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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    Am I the only one who doesn’t get the love for The Good Place? It’s a show I want to love but the character chemistry is so inferior and awkward to Parks & Rec that I struggle to care much about it. It's a fine show but I don't get why people are raving about it.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    I think it’s more nuanced than “nothing”. I also think it’s so minute and unquantifiable that it’s uselsss to argue about it. I don’t think it’s coincidence that Showalter always overperforms for a couple of years... and then unpeforms for a couple of years before getting the axe. Or that Gardenhire had a solid run of overperformance before collapsing. Or that Molitor has been up and down, as weird as that sounds to say. Or that Maddon is almost *always* good. How can we quantify that as outsiders? Um... yeah. We can’t. So we should evaluate the themes, ideas, and styles of managers... and STFU about the rest because we’re talking out of our asses.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    No, "we" didn't. Some did. I think Mientkiewicz would be a horrible pick as manager given the direction baseball has gone over the past two decades. Someone in this thread referenced more quotes why that's the case. He doesn't value analytics in an age when analytics should be a part of almost every conversation regarding a player.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    Nope, it's on Molitor. Yeah, he could have used better talent but so could every manager. If you burn out your two best pitchers by the end of May, your depth just got worse. Make the best of what you have. Molitor burned through pitchers at a rate that virtually guaranteed a shoddy bullpen by midseason because he'd run all his good pitchers into the ground already.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    This is what drove me nuts about Molitor. He'd show flashes of innovation with the lineup and wasn't afraid to mix things up to find results. Then he'd call on Addison Reed for the fifth time in six days later that game. Just a wildly inconsistent manager in very baffling ways.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    Whoa. I thought he'd get one more season. Not that I dislike the move, just a bit surprised by it.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    Having him come out for a single pitch with his catching gear on was... moving.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    Wow, there are loads of people here who don't seem to actually understand the purpose of an opener. Clayton Kershaw is not going to have an opener start the game for him. The same goes for Verlander, Berrios, and all other starting pitchers who regularly show the ability to manage an opposing offense 3-4 times through a lineup. That entire argument is a strawman. The opener is not going to impact the best (or even good) starting pitchers in the game. It's for the other guys who aren't good enough to pitch more than 150 innings in a season and perform adequately in the traditional starting pitcher role (but still have enough talent to get through a lineup a couple of times).
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    I haven't watched Saul yet, just wanted to rib you a bit. But seriously, check out The Expanse. It's sooooooo good.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    The Expanse objects to your brazen statement presented as fact.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    This is what many of us feared would happen, I think, and why we wanted to sell. The Twins were hanging on, chasing a Cleveland team that just needed to fix its bullpen and get its head straight. They fixed the bullpen and the writing was on the wall.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    Thorpe was promoted? Good for him. After all those injuries, the guy is still only 22 years old and now in AAA. Pretty amazing.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, one healthy, good year from Buxton could mean $30m in extension money. There's little reason not to take that relatively small risk.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    Yep, this. The Twins can't afford to roll out a 5.10 ERA starter for multiple seasons in hopes he figures it out. That time is over. It's time to compete. They tried (and failed) to do that this season but got decent returns on all those expiring contracts as a consolation prize. Try again this offseason.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    I do not recall him ever hitting triple digits. Everything I remember (and still consistent to today) puts him topping out at 94-96. Though one of his early problems was a loss of velocity, sometimes inning-to-inning and even pitch-to-pitch... but I haven't heard anything about that happening in the past couple of years, which makes me believe it's likely no longer an issue.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    Agreed. Stewart should be in the rotation until the end of the season but I don't hold out much hope for him being an effective starter (or even reliever, really). But he showed flashes of competence in MiLB this season after going unclaimed in the Rule V draft. The front office needs as much face time with him as possible against MLB hitting to find out if he's worthy of a 25-man spot in 2019 or whether he should just be jettisoned and replaced with a younger, higher upside arm.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    To be fair, Belisle came so late that he barely moved the needle in either direction. I'm not saying I liked the signing or want him anywhere near Minnesota, just that it probably didn't make much difference. The hand was pretty much dealt by the time he came aboard. The front office was a mix of conservative and aggressive early in the season. After all, they promoted Romero pretty aggressively and let him pitch... and then demoted him. A weird season.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    Gibson made an approach and delivery change last season and has been a significantly different pitcher since that time (roughly 12 months now). This isn't a fluke, Gibson is a different pitcher today than he was early last season. That doesn't mean he can't regress or get injured - just like anybody - but he's a pretty safe bet to be a better, more consistent pitcher than he was earlier in his career.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm actually wondering if the Twins front office simply ran out of time at the deadline. They were crazy-active and moved loads of players over a short period of time. And Rodney was probably at the bottom of that list, as he's not worth much and the team was probably floating whether to keep him for next season.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    A pretty underwhelming return on paper but whatever, I don't even care that much. Let's just hope Falvey sees something in this guy worth the effort.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    Right!
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    I think a four year extension is reasonable. Gibson is not young and tossing $60m at him in guaranteed money might do the trick.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    True. I forgot about that half season of Castillo.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    Yep. If we want to rip Casilla, remember that he was actually a much better player than the guy he replaced.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    They can definitely do it with one, maybe two, players. I'm not sure they can just throw stuff at the wall and see what sticks with 4-5 players as they did in past years.
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