Brock Beauchamp

While mistakes were obviously made and I disagreed with some of those moves, the bolded is hyperbolic and incorrect. Rich Hill is not better this season, his ERA is way up from the shortened 2020 season. Trevor May is roughly the same guy, maybe having a slightly better season, hard to get a read on a reliever in 25-30 innings. Matt Wisler is not in the league AFAIK. Sergio Romo is markedly worse. Clippard isn't pitching. Odorizzi is better... I guess? At least he's on the mound, which he wasn't last season (I wanted Odorizzi back, doubly so after he signed that contract). I believe we can criticize the front office for making flat-out incorrect decisions such as "Matt Shoemaker over anybody" and "JA Happ over Jake Odorizzi" without making false statements to get that point across.

That also surprised me in your blog entry. I took a moment to go "wait wut".

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"Who I want to see help" and "who is going to help" are two different questions given the number of MiLB pitching injuries we're seeing right now.

Sure, but neither did the Rangers. Gibson was terrible in 2020. I don't think he was ever "healthy" in 2019, as he contracted e.coli in the offseason between 2018 and 2019 and showed up to Spring Training wildly underweight, if I recall correctly. He pitched better in the first half but I don't remember him being right all season. edit: found an article from 2/2019 and it talks about him being underweight and "building up strength". We all know how that worked out for him. https://www.mlb.com/news/kyle-gibson-on-recovery-from-e-coli-illness-c303898042

Lynn was only bad for a handful of starts with the Twins. The reason anyone wanted him at all was because he had turned it around somewhat, despite having a shaky July. Here are his breakdowns by month for 2018. Split W L W-L% ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO HBP BK WP BF WHIP SO9 SO/W April/March 0 3 .000 8.37 5 5 0 0 0 0 23.2 27 22 22 5 23 2 26 0 0 0 117 2.113 9.9 1.13 May 3 1 .750 3.76 5 5 0 0 0 0 26.1 31 11 11 1 10 0 24 1 0 1 116 1.557 8.2 2.40 June 2 2 .500 2.83 5 5 0 0 0 0 28.2 22 11 9 1 14 0 31 3 0 0 123 1.256 9.7 2.21 July 2 2 .500 6.08 5 5 0 0 0 0 23.2 25 17 16 5 15 1 19 2 0 2 113 1.690 7.2 1.27 August 1 1 .500 3.98 6 5 0 0 0 0 31.2 34 14 14 1 9 0 38 0 0 1 137 1.358 10.8 4.22 Sept/Oct 2 1 .667 4.37 5 4 0 0 0 0 22.2 24 12 11 1 5 0 23 0 0 1 94 1.279 9.1 4.60 As for Gibson, it always felt like he was on the precipice of figuring out his slider and becoming a very good pitcher until he finally did it in 2018. Then he fell ill in 2019 and everything went to hell again. And he was absolutely terrible in 2020, too. Year Age Tm Lg W L W-L% ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO HBP BK WP BF ERA+ FIP WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 SO/W Awards 2018 30 MIN AL 10 13 .435 3.62 32 32 0 0 0 0 196.2 177 88 79 23 79 2 179 4 0 8 826 118 4.13 1.302 8.1 1.1 3.6 8.2 2.27 2019 31 MIN AL 13 7 .650 4.84 34 29 0 0 0 0 160.0 175 99 86 23 56 0 160 7 0 8 706 93 4.26 1.444 9.8 1.3 3.2 9.0 2.86 2020 32 TEX AL 2 6 .250 5.35 12 12 0 1 1 0 67.1 73 44 40 12 30 1 58 6 0 1 301 86 5.39 1.530 9.8 1.6 4.0 7.8 1.93

For the record, I also groaned over the section about throwing at batters. If the story is accurate, the Rays sure as hell shouldn’t have done it and Sabathia definitely should not have responded. That’s a childish escalation that can all too easily end up with someone injured.

Weird, I did a quick scan for him in Google news before typing that and no headlines mentioned he was recalled.

Not really, though, as Wade Jr was demoted a couple of weeks ago, much to the confusion of pretty much everyone.

You consider trading them because you don’t believe the Twins can compete in 2022 and both players are free agents after that season. If you can’t compete in 2022, it’d be downright foolish *not* to trade them, frankly.

Yeah, not a great sign after getting blown up in St Paul, too.

Rogers’ fate should be tied to the fates of Berríos and Buxton. If one goes, all three should go. Maximize your return or try to compete in 2022.

Rogers pitched pretty well in 2020 if you look at his more advanced metrics, he just ran into a healthy dose of bad luck and small sample sizes can blow that kind of thing out of proportion. He wasn’t as dominant as previous seasons but there was solid evidence he’d rebound nicely, just as he’s done this season.

In an except from his new book, Sabathia talks a little about old school baseball and being Black in the modern game. There’s some interesting stuff in here to unpack and it’s worth posting but try to check your biases at the door. This is Sabathia’s perspective on the game, “right” or “wrong”. https://theundefeated.com/features/cc-sabathia-on-the-pressure-black-athletes-face-to-play-baseball-the-white-way/

A real third baseman gets that double pretty easily.

There was definitely a healthy dose of organizational failure previous to 2016 in regards to pitching. They spent two HIGH first round picks on pitching and neither hit the majors in Minnesota. That in itself is a monumental, colossal failure. They also released guys like Hendricks who later went on to great things. But this front office? Hard to say. They took over a broken org before the 2017 season, started drafting players, then lost an organizational MiLB season in 2020. Their results have been unimpressive thus far, no doubt, but we're only part of the way through the race.

Hendricks left a million years ago. Gibson left in free agency and no one really wanted him back. Pressly was traded for a decent return, the jury is still out on that. Lynn was a free agent jackass who didn’t want to be here and the feeling was mutual.

You continue to use strawman arguments, stop it. No one stands on the mound saying "I need extra spin on this pitch". That's absurd. What pitchers actually do is spend offseasons trying to nudge that spin rate up through physical conditioning, altering their grip on the ball, and, yes, sometimes cheating. Why do they do this? Because adding 100rpm to a pitch makes that pitch move more. Making a pitch move more makes it more effective (most of the time, anyway, provided the pitcher can control that movement). The more spin on the pitch, generally, the better and more deceptive said pitch becomes. Please argue the points we're making honestly or I will remove your ability to post into this thread.

The payroll aspect helps the Twins more than it hurts, I suspect. 1. Outside of Donaldson, all of the Twins’ best trade chips are either cost-controlled or cheap for their performance level. 2. The Twins are likely in a position to absorb some or all of a player’s salary if the other team cannot, which will give them negotiating power to demand a higher return.

This is the Twinsiest 2021 box score I’ve seen yet.

This team is extraordinary at one thing: Irritating me.

So it seems Kepler May still have a pulse.

I’m enjoying the show much more than I expected. I liked F&WS and WV close to equally but wasn’t very excited about Loki at all. What I like most about Marvel’s D+ offerings are their wildly different tones. That in itself keeps me engaged.