Brock Beauchamp
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Yeah, and it's particularly difficult to suffer through given the previous season and the upcoming uncertainty. It has been 11 months since we experienced anything resembling the typical cycle of a baseball calendar year. -
I understand the offseason isn't even close to over but the White Sox have drastically improved while the Twins have done nothing. Not awesome thus far.
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Oh, for sure, which is why I'm increasingly in favor of some kind of draft incentive for not tanking. The NBA lottery is a fine place to start the conversation but I'm not sure it's the right answer or only answer.
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A salary cap isn't the only solution. One can use various draft incentives, a salary floor, and more rigorous luxury taxes to increase overall competitiveness. Except none of those things will likely happen, as MLB long ago showed us how much it's willing to sacrifice the quality of the sport for short-term profits. Every year, it's becoming more apparent to me that baseball needs a complete overhaul to avoid being left behind by more exciting, flexible sports. Those changes include both on-field and top-level changes that drastically change how the sport operates.
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The Red Sox do it to Betts, then the Cubs do it to Darvish the following offseason. MLB needs to get its house in order if they want to stay competitive with other sports. They have so many problems that badly need to be resolved, as it's getting harder to be excited about baseball pretty much every year.
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Because it doesn't really make sense. Unless the difference in hitting is enormous, you try to play your best defensive infielder at shortstop every day, or close to it. And if the Twins aren't at least moderately confident in Semien returning to being a pretty good (not even great, just pretty good) hitter, they shouldn't go anywhere near him because other teams will offer him enough money to make that a bad decision.
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I agree that positional flexibility is important but the real wild card in my eyes is Arraez. Mediocre, maybe kinda bad, skills at second don't slide anywhere else on the diamond comfortably. Second base is a bit of a dead-end defensively. If the player's arm was better, they'd be a SS or 3B, not a 2B. And Arraez's range is anything but impressive so he doesn't have much going for him in any aspect of the defensive game. And Luis is too damned promising as a hitter to relegate to the bench more than once or twice a week. I'm not really sure what to do with him and as much as I hate to say it, a trade may be the best option for the Twins. Which is really unfortunate because there's no one on the current team I enjoy watching at the plate more than Luis Arraez. I'm quickly growing tired of three outcome baseball and Arraez is a breath of fresh air to a style of baseball that is simply more fun to watch than today's game.
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Not even close. Semien grades as a plus in pretty much every defensive metric while Polanco grades well into the negatives in pretty much every defensive metric. Semien posted good numbers in 2018 and 2019 before dropping off in the 60 game season this past year, but I take any numbers from 2020 with a huge grain of salt. And just watching Semien play, he looks like a good shortstop whereas Polanco makes me cringe on a regular basis, especially that arm. One concern I have about Semien is length of contract and the fact he is 30 years old. While he looked very good as a 27-28 year old, that's far from a guarantee he will continue to look good as a 32 year old, especially at SS, where it feels the defensive decline happens quickly and without warning.
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Better than average. He's good. Maybe not elite Gold Glove calibre, but good.
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My interest in Semien has direct correlation to the front office's conviction about his bat going forward. He posted one monster season but has been pretty pedestrian with the stick outside that single season. Still, his glove is a massive upgrade either way.
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Much, much, much better.
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No way would I give up Lewis for one season of a player. Two, maybe, but not one season. Baseball is just too much of a crapshoot to push all your chips into the middle of the table for just one season.
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It's Official Now! Twins Invite Affiliates
Brock Beauchamp replied to Seth Stohs's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
This is exciting. I will be watching more live baseball when it becomes possible again, as I don’t fret as much taking two baseball unaware children to a game at Saints prices. -
Yeah, I was just eyeing up Delta and Boeing as potential candidates for me to jump back into the market. Another stock to keep an eye on is Intel. They're going to get ****ing clobbered for the next 12-24 months by Apple and AMD but Intel has unrivaled manufacturing might and engineering prowess. Expect their stock to take a drubbing and then come back strong.
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For those of you implying Maeda couldn’t go six, do you believe he asked Baldelli to leave after 90 pitches? I’m sure Kenta would have been just fine with the idea of trotting back out in the sixth. But out of Baldelli’s decisions today, that one doesn’t even crack the top five of things that annoyed me.
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I can’t blame a lick of this on the pitchers. Maeda, May, Duffey, Rogers pitched 8.0 IP, 1 ER. Romo pitched an ugly ninth but got three outs before a run crossed the plate. It’s everyone else I’m mad at, with Polanco holding a special place in hell.
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Contemplating the Twins Catching Conundrum
Brock Beauchamp replied to Patrick Wozniak's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
Garver’s value is down considerably this year and Jeffers needs more seasoning. Keep them both and reevaluate 13 months from now. -
Jeffers is viewed as the best defensive catcher in the entire organization so your untrained eye is mostly correct. As for who catches the bulk of the remaining games, I believe Garver needs the reps the most. He has the most immediate upside at the plate and needs to be as comfortable as possible heading into the postseason. I'd use Jeffers as the backup and probably bench Avila for the rest of the season and use only in a "break glass in case of emergency" situation. As nice as it'd be to win out every game in the regular season, having a healthy, good, and in-the-groove roster in the postseason means a lot more.
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Yeah, that B-Ref percentage seems way too high. FG is pretty close to where I'd expect it to be, though I expected more in the 6-8% range eyeballing it.
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I agree, to an extent. But where I find a lot of national coverage superficial, I often find ESPN’s commentary just plain dumb.
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To be completely clear, I don't really care whether the Twins get national TV time, especially on ESPN. I've come to dislike pretty much everything about ESPN over the years. While I can't speak definitively on their coverage of other sports, their baseball commentary is almost 100% cheap, lazy, bad takes that barely skim the surface of the sport.
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Eh, it's still an oversight. In 2015, the Twins were in the WC race until the final weekend. In 2017, they won the second WC spot. You'd think that would have gotten them at least one game on ESPN.
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Almost impossible. The Twins tie the first tiebreaker with the Sox and lose the second, so the Twins have to win the division outright. Laying an egg in that final Sox game really hurt, as they'd be in a good position to win the division (one game back and the tie would go to the Twins).
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It doesn't even matter if teams are disqualified or not, which is why they picked TEX/HOU for the NL (both home stadiums of AL teams) and SDP/LAD for the AL (both home stadiums of NL teams). In either case, MLB could choose the alternate stadium to host the World Series should one of those home teams make it the Championship Series round. One thing I haven't seen discussed much is that SoCal is NOT an optimal location for the Twins to play. The two stadiums they've designated are cavernous, which plays against the Twins' offensive strengths.
