Brock Beauchamp
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What you call poor sportsmanship, I call having a good time. It’s only showing up the opponent if everyone takes it too seriously. Every other major sport has more exuberant celebrations than baseball and no one has a problem with it. Only baseball has a stick up its ass about this kind of thing. -
Personally, I think baseball needs a lot more Romo, Lindor, Tatis Jr, etc. to just pop off and do their thing. This is a sport that has so suppressed its competitiveness that literally every aggression is taken as some affront to the sport itself. I say, **** all of this, let the players show their mettle, talk their ****, flaunt their ability, and make baseball something that is FUN again. I WANT Romo to talk **** to the batter he struck out. I WANT Sano to gaze and then drop his bat after humiliating the pitcher as he rounds the bases. I WANT Buxton to throw down his mitt and scream after taking away a hit. I WANT baseball to be fun again and I WANT players to have fun playing this game.
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Giving Odorizzi two innings and then flipping to Hill for 2-3 more innings could be the new winning strategy in a game 3-4 starter.
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I think there's a *very* good chance he returns to the Twins. He seems to like it here, he has flourished in a Twins uniform, the Twins need his arm, and the team is highly competitive. Why go anywhere else at that point? It's a bit of a no-brainer for everyone involved.
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How to stop a fight: put Miguel Sano between the two red asses.
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Arraez to I.L. Smeltzer recalled
Brock Beauchamp replied to puckstopper1's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
Given what the organization did with Arraez last year, I suspect that if they believed Lewis was ready to help, he’d be here. -
This is an impossible question to answer before we see how Hill and Odorizzi finish. All things being equal, I’d prefer either to start over Dobnak. Randy has been great for the team this year but his pitching profile is more likely to blow up over single start than guys who miss bats more consistently.
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Arraez to I.L. Smeltzer recalled
Brock Beauchamp replied to puckstopper1's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
Blech. Hopefully he can be back for the postseason. -
Is there going to be a game tonight?
Brock Beauchamp replied to denarded's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
It’s supposed to start raining 15-30 minutes before game time and it doesn’t appear it will clear up entirely until late into the night. MLB, due to COVID, is trying to avoid starting a game that won’t go five innings and they don’t want players sitting together in a clubhouse for a rain delay. I still think they won’t play. -
Is there going to be a game tonight?
Brock Beauchamp replied to denarded's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
I suspect they will not play tonight. -
That was the original idea, but it seems more likely by the day they will play the postseason in neutral sites in CA and TX.
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At this point, the only thing likely in play is batting at the end of the game. It appears MLB will play the postseason at neutral sites, making seeding close to worthless.
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Kenta Maeda has a WHIP of 0.72 on the season.
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I haven't seen data lately but pitchers were falling like dominoes the first 2-3 weeks of the season. I haven't seen data to confirm but it seems that trend has stopped, or at least slowed. Which makes sense, as pitchers were essentially thrown into game speed action 2-3 weeks earlier than normal due to the abbreviated preseason. Hitters also suffered, though not from injury... BABIP was through the floor for a few weeks but has since normalized. Given that we're now ~45 games into the season, I don't see a reason why normal pitcher workload will be an issue going forward, as even going deep into a World Series run only involves pitching another 5-6 weeks.
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This team is starting to look a lot more like the team we expected to see heading into February.
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Watching Arraez bat pretty much represents what I love about baseball.
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I hate seven inning games. Just want to be clear about that.
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Polanco and Buxton appear to be coming around lately. Good news for sure.
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It makes a fair amount of sense to carry three catchers given the makeup of each catcher. Garver is a given. Avila bats left-handed. Astudillo is "break glass in case of emergency" behind the plate but is very useful as an extreme contact hitter during those situations you just need someone to put wood on the ball. The odd man out here, as far as I see it, is Jeffers... which is too bad because damn he's smooth behind the plate and has done just fine stepping into the role with zero MLB experience before a few weeks ago.
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The most fun number any of us will read today: The Astros and Yankees have records of 21-20.
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Given how the Twins now appear to be moving past bullpen games, it'd be interesting to see what a Wisler/Hill combination could achieve in a game. Use Wisler to open with that nasty RH slider, then insert Hill with his LH looping breaking pitches. I'm not sure it'd have a huge impact, given how Wisler won't face the entire lineup even once, but it could throw the top (important) half of the opposing lineup off-balance after seeing Wisler then transitioning to a very different Rich Hill for a couple of plate appearances.
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Two reasons: 1. Some guys will require 40-man space to head to Minneapolis 2. No minor leaguer has seen real game action in a full calendar year
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But... it’s just showing usage when you’re making an argument pitchers are being overused... And ten playoff innings won’t prove or disprove anything.
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This doesn't really appear to be true, though. The Twins have played 43 games. Their reliever with most IP is Wisler, who probably won't be a huge factor in the postseason but may get innings. He has 18.2 IP. Taylor Rogers is at the bottom of the "important relievers" list with 13.1 IP. In a 162 game season, Wisler is on track for 70 IP. A touch on the high side but well within reason. Rogers is on track for just 50 IP. Everyone else is in between. The reality of the situation is that the expanded rosters and the Twins' bullpen depth have allowed Baldelli to trot out reliever after reliever but stagger them enough that they're all on track for pretty typical workloads, except they don't even have to manage that workload for six months, they just need to do it for two.
