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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    Highlights of Austin Martin and Simeon Woods Richardson, the two prospects the Minnesota Twins acquired in the José Berríos trade. View full video
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    Highlights of Austin Martin and Simeon Woods Richardson, the two prospects the Minnesota Twins acquired in the José Berríos trade.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    Testing a comment.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    I find it a stretch to call 2018 a total system failure, though. They had a bad April and never played great after that point but weren't bad, either. At the end of the season, they were ~6 games below their 2017 record, which is definitely a disappointment but hardly the implosion we saw this season, where they were expected to compete for the division and were literally the worst team in baseball for six weeks or so. A total system failure is when a team wins 15+ games fewer than expected, not when they win five fewer than expected. That’s just a disappointing season. The 2021 Twins are going to have to play pretty well to not finish 15 or so below their over/under and 20 games is a real possibility, especially if they keep doing things like losing three in a row to New York.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, I figured that was implied. I can make an argument that 5-7 positions become significant but not 2-3.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    Bases loaded. I’m shocked.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    I grew up watching Puckett and then moved to San Diego and watched Gwynn for a decade. Man, I got to watch some good baseball on a nightly basis. But Arraez, if healthy, is a lot more Gwynn than Puckett. And I hope to watch him for years to come.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    Oh, on that I agree fully, but I (and the players) have absolutely no faith in owners negotiating honestly, just look at the crap they pulled during Covid when they kept negotiating and then "conceding" THE SAME THING and then blaming players for not agreeing. Getting them to open the books in an honest, legitimate way may be nigh impossible.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    Frankly, while I'm in full support of a payroll floor, I can't really support a cap. I'm fine with luxury taxes from a competitive balance standpoint, though. If a hard cap is imposed, all that means is owners keep more of the money. If there was a way to impose a cap and reduce fan cost of broadcasting and spectating in the process, I'm all in favor of that happening but there's a negative-zero percent chance of that happening. Why do I want the owners to make more money? I don't care about them, they don't entertain me.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, from a spectator perspective it's not great, which is why I brought up 2018. The cycles of the season appear to be similar, though this season includes slightly worse play.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    I mean, sure, but they're winning using cost-controlled and long-term players. It's pretty hard to complain about that. If they were winning on the backs of a bunch of expiring veterans, that'd be different.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    Their draft position isn't going to move that much, though. In the AL, they're 3.5 behind Detroit and 5.0 behind Cleveland. They have a chance to catch either or both but mostly only because they play head-to-head again. But the Twins are 6.5 behind the Angels so that's not happening. In the NL, they might catch Colorado, as it appears they're two games back, but after that it's the Mets and they're 6.5 back of them, too. Even if the Twins play well and go over .500 down the stretch, it's unlikely they pass more than two, maybe three teams. In the end, we're only talking about the difference between picking around eighth or around eleventh.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    When all is said and done, I wonder how closely this season will remind us of 2018. 2018 team splits: Split W L RS RA W-L% March 1 1 8 5 .500 April 8 14 90 129 .364 May 13 15 120 106 .464 June 13 14 115 126 .481 July 14 13 142 133 .519 August 14 14 121 139 .500 September 15 13 142 137 .536
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    If they can get through these next ten games at 5-5, I think they have a decent shot to close out the season closer to the 25-16 record than a .500 record.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    We're at the 121 game mark, which means we have 41 left to play in the 2021 season. The Twins currently stand at 54-67 for a .446 winning percentage. They're currently 10-6 in the month of August, though through some smoke and mirrors. They've allowed three more runs than they've scored. Obviously, the Twins are not a .600+ winning percentage team going forward but how good will they be? They're only about halfway through their current brutal stretch. Next up, in order, are the Yankees, the Red Sox, and the Brewers. Most of September is pretty soft, with most teams being under .500... the sole exception being seven games against the Jays in the second half of September, when it's likely Toronto will be playing for their postseason lives. So where do you land on this? Will the Twins continue to crawl toward .500 or will they fade away down the stretch?
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    The Orioles have a -218 run differential. The next closed American League team is Texas with a -144 run differential. Are the Orioles ever going to be good again? So many other tanking teams have leap-frogged past them, like Detroit.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    Interesting. I also stream on AT&T but using Apple TV or an iOS device and have never had this problem.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    Batters didn’t step out of the box for most of baseball history and effectively communicated signs. And if we want to speed up the game, the most effective way to do that is to enact a pitch clock and give the pitcher control over when the next pitch is thrown. If the batter needs a moment, just call time like they do now. The umpire can decide whether to grant it.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    I don’t actually think that is necessary, just make the rule with the clock and the pitcher can pitch whether the batter is in the box or not.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    Baseball needs a pitttttcccchhhhhhh clooooocccckkkkkkkkkk
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    The defense on that play wasn't awesome.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    To irritate us.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    Oh FFS
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    I would never fault a player for participating in the Olympics but damn, Ryan's timing on that sure is making things more difficult.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    Sonuvab... We've seen some damned fine defense in the past 30 minutes.
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