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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    I've been bullish on Jackson for a long time. Given the Twins' payroll constraints, I wanted them to pursue him harder than anyone else. He's solid though unspectacular, still young, and could be had on a 3-4 year deal. He was exactly what the Twins should have been targeting this offseason. But they didn't.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    Detroit can spend their way out of a bad farm system (to an extent, anyway). But have you looked at Cleveland or Chicago's farm systems? They're awful, especially Chicago. Mid-market teams can't succeed with a complete dearth of minor league help. Chicago and Cleveland have a ceiling of mediocrity and a floor of terrible over the next several years. Their Major League rosters are meh and there is virtually zero help on the way in the minors. At least the Twins and Royals have promise. Detroit is kind of playing their own game since their owner will do whatever it takes to win a championship before he dies. And once he punches his card, it's highly unlikely the team will continue to overspend the way it has in recent years (and he could die tomorrow for all we know). Give me Sano, Rosario, Arcia, Gibson, Meyer, May, Hicks, etc. over any other farm in the division, excepting the Royals.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    Contrary to popular opinion around here, there is no evidence that the Twins stifle their minor league players. Do they keep them in the minors for a long time? Yeah, particularly the hitters. But over the past 10-12 years, the Twins have produced a lot of quality hitters. You'd be hard-pressed to make an argument that the team is stifling their hitters when they've churned out the likes of Mauer, Morneau, Cuddyer, Kubel, and Span and now it appears as if they may have salvaged what looked like some pretty bad drafts with Plouffe and Parmelee while Hicks, Arcia, Sano, etc. are waiting in the wings. As for pitching, well... The Twins just haven't done a good job of finding talented arms in the past 5-7 years. Hard to find much in the way of MLB quality arms when you draft like crap and then run into more than your fair share of awful luck.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    Yay, Swisher. Maybe that will offset the fact that the Indians have a bottom 10 farm system (as do the Tigers and White Sox). As much as I bitch about the Twins' free agent acquisitions (or lack thereof), I wouldn't trade places with either the White Sox or Indians and you'd have to make a convincing argument to trade places with Detroit, a team that is going to be good for another year or two and then will get real bad, real fast. The only team in the Central positioned better for the future is the Royals and I think Moore blew it by trading for Shields this offseason.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    The thing is that you don't need to go as high as Greinke. Sanchez is well above average. Marcum has been well above average, as has Dempster. There are guys who rate quite a bit above "mediocre", yet the Twins aren't signing them and instead, pursue guys like Correia and Saunders, who only qualify as mediocre on their best days. So far, the Twins have "overpaid" for awful pitchers. We could only wish they were overpaying for mediocrity.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    Every one of those guys should be first-balloters, though Bonds probably won't make it because the BBWAA is full of hypocrites.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    It's hard to bitch too much when Denard Span and Ben Revere were turned into Worley, Meyer, and May. I wanted more in free agency but at least the future was solidified via trade.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    That tends to happen when you play your entire career behind a Detroit Lions offensive line.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm going to ask to get rid of all mouseover ads after the holidays. I've been tied up with other stuff recently (the commenting problem) so I haven't had time to address this issue. It will be taken care of after the new year when people go back to work and I can get this fixed.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    After the holidays, I will be contacting our ad hosts to see what we can do about some of these ad problems.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    You're right, the money doesn't matter. It's the second year I don't like (just as I didn't like the second year for Correia).
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    True, except that guys who K 3-4 batters rarely go 8+ innings. Strikeouts don't have to consume a ton of pitches and Liriano's control problems aren't indicative of a typical strikeout pitcher. Every time the ball is put in play, there is approximately a 30% chance that the batter will reach base safely. Allowing a full 1/3rd of hitters to reach base safely when contact is made outweighs any additional pitches a strikeout pitcher may have to throw (and the chances of runners scoring are drastically higher with men on base regularly). There's a reason why pitchers who strike out guys tend to have better ERAs than pitchers who do not strike out guys (Liriano being a quite notable exception). Not only do they miss bats with their pitches but when contact is made, it's generally weaker (because if you often miss bats, chances are that when a batter finally puts the bat on the ball, it won't be solidly).
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    1. You can still score a run or advance runners on an out. 2. Any time the ball goes into play, there is a significant chance that the defense will bungle the play, allow an additional baserunner, and/or allow additional runs to score. If you strike a guy out, there's about a .01% chance that something good for happen for the batting team while the negative is nearly guaranteed (barring the freak occasion where a guy makes it to first after a strikeout).
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    I must have missed the part where Liriano led the White Sox to a championship last October under Cooper's mentorship. If Liriano does succeed with the Pirates, it will have everything to do with Francisco pulling his head out of his ass and nothing to do with the Pirates front office or coaching staff. And for $14m, I'd prefer to see someone other than the Twins roll those dice. I like the chance the Twins are taking on Haren and Pelfrey better than dishing that kind of money to Liriano. (but the Correia signing was still awful)
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    Fixed.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    Quite a risk for the Pirates. They don't exactly have loads of discretionary money to spend on risky players. Still, not a bad idea. If he can control his fastball at all, Liriano should be able to make NL hitters look like clowns.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    Looked at it... You had a TON of links in that post. The system flagged it as potential spam. Wish I could figure out how to make it do that for the rest of your posts.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    *in HAL-9000 voice* It's because no one likes you, Dave. Would you like me to sing you a song? (in reality, I have no idea... the system just does that sometimes, haven't figured out why)
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    Barry and Payton are the gold standard in my lifetime. I don't know if AP is better but he's definitely right there with Sanders, who I personally believe was better than Payton. The sad thing about Sanders was that he played for awful teams his entire career and then retired far too early.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    If he wins one more he's in. How many guys have four batting titles?
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    And no accounting for his incredibly high OBP, which is more valuable than the slugging that most of those other guys use to get that OPS.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    Three years ago, you could have said the same thing about Brian McCann. Let's see if Posey can post more than one 4+ WAR season before suggesting that he's HoF-bound.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    Minnesota.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    It seems to me that pull hitters do well (Thome, Willingham, Plouffe). Oppo-field hitters, not so much. Like PetCo, I think the gaps of Target Field are death valley and the lines down the pole are just big enough where it's hard to hit one out to opposite field (see Mauer, Joe).
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    The Mattingly comp makes sense on the surface but it's not a good comp when you drill down on the players. Mattingly had a career WAR of 45. Mauer isn't even 30 yet and his WAR is 40. Mattingly had one batting title and one MVP as a first baseman (the most power-laden position on the diamond). Mauer has three batting titles and one MVP as a catcher (the least power-laden position on the diamond). If Mauer has two more seasons with a .320 average, .400 OBP, and plays 80 games behind the plate, he's in. He'll be close to a 50 WAR player at that point. If he catches more than 80 games (and I think he will, even JR has said as much), that WAR is even higher.
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