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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    A weird statement given how much better the bullpen has been than the rotation.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    You mean like how they tied the game with the bases loaded and no outs and then failed to score again? You mean like that? Cleveland tried to hand this game away and the Twins refused to take the W. It happens. Annoying, but it happens.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    Fantastic. Well played, Bauer.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    Ah, fair enough. If he was warming at 3-2, that's a different story. It took long enough for that inning to develop that he would have been completely warm by the time Cave doubled.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    I actually don’t mind that as a reason. It’s pretty valid. My biggest problem is why you’re calling upon your best reliever to warm up in a situation where literally all you need a guy to do is pitch to a It’s not a big ask. Save your best reliever for another day.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    They were also coming off a losing season where they finished third in the division. I remember being not happy about that but at least the team wasn't on a run of domination, as Cleveland was up until this year.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    While I would never say Sano refuses to listen to coaches or is some kind of stubborn malcontent, as a hitter his pure talent exceeds both Kepler and Rosario. And that's the problem. Rosario overcame his pinwheel nature a bit and became a very good hitter. He's also athletic enough that his pretty good hitting makes him a solid left fielder. Kepler is a pure athlete but not the pure hitter Sano was in the minors. He has rounded out his game to become a very good player overall. Then we loop back to Sano. A guy with an amazing eye at the plate, jaw-dropping strength, and underwhelming results at the MLB level compared to his MiLB numbers. Not only does he fail to match the defensive athleticism of Rosario and Kepler, but he's not even exceeding them in hitting. He absolutely mashed in the minors to a level neither Kepler nor Rosario could come close to doing. Yet both of those players have surpassed Sano as not only MLB players but as MLB hitters. To quote Letterkenny, Sano needs to "figure it out". And that's not me ripping the guy, it's just saying that he's underperforming his amazing talent and ability.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    A team should never give up trying to improve pretty much anywhere but on the 25-man roster, moving Polanco to second base probably doesn't rank higher than #23 on the list of priorities.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    The Twins never cut payroll in the middle of a period of contention. That's a pretty big difference right there.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    I agree in general but I don't see it as a pressing matter. The way Polanco has improved this season, he can probably stick at short for another year or two (unless someone in the org steps up and displaces Jorge, which is possible... though Lewis isn't exactly stellar at the position himself).
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    Yep. And I don't think even the Pohlads forced the front office to do that during their 2000s run. Cleveland fans should be furious right now. They're piecing together a run now but could easily be right in the mix had they spent for a few more wins in the first half of the season.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    This kind of article is what makes me so proud to be a part of Twins Daily. It's the nuts-and-bolts of the site. Stellar article, Cody.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    Unlikely, though I could see Cleveland within 2-3 games by the end of July, which would be a pretty tight race at that point with ~10 head-to-heads left in the season. Cleveland had to go 11-3 to gain ~6 games on the Twins. While it'd hurt pretty badly to be swept by Cleveland, it's also unlikely to happen. Cleveland isn't going to keep winning 80% of their games and these things have a tendency to ebb and flow through a season. I think it's just as likely the Twins are up by 7-8 games at the end of the month as it is they're up by just 2-3 games at the end of the month.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    That’s what I mean by “service clock”. Adding a player to the 40-man certainly isn’t as critical as running up service time in the majors, but it’s also important to how a player’s control is managed going forward. For example, Rooker’s trade value drops a bit if he’s on the 40-man roster. Anyway, my main point is that teams don’t make unnecessary moves that cannot be reversed. Once a guy is on the 40-man, he’s there for good and your options going forward are therefore somewhat limited.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    Teams don’t add players like Rooker to the 40-man roster as a depth piece. Rooker isn’t a great prospect but he’s good enough that the team can and will control how his service clock is managed.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    I’m pretty sure this was the first home stand or road trip the Twins lost all season.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    When you hit a lot of dingers and blow out a lot of games, some metrics tend to get out of whack. See examples Twins, Yankees.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    If the Twins continue to post 3-3 "down weeks", sign me up.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    Very good points, though I think the change is likely the result of the Boston series and the change had not be implemented at that point. Sano was just too vulnerable to high fastballs in that series for me to believe he was already working on fixing it. Anyway, great to hear the team is working on it (of course they are, still good to hear it, though).
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    Seeing Sano rip a bunch of homers is great, but I want to see him do it over a prolonged period of time against a team with both good pitching and an analytic approach. As we saw against Boston, I'm pretty worried about an analytic-forward team dismantling Sano in the postseason without even trying very hard. He needs to make more contact, particularly on fastballs high in the zone. He doesn't even need to hit them fair, just foul them off often enough to stay alive in the plate appearance. I never expect the guy to strike out less than 30% of the time and that's okay, but he needs to make more contact.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    "A run" as in "singular run, not runs". In case the way I phrased that wasn't clear. Bunting with two on and no outs increases the chance of scoring a single run and decreases the chance of scoring multiple runs, hence my "a run" comment. For the record, I'm actually quite a fan of bunting for hits. I think guys like Buxton and Polanco should do it more often to keep the defense honest (unless they can't bunt for a good batting average, then quit it). I'm not a fan of putting a plodding quasi-slugger with no bunting skills in a situation to sacrifice bunt, though. Schoop is unreasonably slow for his athleticism and, as we all witnessed, cannot bunt for ****.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    This entire thread is aging like fine wine.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    Pretty sure he meant no outs, in which case a strikeout is definitely the worst kind of out. Either way, it doesn't really matter because forest > tree.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    First, I don't think you want LIttell out that one batter longer than you absolutely have to pitch him. Second, the Rays had two lefties coming up the following inning. My guess is that it was a little of both of those factors.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    Correction: not worried about anything other than the pitching. GIbson had to go out there and throw bullpen innings in a loss. Not awesome.
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