Brock Beauchamp
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Everything posted by Brock Beauchamp
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Woof, spiked by a teammate after a throw. That sucks for the Jays. -
Man, one of the many disappointments of this season has been Garver's multiple IL stints. After a slow start, he has returned to 2019 form.
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Damn, Buxton is so much fun.
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Well that was a weird series of events.
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Dick: When's the last time you saw someone play croquet? LaTroy: Nevurary.
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How do you define "ace" and is Jose Berríos one?
Brock Beauchamp replied to Vanimal46's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
It's also shorthand many of us use to describe starting pitchers and there's nothing wrong with discussing it. If you don't care for the conversation, just don't participate. -
They're still around, they're just ghosting all of us.
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Who Survives the Twins Pen Shakeup?
Brock Beauchamp replied to Ted Schwerzler 's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
Going into the offseason, I'd plan on a bullpen of: Rogers Duffey Thielbar Alcala Moran Gant (iffy on this, could easily be Garza or Farrell in his place) Free Agent Free Agent I wouldn't hesitate to drop guys left and right in favor of younger pitchers with more upside and free agent signings. I don't expect the Twins to run out and give someone Hendriks money but at least one guy should be paid May money ($7-8m per) to stabilize the pen.- 30 replies
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A 6-4 record is required to avoid a 90 loss season. Four against TOR, three vs DET and KC remaining.
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Yeah, so, about this Twins team. I think they may not be very good.
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Colome is a terrible pitcher.
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Well, that's one way to get a double.
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When Kepler wants to humiliate a pitcher, he really goes all-in.
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At least a few of those Ks were gimmes, though. This Cubs lineup is terrible.
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Joe Ryan not dominant against a bad lineup but he doesn't look awful, either.
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A real battle of titans happening on the north side today.
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How do you define "ace" and is Jose Berríos one?
Brock Beauchamp replied to Vanimal46's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
Interesting. I used MLB.com to look up those numbers. I didn’t look up IP because I assumed he was top ten in that stat given his health. -
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This drives me ****ing bonkers. I work from home, often with a TV or iPad running within eyesight of me. The fact I can't turn on a game at noon and watch through midnight pretty much every day is so short-sighted of MLB. But, yet again, the problem boils down to regional broadcast rights. Every single market is trying to maximize their local revenue to the detriment of the sport as a whole. Hell, I used to regularly find myself watching total **** games like Arizona @ Pittsburgh because it's baseball, yet in roughly half of all days in the baseball season nowadays, there are no games before 3pm at the earliest. This reached peak absurdity in 2020 when literally 80% of the population was trapped at home during the day, yet baseball still didn't push for more day games. Take today, for example. There's one day game (yay!) at noon CST but then absolutely nothing else until 5pm CST.
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Literally no one said that. What I actually said was: Obviously, Baldelli talks to his pitchers. Of course he does. But this all started by someone blaming Baldelli for changing Dobnak - which I used numbers to point out also isn't true - and that doesn't make sense. Why on earth would Baldelli - a centerfielder - take the lead on changing a starter pitcher's approach when Wes Johnson is sitting three feet away?
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How do you define "ace" and is Jose Berríos one?
Brock Beauchamp replied to Vanimal46's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
You weren't far off, he placed close to the top ten a bunch of times. I just wanted to clarify the point a bit, as many will view "top ten" and "top twenty" quite differently when speaking in the context of ace pitchers. -
The game is considerably different than it was 35 years ago. The coaching staff is, what, double the size now? Managers used to run drills on the field, too, but they don't really do that anymore, either. The coaching staff is far more compartmentalized today than it was years ago, probably due to the scope of analytics and the increased burden of responsibility placed on any single coach (ie. having to read, understand, and then coach based on the data, which just didn't exist in the game 35 years ago). Wes Johnson was hired because he understood all that data and what to do with it, while Rocco Baldelli probably couldn't throw a breaking ball to save his life.
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1. I have seen zero evidence that Rocco Baldelli is involved with the nuts-and-bolts coaching of pitchers. Why would he be? He was a good centerfielder and has a very smart pitching coach who handles the staff. What meaningful input would a guy like Baldelli have on a pitch grip or how to throw it? 2. Randy Dobnak didn't transform, he was just bad, at least in part because he has been injured all season. His groundball rate in 2021 is actually 3% higher than it was in 2019. Other than dropping use of his change-up from 12% to 7% this season, his pitch mix has not changed in a meaningful way (and even 12% to 7% isn't really significant, I just pointed it out for transparency with the numbers). 3. The Twins do have a full time assistant, Bill Evers. The problem is that their first choice, and someone who seemed to have quite a bit of influence and popularity with the team, literally died a week before the season started.
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How do you define "ace" and is Jose Berríos one?
Brock Beauchamp replied to Vanimal46's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
While he has often placed #11-20 in the above stats, previous to 2021 Jose Berrios never finished in the top ten of Wins, Strikeouts, or ERA in the American League.
