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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    Also an option but honestly, you just let Eddie swing away in that situation. His K% is down to 18% this season. That's not Mauer-esque but it's damned respectable, one of the lower rates on the team. And even if he makes an out, Rosario is a LHB. If he puts wood on the ball, it's likely going to the right side of the infield or RF. Buxton advances anyway.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    On the topic of bunting, that entire inning irritated the **** out of me. First, Buxton is something like 26 for 25 in stolen base attempts. Yes, he's better than humanly possible. The official scorer gave him an extra stolen base on May 31st because what the hell, the guy's just that fast and the scorer was a little bit drunk. So you have the fastest man on the planet, a guy who recently outran SpaceX because he got bored watching one of their satellite launches and wanted to show them what's up, and the hottest hitter on the Twins at the plate. You send that guy and let Rosario hit the baseball, something he is frighteningly good at lately.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    Tom, these are amazing. Every day. I used to flip over to MLB.com for the game recap every morning but I now come to my own friggin' site to do it and that's all you. You're the best thing to happen to Twins Daily this season and I hope you realize it. With that said, I have to call you out for not getting "Dubble Bubble" right.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    I don't disagree but it's also perfectly acceptable to be irritated with Vargas for his sudden incompetence against LHP. Given his past performance and the current roster, the Twins could really use a not-awful Kennys Vargas.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    Totally taking credit for this win. Baby started screaming during the inning break so I missed everything. Which is close to a guarantee something good will happen.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    FIFY.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    Yep.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    Yep.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    So Matt Belisle is on the mound. There's nothing scary about this.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    Molitor could have pinch-hit for Castro but it sure would have been nice if Vargas made fewer than two outs. Hell, I'm not even asking for him to reach base, just make one friggin' out.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    God, all Vargas needs to do to earn a spot on this team is be something approaching competent against LHP.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    I knew he was traded, had no idea for what. Had to look it up.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    Trade to the Mariners for Stephen Pryor.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    The guy is a freakshow and I can't tell if he's a gimmick or legitimately good. I can't recall the last time I've seen a guy just change arm angles at will and throw some of the same pitches with very different movement.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, so, Hildenberger.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, so, Hildenberger. This kid is okay.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    Well, sure, we'd all like Sano at third more often. I don't think that's really a controversial statement. When he went down with the fluke shin injury, Miguel was on pace for about ~105 games at third. A little lower than I'd like to see but not that far off a 120 game pace.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    Dunno, I'm pretty close on both of them. Kepler has the advantage of age, defensive ability (which seems to be better than Rosario this year, and Max can cover CF better than Eddie), and polish/discipline. Rosario has the advantage of L/R splits, pure hitting ability, and current performance. I suspect they end up as similarly valuable players but get there very differently. I still believe Kepler probably has the higher ceiling, as it's hard to argue with plate discipline, especially as a player enters their prime.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    Was just going to say something similar. Guys who can grip a pitch and send it into the stands with regularity should do what Rosario did last night. Guys like Grossman and Mauer should stick to the approach that makes them successful.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    True, the front of the rotation was better in 1987 but the entire pitching staff was bleh in the ALCS. The Twins won through a bit of dumb luck and some really mediocre pitching. They hit their way to the WS (where the pitching staff improved a bit). And that's my point, really. Both the 1987 and the 2017 teams match up pretty closely. A strong offense and meh pitching. But the road to a World Series championship is a lot harder in 2017. The Twins need 12 wins to get there versus just eight in 1987.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    Not really. The 1987 team's pitching staff was pedestrian (99 ERA+) and not terribly different than this season (96 ERA+). Whereas this year's offense (103 OPS+) is actually slightly better than the 1987 squad (97 OPS+). The 1987 squad simply wasn't very good. They got lucky and hot at the right time in an era when eight wins nets you a championship.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    It appears random variance, at least from a glance. Archer has been relatively consistent with FIP/ERA over the course of his career and the Rays are a good defensive team.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    FIP versus ERA. Archer is underperforming his FIP by almost three-quarters of a run this season.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    Agreed. This team is good/decent. My point is more that "good/decent" teams can go on short losing streaks pretty easily (hell, even very good teams can do this on occasion, see the Dodgers), especially teams that rely on offense as much as the Twins do. But with a bunch of teams with middling/good records, any one of them could turn hot or cold over 15 games, which would define their season. That's my concern; not that the Twins are vastly inferior to anyone else competing for the WC spot.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    Thankfully, three of those teams are in the AL West and they all play each other down the stretch. That decreases the odds of going on a tear and passing the Twins.
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