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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    Minor leaguers voted and have approved unionization. Now it's on to MLB and the real fireworks begin. https://theathletic.com/3568822/2022/09/06/minor-league-union-mlb-mlbpa/
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    But think about it for a moment. Yesterday Duran entered a one run lead with the bases occupied and pitched 1.2 scoreless innings, during which the Twins scored multiple runs and put the game out of reach. Why would you ever use anyone but your best reliever to prevent a tie game or a loss during a critical late inning situation? Why risk having to mount a rally just to save your best relief option for a specific inning? Duran had a .385 WPA in that game. The next highest from a pitcher on either side was Dylan Bundy's .277 WPA. Duran was the most valuable pitcher in that game by a long shot. Isn't that where you want your best reliever when the dust settles?
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    Yesterday was a perfect example of why Duran isn't the closer. What he did in the seventh and eighth of a game that felt like it was slipping away is more valuable than coming into a clean ninth inning with a lead. I'm of the opinion that your "closer" should be your second or third best reliever and Lopez is the Twins' second best reliever. What the Twins are doing feels perfectly in line with what they should be doing in these situations.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    Exactly this.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    Isn’t that the fault of the actual base runner, though?
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    Technically a couple of wins is better than zero but is this really true? Falvine has had a WC game, a traditional five game series, and a three game series. Ryan had SO MANY five game series and won literally one of them. The losing streak started and continued for quite some time under his watch. I’m not sure that’s better. To put it in similar terms, Ryan ended his tenure with six postseason losses. Falvine has… six postseason losses.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    He has a point. Criticisms are across the board and make little sense. Don’t run, get blasted for not playing small ball. Run and get caught, shouldn’t have run. So which is it? The literal reason teams don’t run as much is because the loss is so high. People yearn for old baseball but then criticize it when it happens.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    I've seen a lot of bat-**** crazy stuff in baseball. This is pretty easily top ten.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    Oh my, this is a circus.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    Woof.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    The White Sox are absolutely desperate for something to motivate their team. Sit the **** down, you clowns. Nobody is trying to bean anyone in a tie game in the bottom of the ninth.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    Reliever ERA is borderline useless. Thielbar’s FIP is around 2.6. He has been *very* good this season.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    I’m not even a Rocco apologist. I’m only saying you should watch more baseball before claiming he just did something no other manager would do. I see managers do what Rocco just did all the time.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    Actually, loads of managers yank him after one inning because this isn’t the postseason. You should watch how other teams manage more before making that statement.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    Cool.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    Weird, given how Thielbar has a very low home run rate. You should consider playing the lottery.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    Thielbar is way better than average. And he’s given up fewer homers than Duran.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    Plesac AND Civale on the same day? Yikes.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    Definitely out.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    A perfect pitch from Lopez. Also not a strike but oh well, hell of a pitch.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    This is due to the positional adjustment of WAR. Ripken played most of his career when shortstops were TERRIBLE hitters. Ripken only posted a 140 OPS+ four times in his career, one of them a partial season. For a comparison point, Corey Seager has done that three times already and he's only 28 years old. In 1991, Ripken had a .940 OPS, 162 OPS+, and was awarded 9.2 oWAR for that performance. That's an absurd number. In 2017, Correa had a .915 OPS, 155 OPS+, and received 5.7 oWAR. That's the difference between the average shortstop in the 80s and the average shortstop in the 2010s. I'm not diminishing what Ripken did, though, I'm merely pointing out how he accumulated such an absurd amount of WAR.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    Please give me examples of this in private message.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    In this league of .240 batting average and a 25% strikeout rate? D'okay. And Gordon was making that decision in a split second. He got it wrong. Oh well, move on.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    I’d say you’re decisive in an indecisive situation. Definitely not wrong but also in a split second decision, Gordon wasn’t wrong either.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    I literally logged on to see if Chief said something about Gordon going for the triple. I win, I guess.
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