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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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)
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    Berrios had a far more common no hitter going, not a perfect game.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    Has anyone let him know he can take the pickles out of the jar first?
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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".
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    So many things about loanDepot cause me pain. Like the fact that the name uses camelcase and starts with a lowercase "L", which reads as an uppercase "i", completely confusing the user FOR ABSOLUTELY NO REASON. Or the fact that phonetically, the name sounds like "Home Depot", a much more well-known brand to users. Everything about the name is laughably bad and it's some of the worst high-level branding I've ever seen in my life, particularly from a company that makes enough money to sponsor a professional sports arena.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    The Twins can certainly "put pressure" on Bally Sports but ultimately, they have little to no leverage to do anything about the situation. The Twins, like most pro sports franchises, sell their broadcasting rights to another company and once that ink is laid to paper, the broadcasting agent has most of the power to exercise those rights as they see fit, as the sports franchise gets paid either way. I'm sure there are clauses that prevent "no broadcast to anyone" but I'm equally sure there is a lot of leeway to drop some providers and grant access to others. Which sucks for consumers. As is the case so often today, we're stuck in the middle of billionaires yelling at each other while we don't get the service we expect.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    Though at least with the previous regime, there was a lengthy track record of being absurdly cautious with pitching prospects despite the MLB team being awful. The situation is quite different now.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    That’s a stretch without any evidence to back it up. The Twins may have bungled this decision but it’s equally possible Rooker is satisfied with and understands the decision. We literally have *zero* information about the conversations that happen around these kinds of promotions and demotions.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    I’d also prefer to see Rooker play every day but the AAA season doesn’t start for over a month. And unlike Kirilloff, Rooker doesn’t really have any development and/or service time questions. He’s already 26 and has hit quite well in the upper minors.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    I understand some of the confusion and questioning the moves but people tend to talk with way more certainty about these kinds of moves than is warranted. Ultimately, it’s unlikely either decision makes much of a difference to W/L in the grand scheme of things. Though I’m a bit bummed for Rooker in the short term.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    I hoped to see Rooker but eh, okay. I hope Garlick does well and it all works out. Astudillo doesn’t surprise me in the least and I’m not a huge fan of the guy or anything. He has bad versatility but it’s still versatility. And he’s a solid choice for pinch-hitting, allowing Baldelli to slot him around the field for a couple of innings. It’s not a bad skill set for literally the last guy on the roster. If his OPS craters like it did in 2019, I don’t expect him to last long and that may be the end of Willians in a Twins uniform.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    While I think you're mostly on the right track in the sense that strikeouts are bad, lack of walks mean virtually nothing. Again, spring training stats DO NOT MATTER. No one walks in spring training because the entire point is to hit the ball and get to game speed. No one spits on pitches and works a nine pitch walk because no one is here to do that.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    And that’s exactly why they make these (every year) controversial cuts two weeks before the season begins.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    Fair enough, we’re saying many of the same things. The only part where it appears we differ is that I believe many things happen and exist that are not reflected in a box score. A player could look fantastic in so many ways and have an atrocious box score, and vice versa. Ultimately, the box score doesn’t tell the team anything they don’t already know, though it may confirm what they already know.
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