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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    Fair enough, someone else privately questioned my use of that phrase, which was a bit off the cuff and slightly inappropriate. I just wanted to clear the air on what I meant.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    My phrasing was unnecessarily lewd but I don't hold any ill will against a single individual Twin from the 2000s. But there's no denying that those experiences were painful to watch from a fan perspective. Some very good teams simply did not compete when it really mattered. I'm not mad about it or anything, just pointing out that the teams did not come anywhere close to our (or their) expectations. Ask any player from one of those teams and I doubt they'd disagree with me on that. It required a team effort to be beaten that soundly and consistently, year in, year out.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    It’s possible I misunderstood as well. I guess it never occurred to me that people believe Polanco isn’t good.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    I think 20 runs might be realistic given health, 30 runs a bit much. Cron was pretty damned good for most of the season. Still, 20 runs is A LOT. That's a couple of wins in itself. But I've always felt that the Twins didn't need to worry about the 2020 season as much as they needed to worry about the 2020 postseason. They were good enough to get there as-is but they weren't good enough to advance. I'm not sure Donaldson gets them there, though if he's enough to push them to a one or two seed, that might do it. It's all a numbers game. You could have the greatest pitcher in the world (Johan Santana) but if the rest of the team craps the bed, that's basically it. Maybe the Twins can finally see the opposite happen.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    That's why I said it's not the stock market. Some fans view a player contract that's a net positive right now as something that should be traded so that the team can attain... another... net positive asset... in the... future... Sorry, that's where I always get lost in this conversation.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    Do you want to sign good players in the future? This isn't the stock market, human beings are involved and risk is taken by both sides.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    Signing a player to an extension and then trading them 12 months later is a good way to ensure no player ever signs an extension with you again.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    I mean, maybe, but pretty much everybody not named Cruz was banged up in a significant way during that series. It was an unfortunate few weeks for the Twins leading up to that postseason.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    Except for that one part where the last time they fielded a 90 win team, they were around 10th in MLB payroll. Besides, should we just let ownership slide when they’re being cheap just because they’ve done it in the past, too?
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    Oh, for sure, but the Twins has a solid lead when Cron missed that hop and the entire series played differently from that moment forward. Never mind how differently fly balls play with Buxton in center. The Twins were outplayed in that series and significant damage was done because they were specifically outplayed on defense.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    One shouldn’t prevent the other. Even after the Donaldson deal, the Twins basically sit at $140m, including Buxton and Berrios. Give them both a raise and the team still wouldn’t be at even $150m. $150m would have ranked 12th in baseball in 2019 and probably lower than that once the dust settles on 2020. Twins fans really need to de-program themselves from what the Pohlads have been selling us for the past decade. IIRC, the Twins had the 10th highest payroll in 2010 and they should be able to replicate the modern equivalent for a 3-4 year competitive run. That’s about $160-165m in 2020 money.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    That’s the most likely division but if Boston blows itself up, the ALE could actually be pretty weak for once. Though now that we’re at the midpoint of January, Boston pulling the pin is becoming pretty unlikely.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm not so sure the ALC will be the worst division in baseball this season given what Chicago has done to speed up the rebuild. They should post a winning record on the season, which likely gives the ALC three winning teams and two terrible teams.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    Okay, I’ll bite: What “fan faves” did the Twins get rid of due to Mauer’s contract?
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    I haven't found this definitively yet but it appears the Twins' TV deal expires after the 2023 season. It seems to me that a bunch of wins, maybe even a championship, going into that new deal is worth upping payroll for the next few seasons. Go into negotiations in as strong a position as possible.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    I’m concerned about health, of course, but not a less lively ball because everyone has to play with it and Twins pitchers could really benefit from a less lively ball with Buxton manning center.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    The solution to this is for the Twins to stop being a $130-140m team. They’re coming off a 101 win season, for crying out loud.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    If this lineup remains anything close to healthy, we're going to see A LOT of 4.1 inning starts from opposing pitchers as they slink back to the dugout with an ERA of 9+ for the game...
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    From everything I’ve read the guy is super-competitive and doesn’t have a ring. I don’t think “phoning it in” is something we need to worry about.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    I’m going to pick nits here but Donaldson has spent most of his recent time in the 140 OPS+ range, which is also where Mauer spent most of his time through 2013, his age 30 season.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    Mauer had a friggin’ brain injury. There’s no comparison here other than time spent alive on earth.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    Damnnnnnn. Trueblood is so effing good. The fact he wrote this in like three hours since the signing is amazing.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    And they’ll be selling to a market that needs pitching every single deadline, which drives up the price. The offseason is when a team needs to wrangle a deal for pitching that isn’t two months of a rental.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    It’s super lazy reporting and I just laughed it off.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    Did you watch that first game? It kinda was. One easy scoop and the Twins keep the lead. From there, who knows what happens. Never mind what happens if Buxton is out there for any number of plays.
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