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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    How I feel about this is very complex. I'll just leave it at that.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    While it's possible Grossman needed work with routes, what's more likely is that his 2016 was simply inexplicably bad. His 2017 numbers align with his pre-2016 numbers: mostly meh, maybe a touch on the subpar side. But if you look at the statcast data posted, what killed Grossman last season was the strange botching of 1- and 2-star plays on a regular basis.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    Except for the part where Ortiz was better in the minors and had a breakout season at age 26, sure.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    Putting Jose into the second inning of a postseason tie game is a good way to see how many Yankees fans in the 18th row you can kill with a 103mph fastball.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    I disagree. Put him out there for one, maybe two, batters. Let him catch his breath and see if the yips are gone.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    Seriously, everybody, I’m on the verge of tears.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    THIS ISN’T ****ING HAPPENING OH MY GOD I MIGHT DIE
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    OH MY ****ING GOD I’M GOING TO HAVE A CARDIAC ARREST
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    One beer for each Yankee batter through three innings. You may want to run to the store.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    I assume no one is posting in this thread because everyone is currently throwing up in their toilet.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    I’m twitchy and slightly nauseous. It’s official. Postseason baseball is back in Minnesota.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    Due an hour ago, I believe.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    I don't know if it's about scoring against their bullpen as much as it's about coming back from a deficit against their bullpen. Here's hoping Severino has the yips. After all, he's only 23 years old and there's a reason the Twins aren't putting Berrios on the mound tonight.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    I honestly don't get this take. Watching more teams vie for a postseason spot keeps me engaged for longer, even more so when it's a team I care about. Of course, there's a line to walk, one I think the NBA crosses with over half its teams reaching the playoffs (and many of them not very good). I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm just saying I don't understand.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    BP has Castro 9 fielding runs above average on the season, good for 11th in baseball. So they certainly believe he had something to do with the improved pitching staff. FTR, Suzuki was at -1.0 FRAA, 67th in baseball.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    Roll the dice. If Sano can stand at the plate and run to first without serious danger of injury, you put him at DH. Sure, he might be terrible. But all you need is for the big man to make contact once in the game for it to make all the difference in the world.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    They got just shy of 100 innings of 124 ERA+ ball from Gray. That's a better per-inning value than any Twins starter by a healthy margin.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    They also traded Gray.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    I remember it well. Mainly because 11 years later, you still won't shut up about it.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    No group was forecast to have great success based on what we knew July 29th or so but here is what we did know: 1. The Twins' peripherals were of a team 8-10 games under .500, not a .500 team. 2. The Twins had one of the worst pitching staffs in the AL. 3. The Twins had dropped like a rock in the standings in the two weeks leading to the deadline. 4. Other teams, such as KC, were coming on strong (whether it would last or not is certainly debatable). 5. The Twins front office had to assume at least one of the teams in front of the Twins would buy, improving their chances. 6. If you did every single thing right, you'd earn a single play-in game, likely on the road. To me, that looks like a selling situation. It did at the time and it still does now. I can see some frustration over the Kintzler move but I would have done the same thing (and advocated it) so I'm certainly not going to complain about it now.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    And if there was another option available, literally ANY option at all, it’s hard to see Molitor taking Gibby back at any point. The distaste Paul had for Kyle was obvious.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    No, which is why no prediction models had the Twins with a good chance of a berth. It’s easy to look at stuff like the Tigers’ record today and assume they were always that terrible. But the Tigers were ten games under .500 at the deadline. Fewer than two months later, they are 33 games under .500 and that is AFTER they won four straight games from Aug 1-4. Baseball is a silly sport. Oakland and Detroit were basically the same team at the deadline. Pretty bad but not horrific. Both sold significant pieces. Detroit went 23 games under .500 down the stretch. Oakland went one game OVER .500.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    What hypotheticals? That out of eight teams, a flawed and significantly outscored to that point Twins team wouldn't hang with over half the AL for a single postseason spot? That's not a hypothetical. The Twins had the worst run differential of the bunch (going from memory) and were in a backwards slide, posting a terrible record in July. And it was unreasonable to expect all seven teams to falter. Hell, head-to-head matchups almost dictate that at least one of them would end up a winner.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    Seattle, Tampa, Baltimore, and Kansas City all played sub-.450 ball down the stretch. Half of the eight teams who were in the mix at the deadline.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    The Angels didn't make a strong run. They played two games over .500 for two months after getting Trout back just before the deadline and acquiring a very good Upton for September. If you consider their record going into mid-July, they underperformed their previous record by getting back a 1+ WAR per month player and a .900 OPS player in Upton. For that team to play 27-25 baseball down the stretch is a pretty big disappointment for them. And I don't see how it's not considered "folding" when a full half of those .500-ish teams played sub-.450 baseball after the deadline. That's a lower win percentage than the Oakland A's played all season.
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