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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    Well, yeah. Miguel is really strong. Even the most pull-happy hitters hit a lot of balls to the opposite field (after all, that's what the opposing pitcher is trying to do to a pull hitter to get them off their game). Most of those opposite field balls result in outs... but occasionally, a guy as strong as Miguel will still get it over the fielder's head. Can't catch a ball that's ten feet up the wall. Sano has hit just six balls to the opposite side of the field. He has hit over 15 balls pulled toward left field. He has a handful of balls up the middle.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    Just for funsies, here's Dozier's spray chart. It's kinda ridiculous.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    Ugh. Plouffe is still largely a pull guy. Did you miss that part? He started going oppo a bit more this season but after two successful seasons at the plate, I doubt the Twins were pushing him in that direction, just as they haven't even tried to stop Dozier from pulling. And somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Brunansky himself a pull hitter? You may think the jury is out on Sano but it's not like this kid is some unknown. I've never read anything about him going oppo and given his power, he's almost certainly a pull hitter (13 hits pull/center, just 4 oppo thus far). Rosario is an all-fields guy but that has always been his profile as a hitter, at least that's the impression I always had of him as a player. Hicks is very pull-happy this season as a righty, his dominant side. There is no evidence the Twins are against hitters pulling the ball and there hasn't been evidence of it for a long time.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    Yes, this please.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm sorry but this meme needs to die. Was that the case ten years ago? Yeah, maybe. Probably even likely. Look at this roster and tell me the Twins are still infatuated with going oppo and forcing players to fit a predetermined mold. Dozier is a pull beast. Sano is just a beast. See ball, hit ball. Ball go far. Plouffe was a pull beast but it doesn't appear the team tried to change that... he just evolved into a different (and more productive) hitter, just as he's evolved into a more productive everything. Trevor also continues to pull the ball more often than not, especially for power. I doubt Arcia's pull-happy nature is the reason the Twins are trying to alter his approach. The Twins seem perfectly content to let Brian Dozier pull every ball he sees, provided he's productive while doing it.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    That is and probably will be the biggest knock against Rosario for his entire career. The guy isn't disciplined. Whether he can overcome that and become a good player is a cause for concern. That's why I've never been very high on Eddie, just as I was really down on Santana last year when he was playing out of his mind (though Eddie's BABIP isn't stratospheric like Santana's was last year). I wonder whatever happened to the guy who tried to shout me down last season when I suggested that Hicks still had a higher ceiling than Danny Santana, despite Danny's otherworldly production? Yeah, player profiles matter. They matter a lot.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    If I was Terry Ryan, it wouldn't be possible for me to get ABW out the door quickly enough if someone offers something of value for him.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    I wouldn't put Kepler on the untouchable list but he'd be close to it... I'd demand a great return on him to let him go this July. Why? Because I think ol' Max's value is going to be a hell of a lot higher in November. His BABIP is coming back to earth but he's still hitting .280 with an elite .400 OBP in July (.850 OPS overall). The longer he keeps doing this, the more teams are going to salivate over him. Right now, an opposing GM could argue "the kid had two good months" and try to drive down his price; if he finishes the season with a .900 OPS, it's going to be a lot harder to call his 2015 a couple of lucky months.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    This. I don't see why the Padres would even consider this deal.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    I hate to say it but I'm struggling to give a damn right now. Trade, don't trade. Whatever.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    If KC wins 81 games (I'm giving Shields a whopping five games here), the same effect is in place. They're an exciting young team on the upswing with or without Shields (and given my opinion all along was to strike a big deal the offseason you start on the upswing, the overall effect is probably the same). Anyway, I think this horse has been beaten enough times. It comes down to overall strategy and I don't think there's a right or wrong answer to our approaches, just personal preference. I think the end result is similar either way. Staying consistent with this approach, I'll be really disappointed if Ryan doesn't make significant moves this offseason. Now is the time.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    There's value in competing but the fan interest angle doesn't fly with me. KC drew the same number of fans in 2013 as 2012. Fans come to see playoff teams or something resembling a playoff team, yes... But they don't come in droves to see a team finish six games out of the playoff picture just because that team was no longer awful. There are many reasons to be in favor of KC's approach but that isn't one of them.