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  1. Mike Sixel
    17 or 22, Houston ended up with a great pitcher. We won't know about Enlow for years. Houston did it in less time. He asked what I wanted them to do to be more like Houston.....
  2. Mike Sixel
    Be aggressive with promotions, trust your minor league pitchers more (a lot more) to be RPs, draft better after the top pick (when Houston played games, they ended up with a very good pitcher in round 2....the Twins have a big fat question mark with their Canadian).
  3. Mike Sixel
    Maybe we should do this for the Yankees and Red Sox too! Because one data point isn't sufficient, probably. Of course, not trading for players like Dozier in 2017 might be one reason they came up a game short......You also left off that they traded for Machado in 2018, so maybe they decided their plan of not trading for great players didn't work. Now, if every team decides this....well, then there are probably market inefficiencies being created in terms of trade value.
  4. Mike Sixel
    2:45 Hello : Who are the 2 wildcards in the AL? Angels? Twins? Rays? Athletics? Yankees/Sox? 2:45 Meg Rowley: Woof if I had to pick right now? 2:45 Meg Rowley: Today? 2:45 Meg Rowley: This minute! 2:46 Meg Rowley: Red Sox and Rays. I think I like the Yankees better to win the division, and I like the Red Sox and Rays better than the A’s or Angels I guess? 2:47 Meg Rowley: or the Twins
  5. Mike Sixel
    Lots of us liked the Castro move.
  6. Mike Sixel
    In hindsight, but you don't make decisions with hindsight.
  7. Mike Sixel
    Only if owners drop ticket and other prices, otherwise all the decrease is just going to them, and not the players. Does anyone think they are going to lower prices? How is spending less good for anyone other than owners? All thirty of them, as opposed to hundreds of players, and millions of fans?
  8. Mike Sixel
    No one is asking them to spend for spends sake. We are asking them to sign better, more expensive, players. To make the team better. If they miraculously end up with too many good players, I'm sure other teams will trade for them. If they end up with a bad team, but the free agents are good, they can trade them. If the free agents all end up bad, then they aren't good at the jobs..... But no one is asking them to spend for any reason other than we are fans and want better players.
  9. Mike Sixel
    They've said they don't do that, not in terms of salary. No, I don't have a link handy.
  10. Mike Sixel
    Then why are Polanco, Sano, and Buxton on this roster? And Kepler. And Garver. Or do you expect them all to be dealt? You really think they've just given up on those guys and Rosario?
  11. Mike Sixel
    Broken Bat 12:44 Do see the Twins having a potent offense in 2019? To me they have some various pathways to their lineup that is not dependent just on Buxton, or Sano coming to forecasts a few seasons ago. Pitching, seemingly is trailing the offense but they seem to have advanced closer to Indians. Thoughts? AvatarDan Szymborski 12:45 I think they're middle of the pack. I expected them to be more aggressive in free agency than they have been AJ 12:57 Berrios or Buehler? AvatarDan Szymborski 12:57 Buehler Matt 1:04 Berrios or Mikolas? AvatarDan Szymborski 1:04 Berrios
  12. Mike Sixel
    I can show that your path doesn't work over decades, across multiple teams... perhaps a different, uncharted, path is needed. I've posted this before.... I'm not asking for four big signings, or even three. I'm asking them to make one multi year commitment to a guy they think is an all star quality player, and one multi year commitment to a guy they think is just below that. If they can't afford that, they probably need to be in a different business. This year, they have the same exact holes as last year, plus second base. Why? No long term commitment. So, once again, they need to rely on free agency to fill those holes. I'm not asking them to build their team around free agents or trades. I'm asking for less than that. I'm not asking them to spend above the median range, except in years they think they should go all in. I'm asking them to make a long term commitment to two players they did not draft, who are already major league players. None of that stops them from doing what you want.
  13. Mike Sixel
    I can show you decades of teams with 78 wins that didn't do those things, and then didn't win playoff games, ever. Cincy. Pittsburgh. Minnesota. KC, who when they finally made trades of prospects did win it all. Decades of multiple teams who refused to trade prospects and sign any big free agents, who went on to not win. The Twins signed Jack Morris to one of the biggest deals in MLB history, after a bad year, and won the world series. Sitting around waiting for all the prospects to work.... How has that worked out for most of the mid market teams?
  14. Mike Sixel
    And in 2017 Sano and Buxton were good..... And they still didn't push the chips in.
  15. Mike Sixel
    No one is arguing against development being the primary route to success. No one on this site ever has. Ever.
  16. Mike Sixel
    The reason I want the picks high is that the other approaches are not working, over multiple years.... And, yes, it points out that good lines matter. Which is my main point. This is an offense first league, and Zimmer is a dinosaur in thinking otherwise.
  17. Mike Sixel
    Agreed, but I was rooting for the KC team
  18. Mike Sixel
    Worst playoff defense ever.
  19. Mike Sixel
    Does KC have a defense?
  20. Mike Sixel
    I said bad words after the gronkowski catch.
  21. Mike Sixel
    Sigh. Suckage coming.
  22. Mike Sixel
    Two exciting games today. Wow.
  23. Mike Sixel
    One or two cheap moves is fine. But in three years, they have emphasized value as a principle. That's fine, but not spending money on them in return is a valid response. Until they show they are serious about winning, I don't know why anyone is paying them money.
  24. Mike Sixel
    I'm worried about him being bad, but not terrible. Then ten bad starts. I don't care about the 40 man spot at all. I want upside, not, well, he can always be cut, signings. YMMV, of course.
  25. Mike Sixel
    Does it matter? It's a tiny bit of money. The issue is the roster spot, imo.
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