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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    Realmuto has 2+ seasons left before free agency, not 3+ seasons. And the Twins will almost surely get 6+ seasons out of Lewis so you're passing on four seasons of Lewis.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    It was a questionable decision but not an indefensible one. We all figured Pelfrey was in way over his head but the bullpen was in pretty miserable shape at the time. The Twins needed a higher upside arm to pitch late innings and May was their best option. Of course, that meant weakening the rotation at the same time. It wasn't an optimal solution but there was no optimal solution available at the time.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    That's good in theory but rarely works in practice. You might go 5-6 days of getting 5+ innings out of your starters. You won't give a single reliever three innings in any of those appearances and May rusts on the bench. The reason you don't give one reliever three innings in that situation is because the game is usually close at that point and you want to use matchups to notch another win. If your starter goes 5+ and the game isn't close, you're probably kicking the other team's ass so it doesn't matter. On the other hand, you might get a couple of three inning starts in a 2-3 day span. You can't use the same guy for three innings that close together, either. And if your starter goes three innings, you're probably getting your ass kicked so, once again, it doesn't matter. The reality is that long men don't get regular work. There's a reason why long men are the back of the bullpen and very rarely a good pitcher. You use them when you need innings en masse and don't want to waste all those days off on a pitcher who can actually get hitters out on a regular basis.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    I think we’re just disagreeing that a couple of other good young teams existing makes none of them young. In my mind, I consider the Twins, Yankees, and Red Sox young teams. And it’s likely the Twins continue to be young for awhile because they are going to add more prospects this season.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    Why wouldn't anyone think of the Red Sox as young? I sure do. Like you said, they have five regulars 26 or younger. It causes me a lot of pain to see how young the BoSox and Yankees have become over the past couple of years. When Polanco and Sano return, the Twins will have the same number of guys 26 or younger in the lineup.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    Look at the scores of those games. If the offense is clicking, they add a couple more wins and are REALLY rolling as a team. The pitching has been *very* good more often than not. Here are the runs scored in those four losses: 5 4 1 0 The offense has stumbled quite often this season. You expect to see that from pretty much any offense over 162 but if the Twins were consistently posting 3+ runs (not exactly a lofty bar to reach), they'd be one of the best teams in the league in the month of May.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    Huh. Berrios is back out after a long inning. Didn't expect that.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    Honest question: with Buxton on third, do you play with the infield in? I don't think I do.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    Rosario would have slid into the dugout there.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    That was a hell of a bunt.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    He got hold of that one.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    He's super young though and he was leaving a ton of balls down the middle of the plate. Those hits weren't lucky or an accident.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    And Rosario was going to try for an extra 180 feet on that hit. Sigh.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    Yep, and I typed that post before the hit. He laid off two bad pitches to start the at-bat. Also, Escobar!
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    Day game tomorrow. It's Wilson either tonight or tomorrow, pick your poison.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    I really like this new (old) version of Rosario that doesn't swing at garbage pitches.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    It shouldn’t be that surprising, really. Buxton was out and Escobar played short for awhile. It’s hurt the team defensively to lose Polanco and then Buxton.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    I liked the attempted steal. It was a breaking ball in the dirt. Dozier saw it going into the dirt and challenged the catcher. It took a good throw to beat him. That’s a risk I want to see a baserunner take every time, it just didn’t work out.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    I mean, I'm not bashing Richards. He has velocity and could be a decent pitcher... but he's no ace. Never has been considered one, never will be unless he magically turns the corner at age 30. Kyle Gibson ranked higher on top 100 prospect lists if you need a frame of reference for Richards.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    And now Garrett Richards "is finally becoming the ace they wanted him to be." ... Garrett Richards? Ace? *turns on oven*
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    The FS1 pregame crew makes me want to stick my head in the oven. "He's swinging at 35% of pitches outside the zone, which means he's swinging at 65% of pitches in the zone." No, that's not what that means. Not even a little bit.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    Fangraphs had Polanco’s defense around average last year while Escobar was below average. As for offense, it’s not really fair to compare them but they were pretty close last season... but Escobar didn’t have a death in the family that skewered his numbers for a couple of months. On the other hand, Escobar is a beast this season and we have no idea how Polanco would be hitting if he was on the field.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    I think the Ks are here to stay in some capacity, though almost certainly not to the extent we see now. Sabrmetrics have done a lot of cool things for baseball but they've also made the game less watchable. We have pretty concrete proof that launch angle, swinging out of your shoes with two strikes, and working counts lead to more wins. Those will almost certainly stay, though maybe not at the levels we see today. Because at some point, guys who don't do those things will become undervalued. Some team will build a roster that looks like the mid-80s Cardinals and will beat the snot out of the rest of baseball for a few years, probably with a payroll in the bottom third of MLB. And like the lemmings front offices have shown themselves to be over the past century, half of baseball will chase that idea and drive up prices on those players. Cue the never-ending cycle.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    I'd love to know his spin rates in MiLB. Seeing a guy come up and make MLB hitters look this foolish makes me wonder if some guys see a MLB baseball and its different stitching and say "ugh..." (Berrios) while others look at the stitching and say "SPIN SPIN SPIN" (Romero). It's pretty idiotic they use different balls between the minors and majors. Romero always had pretty good scouting reports but what we've seen thus far is above and beyond anything I read about him. If he was pitching like this in Rochester, he literally should not have given up even one hit and should have had an 18.00 K/9 ratio.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    Half a game out on May 8th. We all called this a week ago, right?
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