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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    Unfortunately, I think that's not really the case. If the Twins did this, would you continue to be a fan? I would stand waaaaayyyyy back from them and scream at the sky about how they're wrong but I'd still tepidly be a fan... except for the Taubman thing. The thing is, I'm in the minority there. Most would just brush it aside for the laundry on the field. And for the record, while the Astros look like complete jackasses and got a lot of what was coming to them after the arrogance of the "banging scheme" (thanks, Effectively Wild), the really, truly, awful, ****ty thing they did was the Taubman incident, which should have sent baseball anger through the roof if baseball wasn't such an egocentric, patriarchal entity. That was unforgivable. To me, this entire cheating thing is just the icing on the cake to take down what is a truly horrible, wretched organization. As much as I hate the Yankees, they generally hold themselves to a high standard for behavior, both on and off the field. The Astros, frankly, can just go **** themselves. I despise them to my core and I will relish in every loss they take in the coming years until this entire front office is purged but not only because of the cheating, but because of what they've shown themselves to be over the past several months.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    I have thoroughly enjoyed watching the Astros this offseason. How often do you see an entire front office and management team get to do such a spot-on Martin Shkreli impression?
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    I keep meaning to research this but haven't had the time: didn't the Dodgers reset their luxury tax a couple of years ago? I haven't checked the structuring and years of the current threshold but if they reset a couple of years ago, moving all that money in a single year makes the most sense, as the penalties only grow in time.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    Definitely. That's kinda what I picture as well.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    This is all so very strange. The way this deal never seems to end, I almost expect an announcement the Twins have acquired the rights to Fernando Venezuela in exchange for 40,000 Rubles and the Northwest Angle.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    I haven't read this (or if I did, it was years ago and I don't remember it) but I suspect this will point you in the right direction better than I could stumble through in a brief post. https://blogs.fangraphs.com/exit-velocity-part-i-on-the-import-of-exit-velocity-for-hitters/
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    Raley originally came from the Dodgers. Now that they have him back, I suspect there's something they really like about him. It may have been a strong request to get the deal done that he returns to LA, dunno.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    But you're looking at the deal in a vacuum, which doesn't exist for front offices when making these decisions. Right now, Raley is behind Cave and Wade but also consumes a 40-man roster spot. On top of having two people in front of him, he has two better prospects behind him as well, both of which could make the Minnesota roster this season. Camargo, while unimpressive, does not consume a 40-man roster spot and also plays a position of scarcity. Raley's clock was ticking in the Twins organization. Unless he starts the 2020 season mashing, there's a good chance the Twins need to consider trying to sneak him through waivers by June or July to make room for the inevitable 40-man roster shuffle that happens mid-season because of injury and/or ineffectiveness. So, from the Twins perspective, the move likely came down to moving a fungible (to them, anyway) commodity for something before risking losing him for nothing. They managed to get someone at least mildly interesting in return, someone they don't need to make a decision about for at least another eight months. Sometimes, kicking the can down the road and shuffling prospects as roster management is the smart move and it appears this is one of those instances.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    How does everyone keep leaving Camargo out of the deal? To the Twins (and likely Dodgers, too), his value is similar to Raley if only because of positional scarcity and the fact he’s nowhere near the 40-man roster.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    You’re forgetting Jain Camargo was also in the deal.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    No detail, just a quick comment in the podcast. But given that John is currently in Florida and had just left a press conference before recording, the certainty in which he said it makes me believe he heard it directly from the Twins.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    I don’t know if it has been mentioned in this thread but Bonnes said in the podcast that the $10m is a single payment, not a distribution.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    I should have assumed spycake would manage to snipe me by a minute.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    No. He was given the qualifying offer this offseason, which exempts him from ever being given a QO again (and therefore, no comp pick).
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    Losing baseball games on purpose will always be worse than cheating to win baseball games. I don't see how this is really in question.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm definitely not a contract lawyer but the MLBPA has close to an air-tight CBA about player punishment and contract voiding. A player contract isn't just a contract, it's a contract under the massive umbrella of a collective agreement that restricts certain kinds of contracts, their agreements, and how they are terminated.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm pretty sure that's not what Mike said, like AT ALL. Don't put words into other posters' mouths, especially when they're that derogatory in nature.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    Investigate before it came to this point. If MLB reveals its own dirty deeds, it looks a lot better than... this.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    I don’t like that the players got away with it but have come to accept why it happened that way. What bothers me even more are the indications that MLB knew about some of this stuff long ago and instead of doing something, sat still and hoped it would just go away.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    What you've shared is totally fine. We mostly draw the line at copy-and-paste of extended content from behind a paywall, not discussing the results/merit of that content. Discussing this kind of thing only brings awareness to the extended content behind the paywall, which encourages more people to check it out.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    Still, that's a trade the Twins should make every day given their organization, which has (probably) better players both in front and behind Raley, who was on the 40-man roster. There simply wasn't going to be room to keep him there for long, forcing another trade or trying to sneak him through waivers, which probably wouldn't be successful. And if you can trade that kind of roster bloat for a catching flyer - something *much* harder to find in baseball - I do that all day long. I scratch my head and don't really like the money/pick swap but I have zero issues with the Raley/Camargo part of the deal.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    I don’t understand mourning the loss of Raley. He was 40-man chaff in the Twins system. He doesn’t project favorably compared to others in the high minors and probably won’t displace Wade or Cave in front of him. That’s the type of player you toss into a deal to get it done without too much consideration. I can understand believing the Twins didn’t get the most return out of Raley by throwing him into the Maeda deal but Raley needed to be traded, and he needed to be traded relatively soon. With the looming number of guys to be placed on the 40-man next offseason, there isn’t space for a player like Raley on the Twins. I can understand holding on to him for a deadline deal but no longer than that.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    And you'd be wrong. The Rangers had a team ERA nearly one full run higher than the Twins last season. Boston was half a run higher. The Twins had a deceptively competent pitching staff last season. They had the second highest pitching staff fWAR and the third lowest FIP in the American League.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    I’m a bit perplexed by that part of the move. It just doesn’t really make sense to me. If you asked me which team was more likely to make that request first, I’d have no idea.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    Great post, and I agree with a lot of it. One thing, though: it's likely Maeda also moves the needle for the Twins in the postseason. As we watched the Twins limp into the 2019 postseason with 40% of a rotation intact, it's far from a guarantee that any one (or two or three) of Berrios, Hill, Odorizzi, or Pineda will be available to start an October baseball game. And adding another starter of similar quality greatly increases the odds of entering October with a competent rotation, something the Twins couldn't do last postseason and the Yankees annihilated them as a result (but it was definitely a team effort to collapse that spectacularly, not only the fault of the rotation).
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