Brock Beauchamp
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Lewis was impressive in a short 2017. He was very impressive in 2018. He had a bad 2019. We don’t need to adjust expectations over one bad season that was reported to have some coaching-directed adjustments in it. Next year will tell us a lot.
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Sure, if the team cybernetically grafts Sano's right arm to Jorge's body. Otherwise, Polanco should move to second base, even if it requires trading either Jorge or Arraez (though I wouldn't do either this season unless the offer is absurd and impossible to resist).
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That's about where I'd put him, too. I'd try for 3/$45m and that might be possible with the QO attached to him but I'd go 3/$50m if need be. As for signing, I also suspect he's the best pitcher they sign but if they find another equally as good, that would be okay. What I suspect will happen is that they will trade for a good starting pitcher, too... but who that might be, impossible to say.
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The thing is that the Twins infield - especially if you plug in Arraez at second full-time - is really bad. Fixing infield defense improves the pitching staff.
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What I do with Sano depends almost entirely on what third basemen are available this offseason and for what price. Maybe I'm clinging to Gonzalez' flexibility too much but I really want to keep him in that role. Or maybe they make Adrianza the super sub and Gonzalez the third baseman. That might not be a terrible solution.
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Yeah, I hope we see him in June or something but it's likely he'll be shut down by September either way. It'd be cool if they could figure out a way to skip him every second or third turn through the rotation, allowing him to last a full season... but I'm not a trainer. That might actually cause more risk of injury than just pitching him, I don't know.
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Sure, there are different ways to approach the goal but right now, Odorizzi can pitch 150+ innings of well above average ball. Could he maybe pitch six if an opener is used? Sure, but then you're tasked with finding an opener that can pitch, say, 80-100 innings a year of above average ball because at the end of the year, roughly the same number of innings need to be pitched by one baseball team. Where the innings come don't really matter in the grand scheme of things. The point is avoid opposition runs for nine innings a game. There's also the problem of a hard cap of 13 pitchers, which eliminates the option of teams using bullpen games constantly. Thirteen pitchers just can't pitch that many innings unless you go out and find a bunch of 100 inning relievers, which is a different challenge in itself, one that may be impossible given payroll constraints and actual league talent available.
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Next year, rosters move to 26 men. Packing the bullpen will no longer compromise the bench as much as it did in previous years. The point of pulling both Odo and Berrios after 5-6 innings is because they're no longer more effective than your average reliever after that point. That's the entire reason for shortened outings. Berrios is better than Odo later in games, therefore he goes just a bit longer per game on average. But Odo (drawing from memory here so I might be off) is quite a bit better than Berrios early in the game so things tend to wash out somewhat. And that's just the reality of modern baseball. It's not just Odo and Berrios. There are very few pitchers who can withstand the absurdly hard task of successfully navigating a modern baseball lineup a third time.
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Yet out of the three pitchers you just mentioned, only one of them effectively managed the Yankees offense and should have left the game with a "W" next to his name in the box score. I consider Berrios and Odorizzi close to interchangeable but people continually undersell Odorizzi's talent level while raving about Berrios and I just don't understand why. Personally, I want them both on my team and at least one more pitcher equally as good, if not better.
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I know I'm right about something when Trueblood agrees with me on it. Tag Odo with the QO. If he accepts, fine. If he doesn't, use that QO to negotiate a multi-year deal with him. The Twins need a lot of starters. Keep the best one you had this season to begin the offseason.
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I was extremely intoxicated at the time, take anything I said about game one with about fifty pounds of salt. Once I sobered up, I just scratched my head and wondered what the hell I had witnessed. What I remembered witnessing, anyway.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm pretty sure this front office views Graterol as a starter until he proves decisively he's not a starter.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
