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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    Probably Buxton if only because position players are generally more valuable than pitchers. And Buxton has the potential to be one of the best players in baseball and I can’t really say the same about Berrios. In the real world with real injury considerations, it’s harder to say but I’d lean toward Berrios.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    I neither get the adoration nor the condemnation of Astudillo. He’s a fun statistical oddity because his contact skills and refusal to walk are both so far at the extreme end of baseball but that also means he’s a pretty flawed baseball player, never mind his defense... But if he can hit at or above .300, he’s a pretty useful piece on the bench. I remain unconvinced that will be the case but I hope he can do it.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    Happ didn’t look very good but it’s hard to get a read on him after that start. He missed a lot of ST and Detroit is pretty bad.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    This is why it's good to basically ignore stats for the first several weeks of the season. We can all agree that Brent Rooker has looked like a trash fire out there but it's also 11 PAs, less than three full games of play. If he continues to flail like he has, the stats won't really matter, it's the fact he can't connect on hittable pitches and can't lay off unhittable pitches (he did both a few times yesterday alone). On the other hand, Garlick has only 5 PAs but also has a .900 OPS in those appearances. His stat line is as equally unimportant as Rooker’s, though it highlights how extremely SSS can be wildly out of line with perception because if you missed on good PA, it looks like he has done nothing.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    It's eight plate appearances so I don't think the past three days change anything. I think the better question is "Do they dangle Baddoo in the Rule V if they know Detroit will draft him?" That one is harder to answer, I think. They didn't want to lose Baddoo (they don't really "want" to lose any player) but I think they left him unprotected because of the high risk of taking him (little play in the past two seasons, hasn't played in high minors, struggled a bit, etc).
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    It’s unlikely now but hard to say for certain given he was laid out for basically all of 2020 due to being a covid long-hauler. Which is really unfortunate for him because he almost surely would have gotten a taste of MLB by now had that not happened.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    KC probably won’t be good but they might come close to .500. Not really a “threat” per se but one more team in the division that might not be terrible.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    Arraez signed with the Twins in 2013 so the previous front office definitely gets some credit for him.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    Ive said multiple times that I would have sent him out for the seventh but no way am I running him up over 100 pitches in his first start after the weirdness of 2020. It may be a small risk to leave him out there but it’s still a risk and with 161 left to play for a contending team, I’m fine with the manager being quite risk-averse with his second-best pitcher. And ultimately, it simply didn’t matter. The Twins won the game (and the series) and Berrios is ready to go next time. Why is anyone putting this much emotional energy into a no hitter that doesn’t really matter in a team sport?
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    The point being that pushing a pitcher outside his typical work load in pursuit of a rather meaningless individual achievement is foolish and risky. Doubly so if the pitcher is in his first start of the season.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    Yikes, no. The Twins have a good bullpen and I want to see Berrios pitch 30 times this season. There’s so little to gain by leaving him in and so much to lose. Personally, I probably would have sent him out for the seventh but almost surely not the eighth.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    I agree that yesterday’s game was a pretty good watch but when I noticed the game crossed the three hour mark, I groaned a little. 15 years ago, that’s a 2-2.5 hour game and it would be better for it. PS. The opener was a terrible spectator game. Sloppy, slow, and boring.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    Buxton began realizing his potential in 2019. The past two years, he’s been roughly a five win player in a full season. At this point, the only real hurdle for him to overcome is staying on the field. (Obviously, there’s room for him to grow beyond five wins but he’s already very good when he’s playing)
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    Fair enough. In that sense, I’m also in favor of maximizing performance. It’s the job of a good front office to “break” the rules and the job of MLB to counter those movements to maintain the spectating experience of the game.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    I don’t believe it has to be binary. The NBA and NFL tweak their rules *all the time* to maintain the spectating experience but when the same is called for in baseball, people holler about tradition and history. Can anyone honestly claim the game is worse because they lowered the mound and added the DH? The game needs to evolve to keep up with modern analytics, which have sucked a lot of the life out of the game. I appreciate analytics because it stomped out so many bad, entrenched ideas but that doesn’t mean I like everything it has done to the game. And it’s not that hard to just change some effing rules to counter some of its worst effects that continue to remove more and more action from baseball.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    Well, from a performance standpoint, yes. But baseball is a spectator sport and strict adherence to maximizing performance does not perfectly correlate with the best spectating experience. While most of us can agree that bunting is stupid, bunting for hits is super fun to watch. As are stolen bases. As are legging out grounders, which is much harder to do against a shifted infield. In general, contact and motion is more interesting than strikeouts. The modern game is far less dynamic than previous iterations of the game and it’s hard to say this version is superior from the viewpoint of a spectator.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    Remember that time Johan threw a no hitter and went way over his planned workload and was never a good pitcher again*? That was cool. *we don’t know for certain that the no hitter was at fault for his rapid decline but we don’t know it wasn’t, either
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    Berrios had a far more common no hitter going, not a perfect game.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    Has anyone let him know he can take the pickles out of the jar first?
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    That inning was so bad and flukish that it should be written off. We’ll find out soon enough what Colome will look like this season. While it definitely wasn’t my favorite signing choice, I think he’ll be fine.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    I’m a bit surprised Berrios didn’t go out for the seventh but have no problem with Rocco being cautious in April. There’s a lot of baseball left to play and Berrios is a key to success this season.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    While it was a pretty embarrassing play for Kepler, no beer league player makes that catch because they're ten feet from the ball when it drops. You're really underrating Kepler's speed and how quickly he was moving to get that ball. It was not an easy play to make because many right fielders don't get there in time. Kepler got there but he dropped the ball and that's on him. He's such a smooth player that while it really hurt to watch the ball drop, it's not something I expect to see often from him.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    Methinks you’re over-dramatizing this by a lot. One of the worst blown saves in the history of the org? No. And going 0-2 is not a big deal on the grand scheme of things. The game sucked. It was an awful watch almost front to back and the 9th/10th were just cherries on top of that crap sundae. But ultimately, it’s one game of 162, just like the rest. Let’s not overreact just because it’s the first game we’ve seen that counts in six months.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    This was an ugly game that was lost by bad defense, something I don’t expect to see often this season. Shrug it off, 161 more to go.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    Nick's opinion probably has a lot to do with Arraez being 5'10". Even Carew, who played in a time when players were much smaller than today, was still 6'0".
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