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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    MLB has made it pretty hard to care about baseball. The current product isn't engaging and badly needs to change.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    Everything quoted here is a complaint about 21st century Major League Baseball, not Rocco Baldelli specifically (other than the Sano complaint but most/all managers would leave him in given the short benches forced upon every team due to bullpen size).
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    No problem, thanks for asking and prompting me to finally put a disclaimer on the video page explaining that this can be a problem if any user can't see our video content.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    While I generally support the players in this, you’re not wrong about this particular point. Both sides have faults in this situation but it’s pretty clear to me one side is more villainous than the other. On top of everything else, the mere fact owners didn’t even bother to start negotiating for something like 45 days pisses me off to no end.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    It was so much worse than that. Guzman literally started his swing after the ball hit the glove. It was maybe 2000-ish so finding video is probably impossible.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
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  7. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm *optimistic* they will start on May 1st. Given the speed at which owners are not negotiating, I have little faith there will be much progress until the season itself is in jeopardy, which will be some time in late March or early April.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    Oh man, the errors. Guzman was an athletic fielder with good range but he was so sloppy in the field.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    To this day, the worst single baseball swing I've ever seen in MLB was from Cristian Guzman. He was caught unprepared for a fastball and about half a second after the catcher's glove popped, Guzman started the most pathetic swing you will ever see from a professional hitter. Everyone just kind of stopped and stared for a moment. It was super awkward.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    Well, there is more than one topic of contention. If they plan to negotiate each point individually at an excruciatingly slow pace, we're going to miss half the season before they reach a resolution.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    I put him in the middle tier because it's so hard to evaluate managers. Two plusses in Baldelli's side that keep him out of the bottom rung: 1. His teams seem to have pretty strong second halves 2. No clubhouse drama that reaches the public Those are good indications he manages a solid clubhouse, which is a huge part of managing in today's game. As far as in-game management goes, I find him entirely pedestrian. He plays it pretty much by the book, which is fine. When he does stray away from the book, particularly in 2021, the results have been less than stellar.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    Shortly after this photo was taken, Minneapolis city council banning me from wearing those jeans within city limits due to "it not being fair to everyone else".
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    Oh, I agree, I'm just saying that after missing out on every other starting pitcher with upside, I'd be willing to take what I consider a not-smart risk on Rodon. Obviously, that was not my first choice when the season ended but it's the option that's remaining.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    I would strongly consider offering Rodon a large one year deal but I’m also not a Rodon believer. It’s more of an act of desperation than a move I like. Still, I’d consider one year but I doubt that gets it done. Someone will offer 2-3 seasons, I suspect.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    Well yeah. I'm no bigger fan of this lackluster offseason than anyone else. But I'm also not ready to trade away good hitters "just because".
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    Yep, obstinance to the point of wasting everyone's time.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    I'd rather have Miguel Sano by a long shot. Cruz was pretty terrible with Tampa Bay. And while Sano will likely never tap into his upside, there's still some upside there and he could easily have a career season. I wouldn't pay much for Sano, but I'd rather have him for the price of an A ball lottery ticket than Nelson Cruz at this point.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    The Twins should only trade expensive players if they plan to spend that money elsewhere and there's no indication they plan to do that given how they acquired zero good starters before the lockout. And if they're not going to pay for pitching, they should go ahead and keep their good hitters in hopes they can slug their way to some victories.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    While I'm just generally irritated about pretty much this entire process, the fact they're meeting for like 30 minutes once a week flat-out pisses me off. Get this done already. You've already done enough damage to the game over the past 24 months, stop the bleeding and start rebuilding the sport.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    That's definitely possible, I only found it surprising that he never received another chance at all.
  21. Brock Beauchamp

    I'm so excited that in just a few days, pitchers and catchers will not report.

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  23. Brock Beauchamp
    How sad... and what a weird career Jeremy had... I didn't realize this about his career until news of this broke and I happened to check his B-Ref page. I remembered him being a pretty good player for a short time who just dropped off the map almost overnight. And after looking again, that's pretty much exactly what happened. Over two seasons in 2001 and 2002, Jeremy Giambi posted a 134 OPS+ over 841 plate appearances. He was worth 3.4 rWAR over that period of time. That's a solid MLB player by any measure. In 2003, he received only 156 plate appearances and never played in MLB after that season.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    Yes, that Richard Marx. This is wildly entertaining, I highly suggest you all take a moment's respite from MLB's asinine CBA negotiations and check out this feud.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    What? No, I'm definitely not serious.
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