Brock Beauchamp

Yep. If this team is going to start digging out of its hole, it needs a lot more wins and the offense needs to play better than it did today.

Out of curiosity, I wanted to see if Baseball Savant tables will copy to the site. Jose Berrios Pitches Swings Pitch Velocity Exit Velocity Pitch Type Count % Swings Whiffs % CS CS+Whiffs CSW% Fouls BIP Max Min Avg Yr-Avg +/- Avg Min Max Curveball 41 40 18 4 22 7 11 27 6 8 85.1 80.9 83.1 83.9 -0.8 ↓ 79.0 38.4 99.0 4-Seam Fastball 28 27 15 1 7 6 7 25 8 6 96.2 92.3 94.1 94.2 -0.1 ↓ 97.3 73.0 113.7 Sinker 23 22 13 1 8 4 5 22 6 6 95.0 92.2 93.5 93.9 -0.4 ↓ 92.2 76.6 102.9 Changeup 11 11 7 3 43 0 3 27 1 3 86.5 84.0 85.2 86.2 -1.0 ↓ 90.3 66.3 103.5 103 53 9 17 17 26 25 21 23 96.2 80.9 88.6 88.7 38.4 113.7 Pitches Spin Vertical Break Horizontal Break Pitch Type Count % Max Min Avg Yr-Avg +/- Max Min Avg Yr-Avg +/- Max Min Avg Yr-Avg +/- Curveball 41 40 2600 2244 2394 2349 45.0 ↑ 49 37 43 42 1.0 17 6 12 14 -2.0 4-Seam Fastball 28 27 2463 2200 2296 2288 8.0 ↑ 19 12 16 16 0.0 17 9 11 10 1.0 Sinker 23 22 2345 2033 2178 2181 -3.0 ↓ 24 16 20 20 0.0 19 14 16 17 -1.0 Changeup 11 11 1703 1480 1563 1490 73.0 ↑ 38 28 32 32 0.0 19 12 14 14 0.0 103 2600 1480 2230 49 12 30 19 6 13

Baldelli has nothing to do with this game. He made the right move and Arraez, like literally every other player on this roster, laid down and died.

I am so ****ing over this team.

Ugh. This team.

My view!

I'm heading there in a couple of hours and will feel completely safe... just as I've felt every time I visit downtown Minneapolis.

I don't know how much this means but maybe it's possible Shoemaker could be an effective reliever. The first inning is the hardest to get through, as it's the only inning the opposing team can control who bats. And Shoemaker's OPS against tells a pretty damning story of what happens when batters get multiple looks at him in a game. Those OPS against numbers in innings 4-6 are just brutal. Of course, this could also be statistical noise, but it's enough that I think putting Shoemaker in the pen is worth a shot, if only because it's so hard to be worse than what the Twins have been putting out there in relief this season. By Inning Split G IP ER ERA PA AB R H 2B 3B HR SB CS BB SO SO/W BA OBP SLG OPS TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB ROE BAbip tOPS+ sOPS+ 1st inning 7 7.0 4 5.14 30 25 4 5 3 0 0 0 0 2 5 2.50 .200 .267 .320 .587 8 0 1 0 2 0 1 .227 39 62 2nd inning 7 7.0 2 2.57 25 23 2 4 0 0 1 1 0 2 4 2.00 .174 .240 .304 .544 7 1 0 0 0 0 0 .167 28 57 3rd inning 7 7.0 3 3.86 31 29 3 7 0 0 2 1 0 2 4 2.00 .241 .290 .448 .739 13 1 0 0 0 0 1 .217 70 101 4th inning 7 5.2 7 11.12 29 26 5 9 2 0 2 1 0 3 4 1.33 .346 .414 .654 1.068 17 0 0 0 0 0 0 .350 145 207 5th inning 5 5.0 3 5.40 22 19 3 6 0 0 2 0 0 2 6 3.00 .316 .381 .632 1.013 12 0 0 1 0 0 0 .364 131 180 6th inning 4 2.1 6 23.14 14 13 6 6 1 0 3 0 0 1 0 0.00 .462 .500 1.231 1.731 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 .300 278 369 Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table Generated 5/15/2021.

That's absurd.

Wait, I assumed this was a marketing campaign for the fans but maybe it's for the players. That would explain the Twins late-inning performances this season.

IIRC, at the time I thought it was a pretty good trade, though obviously a controversial one. It still looks that way on paper, though there's a lot more that needs to play out to see how the Twins fared in that deal.

It's an interesting idea but I wonder how many already-vaccinated people would take a second dose just to watch a free baseball game.

It’s really not, though. And there’s no one on that field more intense than Josh Donaldson. If he doesn’t think he can run it out, I’ll take his word for it.

Al season long, and they always find gloves.

He’s really that slow and he’s not supposed to run hard unless absolutely necessary due to his recurring leg issues.

I despise the shift.

Can Astudillo ever do anything normally?

It was definitely a ball.

Simmons’ arm does not seem right. I’ve watched him quite a bit and he never looked like this in past seasons.

Hey, the Twins game is on, time to drink! Narrator: “Don’t just drink your pain away with any old alcohol, show your pure self-loathing by drinking something you hate. Something truly awful. Drink Budweiser:”

I’d rather see Shoemaker in the pen and Thorpe in Shoemaker’s rotation spot. If this team is going to be hot garbage, they should do it using young players in key roles so they know what they have in 2022.

This team is going to win another game before the end of the season, it may as well be tonight.

Ugh. I don’t love this move, as I have tickets for tomorrow’s game. When I got the tickets, it was 25% capacity with a mask mandate. Now the tickets are for 60% capacity with no mask mandate. Blech.