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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    Fun fact, the Twins winning percentage versus the AL divisions: ALC: 66% ALW: 68% ALE: 63% That seems pretty much like a team that just beat other teams.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    The ALE was barely more competitive than the ALC. If any season didn't really play to those tropes, it was this one. The only real difference was the two Sox teams.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    Uh, but why? The guy is predetermined to bat leadoff literally once a game. It's not as if the Twins struggled to get people on base, they just flat-out failed to drive them home.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    Had the Twins played (and been managed) this way for the first two games, we'd be looking at a game four. Nevermind that I wouldn't be so effing angry right now. I like Baldelli but he needs to be better next season. I glossed over some of his weaker points but he walked such a different game than he talked that SOMEONE needs to call it out and he needs to learn from the experience.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    Almost surely not. It'd be great if Graterol ends up contributing to the 2020 team in June or so but this front office needs to pretend he doesn't exist this offseason.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm pretty sure this front office views Graterol as a starter until he proves decisively he's not a starter.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    Graterol has looked pretty raw at times, is just 20 years old, and coming off a season where he pitched maybe 75 innings. He's not starting 2020 in Minnesota. I hope he ends up there but he's not starting there, in my opinion.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    Arraez may have cost them that game. While Cron SHOULD have caught that ball, Arraez’s throw was unnecessarily bad, probably because he stood on second flat-footed when he should have been moving. And against a LHP, I go with Schoop 100% of the time. He mashes lefties and is a much better defender. And if you don’t use Schoop in that game, why is he even on the roster? This team is supposed to be all about the numbers, yet they seem to make decisions that have nothing to do with numbers on a regular basis.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    This argument is pretty tired, Mike. Most of us agree they didn't do close to enough this past offseason in regards to pitching, there's no need to keep hammering at the same point for 10 months.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    To me, it boils down to this simple premise: To avoid going down 0-2, you use your best pitchers and worry about tomorrow after the game. That means Odorizzi to start and throwing every good bullpen arm into the game in whatever order gives you the best chance of getting outs. It's the postseason. The first concern is to not lose a single game. The rest comes after that.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    While I don't usually nit-pick Baldelli's decisions, he has not managed this series well. I would have gone to almost anyone in that situation, probably Graterol if you're that scared of burning your best pitchers early. More likely I would have gone to May as a middle ground. The use of Arraez over Schoop in game one and the fact Rogers hasn't pitched at all is just straight-up bad management.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    I watched the game. I saw that almighty lefty give up a few homers and a bunch of Twins hitters flail away like they'd never seen a major league pitcher before. Whereas the Yankees spit on every Berrios pitch that was even close to being out of the zone. It's more than just the pitcher. The hitters have a role to play here, too. And the Yankees hitters flat-out beat the Twins hitters, despite the Twins hitters getting a few good pitches to knock out of the park (but always with no one on base because other hitters were swinging out of their shoes on bad pitches). And DESPITE THAT, Berrios gave up all of one earned run while Paxton gave up three. BTW, Berrios struck out six. Paxton struck out eight.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    I'd take Berrios over Paxton and Tanaka so YMMV on this argument. And Houston has a historically good starting rotation so aiming for that kind of improvement in a single season just isn't going to happen.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    You're underrating Berrios. Do you realize just how good he was this season? The Yankees didn't have a single starter as good as he was this season. Berrios, second starter? Yes, absolutely. But even if you pick up someone better than Berrios, it wouldn't surprise me in the least if he's better than what you picked up by season's end. But aim, at the minimum, Berrios or better for a starting pitcher acquisition.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, they need three starters. But if they start with a trade for a guy like Minor (basically, someone Berrios equivalent) and keep Odorizzi, they can then try a reclamation guy and probably be okay. Given how Smeltzer, Thorpe, and Graterol have looked, I'm optimistic one of them (probably two in rotation) can hold down the fifth spot for the season. I'm okay with running through a bunch of guys in the fifth spot for the 2020 season. The farm has enough talent, they should be able to find a guy who sticks.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    True, but he's WAY better. I don't even need Cole, though. Find a way to acquire a good pitcher like Minor, retain Odorizzi, and the Twins are most of the way to a good rotation. But fer chrissakes, don't just sit on their effing hands for an entire offseason again when it comes to pitching.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    I don’t think I was this embarrassed for the team when they finished with 100 losses. From top to bottom, everyone involved with this team should be afraid to show their face in public. Just awful.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    I agree, but he also had a big hit that brought back a run in his favor. But also, Cron should have ****ing caught that ball. It was basically a gimme.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    How so? What did Baldelli do to lose this game? I agree that Schoop should have started but it's not as if Arraez blew the game wide open through incompetence. Berrios wasn't locating his pitches and was out early. I'm not sure what is controversial about that.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    The Yankees swung through Berrios' low pitches in the first inning and then laid off them the rest of his outing. He only threw his offspeed stuff low and well out of the zone and lived off his fastball. He didn't adjust. Combined with the defensive errors, that's what lost the game.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    I would have used Schoop to start against lefties so I don’t know what the hell I’d do with him if that’s not the case.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    Someone should probably let him know that catcher defense is kind of important.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    That’s certainly feasible. I’m hoping that they’re so confident Max is healthy that they didn’t feel the need to add Wade.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    If Kepler can't play, I suppose they could just swap him for Wade in the ALDS. If the Twins advance, Kepler would then be unavailable for the ALCS.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    No, he's really not. The problem is that his best trait - framing - is largely lost on viewers. But Castro is a good defensive backstop. And given his .851 OPS against RHP this season, a good option to complement Garver.
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