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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, the Mets series is what really irked me. They're a mediocre team that is in disarray right now, you need a split at minimum. But the Twins turned around and played Oakland tough, good enough for a split. Then the circus of the Yankees series happened and honestly, any of those games could have gone any way for either team. Both teams saw epic pitching collapses with offensive showings that were equally epic. What matters most to me right now is that it appears the Twins bullpen somehow escaped that apocalyptic series with the bullpen mostly intact. Thanks, Devin.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    This is the kind of thing that happens over 162 games, though. As long as the ugliness is temporary, you can hold your nose and get through it because Sano is crushing the ball. Unless something bad happens in the next two months, Miguel will not be manning first base in the postseason. It's far more likely that Schoop is the odd man out and Miguel resumes duties at third, Cron stays at first, and Arraez slides to second.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    I don't want Lynn - not even a little bit - but I have enough faith in this front office and their approach that if they target Lynn as someone they want to get, there's a good reason for it. With that said, I hope they see absolutely nothing in Lynn.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    Acquire someone, then demote a reliever. There's no one left in Rochester anyway.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    Ramos played seven games for Minnesota in May. He was traded at the end of July.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    I’ll be immensely disappointed if anyone is sent down. Most of the bullpen can go tomorrow and I want to see what Thorpe has in him. And eff off if you send down Smeltzer. At the VERY least, the guy deserves a week of MLB pay even if you don’t use him.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    Wilson Ramos is the obvious example, though it doesn’t invalidate the rest of your point, as that trade was idiotic at the time and only became more idiotic as time passed.
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  9. Brock Beauchamp
    I've been slightly against robo umps for a long time now but last night, more than anything I've felt since the Cuzzi postseason call, has infuriated me to the point where I believe baseball needs to make more changes to how they review and umpire games. We'll see if it wears off but I'm now neutral, if not slightly positive, on robo umps.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    I saw the Yankees get the shaft on a few calls as well but the nature of Duffey's non-call was what made it so egregious: man (men?) on, two outs, 3-2 count, late in the game, one run game. If the pitcher makes what is essentially the perfect pitch in that situation - which is what Duffey did - he should get the call almost every time. The ball was in the zone and nigh unhittable. I think enough people around here should know me well enough that I try really hard not to crucify an ump, even if they make a bad call because those things tend to even out in time. But that call just about sent me through the roof last night.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    Sure, if you count Arraez as 1.25 of them. I kid, I kid. Or do I?
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    Sorry, you lost me after this part.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    Exactly. Looking at reliever numbers over short periods of time tells very little about their stuff. Parker’s stuff is unimpressive. Sure, he can get three outs from the Royals, as can almost every other pitcher in baseball. Getting three outs from postseason teams is a different story and being forced to put him into the eighth inning of a game like this looks bad. It looks really bad.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    Pick your most hated bullpen piece and demand their release. Honestly, out of 4-5 guys, I don’t care which arm you name, I’m okay with it. And that’s a *huge* problem, one that should have been more aggressively attacked at literally any time over the past *nine months*.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    The Yankees are a really good offense. So are the Twins. Think of it this way: the Twins starters have outpitched the Yankees starters this series. This is modern baseball. Gibson didn't look good but he battled against a damned good lineup and, had the front office equipped Baldelli with a real bullpen, would have almost certainly been pulled after 4.2 IP with a six run lead. He walks off, gets a huge ovation from the crowd, and the bullpen steps in to hold down a pretty easy six run lead over 4.1 innings. I don't even blame the pitchers in the bullpen. Rogers has been overused, Stashak pitched his ass off, Duffey held it together and would look like a hero if not for one awful call, Harper is who he is (and probably a useful piece at the back of a pen). Parker has no business pitching in that situation. Stewart has no business pitching in that situation. There was no LOOGY to pitch to Gregorius. That's on the front office. There is no one move that I can point to and say "they screwed up" but they failed to acquire a real reliever in the offseason. They balked on paying Kimbrel. They didn't acquire even a lefty specialist which, even if you overpay, the cost is still "peanuts". They didn't aggressively promote guys like Stashak or Lewis two weeks ago in hopes that they'd be better than Magill, Morin, or some other M name I've successfully wiped from my mind. Add all those things together and last night's game wasn't close and fun, it was infuriating. When Blake Parker stepped to the mound, I was seething. Not at Parker, he's just not very good. Not at Baldelli, his choices sucked. I was seething at the front office for failing to give the other 24 guys on that roster a chance to dominate a Yankees ballclub and get back on track during a pennant race, something that was badly needed after this team scuffled for six straight weeks.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    I don’t expect them to pick up a stellar reliever in the middle of June. But do you know what they could have found? A LOOGY. Boy, sure would have been nice to have one of those with, oh I don’t know, two outs in the fifth.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    Too bad Baldelli didn't have a competent bullpen because you just know he wanted to pull Kyle after putting two men on with two outs in the fifth. We've seen Baldelli yank the starter in that situation several times this year. The pitcher win doesn't matter and therefore, neither does the 0.1 IP. Get out of that inning with no damage and it's highly likely the Twins cruise to an easy victory. Again, all of this is on the front office. Gibson didn't look good but made it through 4.2 IP with an acceptable line. Had the bullpen been even half stocked, he doesn't pitch against Gregorius and the rest is history.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    This loss is on the front office. That Baldelli had to put Blake Parker on the mound in the eighth inning of a game against the Yankees on July 23rd is inexcusable. And then he had to use Harper. And Stewart. Unacceptable.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    B-Ref catcher WAR is close to useless. FanGraphs tries to incorporate the unique nature of catchers into WAR and Castro has slightly more than half the WAR of Realmuto in less than half as many plate appearances (ie. Castro is slightly outplaying him, albeit much closer than I expected).
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    Castro is also outplaying Realmuto by a considerable margin.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    From what I’ve seen at a glance, it’s mostly because the offense remembered that teams must score runs to win baseball games.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    Very few trades have happened at all compared to previous years. I'm also disappointed that a deal hasn't been finalized but the NL bunching up around the WC berths has put a real damper on the deadline thus far, I think. Particularly the Giants going on a run. They have a deep bullpen with lots of arms that should have been available... then they started winning 90% of their games.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    I caught that around the third or fourth inning. Cheeky, but kinda funny. And New York fans attempting to take the high ground on basically anything is even funnier.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    Same.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    Interesting. So that leads me to believe a pitcher cannot get a Hold before the winning pitcher steps to the mound. I never thought about that but it makes sense.
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