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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, I had zero expectation of timing this perfectly. My primary goal is to get out high and get back in lower. The degree in which that happens will determine the level of success but it's a pretty reasonable goal to pursue, IMO.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    I definitely have a plan, I just needed some financial security while raising a child so I paid off the mortgage and dropped my stock portfolio. My wife is still contributing to her 401k and we'll raise her percentage in the next calendar year. Ultimately, I expect the market to sag in the coming years and I plan to have at least $10k to jump back in when it happens. Tech stocks (my forte) are so completely off the rails in P/E that they'll HAVE to stabilize at some point, probably even drop (most of them, anyway). That's when I plan to re-enter the market.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    I don't entirely disagree with your point but there are a few differences: 1. Catchers tend to exist at a later age. There are few good catchers that have 40-man concerns at age 21 and those that do have concerns tend to get protected because of the positional scarcity (if they're not a good catcher, they can almost be put into the 1B category). 2. Diaz isn't going to be drafted because he'll help the team in 2018, he'll be drafted because some team out there might think he can help in 2020. If some team thinks they can stomach a useless roster spot for 162 games, Diaz isn't a bad route to go.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    On the stock front, I'm quite happy I sold my $50k and paid off my house. Almost all my stocks stayed somewhat flat for over two months so no worries there. But the one stock I debated holding on to, Square, has blown the **** up. I should have sold my wife's Medtronic instead of that but she has some kind of weird emotional bond with that stock and I didn't have the energy to fight over it. I mean, ****. Square is over 4x what I paid for it.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    You lost me in relevant roster conversation at "Padres". But in all seriousness, that extra non-DH roster spot allows NL teams to have a flexibility that AL teams simply cannot afford over the course of a season.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    Well, you have a few different situations there: 1. Maddon coaches in the NL, which doesn't have a DH occupying a roster spot. It makes more sense to use a third catcher in that league, particularly if you have a catcher (or two) who can hit (even in a split situation). Pinch-hitting is such a big thing in the National League game and your best catcher (who probably isn't inept with the stick) sits 33% of the time, leaving him open for pinch-hitting duties in the right situation. But you don't want to pinch-hit your primary catcher (or backup catcher) on a roster with two catchers. 2. Girardi is talking about a rule change to allow him to carry a third catcher on the (kinda sorta inactive) roster. That's quite a bit different, isn't it? 3. The postseason is an entirely different beast, one that plays more by NL rules than AL rules in that "every position can be replaced at any moment if the need is there". When you only need to carry nine pitchers on the roster, carrying a third catcher is a pretty easy decision because if it's the eighth inning and your catcher is due up with a runner on base, you're sure as hell gonna pinch-hit for that dude unless he's Joe Mauer or someone of his ilk.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    Both can be true. He can be a good prospect but also offer so little defensively and has such little experience that no team can afford to keep him on a roster for 162 games. With that said, Diaz isn't a great prospect but he is an intriguing one; a guy that needs to cook a little longer to see how he grows into being a hitter. IIRC, the guy just turned 21 a few weeks ago.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    I thought it was for book-keeping purposes, not actual payout. Again, really hazy memory here. I could easily be wrong.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    I thought I read somewhere the Twins deferred the posting fee over the length of the contract but my memory is pretty dodgy nowadays.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm fascinated by the Diaz decision. I get it, and I like the moxie of it, but it's a dangerous move. On the other hand, I can't imagine there's a team out there so willing to tank the season that they'll use a 25-man spot on a guy with no positional flexibility and hasn't hit above A ball. I suspect someone will try to pick him up but I don't think he'll make it an entire season on a 25-man roster.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    I think it has everything to do with proximity to the MLB team and virtually nothing to do with future ceiling. You keep the likes of Slegers and Boshers around because your commitment to them is low. If something better comes along, you let them go and pick up a better player. In short, there's nothing to be lost by keeping them around for awhile longer but if you're committing to someone like Rosario, you're planning to let him occupy 40-man roster space for a couple of seasons before he even pitches a game in Minnesota. As for guys like Burdi, I suspect the organization either has no faith in their ability to pitch and/or stay healthy or they're rolling the dice, expecting teams to pass on an oft-injured arm (or to pick him up and then return him to the Twins later in 2018). Either result allows the Twins to kick the can down the road on the player for another season and add them to the 40-man when he looks ready to pitch in Minnesota.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    That's not an underestimation, that's a front office trying to do what's best for a player and the coaching staff stepping in to say "hold up, we're working on something, let it play out". Isn't that how things are supposed to work?
