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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    The league has a record number of injuries after a year of no minor leagues. There aren’t guys just waiting to be claimed, not guys any better than Shoemaker, anyway.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    People really need to realize there literally isn’t anyone ready to call up, as spy just pointed out. At this point, it’s either Shoemaker or a waiver claim, someone who’s also going to look and perform a lot like Matt Shoemaker.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    Mike Bell, the Twins bench coach that died this off-season.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    I don't mean to single you out but what were you expecting from Simmons? He has a 91 wRC+/93 OPS+ this season and his career numbers are 90 wRC+/91 OPS+. His 2020 numbers weren't even that different at 98 wRC+/91 OPS+. He's only had one slight outlier year that was notably above his norms and that was several years back in 2018 (106 wRC+/109 OPS+). I mean, those are all really consistent overall and paint a pretty clear picture who he is offensively. Offensively, Simmons is doing almost exactly what I hoped he would do and I was slightly concerned he would be significantly below his current performance level after the ankle issues and the fact he's a mediocre hitter who is getting older.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    The thing is about emulation is that once you write the software once, it's not hard to maintain going forward... Sony simply hasn't bothered to try until this generation (which, uncoincidentally, is the first time they've kept the same chip architecture two generations in a row, which makes BC stupid-easy and almost automatic). All past Sony BC involved them literally putting last generation's chipset somewhere in the newer gen machine, which is a pretty ugly solution (also expensive, which is why they stopped). From the beginning, Microsoft has always prioritized BC emulation (even when they changed architecture) and they deserve credit for doing so. Anyway, my kids play Wii/U and Xbox 360 games all the time, particularly the motion/dance games, which means BC is pretty important to me (and I'd someday like to have fewer than *six* consoles plugged into my living room television). And frankly, it's a feature console makers should just offer to their loyal customers who may not want to be forced to maintain a working PS2 indefinitely if they ever want to play their PS2 games again. I mean, there are literally open source, free emulators that do a pretty bang-up job up through really recent console generations running on $40 hardware. It's not a stretch to ask a multi-billion dollar conglomerate like Sony to add emulation to their $500 console.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    Except I have to pay to re-buy all those games and I have to trust in Sony to maintain their store indefinitely, which is a stretch. They recently got in hot water with fans for announcing they were going to sunset the PS3 (? I think it was PS3) store. Sony doesn’t have a great track record of long term support, or at least not as good as Microsoft. I’m not knocking the PlayStation, I’ve owned every one of them and love a bunch of games, but their legacy support is miles behind Microsoft.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    I'll end up with a PS5 someday but Sony's backwards compatibility is embarrassing. The PS5 will only play PS4 disc games. No PS1, 2, or 3. Whereas Xbox Series X will play disc games all the way back to the original Xbox. It's not 100% compatible with all games but it's an impressive list none-the-less. But frankly, I'm a long ways from seeing a compelling reason to spend $500 on either console right now. Maybe in 2022, more likely 2023 for me.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, last night was a good example of how we as fans view win “probability” versus the actual win probability of a situation. That was a low leverage situation in the ninth.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm becoming increasingly convinced this is the answer.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    I see nothing on this team that convinces me they're capable of a 2006-esque run at the division. They had their shot over the past 13 games against bad/mediocre opponents and barely scraped by, winning only one more game than they lost.
  11. Brock Beauchamp

    So, yeah, the Yankees tonight.

    Yikes.

    1. stringer bell

      stringer bell

      Someone is featuring this matchup as the two most disappointing teams in MLB. So far, I think it is true. The pessimist in me sees the Bronx Bombers reawakening this week. The optimist says it is time for the worm to turn.

  12. Brock Beauchamp
    I don’t get why this trade makes sense for the Twins but then I remembered “oh, Mark DeRosa”. Either the Twins want to offload salary or they want to compete. This deal makes no sense for either option.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    He can run but can’t decelerate. It’s been a problem for about a week now, I think.
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  15. Brock Beauchamp
    Oh, without a doubt. The Twins scraped by beating a comically bad baseball team with the same kind of play that lost them two of three against a competent Royals team. The only thing that changed was the ability of the opponent (and the Royals aren’t even a good baseball team).
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    The Twins are sixth in the AL in batting average, though. Like I said, I just don't think there's a good narrative for what we're seeing here.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    This makes for a good narrative but it's not really true. The Twins are seventh in the AL in strikeouts, directly ahead of really good teams like the White Sox and Yankees. But last in the AL in strikeouts? Tampa Bay, and it's not close. And they're doing okay for themselves as a whole. The Twins are ****ing terrible in critical situations and I've looked at the numbers from every direction I can think of... and there isn't a narrative I can find that fits, the team just ****ing sucks at those critical situations for reasons I do not understand.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    In the grand scheme of things the win doesn’t matter that much, it was more the Twins level of play that I found disheartening. It was just more of the same kinda bad, very sloppy play that led them to the record they have.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm relatively down on Rooker, though he probably deserves (and will likely get) another real chance to hit in MLB later this summer. I suspect there's going to be quite a bit of open roster space around 3pm on July 30th.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    @Tom Froemming Why stop at five? 26 is a pretty good number, in my humble opinion...
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    I had a slim hope the Twins would make a (probably false) run at contention going into the KC series but going 1-2 (and looking pretty bad) against a - at best - mediocre team squashed there being even a little bit of fun during this season. I wasn't even really hoping for real contention, just a little excitement of seeing the Twins climb the standings and looking respectable. I'm doubtful even that will happen now, as this team is leaky pretty much everywhere.
  22. Brock Beauchamp

    I think it's time to accept that it's extremely unlikely this team will be even .500 when the deadline forces a decision.

  23. Brock Beauchamp
    They're playing so far under their talent level this season it's hard to watch. I have no idea how to fix this problem or if it even needs to be fixed (other than fixing the issue between the ears of more than a few Twins players).
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    Very possible. I suspect the more a player has played away from first base, as Sano has, the more likely they are to get suckered into this trick. A natural first baseman would just go to the bag 99.9999999999999% of the time, as they’re likely on autopilot in that situation.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    Post them here. I’ll start:
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