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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    I haven’t seen any updated news on Garver so if someone sees something, please share it.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    Sano needs to play the field but I agree that he shouldn't (and probably won't) be playing at third every day, especially if Cruz is down for a couple of weeks. But when Cruz comes back, there's no way to get both players on the field at the same time without Sano manning third base.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    No. That's why Astudillo exists. Either Sano is ready or they'll backfill with another reliever.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    Wow. That is some crazy feast or famine stuff.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    Which is exactly what I said... You can't bank on good or bad luck going forward. The last sentence of that post was literally: "After a bad/good stretch, the expected outcome is not the opposite; the expected outcome is normality."
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    What does that even mean?
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    Things don’t necessarily even out. I’d like to see the Dodgers’ splits over that time to see how it played out (yes, I’m too lazy to look). Two bad months and four normal months can make things look bad, yet only the two bad months are an unexpected outcome. After a bad/good stretch, the expected outcome is not the opposite; the expected outcome is normality.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    Hitting with RISP isn’t a “problem” anymore than having a bad BaseRuns or Pythag record is a “problem” six weeks into a season. Teams run into bouts of bad luck in a variety of ways. The Twins happen to be neutral in both Pythag and BaseRuns but are “unlucky” with RISP. So are they neutral or unlucky? It doesn’t matter. The games have been played. Past performance does not guarantee future results.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    “Daniel, who is 37, unmarried, and wears a fedora to chain restaurant bars, often regales trapped employees of a local IT consulting firm with his against-the-grain takes during their half-hour lunch break.” This is my new favorite sentence.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    Guys who rehab quietly and then enter the club with the idea they're going to knock 30 bombs a year don't exactly break up a "good" clubhouse chemistry. We need to kill the idea that Sano is a bad clubhouse presence.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    That won't happen. It's still early May. Give it time, they'll come around. It takes time to regain fan confidence, especially in a world where it takes $160 to buy decent tickets for a family of four and you haven't even gotten to the concession stand yet.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    You're discussing it because people haven't picked up on the fact that this front office has prioritized player health: fewer BP reps, fewer drills, more mornings off, more days off, more late-inning replacements. It's a good strategy in a game that plays 162 times a year, a game that works within the margins of the worst team winning 40% of its games and the best team winning 60% of its games.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    On top of loads of other promising things, perhaps the most promising thing going into mid-May is the fact that Gibson has recovered from his E.coli illness and lowered his ERA from 7.36 on April 16th to 4.19 after tonight.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    It’s probably time to admit we were wrong, the front office was right. This isn’t luck, this is change of approach. He’s throwing his fastball 2mph faster, basically ditched the slider, and added a cutter. Perez is a different guy now. He’s likely not THIS good but he could be quite good going forward. On top of helping fix Perez, this front office deserves extra kudos for having such faith in their ability to improve him that they added a second option year to the deal.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm the inverse of you. I actually had some faith in Odorizzi but little in Garver. Yay for being wrong! Garver still isn't a good defensive catcher but it appears he's improving and by quite a bit. And it's pretty easy to field a mediocre defensive catcher if the dude is hitting like Piazza.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    Yes.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    I don't like to correct core writers often but I found this line so untrue that it needed revision.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    While I’m not quick to cast judgment on a team, this is starting to resemble a very good baseball team. Not just good, perhaps very good. Now add an arm to the pen, please.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    Most of us thought Cruz was a savvy acquisition but I think there’s a new mentality throughout the team and it’s for the better. I suspect Cruz is a large part of the reason for that but Cron, Schoop, and Gonzalez likely play a part as well.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    Edgar Martinez, Frank Thomas, and Harold Baines all lost well over 100 OPS points (and maybe some over 150, I’d have to check) in a single season before leaving the game. And those are just off the top of my head.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    Cruz is doing exactly what I hoped. The guy is 38 years old. Players like him can crash and burn any time and for almost any reason. But it looks like if he stays healthy, he's the player we hoped he would be.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    Even that doesn’t tell the entire story. He had an excellent start to open the season, a kinda bad 4.2 IP start, then a disaster start. So really, he has been okay to great in all starts except one.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    Well... yeah.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    It shouldn’t be lost on anyone that had the Twins (pointlessly) discarded Castro, their backup catcher would currently be a waiver wire pickup. And this is why you don’t throw away MLB catchers.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    "Say what you will about the Dome, you were at a climate-controlled 72 degrees while Javier Valentin disappointed you.” Priceless. Pure perfection.
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