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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    Yes.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    I don't like to correct core writers often but I found this line so untrue that it needed revision.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    Well... yeah.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    This is how decent teams operate. They fight against the great teams and often lose. They battle against the mediocre teams and balance it out. But they pound the awful teams.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    That seems about right to me. Castro had an atrocious start to 2018 before getting injured and in today's game, catchers are often platooned favorably. Castro was an everyday catcher who didn't get platooned hardly at all. His career L/R splits are .739/.568. Do I want Castro as a traditional "starting catcher"? Hell no. But he's a good defensive catcher who can teach some pretty bad/mediocre defenders the ropes while also providing a good platoon split on the strong side of the platoon. Frankly, the "get rid of Castro" crowd seems to be treating catcher as if it’s just another position on the diamond and not a highly specialized defensive position that can sink a team. Castro is a capable hitter from from the strong side of a platoon, he's a good defender, and he has the capability to teach some defensively questionable younger catchers (who also hit from the other side of the platoon) how to catch in the modern game. So, yeah, let's just get rid of that guy.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    I don’t agree with the usage of win percentage data for a catcher but you’re barking up the wrong tree here. I simply replied to a statement the Twins were a bad team in 2018; they were not.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    Yet Castro wasn’t a part of any of it past the first ~25 games so it doesn’t really matter how they played the stretch or if they finished strong.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    Is anyone claiming Castro is a league average hitter or are they claiming he’s a league average hitter for a catcher? Big difference there.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    The Twins won 78 games last year. They weren’t exactly terrible.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    Having a deep lineup is beautiful. Don’t pitch to one guy, get slaughtered by the next. It won’t maintain this pace but the front office put together one hell of an offensive force this year.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    Baltimore played itself?
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    This team is 9-6 and they’ve been whooped once. They’ve whooped other teams twice. This is a solid team off to a good start.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    Man, it’s so frustrating this front office didn’t pick up one good reliever. The cascading nature of bullpens would turn it from a negative to neutral. And with this offense, you just need neutral at this point.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    He barely played last year. I don’t get why people are assuming a 90 OPS+ catcher is now a 40 OPS+ catcher going forward. Sure, it’s possible that’s the case but there’s little evidence to suggest it is.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    Which is why I'm much more worried about the bullpen than I was two weeks ago (when I was still worried about the bullpen, just not as much as now). May was supposed to be something of a rock in the seventh or so inning.
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