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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    Dozier played 289 MiLB games at short and only 47 games at second. MiLB positions are often based on the Peter Principle. Generally, the earlier a guy drops out of a premier position, the less competent he is at that position. Dozier had a chance to stick at short so he was given every opportunity to do so, playing the overwhelming majority of his MiLB games at the position. Despite those chances, he failed at the MLB level. You can repeat those statements for Trevor Plouffe as well. Polanco, on the other hand, has close to a 50/50 split between SS/2B in the minors. Like Dozier and Plouffe, his scouting reports are not optimistic (and, generally, I'd say they're less optimistic than they were for Dozier). Polanco's initial taste of shortstop at the MLB level was... not good. I'm not sure what you're seeing there that indicates Polanco will be an adequate MLB SS. Is it possible? Sure. Lots of things are possible. Is it likely? No. He has a lot going against him. Hell, there are scouts out there who question Gordon's ability to stick at short and he was considered a polished, advanced fielder out of high school. Playing shortstop at the MLB level is really, really hard.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    Ahhhhhhhh, gotcha. That makes way more sense.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    Out of curiosity, what is there to like about HP? I mean, their stock was so low that it was a decent buy to rebound but no fuggin' way would I longterm invest in that company. I'm soft on Apple and I'd invest in them ten times before I dropped a penny on HP. HP is a 15 year long **** show that peddles 20th century hardware 17 years into the 21st century. They failed to capture ANY emergent technology during the run into mobile and the cloud. They're a decent rebound stock but I have zero faith in their ability to be anything more than what they are. The type of stock you get into when they bottomed out at $10 and get the hell out at $18.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    BYTO was folded into TD a little under four months after the TD launch (mid-June). It was pretty fast and furious there for awhile. I thought it was 6+ months but we must have been in discussions to merge the site within three-ish months of TD's launch. It took me at least 2-3 weeks to begin preparations to fold BYTO into TD.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    All five of us are writing an article leading up to the fifth anniversary. As you'd expect, mine will be more BYTO-specific.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    Interesting. I know nothing of oil, really. When I started investing, my wife and I made a pact that we wouldn't invest in anything we find deplorable. That means no oil, gas, or banks, mostly. I'm still kicking myself that I didn't invest in Wells Fargo after the scandal, though. That was an easy 20% gain and I knew it was going to happen.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    I think that is expecting far too much of Molitor. We were sold a very different Molitor than what we've seen on the field.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    Whitworth or go home.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, I don't mind taking a flyer on Vargas, as he's still young enough to be a stopgap DH. If he can post a .780 OPS, that's fine for a spell. Or if you can combine Vargas and Grossman to get .800 out of the DH spot in a platoon, that's even better. But I think that's approaching a best case scenario.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    Range Factor doesn't account for shifting, does it? Unless they changed it recently, I'm pretty sure it doesn't adjust for shifting. The same goes for UZR, I believe. It's hard to put much weight in either statistic at that point, particularly in small numbers and for infielders who shift more frequently than their outfield counterparts.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm not familiar with that character, though that doesn't mean he doesn't exist.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    It's not a bad bet. I don't see Disney dropping much unless the entire market drops with it.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    I got into Disney around $100 as a safe bet stock. I wouldn't be in a rush to pick them up at $109. Upside: - Marvel and Star Wars are printing money - The acquisition of MLBAM was a smart one Downside: - ESPN will continue to be marginalized and ABC isn't going to light the world on fire - Marvel printing money won't last forever, the market is saturating I consider Disney a light growth stock overall. Maybe it beats the market a bit but it won't outpace the market, IMO.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    Fair enough, that's true.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    I don't buy into this line of thought, as it's predicated on the idea that pitch framing involves tricking the umpire. It doesn't. Pitch framing isn't only about turning a negative into a positive, it's also about keeping a positive a positive. Pitch framing is as much about convincing the umpire a strike is a strike as it is convincing an umpire a ball is a strike.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    I liked both Luke Cage and DD season two but, yeah, the second half of both seasons paled in comparison to the first half. I thought Cage really fell off a cliff. Elektra was meh and Diamondback was legitimately kinda terrible.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    Having a hard time getting excited about Iron Fist. So tired of origin stories, particularly when half of them are the same thing over and over again.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    I suspect yes. Maybe a 60% chance of a claim. Given that he can play multiple positions (badly) but is still quite young (age 26 season in 2017), I think there's a team out there that would put him on the 40-man with Spring Training just around the corner. Would he make it to the 25 man roster out of Spring Training? Probably not. But he's the type of guy a team might pick up on a lark just to invite him to camp.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    The Twins sure fooled the Red Sox on Fernando Abad.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    Ah, yes, okay. They're going even deeper than my idea and that's a good thing. Instead of looking at team performance, they're isolating hit types.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    If this is true - and I'm not conceding it is - then park factor is mostly useless. The only way to properly calculate park factor is to use a wide range of seasons and compare them to other parks during the same year. For example, one would need to treat the seven years of Target Field nearly equally and Target Field can't be isolated; ie. 2010 Target Field needs to be offset by factors such as "how did the 2010 Indians play in Yankee Stadium, how did the 2010 Rangers play in Angel Stadium, etc." and equalize those numbers against how those same teams performed in 2010 Target Field. That's the only way I can think of to minimize home team influence on their own stadium.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    Not only that but the Twins defense has grown worse as well. And the AL Central, their primary opponents, have gotten better.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    I've noticed that trend over the past couple of years. After being an extreme pitcher's park in 2010, it seems Target Field has slowly evolved into a slightly hitter-friendly ballpark. Which doesn't make one damned bit of sense. To me, it brings into the question the validity of park adjustments. I can understand some fluctuation as the park plays for a few years but not a wild swing to "cannot hit homers here" to "hey, this place is on the hitter-friendly side of the scale". It can't be entirely coincidental that as the Twins field an incrementally worse and worse pitching staff, the park suddenly becomes "hitter friendly".
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, I didn't take the batting number listed very seriously, more as a humorous take on the bullpen and the team's overall terribleness last season. The Twins offense was obviously better than 25th out of 30 teams. Their OPS fell right in the middle of the pack in the AL, IIRC.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    That's an interesting way to look at it considering both Park and Light fall under the "one-dimensional power" category, though obviously in very different ways.
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