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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    For example, using *only* the BAMTech money each team received in 2018 would have put the Rays about 8-10% toward the funding of a new stadium. But no, it was easier and more profitable to start threatening quasi-relocation to Montreal and continue to claim poverty instead of being proactive and making the necessary changes the franchise claims to need to remain competitive.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    Exactly this. I wouldn't have hesitated to overpay Stroman to get him for only three years and I don't even like Stroman that much. I understand reluctance to buy into 5+ years on a pitcher at or over 30 years old but to go into the deadline with two rookie pitchers and one reclamation project is skewing way too far in being conservative about pitching, especially given where the Twins payroll stands right now, their absolute dearth of long-term commitments, and their dire need for rotation help. This offseason, the stars were perfectly aligned for the Twins to spend a little on pitching and drastically raise the team's floor and the front office closed up shop instead. Frankly, I don't understand how any Twins fan isn't somewhere on the "annoyed-to-outright-angered" spectrum about how November unfolded in regards to competitiveness in 2022.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    I’m not whining about anything. If you don’t have anything productive to contribute to the topic at hand, feel free to close the tab.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    I care about wins per dollar the same way I care about Apple's logistics chain on the laptop I'm using and their profit margin on said device. In other words, I don't care. At all. What's weird is that a person without a vested interest in the financials of a company does care about unless it's in a professional capacity for analysis and reproduction. Where your stance falters is your assumption that the Rays have a better solution than free agency and spending more money - money they have, as I pointed out earlier - instead of realizing that trades, development, and free agency are complementary tools of every MLB organization. Removing any one of those tools results in a team self-restricting their talent ceiling and the Rays are doing exactly that so their owners can profit. Why on earth would I support that as a fan of the sport? You think you're proving us all wrong by repeating points we already know and understand without somehow realizing we're making a completely different point. Literally my first comment in this thread was That doesn't mean they have as much money as the Yankees, it doesn't mean their development strategy isn't top-notch, it doesn't mean they don't do a lot right, and if you'd stop looking down your nose at every other poster on this forum for even a moment and address our actual statements, you'd realize that.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    Yep, catchers will de-prioritize framing and re-prioritize catch-and-throw skills. I think some offense will be gained along the way but they'll still be the lightest-hitting position on the diamond by a wide margin, I suspect.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    Thanks for using a mere 279 words to condescendingly "explain" how having more money allows one to buy more things. Not the point I've been making here but hey, you got to use a bunch of words so good for you.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    I’m sure it’s impossible for the Rays to be even better if they spent a reasonable amount of money on players. Sure, they’d lose their prestigious annual LAOMSPW* trophy - which we all know is the thing real fans care about - but they might actually win more games and maybe even that silly trophy full of flags if they tried it even once. *Least Amount Of Money Spent Per Win
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    Exactly. The Brewers had a payroll $30m higher than the Rays. The Reds had a whopping $55m higher payroll.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    Witcher s2 had me until the last episode, which was both boring and threw the rest of the season sideways and not in a good way. Still worth a watch if you liked s1 but don’t get your hopes too high for the end.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    Maybe they’d actually have a trophy if fans didn’t allow them to cry poor all day long and forced them to actually field a competitive payroll.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    Fangraphs is likely incorrect. The Rays have an escalating TV deal and should have received over $50m in 2021. https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Journal/Issues/2018/02/26/Media/Sports-media-sidebar-1.aspx
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    Oh, for sure, I didn't think you were arguing, I was just presenting some of the information I've read over the past couple of years.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    Gates obviously impact team revenue but the extent is really overblown. From B-Ref: https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Revenue_sharing It's pretty hard to see those numbers and then say "a sub-$70m payroll is definitely reasonable".
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    Their stadium revenue is definitely one of the lowest in baseball but I don't have any hard numbers on it. But their TV contract is about $10m more valuable than the Twins per season (which is about +25%, $40m compared to $50m). But the Twins payroll was about +75% over the Rays, $70m compared to $120m (the gap would have been even larger had the Twins not traded higher-dollar players mid-season).
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    What's truly extraordinary is how the Rays have convinced the general public they don't have a lot more money to spend. I did the math awhile back and the Rays receive roughly their payroll in money directly from MLB (national TV rights, MLB.tv digital split, etc) BEFORE they receive any "competitive balance" money. Guess whose local TV broadcast contract is significantly more lucrative than the Twins? I'll give you one hint: their team name rhymes with DAYS. The Tampa Bay Rays are bad for baseball and are a scam. I began actively cheering against them once I did some basic math on their payroll expenditures versus their revenue. Fans need to realize this and stop tolerating their bull****, to be frank about it. What they do with their revolving door of laundry makes for a bad fan experience and no fanbase should tolerate it.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    I think there will definitely be some pitchers in 2022. Past that, I cannot predict anything. After 2020 and 2021, I'm not comfortable predicting anything about this pitching pipeline but Falvine's jobs should ride on the success or failure of said pipeline.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    2018 wasn’t way out of line with predictions but your point is taken.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    You realize that the vast majority of non-ball/strike calls are made by umpires that aren't the home plate umpire, right?
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    Everyone needs to stop meta-arguing about societal ills and strawmanning the opposition. It's so bloody boring. Either argue the subject at hand or just keep quiet.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    In the aggregate, sure. In any single game, like game seven of a postseason series, not so much. I can't count how many times I've watched a game where the "umpire's zone" (which it's hard to defend as a thing that should ever exist whilst using a straight face) clearly favored one pitcher over the other. Why do we allow that to be a thing? How is that fun?
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    Could we just cut it out with these arguments already? These kind of statements have been used against analytics for 2+ decades. They were wrong and used in bad faith about analytics, they're wrong and being used in bad faith about automating the strike zone. Baseball, like pretty much every sport, is about human competition. No one, and I mean no one, has seriously advocated for the removal of human competition. No one is making this point so stop trying to strawman the opposition with it.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    Google has taxis driving around Phoenix without a human being sitting in the driver’s seat. Let’s not pretend there are significant technological hurdles with automated umpires that the tech sector didn’t already solve a decade ago.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    The “what about robot players?” point is nonsensical and nothing more than a distraction. The literal point of baseball is human competition. Last I checked. the point of baseball was not gifting/punishing those players due to unnecessary human error.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    And how long do you think it takes the umpire to physically see the pitch and make a decision? That's what I'm saying, the technological delay is basically non-existent from a human perspective, which leaves only the reaction time, and that already exists in the game. In the end, the net difference should be negligible and automation could actually be faster in some circumstances.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    All of you are what powers this site, keeping everyone engaged with fantastic content. Whatever holiday you celebrate (or none at all), Twins Daily shouts a big Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, or Happy Hannakuh in your direction! Safe travels to all and the best possible holiday season to everyone!
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