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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    Why does it matter? Season over. Pathetic.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    Actually, that slogan really works for me. Champagne tastes like bubbly ass water. Miller High Life tastes like bubbly ass water. Scotch is good. So is bourbon. That is all.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, he's not what I expected at all. I expected more of a dead-pull swing-from-his-heels hitter who walked a lot in KBO because pitchers were terrified of him. That hasn't been the case. He has a pretty good eye, especially considering how he has only faced MLB pitching in games that matter ~50 times.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    I don't think it will be that surprising if his strikeouts decline in time. What *has* surprised me is Park's relatively polished approach at the plate but now that I've seen him take his hacks, I think it's entirely possible he adjusts his approach to better suit a more advanced league. The guy could get away with a ton of strikeouts in Korea because he routinely teed off on the inferior pitching in that league... But MLB is a different animal. It wouldn't surprise me to see Park sacrifice a bit of power for more contact and a more disciplined approach to compensate facing the best pitching in the world.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    I have no problems calling up a young player for a week or two to ride the bench... But if it's going to extend toward a month or more, then another option should be explored (if possible).
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    Thanks. I thought OBP had a stronger correlation but for some reason, I was doubting myself after the earlier comment.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    Counsell brings in a right to face Arcia. Legit strategy.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    I didn't realize baseball teams were allowed to score this many runs in a single game.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    I don't recall which has a stronger correlation to runs scored but I know OBP and SLG are close. My point wasn't so much about which stat correlates more closely, it was more about getting Mauer and his elite OBP as many PAs as possible throughout the season and letting the mashers behind him drive him home. Mauer is going to have a hard time driving Sano home much of the time but in theory, Miguel will not have as much difficulty doing the same for Joe.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    Standard operating procedure. We can't lock the article comments because that's how commenters from the front page access the site (and they vastly outnumber forum visits) and one thread has to be locked because they're about the identical topic.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    I agree. Normally, in a balanced lineup, I wouldn't care too much... But when your lineup looks like this: Bad OBP Bad OBP Elite OBP Bad OBP Bad OBP ... ... You better get the good on-base guy as far up that lineup as possible.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    It's definitely SSS but Joe didn't really have solid, consistent performance last year... He had three *really* nice games in late April last season but other than that, he was treading water around what ended up being his season mark. He was also striking out a lot more often than he has this season. He ended April with 14 Ks, or about .67 per game. This season, he's striking out about .33 times per game. The BABIP is about the same as it was in April of 2015 but Joe is walking more and striking out a lot less. That's a good indication this performance trend can continue and isn't entirely luck-based (though that BABIP is certainly due to regress a bit).
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    Oh, you writers weren't down on him - you've been through too many rodeos to judge a player before they're 20 years old - but there were plenty of people on the forum getting down on Nick for his .700 OPS seasons.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm positive he has worn the glasses at least once this season and pretty sure he has worn them more than once.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    I don't expect him to be an elite bat in the long-term but anything he can post over .750-.770 in MiLB is a bonus to me. The guy doesn't seem to have an elite tool in his arsenal but is average to above average in all tools. Combine those things in a MLB SS and you have a borderline elite player. He won't dazzle you in any facet of the game, he'll simply be "pretty good" at everything. In the majors, that translates to a 4 WAR shortstop. People have been unfairly down on Gordon. He was a scrawny kid and suddenly, he's not so scrawny anymore... Shocking how that tends to happen to male athletes as they cross the 20 year mark.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    We haven't seen a Joe Mauer with these peripherals since... 2010, maybe? It's promising, to say the least. Joe's K rate is down to 7.5% and his BB rate is up to 15.1%. He hasn't had a season with more walks than strikeouts since his 90/88 split in 2012 and hasn't dominated the strike zone since his 65/53 split in 2010.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    Gordon has been ridiculous this season.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    Well, he didn't do particularly well in some very important peripherals and many people are blaming it on Kohl's mechanics. If a guy is struggling with mechanics, you don't promote that guy... After all, MiLB is a development league. It's used to, well, develop players. And if a guy is putting up mediocre numbers, you keep him down for another year to allow him to work on the things that will help him succeed at a higher level. If a guy is kicking furiously to keep his head above water, it's hard to work on the smaller things that will help him down the road. He's working as hard as he can just to keep breathing... And when that happens, you relax the pressure on the kid and give him an environment where he has the time and capability to work on those things, the things that really matter in the long run and will dictate his success/failure. Most scouting reports on Stewart said he was going to be a work in progress, I'm not sure why this is so surprising to people. This is what a work in progress looks like and we should be happy it appears he has started to turn the corner and have real, legitimate success, level of competition be damned.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    Fascinating game, this baseball. Score more than three runs and you might just win a game now and then.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    That was unexpected. No reason to use Dozier in that situation.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, which is why I find some of the arguments being made on this forum over the past week quite strange. There's a lot to dislike about this team and how it was constructed and picking apart a young player after 25 PAs should be waaaaaay down the list.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    No, you didn't, but the poster I responded to - and the post you quoted - made/refuted that exact point.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    Sure, he's been terrible. He also has all of 55 games under his belt, split over two seasons.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    Sure, my point wasn't that Buxton will become Trout - I hate that comparison - my point was that even some of the best players in history struggled out of the gate. Implying a front office has failed because prospects struggle to immediately acclimate to MLB is a ridiculous assertion to make. If an elite prospect struggles over 750 PAs, that's an entirely different argument.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm not making excuses for this 0-9 start - it has been abysmal - but the most complete player I've ever seen play the game of baseball was demoted after his first taste of MLB pitching produced less-than-stellar results. Young players sometimes have to be sent back down, even the immensely talented ones. It's just a reality of baseball.
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