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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    And that's why I do not watch modern shows one episode at a time. As shows drifted away from being episodic, the likelihood of a clunker rose dramatically. I watch no fewer than two episodes at a time, three or more if it's a short sitcom like Ted Lasso. I've found it reduces the chance of leaving disappointed.
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    I agree that the plug should be pulled on starting these guys a little more quickly in some cases but that was a tough decision to make after 2020. The Twins hadn't really seen Jax pitch since 2019 and if you make the case that Jax should have been pulled from the MiLB rotation, the same case could be made for Ober, though for different reasons (better peripheral numbers but also wayyyyy more injury prone under a starting workload). The vast majority of MLB relief pitchers make substantial efforts to be starters, often up through MLB. That number has decreased slightly in recent years as teams wise up to the need for more capable relievers and the understanding how many of these guys won't cut it as MLB starters but guys toiling through the minors as starters before switching to relief is still the standard. Which I understand. Even in the age of the reliever, a good starter's value is substantially higher than any reliever. While the value of a starter has decreased, the inherent value of one reliever has not increased in the modern game... you just need more of them but they all still pitch one inning, give or take.
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    If they used him as a reliever, he wouldn’t have accumulated enough innings to make a decision, either. It was a difficult situation, as they needed functional arms in the rotation. Was it more useful to give Jax 50 innings of facing MLB hitters as a starter or have him go 15 innings at max effort as a reliever? I honestly don’t know but their decision wasn’t indefensible. I suspect there were advantages and disadvantages to each option.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    I think it's a mistake to expose Jax to be claimed before he gets a shot at the bullpen. He has all the makings of a solid reliever.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    I feel differently. If they feel strongly about a starter - like they apparently did Wheeler - stop coming in second place in the bidding and pay the man. They’ll need to backfill at least 1-2 rotation spots in 2022, there’s no justification to do it for three and expect to succeed.
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    BTW, you can find comments below videos if you scroll down a ways. They're further down the page than most other comments sections on the site.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    Vote chaos! Mariners/Jays wins and Yankees/Boston losses give us a four-way tie. Vote chaos!
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    Even more incredibly, the Mariners are +16 wins in BaseRuns.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    PAY THE MAN
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    Oh, in no way am I defending any baseball team owners. I think they're all bastards.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    Tampa/Oakland have zero championships in the past 20 years. Yankees/Dodgers have two championships in the past 20 years. Perhaps there are other ways to win.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    There are plenty of ways to win without pulling the crap Tampa pulls on its fanbase. Sure, they're a good team and I like many of their players but they give fans little to no reason to cheer on the franchise as they rake in the millions while crying poor. And they have just as many championships as the Twins do over the past 25 years. What I'm saying is that a team that operates like the Tampa Bay Rays does deserves very little community support. I don't want my team to operate in that fashion. I don't want any baseball team to operate in that fashion. Fans deserve better than what Tampa offers them.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    The Twins were at a financial disadvantage in the latter days of the dome but they definitely weren't Tampa. Brad Radke: 1995-2006 Torii Hunter: 1999-2007 Johan Santana: 2000-2007 (signed through 2008) Michael Cuddyer: 2002-2011 Justin Morneau: 2003-2013 (signed extension at least two years before TF) The Twins were a revolving door of players through a lot of the mid- to late-90s but that's typical of a bad team. Through the 80s, they retained many of their good players. Through the 2000s, they retained many of them at least one year beyond free agency, oftentimes more than one year. Tampa doesn't even keep their guys until free agency.
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    Ughhhhh I cannot state how much I hate this brand of baseball thought. Who cares if Polanco has "peaked"? He's a good player and the Twins need good players. Every team needs good players. Tampa is an extremely well-run franchise but they're also a bunch of empty uniforms. There's a reason the fanbase is non-existent. They're also a ****ing scam. Their entire payroll budget is roughly what they received in national television revenue from MLB this season. They're raking in money hand over fist and deserve huge ridicule for it. They pull the crap they do on their fans because they want to, not because they need to. As a fan, I want my team to be good and I want to cheer on players I recognize and like. The Twins do not need to operate like Tampa. No team needs to operate like Tampa, including Tampa. There are times it makes sense to trade good players. I didn't have an issue with the Berrios trade due to the short-term incompetence of the team and the return on the player. I didn't love trading Berrios but understood it was a reasonable baseball move. But it's a big jump to go from Berrios to trading a good, cost-controlled player in his prime like Polanco. That would just straight-up piss me off.
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    Frankly, it's time for MLB to expand but they don't want to ruin existing teams' ability to hold cities hostage by threatening to move to cities that should have already received expansion teams.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    The Hudsucker Proxy is under-appreciated.
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    Brett Anderson is still only 33 years old. That's kind of breaking my brain.

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    I agree with everything said here. That's pretty much how I view Gordon as well.
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    Unlikely. Matt Shoemaker, whether he's right or wrong, talked about how the Twins tried to change his approach and it made him worse. While that's a dodgy story IMO, he continued to be bad after leaving the org, it leads me to believe he wasn't ignoring coaches' attempts to improve his pitching.
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    I see almost a zero percent chance of the Twins risking Polanco's health and offensive production by moving him back to short, a position he was bad at in 2019 before injuries and age set in. Gleeman & the Geek don't dislike Gordon, not at all. They simply don't have faith in him as a starting shortstop (or probably even a starter anywhere) and for good reason. He hasn't shown either the long-term hitting proficiency to be a starter or the ability to play a competent shortstop in Major League Baseball. Scouting reports have been skeptical of his ability to stick at short since draft day and they haven't improved since then. For right or wrong, it's quite apparent this front office does not view Nick Gordon as a starting shortstop.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    I know he has options, I'm saying I don't reserve a 40-man spot for him. If he can sneak through waivers, sure, keep him... but I'm not dedicating a spot for him at this point.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    Given how this season has gone and the way the roster is built, I wouldn't hesitate to clean house in the outfield. I'd drop Garlick, Refsnyder, Cave, Astudillo, and Rooker. I'd keep Gordon because I think he has real potential as a 10/11 man and he's actually kind of key to my outfield plans... If Gordon is a legit CF backup, maybe I keep a right-handed bat like Refsnyder or Rooker (I lean toward Refsnyder due to the glove but Rooker's bat is far more potent). If Gordon is not a legit backup CF, I ditch all the corner guys and go sign a competent defensive backup CF for a million bucks. Basically, it's time to move on from no-position corner guys taking up well over half the team's positional roster space. This team needs more balance than it has had in the past and that means sacrificing a little offense for defensive competency on the bench.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, the 50% mark is the cutoff for me to even consider a Donaldson trade. As the Twins, if I have to eat half or more of the contract, I keep Josh. He's still too good a hitter to essentially give away just to free up single-digit millions of dollars.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    I made this just for you.
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