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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    *scatches head* Um... Yes? No. That defies logic.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    Yep, the very same Eduardo Nunez with a .648 OPS against LHP last season and a career .686 mark against southpaws. I may have pinch-hit for Suzuki in that situation but I certainly can't get too worked up that Molitor didn't sub him out for an equally mediocre bat against southpaws. And you could argue that with a guy on second, Suzuki was more likely to get on base and continue the inning than Nunez. His career OBP against lefties is .025 higher than Nunez.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    True, the implication was that Buxton has enough bat speed and strength to take care of the rest. He hasn't really shown it against MLB pitching but his MiLB XBH numbers were so good that it's hard to imagine he won't come around in time if his plate approach is solid. And given his pitch recognition problems last season, I applaud a pitch-happy approach, even if he takes the occasional meatball down the middle of the plate.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    Buxton taking pitches is far more important to me than whether the wood of the bat hits ball. Take a lot of pitches, be a selective hitter, and he will be a successful MLB player.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    Only because the other guys were injured for an entire season or something close to it. When healthy, both Buxton and Sano posted numbers far exceeding anything ABW has done in MiLB. I do not understand the fascination with ABW. Some people act as if he's a Golden God when his best OPS came in A ball and didn't even crack .850 (.844). And his MiLB OBP of .311 is "ick" territory. Buxton has a career MiLB OPS of .872 and Sano is at .937.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    They were nearly as bad the previous year as well. I just looked it up and PECOTA badly missed the AL in 2014, hitting on only three teams, all in the ALC (DET, CWS, MIN). They missed on the other 12 teams. Though they faired much better in the NL that year.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    I don't know if I'd ever refer to him as a "top starter" but I think he has the potential to be a 110-120 ERA+ guy for a few years before settling into more of a league average guy in his 30s. Or maybe he's always going to be a 100 ERA+ guy. A lot rides on whether he continues missing bats, IMO.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    Interesting... That never occurred to me.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    To me, ABW is a gift card. I didn't expect to get it, I didn't budget for it, and it's basically free money. On the other hand, if I never got the gift card, I wouldn't care too much about it. There's a high probability of failure with ABW but that's okay. If he turns into something valuable, fantastic!
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    By comparison, Trevor May already has ~930 professional innings on his arm. Gibson had a strange series of events that led to his arm getting very little use (college draftee, broken arm, TJ surgery).
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    Gibson's 2015 was fascinating. I don't know if I've seen a veteran pitcher (who wasn't injured) do this before. April: 22.1 IP, 6 (!) SO (terrible) May: 39.2, IP, 24 SO (started picking up steam as the month progressed) June: 30.2 IP, 28 SO (now we're talkin') July: 31.1 IP, 30 SO (huzzah!) August: 34.0 IP, 23 SO (oh, mid-season dip) Sept/Oct: 36.2 IP, 34 SO (finished strong) Remove Gibson's first six starts and he pitched 158.1 innings with 134 strikeouts. That's pretty impressive for a ground ball guy. So I don't really know what to expect from Gibson. Is he a slow starter? Was last April a fluke? Is he really a guy who can approach an 8 K/9 while getting ground ball outs? I guess we'll find out. People tend to unfairly dismiss Gibson. Will he be a dominant guy? Probably not... But we're talking about a 28 year old pitcher with only 800 professional innings on that arm. Maybe there's a little upside left in there.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    In college, I passed over Bloody Marys and just went right back to whisky. Aw, hell, who am I kidding? I still do that.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    They don't make the Twins *more* money. From MLB and the Twins perspective, a ticket sale is a ticket sale.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    Third party vendors don't make the Twins or MLB any money.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    San Diego is great. The Padres suck.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    I lived in SD for a decade. Edited for clarity.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    But AFAIK, there is no premium for the opener. It's a tier one game but nothing more expensive than a game against, say, a division rival.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    It's soooooo ****ing irritating. It's baseball! They play every day! I understand the need to add weather cushions to the opening series but there's no good reason to do it after the first game and not the second or even third. It's complete BS.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm not even worried how much he hurts the team, I'm worried about how much he hurts himself through repeated failure and frustration.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    Before we start worrying about Buxton too much, consider two things: - He's been pretty good about taking pitches today, a big step forward - He made two damned fine plays out in center
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    No, I'm just being a smart ass. I have no idea how well Park runs.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    Good, Fien is off the hook for the night. He doesn't deserve to be hung with the loss. Hung, maybe. But not for the loss.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    Jim Thome with a pulled hammy.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    The Eddies strike.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    You're the only one.
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