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  1. Mike Sixel
    Austin gets a "pass" because he's on the roster, and you can only add so many players. Preferably some that move the needle quite a bit......
  2. Mike Sixel
    seems unlikely they are aggressive with Rooker now.........so maybe he's not the best pick ever....
  3. Mike Sixel
    Also this.....
  4. Mike Sixel
    I'm ok with this move, assuming they, you know, add more players.......he put up 2 WAR last year. That's probably a good number to expect again, and this team isn't swimming in players. Is it sexy and needle moving? Meh. Are they probably better? ya, a bit.
  5. Mike Sixel
    Put up double Mauer's WAR for 1/10th the cost last year. I don't know how the roster crunch works, and he'll double his pay to around 5-6MM I'd guess, but why not?
  6. Mike Sixel
    Totally depends on what they eat, and want. Might be a realistic DH, emergency fielder, option. Maybe. Possibly, but hard to believe.
  7. Mike Sixel
    I'd make him a RP
  8. Mike Sixel
    Put Away the Jimmy Gobble Jokes 12:36 What is the Twins plan this offseason? Dan Szymborski 12:36 I think there's a good chance that the Twins shock with a signing, though not Machado/Harper https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/dan-szymborski-fangraphs-chat-11-26-18/
  9. Mike Sixel
    Team values aren't going up only 8% per year.....and they are going up faster than player salaries......so, sure, if you value owners over players, that makes sense..... Your last line is silly. Where should the money go? It isn't going away, how should it be divided? It's not like you see owners starving, even bad ones.
  10. Mike Sixel
    Great game. Two very hard games coming up
  11. Mike Sixel
    That touchdown was a perfectly run play.
  12. Mike Sixel
    Disagree. They had second and eighteen. Running the clock there makes sense. And I hate playing not to lose.
  13. Mike Sixel
    Just quit trying field goals at this point. It's not like they will stop Green Bay much.
  14. Mike Sixel
    Every high pick on this defense, and this is how they play?
  15. Mike Sixel
    That does not make the team much, if any, better.
  16. Mike Sixel
    Concur
  17. Mike Sixel
    This is so obvious it's hard to understand why this is controversial.
  18. Mike Sixel
    The Braves made 100 million, with a bad tv deal and a 130MM payroll......there is plenty of money for the actual players to get more..... https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-braves-profits-provide-glimpse-into-baseballs-books/
  19. Mike Sixel
    The risk is keeping good players off the 25 man roster for a year. Contending teams probably shouldn't hamstring their manager that way.
  20. Mike Sixel
    how about both? I don't think anyone, here or anywhere, has said don't improve drafting and developing players. No one. Not one person. I don't even know why we are having this conversation, of course they can't afford Tyler Jay and Kohl Stewart type outcomes any more. That's pretty much assumed, and has nothing to do with signing FAs or trading for players (either direction, acquiring minor or major league talent). If we want, we can start a thread about improving drafting.....and developing....and coaching.
  21. Mike Sixel
    I was talking about MN.......of course you need to develop players, but you also need to sign FAs and make trades for long term assets, not just rentals, and not just 1 year deals.
  22. Mike Sixel
    I would if I was years from contending. Why not? At one point, he was a "lock" to be "at least a late inning RP". This is exactly the kind of risk a rebuilding team should take, imo.
  23. Mike Sixel
    it is certainly possible they are bad bets.....but how has relying on the farm system worked out? Worse results, I'd argue. It's kind of like when you read how RPs are a bad FA investment, w/o anyone ever contemplating how bad those results would be with the next AAA pitcher coming up and taking innings.....If we care more about efficiency than effectiveness, it's hard to see them ever going in on a legit FA signing that changes the team in any meaningful way, without major luck.
  24. Mike Sixel
    They have plenty of money to spend. Teams sell for record amounts every time they sell. The national TV contract just went up. Mauer is off the books, as is another 20-30MM minimum. It hurts my brain how much people defend billionaire owners, who get huge tax subsidies, in not spending on the people that actually produce the product. But then, I'm kind of on the labor side of that discussion.... And, no, that's not how rate of return works.....
  25. Mike Sixel
    For years we were told mid market teams can't sustain long term success, because they get later picks and the team becomes too expensive. Now a new FO comes in, and claims the 100% opposite is true.....and people buy it as an excuse to not get better at the MLB level.
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