Brock Beauchamp

Uh... 2019, or exactly one All-Star game before this season. The voting system is mostly garbage anyway so who starts the game doesn't have a strong correlation to the best player at that position a lot of the time.

Oh there's a ton more value than just the .200 batting average but he should be so much better than he has been the past two seasons if he could find a way to increase that BABIP from abysmally low to merely kinda bad.

Sign Buxton, play Kirilloff in left. Either find a way to fix Kepler's absurd BABIP problem, even at the expense of some power, or try to ship him off to another team. I'm kinda over his .200 batting average. He's too damned talented to post the numbers he posts. By mid-season, hopefully Celestino will be ready to play a role in Minnesota.

An interesting question but boy he hasn't shown much to warrant a promotion.

Metroid Dread is very, very good. Side-scroller puzzle adventure games work so damned well on handhelds. I have spent literally a decade+ wondering why the hell Metroid and Castlevania aren’t gaming staples on handheld systems as Nintendo treats Metroid as a second class franchise and Konami just makes truly weird choices with Castlevania.

Oh, I’m sure it hasn’t moved much (if at all), I’m only surprised my memory is so far off on this.

Welcome to the board! I see your point but remember, the Twins are NOT a small market team. We need to erase that idea from our collective heads. They’re a mid-market team, possibly a little toward the bottom end of mid. The Twins afforded Donaldson just fine. His contract could be moved, at least in part, this off-season. But even if it’s not moved, it’s gone in two seasons. Given the number of cost-controlled players they have, (eg. Polanco) the Twins, should they choose to take the route of signing Buxton AND a good pitcher, could easily do so.

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I'm knee-deep in the handbook but will try to address this as soon as I am able.

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Wait. JOHAN HAS 51 WAR ON B-REF???!??? I swear I checked this like six months ago and it was mid-30s but now it is definitely over 50. Brock confused.

I think this is the nature of the modern game with its massive roster churn. Everybody has played for every team, it seems.

Exactly this. I like Dusty Baker. He’s wildly respected throughout the game and seems like a good dude. I also don’t want him within 100 ft of the team I cheer on a nightly basis.

Yeah, if only everyone was more like Dusty Baker with his immaculate postseason record. Step aside Cora, Hinch, and Roberts, Dusty Baker's on the job.

This is a fallacy and don’t even think about going here again. Not solving a specific financial issue with one’s own money does not invalidate concern over that issue. It’s a deflection, not a legitimate point about a situation on this scale.

I don’t consider that a defensive black hole until they fill the position. They’re absolutely going to acquire a shortstop, we just don’t know if that player will be any good.

I barely saw him there, personally. He looked fine from what I saw but I don’t recall anything sticking out in my head either way.

Ugh, Carnivale. I adored that show and HBO pulled the plug on it so quickly. I'm still bummed about it. Mare of Easttown is definitely depressing.

First, you need to take a deep breath, man. Or maybe YOUR information is FALSE (groaning for emphasis). Or maybe there's an error here and either one of us could be wrong because this is what Baseball-Reference has listed. Either way, step off your high horse for a second because I didn't just make up the number .275 and this isn't the first time I've seen a discrepancy between MLB and B-Ref. Postseason Batting Year Age Tm Lg Series Opp Rslt G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB WPA cWPA 2006 23 MIN AL ALDS OAK L 3 12 11 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 .182 .250 .182 .432 2 0 0 0 0 0 -0.24 -2.3% 2009 26 MIN AL ALDS NYY L 3 14 12 1 5 1 0 0 1 0 0 2 4 .417 .500 .500 1.000 6 0 0 0 0 0 0.21 1.8% 2010 27 MIN AL ALDS NYY L 3 13 12 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 .250 .308 .250 .558 3 0 0 0 0 0 -0.05 -0.5% 2017 34 MIN AL ALWC NYY L 1 5 5 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .200 .200 .200 .400 1 1 0 0 0 0 -0.14 -1.7% 4 Yrs (4 Series) 10 44 40 1 11 1 0 0 1 0 0 4 7 .275 .341 .300 .641 12 1 0 0 0 0 -0.22 -2.7% 1 ALWC 1 5 5 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .200 .200 .200 .400 1 1 0 0 0 0 -0.14 -1.7% 3 ALDS 9 39 35 1 10 1 0 0 1 0 0 4 7 .286 .359 .314 .673 11 0 0 0 0 0 -0.08 -1.0% Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table Generated 10/20/2021.

Provided their entire roster isn’t ravaged by injury again, their defense should be average to good. There isn’t an obvious black hole at any position except maybe first.

Really? I thought he walked.

My opinion on Donaldson hasn’t changed since June. Quietly shop him and if a team is willing to take 50% or more of his contract, move him and let Arraez/Miranda play third. Then use the money for pitching or extending players. If a deal of that kind can be reached - and I think the chances of finding a team willing to take on that kind of money is relatively small, particularly in the off-season - great. If not (the far more likely outcome imo), keep Josh as a clubhouse presence and hope he plays well and possibly opens a trade possibility later.

There are 30 MLB teams and 15 players in those top four tiers. Expecting a single mid-market team to sign 20% of those those 15 players is a pretty unreasonable ask. But my expectation is for the Twins to sign one of those top guys (not top four tiers, maybe top three) and then one higher-upside reach on a shorter contract. Then they can go get a filler like Pineda. (not that it needs to happen in that particular order but come February, that's what I want to see)

Except that Mauer had a .275 postseason batting average and that's not including Phil Cuzzi flat-out stealing a double from him. His postseason batting average jumps all the way up to .293 if you award him the double he obviously hit, which goes to show why we shouldn't put so much stock in such small sample sizes.