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    I absolutely agree with the bolded. It would have made the latter unnecessary, too. At least it would have made a "soft add" unnecessary. The Twins would likely have been in the driver's seat for the second Wild Card (maybe even the first Wild Card) had they picked up a quality reliever, which would only have set them back $8m a season for 2-3 seasons.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, there was a ton of concern and discussion about Nishioka's ability to play in MLB at all, much less at short. You can look at the year preceding his move to MLB and say he was a great player but you're ignoring how much better he was in that single season than he was previously in his career.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah. Most of the changes they’ve made are either hard to quantify (coaching changes/additions) or won’t impact the MLB team for years (the draft).
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm sure they have final yay/nay input but I haven't seen any evidence they really get involved with contractual matters. They better not if they want to field a winning baseball team. Leave the roster decisions to the people who know how to build rosters. Of course, if there's a PR conflict of some kind, then maybe you get involved but that's not the case here. Anyway, I'd put the Twins chances of signing Darvish very low but I don't think the Pohlads will be the people making that decision. It'll likely come from Falvey and Levine, as it should. But, for all we know, they have zero interest in actually signing Darvish. We really have no baseline for how those two plan to operate a baseball franchise. We can evaluate their Cleveland/Texas moves but even then, we don't know which decisions were theirs and which came from their bosses.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    I guess I see your point but disagree that the front office was wrong in anything but results. Even if you expected an 85 win team to make the postseason (and expecting every team to essentially collapse in one variety or another), the Twins were pretty unlikely to reach that very modest win total (a total that usually leaves your team 2-3 games out of the second WC spot). And, to me, what matters is process. You can't predict anomalous results so you go with the numbers. Going with the numbers may result in minor losses over the short term but in the long term, you'll come out ahead.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    Sure, but we're talking about a new front office. My point is that the money is available and it's the front office's decision how to spend that money. The owner controls payroll but generally doesn't get involved with how that payroll is allocated.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    They did it for Mauer seven years ago.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    How so? The Twins weren't particularly good in the second half of the season, the rest of the league was just... bad. The Twins had a very good August but weren't exactly lighting the world on fire in September, playing .500 ball for the month. A couple of hot streaks by breakout players fueled that modest run in August but let's not pretend that the Twins were some excellent team and the front office completely missed on the talent that was just waiting to break out in the fifth month of the season. The front office hedged their bets and were wrong because one can't predict random players like Escobar going ape**** or that Buxton would finally figure it out. These things happen with young teams and you can't predict when or where they will happen. What matters is how you react, which makes this offseason vitally important.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    I still can't believe the Twins will sign Darvish but that's because Falvey is from Cleveland and that's not how they operate over there. On the other hand, Levine is from Texas and that is how they operate over there.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    Agreed. I watched Hunter a lot and he was a fantastic centerfielder but didn't have the speed of Buxton, nothing close to it. And I don't trust defensive metrics from that time in baseball, especially the outliers (I still have difficulty believing many of the outliers in the modern game).
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    Impressive. Six out of eight guys in the top half of the rankings.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    1. Because Dozier didn't deserve this particular award. That's not a knock on Brian, as he had an excellent season. 2. A guy who at least deserved consideration, Mauer, didn't even make the finalist cut. I'm glad for Brian but I wish this award was based more on defensive merit and not reputation and/or offense.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    This is how I feel as well. You won't find a breakout/recovery guy on the cheap if you don't try. But that breakout/recovery guy is not a replacement for signing a legit arm as well.
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