craig-edwards-fangraphs-chat-4-4-19/
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    LFC Mike 1:28 Hi Jay. Thoughts on closer situation in Minnesota and Boston? AvatarJay Jaffe 1:30 Wrote about Boston/Kimbrel here recently https://blogs.fangraphs.com/the-separate-paths-of-craig-kimbrel-and-th... Regarding the Twins: my thought is go sign Kimbrel. because he's there for the taking and they don't have the CBT threshold to worry about. https://blogs.fangraphs.com/jay-jaffe-fangraphs-chat-4-4-19/
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    650%......sure, there's risk.....even if the numbers are off by A LOT....that shows just one way how unfair the market is to players. https://blogs.fangraphs.com/we-analyzed-the-value-of-international-signing-bonus-money/
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    I think being excited about the possibilities is very different than drawing conclusions.......what I read is that people want him to get a chance to show if he is, or is not, a player. All the evidence points to him being a player, and that teams haven't given him a shot because of pre-conceived bias about his body and his pedigree (which is only human nature).
  5. Mike Sixel
    They promoted him earlier, and didn't have him catch. It was a lost season much earlier than September, no one not planned to be on the roster this year should have played much at all......He also could have played 3B when Sano got hurt.
  6. Mike Sixel
    I don't know.....I've posted on these threads a few times that I just don't know how to fix the "empathy problem" as I've called it here and elsewhere. Studies show introducing less than ideal people to the people they hate one on one is the answer, but that's not practical as a societal fix, imo. So, I just don't know. As long as we don't kill the world, I'm hopeful about the inevitable progress of humans.....but I'd prefer my children not suffer at the hands of their parents.....
  7. Mike Sixel
    I'd really like him to learn what he can, and cannot, do.....and act accordingly. I don't think that ball was cartchable, and at this age and experience level, he needs to know that better. Let's hope so.
  8. Mike Sixel
    Top 20 HITTING corner OF, plus above average defense is not good enough to be on a winning team? What, exactly, are you expecting from every position player?
  9. Mike Sixel
    zero people think Astudillo is a 380 hitter......I'm not sure your point there. What he is a hitter, who should get a chance to show he is or is not. He should have received that chance last year, a smart team would have given it to him......
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    Correct. It's not my bday, so I can type this now.,...... My generation, the boomers (I squeak in by a few months) is the worst. Look at what they've done to the world, look at their complete lack of empathy.....(as a voting block, and how they've perverted capitalism to ONLY be about greed). We should look in the mirror before talking about our children at all. And, FWIW, all the young people I know work very hard.
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    Kiley McDaniel: on top of that, I didn’t mention that the Braves had uniquely beneficial situation where they had a cornerstone guy who hasn’t gotten paid yet ($100k initial bonus, $500k salaries for the next few years) and there’s some rumors out there about the agent that did the deal, which you can google and kinda figure out what I’m talking about. 12:22 Kiley McDaniel: So the Braves had a guy they really wanted to lock up, who really wanted a payday pretty soon and an agent that wasn’t going to dissuade Acuna from that. Those are the conditions to get a bargain. 12:23 Kiley McDaniel: So, while i said ATL would take something like the Snell deal if Acuna’s camp proposed it, I meant if there was a different agent there. ATL knew they had a great situation and could get a beneficial outcome. If Acuna had hired Boras and they offered the deal I outline in the tweet, I think ATL would take it. But that’s an alternate reality. Happy for the kid that he got paid. Beetlejuice: The number of takes that say “Acuna just screwed himself out of a ton of money” appear pretty ignorant of behavioral economics. People will almost always value $100 now over a 50% chance at $200 in a year. His decision to forgo year to year arbitration and secure his future is completely in line with what most of us would do. 12:33 Kiley McDaniel: This is a bad take, which I’ve seen a lot, because it implies Acuna’s choices were this deal or just make the minimum for two years and who knows, maybe his body explodes on the field tomorrow. He had thousands of choices that would pay him now and give him the chance to get a $300M deal later. THAT is the thing that everyone is saying he could’ve done differently, not that he should’ve sat there and done nothing. And to be clear, it was people with teams and agents both immediately texting me when this came out, all gravitating to that point.
  12. Mike Sixel
    Agreed on part 1 for sure. He's been quite good when healthy.
  13. Mike Sixel
    I didn't say it was new.....I said I didn't understand it. I have more to say, but it's my bday and I'm trying really hard not to post negative thoughts today......
  14. Mike Sixel
    I don't understand the disdain for our children.......
  15. Mike Sixel
    4th OF combo stats? He was exactly league median compared to CF last year, as a hitter. He just doesn't get that chance here while Buxton is healthy. 18th among RF as a hitter. 19th as a LF. I'm not sure who you are comparing him to, exactly, but it isn't the rest of the league.
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    I've never claimed they couldn't make more money other ways....but those ways carry risk. This way carries opportunity cost, but not risk. Let's compare this to investing in "risk free" investments.... Also, it shows that there isn't really free market capitalism around these sales (just as there isn't at all for players and their lack of freedom for years and years).
  17. Mike Sixel
    His agent might not be totally scrupulous......
  18. Mike Sixel
    It's one reason strikeouts aren't as bad as people say, no DP
  19. Mike Sixel
    Excellent PR job by the manager.
  20. Mike Sixel
    Or knit. Maybe sew?
  21. Mike Sixel
    Darn.
  22. Mike Sixel
    Not sure who with, but I certainly consider a PH here..... Then they somehow walk him.....
  23. Mike Sixel
    I can't see how Austin survives Sano's return without an injury. Too bad, really.
  24. Mike Sixel
    Huh. Free game of the day! Too bad I keep seeing outs.....
  25. Mike Sixel
    No. But I might have traded him in years past for a great pitcher, or Realmuto.... I'd still trade him for the right pitcher, but I doubt the other team would....
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