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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    You can take as many as you want. Minor correction - you can continue to pick, round by round, until your 40-man roster is full. Heh. Well, yeah. You have to keep a Rule 5 on the 40 man so you can't draft more than your 40 man will hold. You have to keep them on the 25 man unless you want to offer them back to the original team. It's pretty pointless to pick more then 1 in the major league portion. Said 40, meant 25.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    You can take as many as you want. Minor correction - you can continue to pick, round by round, until your 40-man roster is full. Heh. Well, yeah. You have to keep a Rule 5 on the 40 man so you can't draft more than your 40 man will hold.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    I only argue it because it means I have trouble with calling him "frontline" I'm pretty liberal with #2/#3 rankings. To me, a number #3 is a guy who often pitches like a #2 but can't be relied upon to be well above average every year (say, Brad Radke). I think Sanchez is a little better than that (but not by much).
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    I hope his plaque goes next to Ozzie Smith. One can only imagine what a double play duo those two would have been. Unstoppable, to say the least.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    You can take as many as you want.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    Given his durability issues and lack of anything particularly flashy about his NL numbers, I would feel more comfortable classifying him as a very good 3. Eh, I don't know if I'd even argue with that. Tomato, tomahto.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    What is acceptable? Revere's .333 OBP was .014 points higher than average. but, my argument all along is that Revere should be extended, and paid, as a 9 hitter, not as a replacement for Span in the order at leadoff. Mauer or Hicks might be the better choice for that. .350 is good, .360 or higher is better. But really, I want a guy who isn't so reliant on BABIP so I look at BB%. 8% is pretty good, 9-10% is better. Span walked around 8.5% of the time last season, I believe. Mauer was almost at 14%, IIRC. Revere was around 5%. That's bad. And as others have mentioned, you don't worry about extending your #9 hitter.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    Which is fine and dandy if your speed guy is getting on base at an acceptable clip. Revere's ability to do that is very much up for debate. If Revere was walking anywhere close to 10% of the time, I'd be WAY more bullish on him as a player. It doesn't matter how fast you can run back to the dugout.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    Not at all. The Twins haven't had a chance to coach this guy at all. They may want to see what they have in him instead of throwing him into the upper minors right off the bat. I won't mind if they start him in Ft. Myers. I will only mind if they keep him there for half a season or more while he's dominating hitters.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    The good news: Kevin Brown's power sinker was fierce. The bad news: Kevin Brown got that power sinker by using his upper body and back, which caused him to break down in quite an ugly fashion. Hopefully Meyer can use his height and the leverage that comes with it to get that kind of power from his legs instead of his torso.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    It depends on the guy. I'd love to have Jackson, Sanchez, or Greinke for four years. Dempster and Marcum, not so much. Either way, Ryan needs to overpay for somebody. It's an ugly situation to be in but that's what five years of bad drafts (at least in the pitching department) gets a team.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    I think people are more down on his age and a three year contract than Dempster himself. I like the way you think. Heh, yep. I know it's his decline phase and all that but I'd like Dempster at two years. I'm really torn on three. He'd be 38 at the end of that contract. I don't see how that would work out well for the Twins but they're going to have to pay somebody too much money.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    I think Revere's arm is overplayed. Does it hurt the team? Sure, any weak arm in RF/CF is going to hurt the team. Is it significant enough to matter enough to use as an argument to discount his range? Probably not. I'm fine with Revere's defense; I think it's the rest of his game that will hold him back. I wish the best for the guy but I've seen too many players like him stall out in their late 20s. He's a bad bet for extension. That's all.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    Arcia stats his last three years in the minors are comparable to Trouts first three before being he was brought up for a cup of coffee at the end of his third year. Would you agree? Why wasn't Arcia promoted to AAA already? That's not on him. It's not him that he was still in A+ ball going into his 5th year in the minors. Or still in rookie ball to start his 4th year Look at the stats more closely. Arica was fast-tracked until he stalled out in 2011... Can't recall if he was injured or not. Now he's quickly advancing again. Also, Trout never struck out nearly as much as Arcia. That's often a sign of bad breaking ball recognition, which means you absolutely do not advance that player. You try to let them sort that out in the minors, you don't let them flail away in the majors, completely overmatched. You really need to stop referencing that he's a fifth year player. He's 21 years old. He signed at age 16, when Trout was probably chasing tail as a sophomore in high school. Fast tracked? He started his 4th season in the minors still in rookie ball...and he was 17 his first year in the minors.. Like Hunter was Because he was under 18 and from another country. Teams keep those guys in rookie ball to teach them English and basic life stuff. Every team does this. It's not unique to the Twins. These players are adjusting to a lot more than breaking balls. You can't toss an 18 year old from Venezuela into the big leagues and expect success.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    Arcia stats his last three years in the minors are comparable to Trouts first three before being he was brought up for a cup of coffee at the end of his third year. Would you agree? Why wasn't Arcia promoted to AAA already? That's not on him. It's not him that he was still in A+ ball going into his 5th year in the minors. Or still in rookie ball to start his 4th year Look at the stats more closely. Arica was fast-tracked until he stalled out in 2011... Can't recall if he was injured or not. Now he's quickly advancing again. Also, Trout never struck out nearly as much as Arcia. That's often a sign of bad breaking ball recognition, which means you absolutely do not advance that player. You try to let them sort that out in the minors, you don't let them flail away in the majors, completely overmatched. You really need to stop referencing that he's a fifth year player. He's 21 years old. He signed at age 16, when Trout was probably chasing tail as a sophomore in high school.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    I think people are more down on his age and a three year contract than Dempster himself.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    Even Mike Trout received over 500 PAs in AA/AAA. There's "not coddling a player" and there's "dangerously rushing a prospect for no reason". With that said, if an offer is received for Willingham and it's good, Ryan should take it. Two months of Mastrioanni won't kill us.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    Except there really aren't any frontline pitchers. There are a bunch of #3s that people are touting better than that and Zach Grienke. So get used to this. Sanchez is a two as well. After that, the class thins quickly.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    I don't worry too much about age I guess. It's not only age. Arica has all of 250 ABs above A ball. Patience. We should see both of them in 2013. There's no reason to rush them out of spring training.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    Hicks has struggled at nearly every level before sorting it out the following season. Arcia is 21 years old. How on earth can you say they don't need any more time in the minors?
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    The upside is that a 4.7 K/9 can't possibly drop much with a transition to the AL.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    Is Joe Blanton even an upgrade?
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    If he isn't base running coach, I'm not interested.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    While I hate getting into payroll debates, it's worth noting that the Twins went over their budget in 2010 to get Pavano in January. $112m isn't really a fair baseline to use, as it was a conscious overspending based on a specific opportunity.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    Great comparison. Smart people go after the Denard Spans and Josh Willinghams of the world. They're going to bring a lot of value to the team for not a lot of cash. Not-as-smart people do things like give BJ Upton $75m. Not that I think the Braves are dumb; they're one of the smarter organizations in baseball... but that doesn't mean they can't do dumb things.
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