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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    Yep. One thing Baldelli does well that Molitor was terrible about is abusing relievers but Rocco simply has no choice right now.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    They. Need. Another. Competent. Reliever.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    It's such a weird phenomenon.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    A by the book scoreless inning, just like we all called beforehand.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    Dear Falvey and Levine: Go find a real ****ing relief pitcher already. Signed, Literally Everyone
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    MLB should implement a rule that teams must announce 7-8 pitchers available to use in that game when they announce batter lineups. If they burn through all of those pitchers in extras, then they are allowed to just throw whatever they want on the mound. It's their game to lose at that point.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    Lower average, more power for Kirilloff. I think we should be pretty satisfied if Alex settles in around a .280 batting average given today's run environment. Whereas a prime Joe Mauer would still likely hit well over .300 in today's game.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    I suspect teams are going to stop shifting Kirilloff in a hurry. He's not Luis Arraez but he's also not a pure power hitter. He's a really nice mix of gap power and decent average. He's what baseball needs a lot more of right now, guys who hit for decent-but-not-spectacular power but rip liners everywhere.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    Tampa Bay has fans, they don't have fans who attend games. Their TV contract is actually better than the Twins contract right now. Not a ton better but it's better. But yeah, it's up to each team to agree to these terms. In my case, I'm interested if they're going to allow out of market purchases. Once the Twins sign up, I'll happily buy both the Twins and Brewers packages if allowed.
  10. Brock Beauchamp

    Do I even want to watch this game? I'm not sure I want to watch this game.

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    2. Squirrel

      Squirrel

      ROCCO IS THE GREATEST!! WE WON, WE WON!!!

    3. wsnydes

      wsnydes

      And it was all his stupid fault!!!

    4. cHawk

      cHawk

      @wsnydes Rocco actually won us a game?

      I guess he proved a lot of people wrong today!

  11. Brock Beauchamp
    Jeffers now up to an 85 wRC+ after two weeks of continuing to make good contact and finally getting some luck to go with it. If someone has elite barrel numbers and bad luck, we shouldn’t be concerned. The barrel rate is more telling than the sub-.200 batting average that’s based on a sub-.250 BABIP. Will Jeffers continue to barrel the ball? Hard to say but that’s the information we should be tracking, especially with the size of these samples.
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  13. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, that's the takeaway to make here. The reality is that based on batted ball profiles, Jeffers had one kinda bad year in 2021. He was good in shortened 2020 and his batted ball profile is once again pretty good in 2022 (adjusting for catchers). He's still 25 with less than a full MLB season played in total. I'm not writing him off yet just because his BABIP is under .250. At the core of it, you're just not giving Jeffers' defense a fair shake. His pop time is almost smack-dab in the middle of MLB catchers at 47th percentile. His framing - the most important aspect of the game today - is borderline elite at 75th percentile. He's not exceptional in either direction with passed balls. He's average at a bunch of stuff and really good at the thing that matters most.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    I don't wish success on Sinclair for pretty much any reason but I'll take damned near anything over paying DirecTV Stream $90/mo to watch Twins games.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    This just doesn't cut it. First, you're parsing really small sample sizes (Jeffers doesn't even have 600 career PAs yet) and the second half of the statement is nonsense trying to excuse away a really big discrepancy between Jeffers' surface stats and his underlying metrics. In 2020, Jeffers' difference between wOBA and xwOBA was .003. In 2021, that difference was .010. In 2022, the difference is .065. This is the first year his metrics have not aligned with performance. https://www.fangraphs.com/players/ryan-jeffers/24618/stats?position=C PS. I'm not even that high on Ryan Jeffers, I think he's an average-ish starting catcher for a few years. But getting that player in the second round is a hell of a draft pick.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    I mean, one doesn't have to look far to see the last paragraph in action: Griffin Jax. A marginal third round pick taken because the Twins liked his slider. Sure, he didn't work out as a starter because he couldn't develop much past that slider but now he looks like he'll be a multi-year contributor at the very least (barring injury). That's not an accident. Sure, the Twins may have taken a different third rounder the year before that fell on their face, that's baseball for you. But they intentionally targeted something about Jax that made them think he will be an MLB contributor and he's now contributing to the MLB team based on that single skill they targeted and refined.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    Well, the 2018 draft is still very much a work in progress and Jeffers was a college draft pick so it's not really surprising he's leading the second round pack in June of 2022. But it should also be noted that Larnach (though also a college pick so keep that in mind) is around fifth in overall WAR from the first round but was only the 20th pick of the round. This grading scale seems impossibly difficult, where one must draft an All-Star or better to receive a decent grade. The reality of the draft is that if you get a competent regular from the first round every year, your baseball team will be very good. If you get more than one competent regular from any single draft, you had a very good draft. And I simply do not buy into the statement that anything after the third round is a crapshoot. That's where coaching and development comes into play; yes, the later rounds are more random but that's where good franchises pick the flawed players they like and try to coach them into being an MLB player. Dismissing those rounds out of hand ignores a big reason why the Tampa Bay Rays are perennially excellent while other franchises can't win after a half decade of top picks.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    Buxton didn’t even run to first.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    Nice!
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    I haven’t caught his name tonight.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, I need to remember to check the ump scorecard tomorrow.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    Yet magically they’re well over .500.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    That’s fair but with it being the bottom of the ninth, I want Gordon toward second and ready to win the game.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    Holy **** that’s close.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    In that situation, he needs to be way out toward second, ready to run like hell if it drops.
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