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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    No worries, you just never can tell nowadays... some people would actually hold Baldelli's disease against him as proof of... well, something. I don't really know.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    If we ever offer a pay model, it will not be mandatory. It would be a subscription model more like Fangraphs (added perks and downloads, ad-free, that kind of thing) than The Athletic (pay or don't read).
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    He did little (not nothing) in his career because he had a rare cellular disorder that completely derailed his ability to play baseball through injuries (likely a result of the disease itself, as it causes muscle fatigue). There's a reason he retired at age *28* while sporting a 101 OPS+ despite all those underperforming years as he fought through injury after injury. Come on, are we really holding diseases against players now?
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    Funny, literally not a single person on this site has argued any of these points in the capacity you're laying them out. Nice strawman!
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    Really, I couldn't care less who they hire based on merit. I'm only angling for the nickname "Rocco's Rascals" for the day the Twins go deep into the postseason under his tutelage.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    I want everything Rocco Baldelli offers plus some actual managing experience. Minus that, I'll take Rocco Baldelli.
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  8. Brock Beauchamp
    It's not as if the Rays are chopped liver in the analytics department. And Baldelli has experience up and down the organization as a scout, front office liaison, and a coach.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    Sounds like the Twins might be getting close on Baldelli and I completely support that hire. He's a former player (and a good one, at that) who has worked in both a front office and in the dugout. He's young, to boot.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    The cover theme is Opening Day (or early season) expectations and the successes/failures of those players. I thought about whether guys like Astudillo, Gonsalves, and Stewart should make the cover or not and decided to take the route of "how did our April expectations align with actual on-field performance?" And even then, a couple of guys didn't make the cut, most notably Lynn and Morrison.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    Dude, back off. I'm not judging Sano here but defamation includes intentional negligence in the statement. Sano was detained for running over somebody. Maybe he was in the right, maybe he was in the wrong, but... Stop the armchair lawyering. You're not a lawyer. I'm not a lawyer but I'm married to one and it has only made me realize how much I *don't* know about the law. So just ease the hell up. Also, for those ready to crucify Sano... Ease the hell up until you know WTF is going on. Stop playing to your biases. We'll find out more soon enough.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    Onay, so this comment is probably inappropriate and I shouldn’t respond, but... damn, it’s funny.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    Whoa. I thought he'd get one more season. Not that I dislike the move, just a bit surprised by it.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    Having him come out for a single pitch with his catching gear on was... moving.
  20. 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).
  21. 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.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    The Expanse objects to your brazen statement presented as fact.
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. 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.
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