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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    So which player did you want to get that wasn't actually traded? I get the Stroman thing but you actually said you didn't like Stroman just a few weeks ago. Also, it was reported that Falvine was frustrated that the Jays didn't give the Twins a chance to counter-offer for Stroman before he was traded. So where exactly do you land in all of this?
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    This is one of the things that irritates the hell out of me. If a player was traded, all hands on deck. Why didn't the Twins front office make a better offer? If a player wasn't traded, what exactly are we complaining about? That roughly 12 other teams didn't make an offer good enough to take a player away from their original team? That tells you something rather important about that player and the team in question.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    The front office needs to get to September and find a way to start using bullpen games with Littell, Thorpe, Smeltzer, et al, and give the core four starters a break. In a vacuum, I'd prefer not to see Berrios pitch for two weeks. Gibson, maybe 7-8 days. These starters need a break. Find a way to make it happen. The organization is deep with fourth-fifth starters, use them extensively.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    "Embarrassing" doesn't convey the severity of the emotion those 25 players should be feeling right now. They have to win out this series just to clear a 3-3 homestand against the White Sox (kinda bad but not terrible) and Tigers (awful, truly awful team).
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    Yep, look at Abreu. It's easier to pitch around a mediocre lineup with one superstar "greatest of all time" type of player in it than it is to pitch around a good lineup with that same amazing player anchoring it. Imagine putting Trout between Kepler and Cruz or Gregorius and Judge. The dude might OPS 1.400 on the year. A sample photo of Mike Trout hitting second in the Twins lineup:
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    It depends how you view the question: contextual to the player's time or pure athleticism. Contextual to his time? Ruth, and it's not close. Best overall athlete? Trout, and it's not close. There is no wrong answer, only how you view the question.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    We're all impressed with Pineda, right? His ERA since the AS break is 3.07. Very good. But that's just five starts. Odorizzi has posted a 1.96 ERA over his past four starts since that Yankee implosion. I'm not knocking Pineda, thank god he's been good lately, but people are also bashing Odorizzi at the same time. I still want Odorizzi starting a game more than I want any other Twins starter not named Berrios (and he's on thin ice right now).
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    While I appreciate the very well thought out and intelligent post, your point basically boils down to: Nelson Cruz has a lower wRC+ than Mike Trout, except Trout also plays one of the most important positions on the diamond very well.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    Oh, so I have to do this *again*. BEHOLD MY POWER
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    Oy. Mauer was close to the leader in WAR that season and probably got a bump because he's a catcher and catchers aren't supposed to do what he did that season. Joe was within a single win of being the league leader, while also catching most of his games (pretty hard to complain about a catcher worth eight wins taking the MVP award). Meanwhile, Trout is on his merry way to a 10 win season (again) and we're talking about Cruz maybe crossing four wins. Totally the same argument. I do not understand why people refuse to accept that Mike Trout should win every MVP award until he stops being Mike Trout at the plate and on the field. He's literally the best baseball player that has ever stepped onto a diamond. Appreciate greatness when you see it, folks. It doesn't come along that often.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    Um, no. https://www.fangraphs.com/statss.aspx?playerid=10155&position=OF
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    I'll take Gibson's reliable mediocrity over Pineda not pitching for 1/3rd or more of a season.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    Critiquing single pitches a batter faces is a bad strategy. Baseball is hard. Sano has shown himself to be an extraordinary hitter for a couple of months now. He has fantastic plate discipline. But he’s also kinda bad at contact and that's including the improved version of Sano. Even Barry Bonds swung at bad pitches and missed pitches in the zone. If this game was so easy, .406 wouldn’t be a historical number to us.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    I don't think they shut them out that year without checking. But I remember they had some ungodly winning streak against them, like 12+ games. That may have extended over two seasons, though. Man, those Tigers teams were terrible.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    If Buxton is healthy, Cave is a quite good fourth outfielder. You can remove Kepler and swap in Cave and still be okay. Same goes for Rosario. But if you lose Buxton and have to rotate Kepler into center while Cave mans a corner, that's a big dropoff in two of three OF positions and really hurts the team. So stop getting hurt, Byron. And I say this as a person with a pretty immense dislike of Cave on an emotional level. He’s just a player I do not like for some reason.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    I'd really prefer not to pick a "winner" between those two plays.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    Are we now at the point of parsing intent behind phrases like “pretty good”, “mediocre”, and “decent”? Because ugh. Gibson still has an ERA+ of 107, btw. If you want to argue whether that’s decent, pretty good, or mediocre, have at it because I don’t care enough to participate in that kind of pedantry.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    Mediocre pitchers have bad stretches. No league average pitcher goes out and throws 6 IP, 3 ER in every start. That’s not how it works.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    Yep, Smalley’s timing on that one was impeccable.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    Yep. Gibson can be a disappointment while still being a pretty good pitcher. The Twins need more of a #2 performance from him while they’re getting a #3 performance this season. Not a massive drop off but enough to cost a couple of wins over a season.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    This site is really good at showing the disparity of last night's game. Look at the hard hit numbers on the right for each pitcher and then sort by exit velocity down below for hitters. Gibson actually pitched a good game and got burned by some bad luck and sequencing. On the other hand, the Twins were mashing the ball and had very little to show for it. That's baseball sometimes, as infuriating as it may be. While I'm pretty bent out of shape over the loss because the Twins need to win these games, I'm actually encouraged by Kyle's performance and command. https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/gamefeed?game_pk=567024
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    No tech is allowed in the dugout so Rocco isn't the person who actually sees the play. He has the final say on whether the challenge is deployed or not but he's working with limited information and a very short timeline to make a decision. And I suspect whoever mans the Twins film booth has a lot more first-hand knowledge of the rules and likelihood of a play being overturned than anyone here. That doesn't mean they're automatically right but as a person who has only seen a few of these plays since the rules change, despite watching a lot of baseball, I'm not in the position to say they were wrong with such finality.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    Well summarized. This was not a gimme play that would automatically have been overturned. I don't know the percentages but I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if New York let the call stand almost immediately. Would I have challenged? Sure, but I don't think it's some massive oversight where everyone on the Twins suddenly forgot the rules. What's more likely than the team forgetting the rules is that they have seen far more of these plays and know a challenge is likely wasted on a play of this kind.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    He'll be starting somewhere on the field, for sure, which means he can't come off the bench.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    I only endorse this if the entire stadium does the wave while singing it.
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