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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, I suspect this was a "who lines up that day?" situation, not some in-depth analysis of a prospect's readiness. Because no matter how bad or great the start is, the player is headed back to Rochester the moment the game ends.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    If this deal was about budgetary constraints, the front office would have taken salary relief this season. The entirety of the salary relief is next season, the year Minnesota has Mauer coming off the books and virtually zero dollars committed to payroll. This wasn’t about salary relief. There’s something going on here, we just don’t know what it is yet.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    This whole deal seems out of character with what Falvine have done thus far in their tenure (upping payroll, taking on salary for better prospects). Makes you wonder what their long term play is here.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    I was wondering when this guy would get a chance. Makes sense to use him as the 26th man in a doubleheader.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    It's pretty amazing how the league has figured out Dozier for 81 games a season for five years running now. I'm not saying Dozier will rebound to previous levels but I was tired of hearing this argument in 2014. It's kinda ridiculous to hear it in 2018.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm not knocking Judge's timeline, only pointing out that he's being used in a pretty inaccurate way to judge things this front office didn't do to Twins players before 2016. Remember that this argument started with Romero, possibly the worst example to use to prove the poster's point.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    I guess. But if Rooker was hitting right now, his timeline would be faster. He’s in AA exactly one year after he was drafted.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah... and let's not even bring up the path Lewis appears to be on. He could be in A+ by mid-season and on track to reach Minnesota as a 20 year old (Judge was 24 when he debuted, older than Rosario, Sano, Kepler, Polanco, Buxton, Berrios, Romero, et al).
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    Most organizations do this, actually. Because it means you get an entire extra year of control over a player. You're acting as if Romero has been shafted by this organization somehow. He had 90 IP in 2016 and 125 IP in 2017. Coming into 2018, he had all of zero innings above AA. You're building this narrative around the player that simply does not exist in reality.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm generally a person who tries to separate the creator from their work because I don't want to judge what I experience based on the person behind the work. But a line of decency must be drawn in extreme cases. This is pretty obviously one of those cases.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    The moment Reed walked in the tying run, I turned off the game and said "Yep, been to this party before and it sucks. No thanks."
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, last night was another ugly one.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    The Twins did not need a fifth starter until April 22nd, over three weeks into the season. Fernando Romero made his first start on May 2nd. You're complaining about ten days. Ten days. Never mind the fact that had Romero been on the Minnesota roster, he would have rusted away for three weeks before getting a start. Meanwhile, in Rochester he got several starts and 21 IP to shake off the rust and come up to Minnesota as prepared as can be. The front office's moves aren't only defensible, they're logical. You don't add a rookie as a fifth starter on Opening Day if you play your home games in Target Field because the dude is going to waste away through most of April. Get through the off day and weather madness of early April, then call up a rookie as fifth starter. Bonus points that you get a full additional year of control over the player as a result.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    Nobody really talks much about it but Rodney is 41 years old and throwing 95mph fastballs on a regular basis. That's nuts.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    Well, if Rodney is going to hand out moonshots, this is the night to do it.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    That was some sweet team baserunning right there.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    I was just going to log on and say "this team realizes it needs to score runs to win baseball games, right?" And that happened.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    It's the hardest job on the field. But Garver is still pretty bad at it.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    Garver is just... not good behind the plate.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    It's almost as if process doesn't matter in a game based on failure with large numbers of opportunities.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    SoCal taquitos (or rolled tacos) from a hole in the wall place with a menu in Spanish. Good luck with that.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    Flatly untrue. Rosario is a free swinger and the process of that at-bat matters... a lot. He laid off some tough pitches and hit some rather unhittable pitches. He worked the pitcher to a 7-8 pitch plate appearance. I'll take that from him once every night.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    I suspect there's a fair amount of smoke and mirrors going with Kepler against LHP right now. Lefties struggle against lefties, even the best LHB. It's likely the book will change and Kepler's numbers against LHP will decline. But that's no reason to be concerned... the fact that he's hitting LHP this hard likely means that he'll feast on lefty mistakes in the future and maybe he'll be a .750 OPS guy against LHP going forward. And lefties that can be average or better than average against same-side pitching are usually very good hitters.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    I think the confusion over framing stems from "stealing strikes" when in fact it's mostly "getting your pitcher the strike they threw". An errant, fast-moving glove with a lot of body movement distracts from the moment. The pitch should be a strike but the catcher moved violently and the umpire saw the ball drift out of the zone because exactly *where* did the ball hit the mitt? Whereas a steady, smooth hand with good visibility allows the umpire to see where the pitch was actually thrown. And it was a strike. Framing (mostly) isn't about 'stealing", it's about "being good at your job and letting your pitcher's ability shine".
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    He's not even close to the same hitter he was against LHP last year. He was absolutely brutal and lost against lefties in 2017.
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