Brock Beauchamp

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I've wondered about this a few times and I think it's a good question to ask. My answer is... maybe? I'd probably firesale those two players but may wait until the offseason to do it. Moving all those players in a single deadline will be quite a challenge, particularly given the state of Buxton's health.

I think most of it is due to many of those pitchers no longer being terrible. Alex Colome: Date Tm G GS GF CG Rslt Dec DR IP H R ER BB SO HR HBP ERA BF BA OBP SLG OPS BAbip Pit Str StL StS GB FB LD PU Unk GSc IR IS SB CS PO AB 2B 3B IBB GDP SF ROE aLI WPA acLI cWPA RE24 DFS(DK) DFS(FD) Apr 1 to May 1, 2021 MIN 10 0 6 0 3-7 W-L:1-3,Sv:2,BSv:3 2.3 9.2 13 15 8 5 10 2 3 7.45 51 .310 .412 .500 .912 .355 209 61% 15% 10% 0.65 36% 3% 0 0 ---% 2 1 1 42 2 0 0 1 1 2 2.54 -2.186 2.47 -1.36% -8.90 17.15 47.00 Date Tm G GS GF CG Rslt Dec DR IP H R ER BB SO HR HBP ERA BF BA OBP SLG OPS BAbip Pit Str StL StS GB FB LD PU Unk GSc IR IS SB CS PO AB 2B 3B IBB GDP SF ROE aLI WPA acLI cWPA RE24 DFS(DK) DFS(FD) May 5 to Jul 21, 2021 MIN 26 0 4 0 11-15 W-L:1-1,Hld:5 2.1 24.2 25 14 10 9 23 3 0 3.65 110 .255 .309 .408 .717 .293 421 64% 14% 15% 1.52 15% 1% 0 7 29% 3 0 0 98 6 0 0 3 3 4 .77 0.086 .17 -0.01% -2.12 65.10

Definitely but the Twins dug themselves such a huge hole in the first six weeks through some terrible play in key moments that they’ll still end the season looking worse than their talent level. That happens when literally every player wilts in a crucial moment for six weeks. The Twins were 14-28 on May 20th. They’re 40-55 today. They’ve played .500 ball for 55 games now after doing everything they could to tank their entire season in the first 40 games. And, congratulations, they succeeded!

This seems like a rather outsized reaction to what appears to be a rather run of the mill wrist injury. Frustrating? Absolutely. The kind of injury that causes an entire franchise to pivot? Oh, not even close.

They’ve made some mistakes but most I can think of were this past off-season and none were on this list. I’m definitely not going them a pass for their mistakes but the above list isn’t a good example of them. The closest is Pressly but it appears they received a decent return for him.

Who feels like this 4 run lead is safe??

Who feels like this 4 run lead is safe??

That’s reasonable, I merely hoped it wasn’t health related.

Gordon has a looooong way to go before he’s a competent CF. He jumps back on so many balls that go 150 feet.

Just flipped back on. Why no Pineda in the sixth?

It has been pretty sad watching Sano devolve into being a bad baseball player.

A two out RISP hit by Donaldson?

Yep. The guy, if he stays healthy this season, will end 2021 with 14-15 career rWAR as a 22 year old. It’s bonkers.

Standard Batting Year Age Tm Lg G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB Pos Awards 2021 22 SDP NL 78 332 289 73 84 18 0 28 64 22 2 39 91 .291 .370 .644 1.014 179 186 3 0 0 4 5 *6/HD AS 3 Yrs 221 961 847 184 252 42 8 67 162 49 11 96 262 .298 .373 .603 .976 163 511 13 10 0 8 7 162 Game Avg. 162 704 621 135 185 31 6 49 119 36 8 70 192 .298 .373 .603 .976 163 375 10 7 0 6 5 Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table Generated 7/21/2021.

It's the same wrist, not sure if it's the same wrist injury. Feb 2020: https://www.startribune.com/twins-outfielder-alex-kirilloff-hopes-injury-issues-are-behind-him/568286082/ "Then, before the end of camp with Class AA Pensacola, Kirilloff sprained his right wrist and missed the first month of the season." Today: https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2021/07/twins-alex-kirilloff-wrist-surgery.html "Twins outfielder/first baseman Alex Kirilloff will undergo surgery to repair a torn ligament in his right wrist this week, tweets Betsy Helfand of the St. Paul Pioneer Press."

We've thought about it quite a bit but hot tubs are finicky and one would really cramp our pool deck space. I don't see it happening, unfortunately.

I think it depends on Kirilloff. Sometimes these young guys heal and rehab faster than normal. If he’s ready to go in early September, they may as well put him on the roster, even if he doesn’t play every day.

I also have very little faith in Gordon becoming a starting SS at the MLB level but I’m very interested to see if he has the potential to be a decent super-sub that can occasionally play shortstop. And the only way we find that out is to let him play.

Admit it. Everyone here clicked into this thread expecting to see Byron Buxton listed 12 times.

No hot tub here, only a pool. Wish I had a hot tub.

It doesn’t change anything. He continues to accumulate service time.

This season is so much fun I can't even take it anymore.

You're injecting politics. My statements were injecting reality. The NY Post, no matter where you fall on the political spectrum, is renown for its inaccurate, sensationalist style of journalism. That extends to everything from sports to society to celebrities to, yes, politics. They're the ones who have posted headlines like "Derek Eater" when Jeter gained weight while injured, for crying out loud. Don't try to put that paper on any kind of pedestal, it just makes you look silly. Don't assume my motivations because I don't trust a newspaper, especially one with the reputation of the Post. Trusting anything they say as fact without evidence is generally a mistake, no matter the subject matter. In this particular case, their politics hadn't even factored in my statements, as all I was thinking about was how much of a trash fire their sports page is on a regular basis.