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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    This is a game the Twins should have won. They hit more, walked more, and pitched better. They lost by one run. It happens. Move on, try again tomorrow.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    “So far this season, no other team in the league has hit six or more home runs in one game, the Twins have done it four times.” That is mind-blowing.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm a big advocate of this approach. In a 162 game season with postseason aspirations, it's bloody foolish to run your best players into the ground before you even get to September. On a side note, did anyone catch Morneau's comments about the new approach a few weeks ago? It basically boiled down to "I tried to do too much and it hurt me in the second half of seasons. I wish this existed when I played." Good luck getting that kind of honest, inward-looking commentary from Bert or Jack.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    The thing about “super” utility guys is that they need to be able to play short. I’m not sure Arraez can do that, as scouting reports are pretty iffy on the guy.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    There is ABSOLUTELY reason to believe a 22 year old with little upper minors experience will hit poorly in the Majors once pitchers get a look at him. This isn’t beer league baseball. The skill level Arraez is facing is miles better than anything he’s seen in his life. Justin-freakin’-Morneau had a .660 OPS his rookie year.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    All this talk about Arraez in the comments and not a single mention of the pure comedy of Polanco and his 89 foot lead off third base last night. This team is delightfully annoying.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    Definitely. There’s no need to jump him 9-to-1 in a single move.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    All of this. I want to see Buxton move up - and I'm sure the coaching staff feels the same way - but I see no need to pressure a guy who has folded pretty hard under previous pressure. Let him get his feet under him and move him up when it feels right, not because statistics "force" the issue. When will that happen? Dunno, I'm not talking to Byron Buxton everyday. But the coaching staff is and they understand the sabrmetric implications of keeping him the nine slot as well as any of us. This isn't Gardenhire's coaching staff and we should keep that in mind when pointing out relatively obvious sabr principles and wondering why they're not doing the obvious thing here... it's probably because they have a reason for doing it.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    Watched the first 3-4 episodes of Dead to Me on Netflix. The end of the first episode left a sour taste in my mouth but it turned out the show really knows what it's doing. Highly recommend.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    It shouldn't be overlooked how important Pineda's performance was last night. The Twins haven't had a day off in a week and won't get a day off for another week. Their pen was shaken up quite a bit by that Angels series and they're in the first game of a seven game road stretch. Going seven innings is a really big deal in that situation.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    Yep. Vlad Guerrero. I was watching the game when it happened. Damned near fell over laughing.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    This game was nerve-wracking. I don’t particularly care for nerve-wracking games in mid-May.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    60 day? Ughhhhhhhhhhhhh. The Minnesota Twins: Can’t Have Nice Things Since 1961
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    I haven’t seen any updated news on Garver so if someone sees something, please share it.
  15. 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.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    No. That's why Astudillo exists. Either Sano is ready or they'll backfill with another reliever.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    Wow. That is some crazy feast or famine stuff.
  18. 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."
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    What does that even mean?
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. 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.
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