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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    That's a good question. Given baseball's inherent inequity, I've long believed teams should receive a comp pick for losing players to free agency but there should be no punishment for acquiring said free agent. The former makes sense as an equalizing measure, the latter is an obvious attempt to stifle the free agency market and suppress player salaries, particularly mid-market free agents.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm not disagreeing with you, I think their choice of corner players over athleticism hasn't panned out (possibly "yet"), but I think it's underplayed that this front office has been in charge of five drafts and has chosen two shortstops in the first round. Unfortunately, neither has worked out (and in the case of Cavaco, I suspect will not work out permanently) but they have drafted some athleticism early, they both haven't done it well and have been hit with some pretty awful luck (I think we can all agree Lewis's completely BS random injury while walking is flat-out bad luck).
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    A typical starting pitcher only starts 25 games a season so what’s the problem?
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    Oh hey, that’s an actual concession. Not a huge concession but certainly significant.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    I had a love-hate relationship with Bauer before the accusation. I didn't want the Twins to sign him before, I sure don't want them to sign him now. But he's not going to be charged with a crime and it appears he'll walk away from these allegations without much, if any, penalty. And if that's the case, he should be eligible to return to MLB immediately and the Dodgers should be on the hook for that contract. I still have no idea who is telling the truth here but without actual evidence and/or a conviction he has done something illegal and/or wrong, then it's punishment because I don't like the guy (which I don't), and that's not fair.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    Who has been signed and then traded? I honestly can’t think of a significant sign and trade unless things go completely upside-down, like last season and Nelson Cruz.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    Calendar year of the article. I pulled data from Jan 1-Dec 31 for each year and grabbed the top five.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    Sigh.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    *ducks and runs*
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    Isn't that close to what Baines was, though? A little better than average for a DH? The guy had essentially identical career value to Kent Hrbek except it took Baines an extra 4,000 plate appearances to accumulate that value. As a comparison point, Brian Dozier had 4,900 career plate appearances and accumulated 60% of the career rWAR of Baines. Harold Baines isn't even close to being a legitimate Hall of Famer, in my opinion. Not by a long shot.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    I wish the MLBPA would push harder for a salary floor and stop fixating on raising the CBT. I don't have numbers to back this up and I very well could be wrong but it seems to me that more of their membership would gain from raising the floor.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    One thing that bothers me about Falvine's strategy is that the more crowded the market becomes in this arena, the more impossible it becomes to "win" using this approach. For example, it appears the Giants also employ this strategy, as they basically walked away from Gausman without even making an offer. Obviously, the Giants were pretty damned good at letting the market fall to them and using bounce-back candidates to fill a roster last season. And if you're only one of five capable teams trying to root out the under-market values every offseason, the chances of actually landing one, much less more than one, of these guys approaches zero. And if you're not actually getting the cheap guys you want and you're paying the likes of JA Happ instead of Robbie Ray or Kevin Gausman every offseason, that's called "being cheap and dumpster-diving", not "exploiting a market inefficiency".
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    He didn't only fail to pan out, he pitched just 26 innings in the majors. Ouch.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    Except Rose wasn't banned for cheating, he was banned for gambling on baseball, which is explicitly against baseball rules and is probably the number one NO-NO in the entire sport. And even then, had he been able to keep his mouth shut for even a second, he'd still probably be in the hall.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    Did he actually say that? If so, giant eyeroll. Schilling came *this close* to gaining entry to Cooperstown last year with 71% of the vote. It's likely he would have made it this year but he literally asked to have his name withdrawn from further consideration after last year's vote. So yeah, voters went ahead and... honored his request... https://www.newsweek.com/curt-schilling-shuns-baseball-hall-fame-withdraws-name-ballot-1564704
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    No matter whether they cheated or not, I believe Clemens and Bonds should also be in. They were simply too good at baseball to not be enshrined, especially given some of the questionable morality of many others in the Hall. *shrugs* But hey, the upside in so many falling off the ballot this year is that it likely paves a smoother path for Mauer to gobble up votes when he's eligible in two years.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    I guess it’s good but if a player is in their third year of arb and making $8m, they’re not gonna be overly excited about an extra $330k. Baseball needs to pay its young players a lot more money for a variety of reasons and a $10m pool is an embarrassing offer. Everyone involved needs to stop ****ing around and truly negotiate.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    Oooh, a $10m pool for 30 players. Yeehaw, that's an average of $333k per player!
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    But now they're going to spend ten weeks debating how to divide 9,500,000,000 doughnuts between 800 people.
  20. Brock Beauchamp

    So this lockout thing is pretty rad and not at all boring, amirite?

    1. wsnydes

      wsnydes

      Is this sarcasm?  I don't understand sarcasm.

      /s

    2. wsnydes

      wsnydes

      Seriously though, this abyss is rather brutal. 

  21. Brock Beauchamp
    I chose pitchers because of the quantity and how Falvey built his reputation as a pitching guy. I view this crop of pitchers as the ultimate decision-maker for this front office's continued employment. This is the season we need to see pitchers graduate to a Twins uniform and maybe not have immediate success, but show enough potential we're moderately confident that future success is in the cards.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    Ooh, I'll push back on this a little bit. Hrbek is criminally underrated by people outside Minnesota and by many within Minnesota as well. The guy accumulated just shy of 40 WAR in his career in just over 7,000 PAs. He's essentially identical to Don Mattingly and no one in Yankeedom would blink if a person claimed Donnie Baseball as their favorite player. Hell, people still rumble about Mattingly's case for Cooperstown (which I think is nonsense but whatever).
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    This prompted me to finish the series (finally). For some reason, I stalled out with all of 2.5 episodes remaining for some dumb reason. I wasn't really sold on the writer episodes until I saw them tied into a bow, at which point I appreciated that story arc a lot more.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    If I’m comparing two players, yeah, I’m gonna evaluate whether the Green Monster gave one player an advantage the other didn’t have. If we don’t make an attempt to factor in individual advantages and disadvantages, there’s little point in comparing players at all.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    Carew was better and I don’t think it’s a close contest. Puckett was barely above average as a hitter outside the Metrodome. Put Rod on that turf and he hits .400. Hell, he damned near hit .400 *without* turf.
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