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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    While I believe Molitor leaning on his best bullpen arms so frequently is probably his biggest flaw as a manager, it's hard to get down on him for going that route in the Houston series. It was a good time and place to make a statement about the 2018 Twins, both to the opposition and the team itself. And really, it's the White Sox and you just need to get through one game against them. After tonight, most of the good relievers will be available again tomorrow and it's unlikely the Twins play at all on Saturday.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    Would they, though? We're talking about 4-5 performances from the team's most heavily-used relievers. A good front office doesn't make/regret decisions ten games into a season, especially a season as volatile as this one has been. And it's hard to blame the front office for things like Molitor putting Duke in against righty after righty... after righty. I just don't get it.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    This has been a rather wild ride, that's for sure. I hate to keep beating at the drum of "weather" but I just don't see how we can glean much of anything at this point. Particularly on this home stand, we've seen some really volatile pitching performances from both the home and visitor dugouts, some of them coming from really good pitchers. Odorizzi is getting by on smoke and mirrors. Lynn is Wild Thing and you have no idea what you're going to get. Hildenberger is just painful right now. Reed is amazeballs. Gibson teeters between very good and very bad almost pitch-to-pitch. Rodney is kinda what we expected, except maybe a bit moreso. All in all, I don't see a lot of evidence telling us one thing or another, particularly when the opposing team has had nearly the same volatility. I'm really looking forward to May so we can get a real look at the potential (or lack thereof) of this team.* *and I haven't even mentioned the offense in this post
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    Chocolate milk stout, for sure.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    Just checking in but the Miguel Sano we're railing on is the one with the .925 OPS for the season, right? Sure, he's looked bad at times. He also has all of 41 PAs on the season and the weather has been utter crap in almost every game he has played.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    Never mind that Santana has started 80 games for the Twins and compiled a 123 ERA+ in the process. Sure, he might (likely will) regress from 2017. That doesn't mean he's going to implode because he has a long way to drop before it becomes an implosion. Hell, getting eight weeks off to start the season could actually end up being good for the guy. People are writing him off and I'm not sure why.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    Oh, same here. It looks like he’s pressing for sure. But it could be six of one, half dozen of the other. He’s struggling in the cold but also pressing to live up to expectations. It’s so early and there are likely multiple factors in play. I don’t think he’ll be as good as last season but it’s way too early to predict where he will land.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    I find it curious that so many Minnesotans are shrugging off the fact that cold weather bothers some people more than others. Maybe it's because we're used to it but surely we all have those friends who absolutely diiiiieeeee whenever it drops below 20 degrees. This past winter, I was at the cabin splitting wood in -16 degree weather (not wind chill, straight up -16) and was pretty okay for about an hour or so... some of my friends would have been unable to function at that temperature. Some people can shrug off the cold (obviously, Verlander is one of those guys), some guys can't (it appears Odorizzi and Kuechel have more problems with it). And if there's a crazy-stupid variable out there that could easily be impacting several players' performances on the field, I don't know why it should be dismissed out of hand.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    Actually, I think this stat can have real legs if implemented correctly. We now have exit velocity, launch angle, hang time, and a myriad of stats that can give us a pretty good indication whether a player's contact should reach a glove or grass. That's a lot more telling (obviously, SSSS abounds right now) than eyeballing "well, he had a .287 BABIP last season..." and trying to determine if he's over or underperforming based solely on what he did in previous seasons.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    Oh, I totally agree on the bunting. Just pointing out that whether or not he's mashing the ball on April 10th doesn't tell us much about his future performance.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    My quick and dirty rule is that if it’s still early enough for a player to have just one monster game (3-4, 2B, HR, BB) and normalize his stats overnight, it’s too damned early to worry about his early season performance.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    Yes, everyone plays in the same weather but not all guys play the same in cold weather. Just ask Dallas Keuchel. We're seeing crazy (mostly of the bad variety) performances on a near-nightly basis. Yeah, it's disappointing that Rosario isn't playing better... but lots of guys are all over the place. Some are getting away with it (Odorizzi), some are not. Wake me when the weather warms and these players shake off the rust. Then we'll be able to accurately evaluate where they're going as a player. Eleven months ago, there were posters on this forum who literally wanted to see Rosario waived from the team. How did those hot takes turn out after all the dust had settled?
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    The Twins have played most of their games in temps below 40 degrees, we’re nine games into the season, and the team is 5-4. Pump the brakes. There’s a lot of season left to play and right now, it’s impossible to separate who struggles in the cold, who is just off to a slow start, and who we should be worried about.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    They’ve had it listed that way for ages and it’s wrong.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    Oh, I'm not saying anyone else needs to share my viewpoint. I'm only saying it's early in a season with some legendarily awful weather. I'm going to give pretty much everyone a pass for these first couple of weeks.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    Rosario sure had a couple of plays that looked ugly but in cold weather with wind (at least there was a fair amount at my house a few miles away), I'm not going to get too down on him. And in a 0-0 game where the runner scores with a hit, I'm not going to beat him up for going after that ball and then realizing he couldn't catch it and trying to defensively block it from going for extra bases (he failed, of course). All in all, Rosario didn't really change the game defensively. If the Twins don't score, they can't win. He had a pretty bad game but so did several of his teammates.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    Castro turns 31 in a few weeks. He's not going to get better offensively. But that doesn't diminish the value he brings to the team. The Twins badly needed a solution at catcher and he delivers. Castro isn't great with the bat but he's good enough... and his glove brings enough to the table that overall, he's a player you want starting for your team unless you have one of 2-3 elite catchers that exist in baseball at any given moment.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    Eh, China has a ton of leverage here. Their US exports are only a small percentage of their total GDP. Never mind that China is a large reason why the US debt isn't *really* an issue, and Trump (and frankly, his idiotic tax plan) doubled down on that this year. China, unlike the US, is monolithic. Their government can literally dictate anything that happens within their borders: whether workers are paid, how much they're paid, where their banks lend money and to whom, how pretty much anything is handled. That's a massive leverage point for them when it comes to negotiations. Trump is likely playing a losing hand here, one that may net mild rewards with China (simply out of irritation) but will lose considerable traction with the rest of the world.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    Just wait until you get to the second season. It’s amazing. So smart and creative.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    I do the same so it’s something I notice because it’s an oddity. The only player of note who throws left and hits right that I know of was Rickey Henderson.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    Jamie, you continue to impress with these pieces. Really nice work.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    Wait, what? Why!?!!? Let the players have their “thing”, particularly when it has personal significance.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    So what you're saying is that the ball approached the plate and things happened.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    How did Gibson *really* look today? I listened on the radio but won’t watch the game until tomorrow. It sounded like he was struggling a bit but mostly ran into a string of bad BABIP luck.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    So this team might be alright.
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