Brock Beauchamp
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SAME (though I did buy a Killebrew t-shirt jersey a few years ago)
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Good god, Kepler.
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Well, chalk up "The Twins need Joey Gallo back soon" to the list of things I never thought I'd type.
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I never thought an ex-Astro from the trashcan banger era would make me such a fan but Correa has done just that.
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Kepler did something good. Still don’t like him.
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I like this year's free agent signings and hope the front office is rewarded for making them. Still wish they traded Kepler, though. I didn't like Gallo and Kepler on the same roster and still don't.
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I agree with a lot of this, we just differ on how much the offseason pivoted once Correa was signed. The Twins have rather limited trade options. Their farm system isn't great after they depleted it last deadline. They didn't have many expendable assets on the MLB team. They had a lot of money but nowhere good left to spend it.
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Yeah, the last several moves changed everything... but to the front office's defense, they started altering some of their approaches late in the previous offseason. They stopped pursuing bad pitchers and instead pursued pitchers with injury concerns... and that didn't work out much better. But it was different. And it was a lot of the smaller moves that I really liked late in the offseason. I've been clamoring for a right-handed, glove-first fourth outfielder for... oh, about four years now. They finally went and got one. Kyle Farmer ended up being a much better move once Correa was signed. Solano again addressed right-handed concerns they had going into the season. For the first time, it felt like the front office was building a team instead of players that were signed because they were a "good deal", not because they were actually good or fit well within the team. They stopped signing flat-out bad pitchers on one-year deals. But all of this comes with issues, too. Their free agent track record is still quite bad. Their vaunted pitching pipeline looks better but still hasn't materialized. The one area I feel this team has done well is in trades and even that history is littered with more than a few clunkers. I'm still unsure of this front office but I'm far more bullish on them today than I was four months ago because they've stopped doing some of the things that drove me batty from 2018-2021.
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Qualifying offers can be given to any player but only once in their career.
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I was done with them because they had missed on every significant free agent at the time. Not most of them, all of them. Only through the completely unexpected absurdity of the Correa signing were they able to get back on track. It wasn't an emotional response, it was a response to "you have $50m to spend and literally no one worth spending it on". They get, at best, partial credit for Correa. Most of their other moves were good. And let's not pretend that this was the first offseason that looked dire. The offseason before that was... less than spectacular if I'm being generous. Some might have even called it "absolutely awful". They went out and got Correa and were sunk once again by bad pitching signings, a recurring theme of their administration. I wasn't looking at any single move, I was looking at their entire body of work. Which, at best, has been mixed.
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Absolutely. They deserve credit for staying firm and not wavering but outside forces played a significant role, too.
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There isn't a best stats site, many have their specific strengths. General stats and historical stats, B-Ref. Advanced metrics, particularly fielding and stuff like wRC+, FanGraphs. Pitch and hit data, Baseball Savant.
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Oh, all of this is true but they almost fell into the Correa deal through the weirdest situation I've seen in free agency. It definitely worked out for them but I also can't give them full credit for it. And the entire offseason really hinged around that move that was half patience, half dumb luck.
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As much as I've railed on the front office over the past couple of years, they've been doing a hell of a lot right for the past six months, even if the way they get there is... unexpected.
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Love this deal. Could not love it more.
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Now that we're past the point of serious concern about his health, this is my biggest concern. Baseball history is littered with guys who could not get back to normal after a shot to the head for a long time. And given the current Twins roster, this could be a real problem.
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Damn, this article photo highlights just how good the new home whites are.
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His defense is everything people advertised.
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Damned scary.
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Twins now in grace period with Diamond Sports group
Brock Beauchamp replied to David HK's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
That's largely why Diamond didn't pay the Twins. When they're fighting to keep paying teams with contracts that go for years past 2023, there's little incentive to pay the Twins and their expiring contract, who it seems have been pretty hostile with Diamond for the past couple of years (and for good reason). -
Game Thread: Twins v White Sox, 4/10 @ 1:10 CT
Brock Beauchamp replied to wsnydes's topic in Archived Game Threads
Imagine having to watch this White Sox defense for 162. -
Game Thread: Twins v White Sox, 4/10 @ 1:10 CT
Brock Beauchamp replied to wsnydes's topic in Archived Game Threads
Head's up play by a guy who has been in the big leagues for approximately seven minutes. -
Game Thread: Twins v White Sox, 4/10 @ 1:10 CT
Brock Beauchamp replied to wsnydes's topic in Archived Game Threads
Healthy Trevor Larnach is pretty fun.
