Brock Beauchamp
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I think that was contextual. In the first game, Rocco was managing to win. In the second game, Rocco was managing not to blow out his bullpen. -
Before I even finished reading your post, I also came up with $8/$6m.
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Honestly, I think they should target both Pineda and Gibson this offseason. Pineda will be out for a bit but that's okay, you can get him cheap again. Gibson, you can get cheap because he's obviously suffering from an illness. Get that under control and he could return to being a very good pitcher again.
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That's what Monday is for. Put the fork in Cleveland and then rest people. There are literally two weeks left in the season and you have one game remaining against the only competitor for the division, a game you can put them 6.5 back and basically coast the rest of the way. Win tomorrow, then you can rest everyone off and on for two weeks. If the Twins win tomorrow, they can basically play like Detroit from here on out and still win the ALC.
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Two wins today virtually buried Cleveland. Maybe they'll show up with fire tomorrow, maybe they'll lay down dead. Either way, it probably doesn't matter much. They were just gut-punched in a pretty serious way. They had ALL the advantage going into this series but just lost a double-header against a crippled team throwing 18 innings of bullpen at them.
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18 innings of bullpen on the road against one of the better rotations in baseball. Two wins. Pretty much everyone called this, right?
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They were 10 games behind Cleveland and nine games under .500 on August 1st. That's not out of it?
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I wasn’t clear. The original poster referenced Ellsbury’s time with the Yankees and he was a couple of years past that outlier year when he signed.
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It honestly was just meant as a joke but apparently fell flat. Calling a one year old baseball fan "champ" just seemed kind of funny to me and I didn't intend for it to have a negative tone.
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Yawn. There’s an enormous gulf of opinions between “I hope they’re gone” and “they’re the best executives ever”. What we *do* know is that the Twins are on track for their best record in decades. If that doesn’t impress you, so be it... but I think that says more about you than it does Falvine.
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Ellsbury is not a great talking point because he made his name on a single outlier year and wasn't great beyond that single season. His defensive metrics were mostly meh.
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As mentioned later, but I want to emphasize again, A-Rod's reduced sentence was before the current MLB guidelines were instituted and was an attempt at temperance to the overly harsh sentence Rodriguez received to "teach everyone a lesson". A-Rod's situation basically led to the modern guidelines because they were so irrational and unfair. Not exactly a great example to use for Pineda.
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I'm allowed to rebut others' opinions, particularly if I think they're bad throwaway takes, which that was. In fact, by the forum rules, the original post was actually trolling. Would you rather have had me infract the poster with an official warning or gently poke fun of a terrible take on baseball? Here at Twins Daily, we frown heavily upon one sentence, negative takes that offer nothing to further meaningful discussion. Particularly takes that are meant only to inflame the board and further encourage more bad one sentence mouth-breaths on the subject. We're not RubeChat. There's also a reason RubeChat shut down. But nice try to turn my rebuttal on a bad take back at me, tiger.
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Yeah, because it's just awful that those two are on pace to lead the Twins to their *second* 100 win season in franchise history, dating back all the way to 1901. I'm 42 years old and haven't seen a 100 win Twins team. Maybe it's just me but this season has been kinda nice. I'm a big fan of it overall. Oh, and based on your username, you were all of one year old when it last happened. How'd that season feel, champ? Do you relish in that memory to this day?
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It sure would be refreshing if this team could have nice things in October for once. 2006, it was Liriano, lost while he was potentially the best pitcher in baseball. 2010, it was Morneau, lost while he was on pace for a 10 (!!!!) WAR season. 2019, it's roughly a quarter of the team that is questionable with two of its most important pieces out for the season.
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In my opinion, it's pretty easy to believe that Pineda didn't intend to take a banned substance (hence the reduced suspension) while also believing what he did was incredibly stupid and inexcusable. I don't see how those two opinions conflict in any way.
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Apparently MLB did because they decreased his suspension time, the first time I've ever heard of that happening in the 20+ suspensions I've paid attention to over the years.
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This is my take on it. I honestly don't care if he tried to cheat. I literally do not care why he ingests pretty much anything. What I care about is that the man has made tens of millions of dollars and can't use MLB's own support network to clear EVERYTHING he puts in his body. Or that he doesn't have a specialist on retainer to call and ask about these things whenever necessary; god knows he has the money to pay for it. He needs to be smarter than that. All players need to be smarter than that. It's 2019; there are literally ZERO excuses left for this kind of thing to happen and now Pineda's incompetence has potentially cost the team a postseason run. Everyone involved in this should be furious at Michael: the front office, his teammates, the Twins fan base.
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They’re still going to win the division. It’s what happens after that where we run into a problem.
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And Baldelli does something completely different last night, something I fully agreed with from day one: play the matchups. But I also understand why he doesn't aggressively play the matchups on a random day in June, which was part of my point I didn't say out loud. Rocco is smart enough to realize he can't manage a 162 game season like it's September or the postseason, something his predecessor never seemed to grasp. I hope to see a lot more of what we saw last night in October (and maybe a few games in the coming days if it means the Twins can bury Cleveland by mid-September).
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A series win buries Cleveland. A sweep buries them extra deep. It’s just too hard to gain 7.5-8.5 games with less than 20 to play, especially considering the two weeks of cupcake ball the Twins get to close the season.
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If Rogers comes out for the ninth and faces three righties, that is a massive failure of analytical management on Baldelli's part. Sure, Rogers has a good OPS against RHB but he has given up six home runs to them this season. Dyson has a similar split but Romo is markedly better. When every out matters like they do in the postseason, I'll be disappointed if Baldelli just rolls with a "he's our closer" mentality, especially because Rogers is left-handed and the Twins will likely face some truly nasty right-handed dominant lineups in the postseason.
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Oh, for sure. Someone has to show up in the next 12-24 months to complement Berrios. That person is hopefully Graterol with more on the way as we get a better idea of what's in the system.
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It depends on the situation. It’s unlikely that I’m going to use Rogers earlier than the seventh (because those LHB would be up again before the end of the game) and the bullpen is deeper in the postseason while fewer games are played in a week. That means I’d likely churn and burn relievers and use them for 1-2 outs, saving Rogers for later. On top of that, it's unlikely Rogers is asked to get 4+ outs, something he was asked to do quite a bit earlier in the season when his back-to-back stats started to really collapse. I find it equally likely that Rogers will be asked to get two outs as he’s asked to get four during the postseason because there’s so little reason to lean on him that hard in a pretty deep, lightly taxed, and more evenly-handed pen.
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I think you might be expecting crazy-good results a little too quickly. Here are the Twins' AL FIP rankings by year: 2013: 12th 2014: 13th 2015: 9th 2016: 13th (Ryan retires) 2017: 11th (first Falvine season) 2018: 9th 2019: 3rd Obviously, 2020 will tell us if 2019 is an aberration or a trend and while Falvine inherited guys like Berrios, they also made some really savvy pickups in Odorizzi and Pineda at very little/no expense to the farm system. And Gibson was a kinda bad pitcher before they moved him on the rubber and changed his approach in late 2017 when he turned the corner and became a much better, more consistent pitcher. Sure, we'd all like to see more home-grown talent but three drafts isn't a ton of time to rebuild a farm system or implement new protocols for player development. Most recent GMs that have taken over bad teams and rebuilt their systems took roughly 4-5 years before they were fielding very good ballclubs.
