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  1. Mike Sixel
    A point where people seem to disagree is that the Twins should expect to do poorly drafting so late.....vs some who say that is not an acceptable expectation..... It is hard to know if it is all drafting, all development, or what percent of each. It is hard to know how they really make decisions. All we can really know is the outcomes vs other teams......
  2. Mike Sixel
    If your strategy is to be median salary, and to rely on your farm, you NEED to be BETTER than others at it, or you will be bad. It isn't enough to be "as good as" expected. It doesn't work with your strategy. Lots of excuses, but the truth is, they missed a lot for several years in a row. Those are the outcomes produced....and that's why they are bad.
  3. Mike Sixel
    I'm not sure most of them get that much money, btw......
  4. Mike Sixel
    Even if Pelfrey is good for 15 starts, ya, right, what could you trade him for? MOVE ON ALREADY.
  5. Mike Sixel
    Pelfrey. Sigh. He's gone after this year, why keep investing time, resources, playing time, anything in this guy? Move on to the future. Very, very potentially frustrating.
  6. Mike Sixel
    130K over 4-6 years.....good luck living on that.
  7. Mike Sixel
    Wow. Well, it would save me a lot of time and angst if I never watched or listened to baseball again......so there's that in his "plan". There are GMs who agree, that a team using brains to (in their opinion) increase their odds of winning is wrong. So. Sad.
  8. Mike Sixel
    Sigh. Signing Pelfrey for 2 years remains a mind boggling decision. I know others don't agree, but if you could see my brain, you'd see it boggle every time I think of this decision. You are lucky if your's does not do that, frankly.
  9. Mike Sixel
    good point on Opening day.....good point.
  10. Mike Sixel
    No way they burn service time for a one month peak at those guys. They are up earlier, or not at all.
  11. Mike Sixel
    Probably the same number Meyer thinks are better than him......
  12. Mike Sixel
    But his goal is to be in the rotation out of spring, and to be up here most/all of the year......how does anyone see that happening?
  13. Mike Sixel
    Not sure what that has to do with his goals for next year......which is what I was talking about.
  14. Mike Sixel
    He's about 5th in line though....so it will be very hard to do this year. I hope he's not setting himself up for disappointment. He certainly looks like he'll be successful, but right now, there are a lot of bodies between him and MN.
  15. Mike Sixel
    Milone seems like a great guy to have in AAA, ready for a spot start, and if May and Meyer fail. I think May should get the first shot. He showed great improvement last year, and he's a legit prospect. Give him a real shot.
  16. Mike Sixel
    Fair enough, ashbury........but this draft featured RP, and one of the reasons I don't like that is that I don't feel the Twins promote them fast enough. But I'm willing to stop the conversation. If the reason they don't have any good, young RP is that they didn't draft well.......then that's the reason. We'll see if things really change or not as we go along.
  17. Mike Sixel
    Or that are on the MLB roster w/in 3 years of being drafted?
  18. Mike Sixel
    Name the RP on the roster in the last 5 years that are under 25........and were drafted by the Twins.
  19. Mike Sixel
    He didn't go to "ok", he went to above average/very good. We don't know if he'll repeat it, buy why wouldn't he? I agree, he is under appreciated.
  20. Mike Sixel
    great article! And yes, combining "ball in play pitchers" with terrible defense shows a fundamental misunderstanding of strategy.
  21. Mike Sixel
    Why are they Twins signing a bunch of mediocre RP, and not promoting these guys if they are so good? Lots of other teams are bringing up RP fast, this strategy doesn't do much if they insist on guys moving up one wrung a year......are any of the likely RP even in AA yet?
  22. Mike Sixel
    I agree with Seth, they either come up to help before September, or they are in the minors all year. I don't see either getting the cameo treatment this year.
  23. Mike Sixel
    God I hated that college reliever strategy. Hated it. Given the depth of other high upside starters right now, they should all move back to the pen, and up to the majors faster rather than slower. But, the Twins seem reluctant to do what other MLB teams are doing in that regard, so I have my doubts.
  24. Mike Sixel
    Don't want to derail.....but there is another good article about framing on Fangraphs today.....
  25. Mike Sixel
    Why is it likely he won't progress? we have quotes from an umpire that he did progress last year? Why are people so sure he's not actually good at this, given the tiny sample size? Given how little the Twins appreciate advanced stats, are we sure they are even looking at the "right" things to judge his defense? Let Pinto catch 40% of the time, and get some actual data on his defense at the MLB level. That should be the plan this year (should have been last year too...... but Gardy cared more about Suzuki's bonus than the long term good of the team, or so it appeared).
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