Brock Beauchamp
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It's more than that... way more than that. I don't think there was any reason to expect Sano to just stop hitting the ball hard. His exit velo was literally 99th percentile in 2019-2020. 2021? 78th percentile. While there have always been flaws with Sano's approach, he made up for it by crushing the ball when he got hold of it. That stopped happening for whatever reason. His soft hit rate has more than doubled year-over-year. -
I'm not crazy about giving any pitcher $100m but if the Twins are going to do it, I think Berrios is as good a choice as any.
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That's not entirely true, though. His ERA+ took a step forward in 2019 and he's basically replicating that performance this season. He's not an ace, which is mildly disappointing, but he's a very good pitcher who has likely peaked in the past couple of seasons.
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Even eating up to 50% of Donaldson's contract, I'd be shocked if the Twins got anything more than a high-ish upside low minors player in return. The return, if it helps the Twins, likely won't help for several years so that's not going to be the driving reason to trade Josh.
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I installed an outdoor TV specifically to watch Twins baseball this season. Boy, I sure did **** up the timing on that decision.
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I'm not speaking specifically about Cano and I agree the Twins should consider adding him soon, I was only pointing out that haphazardly calling for additions to the 40-man usually isn't very well thought-out. I hope to see him relatively soon but given the season, I'm not sure it matters much whether that's today or three weeks from now.
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In general, fans don’t pay nearly enough attention or give consideration to potential 40-man issues. Once a guy is there and you care about said guy at all, he’s there for a long time. It’s not a move to make lightly.
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As Otto listed above, I suspect they’re only “late” on this because injuries have forced keeping Shoemaker around this long. It was certainly a mistake to sign him at all but once that happened and the injuries piled up, running him out there for WAY TOO LONG was pretty much the only option remaining.
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Then there was that time he was DFAed.
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I fondly remember that time he was taken out of the rotation.
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You're jumping across points here, though. No one, pretty much ever, is saying velocity doesn't matter but in a hyper-competitive sport that earns players hundreds of millions for rising to the cream of the crop, any advantage will be taken, "legal" or not. And what would you rather have, a 95mph fastball with a 2400 rpm spin rate or a 95mph fastball with a 2100 rpm spin rate? It's pretty obvious which of those literally every MLB pitcher would choose. And that's why we're in the situation we're in right now.
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Who could have possibly seen this coming?
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Yikes! And I had successfully erased that man's name from my memory banks.
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This... is... fun...?
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Quality of Articles Going Way Downhill
Brock Beauchamp replied to Vanimal46's topic in Twins Daily Issues & Suggestions
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Multiple Twins over the years have been accused and/or convicted of domestic violence so if Donaldson is anyone’s “least liked” Twin, perhaps it’s time to log off this baseball forum and perform some personal reflection on one’s life choices.
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He can be a bit of a loudmouth and a lot of a red ass but overall, he irritates me at roughly the same rate he makes me chuckle. So no, he’s not even close to the most unlikable Twin.
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I really don't understand the allure of days when one guy would beat another guy and we'd cheer when the beaten guy threw a small hard object at the winning guy to "get even".
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Donaldson is intense, that's for sure. He's one of those guys that irritates me half the time, makes me chuckle the other half. But mostly I care whether he's a good baseball player or not, and he's been pretty good this season (though hardly irreplaceable on this trainwreck).
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I want to see the Twins win but not because they'll be a playoff contender this season. I just like watching good baseball over bad baseball.
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I agree but there's a lot of controversy over the efficacy of the infield shift against RHB*. There's a substantial amount of data that suggests it's actually more harmful than useful, yet *very* smart teams like the Dodgers still use it extensively. *There's little to no doubt the infield shift is very effective against LHB
