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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    Joe Nathan is the best reliever in Twins history and there's no question about it. He was literally the best reliever in baseball not named Rivera for 6-7 years and at times, he was better.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    This list only counts WAR accumulated in a Twins uniform. Winfield only had .3 WAR over two seasons with the Twins at the end of his career.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    Let's take a moment to revel in Julio Franco. Unless my math is wrong, he played his final MLB game as a 49 year old. He's Jamie Moyer who hits. He literally played at the highest level until he was almost FIFTY YEARS OLD.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    This is really a great article and thanks for writing it. I was a big Mack fan in the early 90s but left baseball during the strike. I didn't come back until 98 and assumed Mack had left the game, but not under the circumstances laid out here.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    And I see Sconnie already took care of this conversation.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    If no company can store your crude, it's pretty hard to sell. Oil producers are still producing, but if they have no place to send it... well. What do you do with crude oil if no one wants to take it?
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    Weird how Parker bolded a couple of adverbs to highlight the uncertainty of his viewpoint while you bolded entire portions of a sentence to... say what, exactly? Oh, to point out what you inferred from Parker's post, not what he actually said. And before you get super upset and reply, I have no interest in responding and will not do so. Read Parker's posts again and try not to infer your own political stance upon them. Just read the damned posts, they're informative and useful. If you wish to debate the merit of them afterward, feel free to do so.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    This seems like a pretty good place to bring up Calvin Griffith and his racist ideals in a baseball context.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    It's a different game. Killebrew didn't spend the final four innings of almost every game facing a specialized reliever to get him out. Strikeouts were frowned upon, while now they're just a thing you suffer through for the greater good of offense. And in that situation, walking more definitely hurts a player's ability to drive in runs as balls in play is RBI if you're a slugger. Never mind all the good points brought up in the article itself; it's a lot harder to drive in runs if the entire lineup isn't built for 2-3 guys to drive in runs and instead favors 6-7 guys driving in runs.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    If you're mixing cocktails on a regular basis, creme de menthe is a staple of the cabinet. Mind you, our bottle is like ten years old because we don't use it often but when you want it, it's there.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    Though Mauer was at a huge disadvantage because he was a catcher and DH. While he mashed as both, mashing as a DH doesn't give much in the way of WAR, though he was still a huge plus for the team because he spent so much time behind the plate. Despite being a beast that season, I suspect his DH WAR is a fraction of his total WAR. And let's not ignore that Mauer missed all of April that season due to injury. He came back that season and posted that WAR over five months, not six. Though I won't really argue with anyone who slots Carew or Mauer above one another. There are arguments to be made for both.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    Sano can't do it because he doesn't put the ball in play often enough and he draws a ton of walks. That cripples his ability to be a massive run-producer, though I should point out that's not a negative statement. Joey Votto (I know, the Reds aren't a great example here for run-producing but bear with me) is a beastly hitter all around, posting a .300+ BA for his career but he has never driven in more than 110 RBI in his career because he puts the bat on his shoulder and spits on pitches if they're not the in zone. Sano, while not *quite* at that level, does the same a lot of the time. Any player who walks 10% of the time is at a serious disadvantage for RBI, while also being a huge boon to the team.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    Glad to have you around Twins Daily and I've enjoyed your BBTN podcast segments over the past several months!