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    Well, it depends. I like what KC is doing right now because this is their shot at winning it all. If you asked me whether I think the Twins should have traded for Tulo or Lucroy this past offseason, I would have laughed you out of the room. But then the Twins started winning. Their window arrived a lot faster than any of us expected. Situations change. The front office needs to be agile enough to keep up with the situation. I don't think this team is that good but a good player at a position of need makes it better, both this year and next. As I've said multiple times, I don't really care what is done... but something needs to be done.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    I give Molitor a lot of credit for firing up this team, making a lot of smart analytical decisions, and stewarding the Twins to a winning record at the end of July. I also give Molitor a lot of non-credit for sticking with Danny Santana for far too long, using the bullpen in nonsensical ways at times, and not pressing Ryan to get him new players on the roster.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    I'll third this. I haven't been this demoralized about a Twins team over .500 since... Well, I don't know if I can think of a time I've been this down on a winning ballclub. I'm pretty level-headed. I look at scenarios from as many perspectives as possible. I don't complain when a specific deal doesn't go down. But this bullpen problem was looming on OPENING DAY and by the middle of May, it was obvious IT WASN'T GOING TO FIX ITSELF. And what was done about that? Virtually nothing. Moved a few deck chairs. Cut the worst reliever but left several bad ones. If I was Terry Ryan, I'd be bloody embarrassed right now.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm going to assume you didn't watch the game because no reasonable adult would make such an absurd statement after witnessing that game.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    You know what's most embarrassing about all of this? Everything.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    Something like that.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    I didn't think it'd be possible for me to be more pissed off than I was ten minutes ago. Then Trevor May walked onto the mound and yep, there it was.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm just going to say this once to get it out of my system: **** this team, **** this GM, **** this manager, **** this bullpen, **** this everything. ****.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    Eduardo Escobar, I have just one request: Go 4-4 with 2 2B and a homer tonight so I don't have to see Danny Santana in the lineup for the remainder of 2015.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    I cannot default to Molitor's expertise when Danny Santana is one of the worst regular starters in all of baseball by every metric you can possibly find to evaluate a player. If there was some "well, maybe he's not that bad at that aspect of the game" side of Santana, I might feel differently about it... But he is literally horrible at every aspect of baseball right now. Santana has a lot of potential. None of that potential has been realized in 2015. None. Zero. Zip. Nada.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    The thing is, I don't really care if the Twins pick up a huge impact player like Tulo... Okay, that's not true. I do care. But I don't care as much as other people around here. If you don't want to mortgage the future for today, that's okay. I can live with that. I don't entirely agree but I can live with it. But what absolutely infuriates me is indecisiveness. If you're not going to improve today, Milone and/or Pelfrey should be off the roster for whatever you can get. The bullpen should have had a grenade rolled into it a month ago. Put Berrios in the Minnesota rotation. Put Duffey in the Minnesota pen. Hell, do almost anything. I don't care. That's my problem. The rotation with Pelfrey and Milone is not going to improve. You know what will make it improve? Trevor May. The bullpen is not going to improve. What know what might make it improve? Damned near anything. Be bold. Call up Burdi. Try one of the handful of AA/AAA arms and cross your fingers. And for ****'s sake, stop playing Danny Santana. Try something. Whether it's acquiring players or using assets on hand is less important to me than exploring options to problems that will not resolve themselves.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    Where we differ is whether one can define this as a "good season" in context of the rest of baseball. Good for the Twins after 2011-2014? Absolutely. It's a resounding success for the Twins. Good compared to the rest of baseball? Eh, maybe not so much. The Twins were +13 in May and are -7 outside of May. I don't think the team should punt the season by any means but expending valuable resources in a season where I'd easily put 5-6 AL teams ahead of them isn't a sound strategy for the long-term viability of this franchise. If the deal doesn't cost much, great. If the deal helps in 2016 and beyond, great. Expensive rentals? To prop up this entirely mediocre team? No thanks.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    The Johan deal wouldn't have been that bad had the Twins done one of two things: 1. Kept Gomez 2. Kept Hardy for both years of control Either would have been an underwhelming, but respectable, return for Johan Santana. I'm not sure the Rockies will be able to match even that kind of return, especially not when they had to take the ass-end of a bad Reyes contract to do it.
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