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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    Cruz was so dedicated to the Twins he waited to sign until the eleventh hour when MLB finally announced the NL would not have the DH in 2021. I'd have to dig it up but the last I heard a year+ ago, the Twins were reportedly offering Berríos somewhere around $50m, but I can't recall the specifics (or that the reports were accurate but they're all we have to go on).
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    He wasn't that deep into the game, though. He was well under 100 pitches through six innings and hadn't completed a third turn through the lineup. Up until the seventh inning, Berríos had no real high effort innings. Expecting the staff ace to pitch seven innings in a low effort game is far from unreasonable, especially coming out of the long rest provided by the All-Star break.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    Agreed. I wouldn't consider moving on from Maeda right now. He has shown flashes of his 2020 season but has also battled groin issues and arm fatigue. We don't really know where he's going to settle yet but I it's likely a higher performance level than we've seen in 2021.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    If Berríos stays healthy, he'll get Zack Wheeler money and I've been saying that for over a year now. The Twins haven't come within $50m of offering him Zack Wheeler money. Whether you agree with it or not, the reality is that a pitcher of Berríos quality is going to command $100m or more in free agency.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    @Greglw3 Berríos threw just 94 pitches last night and sailed through six innings, allowing fewer baserunners than innings pitched. And this is what vexes me about fandom and baseball management. Half the fanbase is screaming at Baldelli for pulling pitchers too early while the other half is screaming at him for leaving in pitchers for too long. What's most likely is that Baldelli uses his pitchers in a pretty similar way to other managers, he's just not pulling the right strings and/or rolling snake eyes way more than usual this season.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    I think this is pretty unfair. Berríos has been with the Twins since he was a teenager and now they're considering trading him because he won't sign for pennies on the dollar. Neither side is really wrong in their thinking but neither side is showing much loyalty to one another, either. I'm always confused why fans tend to look down on players for behaving in the same manner that front offices have behaved since the beginning of the sport.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    You're joking, right? You can't throw a rock on this forum without hitting five people who are mad at Baldelli. I agree that the front office should be closely examining why Baldelli has faltered this season (I think the loss of Mike Bell has hurt him a lot) and how to change that going forward. After two successful seasons out of three, I'm not ready to move on from Rocco quite yet. As for Johnson, I think your evaluation is pretty unfair. Just 12 months ago, he was a pitching genius for improving the squad drastically over a couple of seasons, culminating in the Twins posting a very good pitching staff last season. Until three months ago, no one questioned his ability to handle MLB pitching and it feels like a real knee-jerk reaction to decide he can't do the job because everything blew up in everyone's face this season. There's plenty of blame to go around this season from the backup role players all the way to Derek Falvey.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    I generally agree but the problem with that approach is that we have no idea if a comp pick will be attached to free agents after this season.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    For sure, which is why I added "with significant flaws" to my statement about the offense. This lineup could use a right-handed Arraez-style bat. That would solve a lot of their problems. But also, just having the wrecking ball version of Buxton in the lineup drastically alters the offense. Will that ever happen for a full season? I don't know but I sure hope so.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    I don't think anyone is surprised the Twins are placing a high price on Berríos but according to Dan Hayes, the asking price is "one pre-arb MLB player and two top 100 prospects". That's an insane ask and makes me think the Twins aren't actually interested in trading Berríos. Which isn't necessarily the wrong decision but they better do a hell of a lot better job in the coming offseason than they did this past offseason. https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2021/07/twins-trade-rumors-jose-berrios.html
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    While 2019 was almost certainly an aberration, that doesn't mean the offense isn't good anymore... they're still quite good with a few significant flaws. And the team is hitting quite well while two of their three best hitters have combined for under 250 plate appearances. Of course, that could continue to be the case but there's still some offensive upside on this team.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    I mean, we all have to laugh at this point.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    The White Sox have the sixth-best slugging percentage in the American League. They're a very good offensive team.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    On this we agree, except for the part about the shift. Banning the shift is not a silver bullet and under no circumstances am I under that delusion. It's a small move that makes the game slightly better to watch, in my opinion. But the "real" change needs to come on a grander scale and that's reducing pitcher advantage while encouraging batter contact. And that's going to be a complicated dance for MLB to peform.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    Oh, without a doubt, but small ball isn't going to come back, at least not the way we remember it because small ball is often pretty dumb from a run-scoring perspective.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    Consistency or not, he's been the best hitting (or close to it) catcher two of the past three seasons. I'm not worried about his consistency as long as he doesn't spiral into one of those weird "I can't hit middle-middle fastballs" phases for months on end again.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    I don't disagree and have been saying this for a decade or longer... and it not only hasn't happened, the prevailing thinking has gone further in the other direction. At this point, I don't think it's reasonable to expect baseball to right itself.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    The first comment is just terrible. Stay away from strawman points. Football is a good example of why they SHOULD ban the shift. Football changes the rules to improve the on-field action all the time and have loads of rules on where players can stand, when they can move, whether they can touch the ball, etc.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    I’ve been in favor of eliminating the shift for a couple of seasons now. It has become prolific and frankly, brings nothing interesting to the game from a spectator experience. Everyone has their book on a hitter and automatically shifts them. It’s not worth keeping in my eyes.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    A doubleheader extra inning game against the White Sox.The Twins should have found a way to lose this game three times.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    Lefties have had the opportunity to go the other way for several years now and just don’t do it. It’s time to admit it’s not going to happen and adjust the rules accordingly.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    The shift promotes the launch angle revolution, though, by reducing BABIP in general and against lefties. It encourages going for barrel contact above all else because barrel contact has such a high expected average. In a *spectator* sport, I see no reason for the shift to exist. It doesn’t make the game better or more entertaining, it just leads to less defensive action and fewer base runners.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    The obvious difference being that no one really intends to hit a grounder to second while the shift is very intentional and leads to less action, which is baseball’s biggest immediate problem.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    That was a fine baseball play all around.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    The shift is so boring. Ban it already.
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