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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    The Minnesota Twins in August: .798 OPS, 2nd in the AL. 5.69 ERA, 14th in the AL (props to the Angels for somehow being worse than this team). 9-12 record. So, yeah, you kinda have to trade Dozier for pitching. Not catching, not another positional player... Pitching. It's risky but when your rotation has this little upside, it's a move you need to consider. This trend isn't going to reverse by itself. Yeah, maybe Berrios gets better. Maybe you put May in the rotation. Maybe Santana holds steady. If everything goes right, this rotation is league average. One needs to aim a little higher than that.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    Dozier's hot streaks are amazing.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    I can't help but wonder what Byron Buxton would look like today if the Twins hadn't called him up on May 31st. I was against the move at the time but said "now that he's up, you play him every day and let him figure it out". Buxton only has 55%-ish of a season of total MLB plate appearances. I'm not in panic mode - yet - but I really dislike what the Twins have done to his development. Again, his high water mark of plate appearances at a single level before promotion/demotion since June of last season is 169. That was 45 games, or just over 1/4 of an MLB season. I'm not sure why we expect anything vastly different than what we've seen so far. Sure, maybe he shouldn't be this bad but the Twins haven't given him a fighting chance at success. The moment he succeeds for three weeks, he gets promoted. The moment he scuffles for four weeks, he gets demoted. It's ridiculous. If a guy needs to fix his plate approach and/or swing, he can't do it in two ****ing weeks.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    Patience is overrated? What? Buxton barely has half a season of MLB plate appearances. If you expect every prospect to start off like Kepler, you're going to have a very disappointing relationship with baseball. Buxton has been frustrating and bad but I lay a lot of that on the Twins. Over the past season and a half, he hasn't been allowed to play at one level for more than 50-ish games. That's bad management and that falls at the feet of the front office. They've been jerking him around unnecessarily.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    I just searched the past five pages of this thread and no one used the phrase "can't miss" in reference to a an "ace" pitching prospect.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    Berrios is the only guy at that level. Jay might get there but isn't today. Unless the prospect is Strasburg level, even the best pitching prospects usually land as a #2 or 3.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    Probably to maximize his plate appearances.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah. When I say "ace pitching prospect", I do not mean a pitcher who will turn into an ace. The likely landing spot of almost every "ace prospect" is #2/3 anyway. My expectation would be a #2-ish level pitcher with an upside of ace and floor of a #3 (barring injury or developmental catastrophe).
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    Not sure whether you're saying it's not worth it from the Twins' perspective or their trading partner's perspective. If you're saying Dozier>>>>Span, then I agree. If a team wouldn't trade a potential ace pitching prospect for Dozier, what would they trade for him? Based on the past few years, Dozier is going to be worth somewhere around 7-8 wins in 2017-18. If that won't net a top 50 pitching prospect, teams have skewed their valuation of prospects way out of proportion.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    Uh.... Wilson Ramos becomes a free agent in about 10 weeks.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    Yep. Short of demanding a top five prospect, the Twins can/should write their own ticket when it comes to Dozier's price tag. (and they might even be able to swing a top five guy if they bundle in something with Dozier) If you can't get elite talent in return, don't trade him. It's an easy decision.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    What a crazy split. I knew the AL had several good 2B but this is ridiculous. Brian Dozier has 3.7 fWAR. That's only good for sixth-highest in the AL. In the NL, it's good for second best.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    Those are definitely concerns but you have to try to make up any difference with the improved catching/pitching you get in return for Dozier. There are always concerns about trading an established player for a prospect (even with nearly surefire moves like Pierzynski to Mauer) but you can't let that get in the way of improving the team as a whole.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    I've been meh on it from the outset. It wasn't a bad trade by any means but I didn't understand the accolades given it, either.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    That'd be an acceptable approach, though I'd lean toward one high upside guy over a few lower guys. Yeah, any single prospect can fail but with Jay, Stewart, Gonsalves, etc. already in the org and approaching the high minors, I'd go with one top prospect. The Twins already have several upside-but-not-elite guys in the system.