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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    Like I said, really weird to turn around Esco so Kepler can face a righty.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    Really strange to pull your lefty to turn around Esco and then leave a righty in against Kepler.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    Half watching and only caught the second one and said “that was a strike?” Then FoxTrax showed it clearly wasn’t.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    That’s what I love about Mauer. He has a bull**** strike called on him and then takes the identical pitch to left field.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    That was a damned fine play.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    Whew. Morrison has just been brutal.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    Yep, saw the same thing. Dunno why Kepler broke for home there.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    Ditto. Make ‘em earn it. We’ve seen baseball for years. The frequency at which an outfielder can throw it directly to the plate is alarmingly low.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    I’m not ready to write off Castro. He was just fine last season.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    Getting singles that don’t result in runs doesn’t make up for giving up several runs behind the plate. I’m not that down on Garver overall but he’s been a butcher this game.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    Good to see the other guys can look incompetent, too.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    So, yeah, Garver.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    Then break the shift. I will never understand why baseball teams chase their own tail so often.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    This team is ugh on every level.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, true. I didn’t notice where the runner on third was though.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    Okay, I take that back. Sorry, Mitch. That was the right thing to do.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    Ugh. I can’t believe how much bad play we’ve seen on defense this season.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah. It’s painful to watch Rodney pitch but he’s had some horse**** luck to go along with that pain. Three outings ago, he got the ball he wanted. It bounced off the mound. Two outing ago, Sano makes an errant throw and then a swinging bunt puts two men on base. No excuse for the homer ball to Sanchez but things out of Rodney’s control turned that solo shot into a game-winning shot. His outings have been ugly but not nearly as bad as his line looks thus far.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    Dunno. This is a team that previously took two of three from the reigning World Series champs and split a series against Cleveland. It's a rough patch but probably just that... a rough patch for a team that is likely to finish with a win total somewhere in the 80s.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    I followed this game for 2-3 innings and checked out because I just knew it was going to get ugly. Woke up this morning and SHOCK, it turned ugly.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    Uh... Dozier. A guy they already had under control so that makes it less amazing. So... Santana, maybe? But that's more of a "very good" contract than a "great" contract.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    Definitely. IIRC, I wasn't super excited about the extension but generally liked it. I was super excited at the original signing.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    Except your .040 BABIP doesn't explain the .150 OPS drop from 2013 to 2014. Using Joe's 2013 season, normalizing his BABIP from .380 to .340 is a difference of only 15 hits over the course of a season. But to get his OPS to drop 150 points, you need to remove 25 doubles from his 2013 season. That's 50 bases removed to see a 150 point drop in OPS. Joe's 2013 season would have gone from 35 doubles all the way down to just 10. Not only do you need more than 15 hits to get a drop that large, you need every one of those hits to count for extra bases, which we know just isn't a reality in the game. Your BABIP argument doesn't add up. A .040 swing in BABIP just isn't that much and, sure, it'll take a decent chunk out of a player's OPS season-over-season but nothing even close to 150 points. Something more like .075 of OPS at the upper end of the spectrum.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    Watching the game after listening last night. Man, I *really* dislike Molitor’s decision to remove Berrios.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    But we established there was a moderate correlation... which doesn't tackle the rest of the problem, that Mauer struck out more in 2014 than he had in any previous season while also hitting the ball more softly than any point in his career. BABIP and hard hit is a correlative argument but it still doesn't explain why Joe missed the ball so often and so rarely squared up. And, yes, his 2013 season saw an increase in strikeouts... but the rest of his stats, even the underlying ones, stayed strong. He posted one of the highest OPS seasons of his career with that strikeout rate because those underlying stats stayed at his career norms (his BABIP was a bit high but only .040 over his career rate, nothing even close to explaining a .150 OPS drop). So what changed? People who argue the concussion wasn't the most significant impact on his career throw out "shifts" and "harder-throwing pitchers" but that doesn't pass the smell test. It's not as if shifts and harder-throwing pitchers showed up overnight. Those are gradual game changes not implemented by every team to this day, yet it's used as a reason why Mauer went from great to pedestrian in ten months.
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