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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    BEST SHAPE OF HIS LIFE
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    A fine move, though they still kinda need to make a trade with the A's or Reds. At this point, I don't even really care who they get that much, all the options are good to great.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    Actually, I'm pretty interested in this appeal system. While I'm pretty tired of human umpires overall and would prefer robotic umpires, there is one statistically proven element of human error that improves baseball: umpires naturally prolong plate appearances. If a pitcher gets up on a batter 0-2, umpires tend to give the borderline call to the hitter in that situation. If a pitcher is down 3-0, umpires tend to give the borderline call to the pitcher in that situation. This prolongs plate appearances and increases the amount of intense moments of the game. That's a good thing. So maybe this appeal system is garbage and fails immediately. But I'm willing to wait it out and see what happens because a hybrid system could actually be the best system if baseball figures out a way to do it quickly and transparently.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    It was a low risk, decent upside play. And frankly, I'm still not convinced it wasn't a savvy signing. We literally haven't seen Dobnak healthy for a decent stretch since that time - which sucks but can happen to any pitcher - and I still think he's a capable pitcher if he can ever get healthy. And Randy is an eminently likable character with a fantastic story. If, at the end of a few years, the Twins essentially donated a few million dollars to him, all I can say is "cool".
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    The shift ban is an aesthetic change to the game. I don't feel it will fundamentally change a lot but it will make the game look and feel nicer. Having an infielder standing in the shallow outfield is particularly troublesome on television, as it gives the impression of a hit - exciting! - that rapidly devolves into one of the most routine boring plays you can see, a fielder calmly scooping up a ball and throwing it 30 feet to first base. That's bad. I think larger bases are a really interesting experiment. I don't know if they'll change much but I'm interested to see it play out. I think that rule change is possibly the biggest unknown. Obviously, the likes of Byron Buxton and Royce Lewis will love it but how will it impact the tweeners like Kepler and Polanco? Those kinds of players are the ones who will decide the impact of that rule. The pitch clock will radically change the game. I don't think people realize just how much that will change the game. Never mind the aesthetic value of more action, watching a starter who used to sit 98mph with 30-40 seconds between pitches drop to 94-95mph with 14 seconds between pitches is going to have a huge impact on the game, I think.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, if it's still bothering him after all this time, have surgery already.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    The joke almost writes itself but it’s still funny.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    Not earth-shattering or anything but damned weird.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    The color wasn’t the problem. It’s that… logo… thing…
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm having a hard time describing how much I hate these Rays uniforms and hats.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    There's no doubt that sabermetrics have made baseball a worse spectator sport. Hell, even Theo Epstein agrees with that sentiment. Sabermetrics, while inevitable, need to have their effects mitigated via rule changes. I simply do not understand how "baseball purists" can simultaneously hate sabermetrics while also being resistant to changes that diminish the effects sabermetrics have had on the game. Get rid of the shift. Add a pitch clock. Increase the size of the bases. Move the mound back. Do whatever is required to stop baseball from so actively pursuing three true outcomes and pure velocity.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    If she hasn't graduated college yet, she's close to doing so.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    Thank you for this, as I never considered this until now. The video is what clips to the page as you scroll and there is no benefit to the video creator for that to happen in the ad-free version of the site. Let me think about this and figure out the best solution.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    Sonny Gray realizing he's no longer wearing a Reds uniform upon hearing news Carlos Correa has signed with the Twins:
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    Thank you!
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    Also this after a lifetime of boring trade deadlines and offseasons:
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    I'll go first.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    I don't think this has been reported anywhere else on the site so I thought I'd leave it here.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    Shade so dark it's midnight.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    If Correa wants #1 that badly, I'm sure he can offer Nick a new Mercedes and the two can sort it out amongst themselves.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    Imagine if someone went to sleep a week ago and woke up this morning to look at the projected lineup:
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    Oh man, this thread aged beautifully.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    @cHawk @USAFChief Please stop litigating the 2019 postseason in a thread about Trevor Story. It's wildly off-topic here.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    It's a bit off topic but I'll be curious to see how much that $4m number moves up in 2022 with the increased minimum and $50m arb pool.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, I hope this is agent bluster because if Story is going to choose a team, it probably ain't gonna be the Twins.
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