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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    Take the risk, send Gordon.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah. That was a wonky bounce. Maybe Urshela was a little too lackadaisical on the ball but it was a weird hop.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    This umpire is not awesome.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeesh. Smalley called that.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    He was speaking to Arraez’s ability to wait on pitches, I believe his actual quote was “that’s a batting practice pitch to Luis Arraez”, as in “Arraez’s talent allows him to crush those pitches”.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    You're too harsh on Jeffers. While his conventional stats are slightly ugly (but remember that while his 74 wRC+ looks terrible, league catchers only have an 87 wRC+), his advanced stats tell a different story. His wOBA is .269 while his xwOBA is .340. His barrel rate is 93rd percentile. His xSLG is 77th percentile. Given Jeffers' defense, even if he only climbs up to a league average 87 wRC+ (and his batted ball stats look like he's better than that), he's a valuable starting catcher.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    We all agree this stadium is garbage, right?
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    What a stupid stadium “feature”.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    Arizona’s city connect jerseys are so much better than their standard fare simply by existing. I think the standard D-Back jerseys are probably the worst in MLB.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    My understanding is that Johnson mostly runs the pitching decisions and usage over Baldelli, which makes sense given that Baldelli was a position player with little coaching experience.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    Urshela could see a Steer call-up because Arraez is not good at third but I think the team is somewhat comfortable playing him at second. This makes sense to me.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    Huh. So weird that it’s his first trip considering all the issues he has had. I guess we’ll be seeing a lot of an Arraez/Kirilloff right side of the infield for a few weeks.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    The mere mention of a first place team trading their elite shortstop is ridiculous.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    Sure, but I'm speaking of the Brewers community at large, including what I've seen on Twitter, Reddit, and other places. They have a much more balanced take on Counsell than Twins fans do on Baldelli. And while the Brewers haven't had the colossal failures in the postseason, Brewers fans are still very frustrated that with their pitching corps, they haven't even made the World Series. But instead of micro-analyzing Counsell and laying an undue amount of fault at his feet, they tend to focus more on front office and ownership, which also is more balanced and fair. Counsell couldn't grab a bat and hit in last year's NLDS and Brewer fans acknowledge that. They still gripe at him for a myriad of things - his usage of Keston Hiura being an obvious point to bring up - but they don't go find things to blame on Craig Counsell. Which is kinda what Twins fans do to Baldelli on a near-nightly basis.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    What bothers me the most is the completely irrational take that if the team wins, it's despite Baldelli and if the team loses, it's because of Baldelli. It's such an obviously disingenuous take and makes this forum a worse place to be. I'm not even that big of a Baldelli fan but I find myself defending more than I normally would because so many people are irrational about him. I've become much more aware of this as we've launched Brewer Fanatic; Craig Counsell is pretty much the same as Baldelli but Brewers fans have a much more balanced take on him than Twins fans do Baldelli. So, Minnesotans, you're actually lagging behind Sconnies in the rational department. Y'all should probably do something about that.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    I almost never boo except for multiple throws to first base to hold a runner because I find booing that amusing. So no, I would definitely not boo Donaldson. He didn’t even do anything other than being a perennial red ass.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    I chose 90-94 simply because this division is turning out a lot worse than expected. I think the true talent level of this team is 85-89.
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    Well, this aged like fine wine. But I agree that sitting Buxton and Correa is a pretty crappy thing to do to home fans on a Saturday afternoon. On the road? Sure, do whatever you want... but there were tens of thousands of people who paid good money to watch the Twins best two players.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    Sure, accidents happen. But I was hesitant to just throw an elite prospect with a surgically repaired knee into the outfield and that prospect reinjures that knee three innings into doing just that, it’s fair to question their reasoning behind the decision. I’m generally in favor of how the Twins are cautious with their players then they inexplicably throw that caution aside in situations like this and a catastrophic result ensues. It’s fair to wonder how they come to some of their decisions because I’m not seeing a lot of consistency here.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    Well, you can tell him to not run flat-out into walls, for starters. There’s no need for that kind of play when the outcome of the game is secondary to the development of prospects.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    First, you’re being an ass for no reason. Cut it out. Second, it’s not hindsight when I said I’d be cautious about throwing him into an MLB outfield without significant reps several weeks ago. I’m not a fan of playing people out of position, especially switching from IF to OF or vice versa. Moving people around the infield? Sure, that makes sense and flexibility is needed with a short bench and platooning. But it wouldn’t have killed the team to give Royce a month to take OF reps in St Paul.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    Hitters will figure him out sooner or later but let’s sit back and enjoy the results today.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    Byron Buxton is superhuman. I keep watching that second homer on repeat. He didn’t even swing through, he just stopped the bat. He’s probably the most pure athlete in Twins history.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    No, because one has to learn a new position somehow. But it’s also reasonable to question why a career infielder was placed in a major league outfield with so few reps to learn how to do things like, you know, jump against a wall.
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