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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    I chose Hulu because the streaming service addition is useful. And I checked that it had all the channels I wanted at the time, not knowing that MLB planned to confuse the situation in the postseason. Again, my problem here is bloat. Everyone wants their channels added to premium packages, which bloats prices for consumers. If MLB offered an MLBN addition to MLB.tv, fine. I’ll pay the one-off fee to get the single channel I want. But no, baseball wants to bloat packages, just like everybody else. At some point, it all becomes untenable and people just stay away from the product (see all the individual pro league and college conference channels being pushed on people right now).
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    A couple of channels is fine. FIVE channels is not (I forgot about ESPN being involved in this, too). MLB is doing exactly what the NFL did a few years ago. I didn't like it then, I don't like it now. They're leveraging their own channel and trying to force providers to offer it. The last thing we need as consumers is *another* channel bundled into already-bloated packages. If MLB wants to charge me $5 to stream MLBN for a month during the postseason, whatever. I'll cough up five bucks for that. But to continue to go at providers and try to force their hand to bundle an extra channel into an already obscenely expensive service, they can eff right off. I'm tired of this kind of anti-consumer approach to sports and there's a reason why I've now limited my sports watching to only baseball when I used to follow 3-4 sports pretty rigorously. The increasing complexity of the four sports' never-ending money grabs is alienating a person who used to be a hardcore sports fan and enough is enough already.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    To be fair, the Brewers reliever isn't the one who inexplicably ran right past the baseball.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm willing to jump through hoops to watch the postseason but splitting the games over 3-4 channels is not good policy. The point of a spectator sport is to acquire spectators. MLB is making that unreasonably hard on people this year. For example, I pay for Hulu. I get TBS and FS1. I don't get MLBN so now I have to go find a way to get that channel for the next few weeks. Despite paying $50/mo explicitly to watch baseball and ONLY baseball, I cannot watch every baseball game and have to find a workaround. That's pretty crappy.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    I agree with a lot of what you said here except for a few points: - I'd put Duffey against any reliever right now. He might be the best reliever in baseball in the second half of 2019: 1.53 ERA, .468 OPS against, 14.4 K/9. That's absurd. - Berrios has struggled in the second half but started to improve as more rest was given. What Berrios will we get on Friday? I have no idea but there's a good chance he looks more like the first half Jose than the second half Jose. - What worries me most is the Minnesota offense limping into the postseason due to injury while New York appears to be sailing into the postseason. When healthy, these two offenses can go toe-to-toe and mash. But right now, I'm not sure what kind of Minnesota offense we're going to get.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    Moderator note (again): we do not allow discussion of illegal streaming options on Twins Daily. I will be issuing warning points if it happens again. It's totally fine to discuss where to nab a free trial, it's not okay to tell others how to circumvent blackout rules using illegal streaming services.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    We shouldn't expect to hear anything before Friday, maybe Thursday evening at the earliest. The Twins have no reason to announce anything before then.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    That would be supremely arrogant of the Yankees and I hope they do it... but they probably won't. The Twins are literally the best team in baseball against LHP. The 2019 Twins have basically the same OPS against lefties (.872) to what Nelson Cruz has in his career (.873). So, okay, bring on Paxton and Happ... but I doubt the Yankee are so foolish as to start a series that way.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    People keep lining these things up right now and I think that's unnecessary and wrong. If the Twins win game one with Berrios, throw a bullpen game in two. If the Twins lose game one with Berrios, send Odorizzi to the mound for two. Don't put yourself in the position to head back to Minnesota with the series at 0-2 just because you spaced out your best pitchers. In a vacuum, I'd *absolutely* throw the bullpen game in two and four. It makes the most sense. But if it increases the odds of going down 0-2, I do whatever I can to prevent that from happening.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    They have Gregorius, who hasn't been very good this season. Their only lefty worth mentioning is Gardner.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    Yep. I don't want any lefty facing the Yankees but if I have to choose between Smeltzer and Perez, I choose Smeltzer every time.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    It's pretty good, I agree.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    Rosario is not a perfect player but he's certainly interesting to watch. When I really got tired of him was when he threw out Devers. What a slouch. He could have easily had him at least two feet earlier with a better throw. But, alas, it's not as if that mattered much to the Twins season anyway.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    I don't want to see Berrios again for at least six days. I don't want to see Odorizzi pitch more than four innings on less than five days of rest. I don't want to see Gibson until the end of the season, giving him ~10 days to see if there's something left after resting through illness. I don't want to see Cron more than three times through the end of the season. Rest, rest, rest. The B team can manage three wins against their opponents, which means Cleveland needs to lose just one game the rest of the way out.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    The Twins took two out of three against Chicago. There's no need to panic. Never mind that Chicago is literally the best team the Twins will play the rest of the regular season. That's how easy the schedule gets from here on out.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    Or he just stops at second either way because you don't make an out at third with two outs.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    One of the things that I get and don't get is how Twins fans underrate what Tyler Duffey has done lately. He has literally been the best reliever in baseball for the past two months. Since the beginning of August, he has pitched 17.1 innings and struck out 30 (!!!!!) hitters. THIRTY HITTERS. IN SEVENTEEN INNINGS. Velocity ain't everything. I trust Duffey more than anyone but Rogers, and I'm not sure about that call. And when you can call Rogers, Romo, Duffey, Littel, that's kinda fierce.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, Odorizzi was pretty good, albeit against a not good offense. As you said, that double was not a double if an actual outfielder is there to field it. I'm not even blaming Arraez but he ain't an outfielder and that ball is a classic "turn you around and jump" type of ball if you don't read it correctly. Rosario catches that without leaving his feet.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    So will everyone else. After the completion of the 2019 season, the Twins will control Arraez through the 2025 season if my math is right, and it might not be, because I just watched a terrible game at Target Field and am kinda drunk. But still, that's a hell of a long time to control a player who came out of nowhere and one that has pretty questionable defensive ability and a high (but not outrageous given his skillset) BABIP. Wait it out. See what Arraez does in 2020 as his BABIP levels out to something normal and see how he does in the field and how pitchers adjust to him. There's no reason to jump out in front of this and sign him now.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    Arraez seems to be one of those players where the eye test tricks you into believing he's a good defender because his situational awareness is good and he rarely does dumb things while occasionally doing really smart things. I think that situational awareness masks that he has below average range and a meh arm. But hey, having good situational awareness and mediocre athleticism is better than having bad situational awareness and mediocre athleticism. But it also leads me to believe it'll be hard for him to improve much defensively because his problem seems to be physicality, not baseball instincts.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    I tip my cap to you, math scholar.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    Yes, but the only thing that mattered was the shot Polanco took on Cleveland to win a baseball game.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    They were nine games under .500 and ten games out of the division. They did not have a 50% chance of making the postseason. They probably didn't even have a 5% chance of making the postseason.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    Yep. Going into this season, Pineda had made roughly $16m in MLB salary. Guys who have made $16m (plus $8m this season) need to be smarter than that. With that said, if I can nab both Pineda and Gibson for ~$15m combined next season, I do it without hesitating.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    It could be a big thing or it may simply be due to the fact that Pineda probably doesn't spend his offseasons in the states. Let's not forget that just because a pill has to be prescribed in this country that the same applies to the rest of the world.
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