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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    Welcome to Twins Daily!
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    My feeling is what's happening is that people are (rightfully) upset about losing perhaps the most fun player to watch in baseball and trying to justify that feeling with his batting champion status. I'm super-bummed Arraez will no longer be a Twin. He made baseball, a spectator sport, more enjoyable to spectate. But I'm comfortable couching that feeling in the fact that this trade seems pretty fair and balanced and is probably a good baseball decision. Others seem to want to find a way to justify their emotional attachment to Arraez using a rather arbitrary metric of "batting champion", which I don't think is really necessary. It's okay to just say "I liked watching Luis Arraez play baseball" and that is a perfectly fine reason to not like the trade.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    Dee Strange Gordon had a .776 OPS when he won the batting title in 2015. Jose Altuve had an OPS around .830 one of the years he won. I get your point and it's valid but batting champions having an OPS in the .800-.850 range isn't terribly uncommon. And Arraez's .795 isn't all that different than .830, especially adjusting for run environment. Arraez's 130 OPS+ is identical to Altuve's the first year he won with an .830 OPS. Arraez is a good BABIP guy with decent isoD and very little slugging. It certainly minimizes his value, especially at first base, but those guys winning the batting title isn't a unicorn event. It says more about the value of "batting champ" than Luis Arraez, really. If Arraez finished the season with an 0-for-8 and Judge passes him, no one throws a fit over losing the "runner-up batting champion".
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    I suspect Lewis immediately goes to the 60-day. Why not? Unless I'm horribly mistaken, 60-day IL returns at the start of Spring Training. There's no way Lewis is ready for a Major League roster by the end of April.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    They took over following the 2016 season. Their first pick was Lewis in 2017.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    I think we’ll see Buxton DHed more but he’s a better defender than Taylor so he’ll still get plenty of reps in center.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    I think this means we see Kepler dealt for prospects. A fine trade that fills a need at the back of the roster. It raises the floor of the team as a whole.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    I would pursue one, maybe two, above average relief arms. I think the most impact will be found there as you remove someone below replacement level and insert a 1-ish win player. Do that twice and it could be worth up to three wins overall. And the Twins will *absolutely* field below replacement level relievers this season if they don’t add depth.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    Super-duper double-hard pass on this one, thanks.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    What I think you're not paying enough attention to with this post is how much immediate prospect upside the Twins have on the positional side of things and how little immediate prospect upside they have in the rotation. Losing Arraez hurts because he's a good player. But he's also a LHB that's limited defensively. He's kind of a bad fit at first base while Kirilloff is a natural fit. You can probably strap a big mitt on Trevor Larnach's right hand and he can figure it out, too. And the team still has Matt Wallner waiting in the wings and Royce Lewis a couple of months behind him. Perhaps by mid-season we're talking about Lee and/or Julien, too. I just listed a bunch of players. Now if you look to pitching, you have Woods Richardson. Winder. Sands. They're all interesting prospects but none of them profile to be a difference-making arm, especially fresh out of the minors. They're at least one - and probably two - steps below Lewis, Larnach, and Kirilloff and more of an equivalent of Wallner. That's why the Twins traded Arraez for a pitcher.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    Yep, we have both word filters in place and moderators will actively change the name away from the old moniker. Don't die on this hill, it's ridiculous.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    It's a win now and win next year move. Lopez is more rotation insurance in 2023 and he'll be around in 2024 while Gray, Mahle, and Maeda enter free agency. The Twins can't possibly fill 3/5ths of their rotation with prospects by this time next year, which means they'd be right back to searching for 2+ more rotation arms next offseason.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    I hate to see Arraez go but this feels like a really good baseball move.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    Lewis missed the wall, landed wrong, and that's what caused the injury. Missing the wall and landing off-balance is a pretty good way to do it wrong IMO.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    I wouldn’t go so far as to call it a fluke. Lewis injured himself by failing to jump into the wall, and he likely failed because no one has asked him to jump into a wall before so he didn’t know how to do it. With that said, Farmer has all of spring to get up to speed on playing OF, he won’t be thrust into it basically overnight.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    As an aside, MLB recently hired a network executive to address their (purely idiotic) blackout rules. Hopefully he is able to make progress on it sooner rather than later. MLB is losing so much money and fan interest with this nonsense.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    That's why we pay Parker the big bucks. But seriously, so happy to see Parker writing about the Twins again. His stuff is always next-level.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    Welcome to Twins Daily! I didn't realize Disability Pride Day was something they did in 2022 but sure enough, there it is on the calendar. Right now, all they're showing on the special events page is "check back soon". https://www.mlb.com/twins/tickets/specials
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    I mostly like the pre-game stuff for injury updates and manager interviews. It helps me stay current with player situations. I'll occasionally watch post-game stuff if there was something in-game that was notable.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    Oh, I already have MLB.tv, I just wanted to watch Brewers pre- and post-game content, which is not available on MLB.tv (but should be). While I'm on the subject of bitching and moaning about this, I should also be able to give MLB.tv an extra $5/mo and receive MLB Network streaming. Everything, and I mean everything, about MLB and television is utterly idiotic.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    Which is actually MLB's catchphrase for most things.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    If you're in the Twins broadcast zone, you can purchase this and use it as a cable replacement. If you're not in the Twins broadcast zone, you cannot purchase this. I already tried to buy the Brewers package last year and it wouldn't let me because my billing address is in Minnesota, though I may skirt this by changing one of my CCs to our cabin address in Wisconsin just to buy Bally Sports Wisconsin. So while this service is better than what we had before, baseball's idiotic blackout regulations are still mostly in place.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    I'll be incredibly disappointed if the Twins don't just agree to be on the streaming service for one year in 2023. Their entire contract is up for re-negotiation after this season, just agree to the one year deal and allow us to stream games.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    Oh, insurance is absolutely involved but my understanding is that their process with doctors and evaluation is separate from what we're talking about with the Giants' and Mets' doctor. By the way, the Twins were able to insure Correa's contract. I believe Boras made a smart-ass remark about it at the press conference, implying the Twins could magically get him insured but the Giants and Mets could not.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    That was the goal! Awesome!
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