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    It's hard to get a read on exactly where the Yankees are right now but I suspect they're not interested in a guy with two years of control. Given their age and the status of their on-the-fly rebuild, I think they're still some time away from picking up short-ish contracts to compete.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    If you want to talk about a true "sell high" player, Brian Dozier is that player. While I'm typically against trading positional talent for pitching, it makes sense in this case. Coming off his 2016 campaign with two remaining years of control, you can set the asking price for Dozier. If you can find a contender with a gap at second and a top 15 pitching prospect in their organization, you kinda have to make that trade. Get a front line starting prospect and let Polanco run with the position. I like Dozier - I like him a lot - but the Twins need starting pitching if they're going to compete. Dozier is their best (only) chance to get that player and with Polanco behind Dozier in the organization, the risk is relatively low.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    That's reasonable. I think it's possible Rosario ends up as a platoon or fourth OF but I'm not ready to accept that as certainty today. He has the ability to be a starter, it's only a matter of whether he'll tap that ability.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    I don't get the "Rosario is a fourth outfielder" arguments. Is he a flawed player? Of course. He needs to fix some serious discipline issues to stick in MLB... But the guy OPSed around .800 in the minors and can play centerfield. He has the talent to be a starter and it's not fringy talent. It's legit MLB talent. There's a reason he posted on BP's top 100 list twice. Im saying this as a person who is not, and never has been, a big fan of Rosario.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    An interesting footnote about Disney is that their two most successful purchases of the past decade - Marvel and Lucasfilm - became media goliaths through self-funded projects. The general rule in Hollywood is "never use your own money". But George Lucas did just that when he decided he wanted to sever all creative ties with the studio system and self-funded The Empire Strikes Back. Many people thought he was crazy but Lucasfilm wouldn't be the monster it is today without that decision. There's no freakin' way a studio would have allowed Lucas to charge forward with that script, as it broke all conventional thought about film sequels. The movie ended up defining the Star Wars franchise. Marvel, through an odd brokering of a deal that excluded Iron Man from a funding package they negotiated, decided that Iron Man was the best character to launch their studio so they funded the movie themselves. Sometimes, I guess bucking convention and doing it your own damned self can reap huge rewards.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    I think Disney will make back that money within a year or two. It was a brilliant purchase. BAM doesn't only stream MLB games. They have several clients already on board, including HBO Now. It's already a profitable enterprise and will only become moreso in the near future. I liken this to Disney's purchase of Lucasfilm. Within a year or two, people will be asking "How'd they get that company for that little money?" Marvel was more of a risk, as it was an untried concept and Marvel itself was recently removed from a corporate collapse. But Lucasfilm was rock-solid and already printed money. With Disney's help, they were a virtual lock to start printing 10x more money within a few years.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    It's not silly to punish them a bit because ESPN is a vital part of their operation but the extent of that punishment is out of line. Disney continues to grow despite ESPN floundering. That doesn't jibe with the 25%-ish drop Disney has seen in the past six months. I can understand the market doing something like that to, say, Amazon. Their P/E is waaaaay out of line and the stock price is based on future growth. If that growth falters, the stock can and should suffer mightily for it. But that's not the case for either Apple or Disney (particularly Apple).
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    I think so, yeah. I mean, it's not entirely out of the ordinary for the market to punish a stock over the short- to mid-term for silly reasons. Look what it did to Apple for 6-9 months. At one point, the stock was down 35%.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    I hadn't put much thought into Shopify but, yeah, you make some good points. Though I'm loathe to invest in more tech... I'm already dangerously tech-heavy (unsurprisingly, as my job is in that industry).
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm still in on Disney. Once the market pulls its head out of its ass (much like it's doing with Apple right now), they'll realize that Disney /=/ ESPN. Disney continues to forecast upward profits, the market continues to beat them down because of stupid ESPN. It's as if the market has forgotten Pixar, Lucasfilm, Marvel, and the toy juggernaut of Disney don't exist under the same umbrella.
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