Brock Beauchamp

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I’m really happy for Gibson but it’s hard to say the Twins gave up on him too early when he was absolutely terrible last season. The Twins didn’t have the luxury of entering 2020 with a reclamation project that had a good chance to be (and was) really bad at baseball.

Yep, that’s what I’m flipping around in my head. Antony handled the deadline mid-season.

Huh, I must be really misremembering because I could have sworn he left just before the draft. Oh well. ?

While your general point is accurate, Kirilloff was drafted by the interim front office that preceded Falvey and Levine.

Given that he's only in his age 24 season, probably long enough the Twins don't care too much about his decline. If my math is right, he'll be a free agent after his age 28 season, still plenty young enough not to see declining bat speed and contact rate.

Lynn was a one-year rental that was traded years ago and Gibson left via free agency over 18 months ago so it's a bit late to be hollering about them leaving the team.

I mean, someone is obligated to post this so I'll just get it over with now.

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Garver only has 60 career PAs as DH, only 17 of which came in 2019 when he was mashing the ball. I don't think there's enough data there to make a decision about how he performs at DH.

This is a bit of revisionist history, I think. Gonzalez was signed before the 2019 season, Arraez didn't make his debut until May of 2019 and people were a bit shocked to see him called up, as it seemed like a bit of a reach by the front office at the time. Here was Arraez's MiLB stat line in 2018. There was little to no reason to expect him to catapult to the majors and thrive so quickly. Year Age AgeDif Tm Lg Lev Aff G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB 2018 21 2 Teams 2 Lgs A+-AA MIN 108 453 406 52 126 20 3 3 36 4 3 32 44 .310 .361 .397 .758 161 8 3 7 5 1 2018 21 -3.0 Chattanooga SOUL AA MIN 48 195 178 25 53 6 0 2 16 2 0 13 16 .298 .345 .365 .711 65 4 1 1 2 1 2018 21 -1.4 Fort Myers FLOR A+ MIN 60 258 228 27 73 14 3 1 20 2 3 19 28 .320 .373 .421 .794 96 4 2 6 3

This is a really hard question I’ve been thinking about quite a bit lately and my conclusion is “there’s no good answer”. If he can hack it at third, and I don’t think he has been terrible there, he’s a useful piece to the Twins. If he’s a corner outfielder, he probably needs to be traded. I don’t even consider Arraez as a viable every day 2B at this point. It’s fine if he starts there once or twice a week or fills in for injury but the plan shouldn’t be Luis at second.

Damn Garcia is strong. That was a fine pitch, he just reached out and took it yard.

That series of events is perhaps the biggest bungle of this front office's tenure, IMO. I don't think most reasonable people expected greatness from Wade Jr but the consensus seemed to settle somewhere around "good fourth OF option, possibly an acceptable starter". To get nothing for that guy is a significant screw-up.

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I hold no illusions of this team being a contender in 2021, which is why this isn't a problem. On July 31st, a large number of today's Twins players will be former Twins players. On top of that, there are several players at a bunch of positions currently occupying 40-man spots that are beyond fungible. Are we concerned about losing the likes of Garlick, Refsnyder, et al? I'm not dreaming. If anything, it's the opposite... I'm being pragmatic about the number of MLB-quality players that will be on this team when the calendar flips to August and how little concern I have over the loss of fringe 40-man role players. Remember, this conversation started with concern over whether Luis Arraez would get playing time or not, which is pretty much not going to be an issue, ever, because this team has an ugly mess of injuries and players no one should hesitate to release at any moment.

It sure would be swell if someone informed this team there are ways to score runs without homers.

Was that around the Orioles series? I thought they may have won four there but couldn’t remember specifically if it happened.

I assume the Twins have won four games in a row this season but I can’t remember it happening.

This team is really bad right now, I’m not concerned about losing the likes of Blankenhorn. People make a big deal out of stuff like that all the time but a few years later, no one even remembers the name “Joe Benson”, much less why it was a “big deal” when the Twins released him. Out of all the Twins problems, finding playing time for MLB quality players is near the bottom of the list. If they actually had that problem, they wouldn’t have one of the worst records in all of baseball. The team needs better, healthy players not more players.

I’ll worry about the “too many players” issue after it happens even once.

I’m sorry but… you’re joking, right? Has this team had ANY difficulty getting healthy players at-bats in the past few years?

I’d probably aim for him to be a roving player, it’s not as if there won’t an injury immediately.

I need to see a healthy Kepler for awhile before demoting him but my gut tells me the better move is to put Larnach in left, slide Kirilloff to first, and put Sano (or someone else) at DH.

I think it might take a little more than that (probably a sixth season) but that’s a very reasonable starting point.