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  1. 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*.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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).
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    Castro is also outplaying Realmuto by a considerable margin.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    Same.
  12. 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.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, same here. Duffey pitched well and as jorgen pointed out, his WPA was higher. But actually watching the game, it felt like Thorpe was the one who came in and pitched critical innings against a team that felt like it was unstoppable before he came to the mound. I was cheering Duffey but I was literally pounding the table when Thorpe started sitting down hitters through the seventh and eighth innings.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    MLB’s own site is slightly contradictory on this: “First, a starting pitcher must pitch at least five innings (in a traditional game of nine innings or longer) to qualify for the win. If he does not, the official scorer awards the win to the most effective relief pitcher. There is also a rarely used clause where an official scorer can deem a relief pitcher's appearance "brief and ineffective." My understanding has always been that the scorer can award the W to any relief pitcher if the starter fails to go five innings, they just usually default to the pitcher who followed the starter.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    As it should be. Good job to the scorer.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    Sure. If they literally had another warm body that Baldelli has even an ounce of confidence in their ability to get outs, go ahead and put May on the IL.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    I hope the text to the front office isn't terribly polite. I think Rocco is a pretty mellow dude but this is the time to step up and be firm that help is needed and it was needed a month ago. That doesn't mean he needs to be an ass about it, but he should be pretty adamant about what he needs and when he needs it (yesterday).
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm all for fun, close games but I don't find a lot of enjoyment from watching the bullpen blow leads. For example, I thought the Mets game where they came *this close* to winning but failed to pull it off was fun. Watching a lead be chipped away for six innings until it requires last-minute heroics is not a fun time, particularly two nights in a row (minus the last-minute heroics last night). Fix it, Falvine.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    Uh... not what I said. The starting pitching has been pretty mediocre over the past several weeks while the bullpen has been outstanding. I literally said I want more upside but I'm also giving credit to the bullpen for pitching some pretty amazing games. Why is it so hard to give credit to something we don't expect to do well but does anyway?
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    I agree but is it really possible for their bullpen to pitch better than it has for the past few weeks? While I want the postseason upside, I'm not sure we can get much more regular season upside than we've seen recently.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    He has been playing in almost every game since his recall so you're already getting that wish. Twins fans: Play Arraez more! Twins: *plays Arraez in 19 of 21 games, starting him in 17 of said games* Twins fans: Play Arraez more! Twins: Seriously, are you even watching the games?
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    Don't think about it too hard, it's just something that generation finds funny.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    That's only because I routinely log in as users that like Chief's posts and unlike said posts. Damn it all, looks like I missed one in June.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    I trust neither the rotation nor the bullpen in the postseason but the bullpen is a lot easier to fix. One great arm and it's suddenly a lot better. One great arm and one competent lefty and it's suddenly a very good bullpen.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    A weird statement given how much better the bullpen has been than the rotation.
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