Brock Beauchamp
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It's not the move I probably would have made but it's also a defensible move. Haven't we seen enough of the Twins experimenting with players at new positions in the majors? If Lewis is to play third (or especially outfield) he should probably do that in St Paul for awhile, away from the spotlight. And with Correa and Buxton on the team and banged up, there simply is not DH space for Lewis. But still, I probably would have demoted Miranda first... but if Miranda is demoted in the coming days anyway, it doesn't really matter.
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Remember that time the Twins took a flyer on Freddie Mercury? The 80s were ****ing wild, man -
The front office and Baldelli has mentioned multiple times that Buxton tries to get on the field every single day and they have to rein him in constantly. Baldelli even called him an "unreliable narrator" once if I recall correctly, meaning Buxton always says "I'm fine" while he can't even run down the first base line. This has been pretty well documented for years now. Buxton obviously wants to play and will do all he can to get into any game.
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Hey, let’s be fair here. There were *two* jabs at them in the article.
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I agree the next stretch is important because the Twins need to make hay against bad teams but 14-3 is unreasonable even if they're playing 17 games against the Orioles and Reds. I'd be thrilled with 12-5 but consider anything under 10-7 a failure.
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Welcome to the board! As for the Big A, I loathe that stadium. I lived in Long Beach for nine years and saw more games in that park than I can count. On top of it being boring and stale, it's a football stadium and all the seats face the wrong bloody direction. I'm pretty sure I have permanent neck damage from sitting in the stadium with my head craned left/right for three hours a night. But yeah, Trout and Ohtani are pretty much the best things going in baseball right now.
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I'm actually not that big of a fan of Baldelli, either, though I think he's very smart. I don't understand some of his decision making in the past but think he has been better this season. As for the rotation, last season the Brewers had one of the best (if not the best) rotation in baseball while the Twins had one of the worst (if not the worst) rotation in baseball. Over the course of the entire 2021 season, Brewers starters pitched only 85 more innings than Twins starters. That's half an inning a game when we're talking about potentially the best rotation versus potentially the worst rotation. This is just how baseball is now, the Twins and Baldelli are in lock-step with most smart teams on this and the Brewers are absolutely a smart team.
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The Brewers rotation is vastly superior to the Twins. That's why their starters go longer. The Twins' rotation would have many more innings logged if they had Burnes, Woodruff, Houser, and Lauer in it, too. As for the bullpen, the only noticeable difference is the closer, as Hader is a strict one-inning reliever. But that's not surprising, as Hader has a pretty steep drop-off after one inning and he's literally the best one-inning reliever in baseball so that approach makes a ton of sense. The Twins do not have Josh Hader.
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Since taking over Brewer Fanatic, I've learned and interesting tidbit: they like their manager. The majority of the fanbase refers to Counsell as smart, savvy, and a bunch of other superlatives. The thing is that the managing style and tacts of Craig Counsell and Rocco Baldelli are basically indistinguishable.
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That was painful to watch.
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Exactly. The Twins need Buxton but they really need Buxton in September and October. Whether he plays 100 or 130 games is less important than the fact that the Twins need him to manage his workload and be ready for the games that really matter.
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I'm going to be a bit harsher than is necessary right now but this **** needs to die. Right now. Byron has never been anything but "I'm ready, coach" throughout his career. It has been the Twins coaching staff that keeps him off the field because Buxton throws himself out there while injured to his own detriment. Byron Buxton is perhaps the best baseball player on the planet The only two other people in the mix are Trout and Ohtani. And Byron is "soft"? Get out of here,
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GAME THREAD: Twins vs. Cleveland, 05/14/2022 @ 6:10 PM CST
Brock Beauchamp replied to cHawk's topic in Archived Game Threads
I had no issues with that first bunt attempt but… um… not so much the second. -
What did we learn from the Astros series?
Brock Beauchamp replied to cHawk's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
I learned about as much as I learned from the Twins pretty soundly beating the Rays. Very little. -
What should be done with Lewis when Correa returns?
Brock Beauchamp replied to cHawk's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
He needs to play no less than 3-4 times a week and I don't see him doing that in Minneapolis if things remain as they are now. But it's also too early to know what to do with him. Urshela could go down tonight, which changes everything. Or maybe Lewis finishes his stretch with an 0-for-12 stretch. Too many variables. -
They need to have a better grasp on what's happening than that. I live maybe... eight miles?... as the crow flies from Target Field. At the end of Archer's inning, I turned off the TV and tornado sirens were going off in my neighborhood. AND THEN THEY PLAYED ANOTHER HALF INNING.
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If this is the case, then there’s even less reason to keep playing when it’s obvious Chris Archer cannot grip the ball and is spiking every fourth pitch into the dirt. What a load of crap.
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I turned off the TV only to hear tornado sirens going off near my house. And the Twins were playing less than ten miles from me.
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This is ********. They shouldn’t be out there.
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Dude, he’s trying to pitch in pouring rain.
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Listen ump, if you’re gonna keep people out there in these conditions, expand your damned zone a little.
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I heard... Levine, maybe?... say the other day that 40-man rules stay in place until three players are on the Covid list at the same time. Or something like that. I wasn't paying close attention. But I'm pretty sure there are stipulations to the rule now.
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I don't think it maters. Whether you call a person a "closer", a "bullpen ace", or a "late-inning reliever", it's all saying the same thing: you trust them with close leads late in games. Whether you have one person or three in that role isn't really important.
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Well, someone has to pitch the ninth inning. By the very definition of the word, that makes them a closer.
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You win some, you lose some. The Twins took a gamble and it looks like they may be facing a loss, at least in the short-term. Trading for any pitcher is a risk and I feel the Twins mitigated their Paddack risk pretty well with the PTBNL. It should be noted that the Twins currently have a 103mph flamethrower co-closer who was acquired via a highly ridiculed 2018 trade so maybe constantly living in the present while judging transactions isn't such a great baseball take.
