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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    Well then.
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    That I was able to fix in a few seconds. Are you still having problems? I thought there was more to it than just that.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    @bighat Interesting, I don't believe that should happen if you're only quoting one post. It may take until early next week but I'll look into that and figure out what is going on.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    In my case, "dislike" is the wrong term. Every step of the analytics process over the past 20 years has led to increased performance within the confines of the sport. The problem is that "increased performance" doesn't have a strong correlation to "entertainment" in a spectator sport. If this was football, 2021 baseball is the equivalent of shutdown defenses and each offense grinding out time of possession above all else. That sounds horrible, right? Thankfully, the NFL isn't afraid to change its rules when the sport drifts into less entertaining territory. MLB is deathly afraid to change its rules and that's why we're here right now. I don't blame any individual team for doing all they can to maximize performance within the rules. I entirely blame MLB for not changing the rules when those tendencies lead us down a path of boring baseball.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, I’d watch more Twins games. I probably wouldn’t watch more baseball, though, and I usually catch a few interesting non-Twins games a week.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    I watch about half of the games, less than usual. Part is because the team is bad, the other part is because baseball is bad. MLB needs to take action yesterday. TTO baseball with 30 seconds between pitches is boring as **** to watch.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    Alcala's 2021 season is, to me, emblematic of the entire Twins season. He's probably my biggest disappointment, as I expected him to step forward into a 7th/8th inning role and instead he floundered badly. Other guys can point to injuries or other reasons to be disappointing, Alcala really doesn't have any such excuse.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm interested in Rooker and Larnach on the offensive side, pretty much every pitcher under 30 on the pitching side. I don't have a lot of hope for any of those pitchers but we can't evaluate their MLB pitching ability until they face MLB pitchers. I'm also interested to see how Maeda finishes the season. I don't know if he's a part of the Twins next winning team but either way, a good performance going forward helps the team in either wins or potential trade value.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm now following this thread, you can describe the problem here and I will see it.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    Oh sure, I'm not absolving this front office from their own bad decisions. But this line of conversation started with the statement that this front office inherited a great farm system, to which I pointed out the lack of pitching, which still exists today. And it takes a really long time to rebuild a pitching-rich organization. What doesn't shorten that timeline is a front office shooting itself in the foot repeatedly by making bad decisions on the fringes of their organization, which this one has done a few times in the past several years.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    Yes, but the ideal situation is the team wants him in a starting role and it’s a big disappointment if he isn’t starting. Gordon is unlikely to be a starter at any point unless he completely turns it around. They won’t be competing for the same roles unless something weird happens.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    The Johnny Quest theme is amazing. It mesmerized me as a child.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    It's encouraging to see the good version of Rooker playing again. Seeing him turn into an adequate DH-style bat would be enormous for this team in 2022, taking the DH role from a $14m salary to a league minimum salary.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    Oh, I'm very wary of trading a catcher but I'm even more wary of running out another awful starting rotation.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    Neither Arraez nor Miranda can play short so they’re not really in competition with Gordon, whose career will likely live and die by his ability to play shortstop for brief periods of time.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    You're being exceptionally negative in your analysis. The Odorizzi trade worked out "OK"? They literally traded a guy they now have back in their system for Odorizzi, who posted a 4.3 fWAR season in 2019. Trades don't really get any better than that.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    I could write a long post detailing how I feel about this decision but this gets my point across well enough:
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    For sure, I'm not even defending the front office, I'm only making the counter-point that we simply don't know if they're capable at developing pitching yet. Right now, things look pretty bad for them and the fact they haven't developed a capable reliever is quite a black mark on their short record. But almost no one from that 2017 draft has become an impact arm yet. In 2018, they had one season to work with their draft picks before the pandemic hit. In 2019, they had zero seasons to work with their draft picks before the pandemic hit. Never mind that we haven't even talked about the international signings, which are still a few years from being developed. The timeline on those is absurdly long. I entered this season ready to be really critical of the front office based on how their pipeline started (or failed to start) developing. Then the wave of injuries swept across baseball, which is still muddying the situation. So far, color me mostly unimpressed with the pipeline but also open to the fact that I could be very wrong based on the swath of injuries and the limited amount of playing time so far in 2021.
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    People really make too much of the lineup rotations. This team has had between an average and very good offense for three consecutive seasons and Baldelli has rotated players through the lineup all three seasons. Baldelli has done a lot of stuff that makes me cringe this season but the lineup changes don't even register on my radar.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    When people realize how long it takes to build a pitching pipeline, especially during a time when most of MiLB lost an entire season to a pandemic. This front office first drafted in 2017. Here are the rWAR pitching leaders from the first five rounds of that draft (I'm including any pitcher with >1 career rWAR): 1st Rd: Trevor Rogers - 3.0 rWAR Tanner Houck - 2.0 rWAR 2nd Rd: Griffin Canning - 2.6 rWAR 3rd Rd: Keegan Thompson - 1.2 rWAR 4th Rd: none 5th Rd: Josh Fleming - 1.2 rWAR That's it. Five pitchers with >1 career rWAR in the first five rounds of the 2017 draft. Has this front office done a good job developing pitching? I'd argue definitely not... but people are acting as if they should have an entire rotation and bullpen of good pitchers because they've "been here five years" but no one wants to acknowledge that the entire combined MLB has not developed a good rotation and bullpen from that first draft. So, yeah, the old regime still gets some blame for completely missing on three consecutive top six draft picks from 2013-2015 because those failures are still impacting today's on-field pitching performances in Minnesota. How different would 2019-present look if Kohl Stewart was a Berríos calibre pitcher instead of flopping out? Or what about Tyler Jay? Neither one even turned into a decent reliever.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    I agree with most of this, though I'm concerned about a couple of things: 1. Can Miranda play a useful position or is he going to logjam Sano/Arraez/Larnach/Kirilloff even more? And if he can play third base, how confident are the Twins in moving away from Donaldson? This team can only handle so many corner guys and they already have too many of them. 2. I love the look of the pitching pipeline... on paper, which I'm sure you agree with.... but I have yet to see any execution of transitioning good prospects into good MLB players, which makes me wary of how much progress we'll see and how quickly we'll see it. Which makes me wonder if the team's best option this offseason might be to trade 1-3 of Donaldson, Kepler, and Garver and stack that pitching pipeline even more, preferably returning at least one decent MLB player under control for 1-3 seasons. It's dangerous to loot the offense too extensively to bring back pitching returns but also, I don't see much choice in the matter if this team wants to start competing in April of 2022. What makes me optimistic is that unlike most terrible baseball teams, this front office has a lot of talent on-hand, which gives them a bunch of options to improve if they pull the right levers.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    I think most of us were mildly/very disappointed at the 2019 deadline. They were a top five team with 3-4 teams clearly ahead of them, yet did very little to improve their standing in the pecking order of MLB.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    As I said later, this front office has an incomplete grade bordering on failure right now. If 2020 hadn’t happen, I might agree with you and say they need to go. If they’re at this point again next year, they probably need to go. But with 2020 being what it was, their ability to develop pitching feels very incomplete. I simply can’t tell what is failure and what is pandemic hangover yet.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    And that’s fair, maybe they should have traded them to maximize value. But the reality is that this front office just wasn’t given much pitching and they’ve failed to develop more, for which I’m currently giving them an incomplete grade that’s bordering on failing. I think you might be confusing your seasons a bit. This front office was hired after the 2016 season and had no real impact until the start of the 2017 season. By then, both Jay and Stewart’s stock were on their precipitous drops downward.
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