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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    The good thing (or sad, depending on your point of view) is that the bench may actually be better than the starters.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    Plenty of time for "straight as an arrow fastball with a 0.00 ERA Mike Pelfrey" to completely dominate the Royals lineup. Right?
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    I don't see the Twins taking another OFer in the first round unless the guy absolutely blows them away. Given the current state of the OF in the minors, there's just no room to add another guy to the mix.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    I can't help but laugh every time I think of that scene.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    Lineups: Twins: Darin Mastroianni CF Joe Mauer C Josh Willingham LF Justin Morneau 1B Ryan Doumit DH Trevor Plouffe 3B Chris Parmelee RF Jamey Carroll 2B Eduardo Escobar SS (Mike Pelfrey P) Royals: Alex Gordon LF Alcides Escobar SS Billy Butler DH Mike Moustakas 3B Salvador Perez C Eric Hosmer 1B Jeff Francoeur RF Lorenzo Cain CF Chris Getz 2B (Jeremy Guthrie P)
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    Snepp beat me to it. Now I'm just padding my post count.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    No personal insults. I think we've clearly established that rule to the point of nausea.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    Escobar is very short.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    Two singles. His OPS is sliding downward.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm just glad that we've all agreed Chris Parmelee is a MLB-calibre player.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    Which might be the case except that statistically, it's been pretty much determined that there is no such as thing as "pitching to the scoreboard", as many have tried to claim in an attempt to maintain the relevancy of the win statistic. Any statistic that relies so heavily on players that don't receive any credit for the statistic is not a good statistic to use, particularly when there are dozens of other metrics that more closely correlate to performance.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    It's also hard to care about this sort of thing when you've been plotting and planning all offseason on how to get around security and physically accost a rival's first base coach.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    If a guy has thrown seven shutout innings and is well under 100 pitches, you don't pull him out of the game. You just don't do it. He has shown the ability to dominate that lineup on that day, something even the best reliever might not be able to do should you replace the starter.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    I wonder if the runner distracted Florimon there.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    Does Mauer need glasses or something? This is getting a little ridiculous.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    I was exercising and missed the first inning. One run, four hits. I don't even want to know how that happened.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    My guess is that it's a typo.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm one of the more sabr-heavy posters on the forum, I think. 90% of the time, I will rely on sabr-stuff to make a point... I just think some real-world grounding needs to factor in occasionally... Particularly when you're talking about "grand scheme of things" items like bullpen management. A stat sheet won't tell you that the Twins play six consecutive games on the road and that your "bullpen ace" had pitched two nights before, warmed up the previous night, and that the weather is cold in early April... Stuff that *should* factor into any manager's situational assessment.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    Yep. The team is already chock full of mediocre to bad options. They don't need any more of them.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    I won't argue that the team would be better off if Gardy reserved Perkins for more runner on base situations in the eighth inning. My only real point is that I won't chastise him much for not doing it once in early April. I'm sure there will be truly awe-inspiring facepalm moments that better deserve my wrath in the months to come.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    Now you're getting to a point I can agree with... Should Perkins have been brought out before the bases became loaded? That's a more salient question, IMO. On the other hand, you're dealing with so many hypotheticals at that point, it's hard to keep it all straight. After all, three of the first four Orioles due up that inning were righties.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    And what happens if Duensing blows a one run lead on Friday or Saturday because Perkins is unavailable (not to mention that the Twins easily could have lost on Friday even if Perkins pitched)? Then should Perkins really have been used? It's not hard to imagine a situation where the Twins leave Baltimore with a 3-3 record if Perkins pitched the eighth inning (and I'd argue that it's just as likely as them leaving with a 5-1 record had the Twins won Friday). Again, not every game can be managed like it's the World Series. Rest, future schedule, bullpen strength, these are all things that need to be considered in a 162 game season.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    Except that I said it at the time, too. The Twins were going into a long run of consecutive road games; it didn't take much in the way of foresight to realize that Perkins was going to be needed in following games. Even if you can't see the future, you need to manage for it the best you can. The Twins can't burn through their best bullpen arms in the first game of a road series in which five consecutive games are to follow before the next day off. And I disagree that Friday was more high leverage than Saturday and Sunday. While a tie game is a toss-up, a win is a win is a win. And a one-run lead in the ninth on the road gets you that win. Sabremetrics are great and all but the playoffs aren't decided by the team that looks best on a spreadsheet. At some point, you need to stop and realize that wins are what counts and one-run wins on the road are nothing to scoff at (not to mention the crushing defeat that can affect players after blowing a late lead on the road). Again, best case scenario for Friday was that the Twins still have to figure out how to get three more Orioles (probably more) out in the ninth (and beyond).
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    That's exactly what it is. Variance from the norm in one run games is almost never repeated from season to season. Therefore, any team far above or below typical one-run victories/losses is a fluke (ie. a chance occurrence involving luck, not skill).
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    Probably Perkins. And he'd be wrong for doing it. But that's not what I'm arguing.
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