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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    Thorpe is my favorite dark horse in the system right now. It's unfair to call the Twins' approach "slow" with Thorpe. The kid played an entire season of Low A ball as an 18 year old. That was an extremely aggressive move by the Twins. Kohl Stewart has been considered a somewhat brisk mover through the system and he's 13 months older than Lewis Thorpe.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    Nah, that was intentional. Hunter has a pretty decent bat and he'll almost certainly be an upgrade over any internal options available at this point. July could be a different story once more options are available from the minors but Hunter should be better than Schafer or Hicks in April/May.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    Here you go: 1. Sign someone else 2. Grab a sandwich 3. Do literally anything else that sounds remotely interesting 4. Sign Torii Hunter 5. Do nothing
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    Sigh. Sigh. *grabs bottle of scotch*
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    Yep. If Hunter falls apart - or is just mediocre with the bat - teams aren't going to line up to give him $4m at the deadline.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    I think you just summed up the problem with this signing. The easiest way to improve a pitching staff that doesn't involve actually signing better pitchers is to shore up the defense. The Twins just doubled down on an older version of Josh Willingham with a slightly better bat. It's not a terrible deal because it's a one year contract but it is disappointing to see the front office continue to ignore such a large problem.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
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  8. Brock Beauchamp
    Sure, I'm all for keeping an open mind to any possibility but realistically, a top of the rotation arm is going to cost one of Meyer, Buxton, Sano, or Berrios. And I'm not willing to pay that price for any pitcher not named Clayton Kershaw.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    Or they could have traded Santana or Vargas. It goes both ways. I'm not against trading prospects, I simply don't believe the timing is right. You fill a roster with a few question marks and try to become competitive and then you start considering trades. Give up prospects when you think it gets you to the postseason. Giving up prospects to win 84 games would just piss me off.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm not a fan of 72 win teams trading prospects for rental players, period (which is what the Twins would get in trade... Maybe two years of a guy for a prospect). I think that's putting too much stock in the "now" and not enough stock in the "later". I feel even more strongly about it when the Twins have two top 100 prospects, at least one of which will get 2015 MLB innings and the second has a good shot at getting 2015 MLB innings. Add in a fringe prospect like May who already has MLB innings and trading away a guy for an MLB pitcher seems like an even worse idea. The Twins have a lot of open money this offseason. If they feel they need a pitcher that badly, go buy one. Personally, I'd let the kids play and run with the staff as-is and I'd look for OF help with that money.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    I don't think the Twins have the best farm system in MLB right now, much less the best ever. With Alex Meyer and Jose Berrios due in Minnesota this year or next, I think trading away a prospect is short-sighted, especially coming off a 72 win season. If nobody breaks out in the rotation and the Twins win 78 games this year based on an offensive surge, then maybe... But right now? It seems like forcing the issue. If you want another pitcher, go buy one.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    The idea of a 72 win team giving up valuable prospects for a pitcher makes my stomach turn.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    There are plenty of teams that have gone stat-heavy and had mixed results. It's not an automatic path to a championship. There's plenty of room in this game for old-fashioned scouts and baseball people. The two should complement each other, not be at odds.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    The Twins haven't gone with every coach I'd pick first but what the hell do I know anyway. I can read a Wiki page and blurbs from each candidate but I don't really know the habits and strengths of any of these guys. With that said, to a man - excepting Guardado, who I know nothing about past his playing days - the Twins have chosen a candidate who was on my radar as a possibility for each position. I'm very satisfied with how the coaching selections have gone down thus far (assuming the Allen report is accurate).
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    While I know very little about the coaching style of either Willis or Allen, I was leaning toward Allen because he's in the Rays organization and I respect that org from top to bottom. An intriguing choice. Is it the right choice? Time will tell. Or maybe it won't because grading coaches is real hard.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    Rios is an interesting candidate but I'm not sure how far he can bounce back in Target Field. He has played the past five seasons in two of the most hitter-friendly stadiums in MLB.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    The same applies to Buxton though his circumstances are much different in that he lost a season to injury and hardly played at all.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    That's a bad precedent to use for decision-making. Santana is an outlier and should be viewed as such (which Ryan does, as evidenced by his comments in the handbook). Vargas had recent success, though not in the weeks preceding his promotion. His 2014 MiLB OPS was .832. Rosario is an entirely different situation. He hasn't hit since the middle of 2013. That's an eon ago in prospect terms. Let him get his feet under him in the minors before promoting a guy who hasn't been able to shake off the rust since his suspension. Rosario's numbers since his 2013 promotion to AA: 2013 AA: .742 2014: A+: .682 2014 AA: .672 2014 AFL: .755 Is that a guy you really want to promote right now?
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    When he was originally promoted, Aaron Hicks had more recent success in MiLB than Rosario has had in MiLB in the past 18 months. Let's not repeat the Aaron Hicks situation.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    Rosario is not ready for MLB. He needs to prove he can hit AA, AAA, or even AFL pitching first. He hasn't posted an OPS significantly north of .750 since the first half of 2013.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    Eh, I think he does enough right and showed enough potential last season that he deserves to be kept around for at least the beginning of 2015. And given the continued collapse of Hicks, it's not as if he's blocking anyone at this point.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    As a fourth outfielder, Scafer is just fine. The problem is when you rely on someone of his ilk for more than a platoon/bench role. He has the tools to do what you need from a bench guy: he runs fast, plays acceptable defense, and can fill several roles late in the game.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    Tables cannot be pasted into the blogs at this point. I've tried to get the BBCode working on them multiple times but for some reason, it just won't take. I haven't had time to sit down and sort it out properly.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    At this point, Joe should start shouting "MAUER CHEV" repeatedly every time a mic is in his face. It'd be an improvement over his current strategy. I don't doubt his fire, commitment, or anything about him as a person but damn, he's kinda daft in the public relations department.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    Joe doesn't need an attitude adjustment. Joe needs Paul to explain how to interact with the public. There's nothing wrong with Joe's attitude, he's just lousy at showing what the public wants to see (fire, grit, and all that other stuff that's mostly nonsense).
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