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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    Dude, just cut it out already. You've been warned so many times about this. Just because you have an opinion about how something should be done, it doesn't mean your word is gospel and everyone else is wrong. Your tone ignores all nuance because you can't see beyond ANY disagreement to see that I generally agree with your point, I just differ on the implementation and timing of acquiring free agents. But either way, climb off the soapbox already. It's tiresome.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    It feels that way because *all* of baseball has begun taking this approach. The Twins stats are pretty in-line with one another across the board: AL Ranks OPS: 6th BB: 7th SO: 6th BA: 9th It feels so much different because baseball has swung so much toward the Three True Outcomes. The best team batting average in the American League was the Astros. Their team batting average was .267. *gags*
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    If this front office needs to enter a rebuild phase in year five of their tenure, someone else can handle that rebuild. Falvey and Levine should be fired if that's their strategy. If those two want to run a franchise like they're in Cleveland, fine, go somewhere else and do it.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm in the same boat as the OP but also, let's see how this plays out before crucifying the front office. I'm super-down on them (like to the point where I'm actually starting to be convinced they need to go) but making a decision when we're only 20% of the way through the offseason isn't really fair to them, either.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm far from sure about this but I believe all MLB contracts are negotiated in USD.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    The Nationals paid Scherzer a boatload of cash and rode him to a world series.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    Frankly, revenue will likely increase this season because they started last season with no fans and later had an attendance cap through the midpoint of the season.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    Ew, yuck.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    Pretty much, yeah. I really don't like it, though I kinda understand why they didn't do it... but seriously, it's not ****ing hard to go find a glove-first backup outfielder that can play center for half a season, at which point one hopes Celestino is ready to return to Minnesota.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    Based on previous payrolls and statement from ownership and the front office, the Twins should have as much as $60m to spend on contracts for *this season*.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    I don’t know if the organizers have set up a protocol for announcing the debaters’ identities but this is a good idea, we’ll put it at the top if we announce them.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    Maybe… but Puckett played for a bunch of really bad baseball teams in front of 8,000 people on a Tuesday, though.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    Also, while I’m no Cave fan, he literally fractured his back. I’ll give him something of a pass on 2021.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    I chose Miranda but Winder was a close second. The reason I went with Miranda is because I think the team either moves someone (Donaldson, Arraez) for pitching help in an attempt to complete or the team trades Buxton, which puts them into full-bore rebuild mode and playing the young guys becomes the obvious decision early in the season.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    In the case of most free agents, I'd argue it doesn't require "notably outspending", just "outspending". Minnesota landed the likes of Ervin Santana and Josh Donaldson by offering the most money. In the case of Donaldson, I don't think it was even that much more and the next-best offer was Atlanta, a team he played for and spoke highly of... but at the end of the day, all it took was a few extra million to sign the deal.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    Well, I think on the higher end of free agency, more consideration is given to player preference because it's less likely someone cares about $10-15m overall if their total contract value is nine figures. Both Bumgarner and Wheeler were open about what locations they would consider and which they simply would not consider (with Wheeler actually turning down more money elsewhere, I believe). So it's not unheard of for players to factor in things beyond money but it appears to be in the extreme minority of free agents.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    This is literally what decides 90% of free agent signings everywhere.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    I don't get what they see in him but this contract isn't guaranteed. They can still cut Cave and only be out a portion of the $800k, I believe. And in that case, he's not a terrible insurance policy but I'll be disappointed if he's on the roster when 26 head north to Minnesota at the end of March.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    If you exclude the final ten games, his games played drops all the way down to 51. So yeah, the guy had a 2.5 fWAR through 50 games played...
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    I don't think they're legit contenders in 2022 unless a bunch of things go really, really right but that doesn't mean they should punt on signing good players. A key component of not waiting for the "perfect time to strike" is not trying to shore up a bunch of holes in a single offseason, which is basically impossible. One has to incrementally move forward and this is the deepest pitching class we'll see in years. The Twins would be downright foolish not to pluck at least one good player out of that pool and start building toward being a legitimate contender again. The Twins have PLENTY of money this offseason and can easily afford to give one player a $20-25m AAV contract. I wouldn't give out two of those contracts - and thereby likely syncing the decline phase on $40-50m at once - but I'm going to be mad as hell if the Twins aren't well over $120m in payroll come April. And really, the easiest way to get there is to sign at least one guy to a pretty large contract. In two years, this contract will simply replace the Donaldson contract so it's not even that large of a burden through its decline phase.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    While I agree pitching is important, people become too centered on "striking at the perfect moment". The Atlanta ****ing Braves just won the World Series without their best player, using an outfield they collected via spare parts in salary dumps, fielding a rotation that was... not awesome... particularly after the loss of Morton in game one. Out of their three best starters - Morton, Anderson, and Fried - they collected all of zero wins from any of them until Fried won the clincher in game six. I'm not advocating that a front office act recklessly and try to go all-in every year - some temperance and timing is obviously necessary - but we need to stop waiting for the stars to align perfectly before giving up prospect capital, too. Who here doesn't regret the Twins not pushing more chips into the middle of the table in 2006, 2010, or 2019? Instead of waiting for the perfect situation to fall into one's lap, sometimes you just have to go out and make your chance happen.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    The thing is, there's very little to be gained by speaking straight-forwardly to the media and public and a lot to be lost through continual aggravation and public scrutiny of the words. Most managers and front offices are *very* dry and non-committal compared to 20-30 years ago for this reason. Apparently Baldelli is a pretty funny, charismatic guy when not in front of a camera, he just has little reason to show us that side of himself when cameras are rolling. I suspect the same is true of Falvey (Levine, being the face of the franchise to the media, is more outwardly charismatic).
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    While I won't go out of my way to say the old front office (but remember 2009 was Smith's administration, not Ryan) was good at drafting/acquiring talent, this is a bit unfair. Almost all of baseball passed on Mike Trout (hilariously, including the Angels as they picked 24/25 and Trout went 25th), Gibson was a fine first round choice. Currently, out of all 2009 first round picks, he's 7th in overall rWAR. It's definitely not a jaw-dropping pick but a team that chooses a Kyle Gibson career in the first round every year will be a perennial winner. Now, if you want to talk about horrible evaluation of talent, there's always the drafts of 2013-2015... But back to 2009, that was actually a BANNER YEAR for the Twins. They drafted Gibson and Dozier while they signed Polanco, Kepler, and Sano to international contracts all in that same year. That's a stellar year for a baseball organization. Those guys are worth 73 career rWAR and still counting upward every season.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    I will agree that certain elements in this country have done an effective job of fear-mongering Minneapolis after what happened last summer.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    Berrios backhands the Twin Cities a bit here, though he’s not wrong. Toronto is far more diverse.
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