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    I don't disagree with some of the premise of this post, that Santana perhaps isn't HoF caliber... but how you got there is kinda wrong. Cliff Lee didn't have a prime anywhere near that of Santana. Johan had five full seasons of 150 ERA+ ball. Cliff Lee had two. Johan's "mediocre" 2007 season was basically how Lee pitched during his best seasons, minus the two 150 ERA+ outlier seasons. And that's why, despite pitching roughly 100 fewer innings, Santana is worth about 10 rWAR more than Lee in his career. Kaat is an interesting point to bring up, though he kinda screwed himself by sticking around for a VERY long time and not being good. Kaat finished his career with a 45.2 rWAR. Through his first 17 seasons, he had a 48.1 rWAR. Through his final seven (!) seasons, he hung on and posted a -2.9 rWAR. And it's not as if he stunk it up for a year or two, he was roughly replacement level or worse every year out of those seven. I never realized he was so bad for so long, yet kept getting playing time in the era of free agency.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    While I support the general idea of this article, Johan is a fringy HoF candidate, at best. Baseball history is littered with elite pitchers who fell off a cliff around age 30. I'm saving my outrage for when Mauer gets snubbed in the first few ballots because he was literally a player who did things no baseball player in history had ever done and rocked enormous JAWS ratings on par with the best catchers in baseball history.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    I remember somewhere in the 2003-2004 seasons when the announcers pointed out that Radke hadn't gone to a 2-0 count in something like 65 batters, which illustrates just how freakin' much that guy was a poor man's Maddux. Anyway, the first pitch strike matters a hell of a lot. While we all love the swings and misses, getting that first pitch over the plate for a strike matters *a lot*.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    1. Buxton (okay, bad idea but whatever) 2. Arraez (I'm starting to wonder what the hell is happening, is Gardenhire running this team, except Arraez can get on base so I'm doubly confused because 'play second, bat second' only really works if the player is terrible, which Arraez is not) 3. Kepler (what?) 4. Sano (yeah, okay, cool) 5. Cruz (yeah, okay, cool, should be third) 6. Garver (okay, you betcha) 7. Polanco (yeah, whatever) 8. Rosario (not doing a great job of L/R splits but okay) 9. Donaldson (SERIOUSLY ARE YOU ****ING TROLLING US)
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    Something I noticed about Mauer awhile back to illustrate just how much his career was altered by the concussion: After the concussion, he played 660 games for a .746 OPS and accumulated 10.7 rWAR. In 2013-14 after "bilateral leg weakness", he played 260 games for an .870 OPS and accumulated 10.0 rWAR. It's hard to call Mauer underrated and maybe he isn't outside Minnesota... but he is the best Twin to don a uniform since possibly Carew, maybe Puckett depending how you frame your opinion. He is a top ten catcher in history through his prime years and then he took a shot to the head and it all went to hell. But for those 7-8 years, he was as good as it gets behind the plate.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    Or maybe this will be more succinct: https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/coronavirus-infected-jazz-star-rudy-gobert-issues-apology-to-the-people-that-i-have-endangered/ "Infected Jazz star Rudy Gobert issues apology 'to the people that I have endangered'" The dude walked around and licked microphones to show how NOT big of a deal this is. Well, that sure worked out, just as your opinion will surely work out as well. The entire NBA had to shut down because of what he did, which tells you how this all works.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    Did it occur to you that viruses spread from contact and that maybe where you live isn't yet susceptible to community transmission? But a baseball player moves all around the country, touching and talking to people everywhere. Maybe your kids' school and a sports league are different somehow. Just maybe.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    What bothers me about this line of thinking is two-fold: 1. First, it's half-complete, at best. COVID-19 appears to attack people over 70 with a ferocity the flu cannot match, though thankfully it also appears to do little to childen. 2. We don't lock down countries for the flu for a reason: because it simply WON'T get that bad most of the time if left to spread through the population normally. As we saw in Wuhan and later Italy and Iran, taking a laissez-faire attitude with COVID-19 leads to disastrous results. But if we take (sometimes severe) precautions and thwart this thing from blowing up in our faces, nay-sayers will jeer and say "see, nothing to worry about here". Literally the only way to convince statements like the above quoted is to let things go to hell in a handbasket and then wag our finger to show them how wrong they were. Not a great solution. I'll err on the side of caution here, considering what we've seen for those regions of the world who did not (and, inversely, the almost non-existent effects of those that did such as South Korea and Taiwan). This is a pretty irresponsible take, diehard.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    Before anyone crowns Moncada the next coming, it needs to be noted he had a .406 BABIP last season. He’s certainly a *very* nice player but he’s going to need to keep growing as a hitter to compensate for the inevitable BABIP normalization, which will significantly drag down his future OPS. He can probably compensate somewhat but we shouldn’t be looking at his triple slash and assuming it will only rise in the future.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    The Moncada deal is interesting and one I'd sign in a heartbeat but the Kepler and Polanco deals are outright steals in comparison. Moncada might be the better player in the long run (probably likely) but getting two players for 50% more who are likely to be MLB starters and have pretty big upside themselves is a big get.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    Well... I guess? But the thing is that Arraez actually hits the ball hard, which is a pretty big indicator of hitting well. And notice the Twins, one of the more advanced front offices nowadays, didn't try to change him at all and had him jump the line over several players at a very young age. They easily could have called up a few other players but chose Luis over all of them.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    You're really misinterpreting what StatCast tries to tell us if you think guys who hit the ball and hit it hard (but maybe not enough to fence it) aren't getting a shot at the big leagues. The thing is that guys like Revere (not Arraez) don't make the big leagues nowadays because of their launch angle or, more likely, they have it fixed before they hit even hit MLB and are therefore successful. StatCast doesn't hate these guys, it hates bad contact and bad launch angle because defenses are so attuned to groundball contact nowadays.
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