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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    Why? He's far and away the best defensive third baseman on the roster. Injury concerns? Is that what you're thinking?
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, I don't really mind the Ks (well not more than my general annoyance at the overall trend in MLB) but there are times when quality contact is so important and this team doesn't seem to be able to flip that switch. Those Cave and Astudillo PAs were painful to watch.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    Yep, this is a glaring flaw with Astudillo, one I hoped he would correct (with the caveat it would probably cause his Ks to rise accordingly). I also believe it was the cause of his precipitous offensive decline as 2019 progressed. Pitchers couldn't stop him from making contact but it appears they can stop him from making good contact.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    The Twins don't make it to extra innings without Cave on the basepaths. We all saw how Cruz runs the other day. Those PAs by Astudillo and Cave were awful. They simply need to get the ball out of the infield and Polanco can advance. You know, like the Mariners did...
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    This team is showing a frightening lack of ability to execute on the basics, such as "hit the ball".
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    Another fun fact is that the forums will pass 1,000,000 (active) posts in the next 8-10 days.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    It's possible but I think your Berrios number is low. And while payroll should definitely jump upward next season, I'm not sure it will rise enough to cover both players. I hope they do it but realistically, I doubt it will happen.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm at the point where I hope Garlick is cut because I can't handle you people and your dumb jokes anymore.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm all in favor of the Twins spending money but even I have some big reservations about signing Buxton and he's my favorite player on the team right now. It's pretty scary to drop hundreds of millions, almost surely losing Berrios in the process, on a guy who has played zero full seasons of baseball. Being wary of Buxton doesn't necessarily correlate to cheap. If I had even a little more confidence in his ability to stay on the field, I'd be screaming at the Twins to back up the dump truck and bury him in money. But, as it stands, yikes. Committing to that is pretty scary.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    85 Topps Puckett for the baby blues and classic batting stance. Bonus points because I have one signed by Puck.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    Sano is a much better player. On offense, Sano has a career wRC+ (probably the best single indicator of offensive output available) of 118. Vargas had a career wRC+ of 100, exactly league average. On defense, it's harder to gauge because Sano has so little time at first base. He was -5 DRS last season and his UZR was pretty equally bad. It was also Miguel's first season at first. FWIW, in a microscopic sample size this season he's zeroed out (average). Vargas was decent at first, posting a +4 DRS in his career. Time will tell how that shakes out but I expect Sano to ultimately grade pretty similarly to Vargas in that regard. For a first baseman, Sano is pretty athletic and mobile enough to do okay over there. As a whole, Vargas posted an fWAR of 0.9 in ~850 PAs while Sano has an fWAR of 8.8 in ~2300 PAs. That's not particularly close; Vargas is marginally above replacement level while Sano is somewhere around average MLB starter in overall value.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    There's the Garver we know and love.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    Because Sano is a much better player?
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    Man, I don't get so much of fandom. It's not binary; there is plenty of room on team that exists between "monster hitter/star" and "release/trade him". Sano's career arc has been pretty disappointing but if he lands somewhere in the "slightly above average masher" range while playing a competent first base, there's room on this team for him under the terms of his contract. We all want to see better but if he doesn't deliver, he shouldn't be kicked to the curb for it as long as he's still producing somewhere close to average MLB starter territory.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    Last I heard he was headed to the alternate site. It appears the front office is still pretty bullish on him being a starter and don’t want to disrupt his prep by flipping him to the pen.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    There’s something approaching a zero percent chance the Twins trade Berrios. They’re not Tampa.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    I think that's a really unrealistic expectation, especially in the case of an elite prospect like Royce. The Twins aren't going to ping-pong someone like that around the field defensively when their goal is for him to master a single position (ideally shortstop), nor are they going to risk his struggles to learn new positions impacting his ability to hit MLB pitching. Like Kirilloff, when Lewis arrives in Minnesota, he's going to play one position and he's going to play it every day. The reality of baseball is that when it comes to the 25th or 26th man on the roster - which Astudillo is - if you can find a player that's merely decent to fill that role, you likely have a very good roster.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    In all seriousness, if Garlick isn’t starting against lefties, he shouldn’t be on the roster.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    Honest question: what are the Twins doing so wrong? Are season ticket holders not being offered tickets? What’s happening?
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    http://www.reactiongifs.com/r/srcstc.gif
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    Sano has an approach, he’s just not executing. He is walking at a good clip and is going deep into counts, he’s just having the same problem he has every year to open a season: he can’t hit the damned ball. Which is really frustrating to watch every single season.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    Probably Buxton if only because position players are generally more valuable than pitchers. And Buxton has the potential to be one of the best players in baseball and I can’t really say the same about Berrios. In the real world with real injury considerations, it’s harder to say but I’d lean toward Berrios.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    I neither get the adoration nor the condemnation of Astudillo. He’s a fun statistical oddity because his contact skills and refusal to walk are both so far at the extreme end of baseball but that also means he’s a pretty flawed baseball player, never mind his defense... But if he can hit at or above .300, he’s a pretty useful piece on the bench. I remain unconvinced that will be the case but I hope he can do it.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    These are all very fair points and I would definitely like to see more trade action from this FO. Except it doesn’t really apply in the singular case of Baddoo (but perhaps made sense with others in the past). There simply isn’t a market out there for decent prospects who haven’t played above A ball, haven’t really played in two years, and need to be added to the 40-man roster. That’s a hard sell and a situation that probably doesn’t arise often if we don’t spend a year in a global panoramica.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    While I generally think umps do a hell of a job, it’s time to move to robot umpiring just to remove that unnecessary inconsistency from the game.
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