Brock Beauchamp
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Really, I think there are only four states to late July for the Twins, based on order of likelihood in my eyes: 1. Sell expiring deals 2. Buy lightly, probably a reliever and/or role player 3. Sell expiring deals and Buxton/Berrios, Donaldson if possible 4. Buy big I think the last two are unlikely, especially the last one. -
Game Recap: Twins 8, Orioles 3
Brock Beauchamp replied to Nate Palmer's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
That's fine if you don't use them but those are incredibly useful tools that are excellent predictors of future performance, far better than any human eye, which tries to trick us or write its own narrative on a regular basis. And nobody really cares about 100 vs 102... but 95 vs 105 is significant and often hard to discern based on different camera angles. Never mind that without that tech, truly useful stats like "barrels" don't exist. -
Game Recap: Twins 8, Orioles 3
Brock Beauchamp replied to Nate Palmer's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
It's all automated by the tracking equipment fitted into every MLB stadium. It's how MLB operates the Baseball Savant website with all its crazy cool data. Without that equipment, we wouldn't have exit velocities, reaction times, sprint speeds, launch angles, the list goes on... -
Yeah, it's hard to get a read on whether .500 is even possible 50 games from now. I suspect we'll have a much better idea of that in about ten days. If the Twins can't mash their way through the upcoming cupcake schedule, it's highly unlikely they will ever come close to .500 this season.
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Holy crap, I hate you so much right now, spycake.
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The thing is that I can't really get a read on how this front office evaluates anything, but especially pitching, after what happened in 2020. Last season should have been an important season where we saw their draftees/acquisitions either move up in the system, stall out, or flop. Instead, no one played and many gathered rust on their arms. Your evaluations of Alcala and Graterol aren't really fair. Graterol debuted as a 20 year old in 2019. He never started a game for the Twins and was traded the following offseason. Alcala was traded to the Twins in July of 2018. He made a handful of starts in 2018, the Twins gave him one more shot as a starter in 2019 and pretty quickly shifted him to the pen. He made his debut later in 2019 as a 23 year old and has never started a game for the Twins. All in all, those are pretty quick pivots on two flamethrowing arms. In Graterol's case, he made his last professional start as a 20 year old. In Alcala's case, he made his last professional start roughly 12 months after being acquired by the Twins.
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I could see that happening under very specific circumstances but I suspect that, at the very minimum, this front office either sells Cruz/Pineda/Simmons/Happ or they acquire at least one reliever, even if the reliever isn't very good.
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The atrocious part of the 2021 season seems to finally be in the past. That doesn't mean the Twins will be good, but I think we can all agree this roster isn't anything close to "the worst team in baseball" territory. Y'all saw the Orioles last night, after all... I figure, being on the slightly cautious side, the Twins will have to make a decision around July 20th whether to push the chips into the middle or fold their hand. In reality, they can probably push more toward July 26-28 but if you want the best return, and the Twins have a ton of decent/good pieces available to move, you're going to want to start dangling players like Cruz (limited market) as early as possible so you're not left standing without a chair when the music stops playing. The Twins are currently 18-29, -11 games to .500 after 47 games. On July 20th, they will complete their 97th game, giving them 50 games between now and then.
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Game Recap: Twins 8, Orioles 3
Brock Beauchamp replied to Nate Palmer's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
Not a ton of gas on it, which is probably a big part of the reason why he's not really shortstop material, but it was perfectly accurate. I think they said it was an 82mph throw on the broadcast. -
Game Recap: Twins 8, Orioles 3
Brock Beauchamp replied to Nate Palmer's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
Sano has loads of discipline, probably the most on the team (only other real contender is Donaldson). Sano just has a lousy contact rate. -
Game Recap: Twins 8, Orioles 3
Brock Beauchamp replied to Nate Palmer's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
I haven’t thought about Wally Joyner in roughly 3.5 decades. -
Given the injuries on this roster, there is no A option right now.
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That was a lot more like the Twins games we became accustomed to over the past two seasons.
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It’s pretty apparent he’s letting his injured players get out on the field to see how they feel afterward. It makes sense because they either need to start playing or go on the IL. You can’t have your entire bench injured for a week.
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Romo might have occasionally touched 90 a decade ago. He was 85-88 the past five years or so.
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It worked for Sergio for over ten years.
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That was a really difficult position to put Alcala. He really shouldn’t have returned to the mound after 40 minutes.
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It’s based on post count.
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Yeah, okay, that was ball four.
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Means is quite good, though.
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Oh, definitely.
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I only tuned in for last two innings and it’s very reassuring that Baltimore is still awful. Shoemaker isn’t lighting the world on fire out there and the Orioles still look hapless.
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Game Recap: Twins 8, Cleveland 5
Brock Beauchamp replied to David Youngs's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
Also, things like batting average need to be mentally adjusted this season, as .245 is roughly .010 higher than league average last I checked. -
Your point seems really contradictory. If you ran a team in contention, you'd consider Sano... so why on earth should the Twins pay to give him up or, at best, give him away for nothing? What is gained by this? It's not as if the Twins have a line of first basemen waiting to take Miguel's place in the lineup. Literally the only viable option is Kirilloff and until the Twins can field a healthy outfield for longer than five minutes, Sano isn't blocking Alex's progress in the slightest bit.
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Except the Twins are already paying Sano and unless he becomes "no longer replaceable", they will have to continue to pay him to offload him to another team. And if he's no longer replaceable, it'd be a mistake to trade him. So why get rid of him at that point? Is any positional gain you get by replacing him worth paying millions of dollars to another team, money that could be used to shore up another position of weakness? That seems really unlikely.
